And happy to tell you that I am now a Bachelor of Theatre Design, though not a studier of Theatre Sciences, because the new Dutch system is getting to be about as fair as the American one. But no use complaining, instead I will just work and bake pies. There are never enough pies.
But before all of that, it’s my sad duty to inform you of the passing of one of our family members. The brother of the face of evil is no longer with us due to horrible cancer of death. It was sad, and it’s still very difficult for the face of evil. She’s less welcoming to the new cats than we are, but still, she’s a brave kitty. And then we traveled all the way to the other side of the country to collect Betty from the pound. Once there, this slightly fat tabbycat approached me, I thought it was Betty (she’s a tabbycat too), and she was the cutest cat ever, and I was soo happy we had already signed for her. But it turned out to be Ciska. Everyone wanted to take Betty home, 5 people that day, and Ciska had been there for half a year because nobody wanted a dumpy eye-infected tabbycat. But somehow none of that mattered and we took two cats home and I am happy to report that Ciska has lost some weight and most of her eye-puss and that she’s getting along swimmingly with Betty. They have this weird obsession with the bathtub, and they insist on sleeping in my bed, which I, as it unexpectedly turned out, don’t mind at all and actually find calming.
Enough about my cats. I will be working on theatre-related things, which you can all see on the portfolio and I’ll be baking. I have devised some recipes over the past year, but some of them will need to stay mine, because some secret pies should remain secret (if your sister’s income as a catering service depends on it). Maybe there’ll be more cookbook reviews, there’ll be home remodeling, movie reviews, you name it, I’ll do it. Actually, you can always email me with requests.
PS. If you were wondering, the worms are now in two containers. I just moved them to their bigger place. I am such a proud worm-mother. And very happy that Betty and Ciska are unaware of the existence of my babies, although Betty looked suspiciously interested when I fed the worms with her in the same room…