*chattering of teeth*

Nov 28, 2005 by Lyanna

It seems that lately everything around me has to do with cold in some way or other.
Arno stuck in snow, me having a cold and now freaking hell when I come home we don’t have warm water. My feet are freezing and I can’t do much about it cause one of Essent’s major pipes broke, meaning 40.000 families in my area are without heating or warm water.

It is freezing in here people. Argh.

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And you know what that sweet sweet boyfriend of mine is doing right now? Boiling I don’t know how many litres of water on the stove to fill up my bath. I think that really counts as the most sweet thing anyone has ever done for me. I love this man. Did I tell you that already?

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:(

Nov 25, 2005 by Lyanna

Arno’s still out there

He’s stuck 40 kilometres outside Eindhoven on a snowed-in A50 where two trucks collided with eachother. To get out of the cold he drove onto a parking lot near a gas station, where he’s been for the last two hours or so. Cars are stuck on the parking lot: they can’t get onto the highway anymore.

I just called him on the phone – he’s decided to go inside, in to the gas station again because it’s warmer there and more comfortable than in the car. I am worried. I so so hope the station will remain open 24/7, otherwise he’ll be forced to retreat into his car again before long. And it gets really cold out there

I’m sitting here in a warm living room, just out of bath while he is out there. It drives me nuts that I can’t do anything.

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stuck

Nov 25, 2005 by Lyanna

The extreme weather has me cooped up in Delft with my parents at the moment – there is more than 30 km traffic jam between Delft and Breda, parts of which are stillstanding because the bridge across Moerdijk has been shut down.

Arno was stuck for a while in Apeldoorn and I was afraid he’d be stuck there forever, but apparently he is taking the backroads and on his way to Arnhem now. I have no idea whether either of us will make it home tonight. I think I might spend the night over here, while Arno will be forced to take a hotel somewhere.

Funny how all of Holland turns to mayhem as soon as a storm hits. Tsk.

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days are filled

Nov 25, 2005 by Lyanna

Life is good these days. Work is brilliant – where do you find a working environment which provides work you love, which permits you to run MSN as long as you don’t abuse it, play your own music, which ensures a stocked-up fridge with goodies and has nice collegues? I can’t be more content than I am right now. It’s a lot to take in though – there’s a lot about the CMS I don’t know and it is much, much more sophisticated than for instance WordPress. But I am getting the hang of it I think.

They provided me with a Volkswagen Polo, only to find out they’d given me a class too low so it was swapped and I am driving a Volkswagen Golf 1.6 FSI instead *whoohoo*. Downside to the entire story is the ever-growing freakish trafficjam-riddled Dutch traffic. It’s a nuisance, I swear. But well, you can’t have everything.

My evenings are filled with all kinds of things. Mostly White Tower related these days – and we haven’t even started in earnest yet . There’s a lot of plans in my head, but for now we are consolidating what we have and going one step at a time. The DMPSW Staff gives me more than enough to keep me occupied as well. Shayol Ghul is also growing big fast – if I really wanted to I could keep myself busy with DM 24/7 – but I don’t I try to keep at least two weeknights free to do some WoW playing, and just to get to bed early. And to cuddle the Man of course .

Plan for tonight: see if I can get that frigging ISP to finally restore that WT database, see if there are bushfires to quench, and watch Lost. Yup. Looking forward to that!

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volley aches

Nov 21, 2005 by Lyanna

Ever tried to play a volleyball tournament without proper training? My advice: don’t.

Seneca participates in a company tournament every year and this time the asked me as well. No problem, fun to do, I thought, so I participated. I completely and totally suck at volleyball but hey

Today though I live to regret my sportive adventure. I can’t move a muscle without my entire body aching. I had no idea I had this many muscle groups. I mean, I can barely crawl down the stairs. Hot baths don’t help. If I sit still, it’s okay. My neck hurts like hell then, but that is all. It’s the standing up and walking around that have me go like “ueuuhghh.. *groan* owowowow … ggggg”. I feel like a 100-year old.

I’m wondering whether this signifies to do sports more – or to just never ever take up a volleyball ball again

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