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Happy New Year!

Friday, January 1, 2016 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

20151227_150522May 2016 be good to you all 🙂

I’ve been colouring my new Cat colouring book, it has really fun pictures.

I also received  one of the Kickstarter rewards that I was waiting on. It’s a book called Dry Season Only, about a trip to Botswana. A group of artists went on a two week trip there with the express purpose to get inspired and make art. The kickstarter was to raise funds for the trip and the printing of the book. The book is absolutely beautiful. Filled with travel journals from all of them with text, drawings, paintings, photographs and tutorials how some of the bigger art pieces were made. A very fine showcase of the beauty that is Africa’s wild nature.

20151228_222317Yesterday was a fun day, in so far as national-blow-shit-up day can be fun. I worked during the day so that was business as usual. In the evening we watched TV, ate tasty shit and even played a board game. At Nienke’s suggestion.

So I pulled out a game I got a while ago but had’t gotten around to playing yet. It’s a game based on Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. The game has three characters that move around the board. That board is divided in three parts.

In the first part all characters move separately without being tied to a player. That means that every player can move whichever character they want. The goal of the first part is to collect items. When the first character reaches the lake, the second part starts.

Now, all characters get on the raft and try to cross the lake. Again, each player can move the raft and the goal for the players is to collect items. When they get to the other side, the end is in sight. All they need to do is go up the lava stream and reach the exit. The players take turns and pay for the moves with the items they’ve collected. When the characters have reached the exit, the points of the remaining items are tallied. Player with the most points wins.

I got lucky with my item finds and won the game.

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Today was a work day. At work we had divided the three holidays between the six of us. I chose today. There wasn’t a lot of work to actually do so it was a nice and quiet day of working at home. Followed by a nice and quiet day of relaxing at home 😀

Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Art, Board Games, Books, Colouring, Games, Holidays, Kickstarter, Photos

LootCrate: September

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

LootCrate’s theme this month is Summon. That on its own wasn’t really enough to interest me. But then they teased about there being Blizzard items in the box. So I caved and got one. First thing I saw when opening the box, was a Pikachu hat. I’m not a huge Pokémon fan, but I did watch the cartoon a lot when I was a kid. So the hat is a hit, and it’s nice and warm, too. The next item was a gold coloured Homer Simpson as Buddha thing. This was a major miss. I don’t particulary like The Simpsons, and find this thing really just tacky.

Then came the Blizzard items. The first was a Hearthstone shaped stress ball. It fits nicely in my hand and I’m very pleased to have a real-life Hearthstone to match my in-game one in World of Warcraft. The second item was a Hearthstone coin with a code for three free card packs in the Hearthstone game. I don’t play that a lot, but it is a nice time kill in quiet moments. So free card packs are much appreciated then. The coin is of a solid metal with a nice feel.

Another really good item was a miniature version of Baby, the card driven by the Winchester brothers in Supernatural. I’d gotten Nienke one of these for Christmas last year and I’m really happy I have one for myself now, too.

Lastly, they included two summoning themed games. The first one a mobile game, with the ability to unlock extra content by scanning the LootCrate box. The second a card game of sorts. They included a booklet of cards for one player. Which means I will never play it, as I would need to find someone else who also got this LootCrate. Of course, I could copy the cards, but that looks bad and is too much effort for a game I’m not that interested in playing.

Overall, the Blizzard items, the car and the hat are fantastic and make up for the okay games and the tacky Homer. I am pleased I bought this box.

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Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Games, Geeky Stuff, LootCrate, Review, Subscription Boxes, Supernatural, TV, World of Warcraft

Nerd Block: August

Friday, August 21, 2015 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

The third Nerd Block of my initial three month subscription. This one had an eighties summer mixtape theme and was a bit of a let down for me. I like the metal lunchbox kinda thing. Don’t know yet what to use it for, but it is useful for me. I’m not big into Ghostbusters so the exterior doesn’t really mean a lot to me. I do like the industrial look of it. The Ghostbusters plushie is okay, I’ll put it in the box for potential gifts.

The Game of Thrones coasters are very pretty, but not all that useful. They’re made of pretty flimsy pressed paper kind of stuff. If you were to spill on it, they’re ruined.

Of course an eighties box needs something Rubik. The choice here is a stress Rubik’s Cube. I’m pretty meh about it. I never have (or had) much use for stress balls and the like. Like the plushie, it’ll go in the gift box.

Then there’s a book of postcards. Normally this would be right up my alley. Except they are hideous. Now these are hideous on purpose, but that doesn’t really make it any better. I have no idea what to do with these. Maybe I can send some of these via PostCrossing at some point.

