Schoolwork and stuff

Hello people,

It’s been a long, long time ago since my last post. I know but I have been very busy lately with school and work. When I am home I am doing my homework and when I am not doing my homework I am going to work at the MacDonalds Cuijk or I am going to school.

I am having a lot of fun working at the MacDonalds with alot of nice colleague’s. Making friends at the Mac is going fast. Everybody is nice and making jokes. I am mostly working in the evening on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

School is giving me a hard time. Especially Eric who gives me MOV. He is giving alot of homework and I cannot keep up with it. But I understand what I am doing. I am now working, well… was working, on my homework of last Thursday and soon I will start my homework for next Thursday. I am happy he is not at school the 5th of November so I can finish my homework in the autumn break. Marc is still working on our internship. So I am also waiting for that. Hopefully it’s done soon so I can start my internship.

Cyn is working at her new job now and is enjoying it. I am happy she likes her new work. Within a few months she is running her own department at the store in Erp. I know she can do it. I am happy for you sweetheart.

I won with the pin tournament at the MacDonalds so now I am the one who may choose somebody from the kitchencrew who may join me with the bowltournament. To bad Kim G or Ben cannot join me. They are the 2 I am talking too most of the time. Now I choose Anoek to join me. I believe Annemieke is joining us from the management. Hope we are having a great time the 26th and… of course… that we will win. Cyn gave me alot of tips over the time. She learned me alot about bowling and now I can do it a lot better than I used to.

I think I will be doing my homework now because otherwise I can’t finish it today. Tonight is my night off from schoolwork so I want to finish this soon.

xxx

Joyce

There's a song in my head

Was listening to this at school while I was working on the computer and now it's stuck in my head.

You don't know by Milow FT. Sarah Bettens

My life back

Hello people.

FINALLY... I have my life back. Everything is back into place. Well... Almost. I am almost there.

Last Monday I had my second interview for the job at the McDonalds. And there they told me I got the job. I will get a contract for a min. of 3 hours a week for 4 months. After that I will get a contract of a year when they are happy with my work. So that already rocked my world. i was so damn happy with that news.

That Tuesday I got a phonecall from ROC-nijmegen. They wanted to make an appointment for an intake interview. We planned it for today around 1pm. So today I went to the school for the interview and... what do you think. The interview did not last more than 5 minutes and after the interview they told mee I could start my education and not in the first year. No way... I will start in the second year. They wanted me to start in the third year but there are no students in the third year so that's why I am starting in the second year. I don't care. It gives me time to get back to some things I maybe do not remember anymore.

But as you understand I am totally happy now. I am going to school and I have a job and on top of all the: Cyn is also having a new job. Everything will be fine again. I have my life back.

Tomorrow I have my first day and then I will receive my school schedule. I think the lessons will start at Monday which gives me a little time to order the schoolbooks I am going to need. They will email me the list with schoolbooks so I am now waiting for that.

That's it for now people.
Drink something for me!!

xxx

Joyce

Aaaaaah

Ow I hate this. I am reallly annoyed by everything at the moment. Why on earth isn't anything going right here.

First of all: How hard is it for ANY venture to hire me. I need a job and after 46 vacancies there is still nothing. Most ventures do not even bother to reply. They don´t care. The others just hire somebody else or give the job to somebody intern. It´s so not fair. Now I am waiting for 26 verntures to reply in the last month. I only had 1 interview. 1!!!!!! out of 26!!!! it´s absurd.

Second of all: I signed in for a schoolperiod of 4 years and even they are not replying to me. The people of the student department are in the school since the 1st of September. They are looking into the last forms now and I will hear something of them within 2 weeks. When I don't hear anything I have to call again. The best thing of all is that the school will start next Monday. I hate it to miss some schooldays but I have no choice. I don't even know if I can go to school again.......

Third of all: Money. Where the hell am I going to get the money to live. No job. And because I am not hearing a thing from school I don't know to look for a partime or a fulltime job. I don't know if I need to sign in for the "bijstand" as we call it here in the Netherlands. I also cannot sign in for "StuFi" (the organisation "IB-groep" "lent" students money to pay there study. The money they lent is StuFi) I just have to wait with nothing.

I really hate this all. Everybody is having jobs and new jobs and is earning money and me.... I have to do everything with nothing and nothing at all. It's not that I want to complain or want that people feel sorry for me but that is sure one thing I do not want. I just want to scream this all out and have it out of my system. It's making my insane and angry and annoyed and shall I carry on with the list?

I sometimes wish I could fall asleep and not wake up for a long, long time. Or wake up and everything is fine again. I just HATE this life I am living now. I am not good for anything, ow wait, I am good for the groccery shopping and the cleaning.....

And I think... In the end. The biggest thing I am feeling is fear.. Fear for what is going to come next.



Welcome to my life - Simple Plan

Happy and tears

Hello everybody,

Yesterday I got the surpise of my life. Yesterday afternoon Cyn's parents would be back from vacation and that morning Cyn and I headed for their home to bring their little pigheaded tekkle back. He was happy to be at home again. Cyn and I headed for the mall in Dukenburg because I still had problems with my cellphone and Cyn did still not have answer on her question. After that we bought ourselfs something to eat and looked around a bit. Around noon we headed back to her parent's place to await their arrival. We read some more and waited. They arrived around 1pm. We helped to unload the car and not much later Cyn was gone with her mom. The had to do something but I really had not any idea what. But it was okay. I would wait here with the book I started reading: John Bartel Jr. It's a book Gert-Jan gave me to read. I really like it. Cyn and her mom were away for almost 2 hours. When they got back they were still reading. I said: hey sweety but I did not look up. Until I got something on my lap. It was a big box. When I looked at it I saw that it was a laptop. When Gerry entered the room she had a laptop backpack. I was in tears. They bought me a new laptop, a laptop backpack and a USB mouse. And all because I was going back to school (when they let me) and need to study alot. Cyn told me I should be working with this computer at least 4 years. I just could not stop thanking them. It's so sweet. It's an Acer Aspire 7735ZG. 17,3" HD+ LED LCD, 4GB DDR3 Memory, 320GB HDD. I am really, really, REALLY happy with it and I still don't know what to say.

