Nine to Five

It's been a while since I've updated this blog. So I guess I'll just write a bit about what I have been up to the past couple weeks. Well work has turned into actual work, since all the holiday's are over (I  had 4 days off in the 1st month), I've been blessed with 5 day weeks. It makes me kinda dread the idea of having a 9-5 job in the future. A lot of people here actually work reduced full time, which is only 4 days a week. I think if I had kids and couldn't pull off being a totally stay at home mom, or at least part-time, having two parents with reduced full time would be alright, and I guess there would be more equality in the childcare as well (the mom and dad get alone time with the kid).

But this isn't my career and I don't have children to take care of, so I have a 5 day week. So last weekend I was very tired from all my hard work :P and it was mostly dedicated to errands, chores and reading. In the past two weeks I've read the Hunger Games trilogy. It was a pretty decent bundle of books, considering it is teen fiction and about children killing each other (it's less about kids killing each other in the later books)

Euro 2012 is something else exciting that has been going on. I'm not the biggest soccer fan, but I guess when you get free holland stickers at the supermarkt and your neighbors have decorated their house in orange, it's time to give in and start caring. Whadda mistake, because we didn't win either of our matches so far, and unless we win tonight we will be eliminated without even winning a game (and even if we do win, we will still be eliminated but maybe have some dignity). Well at least it was fun while it lasted, maybe I'll randomly pick a new team to support and watch all their games.

The rain has also left my room smelly musty, a couple days ago it started, and I pulled off all my bedding, couch cushions and mattress looking for the source. But it was just the room, in general. After a couple days of that, yesterday, I finally - and I'm not sure why I wasn't doing this the whole time- put the fan (or a/c not sure what it is, but its a small box in my room with 3 settings and blows air from the wall into my room) on full blast. I was happy that this afternoon when I came home my room actually smelt fresh, or at least not moldy or musty or damp.

Today I tried -in vain- to bike into a park that is just on the other side of the border into Germany. I figured that I would avoid my regular route along the river, it's been quite windy lately. However, I mostly biked along fields, and they were windy enough. So for the first half I skirted the German border, through farmers fields and forests (which was a welcome change of scenery, except that it included hills!) and then after discovering it was just as windy, I cut back into the Netherlands and around Bessel I biked back home along the river, which was very nice. I also stopped for a milkshake and water, which I enjoyed by the Maas!