Happy Birthday To Me!

28 does hurt somewhat...

Sooo silly me...

I lost my wallet...so I thought. I've been missing the damn thing since last Sunday and I've been looking for it over and over again for days! Soooo annoying, living without an ATM- and creditcard, or even cash money!! It makes you kinda creative though ;) (uhh mom, I stole a bread from your fridge hehe. you'll get one in return this weekend!!) Eventually I gave up the searching and reported my missing belongings to the police and just when I was going to block my cards I felt like checking my dust-bin in the garden. Don't ask me why, I just felt like it!! And my oh my, my mouth fell wide open... I found my wallet! HOW &#^!%& did that thing get there!!! I must have thrown it with some garbage, but geez, you would notice something like THAT, wouldn't you?? I think it's too weird; the fact that it was lying in the dust-bin, the fact that I had the urge to look in there, even though I had no CLUE to look in there, and if I had been a little bit later the thing would have been emptied (is that a verb??) by the refuse-collector. I must have a guardian angel...

The dutch saying "scherven brengen geluk" says these *&%@!% splinters -that are now in my garbage can- WILL bring me happiness... I really do hope so. So far I've broken 3 (!!) plates already this week! Ouch! Too much in a hurry > stress > CHAOS... I guess hehe. Or maybe I'm just being a very VERY clumsy person

"'t Bleft Kunst"

't Bleft Kunst 2007 - Carnival in Roosendaal Feb. 16th-20th! After RBC's homematch on Friday we managed to finish work pretty early; it was around 2AM so we did a good job! =) The idea was that we would ALL go to the pub afterwards and have some beers & cheers, but work did not go all well this night and Vivian, Annet, Maurits and William ended up in a very bad mood and decided to stay at the stadium. Their loss ;) So we left without them, I wasn't too happy with that but if I'd stayed as well I know that would have ruined my happy mood as well. AND THAT'S JUST NOT WORTH IT!! (No) thanks to a very bleeding nose (I'm having LOTS of them this week - not much fun!), we only arrived in town just before 3 AM, so we were lucky and allowed to get in! Time flies when you're having fun and soon it was 4 AM and I really had to hurry to get me some very fast food!!! My god, Alanya was already closed, Willy's was closed, everything closed!?! Pfeew De Smalle Pijp was just closing its rolling shutter but -my luck!-they were nice enough to let me in! YAY for them! I know it's no good, but I just can't sleep without a big fat meal in my stomach after a working night!

On Saturday I went to see the parade. The weather was just great! With a nice cold beer in my hand and the sun burning on my skin and a bunch of happy people around me, I was just sitting there enjoying the moment. Life can be good ;) Afterwards I went to grab me something to eat (for the 3rd time visiting De Smalle Pijp this week...*shame on me*) and ended up having a drink with some colleagues from the hospital before heading home. Pretty tired.

Mon-Tue-Wed I was off from RBC and worked at CMA. Especially on Monday the Emergency Room was extreeeemely busy! The phone rang almost constantly! But lucky me, from 9am I was with either Sophie or Bas at ophthalmology (did I spell that right?!?) these days, with is soooo quite and almost peaceful hehe. Good to escape the carnival-troubles and recover some yourself haha Sophie was wearing baseball caps these days not to show her face too much...this morning she was absent due to sickness :P

Tomorrow the extremely-hectic-RBC-period will start. That's why we had the 3 days off. To "recharge" hehe. I feel pretty tired already! Maybe I shouldn't have worked at the hospital and stay in bed for those days... hmmm just a thought...

*Smelly cat!* what is she feeding you?!

Recognize this sweety?! =) I had the honour to care for and play with the lovely Timba over the past few days! Just wondering... wasn't I feeding him ENOUGH?!? Each time I sneaked into the room I caught the *fat cat* (hehe) eating from the plants!! It looks like he's gotten himself quite some meal already! The *big boss* said he asks for attention that way...oh well he got it

Happy Valentine!

ps I DID have dinner with my gorgeous colleague tonight...at the local snackbar! So far for "romance"...

