It's getting close to bed time here, and I've got a full week ahead of
me! Tomorrow I'm going to dinner at my friend's house and we'll watch
BBC documentaries, usually about space and planets. We mostly do that
every other Tuesday when her boyfriend has late meetings. It's super
cool. We usually order pizza, but she's cooking pesto pasta w/ chicken,
feta and sundried tomatoes for a change. YUMMY!! :) Wednesday is
someone's last day at work so 18 of us are going out for dinner at an
Afghan restaurant that is supposed to be really good. Not sure if I've
ever had Afghan food! I'm looking forward to it!! Thursday I'm going to
try a new Body Pump class with a friend, and on Friday with the same
friend I'll do Zumba, and then we have a women's club we'll go out to
drinks with, and then Terry comes home on Saturday!! Then Sunday is
Queen's Night (lots of wearing orange and partying), Sunday is Queen's
Day (more of the same, with live music and whatnot), the Mom and Dad fly
in on Tuesday! We won't see them until that weekend when we meet in
Brugge, but it feels like they're almost here! I hope they have good
weather for their hiking trip!! And the Thurs before Brugge I'm going
paintballing with work! Buzzy bee! What do you have coming up?
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Response to pics.
I'm glad you liked the pics! That number of tulips is definitely not natural. A lot of them have names that are just letters and numbers which I think means they've been "bred in captivity" if you will. Basically just created. But they're BEAUTIFUL! How creative of people to be able to MAKE a species! Or a sub-species. :)
I'm also really glad to hear that gma is looking forward to skyping with me! That's nice that she's spending the night so she can do that. Too bad I'll be asleep when you're all there for dinner. It would be such fun to be able to call while you're all there! 9 hours is a pretty big time difference though...
I also hope they find something wrong with grandma's knee, because, as you said, then they can fix it! The worst is going to the doctor and not being given a diagnosis. When I would get sick while working at the preschool I would go to the doctor hoping that a test like for strep throat, for example, would come back positive so I could just get on the right meds and start feeling better! Doctors are a little useless here because they tell you to go to bed, have tea and take time off work and come back in 2 wks-1 month if you're not feeling better. Trouble is, I always go to the doctor only as a last result, so by the time I'm at a doctor's office I already will have done all those things and waited that long and just want to be fixed!! Another interesting thing here is that if you call in sick to work it's the government that pays your sick leave (but only starting on the 3rd day...you get no compensation if you're sick only 1 or 2 days in a row...), but because the government is paying they send inspectors to your house to make sure you're actually where you say you are and are actually sick. Crazy, huh?? I don't really like that, even though I don't think people should use sick time as vacation time, because I do believe that some people might need a mental health day now and then when they should be allowed to stay home even if they're not conventionally "sick" ya know? Maybe they have something else going on that demands they take some time off. I think that should be allowed.
I'm super excited for my parents to come. We've been looking forward to this for a while now! I'll only partly be a tour guide because they're doing Amsterdam on their own and then we're going to Brugge where I don't know my way around either! It will certainly be fun for all of us, though! You can bet there will be a lot of pics after that trip!!
We had to avoid the large groups at the Jewish museum. It just ruins the experience when there's this massive group that can hardly fit in a room and the guide is holding up their brightly colored umbrella and shouting, "AND THIS ROOM IS BOUT THIS OTHER HORRIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED DURING THE HOLOCAUST BLAH BLAH BLAH LET'S KEEP MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ROOM NOW." It was kind of insensitive too and seemed hardly worth it. I like to do museums at my own pace and visit the exhibits that interest me, and actually be able to see some of the displays, believe it or not! :)
I'm also really glad to hear that gma is looking forward to skyping with me! That's nice that she's spending the night so she can do that. Too bad I'll be asleep when you're all there for dinner. It would be such fun to be able to call while you're all there! 9 hours is a pretty big time difference though...
