I will always remember your birthday because it falls on the Ides of March, which my trivia fact storing brain knows was the assassination date of Julius Caesar 😉 So, you can rest assured that I won’t forget it until I start forgetting many other things as well!

Happy Birthday, my tough love friend! Thank you for being one of my external voices that pushes me when necessary and loves me even when I am cranky, unrealistic or not making a choice about where an item should go. I am so glad you have become a part of my new life here as well and not remained only as a memory 🙂

For this coming year, I wish you some extra adventures of your own 😉 I hope that as you travel, you never stop being curious and eager to connect with the people around you. I hope that your kids continue to thrive and that your family has all of the Seahawks madness that you seem to love so much. And I wish that for all of the love that you give out to people, you get it back three times so that you are cluttered with affection 😉 Thank you for being one of the women I share my life with.

Since this is a happy day, I might as well continue the trend with the fact that I have my banjo back. She was in the banjo spa over the weekend getting some railroad spikes as implants and her action lowered. Not exactly sure why it is called that but if makes chord changes easier, I am all for it. I had a double Dutch lesson this morning, 2 hours since I will be in Lisbon next week. My brain is grilled cheese. After that, I needed to ride on the tram, thinking about nothing, on my way to collect my baby.

That means I will be working a little longer tonight since I took a good part of the morning off. It is okay because it is rainy and cold and I won’t really notice the time. I also need to get stuff finished before next week since I will be gone.

I had a good weekend, I met a lot of new women. Saturday night was a cocktail hour which was fun and Sunday was a film at the LGTBQ Film Festival. That’s the nice thing about not having any history here, I am free to meet whomever I want and I am no one’s ex. Of course I have my favorites 🙂 It was also very sunny out so the boys and I spent double our usual time in the park, working on our respective tans!

Okay, I am going to get to some serious work now. Once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEX!!! XOXOXOXO

I have a cold. Today is the first day in about two weeks that I can work from home for the whole day. I have to go into the office tonight since I am giving a training. Until 5Pm, I am working from my office, with my own daylight, my mom’s high school desk and my fur bearing colleagues. Oh, and let’s not forget the music and my nearby Nespresso machine! It doesn’t get much better than that.

There were people from the US and Western Europe here last week. Which meant we had days full of meetings, nights full with dinners and somewhere in the moments in between, the attempt to still do your regular job. I wasn’t getting alot of sleep either so Friday morning, I woke up with the crud that is going around. I spent the weekend only walking the dogs, reading on the couch and sleeping. While it didn’t stop the crud, I am hoping it will make it shorter in duration since I would really like to start liking the taste of coffee again. Right now, it is not a pleasure and I am drinking tea instead – not the same thing at all!

So far so good on driving into the heart of Rotterdam without getting a ticket. I keep waiting for one to drop through the mailslot but none yet! I am going to another concert next month, starring one of the musicians I saw at Cross Linx. However, this time I am taking the train. 🙂

A week from Sunday, I leave for Lisbon. I have some training to go to. I really like that city so I am looking forward to seeing it again. And then early next month, I am heading to Seattle. I have some stuff to take care of so it will be a short trip – 5 days, including flying time. The boys will be glad to see me come back with a suitcase of tortillas – but that’s not the reason I am going.

Hmm, I seem to have lots of technical difficulties this morning. Nothing seems to want to start up properly – including me 😉 If this keeps up, I will have to take a day off. Obviously, this machine is still working since I am posting so I guess that means I better make use of it!