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Thanks, Stacie, for letting me tag myself...


THREE NAMES I GO BY

1. Mijke
2. Mickey
3. Still working on the last one: MOMMY. So far all I've been able to get out of our twins is "Whawhawhaaaamamaaaaaaawhaaaa!", "Uh. uh. uh" and "Bah"

THREE JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE

1. I was a volunteer with Girl Scouts USA, helped out at day camps and courses and even had "my own" Girl Scout Troop for a year. Not really a "job" job though, since the "job"-part would require some form of payment at the end of each month... ;-)
2. I was a "check-out-chick" at a local supermarket during my final year in High School. Worked at least 30 hours a week for 8 months, while simultaneously studying for my final exams, so I could help pay for my Exchange year in Australia. Madness.
3. I was a "student-teaching-assistant" at University, teaching small groups of first-year students subjects like Logic Programming (Prolog), Logics and Robotics. Great fun. Much more fun than studying. Which is probably why I never finished my degree...
4. I have my own workshop (well, okay, it's still really just a garage) now, where I make and/or paint (wooden) nursery-decorations, toys, puzzles and "birth signs". The last is a tradition in the Netherlands: whenever you have a new baby, you (or your family/friends) put out a cute wooden sign in your front yard with some sort of Disney figure or stork on it and the name of the new baby painted on. Oh, how I hated those signs when we were still ttc. How I hated walking past them, knowing here was yet another family who got what we wanted so badly. How I hated looking at the sign of the neighbours across the street from our kitchen window for weeks on end, not knowing whether we would ever be able to put one up ourselves. (And when we finally DID get pregnant and I had the most beautiful idea for a Twin-sign, I never did get around to making it because our twins arrived so early. So. I made a "birthday-sign" for their first birthday instead. There!)

THREE PLACES I HAVE LIVED

1. Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Go on, ask me. Please. Just so I can kick you. Please?

NO. I DON'T DO DR.UGS!! (Well, okay, yes. I DID shoot up all that IVF-crap, but that wasn't what you were asking, was it?)
NO, I'm NOT a PRO.STIT.UTE!

2. Mungindi, NSW (Australia). On a huge big cattle farm. And yes. That place is just as small and remote as it sounds...
3. Madison, WI (USA)

THREE TV SHOWS THAT I WATCH

1. Amazing Race - Seasons 1 to 8, all reruns, when we lived in Madison.

Yes, I so want to be on the Amazing Race, too! But I would have no idea who with, because my husband would probably kill me before the 3rd episode, I would quite possibly kill my sister before the 2nd, and my mum and I would lose each other before we would even have grabbed our backpacks and found the car keys... And even if we made it that far, neither of us would be able to get the car out of "park".

Wait, maybe my dad? Oh, no. He would just stand there and wonder at how beautiful the starting place is, grab his camera, start shooting pics and forget all about the race...

2. NCIS
3. House

THREE PLACES I HAVE BEEN

1. Waikiki Beach, Hawaii
2. Great Barrier Reef (and Uluru), Australia
3. NgoroNgoro, Tanzania (Africa)

Just three? But there have been so many more... There was the equator in Kenia, and the desert in Tunesia, and the Grand Canyon, and the lakes in Sweden, and the mountains in Canada, and Paris (after all, it's only a 6 hour drive from here), and and and...

THREE PLACES I WANT TO GO

1. Iceland
2. South Africa
3. Australia (Again. And again. And again)

Just three? But there are so many more... There's South Africa, and Finnland, and New Zealand, and and and... Life is just too short!

THREE OF MY FAVORITE FOODS

1. Strawberries (with lots of sugar)
2. Steak. Lots of it. I was born a carnivour. I think I must've been a Lion or a Wolf in a past life...
3. Kroket. Met mayo. En frietjes.

THREE THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO

1. A long night (or no, a whole weekend) of uninterrupted sleep. Just sleep. Sleep, and nothing more than sleep... Zzzzzzz...
2. Seeing our twins grow up to become healthy and happy people. Being there every step of the way. Except for maybe the abovementioned long weekend of sleep, just sleep and nothing more than sleep.
3. Possibly getting pregnant again (right there with you, Stacie!). Oh, and STAYING pregnant for AT LEAST 37 WEEKS this time...


THREE PETS THAT I HAVE OWNED

1. An imaginary wolf-puppy.
2. At least three generations of little grey/white russian hamsters my sister and I shared when we were kids.
3. Two pigeons. And lots of little pigeon eggs that never hatched.


THREE FAVORITE TEAMS TO WATCH

1. Ivo and Robin, ganging up on their dad, using him as their private playground climbing equipment.
2. Really?? Do you really think I have TIME to watch sports? You must be joking...
3. The Dutch Speedskating team. But that's not really a "team", is it?

THREE FAVORITE DRINKS

1. Chocolate Milk
2. Hot chocolate
3. Milk

What? What do you mean "child"? You don't drink (chocolate) milk? Great. More for me!!

Any other volunteers for an easy post? Just copy-paste these questions and write your own answers on your blog... Oh, and comment here that you've tagged yourself so I'll know where to find your answers...