October 2002 Archives
Yes, I'm an egoist! I have created a Wishlist at Amazon for all the people far away who cannot resist giving me a present.
Actually, I haven't got the slightest idea why I did it, because I don't expect anybody to use it. But again, you never now, right?
I guess I'm just being egoistic.
I don't think I have to explain the current political situation in the Netherlands to you, since even here in Catalunya it has been on the news. The only comment I would like to make is that all of this is happening right after the first elections I didn't participate. A coincidence??? I don't think so...
Anyway, I decided to try to vote on the next occasion in January. I found out that I have to register in Den Haag, which I did today. Six months before the elections they are going to send me a form (I haven't received anything in June...) and after returning it, I will receive my voting card three weeks before the elections.
As usual, a lot of paperwork, but I'm used to it. Let's see what happens.
Last weekend we spend almost completely working in our hous, from early in the morning untill it was too dark to work (we haven't got light everywere yet...). And I can honestly say that we're fed up with it!
I have spoken to people who told me that they like to work in their house to relax a little bit after working in the office, but I rather have a beer in a bar to relax.
This weekend I prepared the walls for painting; filling the holes, taping off the windows and the doors, etc. Maria José helped me and started painting our living room. Now all we have to do is put the paint on it. We hope to have time for it this week, but I think that we'll have to do it next weekend.
Besides working ourselves, other people also have to do their jobs. If everything goes well, this week they'll put the marmer and the electodomestics in our kitchen, connect the toilet and the shower, finish the electrical installation and maybe come to put the floor. But our experience until now taught us that things rarely happen on their planned schedule, so we'll see what's going to happen this week.
At least we have five days to get some fresh energy for the work of next weekend...
Guess we're just plain busy at the moment... Anyway, it's about time that I give yoy all an update about life in Lleida.
Last weekend we had a good excuse not to work in our house: Marcel and Rebecca were in town and we spend the weekend with them sightseeing. We had a great time, but afterwards felt a little bit guilty about the time we _could_ have worked in our house.
Speaking about our house, things are going well. We have new windows and out bathroom and kitchen are almost finished. In the mean time we're trying hard to paint the walls. In fact, we're only waiting for the moment that the new floor arrives, and we're ready to enter our house. This afternoon we'll hear the date for that, hopefully they'll be able to do it next week. Friday my father flies over to help us with the work as we have a short holiday. On Wednesday October 30th we'll fly over to Holland to spend some days over there. After that, I'll stay some more days as a business trip.
That's it for the moment....
