Two weeks ago I was invited to a bachelerette party. Usually I don't like these gatherings, but I went anyway. But that day things didn't really go the way they were planned. I had been feeling rather ill for over a week, and didn't feel a lot better on that Saturday. Icky suggested I'd take an afternoon nap, which I did, and it really helped me, but when I woke up I needed to change my clothes and get ready. When I tried to go upstairs Soufyan and Yaesseen tried to convince me to play a bit with them and they were blocking the door, so I tried to quickly get through the door to get upstairs. Bad idea. I was not really paying a lot of attention to what I was doing and where my feet were and I pulled the door onto my toe, and it hurt like hell. Then I forgot the trains were going by the weekend hours, so I ended up missing my train. The train I ended up taking, took a wrong turn and we arrived in a wrong station, where the driver got out and had to walk to the other side of the train to get back. To make a long story short... I was late and to make it even worse, I was the only one who was late and there was one chair too short on the table, so everyone saw me standing there waiting for a chair because I was late. After all the night was quite fun, but I left early because I needed to catch my last train home. And it was not in the station, it actually didn't depart from the central station, since there was a problem with the electricity (the driver didn't take a wrong turn earlier, but there was an actual problem, dammit), so I ended up running downstairs to catch a train to take me to the other station.
Yesterday I was talking with my friend Phasma who told me that two of his gay friends are getting married and are having bachelors parties. Which prompted the question: "how do they do that!?" I mean there is no bride who can go out with her girlfriends, there are only two brooms with mostly the same friends. Maybe they have it together, but then it's not a real bachelor's party, is it!?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
What the hell happened to my women's weekly!? It has changed... it now has a section for men (probably because they've caught you guys sneakingly reading your girlfriends'/ wife's women's weekly on the toilet ;p), and in this section they have a "my body and me" page, with the picture of a naked man. OK guys, correct me if I'm wrong here, but do you like watching pictures of naked men in a magazine!? Especially since it's not a porn mag, well, it never used to be pornographic, but now I have my doubts, especially since they printed an article on vaginal correction this week. This is mainly the reason why I started about the naked man, because I don't like to see all this. My women's weekly is meant for entertainment, some gossip, some brainless articles, but a magazine I can just leave lying around the house without feeling worried that one of the boys might pick it up and go through it. Quite frankly I don't feel like giving an explanation on those pics.
So I guess that was it for my and my women's weekly... we'll be saying goodbye, I'll end my contract, I'll find myself another women's weekly, one that is less porn, and more what you'd expect of it...
So I guess that was it for my and my women's weekly... we'll be saying goodbye, I'll end my contract, I'll find myself another women's weekly, one that is less porn, and more what you'd expect of it...
Monday, July 9, 2007
Yesterday I downloaded a new song to my mobile "kvraagetaan" by Fixkes. It's a song in Flemmish about how easy life used to be. It's a song filled with nostalgia. ' 'k vraag et aan' is what we used to say when we were young and wanted a boy to be our boyfriend (or girlfriend), or we even sent out one of our friends to go ask the boy instead of going yourself.
Ironically, I ran into the boy who was my boyfriend when I was fourteen years old, about ten minutes after I downloaded the song. I didn't know what to say though, so I said hi and that was about it.... :D
Ironically, I ran into the boy who was my boyfriend when I was fourteen years old, about ten minutes after I downloaded the song. I didn't know what to say though, so I said hi and that was about it.... :D
Sunday, July 8, 2007
How to talk to a widower
I've just finished a brilliant book, by Jonathan Tropper, which left me longing for more. Normally I take a new book and start reading it after I finished one. Not this time though, well, I tried, three times, but I cannot continue reading, because it just doesn't meet up to "How to talk to a widower".
I won't bother giving you a bookreview, but if you want one... go to the library or the bookstore and get yourself a copy, there is no better bookreview then actually reading it yourself. But I can tell you I wanted to call in sick to read the book in one go.
Friday, June 29, 2007
nostalgia
I found some of the games we used to play when I was still a child, but now on the internet... which is brilliant, yet addictive... remember these?
