Summertime
Dutch bank account
Good thing there is laptops, then I don't have to sit alone in the hotel bar and eat by myself...Skype company and a glass of wine. Then I can work all evening. I don't care. A business trip is a business trip, so what else to do than work? lol.
It's 19 degrees C here in Rotterdam, and I'm lovin' it. I remember now that it's so much nicer weather here than back home in Sweden. At lunch today I went to the Chineese restaurang, which I went to at least 1 time a week when I lived here. And the guy recognized me and asked where I've been and how long I'm staying. Such cute lil' chineese guy, lol.
Well, back to work...
Senile?
What a day
Then I was taking the train back to Rotterdam...at least I thought so. In Den Haag the train stopped, the people got off...and when I looked around EVERYBODY left the train. PANIC!!!! I ran to the front of the train, no one there, all doors locked...then the train start going backwards...CRAP!!!! I start running the other way and there in the front there was this man driving the train to the "spare tracks", he started to talk to me in Dutch...I didn't get any of it, so after I asked English please, he said: Oh, you don;t speak Dutch, I called out in the speakers that everyone had to get off. IN DUTCH!!! ~!@#@!#@!#@!#@! I was not happy at all, almost panicing and this stupid fucking country where they say most people speak English. How can they not say a message like that on the speakers in English? Well, when I think of this now, I cannot do anything else than smile. This only happens to me...Alone...stuck in a locked a train going to the extra tracks for maintenance :)
After I got back to Rotterdam I went to this WE store and bought a shirt for mom and one for me. Tired and kinda angry after the train incident, I took the metro 2 stops to get home. Lazy, yeah I know. But the more active at home, I packed 8 boxes, the closets are empty, and all other things are being packed. I'm an expert in packing. Moving now will be my 17th, yes you got it correct SEVENTEEN, time in 11 years :)
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Portable office phone
TV shows and movies are so much more funnier than packing :)
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First Win
And now I can't forget to put back the clock for 1 hour...back to ol' boring winter time.
Just some more packing and then I'm gonna watch 2 episodes of Californication and then get some sleep, before I get up at 6.30 to take my flight to Sweden. Wohoo!
Later!
♥ M
Here we go...
Today I've been on IKEA with my friend Caroline...she's also from Sweden and it has been so nice to have someone like her here. So shopping for some small stuff and some food shopping in the Swedish Food Market, we has some eating meatballs, brown sause and lingonberry...Yummie! And now I'm hoping that she and her Eric will move to Gothenburg :D
Good news
I watched 2 more episodes of Gossip girl, season 2...episod 6 and 7..., got some more of Dexter, Californication, Heroes and Prison Break to watch. Yeah, you're right, I don't do much....I work, go to the gym, go and sit on the side at the bball gym and then home in front of the computer or watchin tv shows. Yay, how fun. But Saturday me and Caroline hopefully will go to IKEA, i need to buy some stuff...and Kaviar :D Then my team have a home game and before that I gotta sit in the sec for the game that U-20 guys will play. Wow, so much things to look forward to...
But in like 2 weeks, my girl Victoria is coming here which I'm looking forward tooooooo much. And I hope that Jamye also can get a day off from work so she can come to Amsterdam and Rotterdam with us. And and Vicky, I checked your tour guides out...sounds interesting...I need to see some of this stuff. Only been here for 7 month and didn't see nuttin' But I'll wait for you girl...LOL
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Another week
I just got home from the fysio now and my foot is kinda sore. My ordinary fysio is not there for 2 weeks so there was this other dude there today, and geeez, I don't wanna go back to him...but I guess I have to...so next Tuesday again.
Now sitting here and dreaming about travelling...where to next? Australia, South Africa, Brazil? Well, first I will go to Thailand and then I will make my next plans. Even though that I have over 30days of vacation left, it's hard to plan something when I have the basketball (even though I'm injured now) and a manager who doesn't want me to be off work...
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Head ache
After work today I walked to Mirelles and got some dinner, salmon and pasta...yummie. then we took her bike (yes, both of us on her bike) to Zuidplein to catch the bus to the bball gym in Barendrecht. Watched the girls practice while making my squats and sit-ups, yay how fun.
