...so the trees have very few leaves left on their branches and if they still do they are a deep brown or red. It's getting stormier and has rained more often these past days and it's dark when I leave home as well as when I return from work. It's really autumn now (well, okay, so I still find it too hot, but it seems I'm luckily not the only one: ( Read more... )

I did it!!! I actually managed to have my Christmas present for Carina before she has something for me!!! (Last year she told me in August/September, that she already had my present while I hadn’t even thought about it!) And a present for Vren I’ve got as well, since she’s getting the same thing Carina is getting (as far as a PersonalNovel can be ( Read more... )

 Becky told me today that she and her boyfriend are hoping of starting their family next year, in other words: they hope to get pregnant next year. She told me how they already look for names and such and after admitting, that she doesn't have a book on names yet we immediately went shopping for one during lunch break. And spent the entire ( Read more... )

I’m home since two weeks and had another week of holidays but less than a week back in the office and I need holidays again! How can so much have been done and have happened in a little over two weeks????!!!! It’s really not funny going into your room and not seeing your (already very small) desk through all of the files.

But there’s also happy ( Read more... )

No blue jeans, no sneakers, no sandals, no short trousers, no tops without arms, no shirts without collar. That's our new wardrobe! Problem: None of us own enough clothes that would fit the description. Looking at my money on the bank I'm always buying clothes that I can wear at work as well as at home/with friends... other trousers but jeans, ( Read more... )

My "Newsies" DVD arrived today :D

Yes, I'm talking about the Disney Musical. I was searching for this for years but it's not been available in Europe (unless I'd have wanted to pay 100+ € for it!).

So, for the rest of the evening this means I'm off, praying that the menue on my DVD player worked and it is now able to play Region 1 DVDs.

...is this really impossible to combine?

There was a young woman discharged here yesterday, her probationary period ends with this month, so of course, legally there's nothing to say against this, but the rest of us were totally surprised by this decission. "She doesn't fit with the law firm and the employment was ended in mutual consent." That's ( Read more... )

Discovery of the day:

Online hotel checks are useless!

Or at least, they are when the opinions of people who have stayed at the same hotel vary so much that one has to wonder if they actually stayed at the same hotel, at the same time…

So, I don’t know more about the hotel than I did before the online-check.

But then I’m thinking, I’ve already ( Read more... )

Only 22 days/15 working days + 1 day off until we're flying to Scotland. And that's about the time I remember all the "unimportant" stuff I still need for the trip, like changing my Euros into Pound for example... though, I'm now thinking of not changing it here in a bank at all but rather get it at a cashpoint in Glasgow so as to not loose too  ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning I was prepared for a somewhat boring day at work seeing as the only stuff I had to do was take care of the trademark related mail. Can't believe how wrong I was!!!

Together with two other girls I ended up staying for 1 1/2 hours after work to make sure that 200+ letters were mailed on Friday. The monotony of this work (folding ( Read more... )