Yahtzee
Hangman
OXO
The multimedia thing is going out of their borders, on Wednesday night I had to click on a button to become friends with Tom, whom I have known since kindergarten. He accepted the friendship right away, but now I have this schedule; Tom and I are friends since June 27th 2007, now our children won't believe it if I tell them we met when we were about 3 years old. same thing happened with Lies en Jon....tsssssssss
Yahtzee
Hangman
OXO
The multimedia thing is going out of their borders, on Wednesday night I had to click on a button to become friends with Tom, whom I have known since kindergarten. He accepted the friendship right away, but now I have this schedule; Tom and I are friends since June 27th 2007, now our children won't believe it if I tell them we met when we were about 3 years old. same thing happened with Lies en Jon....tsssssssss
careful
This is the pic of a coffee cup (yep, I am an addict, I admit to it), stating that it's hot....unfortunately "careful" is not translated as "opegpast" ;) OPEG stands for something else if I am not mistaken... ;) But I thought it was cute ;) So I took a subtle picture of it, pretending to be sending a text message, only forgetting that if I don't turn the sound off, the mobile makes a clicking sound, so long for my subtlety ;)
Growing pains
I am finally growing up, well and truly...
I have come to a point where I realise I should really start to make decisions which will need to last through for well... euhm... about the rest of my life.
I know I have talked about the matter that I did not know what I want to be when I grow up... well... I am getting there. Thing is that we have been looking for ways to make our life that tiny bit easier... We have been keeping options open, we have been thinking a lot of things through, like one of us looking for a job closer to home, without the shifts, because they are weighing through a lot now. Better hours, maybe one of us even parttime...
What's most important is that I want one of us to be here when the boys are older and are coming home from school with homework to do, that they can do it with one of us nearby to help them out, to watch them doing what needs to be done, as well as making sure we can eat at more regular times. Nowadays, we often prepare food with Soufyan and Yaesseen knock out on the sofa, then waking them up and sitting at the table with a whining four-year-old and a cranky and whining three-year-old. When they'll be a few years older, this won't be an option though... because it'll be too much for them to do their homework after they are knackered from school and pre- and afterschool care.
Add to that the fact that even though I still enjoy what I do and have the feeling I am good at what I am doing, I really don't see me doing this until my retirement... And the clock is ticking and I have a family depending on these decisions, I don't have a lot of time to mess around, trying to find a job I like better, with the risk of getting unemployed at a certain period and not earn enough to look after them (which is one of my biggest fears, therefore holding me back to take a risk and apply for another job). But with the government that is now coming up (they still haven't made a real new government after the elections yet, but they have an idea), we haven't heard a lot of positive things for our company in the news, which is a bit frightening. I know that I am in a safe spot where I am right now, because they will always need operators on the line to make sure that problems will be fixed, they are more important then sales operators, but still... I am afraid of losing the benefits that are keeping me there in the first place.
That's one of the reasons I called to one of our bosses today, well it's actually the man who organises our work force, asking for my options on working parttime, the shifts, the organisational options (five days a week, working four hours a day, or two days one week, three days the other, working eight hours a day, the weekends, the shifts... etc.). I also informed on the payment, the benefits the union will give me on top of that payment. And that is one of the reasons I have this site open.
Yes sirs, I am thinking about becoming a teacher, I would like to start my studies September 2008, so that I will finish by the time I'll turn 32 and then start a new carreer, by that time Soufyan will be 10, but it also means my parttime work will have started before he starts primary school, so it should work out the way I want. I am still unsure though. I have talked about it with Icky.
However, today I kind of dropped the matter to Soufyan and Yaesseen, who thought it was a joke! :D Soufyan thought I meant going to school with him, and he doesn't want me in his class, he says I am too big for his class, and if I want to do so, I should first be a baby again. I wish it was just as simple as that... I'd love to be a baby again, however today I'd rather not be our baby, since he is really ill, but still, I'd like to do that again, but skip puberty... :D
But in a way it's all exciting, me getting to the point to where I have an idea on what I want to be when I grow up, but it's scary as hell, because there is a lot more to it then just a lot of holidays :D And the fact that I cannot screw up this time is even more scarier. I will be a lot older then most other students, I will probably be the only one with three toddlers in the house, I will be the only one not drinking and not skipping classes, because I had my time doing so, and it didn't work out back then. And I will not allow myself making the same mistake.
