Woohoo Will and I survived another "bridge-night"!! Actually those nights aren't that bad these days like they were in the past; people are starting to realize Will and I are not to blame for many things they would like to see differently; we're just doing our job! Yeah sure we do!! Afterwards we had a good chat; talked about last thursday and what went wrong there and I'm so glad things got cleared now! So now I can have a good night's sleep...a short one since it's 5AM already... :S

This morning RBC 's management announced they placed trainer/coach Robert on half-pay immediately and Rob "Meppie" will replace him by signing for 2 years. We kinda expected this, we even talked about it friday night when the selection returned from Helmond, but still I don't know what to think of it. I liked Robert very much, and hey, I still do, and Meppie is quite ok as well, but I don't like the way management is handling things recently. They put things waaaay to personally. It's a weird atmosphere at the stadium and it really ain't no good. Very curious about RBC's home match upcoming friday. Though not looking forward to face chairman mr. P. again (I soooo don't like him, but you already knew THAT hehe)

Viva Vlissingen!

A perfect day for a nice walk on the beach! What more can one wish for on a lazy Sunday afternoon?! Although it's been a short "weekend", it's been one full of relaxation and I'm full of energy to face the "bridge" tomorrow. I guess. I hope. I'm soooo NOT looking forward to it :S But hey, shit happens... (like almost every monday hehe)

23 - pass on the paranoia!

Another old-fashioned night out in Antwerp! Finally I got to meet Maaike again! We should do this sooo more often!! ;) WHAT is more relaxing after a long week of work than sitting back in those amazing chairs @ the movies?! hehe. Although it's a very busy period at work, and the irregular working hours are slowly breaking me up, I realise I NEED to keep going out and just have FUN!! it's the best way to recharge. Besides, I'm learning to put myself more at 1st place, it's a process, but I'm getting there. Slowly. But getting there ;)

Daylight savings

Thanks to my dear friend I didn't forget hehe... *time flies when you're having fun* ;)

Beer at 10 AM

Besides the car sale we had the darts tournament at the Confetti on Saturday: a lounge filled with so-called "oversized" people hehe, blue of smoke and beer drafted before 10 AM...do I need to say more?! It was a nice spectacle just observing them (craaazy people!) but I was happy Willy covered my shift at night; my eyes had dried out completely and I needed fresh air soooo badly!!

Tall stories

For 3 days we had a giant car sale at the south side of the stadium. It were long, exhausting days, but we had so much fun! Many salesmen started with the bacardi in the morning to keep themselves warm (uhuh), and around 9pm when the show officially ended and the bottles of beer appeared, there was no more escape: tall stories around everywhere! My god, what true entertainers they are! Every hour they got more and more drunk and you just couldn't imagine the next morning at 9am their faces were like serious as ever! Those days didn't look like working at all, it was as if we were having one big party!! =) When Vief and I returned to the stadium at fridaynight we were sooo dull, had to laugh about just anything, but then the players arrived from Helmond and joined us for a drink and then there was no reason to laugh anymore hehe. Another loss...Helmond...what the f*&$# is wrong here?!

RBC's Hyve-hype

There's always been some "rivalry" between RBC Hospitality (the "west-side", OUR side, the GOOD side hehe) and the office (the "east-side"). In a good way of course ;) But lately, especially at the office, colleagues are competing for gaining the most number of "Hyves-friends" and they'll do about anything to get them ;) Sooo silly! I always have to laugh about Raymond, "Mr. Commerce", who is faaaaar far behind Bart, "Mr. Ticketing", but soooo desperately trying to get more friends; it's just funny to see him struggling hehe. He's logged in @ hyves.nl almost all day long, he even made himself a goldmember to track down people who visited his page and didn't invite Raymond to be their so-called "friend". How pathetic is that hehe. I just hope he doesn't forget to work occasionally...