The one thing I did really love was the shirt. It’s a Ghostbusters shirt, so again, it doesn’t specifically mean anything to me. But I love the colours, the design and I am a big Bill Murray fan. It’s definitely a hit in a mostly miss box.

I have decided to stop the three month stuff and go month by month now. I’m also thinking of trying a LootCrate here or there in between, depending on theme of each.

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Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Fantasy, Games, Geeky Stuff, Movies, Nerd Block, Photos, Review, Subscription Boxes, TV

LootCrate: Fantasy Crate

Saturday, July 4, 2015 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

I currently have a three month subscription to Nerd Block and more than one subscription box at a time is too pricey for me. However, LootCrate was having a sale on some of their older boxes. And after going through the ones on offer I decided to buy the May LootCrate. This one had a fantasy theme and based on the image it had some good stuff in it. It came today, and I was not disappointed.

I haven’t played Dungeons & Dragons (yet), but I love this shirt! The bow tie is nice, also. I don’t know if I’ll ever really wear it, but it makes for a good addition to a geeky wardrobe.

The flashdrive looks awesome. Too bad it’s a bit on the low side (only 4GB) to be really useful. The Princess Bride playing cards have fantastic art and the luggage tag will come in handy. I’m aiming for a visit to the UK again next year 😀

Game of Thrones magnets look nice on the fridge accompanying the Monty Python magnetic poetry from my recent Nerd Block. The inflatable crown is awesome! It fits nicely and once I was done wearing it, it became the hat for the stuffed plush reindeer head on my wall.

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Posted in: General Tagged: Fantasy, Games, LootCrate, Movies, Photos, Review, Subscription Boxes, TV

Ljouwert

Monday, March 9, 2015 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

20150306_121843I spent last weekend in Leeuwarden for Anne’s birthday party. I dragged a weekender bag filled with airbed, sleeping bag and some other necessities with me to work on Friday, which looked ridiculous. Then after work Ingrid picked me up and we drove to Leeuwarden.

We made a stop at the Albert Heijn XL to pick up some stuff for dinner. I decided I might as well stock up on nuts for my breakfast ‘cereal’, and while looking for the various nuts, I came across the cutest packet of mixed peppers. Since we don’t have that in our AH around here, I had to take it. And then I also found a jar of harissa (spicy sauce/paste consisting of about 50% spicy peppers mixed with tomato and such), which I’ve been wanting to try out since seeing it on 24Kitchen.

20150307_002236We managed to arrive at Anne’s place exactly when she herself returned from the gym. We unloaded the car and got our stuff and the two presents inside. After a drink and some chat we gave her the presents, two Ikea lamps, exactly as she had wanted 🙂 I then built the lamps, while Ingrid helped Anne make dinner.

Dinner was a very tasty pasta with a spinach/mozzarella sauce with a few cherry tomatoes tossed in. Later one of Anne’s friends came by as he couldn’t make it on Saturday. When he left, we hung out some more with the three of us and then hit the sack. I picked the sofa for the first night as it’s very comfortable and it saves the hassle of blowing up the air bed.

20150307_181719The next morning we had a relaxed start, and then went into town to get groceries for the birthday. I bought myself some Greek yoghurt as I had run out at home, and I also wanted to eat it for breakfast the next day. So I ended up with a bucket, and a set of portioned cups. I also bought some portioned nut mixes, bacon, and a gorgeously sturdy canvas shopping bag which actually fits the crate on my bike. I hovered over a tiny wooden four drawer storage thing, but thought better of it and left it. Go me 😀

Back at Anne’s, we started prepping the rest as the first of her friends started to arrive. With the five, and later six, of us, we did the dishes, vacuumed and prepped the food and snacks and we’re nicely ready in time before the rest arrived. The afternoon was nice and relaxed, just talking and having fun. When the rest left, the remaining six of us had dinner. I went to the snack bar with two of Anne’s friends to pick up some food and got myself an XXL Meatstick and chicken nuggets. I’d seen it in our local snackbar but had not gotten around to actually buying it. It’s about 30 cm long, and I had them make it “special” to add the onion and sauce.

After dinner we got out the Halli Galli and started setting up a game when the remaining evening guests arrived.  With Halli Galli you each have a stack of cards with different fruits on them, both in number as in type of fruit. One by one, you play a card before you and as soon as there’s a total of 5 of one type of fruit, you hit the bell in the middle. If you’re first, you get all the cards.