I am already getting cold feet and I only started making real plans around all this yesterday, the thought of going back to school has been up for a while, but I am scared, which is good, because I remember me having cold feet when I left for Scotland and look how that turned out (however, I'd like to get out of this experience without turning pregnant ;))
I have come to a point where I realise I should really start to make decisions which will need to last through for well... euhm... about the rest of my life.
I know I have talked about the matter that I did not know what I want to be when I grow up... well... I am getting there. Thing is that we have been looking for ways to make our life that tiny bit easier... We have been keeping options open, we have been thinking a lot of things through, like one of us looking for a job closer to home, without the shifts, because they are weighing through a lot now. Better hours, maybe one of us even parttime...
What's most important is that I want one of us to be here when the boys are older and are coming home from school with homework to do, that they can do it with one of us nearby to help them out, to watch them doing what needs to be done, as well as making sure we can eat at more regular times. Nowadays, we often prepare food with Soufyan and Yaesseen knock out on the sofa, then waking them up and sitting at the table with a whining four-year-old and a cranky and whining three-year-old. When they'll be a few years older, this won't be an option though... because it'll be too much for them to do their homework after they are knackered from school and pre- and afterschool care.
Add to that the fact that even though I still enjoy what I do and have the feeling I am good at what I am doing, I really don't see me doing this until my retirement... And the clock is ticking and I have a family depending on these decisions, I don't have a lot of time to mess around, trying to find a job I like better, with the risk of getting unemployed at a certain period and not earn enough to look after them (which is one of my biggest fears, therefore holding me back to take a risk and apply for another job). But with the government that is now coming up (they still haven't made a real new government after the elections yet, but they have an idea), we haven't heard a lot of positive things for our company in the news, which is a bit frightening. I know that I am in a safe spot where I am right now, because they will always need operators on the line to make sure that problems will be fixed, they are more important then sales operators, but still... I am afraid of losing the benefits that are keeping me there in the first place.
That's one of the reasons I called to one of our bosses today, well it's actually the man who organises our work force, asking for my options on working parttime, the shifts, the organisational options (five days a week, working four hours a day, or two days one week, three days the other, working eight hours a day, the weekends, the shifts... etc.). I also informed on the payment, the benefits the union will give me on top of that payment. And that is one of the reasons I have this site open.
Yes sirs, I am thinking about becoming a teacher, I would like to start my studies September 2008, so that I will finish by the time I'll turn 32 and then start a new carreer, by that time Soufyan will be 10, but it also means my parttime work will have started before he starts primary school, so it should work out the way I want. I am still unsure though. I have talked about it with Icky.
However, today I kind of dropped the matter to Soufyan and Yaesseen, who thought it was a joke! :D Soufyan thought I meant going to school with him, and he doesn't want me in his class, he says I am too big for his class, and if I want to do so, I should first be a baby again. I wish it was just as simple as that... I'd love to be a baby again, however today I'd rather not be our baby, since he is really ill, but still, I'd like to do that again, but skip puberty... :D
But in a way it's all exciting, me getting to the point to where I have an idea on what I want to be when I grow up, but it's scary as hell, because there is a lot more to it then just a lot of holidays :D And the fact that I cannot screw up this time is even more scarier. I will be a lot older then most other students, I will probably be the only one with three toddlers in the house, I will be the only one not drinking and not skipping classes, because I had my time doing so, and it didn't work out back then. And I will not allow myself making the same mistake.
I am already getting cold feet and I only started making real plans around all this yesterday, the thought of going back to school has been up for a while, but I am scared, which is good, because I remember me having cold feet when I left for Scotland and look how that turned out (however, I'd like to get out of this experience without turning pregnant ;))
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