Happy 100th-post day to me!
In true blog-fashion I’ll post 100 random things for you all.

• This blog was started on March 20th, 2010.
• I had already talked about starting a blog on my own domain for about 2 years
• I already owned this domain name for over 2 years.
• And the .nl version of this domain name for over 5 years.
• One Saturday afternoon I told L I wanted a food blog.
• He fiddled around a bit and that evening, ‘Love through the stomach…’ existed.
• I like to tell things chronologically.
• Unless I don’t and I just start telling stuff randomly.
• After which I start switching in time constantly.
• I’m pretty sure 90 percent of my 100 facts aren’t very interesting to you.
• I still want to do my 100 things.
• The first food I consciously cooked was making hamburgers.
• And chocolate mousse for dessert.
• I was a little kid at that time, though I have no idea how old I was.
• I’ve lived in 8 different houses/apartments in Holland and 2 in the US.
• I’m moving into my 9th Dutch house pretty soon.
• I hope this’ll be the last house I ever move into.
• Though I’m sure I’ll make it to 10 – when I’m 80 or so – a nursing home.
• My favorite food changes weekly.
• Or at least monthly.
• L doesn’t seem to have a favorite food.
• He’ll eat anything and everything I cook and has never once complained and always tells me it’s tasty.
• I have complained about the food I’ve cooked.
• I like kitchen gadgets.
• My kitchen is over-full.
• I’m afraid my new kitchen will be full too.
• But I’ll have a pantry.
• And an option for an extra cupboard.
• And I’ll probably put another nice grocer’s chest in there.
• That way I have more room for kitchen gadgets.
• L supports my gadget hobby.
• And he takes 90 percent of the pictures for this blog.
• I’m still unsure of what to buy L for his birthday.
• His birthday is today.
• I just decorated a birthday cake in the simplest possible way.
• Today is Sunday.
• I have no time to shop tomorrow.
• I’ve been a sailing instructor for a couple of years now.
• I have insane amounts of fun on the water with the kids.
• I wish I had more free time to go sailing myself.
• The last couple of years I chose teaching over sailing myself.
• I’m eating a quiche right now – for breakfast.
• I put a bow on L’s coffee cup this morning – as I didn’t have an actual gift yet.
• I went to journalism school.
• I was only 16 when I was accepted to journalism school.
• I’ve dislocated my knee – twice.
• The first car I owned was a fire-engine-red Jeep.
• My second car was red too.
• I swore I’d only ever own red cars.
• My current car is ice-blue. It’s a very girly color.
• I almost didn’t buy my current car because it was too girly.
• Then I decided that a GOOD car for a GREAT price was more important than it being overly girly.
• I like to watch brainless movies.
• Though I love more relevant movies as well.
• The average Dutch person spends about 8 hours a week on the internet.
• I guess I’m about 6 average people.
• L is on the internet WAY more than me.
• I count my blogging time as i-net time.
• My first camera was a Lubitel.
• Which kinda looks like an old-fashioned 4×4 hasselblatt.
• I was about 5 when I got that camera.
• I got my first SLR when I was about 8 or so.
• When it died I’d started working in a camera store already and bought a brand new EOS 50.
• Which was state of the art back then.
• And cost me the entire summer’s wages.
• It’s worth about 50 bucks now – it’s not digital.
• When I write that down, I feel old.
• I recently turned 31.
• Though I claim it was the 3th time I turned 29.
• I think 31 is really old as well as spring chicken. I’m confusing even myself here.
• I was a total punk rocker in high school and college.
• I’ve had every color hair imaginable.
• I had tons of piercings in my ears and one in my nose and tongue as well.
• I now look very conservative.
• With highlighted hair and 1 pair of earrings – if any.
• My dad always claimed I would turn ‘normal’ if my job would demand that.
• My dad was right.
• I still have my tongue piercing and my students think something like that belongs with someone with pink hair.
• I used to have pink hair.
• I love my job, though sometimes question my loving it when the alarm goes off in the morning.
• Until about 3 or 4 years ago I would start shaking if I’d drank a coffee.
• Now I start shaking if I don’t have coffee in the morning.
• I only drink hot coffee or hot tea.
• I have a sincere hatred of the words ‘career woman’.
• And I have no idea why.
• Especially since according to the definition – I am one.
• I love cooking with alcohol.
• I refuse to believe alcohol doesn’t cook of.
• My bike got stolen during my last vacation.
• I’ve only had about 3 or 4 bikes stolen in my life which really isn’t all that much if you live in Amsterdam.
• Stinky cheese is always better.
• I spend way too much money on cleaning supplies.
• I trick myself into thinking that if I spend more I’ll clean more.
• It doesn’t work that way at all.
• I hate camping – it’s just. not. comfortable.
• My favorite colors are shades of black.
• Which will be the title of my memoirs if I ever write them.
• I like burgundy and deep purple too.
• I listen to all kinds of music, but still love the old goth and punk rock stuff the most.
• I can’t believe I made it to 100!!!