The Dutch Files

Meh… I don’t really have that much to tell ya except for the fact that it seems that it turned to Monday again… Guess that’s what happens when Sunday passes by… So I will be rolling my ass to the office via The Kid’s school and start a new working week.

Nothing much exciting been going on during the weekend. While intermittently keeping in touch with The Guy who is travelling a lot lately, I had a nice day out with The Kid, on a Star Wars LEGO quest. I had promised him the “Rogue Shadow” box. He’s been an absolute angel lately, helping me out and stuff, and with the latest medical stuff going on with him (we have another battery of tests in the medical center upcoming Wednesday) I promised to buy him that particular box as soon as tax money had come in.

We found it, then had a nice lunch outside at a café, and then we went home. While walking back to the car I told him -tongue in cheek- that he’d bettah not ask me to help him assembling the thing. His reply? “Puh, like I would even nééd you to help me! I am perfectly capable of doing that by myself!“. And that he did. He worked on it all afternoon and finished it up Sundaymorning.

Sunday I had The Sis, The BIL, the Lill Niece and The Mom over for dinner. As shops are closed on Sunday I needed to think up our menu on Saturday and my mind was a blank… BLANK I tell ya! I decided on this in the end. Nice and simple.

Chicken breast wrapped in Italian ham, roasted in the oven with string beans

Tagliatelle with pesto/olive oil dressing and roasted pine nuts

Mozzarella, tomato and basil salad

It was yummy even if I say so myself!!!

Well, that leaves me to wish you all a great start of the week and a wonderful Monday. Yeah, I do realize that that’s quite an achievement for a Monday to end up in, but ya know… don’t knock it until you try it…

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AFTER MONDAY COMES “CONTEST-DAY”!!!

MAKE SURE YOU COME BACK HERE TOMORROW FOR THE START OF THE DUTCH FILES PHOTOCONTEST. IT IS GONNA BE AWESOME, EASY ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE TO ENTER (AND SO I WANT BUCKETLOADS OF ENTRIES), I MANAGED TO CONTRACT SOME AWESOME JUDGES, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY: KICKASS PRIZES!!!

SPREAD DAH WORD!!! PHOTOCONTEST COUNTDOWN IS APPROACHING IT’S CLIMAX!!!

OK, got home late last night, exhausted, and now at the office with shitloads of stuff to do, including major damage control for backstabbing bitch (Growwwwllll!!!!)… So got nothing for you… yet!…

But if you want to see how cute I was when I was young… Go over HERE…

Don’t say I didn’t warn ya!!!

Yeah, I know… I didn’t post yet today…

I know you were all wondering where the hell I had got to. Whether I was lying in a ditch somewhere… (though my email inbox didn’t show any signs of allaya concern, but oh well)…

I am too fucking busy to think of a post so this will be a Non-Post…

I am working my ass off at the office preparing for the International Course on Clinical Epidemiology we’ll be doing in a few weeks. Participants flying in from the US, Italy, Norway, Ireland, England, France and wherever else…

And I am still coughing my lungs out… went to see the doctor this morning and all he could give me, after a 45 minute wait in the waiting room, was a heartfelt “well, yeah… I can hear it’s not entirely right in there, but it’s not that bad that I would give you medication for it… it just needs to subside…“. Subside!? It hasn’t been subsiding for 2.5 weeks, so what the hell makes you think it will anytime soon? He asked me what I thought myself… Hell, asshole, if I knew that I wouldn’t have been there… I replied: “I think I’ve waisted my time and I’ll be off to the office now“.

So that’s what I’m doing right now: working hard and coughing hard…

I’ll probably be around with something more substantial tomorrow…. In the meantime, please visit the week’s bitch: The Tattooed Mama! She’s up there in the top right sidebar…

Latah!

This is the voicemail of DutchBitch.

The Bitch is OUT.

She can’t take your call right now.

Please leave a message after the beep.

And behave yourselves while she’s out.

You knów DutchBitch will be watching you!

Go see Turnbaby, the bitch of the week.

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Yesterday was the first day of The Kid’s “Fall Break” from school. It was also the first day of my week off from the office. The Kid will be with me until Thursday, after that he will spend the remainder of the break with The Ex. I was gonna go back to the office by then, but I decided against that…

I’m pretty proud of myself actually. I worked my ass off at the office (and my second job) to at least get rid of the worst of the backlog. I was in no state to work even harder than I already was, but I am too much of a perfectionist to be able to relax with the image of stacks of work in the office calling my name in the back of my mind. Can’t let it go, can’t do it. Yeah STFU! It’s just the way I am. Call it “Relaxation Preparation” and deal with it! OK?

When I came home with The Kid on Fridayevening, after doing the weekend shopping, I actually managed to cook us up a healthy meal, though I was ready to crash, and we spent the evening watching “Goldmember” and cuddling up on the couch. There’s a stack of ironing in my bedroom, but I managed to ignore that. It wasn’t easy, but I acted like it wasn’t there.

On Saturdaymorning The Kid and I were out of the house at 09.15 a.m. Yeah, I know, but I am not relaxed enough to sleep in yet. I am not the sleeping in kind. We started our weekend with a hike in the dunes. You know, the kind of 2 hour hike that turns into 3 hours cuz The Kid needs to stop at virtually every grain of dust, treeleaf, or whatever to photograph it. And then I need to as well, and we are sharing one camera, so ya know… Yesterday was actually the first day of fall that temperatures dropped below zero and so it was a beautiful sunny crispy cold morning. I felt like a million dollars when we came back to the car.

After that we went over to The Sis and BIL to pick up some stuff and cuddle little Senna for a minute and then we went home and did… nuttin’… I managed to ignore the stack of ironing for another day, we hung out ’round the appartment, I watched some TV, The Kid played Lego Star Wars on his PC for the kazillionth time, I copied all of the BIL’s Star Wars dvd’s, I cooked up dinner at some point (brussels sprouts with mushrooms, potatoes and pork scalopes), and ehm… then we did nuttin’ again… I cruised the net for a bit, watched some more TV, am having my ass kicked in Scrabulous by Tracy,washed my hair… Shit like that…

I am trying to ignore the stack of ironing for another day, and also the full laundry hamper, but I think I’ll break down today. But only cuz I am running out of clothes to wear. Obviously I could think “who cares” cuz I might as well do nuttin’ nekkid… but then I’d have to crank up the heating too much… I think…

I did do one thing this morning. Feast your eyes on this baby! It’s been baking in the oven now, this morning. I am fairly sure it’ll taste great. I mean, if it tastes the way it smells right now, it’ll be magnificent!

If you want a sneek at the pics we shot in the dunes yesterday, take a look at the FlickR account as I’ve put them up there, as usual. I’ll be off now, can’t hang around over here for too long. I am waaaaayyyyy to busy doing ab.so.lu.te.ly nut.tin… You’d be amazed how time flies, doing nuttin’. There just isn’t enough hours in the day to fit all the nuttin’ in. Seriously!