Busy busy busy
Everything is going fast, it seems. Our wedding plans have just been announced, and already we have to take care of heaps of things, like I said in my previous post.
At work I am getting swamped bit by bit. Many things that have to happen at the same time, for various reasons. Because of the pressure I tend to lose focus, which causes all kinds of small delays. Since I work with my collegues in Minks all the time the language barrier is not very small as well. I have to translate our customers' and project managers' wishes to English, the Minsk team has to translate back to Russian.
I am thinking about taking a course in Russian, to cut back on the translation difficulties. Apart from that, Russian always sounds impressive and looks even cooler because of the Cyrillic characters used.
At home I have been working on my Whisky Cabinet. I blogged about it a while back, and since then not much has happened. I have sanded it, cut it into pieces so it would fit in our house. I already have reassembled it in our living room. Anneke and I have to start painting it now, at the first opportunity. We want to do it in the daytime, because we don't want artificial light to change the way the cupboard looks. Can't wait until it is finished!
I have surprised myself when I was working on the thing, because I really liked doing handywork like that. Never liked it very much before and always shied away from it.
I might even start working on something else after it... Probably not though, since I don't have much room and our entire living room looks like a pig's den because of the tools lying around, and all kinds of stuff that had to be moved to make some room.
But anyway, I am more relaxed than I have been in a long time. Anneke has finished school about 5 weeks ago, which has caused a lot of peace in the house. Not that we fought a lot, but it is much less stressed. We have a weekend of two days in which we can do what we want. We have a bit more cash coming in (two wages now!), we have less things that have to be done. We have more time to see our friends.
Lots of good stuff going on. Now let's hope for this to keep up and we finally might get somewhere... Still so much to do. The list of things to do I posted a couple of months ago has only grown I think.
O, and by the way. Coming Friday I am going to see a band called "God is an Astronaut". I really like them a lot. Looking forward to that too.
At work I am getting swamped bit by bit. Many things that have to happen at the same time, for various reasons. Because of the pressure I tend to lose focus, which causes all kinds of small delays. Since I work with my collegues in Minks all the time the language barrier is not very small as well. I have to translate our customers' and project managers' wishes to English, the Minsk team has to translate back to Russian.
I am thinking about taking a course in Russian, to cut back on the translation difficulties. Apart from that, Russian always sounds impressive and looks even cooler because of the Cyrillic characters used.
At home I have been working on my Whisky Cabinet. I blogged about it a while back, and since then not much has happened. I have sanded it, cut it into pieces so it would fit in our house. I already have reassembled it in our living room. Anneke and I have to start painting it now, at the first opportunity. We want to do it in the daytime, because we don't want artificial light to change the way the cupboard looks. Can't wait until it is finished!I have surprised myself when I was working on the thing, because I really liked doing handywork like that. Never liked it very much before and always shied away from it.
I might even start working on something else after it... Probably not though, since I don't have much room and our entire living room looks like a pig's den because of the tools lying around, and all kinds of stuff that had to be moved to make some room.
But anyway, I am more relaxed than I have been in a long time. Anneke has finished school about 5 weeks ago, which has caused a lot of peace in the house. Not that we fought a lot, but it is much less stressed. We have a weekend of two days in which we can do what we want. We have a bit more cash coming in (two wages now!), we have less things that have to be done. We have more time to see our friends.
Lots of good stuff going on. Now let's hope for this to keep up and we finally might get somewhere... Still so much to do. The list of things to do I posted a couple of months ago has only grown I think.
O, and by the way. Coming Friday I am going to see a band called "God is an Astronaut". I really like them a lot. Looking forward to that too.
posted by Sjoerd at
6:55 PM