If you’re out of cards, you can’t play the cards anymore, but you can still hit the bell. Once there’s only one person left to have cards, they win. If you hit the bell in error, you have to give everyone a card, including the players that have no cards. Because of these rules, the game can have really unpredictable results. At first, it almost ended with me and Esther being the only ones with cards.  The others weren’t paying a lot of attention anymore, so they didn’t really try to hit the bell, except Anne. And just as it seemed Esther would win from me, Anne made a come back. I then lost all my cards and couldn’t get my hand in fast enough to regain cards. In the end, Esther won 🙂

20150307_224658Then we played two rounds of Who Am I. First round was famous Dutch people. I turned out to be Bert Visscher, as given to me by Ingrid, which I figured out pretty fast. We went clock wise with this round, which means I had to think of someone for Anne. I gave her the dude from the commercials who plays the AH store manager. It was tricky, but she did manage to figure it out eventually. The second round was a What Am I round where we were usable objects. This time around we went counter clock wise and I got garlic press from Anne. This was harder to figure out, but I did manage. I turned Ingrid into a record player, which she also guessed. Both rounds were won by Esther, but we did give a lot of hints the second round 😀

20150307_233117After this, it was after eleven, and as two guests left to go home, Anne and the others made ready to go out. I’m not a fan of going clubbing, so I elected to stay home. I was pretty beat, anyway, the continuous presence of other people for two days is rather draining. So while they got ready, I inflated the air bed (long live electric pumps) and readied my bed. I couldn’t take the sofa this night as Esther was staying over, too. When they were ready, I saw them off, wished them fun, and crawled in bed. I played with my phone some, and ended up going to sleep around one, one thirty-ish.

The group came back around four, which woke me up. This was an excellent time to eat some cake before we all went back to bed. We slept in until about noon and then took it easy for a few hours. Esther then left, and a short while later another friend showed up to visit as he also couldn’t make it for Saturday.

Around five we started packing our things together so we could leave half an hour later, so I would be at the train station in Groningen in time for my train back home. This worked like a charm (last time we came from Leeuwarden it was more a nick-of-time thing :D) and I ended up home around seven.

I had a great weekend, met some new people, and had a lot of fun. I am glad, though, that I am free today so I can  regenerate some more.

Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Birthday, Cats, Friends, Games, Ingrid, Photos

30

Sunday, September 28, 2014 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

Today is my 30th birthday 🙂

Yesterday I celebrated with my friends. We talked, ate, drank, listened to music and played games. An iPad, combined with a smart TV and a app to do presentations with makes for an excellent pictionary setup 😀

Today was family day, which I always enjoy very much. Especially when almost everyone is there 🙂

I was also spoiled with awesome presents. Eva gave me a wooden box that she had decorated by pyrographing my original birth announcement on it, but then with my new names instead of the old ones. Gert gave me a glorious book-in-a-book-in-a-book that I can’t wait to read. Kim gave me If I Stay (and its sequel) which was on my list. Aunt Zwaan made me a file folder with a custom fabric cover and ribbon closure and so on.

And with that, I’m going to bed! Partying is exhausting 😀

Posted in: General Tagged: Birthday, Family, Friends, Games, Me, Party

Ascension Day Market + Choppers

Thursday, May 29, 2014 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

As per our tradition, Ingrid came today to go to the annual Ascension Day Market in Eenrum with me and Nienke. And this year, we added Kim to the mix. We had tea first, and then drove  to Eenrum. And since my aunt and uncle still live there, we had the luxury of parking the car in their driveway which saved us walking all the way from the designated parking area.

I succeeded in my goal, which was to find a mat for the downstairs toilet. It is a lovely dark purple and goes well with the colour scheme I have going on in there 🙂

Other than that, we saw Mellien and Bas, bought candy and I indulged in buying sausages.

When we got back we played some games. Ingrid and I played a couple games of Fluxx, and then we did Therapy with the four of us.

In between, I cast my vote for the Horde bike in the Azeroth Choppers bike build. I am a dedicated Alliance player ( I have a few Horde characters, but no higher level than 20), but the Alliance bike is just too low in the back for me. The winning bike will be put in the game for free, but I have no doubt the other one will be made available in some way as well. There will be too much of a shitstorm if they don’t.

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Horde Bike

 

Alliance Bike

Alliance Bike

 

Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Board Games, Friends, Games, Holidays, Ingrid, Kim, Nienke, PC Games, Shopping, World of Warcraft

The Good Life

Sunday, May 18, 2014 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

Good weekend 😀

Household stuff on Saturday while Nienke was away, dishes, litterbox, garbage, laundry and such. Watched Warm Bodies and ate popcorn.

