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Growing up...ouch

October 15th, 2007 (05:49 pm)

current location: Work
current mood: calm

I'm sure you've heard it before, but this grown up stuff is pretty complicated. One day I feel like quitting my job and switching to a different office, the next I am perfectly fine with where I am now. Today is one of those days. Yesterday I was really dreading going to work, but to my surprise everything turned out quite alright. Monique was relatively calm today so perhaps that's why the need to get away from this place isn't as strong anymore.

And then you've got Ilse. She helped me out perfectly when I started out, but lately she's been acting weird. Whenever I'm calmly doing my job, she's in a bad mood and whenever I'm running around like Hurricane A, she's all smiles. What is up with that??

So I've got a visit to my shrink on my agenda for tonight. It'll be my last one. It's quite a big moment, actually. The minute I walk out her office, a dark period of my life will be successfully closed off. Then I can finally turn the page and move on.

Made an appointment with my dentist earlier today. One of my molars hurts like hell. I think I've lost a piece of this one filling I have. The good news is that I managed to book an appointment for this month (my dentist is a very busy woman - I usually have to wait about two months before she will see me) but the bad news is that the appointment is on October 30th. Which means that I'll have to walk around with this aching tooth for a bit longer than two weeks. Ouch!

SPENDING PROBLEM

October 13th, 2007 (06:26 pm)

current location: Home
current mood: guilty
current song: Don't Stop the Music - Rihanna

I think I've got a minor spending problem. I went out today with the intention to buy one or two little things for my psychologist's unborn baby (she's due in November) to thank her for helping me sort out my problems (for all of you who didn't know, I am a tortured soul who needed a shrink to help her open up...there, my secret is out...well, one of my secrets lol). I came home with a cute little PJ, something to put on his head, and the cutest little teddy bear that I have ever seen...and also with a bag, a necklace and a hair clip thingy for myself. lol And that's not all...Right after I came home, my mum took me to this new shop that has opened up about a month ago about five minutes away from our house. I went crazy and bought some tops, pants and a belt. So yes, I admit it...I have a spending problem.

Anyone out there who "suffers" too?

Silence please

October 11th, 2007 (05:07 pm)

current location: Work
current mood: stressed

If there is one thing that does NOT motivate me, it's getting shouted at.

I've got this unbelievably nervous colleague who turns into a madman (well, madWOman) every time something so much as leans towards going wrong. She starts to literally run around the office in the hopes of encouraging the Xerox machine to work just a tad faster, or she (and this is what she did today) begins to rummage through the things on other people's desks. Unfortunately she picked my desk to mess up today. I admit, there were one or two things that I still had to take care of this week but hadn't done yet because I didn't know how. Dear Lord, you'd swear I am the reason for everything that goes wrong in the world (or at least in our office) by the length and volume of her tirade! All I could do was stand there and quietly listen while she loudly questioned my intelligence and capability of working with a computer. I was SERIOUSLY ticked off by the time she FINALLY finished. I have no problem with authority (well, just a little, but who doesn't?) but she took those two little uncompleted tasks too far. Way. Too. Far.

The most astounding thing was that maybe ten minutes later she was all smiles and was calling me over to look over a couple of things with her. Colleagues, PAH. You don't know what to expect from them!

Some good news then…

I am feeling much better thanks to those pesky antibiotics. (yes, I had to take those because my cough came back full-force…hardly anyone knew…I hate being weak) It shows that I am better because on my way to work this morning, about three little ideas for my newest story (publishing starts in November) struck me. It's been a while (cough seven days cough) that I've had so many ideas at the same time.

My plans for tonight…I've got some fun online conversations on my agenda. And of course a new chapter of Dying to Catch My Breath to post. That little break of two weeks (I skipped one posting day) was quite refreshing. I just hope no gangs of unsatisfied readers jump up with their torches and pitch-forks when I hit that POST button. lol

What else…Well, I've got lots of emails to weed through. Thanks to those medicines I was quite lethargic, which basically means that I just let all my email pour in without actually properly reading it and replying. As for this weekend…That's something I'm going to save for my next post. :)

I am alive!

September 28th, 2007 (05:30 pm)

current location: Work
current mood: cold
current song: None...Unfortunately

It took me over a week, but finally I have recovered from a mild (mild, my foot! you should've heard me coughing and sneezing) case of the cold. I still have trouble breathing through my nose and my voice is still scratchy, but at least I can sit up straight without hunching over from coughing every three minutes. Let me tell you, it isn't easy typing deeds (or stories for that matter) when a coughing attack strikes at the most inconvenient moments. Anyway, I'm better now...more or less.