I also hope they find something wrong with grandma's knee, because, as you said, then they can fix it! The worst is going to the doctor and not being given a diagnosis. When I would get sick while working at the preschool I would go to the doctor hoping that a test like for strep throat, for example, would come back positive so I could just get on the right meds and start feeling better! Doctors are a little useless here because they tell you to go to bed, have tea and take time off work and come back in 2 wks-1 month if you're not feeling better. Trouble is, I always go to the doctor only as a last result, so by the time I'm at a doctor's office I already will have done all those things and waited that long and just want to be fixed!! Another interesting thing here is that if you call in sick to work it's the government that pays your sick leave (but only starting on the 3rd day...you get no compensation if you're sick only 1 or 2 days in a row...), but because the government is paying they send inspectors to your house to make sure you're actually where you say you are and are actually sick. Crazy, huh?? I don't really like that, even though I don't think people should use sick time as vacation time, because I do believe that some people might need a mental health day now and then when they should be allowed to stay home even if they're not conventionally "sick" ya know? Maybe they have something else going on that demands they take some time off. I think that should be allowed.
I'm super excited for my parents to come. We've been looking forward to this for a while now! I'll only partly be a tour guide because they're doing Amsterdam on their own and then we're going to Brugge where I don't know my way around either! It will certainly be fun for all of us, though! You can bet there will be a lot of pics after that trip!!
We had to avoid the large groups at the Jewish museum. It just ruins the experience when there's this massive group that can hardly fit in a room and the guide is holding up their brightly colored umbrella and shouting, "AND THIS ROOM IS BOUT THIS OTHER HORRIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED DURING THE HOLOCAUST BLAH BLAH BLAH LET'S KEEP MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ROOM NOW." It was kind of insensitive too and seemed hardly worth it. I like to do museums at my own pace and visit the exhibits that interest me, and actually be able to see some of the displays, believe it or not! :)
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Berlin and update
We're doing really well. Reinforcements from the US have finally arrived for Terry (1 actually moved and 1 is working remote from the US and coming once a month), but I find it crazy that he had 2 ADDITIONAL people's worth of work to give away. It was just WAY too much for way too long.
This weekend we spent a wonderful long weekend in Berlin with one of our best friends from college. It was SO good to see him again, and I LOVED Berlin. Have you been? It wasn't even really on my list before, but we went because we happened to have a long weekend when he would be there, and I totally fell in love with the city and VERY highly recommend a visit. It just has the most incredibly amount of history (duh) and diversity (cultural, political, and of course food & beer) and just seems to have (finally) gotten a lot of things right. (Pics coming soon).
I'm working at Newell Rubbermaid right now and it's the Shared Financial Service Center so of the 150 employees there there are about 40 nationalities represented because we have to have all European languages spoken in the office, and the average age there is 27, so that's obviously my kind of work environment.
I was hired for a transition to SAP which is a different work system (complete with a "go live" a la Epic) and my 6 month contract ends on July 30 and there's no possibility for it to be extended as the transition to the new system will be complete, and I don't know if there will be any other opportunities for me there or if I'll be looking for jobs again, which is one of my least favorite things to do in the whole entire world.
This weekend we spent a wonderful long weekend in Berlin with one of our best friends from college. It was SO good to see him again, and I LOVED Berlin. Have you been? It wasn't even really on my list before, but we went because we happened to have a long weekend when he would be there, and I totally fell in love with the city and VERY highly recommend a visit. It just has the most incredibly amount of history (duh) and diversity (cultural, political, and of course food & beer) and just seems to have (finally) gotten a lot of things right. (Pics coming soon).
I'm working at Newell Rubbermaid right now and it's the Shared Financial Service Center so of the 150 employees there there are about 40 nationalities represented because we have to have all European languages spoken in the office, and the average age there is 27, so that's obviously my kind of work environment.
I was hired for a transition to SAP which is a different work system (complete with a "go live" a la Epic) and my 6 month contract ends on July 30 and there's no possibility for it to be extended as the transition to the new system will be complete, and I don't know if there will be any other opportunities for me there or if I'll be looking for jobs again, which is one of my least favorite things to do in the whole entire world.
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