FridayI had to work the early hours, from 6 am through 1 pm, but as I've been getting used to a rhythm involving going to bed by 4 am, I wasn't able to catch my sleep this night, and ended up not sleeping at all. After work I had to quickly go to the shopping centre as I still had to get a present for the girl whose birthday I was attending that ( Read more... )

I've been missing out on precious sleeping time hugely over the past few days. I worked late on friday, yet had to be in Amersfoort early the next morning. Between arriving home and getting up was just 8 hours, and after a chat with my girlfriend, and the other stuff I just have to do before going to sleep, a glance at the clock learned me there ( Read more... )

For the first time after a couple of years, cy-v and I have been able to eat at a table at home. We had all our breakfasts, lunches and dinners either at the bed or on the couch, and quite frankly I've been annoyed by that from the start on. At my parents', I've been taught that (especially) dinnertime is a moment where the family comes together and ( Read more... )

When Guinness wasn't home after being away a couple of hours, I decided to climb up on the roof of the next-door movie theater to look for her, and it didn't take long for me to find her. She had jumped off the roof, on a lower-lying roof (3 meters down), and from there on a street-level 'garden', enclosed by walls at all sides, 4 meters high at ( Read more... )

Quite a while. Three years to be precise. It was on the twentieth of April, 2005 Samantha asked me where "we" were going. It turned out, from that day on, we'd be going steady. And, against all odds and expectations, we were to make the 1-year mark, and the 2-year mark. From constantly trying, teasing, chasing and flirting, I went on to have a ( Read more... )

That's the terrifying words Samantha had called me with the other day. A neighbor of ours had supposedly heard that the communal board had agreed upon plans for the accelerated implementation of the reform plans for the block of buildings we're living in. And, since we are living here on a 'temporary basis', only until plans for our building will ( Read more... )

On April 6, 2006, two years ago, I had posted my last entry on Livejournal. It was a follow-up to the post stating I didn't care anymore, in which I referred you to my blog at Interrailing. For most of the time in between, I have actually kept my word, and updated my blog regularly ( Read more... )