Friday 30 May 2008: TOMORROW IS THE DAY!!! EXPO 78!!!!

Sarah says:
I see you! Do you see me? I thought so!


Heidi says:
TOMORROW IS EXPO 78. BE THERE!!!!

V-TEX - PIETER DECONINCKLAAN - 8500 KORTRIJK - START AT 20H PM!!!!!!

Thursday 29 May 2008: PARTY! Where's the party at? Sarah's camera is a PARTY POOPER!!!! It has a crack on the back!!!! THIS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah says:
MY CAMERA HAS A CRACK ON THE BACK SCREEN IN THE BOTTOM CORNER!!!! THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END!!! THIS IS AWFUL!!! I WANT TO CRY!!! THIS IS HORRIBLE!!! MY CAMERA IS MY DAILY FRIEND; IT HAS MADE THIS BLOG FOR MORE THAN 3 YEARS!!! WAAAHHHH!



Heidi says:
PARTY! WHERE'S THE PARTY AT? PARTY PEOPLE, WHERE'S THE PARTY AT?
AT V-TEX, PIETER DECONICKLAAN, 8500 KORTRIJK ON SATURDAY 31 MAY 2008 AT 8 PM!!!!!!! EXPO 78 - EXPO 78 - EXPO 78 - EXPO 78!!!!

Have I told you yet that the design of our flyer was made by my dear sister NATHALIE GARREIN? She did a great job and we are very grateful!

Wednesday 28 May 2008: Congratulations with your birthday, Hans!!! And YIPPY for wet, sweaty armpits!!!!!!! Don't be ashamed if you have them!

Sarah says:
This picture is for any of you out there, who like I do, think they are the only ones with such sweaty armpits sometimes! Just look! Heidi has sweaty armpits too and is proud to show them! When I have them, I am always afraid to lift my arms! Shame, shame, shame! I have tried everything under the sun to control the wetness! Nothing works! Or it does, and then it stops working! Now that Heidi and I are in an office without air-conditioning, I expect we'll have wetter armpits than ever throughout the summer so watch out! So here's a message to all you sweaty people out there - Don't be ashamed of your sweaty underarms! It's really okay! Heidi sweats too! Thank you Heidi for bring this issue so many of us struggle from to the surface! One day I will get so far as to show my big, wet underarm stains in a photo on here! :-)

Heidi says:
I am not necessarily proud of my 'zweetvijvers' but I am only human, so there you have them, my sweaty armpit stains! I know it is hard to believe that I, Heidi Garrein, perfect as I am, can sweat under the arms and even have 'okselvijvels'. Don't cry now. It's not the end of the world. For the rest I am still perfect!


THIS SATURDAY: MY BIRTHDAY PARTY: EXPO 78!!! I AM TURNING 30 THIS YEAR (ONLY IN NOVEMBER) AND 3 NEIGHBOURS OF MINE ARE ALSO TURNING THIRTY THIS YEAR, SO WE DECIDED TO HAVE A PARTY! WE EXPECT DANCING AND DRINKING PEOPLE (DRINKING WISELY? THAT IS) AND NO PRESENTS, AND WE MEAN THAT!!! WE EXPECT YOU TO BE THERE!!! THE ENTRANCE IS FREE AND THE DRINKS WILL BE CHEAP AND COLD!

V-TEX - PIETER DE CONICKLAAN - 8500 KORTRIJK - 20PM - FREE PARTY!!!!

Sarah says:
Below you can see me right after hair-removal last night! It was the first time my face got so red? Things are going superbly in the bikini area and pretty well on the face too. I am so glad I decided to go through this process. It makes me feel so much better about myself not to be busy with all these hair issues from hairs growing where they shouldn't to ingrown hair and all that! That was the last session until October because you can't have hair-removal done well if you have a tan. So we'll see how it goes until October. I have the feeling the hair won't be a bother at all as it basically stays away now other than for a few new ones or too light ones that pop up from time to time. Yippy!

