The Dutch Files

It’s crunch time today… the last day of packing up the department… the last day of arranging the move for next Monday… the last day to tackle the numerous last minute problems and isssues that surfaced this week…

It has been the fucking Week from Hell! Seriously. I don’t think work-wise I’ve had many worse weeks than this one. I spent 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the office damage controlling, running after people to get their shit packed and everything done (I am definetely not the most popular person at the office right now), doing our own packing at the secretariat and datamanagement, packing up the bosses’ offices, damage controlling some more… and then going home, picking up The Kid, having dinner, put The Kid to bed and then from home doing the regular office work that I have no chance doing during the day… I think both Monday and Tuesday I put my head down on my pillow at about 02.00 a.m. and yesterday at 01.30 a.m.

I’ve been calling the medical centers couriers service about 6 times/day because a “very important package” is on its way to the US and they fucked up by having it stuck in Brussels, Belgium for 3 days now… Finally, after 2.5 days they found that that was due to a lost invoice, something that cóuld have been fixed within 5 mins… But ya know, it’s just not thát kinda week.. that things get fixed in 5 mins…

The department looks like a fucking warzone… Boxes everywhere, junk that needs to be disposed off everywhere. I keep having to correct people who try to stuff their boxes with shit that we agreed upon throwing away.. Seriously! I am working with 40 hoarders! Sheesh! We had to get pictures off the wall that were stuck on there with double sided tape, ending up with holes in the fucking walls… Well, see if I care, we’re out of there on Monday and after that they are bulldozing the place, so who gives a shit, right?

Today is my last day in the office before The Big Move. On Monday, when the movers come over to haul 450 boxes and other shit to the new location (2 floors down), my ass will hopefully be in Raleigh, snuggling up to The Guy…

So yeah… tomorrow is crunch time… and then at 4 p.m. my ass is OUTTA THERE!!!

I will catch a train to Schiphol airport, check in my luggage, go through customs and then finally sit my ass down with a HUGE bucket of Starbucks heaven and take a break from it all and everyone, before I get on my plane to London, where I will be visiting Penelope!!! Yes, her and I are gonna be meeting up!!! From Fridaynight I will be coming “Live from Lady Penelope Manor”… She just informed me that she took the rats out of her daughters room, in which I will be staying. Gotta love her for that… Right? I mean, I bet she does not do that for just anyone, right?

And then on Sunday the woman is rushing me back to the airport early morning for me to check in for my flight to … Raleigh! Where I need to go for business purposes and hopefully will get to spend a few days with The Guy as well! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I managed to limit my business obligations to just Monday during the day and maybe dinner one of the nights I am there. Other than that The Chief, gotta love that man, is allowing me to spend my time with The Guy. But still keep your fingers crossed that nothing will fuck that up!!! I will believe it is happening, when I am physically jumping in his arms…

But first, to the office.. to bite some heads off… Wish me luck!

UPDATE in two word word sentences:

Rain Season

Insane Driving

Pink Room

Lots (of) Wine

Drunk Bitches

Long Cable

Both Bloggin

Neil Diamond

OK, for once I am gonna do this. I’ve seen others do it and I am just too friggin curious to resist the urge to do it as well…

So here goes. This is addressed to you: the lurkin’ people… Cuz I know you are there! My stats are showing way more people reading this blog than commenting on it. Obviously commenting is not compulsory, in fact: not at all, and you might have your reasons for not commenting, which is fine…

I am just SO curious as to who you all are! So ehm… can you please come out of the woodworks, if only just once? Please? I am dying to get to know you!

I’m not a dangerous bitch… I don’t spit (well, sometimes when I speak but only when I am really passionate about something… sorta… thingy…), I don’t bite (really, I don’t! And if any of the regulars here show up with teethmark pics… I am denying everything), and I don’t really kick those stiletto heels into anyone… well, not unless they really piss me off or want me to…

And I’ll make it worth your while… The *bleep*th and the *bleep*th new commenters receive a small gift. A token of my appreciation. Yeah… like I am gonna tell you the numbers and have you all wait until the numbers come up and then rush over here to get it right! Pffrtttt… I am NOT stupid you know, even though I used to be a blonde. I have left the numbers with Mah Girl Jill and the person that makes that comment, I will contact and we’ll get the gift sent off to you. That also means: do nót forget to put your email address in the comments section!!!