Regardless of my illness, I'm feeling pretty good. I got paid on Wednesday (yay for me!), I'm going horse riding later on tonight, I'm going to a concert tomorrow evening, and my parents won't be back from Lisbon until tomorrow evening so I've got the house to myself tonight and tomorrow all day. Well, my sister will be around too, but eh... *shrugs*

I think the most awesome news is that the Almighty Willi has sent me the season premiere of Bones through email! So even though we're still stuck with season one over here, I will be able to follow the third season about the same time it is aired across the Atlantic Ocean. How cool is that?! I just need to finish watching the second season...someday. lol Yeah, I watch the third while I haven't seen the entire second season yet. I'm weird like that. *shrugs again* I already know what basically happens in the episodes I still need to see (among others the famous Woman in the Sand and Gravedigger episodes - aahh, don't kill me because I'm postponing watching them! I want to wait as long as possible before watching them. Don't ask me why though...I guess I like the insufferable tension of having them but not watching them. Yeah again, I am weird like that...) so really, I can easily follow the third season.

In the mean time the countdown to my trip to Edinburgh continues. There's also a countdown to my trip to Cologne with M. I have two exciting trips to look forward to, yay!

Edinburgh & Fanfic stuff...

September 16th, 2007 (12:51 am)

current location: Home
current mood: sleepy
current song: Times Like These - Foo Fighters

After a slump of nearly 2 weeks I am proud to say I have finally managed to write something decent today! The basic outline of my NJC entry is sitting safely on my hard drive. I'm having another look at it tomorrow and hopefully I can send it to M then for a thorough Jackass job. ;)

Other important news is that I have found another creative outlet. As you can see, I've got a new user icon -- one I created myself! It's a bit blurry...or pixilated...or whatever it is called, so I absolutely have something to improve! But it's a start, right?

And then...the most important news of all...

I bought my tickets to Edinburgh!

I can't believe it! I'm going to Edinburgh! I'm taking a plane for the very first time! I am so excited! In honour of my little trip, I made this count down clock. Let's see if I manage to put it up here...

Happy Friday...

September 7th, 2007 (07:57 pm)

current location: Home
current mood: busy
current song: The Umbrellas

What a week it has been. To summarize: for the last days I felt (and some say I even looked) like roadkill. Throwing up, dizziness, lack of energy -- you name it, I suffered from it. I went to see my doctor yesterday and she diagnosed me with bad eating habits. I know! What the heck does that even mean?! Well, apparently some of my hormone and other nutrient levels were kind of low. So now I'm basically on this diet that'll help me re-energize. Whatever...lol

Horse riding was canceled (yet again) so I've got a quiet evening at home to look forward to. To my big surprise my boss let me go home one hour early (the entire office actually). I promised myself to clean up my room first, but Musie choose today to roar her head. Right now I'm happily tapping away in Word, relieved that I have found my inspiration back.

I guess cleaning my room will have to wait for another hour!

Travel news!

August 30th, 2007 (05:51 pm)

current location: Work
current mood: ecstatic
current song: Does a printer count?

I am one happy woman, let me tell you that! Yesterday I got paid for the first time and it was so much more than I initially expected! I thought the government would claim a lot more taxes. I have heard it's got to do something with this special category of employees I'm in. Apparently here in Belgium when you're under 26 and when you start work within 4 months after graduation, you don't have to pay as much taxes as a regular employee. So basically I've got about 7 years of less taxes to look forward to! It's going to hurt like hell afterwards, of that I'm sure.

With the, in my opinion, massive amount of money I have in my account now, I have to prioritize. There are dozens of things I'd like to buy, but I can't very well buy them all at once.

jemb has advised me to buy as much as I can this month so that I won't spend all my next pay checks. Call it "satisfying my financial urges". lol

gator_md suggested I'd satisfy my most pending needs first, like new clothes and a new phone. They both have a point. I guess I'll have to make a list of what I need and what I want, and go from there.

Two things that are definitely on top of that list are 1) a new cell phone and 2) plane tickets to Scotland. Yes, Scotland. If you scroll a bit down, you'll see a post of mine called "Travel advice needed". When I talked this through with

jemb, she offered Edinburgh as a possible travel destination. Believe it or not, but I actually took her up on her offer! So from November 2nd till November 4th, I'll be abroad…with

jemb! Woohoo! She's picking me up at the airport of Glasgow (apparently Ryanair only flies to Glasgow, not to Edinburgh), she's letting me stay at her place, AND she's going to be my city guide. You can't imagine how excited I am! Two months from now Sunflower Lily Productions will actually have a meeting in the flesh!

The only "less pleasant" side of this whole thing is that you have to have a credit card to order plane tickets with Ryanair. And since I've got enough common sense not to have one, I can't order tickets…But fortunately I have an uncle who does have a credit card. Hopefully he'll let me use his. Or maybe I should just take

jemb's advice once again and get my own card so I have something to fall back on in case of emergencies…I'll have to thoroughly think this through. (Try saying that 3 times in a row! lol)

Some fanfiction news then…On Monday I posted Vertigo, a new SLP collaboration. Yesterday I closed the NJC August challenge by posting my own entry called 206 Facts. Tonight I'm posting the 8th chapter of Dying to Catch My Breath and my CBPC August entry which is called 53. (I just noticed that the titles of my two last one-shots strangely resemble each other, with the numbers and all…) Hopefully I won't forget to post the links later on tonight! (I can't now. I'm at work. Everyone would give me weird looks if I dared surfing to FF.net to retrieve the links for my stories. They're giving me weird looks even now when I'm typing this post in Word…)

Oh, another tidbit of news I want to share!

gator_md has invited me to come down to Stuttgart! We haven't really discussed the details yet, but I think it's safe to say that in December we're both going to Köln to do some sightseeing (well, cathedral seeing really) and to check out the Christmas market. Yet another trip I can look forward too. Yay!