Tuesday 27 may 2008: Expo 78 party THIS SATURDAY!!! And Sarah's parent-in-laws are the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah says:
GO TO HEIDI'S PARTY! EVERYONE IN THE WORLD READING THIS - GO TO HEIDI'S PARTY!! If only!!!! I just have to tell you that MY HOUSE IS A DISGUSTING DUSTY MESS!!! I am afraid to go home! My AMAZING parent-in-laws cut through a thick wall today to connect our garage to our house. At lunch I stopped in and the whole house was one pile of thick dust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But the new opening will improve our home so much so I cannot complain!!!! I just hate dust though. I can't believe my husband's parents are willing to do this kind of messy, hard work for us. They are incredible people.


Heidi says: This Saturday, we will have a blast of a partty! But that can only happen, if you are all there! So I need you to come, drink and dance! Right. It doesn't work that way? Let's see what I can do...

Ok, here we go.
LOOK INTO MY EYES, LOOK INTO MY EYES, NOT AROUND MY EYES; LOOK INTO MY EYES! THIS SATURDAY, YOU WILL GO TO THE V-TEX IN KORTRIJK, AT 8 SHARP, AND YOU WILL DANCE AND HAVE FUN WITH ALL YOUR FRIENDS! YOU'RE BACK IN THE ROOM!

Monday 26 May 2008: New haircolour, new music, new life

Heidi says:
I have a new haircolour! Finally it's good again!
And I am starting a new stage in my life and on this blog: playing songs to bike to work! This morning: Sing sing sing from the Swingkids soundtrack. My favourite song to dance to! And also that of my friends Katrijn and Wout. We go crazy on that song! And I can now say that that is exactly what happens on the bike too! You go faster and wilder when you listen to that song! Woohoo for music!!!

Something you don't know about me, but that I have to get off my chest. I can be a real catty woman. Not meant in a good way. I can be so pissed by things like a dirty house or piles of laundry that I don't get through, so that I start to nag and go a little crazy in the head. Sometimes I see all that work in the house, and I don't find the strenghth to start doing it, because I don't know where to begin, and then I block and my humor disappears and a very bad mood takes my humor's place. You'd better not ring my doorbell at such a moment. That is another face of mine, that a lot of you people have never seen. I hope you never have to see it :). Anyway, I can't say that I can just stop being that way. I could try. But i am not good in being calm all the time. I am a stressy animal. So from now on, I call these moments my catwomanmoments. They need a name, so they get a place.
I have more catwomanmoments. I might tell you about them in later posts. You'll get to know me. Bit by bit.
OH, AND DON'T FORGET TO COME TO MY PARTY ON SATURDAY 31MAY2008 IN THE VETEX IN KORTRIJK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Sarah says:
New fan...

And new Post Secret. None caught my attention this week even though there were three for a girl named Sarah - so I went with the funny one because I think we can all agree that Carpenter's crack is very, very amusing!

Sunday 25 May 2008: De flaptest! And Sarah looks exactly the same as yesterday...

Sarah says:
Same face as ever! Uninspired. Had a great Saturday evening though - lots of fun with fun friends. Very late. I am not used to staying up so late anymore. I feel it today! I am so tired! I feel busy. And I just want to sleep for a week. Only news is that my kid camped out for the first time! Our guinea pig is very, very pregnant for sure and due mid-June, which sucks, but we can't do anything about it! And we are about to connect our house to our garage and make some other small changes such as painting our ground floor inside and re-doing the floor! This is exciting and this is what is making me feel busy.

Heidi says:
De flaptest geschiedde andermaal ten huize Haemers-Garrein. De aanwezige flaptestpanelleden proefden de flappen van bakkerij K te K. De appelflappen kregen als punten 6,75/10 toegewezen. Niet slecht, niet goed. Gewoon.
Op Overleie was het weer groot feest. De beste dansgroep trad op. De beste beenhouwerij verkocht worsten aan de beste spotprijzen. Het was de beste rommelmarkt ooit! Volgende week nog beter! Waar gaat dat naartoe???

Saturday 24 may 2008: Heidi says bla bla bla and Sarah says boo...keeping it simple...

Sarah says:
boo!

Heidi says:
bla bla bla

Friday 23 May 2008: Memory lane and haircut pain...

Sarah says:
Not happy with haircut. Cut too short up on top so looks like Russian winter fur hat. This has happened before and it took ages to grow those way too chopped top layers longer. I should have known better. Arghhhh. I can only hope that after I wash it tomorrow it will look better...