Today I had breakfast outside and wanted to dry my laundry outside. But the shiny new laundry line turned out to be a crappy laundry line as it snapped and when I fixed that, it ended up being way too saggy to actually use. So had to put the drying racks out.

Read books: Chris Colfer’s The Land of Stories #1 The Wishing Spell (good book, fun treatment of fairy tales) and Justin Somper’s Vampirates #1 Demons of the Ocean (which is quite bad).

Watched movies on Netflix (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast) and played random games.

Monkey fought with Terror from next door, hair ALL over the kitchen… Silly monster

Posted in: General Tagged: Animals, Books, Cats, Games, Home, iOS Games, Monkey, Movies

Remembrance

Sunday, May 4, 2014 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

Friday I worked from home again. This time I tried out the bedroom so I could watch more 7th Heaven in the background. I’ve made it to the seasons where I care less about the show because of all the added characters and less of the originals. And more repeats of themes. Not too weird considering many milestones are the same one kid after the other, but it does get old. Especially as the twins are kind of wooden and uninteresting. Ruthie and Simon were much more fun and alive at that age. Anyway, while that was fun for the background, the bedroom itself is not a handy work space, so that was once but never again 😀

When Nienke came home, she had brought Kim with her. So we had dinner together and then watched Frozen. I love Frozen <3

Yesterday was a busy, but good, day. Got a lot done while still feeling relaxed. Slept in, did some cleaning up, unpacked the dish washer. Then went for coffee at the Parents. I suggested we go to the cemetery to bring some flowers to grandma and grandpa. We’d been to the cemetery for my grandparents on Mom’s side recently, but it had been a while for the other side. And that grave gets a lot less visitors to begin with. They thought it was  good idea, so we decided to go later that day.

First, however, I went with Mom to the store to assist her in buying an Actifry and getting a mini vac for myself. Then I went home for lunch after which I repacked the dish washer and then went grocery shopping with Mom. After getting the groceries home, we went to the florist for a nice little bouquet to place at the grave.

Then the three of us went to Mensingeweer where we cleaned the head stone and placed the flowers. We walked around for a bit, where, as usual, my parents point out the various relatives and tell anecdotes about all these people I never met but am connected to, through time. I dig cemeteries.

The rest of the day I spent downloading, filing and archiving. Sorting out computer stuff can be so relaxing 🙂

Today was mainly more of the same. Slept in, watched a movie (Now You See Me, good film), downloaded and filed and archived some more, watched more 7th Heaven, did the administration and played iPad games. Good day 😀

 

Posted in: General Tagged: Family, Friends, Games, iOS Games, Kim, Memories, Mom, Movies, Nienke, Parents, Tech, TV, Work

Fluxx

Thursday, May 1, 2014 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

april27Sunday I did indeed do very little. One of the things I did was watch medieval castle documentaries with Monkey 🙂

Tuesday I ordered a game, called Fluxx. I’d seen it on TableTop before (they played Star Fluxx) and it seemed like fun then, but I forgot about it. Recenty, though, the iPad version was temporarily free so I grabbed it. Playing it I realised what fun it would be to play in real life so I ordered it, along with the newest Science of Discworld book. I didn’t look at the delivery date very closely so I was kinda surprised when they got here on Wednesday.

Unfortunately the Science of Discworld is in trade paperback format so doesn’t match at all with literally every other Discworld book I have. It apparently isn’t out in mass market yet, but I am strongly contemplating replacing it when it does. This just annoys the crap out of me and I can’t even place it on the Discworld shelf because it doesn’t fit.

april30Fluxx was as I expected it, and that night, Nienke and I played it, while watching the relevant TableTop episode.

Also yesterday was a quick trip to the city for a blood/vitals check up to see if hormone levels are all good and such. As usual I was done within ten minutes with the actual consult, and then another ten for the blood draw (including waiting).

Today was the first time I worked from home since transferring to Webcare. It was fun to be able to put Netflix on in the background and just go.

I also started watching 7th Heaven again this week. I used to watch that in my teens when the EO and such were showing it on TV. But they never got past the early 5th season. So at some point I acquired the rest and then it sat waiting for me to actually watch. Occasionally the mood strikes me and then I usually have a couple days where I watch a bunch of episodes. In this way I made it from starting back at epsiode one all the way to season 10. I still have a season and a half to go, so that’s my goal for the coming few weeks, to finish it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Animals, Board Games, Books, Cats, Games, iOS Games, Medical, Monkey, Photos, Transitioning, TV
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