My colleague A picked a turd of a time to fall ill with the flu… at the start of January, with colleage C on vacation. So all the people with new year’s resolutions to start a study all end up on my plate, on my lonesome for the HBO studies.
I’m buried in work, and will be so for the rest of the week. *gasps for breath*

The upside of it is a lot of sales for me, and thus a lot of bonus. And that’s always good of course!

Two and a half more hours to go today… I feel like I already worked 12 hours. Can I go home already?

Next shoes I’ll buy will NOT have rubber soles. With the additional woollen carpet here under my feet at work, I keep zapping the snot out of myself with static electricity. I get zapped about 10-20 times a day at current, whenever I touch a doorhandle, my chair, the side of the cubicles… whatever. It’s annoying >:(

On the brightside, I got four new students to sign up today. I’m nearing my personal record. Hooray!

We brought him to Hoorn, to be buried in the garden of my inlaws. It didn’t feel right to bury him here somewhere in the park or anything, where he could be dug up - not even mentioning the fact that we’ll be leaving Rijswijk in a few months. It would feel like leaving him behind, and we’d much rather leave him with family in Hoorn.

So that’s what we did, we were in Hoorn all day with my inlaws… who very sweetly buried him in the backyard. He’ll be safe there. *nods*
I’m glad we got to sit with him last night, and that I got to say a proper goodbye (although it was more of a sleep well, actually)… and I’m glad that he went peacefully after a long life. That’s all you can ask for in the end, right?
I don’t want to be overly dramatic or sappy about it… it was his time to go, he was old and he fell asleep. He’s gone, but he’s been here with us for ten years, and that’s awesome. I’ll miss the little guy and this is probably the last thing I say about him on this blog; but this little guy has been in my life… our lives… longer than many of our friends, and he’ll always be a part of it. He’ll be missed. I’ll leave it at that.

He’s gone. From the looks of it, he just fell asleep.
Rest in peace, little guy. :’(
Ten years is really old for a bunny. You were a total champ.

I think we’re losing Bako. He just keeps falling over, falling asleep where he sits.
I had him on my lap for over an hour and he was just hanging onto me, there was no life in him whatsoever. I don’t want to go to bed, because I know that he probably won’t last till morning, I’ve seen it before.
And I know he’s old. He’s ten years old, that’s beyond ancient for a bunny.
But I can’t help being heartbroken over it. :’(

I got no hangover, surprisingly. Yeah I know, it scares me too! *blinks* We’ve just hung out and blearily watched the Miami Ink marathon on Discovery Travel & Living all day, eating leftovers of the party. That, and I’ve slept all evening since I was soooo tired I slept lousily due to alcohol, and thus had only four hours of sleep by the time I got up with a full bladder. Cleaned up a bit after the party people… but that’s about all I did.

And tomorrow I have a very busy day at work. Ugh. Oh well… after this party, it’s all about rolling on 2009. Great spirits, beautiful end of year songs, too much champagne, no new year’s dive (waaaaay too cold), but I don’t mind. We had a great party anyway.
For more pictures of drunken people, you know where to go :’)

May 2009 make all your dreams come true

Olli talked to the real estate people today and guess what… it’s official.
On 2 March we’re going to get the key to the new house.
I am so excited! Because it’s three months from now, it’s now going to go really fast.
Nuttyville, here we come! <3

1.00 GBP       =       1.02261 EUR

I usually don’t comment on world news like the current financial crisis that I thought is a bit overhyped (here in NL) anyway, but this kind of blindsided me. I knew the GBP was doing shitty at the moment, I even commented on it and cheerfully went to amazon.co.uk to celebrate by buying shitloads of DVD’s… but this is something the world’s never seen before.

Great Britain didn’t want to join the EU coinage because their own coinage was so strong. And look at them now. They could get the Euro and they’d be better for it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not cheeky about it… I think it’s a very shitty thing.  :(
I’m just very surprised.

I ain’t in no hurry, you go run
And tell your friends I’m losing touch
Fill their heads with rumours of impending doom
It must be true

The New Year’s Dive is rapidly becoming unattractive.

Unlike normally, the temperature is dipping way beyond zero centigrades at the moment. It’s going to freeze 8 degrees on New Year’s, which is fucking cold even under normal circumstances. I’m not looking forward to the seawater being infinitely more attractive than getting OUT of the water, where there’s ice on the sand.

Also, there’s people recovering from flu at the moment who really wanted to make the plunge. I’m torn.
I don’t want to chicken out, but there’s a difference between being silly and having a deathwish, I think…

(in other news, the trains were DESERTED this morning. I started to doubt the fact that it was Monday, wondered if I’d been mistaken and if I was taking my silly ass to work on a Sunday. But no. The NS might be right after all with their ‘during Christmas holiday not as many people are traveling by train…’ announcement. WTF dude.)