Heidi says:
I am going back into memory lane today. With music.
Tindersticks' first album: travelling to Antwerp by train. Week after week, that same album in my walkman. Listening and feeling the train move. Being moved by the music. Those were fine days.
DaDaDa by Nits: one nice summerday in the year 1996, presumably. We are having our end of the schoolyear exams. Barbara, Sofie and me are in love with Nits and with each other. We are studying, and in between, we take breaks together. That day, we take our little cassette player, with Dadada in it, and ride our bikes to 't eilandje in Wervik (some sort of small nature resort, being built up at that time, with De Leie running around it). I am wearing my circle dress and under that very short red hotpants. We bike. We cross our English teacher. We say "what must he think of us, biking while we should be studying". We go on. I am thinking "what must he think of me, with my hotpants on". We go on. We sit down, the three of us, and we play DaDaDa. We lie down and think of summer and Nits and each other. We talk and feel so good. One of my finest memories ever. We were so in love!
Music is great. It can bring you right back into those memories!

Thursday 22 May 2008: What sort of haircut should Sarah get tomorrow? The same as always no doubt! Or maybe not.....

Wednesday 21 May: De zwemster zwemt and the flower flowers...

Sarah says:
Sometimes I wish I was Spanish and could dance the Salsa and wear big flowers in my hair and tight red dresses that show off curves and bumps... But alas, I was born and will die elsewhere...At least I can pretend... And people often do mistake me for Spanish so...

Heidi says:
50 lenghts = 1250 meter!

Een zwemmer zwemt, hij zwemt in zee
Hij zwemt weg van het strand
Maar neemt bepaalde beelden met zich mee
Van wat hij achterliet op het land
Hij zwemt en denkt niet aan later
Hij heeft geen last van angst of aarzeling
Boven hem lucht, onder hem water

Een zwemmer is een enkeling
Hij baant zich een weg door het water
Hij is al flink op weg naar Engeland
Achter zich hoort hij geschater
Iemand die achterbleef op het strand
Wat meegaat dat laat hij ook achter
Want in de war van een herinnering
Kijkt hij eens om en denkt wat zachter
Verdriet is een verdragen ding
De kust is een vage belofte
Het koude water, de verzekering
Dat hij alles waarin hij geloofde
Niet zonder reden door iets nieuws verving

Een zwemmer zwemt, hij zwemt in zee
Hij zwemt weg van het strand
Maar neemt bepaalde beelden met zich meeV
an wat hij achterliet op het land

Tuesday 20 May 2008: Animals are just people Heidi says and Sarah says people are just animals...

Heidi says:
More and more, I see people as animals. Just think about this. When I see a person go into a store, I think about a spider and its webb. The person opens the door, the bell rings, the lady from the shop comes. The fly flies into the webb, the webb moves, the spider comes. Or this one: I see a woman and her three kids biking together. Then I think of mother duck and her little ducks swimming together. When I come out of my house, to shop or to go anywhere, and I return after half an hour: makes me think of a bee coming out of the nest, to return a couple of minutes later. My daughter, playing around, throwing things on the ground, while she is looking right into my eyes to see my reaction. What animal do you think of? Exactly, a playful monkey. And so we can go on and on… Do you know any?

Sarah says:

Growl! Roar! Woof! Meow! That's all I have to say because I feel like an animal! In other news, I got my lenses in the mail! I decided to try mail order lenses because they looked the same but cheaper and they are great! Same brand and everything! Delivered to my door!

Monday 19 May 2008: Sarah is trying to figure out HER 9 Year Old! Sometimes, it's not easy!!!!

Sarah says:
Strange age my daughter's at. Such erratic behavior. It's time for me to see what the experts say. 9 seems to be such a mix between independent and anxious. From minute to minute, moods change. I can't always get my head around it. I don't always know how to react and what best to say. My friend Cheryl gave me a bunch of these books a long time ago and each year they are very helpful and help to answer some of my questions and to take away some of my worries. Parenting is hard. In one way, we are expected to solve all the problems and be able to answer all the questions and have all the wisdom, but half the time it just feels like a guessing game. Seeing your kid struggling or in pain or emotionally hurt is really hard. I'm going to read this book from front to back right now.... I hope it makes me sleep better...

