So, you want to hear a funny (embarassing) story??? Here's the thing...I was wearing these black summerpants today at work. Yesterday I noticed that the fabric was getting rather thin. However, as I do not like to scrub floors and clean in new pants (they would be ruined!), and since they were very comfy, I thought I'd wear them for a few more months until the summer is finished. Also, it's so ridiculously hot here, and they are the only black summer pants I own (it's required at work to wear black/dark pants).

Now, you have to understand that my co-workers are really lovely people, but they have a tendency to tease everyone around them. As I'm one of the new people, they are still kinda trying me out. Until now I was totally playing along with their games and didn't show any sign of defeat (I kinda like this kind of humor, so I don't even mind).

HOWEVER.....As I was working, I bend over and OOPS....a big, huge, awful TEAR in my pants....Luckily on the inside of my legs, so it didn't show immediately. Well, I guess you might have felt the same as I felt at that moment, this is NOT the way I wanted to be remembered at work. This was NOT the way I was going down, lol. People would be talking about me like 'oh you know that one time, when that new girl bursted out of her pants and went totally crazy?' (which was totally not the case, it was just that the fabric was really thin and it just teared out of nowhere, really!). I'm sure they would have a very good laugh about it and this would be THE returning topic of conversation to tease me the rest of my life.

So........my brains went into overdrive...first I noticed that no one noticed the event happening, because I was alone. Secondly, I thought maybe I should go home during break and change my pants. But.....that would totally not go unnoticed and would force me to find a really lame excuse, or I would have to tell the truth...both, not an option to me. A thought occured to me at that moment....I sneaked into the technician's workplace (first making sure I saw him being occupied elsewhere), got myself some duct tape...went to the bathroom and taped my pants back together on the inside...GENIUS! lol.

Anyway, I got back to work and seriously NO ONE noticed what happened. Not even when I started to walk a little funny every once in a while, because part of the tape would come loose and stick to my legs...

You can guess how majorly accomplished I felt today!!!!

I've been absent again for way too long. But I'll try to get back here  again and post more often. I know you've heard that before...so yeah, no promises this time, but I'll try anyway ;)

So much happened since my last blog. I officially graduated and got my MA degree, I went on a vacation to Greece (Crete), I found a part-time job, and yesterday was my 26th birthday :) For some reason I just didn't feel like blogging, because my life was and still is not going the way I want it to go.

I now work at the same hotel my sister worked during weekends...My sister now has found a real job (she works at a daycare), and I'm still looking for a job myself. But my moneysituation got really bad....I didn't have any money at all, had to live on my parents' and Thomas' expenses all the time and that really freaked me out at some point. Plus, I became really lonely spending all my days at home, without being able to visit friends because I couldn't even pay for a trainticket :S So I decided, what the heck, my sister left the hotel, I'm gonna try if I can get a job there. At first they thought I was too old (and expensive), but in the end they hired me because they really needed people and the summer was coming which means full house! I hoped they would have a bit more of a rewarding job for me, but I ended up cleaning hotelrooms :( I'm not very happy about this, but it's better than the situation I was in before with no job at all. Everything is better than that. But still, when I think about it, it's just so crazy that I have 8 years of higher education, 2 degrees and I'm back to a stupid job working together with highschool students who want to earn some money on the side....BLEGH! Obviously I'm still searching for a 'real' job, more in my field of expertise, but that's just not working out that well.

For now, I'll be the cleaninglady and I'll enjoy the monthly payment (even though it's a bad pay haha). Unfortunately this job doesn't give Thomas and I the financial security that we need to buy a house, so we're still stuck at my parents' place and we are beginning to get really really frustrated. Not only Thomas and I, but my parents and sister as well, which is only natural when you're living together with 5 adults in one home I guess. My parents are the best, don't get me wrong, but I just long to have a place of my....I want this so badly...

Anyway, yesterday was my birthday. I celebrate it this upcoming weekend, but already got my presents from my parents, Thomas and sister. I got some really cool presents. A miniature library with lights to go under the christmas tree, haha the coolest thing EVER! Beads for my trollbeads bracelet that I got for my graduation (I got a lucky dragon  from my parents and a castle from Thomas, referring to our dreamhouse ;) and a ying/yang sign and flowers from my sister), I also got a journal, a cute purple box with a butterfly on it, and an owl-shaped candle holder (oh yeah I know that sounds so odd when I describe it like that lol). From a friend I got an early birthdaypresent through the mail...a moleskine bookjournal!!! OMG best present EVER!!! I'm in love with it :D

Actually, my mom learned me how to sew and I am making a patchwork cover for the bookjournal, so it doesn't get damaged when I carry it around all day in my bag, lol. I'm a nerd, I know ;) Other than that I enjoy my free afternoons with reading and writing letters to my penpals, which is awesome! And I'm really into the World Cup soccer at the moment :D HUP HOLLAND HUP! haha.

That's it in Lotte land for now. Hope to catch up with all of you soon!

Then there’s some GOOD news!!! Thomas’ appartment in Belgium is SOLD! Oh my God! That was about time. It has been for sale since May last year, so you go figure We weren’t at all satisfied with our real estate agent, so we decided to switch agents and low and behold, that paid off very quickly! The new real estate agent has the place sold within 2 months This upcoming weekend we have to move all Thomas’ stuff to Lochem to a storage facility, because we can’t put all his furniture in my parents’ house. It’s gonna be a long long weekend. It’s a very last-minute moving, we only got word  that it is sold last week and the buyers want to move in in the last weekend of April…lol. So that gave us only this upcoming weekend to move. Because of this last-minute-ness Thomas and I will be the only ones available to pack and move…That’s going to be some long and hardworking days. We hired a truck and chauffeur, but we have to pack and get all the stuff into the truck ourselves (if we hired people to do that we would have to pay more than twice the amount of money, which is ridiculous! so we decided not to)…It’s gonna be challenge, but I’ll just have to prove that women can be strong as well, lol

Things are finally turning around in my favor. At the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 I was getting rather depressed about our situation and the fact that the end of it was nowhere in sight. But now things are finally getting into place. Only one more step before Thomas and I can buy our own place, and that’s getting a job. So fingers crossed for a little while longer….:)

I'm really enjoying my free time right now. With my education being over and not having a job I figured I should enjoy the spare time that I have now with several hobbies, instead of being all frustrated about the unemployment.

I'm reading a lot, right now I'm reading Stieg Larrson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and Nancy Turner's "These is my Words" simultaneously. I like both books. I didn't know if I would like Stieg Larrson's work, because I don't read a lot of detective/thrillers, but it's better than I expected it to be. I especially like the character developments :)

I've also decided to try quilting. I don't know if I'm good at it, I don't even know how it works right now, but I've always wanted to try it. When a friend of mine told me she always wanted to try as well, we decided to organize some quilting bees and try together. I went to a huge fabric store last Tuesday with my mom and bought very cute (purple!) fabrics with different patterns to get started. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

I'm also working on crocheting an Afghan. It's a pretty large project (just like the quilting), but I like doing it a lot and really want to have it finished when we buy our new home so I can put it on the couch :D Speaking of moving....there was a possible buyer to check out Thomas' appartment and he will come to see the appartment for a second time today! So that's a really good sign. (who goes to see a house twice when they're not interested, right?). Fingers crossed for that :D

Well, that's it for now. Happy Easter everyone!!! :)