Travel advice needed...

August 27th, 2007 (05:56 pm)

current location: Work
current mood: giddy

So I just realised how long I've neglected my LJ! It's been ages since I last posted here. Oh well, what's happened, has happened…

It's nearing 6 p.m. over here - almost time for me to go home. This morning I had to be Hurricane A again, but by 3 p.m. things had quieted down considerably. Usually the phone never stops ringing, but it has been silent for about half an hour now. Maybe all our clients want to give us a break…Yeah right, like that's ever going to happen! It's unbelievable how demanding they can get! I guess it's the same everywhere, but still…A girl can dream of a world without pesky clients, right?

Only two or three more days to go before I receive my pay check. Yay! I've already got a list of things I want to buy. A new cell phone is on number one. My current phone regularly dies on me so yeah, I need a new one. I have already agreed with a good friend of mine to go shopping on September 8th. We're going to terrorize the poor shop owners of Ghent! I've never been there before so it should be a thrilling experience. I can hardly wait to spend my hard earned money and come home with tons of bags!

Another exciting thing I want to share is that I'm doing some "research" about possible travel destinations. I haven't been abroad since the beginning of this year (I spent New Year in Germany) so you can imagine that I'm just itching to pack my bags and go someplace new. So far I haven't made a decision yet. There are dozens of places I want to visit; I can't choose! If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to share them. Just keep in mind that a) I have never been on a plane before so if you insist on putting me on a plane, make sure it's not a long trip, b) I'm not planning on spending thousands of euros on one trip since I'm not rich, and c) I can only do a trip abroad on weekends, preferably the first weekend of November because I've got two days of public holidays then.

-- FANFIC NEWSFLASH --

Tonight I'm posting a new story! It's called Vertigo and it's the second co-written piece of Jemb and I. I'll probably post the link here, but in case I forget you can certainly find it on the Sunflower Lily Productions homepage.

Worst...Day...Ever

August 14th, 2007 (05:30 pm)

current location: At work
current mood: grumpy
current song: None...unfortunately...Some Three Days Grace would absolutely lift my mood...

Remember that comic book shop guy from the Simpsons? Well, imagine him saying this: Worst…Day…Ever! Trust me when I say that this has been one hell of a bad day! I overslept, I nearly missed my train, and when I finally got on the train the only available spot was right next to someone carrying two huge ferns. (Beats me why someone would drag ferns with him at eight in the morning…) So I was stuck for half an hour with plants pushing up my nose…literally. Not cool, so not cool. Bad luck kept me company at work too. Not only did I accidentally hang up twice instead of putting someone through, I managed to fax three letters to the wrong people. And then there was the "it's raining paper" accident…Someone on the phone wanted to speak to one of my colleagues. I put him on hold and went on the search of aforementioned colleague. I rushed through the small hallways at our office, checking every room on the way, but I couldn't find her. So I went back to the main working area in the hopes of finding my colleague. I didn't find her, but I did find a client…carrying a large stack of paper…which I sent flying everywhere…Yeah, that's what I did. In my hurry I rounded the corner and ran smack dab into one of our biggest clients. Thankfully he didn't end up on the floor, but all the files he was carrying did. It took me half an hour to straighten everything up. I really hope things will get better once I leave the office because later on I've got an appointment with my hairdresser. If my bad luck keeps up, chances are I might not make it through the day with both my ears and all of my hair!

Creative buzz

August 12th, 2007 (03:10 pm)

current location: Behind my desk
current mood: productive
current song: Zornik - Sometimes

Good God, I'm on fire! Not literally...duh...Yesterday I managed to write the 13th chapter of Dying to Catch My Breath. I also tinkered with my NJC one-shot. It's looking pretty good so far, if I say so myself. I just wrote my entry for the Booth Express dancing challenge. With a bit of luck I can get it corrected before tonight so I can post it. I just thought I'd quickly drop by here before I get to work on another story. Maybe Dying, maybe my NJC entry...Je ne sais pas encore.

Oh yeah, I had a Sunflower Lily Productions meeting with Jemb last night. Some interesting topics were discussed...a new co-written story among others. It looks promising! We hope to have it ready by the end of August. We're having a small meeting again later on. Can hardly wait to see how that one goes!

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SPENDING PROBLEM

Silence please

I am alive!

Edinburgh & Fanfic stuff...

Happy Friday...

Travel news!

Travel advice needed...

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