The Dutch Files

for trying… right?

I sent off an email to The Guy the other day…

Dear Mr The Guy,

To get a full view and appreciation of the situation right now in The Netherlands, please check out attached self explanatory picture.

Thank You,

Ms The Girl

I attached this picture…

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I think that says it all, right? I mean… ya know… I hope he shows the picture to his boss, so she can see how urgent and evidently severe and pressing the situation is over here and she’ll allow him to immediately take a leave of absence to come over and assess and take care of the |”matters at hand” (e.g. boobies, and other body parts and stuff)…

I mean, ya know… she will, right? A girl needs to help another girl that’s in a bind… Right?

It’s Monday I guess…

I have recovered a tad from the throat infection but it is still lingering… I am excruciatingly tired, even after spending a whole day past weekend in a catatonic state on the couch flipping channels…

I have tons of things worrying me right now, most of them that can’t be fixed shortly…

I have a looooong week ahead at the office, where it gets busier every week, and I have to start “breaking in” a temp secretary from today, for faculty that has been moaning and nagging about having to get used to a new secretary again all.fucking.week last week…

Yesterday it turned out my credit card was blocked by the bank, for no apparent reason (I couldn’t think of a reason and when calling the credit card service of the bank, neither could they “oops, our bad, Mam”). It will take them a week to process the report and re-activate my credit card though… Fuckers!

The Ex is giving me shit about everything he can give me shit about. He’s irritating the crap out of me. I decided to ignore him for now.

I am not sleeping well, due to all the shit going round in my mind and it’s taking it’s toll… My body feels like the midnight train ran over it… multiple times…

The Guy has been incredibly busy, due to circumstances beyond his control. I totally understand and don’t blame him, but it has reduced our communication to the bare minimum. It makes me miss him incredibly. I miss seeing his face, I miss talking to him… I Miss Mah Baby…

I am feeling totally stabby… Nobody better piss me off today… I am not sure they’ll live to tell…

There can’t be enough coffee around to get me through this day… Seriously… There just can’t be…

OMFG It’s really really really Monday, isn’t it. So much so that it hurts my brain… Somebody save me!

So I am missing The Guy in.cre.di.bly. It’s been a month since we last saw eachother and there’s no set date for us to be together again. He’s working his ass off out there and I am working my ass off out here. We talk online as much as we can and still miss eachother.

I was thinking on how things could be easier on us and then suddenly it dawned on me. I have seen the blogging community pull together on so many occassions. So many bloggers that I know and bloggers they know and bloggers they know… People crawling out of the woodworks from virtually everywhere…

We should all together be able to accomplish the impossible right? I mean, the really impossible?

So here’s my thought. How about we pick a date and a time, and we get a larrrrgggeee crowd of US bloggers together… and a huuugggeee crowd of European bloggers together and well… we just start moving our continents together… I mean… if we get a large enough crowd together we should be able to heave ho our continents to move towards eachother. Just as long as you do it in the right direction… So you guys be sure to move the US continent towards the EAST and I’ll have the European bloggers move ours to the WEST.

I’ve calculated that it should take us about 2 or 3 days and then we should be good. We might squish the UK on the way there (ehm… so you UK bloggers might wanna move out of there before The Big Moving Day, either to Europe or the US, your choice, whatever floats your boat).

So, let’s see. October 22 good for you? That will leave you time to get ready for it. To work up the energy, to get busy in the gym before hand and shit. No need to take time off work. I think mostly anyone can do it from either the comfort of their own home or workplace. Just be sure to heave ho around a lot in the right direction.

And then we’ll throw a big Continent Hook Up Party on err.. October 25! Let’s do Pot Luck, ok?

Only leaves us to think of a name for the newly created continent… And I am thinking of making us a themesong… I think I’ll rename THIS one “Love will GET us together” and adjust the lyrics a bit, ya know… to fit in with our efforts..

So I was informed recently that I need to travel to Boston in July 2009. I will be attending a conference for the same society that I travelled to Chapel Hill for in September (and consequently got to see, hear, and feel The Guy! Heh…).

Thing is, the fucking conference is in the first week of The Kid’s summer break…

Yah… and he’s with me in that particular week and well, don’t even get me started on attempts to change weeks with The Ex… You’d think I had asked him to slam his dick inside a George Foreman grill! Sheesh!!!

Hmmm… lemme enjoy thát visual for just a minute… BRB…

OK back… Well, The Ex acting all difficult was to be expected seeing as he’s “sticking me” with both the Fall break in 2 weeks AND the whole fucking Christmas Break (which will mean taking 3 weeks off work within the next 3 months, sigh), cuz he’d rather go on holiday with the g/f than spend time with his son.

But anyway, I digress. So I was left with 2 options of which the 1st one, not going, is not really an option… So I am looking into getting the funds together to spring for a ticket for The Kid and taking him with me to Boston in July. Fortunately it is still a long way away, so hopefully I will have plenty of time to try and scrape the money together, and as I will already have a hotelroom available because of my conference attendance… I guess chances are The Kid and myself are gonna be on Boston next year!

I’ve already told him that he’s most probably gonna go with me. And even though it is still almost a year away he is totally psyched. Especially when I told him that I was thinking of adding a few days in NY to the mix… IF I can afford it (yeah, I know… travel won’t be that bad but getting an affordable hotelroom will be a bitch, I am sure).

I have to register for the conference before the end of next month. So by that time I WILL have to decide on what to do and I am mostly leaning towards going and taking The Kid with me. Even though I have to work a few days, and he’ll have to tag along, I am sure he will love it.

Yeah, that was basically all I had to tell you today… Boston or bust, right? I’ll keep you posted!