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le lorax
lesadventuresdulorax.blogspot.com
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Observations of life and travels by a Texas Ex-pat in Amsterdam.
#960632 in All , #476 in General Travel

Listen Guys,

I know the Lorax and I have been gone for a while, but this kind of action really wasnt necessary.

25 oct 10

Hey.

Dont worry guys. Sometimes the most is said by what is not there. So, while I transition to a new city/school and try to stop being a hot mess, fill in my absence with fantasies of your own rend...

17 sep 10

My Shoes Took Me So Many Miles And They Never Wore Out

Following the previous entrys pit stop at Cadillac Ranch, I eventually made my way down to Austin, Texas to spend time with one of my best friends. Our schedules are so jam packed that the only ...

27 aug 10

Cadillac Ranch

I spent today driving nearly ten hours from Santa Fe to Dallas. Ok, three hours. My mom did most of the driving.I spent today in a car for nearly ten hours.Hows that?Definitely didnt notice the messa...

19 aug 10

You Holla, We Follow Our Favorite Jock

Anyone been keeping up with the MTV Twitter Jockey thing? Yeah, me neither.So, anyone who is friends with me on twitter knows that I follow about four times as many people as I am followed by. This i...

14 aug 10

Rosewell, NM

Last week, my friend, Josh, the Lorax and I took a day trip to Roswell. The town was the site of the 1947 alien autopsy. In 1995, Ray Santilli made a fake version of the alleged footage and...

07 aug 10

Young Me/Now Me

Ze Frank has started a new project called Young Me/Now Me, where he asks people to email him photos of themselves as kids and then another photo re-enacting the situation, or in the same position or ...

05 aug 10

Unlike MIA, I Like Ginger(s)

Today I decided to try a recipe for homemade ginger ale I had bookmarked from Green Is Sexy. For refusing to experiment more than one batch, I think it turned out pretty well.Ingredients:2 tsp. Slice...

27 jul 10

What Happens In Downing Stays In Downing

Thats what my friends and I used to say to each other (and carved into a lecture hall desk) when we studied at Cambridge University in 2005. We were all having ridiculous boy problems and agreed that...

24 jul 10

Now Taking Suggestions For 21 New Things

viaIm at a standstill in making my list of 21 new things to try before my 21st birthday in May. I have about twelve right now, which include running a 5K, making candy sushi and doing some left overs...

20 jul 10

Well, Thats One Way To Wake Up Early

Early this morning, around six, I was half awake, half dreaming about the run I was going to go for in a few hours time. As I enjoyed the morning breeze sweeping through my open window and the squash...

19 jul 10

Plugs and Outlets

I havent posted since, uhm, basically since I moved to New Mexico. But I dont like spending posts apologizing (to who?) for not posting. So I let Saturday Jane do it instead:"I’ve been ...

17 jul 10

Exploring The City Different

Ive been in Santa Fe for just over a week now. Its interesting to be in a place thats so sunny, but not anywhere near as hot as Texas. Every morning starts out in the sixties and then it will heat up...

29 jun 10

20 New Things: Over(view)!

FINALLY I am finishing 20 New Things. Only two months late, which is about typical for me.1. Try Indonesian cuisine - I wish I had tried it more than once to get a better grasp of the cuisi...

26 jun 10

20 New Things: Leave behind a time capsule for the future inhabitants of my apartment

This is probably the last 20 New Thing I did that I will actually blog about. I just never got around to writing about some of the other ones I did and now, frankly, I dont feel like it. I will post ...

24 jun 10

Freakin it, Sweatin it, Bustin the mic

Ive been in Texas for the past eight days trying to stuff in a summers worth of hanging out with friends and a months worth of packing. Said packing consists of going through practically everything I...

17 jun 10

One Day Left!

Since my last post, Ive been working tirelessly on completing two research papers. Then, as soon as I finished, it was time to do every single thing I had been putting off doing all semester. Fun thi...

07 jun 10

A Mad Tea Party

After our exam, my Art History professor invited the class over to her place for some tea. We ate apple tart and she told us about the time she jumped into a lake to try to impress a male student. Sh...

26 may 10

20 New Things: Eat only gluten-free foods for one day

I actually refrained from gluten for a whole weekend! This month is Gluten-Free Month and, in honor of the celebration, the Gluten Intolerance Group along with Pamelas Products ran the Gluten-Free Ch...

23 may 10

Mrs. Bairds Fruit Pies

The alternate title of todays blog entry is "Me Not Working on my European Minority Languages Presentation."So, I want to write about something that I was adamant would never happen to me and...

20 may 10

20 New Things: Spend time at a café in Montmartre, France

This blog should be titled, "Me Not Writing My Intro to Sexual Studies Report." The report is only one page on the topic of basically anything I want. Yet...my procrastination has reached a d...

19 may 10

20 New Things: Buy and Learn to Use a Dip Pen

I said that some of the things on my list Ive already done and some of them just wont happen. This is a combination of both factors.I bought a set of dip pens while I was in Stratford-Upon-Avon. I we...

16 may 10

Coolest toothpaste EVER!

So I bought Shrek toothpaste at Albert Heijn because it was way cheaper than adult toothpaste.It turns out that there are STARS IN THE TOOTHPASTE! WTF? SO AWESOME!WHY WASNT KIDS TOOTHPASTE THIS AWESO...

11 may 10

The 20 New Things Mistake

This was supposed to be posted on my birthday, but the whole Dam Square thing was heavily on my mind that night. So, it's taken me until now to get this posted.As of five days ago, I am officially tw...

09 may 10

Panic In Dam Square: Or, How I Thought For A Moment That This Birthday Might Be My Last

Today is Bevrijdingsdag, or Remembrance Day, in The Netherlands. It is a day to commemorate all who were lost in World War II. Tomorrow will be Liberation Day in which the Dutch celebrate their freed...

05 may 10

Queen's Day

Koninginnedag, or Queen's Day, is a Dutch national holiday in celebration of, well, the queen. Only, it's not actually on the incumbent Queen Beatrix's birthday. The holiday started in the nineteenth...

02 may 10

In Bruges

#1 Why have I still not seen this movie? I am going to waste so much time on Netflix when I get back to the States.#2 Watch from :33 to :46 of the trailer. I climbed that tower, Belfry Tower. As I wa...

28 apr 10

Shakespeare's Birthday and *+Lovers on Twitter

Today is Shakespeare's 446th Birthday and, in honor of that, I'm including as many Shakespeare images as I can in this entry being as much of an Anglophile as possible. It also happens to be St. Geor...

23 apr 10

20 New Things: Eat a True Croissant in France

 viaOk, I gotta cop. I actually did not take photos of any of the croissants I ate while in Paris. But I did eat them! I picked up a croissant with coffee every morning and they were all delicio...

15 apr 10

20 New Things: Attend a Film Festival

When I was perusing travel guide books before coming to Amsterdam, I found a lot of sweet annual film festivals that would be happening in the spring. Somehow, they all kind of flew over my head. Ser...

08 apr 10

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