After drinking away our "bridgeclub-frustrations" Will & I got sooooo hungry so we decided to attack the local shoarma-king since we both had nothing quick&easy&fatty to prepare at home. Now THAT is hard on a mondaynight in Roosendaal at 4AM! Having passed many closed doors (aaargh!) we saw burning lights in a small -to me unknown- place but uhoh they were about to close! NOOOO! We put on our most hungry faces, our nicest smiles, put our best charmes forward and ohhh our supplications were acknowledged! YEAH! YUMMY!

My guess: more visits to come hehe

Did you survive NYE?!?

I know I did!!

So cool: Flickr Toys!

Still feeling not too well. Besides working, eating and a lot of sleeeeeping not doing that much around here. Okay, just wasting (what's left of) my precious time behind my laptop hehe. But I did find me a great website to "play" with my pictures here! A great site to remember for when we have another family event coming up?!? It DOES make the editing a lot easier! ;) Just showing some old vacation photos here to give an impression of what's possible!

Bleeeh

This is how I look...this is how I feel... I guess a little flu is entering my system. Don't want it to happen though... Can't have it to happen right now...But then, never is a good time I guess. You'll see, just when holidays are coming the girl gets sick :S

Direct phone

I decided to get me a direct line this morning! Since the cell phone companies just keep assuming I live in Belgium (!!!) the monthly charges are just way too high to hold. January 22nd will be the day I'm getting connected to the outside world ;) with the lovely number 850892 =) Call you later, alligator!!

I'm just too good =)

Just mailed my X-mas cards! Even BEFORE Christmas!! Wow I don't think this has happened to me before! I can't guarantee the cards will arrive just in time before Christmas as well, but this is one big step in the good direction! Usually my X-mas cards get mailed way past New Year's Eve hehe...

Foggy

A foggy view from the backyard! I've seen some serious fog in San Francisco, but man, last days in Rosevalley City were pretty scary as well! Especially at night when returning home from the RBC stadium, I hit several borders of the pavement and almost drove into a parked car!!

VICTORY!!!

Last night I won Cities & Knights of Catan for the very first time EVER! Whoo it made me so proud hehe. Now that Roel and Mireille got themselves a copy of the game as well I'm the only one who can't practice at home. During play you mostly can tell from the results hehe. But last night luck was with me: I WON!!! Soekie asked me not to spread this news, but, sorry, hey I'm just too damn proud ;)

Back in Cyberspace! =)

Woohoo I'm just too good! ;) After quite a lot of bungling in the damaged registry, I finally got my precious laptop to work again!! It took me a lot of sweating and swearing, but I did it! So proud of myself! =) I almost gave up earlier today, when nothing just seemed to start working. Then I decided to give my old pc a shot, but THAT was a disappointment!! That bloody thing was soooooo slow! It took about half an hour to get online, almost 5 mins to refresh a page :S It's total memory is 1.97 GB...how did I ever manage to work with THAT?! So...that motivated me to keep working on the laptop. Successfully!! So happy! So let me update you on last week now. Scroll back time! ;)

PC CRASH!!!! :'(

Ahhh I really don't like this. No e-mail, msn, skype, internet, radio, DVD, ... for a few days now! My computer is my (almost) everything!! So sorry I haven't been able to reply mails this week. I'll try to get my old PC working tonight so I can catch up with you all! =) It DID have some issues if I remember it correctly ( haven't used the old-fashioned thing for 4 years now...) but we'll see what it can still do...

Ode to my washing machine...

I LOVE YOU!, my new fabulous washing machine!!!

PARTY TIME!!

Once in a while you've got those periods when you have birthday-after-birthday. They just keep coming! Much fun but soooo exhausting! For the wallet as well... ;-) For me, such a period just started this weekend. The upcoming weeks will be FILLED with birthday parties! Sometimes even several a day, since most of them are planned in the weekends. So you gotta make choices! Geez life can be cruel!