Happy New Year :-)

2015 was a great year :-) For a lot of reasons, big and small, but there was definitely a pretty big one: we got married!!! :-)

It all went pretty fast actually: we got engaged last May, and since we wanted decent weather for our wedding, we had to decide between trying to organise it in the autumn before it got cold, or wait until the end of the spring next year.

Neither of us is very patient, and there are few things that dial the anticipation up to 11 like getting married:-)
Also, after thinking about it, we figured the more time we had to plan it, the bigger it would become and the more it would take over our life (and our savings!).
So the autumn it was.

So we kinda buried ourselves in wedding planning and dropped off the face of the Earth for a while, but it was all worth it:-) We had an amazing day, and it was great to be surrounded by family and friends!

More details some other time, but for now, here's hoping 2016 is at least as great as 2015:-) Happy New Year everyone!!!

Hello Again!!

So, yes, I'm back. I was in winter sleep, kind of...
Winter sleep + work stress + getting sick quite a bit + back problems + apartment trouble (the boiler -yes the thing that controls both heating and hot water- decided to malfunction on us at the end of January. 3 pretty glacial days ensued).

Things are starting to get better now, and we are actually having a few rays of sunshine again and days are becoming less ridiculously short, so I might start to emerge from winter sleep:-)

I might even post a few recipes or sewing projects;-)

I'm back!!!

Long time no post...

Well I've been fairly busy...

For me, it's been "New Year, New Apartment, New Boyfriend!" Thankfully not "New Job" as well otherwise the stress level would have gone through the roof:)

Well I have since been shifted to another department, so still "New Boss" and "New Job Title"! Still kinda stressful (well not the "New Job Title" part :D ) since we're in a busy period at work, but on the whole I'm very happy:)

And the very busy part mostly comes from having been spending most of my free time repainting my new place, which took way way way longer than anticipated (probably qualifies as an exponential or logarithmic or quadratically increasing or something delay... Yes I'm dating a mathematician, so I've been introduced to quadratically increasing stuff:D Still can't remember for the life of me what a logarithm is though:D ).

Anyway, the painting stories are for another time... Onto recipes and stuff!!

Happy New Year!

So 2012 was a bit of a write off... 10 months stuck at home because of my back!
The good news is, I'm cleared to go back to work!! First half time (for January and February), then full time.
New year, fresh start:)
To everyone I haven't seen in a while: all the best for this new year, and see you around!!

Backlog

Over the last few months I have accumulated material for a good dozen posts... So I might start talking about beef stew or even Halloween in April or May ;)

Hello again!

So, I haven't posted anything in nearly 4 months!
I actually only have an excuse for the last month: I was stuck at home with an inflamed articulation in my lower back for 3 weeks, not able to sit or bend down (well strictly speaking I'm able to but it's quite painful).
Last week I decided to try going to work anyway since we have a big deadline looming, so I got a high "party table" to put my computer on so I could work standing up, and a laptop to be able to work from home too.
It was going OK, until I hit a roadblock on Thursday, in the form of an all-day mandatory training. In hindsight I should have just switched to one of the later sessions instead. See, working all day standing up was fine as long as I could walk around to go ask people questions, or go lie down in the infirmary for a while when it was getting too uncomfortable... In the training I could do neither of those things, and by the end of the morning it was getting pretty tough...
I did escape to the infirmary once when it was getting too hard to cope, but by the evening my back was killing me:( So I called it quits for that week and just stayed at home on Friday.
Thankfully, my boyfriend was able to move my appointment with a specialist up from April 18th (another 3 weeks' wait!) to yesterday. I breathed a deep sigh of relief!!! So glad that being a native speaker, he has no trouble dealing with Dutch-speaking people on the phone!
So I went in and the doc gave me a cortisone injection. It was really painful afterwards (up into the night) but is much more tolerable now. If I'm lucky I should feel better tomorrow. If I'm not, I have to go back seem him in a week and a half to presumably get another injection. Let's hope I'm lucky:)