Yeah, so, make my day, ok? I am off now for my first day at the office after summer break. I managed to stay away from the office email in the past weeks, so there will probably be a kazillion emails waiting for me, as well as tons of people at my desk ánd this week we need to finalize packing up the department as next week we’re moving the whole shit downstairs! Well, other people will as I will be elsewhere, heh, but anyway. This is gonna be the week from HELL! So all you lurkers (ánd regulars of course) leave me some luvin’ in the comments section?

Thanks! You rock!

It’s there… My 3 week summer break has started… and I have fallen into the deepest pit I could imagine… I am SO tired of it all… of e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. (well not eeeeverything, obviously, but everything work-related).. that I can’t think straight today…

Both my brain and body are having a hard time coming ’round to the idea of actually NOT having to go into the office for a few weeks… and actually not having to think of all the office stuff for a while… and not be in drive… Unfortunately they’re both still on “overload”…

That has never happened to me before… ever…

So I am going to take this day to try and relax… and have a good cry… and get my head around the vacation idea… because right now it is not working for me yet… I am still way too stressed and it needs to come out one way or another… Cuz I don’t want to spend the next weeks not being able to relax and crawl out of this pit…

No worries, I will be fine, I’ll get my head around it… I just need to take a day… Will be back tomorrow! I promise!

It’s the last day of work… hopefully… unless The Chief makes me workovernight or thru the weekend agaín… But for arguments sake, let’s say that at least this is my last official office day before my 3 week break starts…

Can I just say?

There has not been a year, not even during my divorce-year-from-hell, that have I been more ready for a break… I am still down to my last nerve pretty much cuz of all the shit that’s been going on at my end and The Guy’s end in the last few weeks and I am going nuts missing The Kid… He’s been away with The Ex for the past 3 weeks and “traditionally” [insert sarcasm] I have not heard a peep out of them. Usually cuz The Ex won’t let him call me cuz he finds it too expensive… Yeah, yah know… I can imagine spending all your money on NOT paying childsupport there’s not much left to have your own flesh and blood call his Mom every once in a while, when he feels like it…

So, today, at the office I will be doing all the “Dump That Last Minute Shit on DB’s Desk”-stuff, writing strict instructions for Backstabbing Bitch on what to do and not do when I am off for 3 weeks (which will end up in her doing what she should not be doing and the other way ’round as usual *sigh*), and packing up all of mine and The Chief’s office stuff as much as possible, as the week áfter I come back to work we will be moving the whole fucking department 2 floors down… That’s approximately 600 boxes, 50 PC’s, 50 sets of office furniture, 50 phones, relocation of internet connections, phone lines, and.. and.. and….

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
I need a break from the office! Whew… Just another:

and I will be slamming the door of the shithole office behind me for 3 weeks! Bare Bear with me for now, until the finish line is there. I am dragging and crawling my ass there in the hours to come… If you see me slowing down… in agony… give me a push in the right direction? Please? Pretty Please? With red latex thigh high stiletto heeled boots on top?

OK, so I know I’ve been whining about my job being excruciatingly busy over the past 1.5 year, due to me being responsible in a BIG way for the building of new offices for our department, 2 floors down from our current location. And the upcoming move in September… Well, technically its not whining cuz I háve been working my ass off.. and I don’t do whining.. just justified complaining… but I digress…

I just had inspection of the new offices on Thursday and decided to do a video to show you the old and the new dig. Apologies for the video-quality. I had to do it with my mobile cam and then after uploading to YouTube it looked even less sharp then it did at first.

So first the “out with the old” video… Those are the old offices that we are currently using which reaaaally are former patient rooms… for which I had to fight a huge battle before moving here at the time (about 6 yrs ago) cuz they even refused to remove the bed-curtains and TV brackets *rolling eyes*

THE OLD

Yeah, so that’s the old… the former patients-rooms-gone-offices that we are moving out of soon…

On to the still empty NEW offices! I really can’t wait to move there! Seriously!!! Well, technically other people will be moving it all there as MY ass will be in Chapel Hill/Raleigh for work purposes and hopefully see The Guy …heh. Have not yet publically dropped the “DutchBitch will not be present during the actual move-bomb” over here yet, but I will have to soon… I am sure thát will provide some blogfodder…

Behold the new offices… and for the first time evah… Premiere!!! The voice of DutchBitch! And the reflection of her bod in the windows of the new office of The Chief…

THE NEW

Oh, one more thing… can I just state that I hate hate hate my voice on video? Ok… Just sayin’