1. Yesterday, we had to go vote. I got up early and got there by 8.15 am (which I thought was going to be early enough as to not have to wait forever and ever, but late enough as to not risk having to stay there all day to “volunteer” with the organization of the election). I had to wait about 25 minutes before it was my turn, and that was not one minute too soon. Every time things like that happen and I have to go a bit “deeper” into my neighborhood, I wonder why exactly I wanted to live there. It’s not Brussels anymore, it’s the “brousse”.
2. Last week, I had an “offsite event” from work, from Thursday late afternoon until Friday late afternoon. An evening with dress code “black and white, life at the castle”, a princess-room and bathroom, a morning of presentations and an afternoon with teambuilding games. It was a fun event, it was great to talk to some colleagues I usually never see, …Oh, and alcohol is the devil, and I will once again have known it!
3. This evening, I am going to my second Weighwatchers meeting. I am going to ask to re-calculate the number of points for me again, because it seems really way too much to me. If I eat the healthy way, I just can’t eat that much, and it doesn’t seem right to me to eat unhealthy when on a diet, just to reach some number of points. If after that, I am still not satisfied by the way the diet goes, I will keep on going to the meetings to keep me motivated, but use the Weightwatchers-system they had so many years ago when I tried it first. That worked really well for me.
4. On Friday, I will make lots and lots and lots and lots of desserts for a charity. I will have to calculate today or tomorrow how much I will make and how many ingredients I will need for it, so that I can do the grocery-shopping on Thursday at the latest, and bake all evening/ night on Friday and again on Saturday morning. I will make apple cakes and also vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with butter cream (Belgian recipe of butter cream, way less sweet than all the American recipes I found). I already have bought the cupcake-cups: red-with-white-dots and red-with-white-stripes. They look really cute J
5. Last Thursday, we received all the Victora-jewelry. I brought most of it already to the people who were at the party and ordered, I think one more order has to be delivered (in Antwerp ). I am very happy with the jewelry I got and have already been wearing some pieces. I am already looking forward to the party of next year!
Monday, June 14, 2010
Monday, June 07, 2010
5 on Friday. Uhm… on Monday.
1. I really suck at this Blog-thing. Every single time, I have good intentions to keep up with it, but then something happens and my good intentions are long forgotten. I have been busy writing my trip report (in a Word document). Next step is to upload pictures and then I will start posting it. I think this is about the first time I have actually finished writing a trip report (for trips longer than 3 days). Will I get all the way to the end to actually post it? We will see.
2. Today is a big day. I will finally go to Weightwatchers again. Many years ago, I managed to lose quite a bit of weight thanks to their “diet”, but unfortunately, because of many issues, I have gained the weight back (plus some more) over the years. I have now decided that it is really time to do something about it, so, today is THE DAY. The last day I will eat a “good” sandwich at work and have Martinis in the evening, because from tomorrow morning on, I will have to count points. Anyone knows how many points a Martini Rossato is?
3. Talking about Martini Rossato, I have a weird “obsession”. I love when you get items as gifts when you purchase food or drinks or cosmetics or what not. Like “buy 4 6-packs of Diet Coke and received 6 Coke glasses”, kwim? The past few days, I have stocked up on some drinks *ahem*. I bought Diet Coke/ Coke Zero because there was an offer where you got Coke glasses with them (I have 12 glasses now). I also stocked up on Bru sparkling water, also because of glasses (12 Bru glasses have found a new home in my basement). Next to all that, I bought lots of bottles of Martini (Bianco and Rossato) because they were accompanied by the glasses that are used in the commercials (the glass George Clooney is drinking Martini out of, ha!). I already have 6 of the small glasses and 2 of the Martini Royal glasses. I saw in the ads that next week, Lipton Ice Tea has promotions with the Ice Tea glasses when you buy 6-packs of their Ice Tea. I know that is an obsession leading to hoarding, but damn, I love my glasses! Oh, and Bacardi has this Mojito gift box: 2 bottles of Mojito, 2 glasses and a couple of straws (also as in the commercial, lol). By the end of “glass-season”, I will be an alcoholic!