Tomorrow I'll try to be at work BEFORE 8.00 am, good luck to me with that! Then directly to the fitness gym for 1 hour strengh and 1 hour cardio...then to the fysio and get some of that horreible massage on my foot, do some stretching and then we're going to watch the men's game.
Saturday I have to call the orthopaedist and get new inlays for my bball shoes. Oh and speaking of shoes, I think Lisa will buy my new white Nike's. So I will have to use my Hyperdunks untill my 2 new pair of bball shoes will come from America in the beginning of November. A guy from our Seattle office is bringing them for me to Sweden. Then around 4pm I have to be in the bball gym I think I have to be in the secretary for a U18 boys game. Then at 8.15pm our game starts, we play Den Helder, last years Dutch champions! And 3 of our 4 inside players are injured...so Lindy, half injured Michele and the junior Eline will have a tough job inside Saturday. But I'm not worried, they will do a great job.
Now, my head hurst so much that I think it's time for me to go to bed...and I'm also freking tired!
One of those bright moments
After work I went to the fitness gym and did some cardio on the bike, since I'm not allowed to run, and then some strenght before I had to rush and get ready for the basketball game... Me and Sevda went to Leiden to watch the Men's game, ZZ Leiden against the Bluestream Seals.
Ok, so i need a better camera. Taking pictures on a basketball game when on moving object with my old camera, just makes them blurry. But here is at least one... The Seals won over Leiden with 82-80.
Today I've been at the fysio and got some of that horribel massage on my foot. It freaking hurts like crap. I hope that I can play Saturday, but as it feels right now...doubdtful that I can play :( I asked the fysio what my injury is and it's Plantar Fasciitis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_fasciitis This sucks! Any suggestions what to do about this plantar fasciitis? Well, you cannot say stretching...
Now to an episod of Gossip Girls...Humpfrey in jail...you didn't see that one coming huh? :D
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Movies
Wall E
The Love Guru
Save the last dance 2
And now I will watch one more right now...
...bbefore I go to sleep :D
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6 months
Trying to eat healthy, no pizza, no burgers, no kebab, no candy, no alcohol...Man, this sounds like I'm so boring. Can't eat the good stuff and can't work out as much as I want or wear high heels. Dang, I am boring! Well, friday I think me and my new friend Caroline will go for some shopping and food at La Place, or a movie like Mamma Mia. If we're not gonna hang out friday, I think it's IKEA on saturday. I need some stuff for the apartment. I only lived here for 6 months now and it's not until now I realised that I need some stuff. Oh shit, tomorrow it's exactly 6 months since I moved here. 17th of March I moved out here!!! Only 6 more months to go =)
This is how my apartment on Linnegatan in Gothenburg looked about 6 months ago...in the process of packing.
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Just another weekend
Friday I was supposed to go out with Sevda and Jennifer, but I was so beat. After 15hours at work...(we had our opening party started from 3pm and lasted until 10pm) I just didn't have the power to get dressed and go out with the girls, so I watched 2 episodes of Veronica Mars and then past out and woke up 12 hours later. Had some "brunch", went out for a run, the went to the gym and lifted weights. Got back home, went to the shin clinic for my treatment then went grocery shopping and cooked some dinner. I just love the weekends when I can do whatever and don\'t feel stressed. But it's kind of a pain in the ass having a game on the sunday, cause then you're just waiting for the sunday to come and then all sudden, the Sunday anxiety is here again. Uuuh, I hate Sundays...they are to close to Mondays...and Monday means work!