What started as a nice and easy day ended full of frustrations. Bleeeeh. Yesterday I was being the "caterer" which meant delivering orders across the city and helping out Vief at the car sale. The weather was nice and sunny so the walk to and from the stadium was pretty comfortable hehe. All was fine till the end of the afternoon. Too much events took place at around the same time and we were all pretty much on our own. After my own dinner for the salesmen at the southside of the stadium, I was supposed to help out William in the Confetti, but due to fuses that were blown like every 30 seconds (no kidding!!) dinner was quite disastrous and I arrived at the Confetti not before 7pm, about an hour late hehe. Wil was in SUCH a bad mood and I can't stand it when he is, I automatically get upset as well... So we had a great time, the two of us :S, tried not to talk and ask too much hehe. Around 11pm Natasja's guests at the brasserie left as well and she covered for me helping out William with building up the business units. I just had enough of it. My finger hurt like hell! It had been a long day and I just wanted to get out of there hehe. It was just another one of "those" days ;)

Seriously STITCHED!!

Phew what a day! This morning I cut my finger pretty bad! It just wouldn't stop bleeding! My sweet colleagues tried to help me out in any way they could but after quite some time we concluded that I REALLY needed a physician. WeeeeWeeee! It needed to be stitched and OMG what a giant hook that man pulled through my poor finger!! Ouch!

When we returned at the stadium lunch time was pretty much over and I felt pretty bad about it as Maurits deliberately changed my working schedule yesterday because he needed an extra helping hand around lunch time... but I wasn't really helping out hehe. From 2pm till 5pm I had a break, to return for the night shift. I don't like those breaks; of those 3 hours I'm only 90 minutes actually at home and in that time you're supposed to cook, have dinner and get some rest. Yeah right...

Now I'm happy to be back at home! =) It's just that a few minutes ago blood is coming through the bandages again and I'm afraid I put too much pressure on my finger at work tonight and I reaaaaally hope the stitches are still ok!! I'm afraid I'll have to switch the bandage now...it just hurts so much, I'm not a very brave girl hehe ;)

Again, it's been too busy lately! I haven't been able to update the blog properly! Just be patient hehe ;) Recently Elles and Niels became the proud parents of little Cas Cornelis Fouchier -here's to them!, I feel so bad for Menno and Brylie who had a miscarriage earlier this week, I've had the honour to host a party with "opa & oma" at the stadium which was waaaay to funny hehe, my dear Gemmy returned to the Netherlands for about ten days -ohhh I've missed her sooo much! I WILL visit you in Italy very very soon I PROMISE!!!, in an attempt to live my life more healthy I started RUNNING again this sunday! I'll REALLY try to stick to my regular 3-times-a-week-schedule but with those irregular working schedules I doubt if I can keep it up. I'll really try... I'll update more thoroughly very soon, I hope this will do for now ;) This upcoming week will probably be a very COLD one... we'll be having a kind of exhibition of cars on the parking lot of the stadium from wednesday till saturday. Brrr! Weather isn't really cooperating gheghe. I can't wait for the summer to come...

VERY vip party!!!

Crazy days, very fast food...

It's been way too long since I've cooked myself a proper meal! Thank god, on long working days we can have dinner at the stadium, but still, when returning home at night William and I can't resist the fastfood! :P I prefer the pizza (Gorgonzola! yummy!!) since I can save 2 pieces for breakfast that way. Ohhh I'm bad, I know! ;)

Box 14

Past two weeks Martijn and 27 of his Philips Lighting colleagues spent their working days at the RBC stadium. Usually I don't get to see Martijn that often, so this was quite exceptional, meeting him DAILY! His projectgroup was stationed in Business Unit/Skybox 14, and I must say, this group of relatively young men was the most enthusiastic and fun of all four groups. Every day they welcomed us warmly when entering box14 (or: they welcomed the coffee and especially: the chocolate cake!! my god, according to Martijn they even made a "cake schedule"). I must admit, I kinda miss them this week... The 10h30 round through the stadium is pretty boring now ;) Luckily they will be back in about a month if I'm not mistaken :P But then, it's also good not to be distracted from work too much hehe. Especially my birthday was a pretty rough day since they ALL knew about it ;) But it's been fun. And above all I ended up having a date with cute project leader Jörgen! Still trying to manage a date for Martijn with Vief but I doubt if I'll succeed hehe...to be continued ;)

for your warm birthday wishes, (e)cards, messages, etc.! Past weeks have been too crazy, soooo extremely busy at work and I haven't been able to reply to you all properly. I'm so sorry for that! In the near future working days will probably stay very long since Maurits had his skiing accident this Monday and revalidation will probably take a few months... Too bad for him, but too bad for us as well... :(

Welcome, Cas!

Happy Birthday To Me!

28 does hurt somewhat...