Electricity

Decided to swap the electrician for Arjan by promising him a RC plane if he manages to fix my electricity (at € 25 a plane they're a lot cheaper than electricians). Arjan did some poking, removed a ceiling lamp, removed the cover above it and found out that for some reasons two wires had shorted. Sadly this happened in a place where quite a few wires passed to quite a few power-outlets (read all of the kitchen outlets, a wire to the shower and some other wires to other places in my house. This means a whole lot of rewiring. Guess I'll have to buy Arjan a real plane now.

Still I'm very lucky that Arjan wants to take on the job, having to pay for a "proper electrician" would have been a whole lot more expensive.

Fun fun fun

As you probably already noticed, I switched from writing on a daily basis to writing whenever something interesting happens. Or at least... that was what I was planning on doing. Unfortunately whenever interesting stuff happens, there's no time to write it down.

The past week has been a mix of electricity problems (I'm currently without electricity in the kitchen) girlfriend attempting to move in, work, another fun holiday coming up and cocktails.

The electricity problems are the most annoying, this far it has cost me 100 euros to find out that my dishwasher is actually okay (whenever I switched it on, the breaker-switch would flip and we'd be without electricity). Unfortunately over the weekend the problem worsened a bit due to which when I now try to switch on electricity for the kitchen, I see sparks and then the breaker-switch flips back again. Yes, that shouldn't be the case. Guess we'll have to get an electrician in now, expect more money to be spent.

Girlfriends attempts to move are causing loads of stuff to pop up in my place. I'm now the proud owner of bras, books on feminism and even a couple of Brian Adams-cds. Whenever girlfriend's not around I'm now dancing around in her bra, while singing along to Brian Adams. Still need to think on how to fit in feminism in this ritual. Maybe I should try burning the bra.

The fun holiday will be Budapest in August with Sar, Jess, Kaz and plenty of others, which will be the main reason for the roadtrip Nicktor, McR and I are going to attempt. (Just driving up and down to Budapest sounds a bit silly) Really looking forward to this one.

And last night I started off at Nicktor's place for cocktails with Annemarie, girlfriend, McR and obviously Nicktor. Eventually McR and I took off to Rotown to see Belgian band Montevideo play (had never heard of them before but they sounded cool) Girlfriend appeared somewhat un-sober by the time she stumbled back in.

Slowly girlfriend is starting to move in here. Over the past couple of days books have been appearing in my bookcase that certainly aren't mine. Take for example the DIY-book for the handygirl. And occasionally girlfriend even uses the term:"Our house" when talking about my place. Apparently the deadline is set at the first of April, when all girlfriend's stuff should be in here. Girlfriend will follow a month later. (She's still got a month of Finland to do before returning for our SE-Asia-trip)

Expect lots of decorating my "God only knows"-room stories in this space while girlfriend takes over.

Celebrated McR's birthday yesterday. McR was drunk :-)

Money

Plenty of stuff happening around here (visiting my old neighbour, playing guitar, etc.). The story wich has been intriguing me all day is how the US managed to lose track of $12 billion dollars. How come people lose $12 billion in Iraq and why don't they leave me a million while they're at it?

Having fun

Doing stuff all week didn't leave me much time for writing here, I fear. After going to the cinema on Tuesday, the Blueman Group on Wednesday, dinner with colleagues on Thursday and the Theater on Friday (a birthday present from my sister), I fear I already had my annual dose of cultural stuff :-).

The verdicts: Rock n' Rol never dies (the film). Cool film though probably a tad on the long side. The Blueman Group (finally), generally cool, though there were one or two somewhat cheesy moments, not much to say about a team dinner other than:"Good food!", and the theatre was a play inspired by Lars von Trier's Dogville film. Definitely worth seeing.

Then went out for African food, drinks and clubbing yesterday evening with girlfriend's sister and her boyfriend. Talking about girlfriend, there's been talk about her moving in at the beginning of May. Keep watching this space!