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5 hours
Just came home from a Company dinner with people from, Russia, Sweden, Holland, Ireland, UK, Estonia, USA...a very laid back group of ppl. But since it's gonna be a very long day tomorrow I will stop bullshitting here and go to bed.LOL
Caroline, I knew you where the right person to call
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Only Monday
MONDAY >> Skin Treatment, Basketball
TUESDAY >> Physio and Cardio
WEDNESDAY >> Basketball
THURSDAY >> Cardio, Dinner with the board of directors
FRIDAY >> Opening party at my office, Thalia Lounge with the girls
SATURDAY >> Skin Treatment, Cardio and Strenght
SUNDAY >> Basketball Game (Away)
It's only Monday and I'm already tired. My legs are so tired after todays practice, I ran my ass off so I guess tomorrow my legs will feel like 2 concrete pieces. But I can't let anyone beat me when we're running at practice, I need to be the best and now I can feel a slight taste of blood in my throat. Is that a good or bad thing? Feeling like this makes me just wanna work even harder, go out and run until I don't get the taste. I wanna be so tired that my legs won't carry me. But after that I would need a massage. Anyone? Well, at least I know I'm a "train-a-holic" LOL
If it wasn't for the basketball I would go with my friends and do the "Classic". Vasaloppet is the 21st of February, but I have a game then and can't go to Sweden for that. Too bad though case there is like 10 ladies who are going up north to a cabbin, do the race and then maybe have some celebration party :) But, i will cheer for them, here from Holland...after we win our game of course.
Peace my dear friends!
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Don't drive in Holland
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First...
GAME...Yesterday we played our first practice game, with 7 players...I was not one of them since my stupid muscle won't heal. I hope tho' by the end of the week that I can practice 100% and then saturday playing the 2nd practice game. Well, the team we played against was in the division under us, so good for us that we won by 35pts. Otherwise it would have sucked. I can't wait until I get to hoop, I hate being on the side watching the others play...I WANNA PLAY!
FRIEND...not first, but the best...my girl Julia. I miss you so much. I wish you didn't live in Stockholm, or that I lived in Rotterdam. Having your best girl so far away, that's not cool....not at all. Well, I miss her like crazy and hope that one day we'll be living in the same city and sharing our dreams with our families.
MOSQUITO BITES...or more like 5 of them, big ass bites, like 7cm in diameter...eeeew! bWhy do all bugs like me? Cause I'm so sweet? Or cause they hate me so they have to bite ans sting me...Geeeez, get off my back!
CANDY...in Holland, I just bought today. I got my sweet tooth as you all know. In Sweden I eat too much sweets and candy, but in Holland I managed to stay away from most of the sugar. But today, going to the grocery store, hungry, direct after work...How could I resist the sweet candy laying of the shelf just screaming my name!!!
SEASON of VERONICA MARS...was completed this Saturday. I love that TV show. Thanks DP!
DAY OF THE WEEK, MONDAY...booooooo! Hate Mondays...I was so tired at work today, then I almost fell asleep at home before the practice and now I should go to sleep since it's 11.39pm.
32 minutes
I've had like 2 really hard weeks at work but today at 4.30pm something lit up my day. In a parcel with some SW CD's that came from sweden...there was a gift for me...from the 3 sweetest girls in the office in Sweden. Some Swedish Candy! Guess if i was happy. That really made my day. Thanks Sonja, Sofia and Elisabeth! Puss!
I'm also trying to find an appropriate dress for the wedding in August. I think I need something colorful, like pink or turquoise. I hope that I will find the dress in the States. Oh and shoes, I really whant high heels, like HIGH heels, but then I'll be even taller, taller than probaly most people in that wedding. hmmm, lots to think about :)
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Weekend
How stupid can I be.? I should have known better...you know I am miss I-LOVE-THE-SUN :) So I better get some sun next weekend so I can get these ugly ass marks off my back...haha.
Ok, so this was not the only stupid thing I did this weekend. Well, not sure what I was thinking or that I even should mention it. I was not thinking and this brilliant idea of mine just poped up in my head and within 10 seconds I did it...I put some normal dish washing soap in the dish washer (we ran out of the small tabs u normally put there) and pressed START. Guess what happened? Foam, foam and more foam leaking out from the dish washer. @#$^%$#%@ I said a lot of bad words, and was wondering what I was thinking. GREAT saturday evening. Took me about 1 hour to clean that mess.
I hope I will find my brain at work tomorrow morning!