Sorry guys, don't really have the time to update here. Very busy at work and in life, will talk to you all when I'm in the country at the end of the week (23rd of January till 1st of February)!!!

Am packing and doing laundry at the moment. So excited to see all my friends again!

Banyana just told me that she wants to hand in her one month's notice.

Glued together butt cheeks. Crap pile o' shit!

Tomorrow. Another day at work without the manager. Just because I didn't burn down the place yesterday. My first mistake.

No just kidding. (About the work thing, that'll be fun. Not about the "Banyana's moving out" thing.)

Today my manager called me and offered to promote me to team leader! Yay! After thinking this'll never gonna happen, it just did! Wow! He wants to properly discuss it on Wednesday though, because he's not in tomorrow. Which kinda means I have to run the show. The whole show. Kinda scary, but also challenging. Which is always a good thing.

Interestingly enough, the haircut gets really a lot of attention. (And the skull has finally stopped itching. More or less.)

Nhi is taking forever.

...and now I'm tired. But very glad to see my colleagues at work again and it was quite slow for a Friday. Of course, we had to send someone to Selfridges again, so it was still a stressful enough day for everyone.

Nhi is finally gonna make it to London tomorrow and the fact that I got the day off makes her very happy and me as well!!!!



And Sebastian put the pictures he took on New Year's Eve on Facebook, so you all get to see me there. (I think there is the one or other picture were I look at least half decent.... Well, one should be allowed to drink on the last day of the year. It's too scary otherwise!) Thanks to Sebastian for making it such a nice start to the new year!

So Nhi was supposed to make it to London with her bf tonight, but now they're not making it at all, so I was gonna go and do something with Jennifer and Olivier, since Banyana is gonna head off to some bash with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, but now she tells me that they'll go to some French friends place and I am not too much up to 1) speaking/hearing French all night and 2) spending New Year's at someone's house. (house parties are cute and all, but at the end of the year, I prefer the real deal)

So plans are back to spending it with my beloved market people (or market person. Sebastian that is. Dunno who else will be there.) at a location that has yet to be determined. Will still go to Jennifer's for an early New Year's dinner and champagne drinking thing at about 7.

And to all you people back home: my mother's bf got me to promise that I will celebrate the New Year twice. Like GMT and GMT+1 (with them) an hour earlier, so all know that tonight when you are saying "Happy New Year" to each other, I will (looking quite ridiculous) raise a glass and think about all of you. (It is supposed to sound cute, but it also sounds kinda creepy and sad. I guess that's just me.)

So after complaining about my hair for too long a time, I cut it all off. Like all. I bought electric clippers and my hair has now the convenient length of 10mm. Banyana can't stop saying how hot she thinks it looks, Laureen keeps making jokes about it and consoles herself in saying that it'll grow back and Jennifer meant that she normally doesn't like short hair, but in my case it looks good. And I must say I like it myself as well. Still not used to it, but I got a great head shape and that's the most important thing. But now I def. have to wear a hat when I leave the house, because it's too damn cold without.

Was in the West End today and Olivier kept trying on jeans until we found a pair in which his butt looked good. And he got some shirts as well. Banyana bought a trench coat and a pair of heels and claims that she is now finally shopped out. We'll see ;)

Then I am also desperately trying to get a hold on Nhi, who said she'll come over for New Year's, but she doesn't answer on her swiss number and when I call her UK number, a (female) voice just says: "This mobile is switched off." Very cryptic, but like I know her, she'll message me sometime tomorrow. Always waits for the last second, that one.

Maybe you'll totally disagree with me on this one, but please just let me rant about it.



I just made a list of New Year's resolutions (So the above is just a reconstructed, empty version. Just for the sake of posting a picture.) and then realized how much I hate the idea of it. Think about it: It's basically just a list of things that are apparently wrong with you. And I believe they don't even reflect your own true opinion. It's more or less all things that you think you should change to make yourself socially more acceptable. Which is bullshit. Don't get me wrong, of course I have my bad sides. Of course I make mistakes, but they are all as much a part of me, as the good things are. And you can't have the one without the other. It just doesn't work. Why should you even consider changing things about yourself. And then you do it in such a constructed way. Just because the year is ending and a new one is aproaching, you are obligated to sit down in front of a piece of paper and write down what you think you could change yourself. Which doesn't even make sense. It's not like you'll wake up on the first of January being someone else. That's like thinking that you'll be diffrent, just because it's your birthday and you are another year older. You always get older. Why should these days be any special? I vote that we knock out this whole New Year's resolution shit and whenever we notice something about ourselves that we don't like, we either change it or leave it be. And we don't wait around for the end of the year to do that. We'll just do it. (Like Yoda said in Episode V: "Don't try. Do it or don't do it. But don't try.")

And please people, don't let anyone tell you that you'll have to get rid of your bad habits. I all love you too much with them and you wouldn't be the same without your bad habits!!

On another note: Walked down the street with the room mate today (BTW, she complained about me calling her "the room mate" and not "my room mate" or simply "Banyana", so I might just do that and for anyone who'll get confused: Your own damn fault for not being a more loyal reader!!!) and two guys passed us:

Guy 1 (to Guy 2): I'm gonna have a cold tomorrow.
Me (to Banyana): Good for him. He's planning ahead!
Banyana: You are just the most sarcastic person ever...

Any thoughts on that?

Plus went to see the "Inkheart" movie yesterday and really enjoyed it. Even though it's been ages since I read the book, I think they did a more or less fine adaption. But please do correct me on that, if I'm wrong.