February 19th, 2010
I looooove checking out bands that I don’t know yet and that are playing at the festival I’m going to. (Graspop in this case, by the way) Because while doing so, you might very well stumble over unexpected gems.
So far I love their sound; they sound rather similar to Still Remains at times – one of those bands whose disbanding I’ll mourn forever. Yes, it’s a style that might be done to death by now. Yes, it might be nothing new. But it’s still a lot of fun! They’ve been touring with Trivium, which is something I definitely understand, and they say they’re inspired by bands like Unearth and Killswitch Engage (who will ALSO play at Graspop). Sounds good eh! (Well, maybe only if you’re a Lannie and totally into metalcore…)
Anyway!
Rise To Remain – Graspop – I’ll be there!
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February 19th, 2010
(my apologies for being so rambly)
Is anyone else sleeping as much as I am? It’s getting pretty ridiculous. Of course I’m smart enough to see the corrolation between coming home from fitness at 10.30pm, a shower and then the appeal of my bed because I’m all warm and languid and snoozing with happy endorphins – but then still. Even Olli seems to sleep more than usual. I think we’re just in complete hibernation mode at the moment.
Meanwhile fitness is going really well, still. I noticed the other day that my ribcage is beginning to stand out next to my waistline. And to be honest, I can’t remember EVER noticing that before, despite the fact that I’ve always had a waistline – I do not have a pear shaped body like some ladies, but I have the hourglass shape which always made me seem a bit more slender and lighter than I always was. So to actually notice that was a bit of a breakthrough. Just goes to show that I’m really big-boned, obviously, if there’s already a difference between waist and ribcage at 91kg.
In other news I kind of hit a wall at work. There was a customer (lets call him customer I) that I thought I had nice contact with, but there turns out to be this asshole that said really assholish things about our company, about me (purposefully understanding things wrong that I had said during training) and about our services in general. And next Tuesday I have to face that guy again and he doesn’t know that I know what he said. I’m not looking forward to that at all… thankfully the other people in training were really nice. But now of course I’m getting suspicious of everything and everybody, I’m extra afaid to make mistakes and I hate feeling like a spaz. So meh.
At least customer SM went very well, no complaints, honestly nice people. And customer S is being managed by my colleague now, with me only doing the training & tech stuff. Because the internal politics even frustrate and confuse my boss, he decided that someone with more experience should handle that.
Meanwhile, while I’m terribly happy to be rid of the political side of customer S, my pride is having a field day with me. It’s so stupid to be completely aware of a process and it still eating away at me. But I’ll get through, don’t worry. At least I still love to give training. 
Oh, and in other other news: if all goes well, I’ll be initiated in Reiki 2 next Friday. Yay
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February 17th, 2010
Apparently somewhere a check didn’t come through and I was late with my payment on Lannie.net… so they closed down my blog before they warned me that we hadn’t paid… which is rather annoying. So Lannie.net was down for a little over 36 hours before it came back up… and now we can resume normal business.
But since I don’t have much to tell beyond the normal state of things (work is busy, I’m travelling and/or hanging out in virtual classrooms all day long), I don’t really have much to say.
So! How are YOU, sweet readers? (I expect you to answer this one, you adorable little lurkers. Tell me how you’re doing! 
)
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February 14th, 2010
Lie dropped by this afternoon for a bit to pick up the season of Dexter that Olli burned on dvd for her.
And so we had an opportunity to test out the crappiness of my webcam, since we were looking into this silly website that shows daily mugshots.
Although the webcam is as crappy as I feared, at least the picture is something that I wanted to share. It’s a terribly cute picture that reminds me of those photobooth pictures that we used to take, all those years ago
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February 13th, 2010
In the backseats of burned out cars
In the disenchantment lane
The ideal angels twist and turn
And ask forgiveness for future mistakes…
Wendy and I tried to purchase tickets for the Snow Patrol concert(s) today, but lucked out. The website just maxed out and when I finally got somewhere, the tickets were already sold out. I’m incredibly bummed about it. Not because I feel sorry for missing out on Snow Patrol, not particularly. I’ve seen them three times by now, I think? Yeah, three times. And while it was excellent every single time, there’s not that burning need anymore. I just wanted to do it for my mom. My mom is this huge Snow Patrol fangirl and I thought it would be brilliant to take her with me. I was all ready to pay for the ridiculously expensive tickets of E47,50 for her. And then we lucked out 
To cheer myself up, I got me a ticket for the Gaslight Anthem in July instead. Not for my mom, because I don’t think she even knows they exist (come to think of it, she might even kind of like them), but because I like them. Sometimes they remind me of the Killers, when they were still awesome.
“The Backseat” is one of the prettiest songs I heard last year.
In other news, I’m learning how to play “Resolve” by the Foo Fighters, and “Not An Addict” by K’s Choice on my bass guitar and I’m terribly excited about it. I’ll keep you updated on how it goes!
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February 11th, 2010
The problem with the fact that I get further along with my bass lessons (I’m creeping slowly towards that first star in bass guitar) is that the lessons and my homework become progressively more difficult as well. It’s terribly frustrating because again I haven’t practiced enough (STUPID LANNIE!) and I want to crack this tune before tomorrow morning. So I’ll keep practicing that stupid tune even if it takes me all fucking night.
Although at the moment I have a bit of a break, listening to All That Remains to inspire me. Go Jeanne go!
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February 9th, 2010
I think my decision to retrieve myself and to stop sucking came at exactly the right moment. Holy crap it is busy at work. Yesterday an in house training, today a training in Waalwijk, and tomorrow a project meeting in Deventer. Exhausted as I am, it is off to bed with me!
I am completely comfortable with no fitness today. Sleep has priority now!
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February 7th, 2010
In the past seven weeks, I lost 2.5 kilo of fat, I gained half a kilo of muscles (how about that!) and my weight is two kilos lower than it was back then. My bodyfat percentage is 2.2% lower than it used to be.
So, we’re well on our way. I would have liked to have seen it work even more, but I shouldn’t get ahead of myself. I guess this is as good as I can hope for.
At least this shit is working.
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February 7th, 2010
I didn’t realize how much I was desperately wanting fitness to do something for me until today.
I’m about to go there and do an evaluation of those first two months, see if it helped. And I’m not sure what I’ll do if it hasn’t helped a bit. My weight hasn’t been doing too stellar. For no reason whatsoever two weeks ago I gained three kilo’s back. Now they’re gone again (setting me at a much more agreeable 92.5) for also no reason whatsoever, and that kind of gave me a blow where it comes to my faith that this will all work out well.
I know that I have more prominent stomach muscles now (underneath the fat) and that my upper arms have lost some of their flabbiness – but I want cold, hard numbers. Facts and figures. I want proof. I want to see a lower fat percentage. If I don’t, I’ll be really frigging bummed.
I’ll be off now. Wish me luck?
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February 6th, 2010
So I unexpectedly got the house to myself tonight, because Tijs had an extra ticket for the Mastodon concert and Olli took him up on that. Not having expected this, I am seriously contemplating what I’ll do tonight.
Shall I play bass? Shall I take a long and luxurious bath? Shall I write? Shall I play loud music? Watch some TV? So many choices!
But thankfully, I still got the whole night ahead of me.
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