How to get things done

That's something I have been struggling about for the whole week. It start on Saturday when I had my fourth practice day from my C&C (Coaching and Counselling) course. If I really want to finish this in December I have to make more time available to study and practise. Further there is the Ladies run on June 10. I don't know how you are doing and I hope it's much better then what I have done until now because that's nothing at all. One thing is sure I have to change my time schedule. The question is how to do this. Maybe you have a solution for me tomorrow:-) In the short term I have a day of this week on Friday and Jan Cees is away from Friday until Sunday so these are my first 2 days to use for my study without any disturbance. On the other hand,  Jan Cees is away with his motorbike and 4 friends, and I'm always scared when he's driving that terrible fast machine. The last time they went away, 3 years ago, one of them had a very bad accident. I keep my fingers crossed as long as he's gone:-)

Back to business….

It has been four days ago since we came back from our holiday in Spain.It is not that easy to get back into a usual daily routine. Let me begin with telling you that we had a great time. Unfortunately with not that good weather. There were too many clouds, and too litle sunshine.  Further a temperature between 18 and 21 degrees and showers now and then. Not what we hoped for, especially as I tell you that it’s now almost 30 degrees there with a lot of sun and no clouds. That’s the only thing which could have been better. For the rest we had a marvelous time there. The landscape was very beautiful, with a lot of different green colors. The Spanish people were very nice but hard to understand. No one speaks a little English, except in the bigger cities like Sevilla. We saw a lot of white villages. 

We drove to Gibraltar, so I did speak a bit of English during the holiday.  I even finished my book in English, The girl who kicked the hornets’ nest, written by Stieg Larsson. Part three of the Millenium series.  With a bit of luck you will tell me on Wednesday that I have made some improvement. By the way, Cheryl did pass her English exam.

I have posted a few of the 1200 pictures online at facebook, if you're interested:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.384219618286002.86912.100000939004746&type=3&l=da574b5a6f

Insanity

Oh dear I have made  a stupid promise in a fit of insanity.  Last Monday I asked Cheryl how her Rotterdam run (5 km) went the Sunday before. That was not the stupid thing, later on when we were talking about the event she told me she’s also going to run the Ladies run in June, and before I knew it, I had agreed to go with her. Ok, it’s only 5 kilometers’ a simple thing for someone who has some sort of basic fitness. I’m already dead after 5 minutes so you will understand this is a big challenge for meJ

I have start again with using my cross trainer and will keep up with this until my holiday. I’m quite sure we will walk a lot in Spain and then I’m ready to start running after my return. I hope the remaining 5 weeks will be enough to get in shape for this event without having a heart attack!

Easter weekend

Due to Easter we are facing a nice long weekend. Not a lot of plans, just one birthday on Sunday. This morning we went to Hornbach to buy two thick bar which we need when we are replacing the skylight in our walk-in closet room. We need to prepare e few things before we could remove the old window and if the weather is good tomorrow we can do this if we want to. We can also just enjoy a day of doeing nothing at all. We will see, I have enough to read for pleasure and study. I will tell you later how this weekend ends up.

3 weeks left

As from now we still have tree weeks to go before we will leave for our ten days holiday in Spain. The weather forecast is not that good at the moment, rain and no more as 17 degrees. Better then we have here, that's true. I'm convinced it will change in the next couple of weeks and we will have a nice 24 until 27 degrees and a lot of sunshine. This week and the next one we only have to work for four days due to Eastern so it's time to leave before we know it. For now this is my post, I hope to do one more before Wednesday.

A new post as promised.....

Today I had a terribly chaotic day. It seems everyone wanted my help at the same time. Things I have normally done in a sec were now some sort of struggle and took me more time than normal.

Further the computer in the seminar room was having difficulties with starting Windows, so I had to call some help from the IT boys from the fourth floor. Martijn was willing to come over and fixed the problem in a few minutes. Due to his help the seminar was able to start on time.

Now it’s almost 5 o’clock and I have to go to our study group session. I would rather go outside to catch some sunshine. At least I had my walk with Basil during lunch time. That was very nice. We met a men with a seven year old Great Dane. It was a blue one. She was really nice and so cute with little Basil who was very impressed by this big dog.

A strange day

Today I had a strange day due to an conversation I had with one of my co-workers (easier to write than colleagues) his wife told him she wanted to divorce him. To be honest I thought they had survived so many difficulties with their health, the birth of their son and a few other things that I could never guess this is possible. Long after he left my office I am still thinking about them. It was my turn to walk Basil during lunch time so I made a long walk to clear my head. Now it's almost five o'clock and I have to go to my study group to practice the things we learned during the lessons last month. I'm aware of the fact that this blog is a bit mixed with different information. Let's talk about this further tomorrow:-)