4. Last week, on Monday, I had my Victoria-party. Which is a sale of jewelry through house parties (comparable with Tupperware). I organized the event, but it took place at my parents’ house, because their living room is way bigger (like almost bigger than my whole apartment). I provided the drinks and the dessert buffet (Brownies, lemon cupcakes with lemon cream cheese icing, orange cupcakes with orange butter cream icing, apple cake, strawberry bavarois and an assortment of cookies and chocolates. I will post pictures of it later on). I invited some friends, my mom invited friends and neighbors, and I think in total we had about 20 people who came. It was a nice evening and everyone enjoyed themselves. Well, I guess they did because many already asked when I would be doing another one! A lot was sold that evening, which meant a lot of free jewelry for me, woohoo! Next weekend the sales consultant will bring all the jewels, it will be like Christmas in June!
Victoria jewels: http://www.victoria-benelux.com/index_nl.asp
5. Talking about Christmas, I already had Christmas-in-May. I got my tax refund, I got my vacation money, I hope my employer will pay my expense note soon, … I am rich! I am stinking filthy rich! That is, as long as I don’t look at that Visa bill that arrived. No, I will stay in denial and just pretend that I am rich!!!
See you next time!
2. Today is a big day. I will finally go to Weightwatchers again. Many years ago, I managed to lose quite a bit of weight thanks to their “diet”, but unfortunately, because of many issues, I have gained the weight back (plus some more) over the years. I have now decided that it is really time to do something about it, so, today is THE DAY. The last day I will eat a “good” sandwich at work and have Martinis in the evening, because from tomorrow morning on, I will have to count points. Anyone knows how many points a Martini Rossato is?
3. Talking about Martini Rossato, I have a weird “obsession”. I love when you get items as gifts when you purchase food or drinks or cosmetics or what not. Like “buy 4 6-packs of Diet Coke and received 6 Coke glasses”, kwim? The past few days, I have stocked up on some drinks *ahem*. I bought Diet Coke/ Coke Zero because there was an offer where you got Coke glasses with them (I have 12 glasses now). I also stocked up on Bru sparkling water, also because of glasses (12 Bru glasses have found a new home in my basement). Next to all that, I bought lots of bottles of Martini (Bianco and Rossato) because they were accompanied by the glasses that are used in the commercials (the glass George Clooney is drinking Martini out of, ha!). I already have 6 of the small glasses and 2 of the Martini Royal glasses. I saw in the ads that next week, Lipton Ice Tea has promotions with the Ice Tea glasses when you buy 6-packs of their Ice Tea. I know that is an obsession leading to hoarding, but damn, I love my glasses! Oh, and Bacardi has this Mojito gift box: 2 bottles of Mojito, 2 glasses and a couple of straws (also as in the commercial, lol). By the end of “glass-season”, I will be an alcoholic!
4. Last week, on Monday, I had my Victoria-party. Which is a sale of jewelry through house parties (comparable with Tupperware). I organized the event, but it took place at my parents’ house, because their living room is way bigger (like almost bigger than my whole apartment). I provided the drinks and the dessert buffet (Brownies, lemon cupcakes with lemon cream cheese icing, orange cupcakes with orange butter cream icing, apple cake, strawberry bavarois and an assortment of cookies and chocolates. I will post pictures of it later on). I invited some friends, my mom invited friends and neighbors, and I think in total we had about 20 people who came. It was a nice evening and everyone enjoyed themselves. Well, I guess they did because many already asked when I would be doing another one! A lot was sold that evening, which meant a lot of free jewelry for me, woohoo! Next weekend the sales consultant will bring all the jewels, it will be like Christmas in June!
Victoria jewels: http://www.victoria-benelux.com/index_nl.asp
5. Talking about Christmas, I already had Christmas-in-May. I got my tax refund, I got my vacation money, I hope my employer will pay my expense note soon, … I am rich! I am stinking filthy rich! That is, as long as I don’t look at that Visa bill that arrived. No, I will stay in denial and just pretend that I am rich!!!
See you next time!
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