Around the block

Yes, I can safely say that I’ve been around. Took my first steps in the cyber zone in ’99, no idea what the heck I was doing. Never heard of bugs, viruses or Trojan horses. No idea what hotmail was and how chat rooms worked. A full blown rookie all alone on the www. Fresh meat for the whisperers and the lonely hearts out there who were looking for an easy prey. Me! It didn’t take me long to figure out that everything that looked like a pig, squealed like a pig, was in fact nothing but a pig. If it hadn’t been for a whole bunch of women who met every morning in the 40s chat, I would have been eaten alive. I still owe them big time.
We moved from regular chat to the new beta which supplied us with our own page and my first website was born. I took some HTML for dummies, started to fool around with PSP, found yahoo groups with people who enjoyed making their own stationeries and a new addict was born.
Now I have two blogs, a website with my stationeries that really needs to get upgraded, my MSN (dead), a Hyves account, photobucket albums, I’m into Flickr (lost my password though), my blog log, three mail accounts and last and very much least I got sucked into My Space. The last addition is still a mystery to me and I don’t think I’m going to try to unravel it. This morning I got my first invitation to become someone’s ‘friend’. Matt, a 22 year old male from Michigan. Excuse me? My space invaded by kids. And here I was, thinking nothing could surprise me anymore.

Memories

Just two years ago. Only two years. Without warning. One phone call and my life turned upside down, never to be the same again .We had just celebrated her 80st birthday two years prior. None of us knew how ill she really was. What hurts the most is the fact that she died alone. No one there to hold , to comfort her. When they found her that morning her body was on the floor while her legs where still in bed. I can never ever get that image out of my head again.
Just two years ago, but it seems like a lifetime.

My world

It’s only day two, and already I have to admit that this not something I am going do with my eyes closed or my hands tied behind my back. As if typing like that would be possible. Every line I think of, feels like a repeat from thoughts already shared. Should I bore you with my background, my upbringing or do you need info on what makes me tick? (as if I know)

Me in a nutshell, wife, three brilliant children, two jobs and a dog. Living it up in suburbia in a town that isn’t mine, with aspirations to one day go back to where my roots are. Southern comfort. Of course there is more, much more. My other half that has been with me since 1979, my brothers and sisters, my joy and my pain. At this stage of my life, (pre) menopause is taking control over my actions more then I care to admit. Complicated stuff right?
Let me try to entertain you for a while. To give you sometimes something to smile about and maybe a tear or two when the mood so takes me. Just follow me as I take you into my world.

Confusion

To avoid confusion I have decided, after a long time of deliberation, to open up a new shop. It will take a little more of my time, but it will also keep the lines clear and simple. I wont have to worry about posting in English every now and then on my Dutch log, and I promise to keep this one English only, well .......Double Dutch.