Sunday 18 May 2008: Peter would have been 36 today... Man I miss you Peter and am "enjoying" thinking about you today!

Sarah says:
Peter would have been 36 today. I'm thinking about him a lot today. It's only been about 6 months since he died from cancer. Sometimes it feels like yesterday and sometimes is feels like decades ago. Today I feel Peter close to my heart. I still think about him every single day. I hate to think that I will ever stop thinking about him. That as life moves on and time passes, my memory of him will fade. Seeing his kids and hearing certain songs and remembering him on certain dates - I hope will keep him in my head and heart. Life does go on. That's good to know. His kids and wife are doing really, really well now it seems, though not without tough moments still of course and the future will bring more from time to time. But it is good that life goes on and that we can still think about Peter. He shouldn't be forgotten. He was a good man. I just looked back at a bunch of photos of him that I posted after he died via this link. They made me smile.

Heidi says:
De flaptest geschiedde vandaag in de vorm van een ontbijt ten huize Beernaert-Derweduwen. Het was een grandioze flaptest, met een flap die geen 10/10 haalde omdat 10/10 niet kan toegekend worden... De flaptestpanelleden gaven gezamenlijk 9,5/10. De flappen werden aangeschaft bij bakkerij G te K. Ongelooflijk! Zo'n flappen! Echte verse appelmoes (er was zelfs een extra te bespeuren in Mr Haemers zijn flap: een stukje pel van een appel!), een mooie extra: suiker op de bovenkant, grote appelflappen, mooi opgekomen. Bijna perfect! De bakkerij werd reeds op de hoogte gesteld van de goede uitkomst op de flaptest!

Sarah continues:
I chose the below Post Secret this week because I was thinking a lot about goodbyes today. And indeed you learn with every single one - though some make more sense than others.

And the below Post Secret this week also resonated with me. It's just so true that we should be kinder to everyone we come in contact with. We are all fighting battles big and small. Surely we can relate to each other on many levels. Surely kindness is better than judgment and callousness. We all should be more open and understanding. Of course we have to draw some lines. But basically we are all the same - same worries, same joys, same wheels turning round and round. Why not be kind to a stranger tomorrow and give someone a compliment and make his or her day! It's Monday tomorrow so each and every one of us will appreciate some small act of kindness! God I am becoming so moralistic! HaHa - Little House On The Prairie is to blame for sure!

Saturday 17 May 2008: Sarah is in a sleepy blur and hasn't got a lot on offer right now...

Sarah says:
Going to bed soon. Uneventful day. Good night.

Friday 16 May 2008: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA!!!!!! And UNHAPPY pig reunion at Sarah's house!

Heidi says:
GELUKKIGE VERJAARDAG MAMA!!!! GENIET ERVAN!!!

Sarah says:
Finally we have some air circulation in our hot office! See my hair up there blowing in the wind!
Our Guinea Pigs were reunited last night and it didn't really go very well! They hissed and fought and all that. You can see the video below if you want. They make interesting noises. Animals are strange with all their marking territory and spraying and humping and hissing...




HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!

Thursday 15 May 2008: Heidi looks kind of boyish in this picture, no? And Sarah ran out of contact lenses and is back to glasses. Isn't that exciting?

Heidi says:
There was a boy...
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea,
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he.
And then one day,
One magic day,
he passed my way.
And while we spoke of many things,
Fools and kings,
This he said to me,
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."

Sarah says:
Weird day in our world. Laf! Warm and humid and sticky and stormy. Slimy. Slithery. Heidi could be my boyfriend in the above photo, don't you think?

Forgot Post Secret again this week so I put my pick-of-the-week below about the changes in one's body thanks to pregnancy are worth it. I have to agree. I wouldn't change a thing - my back operation, my horrid pregnancy, the scary birth, the scars and stretch marks -- they suck but they are all 100% worth it. I can really hate my belly sometimes - how it kind of falls over the big scar from the birth, which was again opened for the back operation - but it's there for a very good reason and I should be kinder to myself about it. I waffle so much between feeling really happy with myself to absolute hate of my fatter parts and largeness and all that. We should all love our female bodies that can create babies. I sometimes can't believe that my daughter was lifted out of my abdomen. It's crazy. Lovely crazy. Today I feel just fine about myself even with a little bloat and a lot of pimples. It's weird. I don't know what determines it from day to day... Women are cruel to themselves. Maybe men too. I don't know. Anyway - man I love my little kid. I just look at her in absolute awe everyday.

Wednesday 14 May 2008: Goodbye Krik-Krak you cute little cavi pig!

Krik-Krak found a new home Wednesday night with 4 other little cavi pigs! He's the only boy so he's feeling lucky right now! It was sad to give him away - for my daughter above and for me below - but it had to happen. We signed on for two Guinea Pigs - not three. In a month or so we'll see if more babies are born. It could be! The day after the babies were born the male was still in the cage and as horny as ever I'm afraid. Tonight we'll try to put the mom and dad (brother and sister) back together. We tried quickly the other day and they fought and fought and the castrated boy was still trying to hump the girl. She did not seem to like that and kept whipping her head at him like she was going to bite him. I hope it works out better tonight!
I'll miss that little cutie!
Can you spot Krik-Krak above with his new hairy girlfriends? Which one doesn't fit in this picture?

Tuesday 13 May 2008: Heidi and Sarah are too warm!

Monday 12 May 2008: Sarah and her family go to the sea and then to Brugge on yet another beautiful and fun day!

Sarah says:
The sea was so great! Such a sunny day yet again! We stopped by quickly and then made our way to Brugge. I have been to all these places so many times. Even so - I really enjoyed all of these Belgian cities again. I think that's because I was in good company and certainly because the sun was shining so very much. The sun here makes everything more fun! It won't last so it is great to be able to enjoy it well you can!

Sunday 11 May 2008: Sarah goes to Ieper with her dada and brother and family and is a happy mom on mother's day!

Sarah says:
I am a happy mom on mother's day! How can't I be with such a daughter! She gave me a great painting she made and she bought be earings that she picked out herself and used her own birthday money for. She is the BEST!! She is sunshine! I had so much sunshine on mother's day!

That's my brother in the distance on a bridge in Ieper - again in the hot sun! We had a great day in Ieper. A lovely time!

I always have to have a photo of my dad sleeping when he visits! This time he passed out in Ieper with churches in the background. A pretty spot.

I have always wanted to put this on here - a photo of the most disgusting vendingmachine in the world no doubt! It's right around the corner from my house and whenever my brothers visit - I have to show them because they, like me, always appreciate such a foul site!
Heidi says: my DJ-outfit and me! Woooooooooooo! Viva Vlas Vegas!!!

Saturday 10 May 2008: Sarah and her brother, father and family go to

Sarah says:
Saturday my dad, brother, my husband and my daughter and I went to Gent. Again, and amazingly sunny day! There I am above with my brother in the sun!

It was the communion of my godchild Mo Saturday! We stopped by her fun party to wish her all the best. She is such a sweetie! The necklace she's wearing that I gave her looked so pretty on her!

Friday 09 May 2008: Sarah's brother JM visits with their dad DM and they hit Brussels quickly to see the peeing boy!

Sarah says:
I forgot to take a photo of myself today so I prsent you with my oldest brother JM who came to visit with our dad Friday. We hopped on the train from the airport to the center just to see the peeing boy and have a Belgian waffle. It's so nice to have my brother and dad here. And the weather! GREAT!!!!

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Heidi says: this is the birthday party I am giving together with three neighbours. We are all getting thirty this year!

WAAR/WHERE: V-TEX Pieter De Conincklaan 8500 Kortrijk

WANNEER/WHEN: 31/05/2008 - 20:00 PM

WAAROM/WHY: Heidi (Garrein), Alexandra (Pattyn), Jo (Torbeyns) en Dimitri (Ottevaere) = 30 in 2008 WE WANT A REAL PARTY IN K-TOWN!!

DJ'S: JEFKE - LOTTO - NICE'N'HAYDEE! (ECLEKTROCKSWING!) - OXES AND RAFHEN

PRIJS/PRICE: GRATIS!!! FREE!!!!!! NO PRESENTS ALLOWED!!!! KADO'S NIET TOEGELATEN!!!!!

KOM DANSEN EN DRINKEN MET EN VOOR ONS!
COME DANCE AND DRINK WITH AND FOR US!

AND BRING ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVERS!!!!
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