Thank you so very much Cyn and Ger. I am very happy with it and I will make you proud with it.

xxx

Joyce

What did she do.......

O, my god!!!


Too bad I had to miss the concert. This is their new number if this isn´t right.

Damn... why me

Hello everybody,

This afternoon I received a phonecall from the Rabobank (that's the company where I have my bankaccounts) with the question if I used my credit card in Australië for over 850 euro's. In the beginning of July they found me in Dominican Republic (which is true) and a few weeks later I was in Australië. This is sooo not true. Somebody stole the information on my credit card and is now using it. The Rabobank blocked the creditcard and I don't have to pay the costs 'till further notice. They start an investigation and if they find out it was me I have to pay. Otherewise it's not my "problem". They will send me some papers to sign and a new credit card. I had to break this one in 2.

Ow I so hate this. It's not fair. Now I am thinking and thinking. Was it really not me? I mean. Didn't I do something stupid on the internet. I am sure I did not but still it makes me think. I know I have to stop this because I did not buy things for over 850 euro's in Australië. Never been there and maybe never will. Who knows but I wasn't there for sure this year.

I really hope everything will be fine in the end.....

with love

Joyce

The first few days on DR

Hello people,

Here I am again with my sight on the first few days. First I want to tell you that from now on all the times mentioned in the blogs are local time DR, unless noted otherwise.

The next morning we woke up early, before 6 a.m. we were up and running. Well… Cyn and Geo were. I just did not want to get out of bed. Geo was trying to get his internet connection up and running while Cyn smsed Wimpy. Not much later the phone rang and I took it (I needed to get out of bed for that hihi). It was Wimpy. He told me that he would be at our resort around 7.15 a.m. and he asked us to wait for him at the reception. So Geo did some real clothes on and we went for the reception. We had to wait for a while but then there he was. The famous Belgium guy haha. We agreed to talk with each other on Wednesday again. We had all the time of the world since we are staying 3 weeks (ok that makes it not “all the time of the world” but more “3 weeks”). When Wimpy left we almost ran to the breakfast area. We were really, really, really hungry (not that weird because in the Netherlands it was over 12 O’clock). We enjoyed our first breakfast. After breakfast we investigated our resort. Walked around and tried to find the playa (beach). When we finally found the beach Cyn and I went into the water to check how hot it was. It was really lovely and warm.

After a while we walked back to our room to collect the swim stuff. We went to the swimming pool closest to the reception. It has a poolbar. Our resort has 4 pools. the first one is closest to the SPA. There is no bar, only some chairs and a little pool. The second one is the one where we were at the moment. the one with the poolbar and close to the snack place with the name “Pikalo”. Here you can get pizza, frites, hamburgers, cheese soufflé and kipnuggets. The 3rd pool is a lot bigger and above the water is a big round building which is the bar. the 4th (and last) isn’t a pool actually but it’s a bar with 4 jacuzzi’s around it. Normally it’s very quiet over there (not when there are some Frensh fishes around). But back to the story. After some time resting, chilling and drinking at the poolbar it was time to go to the reception again for our Neckermann meeting with Laurent. He is our travel agent these 3 weeks. He told us a bit about the country, about the leaving details (far, far away) and he told us again and again not to book any tours with other operators. After the meeting we walked back to our seats. We went in the pool for a while en enjoyed the sun until we were feeling a bit hungry. We walked over to Pikalo for some frites and pizza. It tasted great. Back at our seats we enjoyed the sun some more. Not much later we took our towels and stuff and walked over to the jaccuzi’s.

Usually it’s quiet over there but not this time. There were some Frensh girls who were talking like a group of chickens. Man! what a noise. We sat there for almost the rest of the afternoon. When we got back to the room the maid was cleaning our room. So Cyn and I waited outside. Geo walked in to use the toilet (which wasn’t working ok, there is a lot of paper stuck in there). When the maid was ready we walked in to change clothes and put the towels down. Cyn and I still needed a toilet visit but we couldn’t use our own. 5 minutes told Geo us. But after 30 minutes it was still 5 minutes. Finally he was ready. When we were outside and 5meters away from our room Geo found out he forgot his camera. Aaaaaaah. Cyn and I walked over to the toilet and he walked back to get his camera. There was only 1 toilet working so I waited for Cyn to finish so I could use it. When I came out of the toilet only Geo was standing there. No Cyn. What the heck happened this time. We walked back to the room but Cyn was not there. I told Geo to wait at the room and went to look for Cyn. Geo gave me the key card. I did not find her and when I wanted to enter the room the card wasn’t working. Geo had given me a towelcard instead of the room card. What a ****. Cyn was not far away from me and not much later she entered the room as well. In the end it was all about the key card. There was a crack in it and Geo was blaming Cyn. But Cyn did not do it. The card was just old. After all this Cyn and I ended up reading in front of the room. Around 6p.m. we walked over to the place where we had dinner. But you can eat after 6.30p.m. so we waited at Pikalo with a drink. We also watched some Spanisch guys who were trying to build a pyramid of people.

Not long after that it was time for dinner. We really enjoyed it. Back at the room we took a shower. After that we did some chill out and then it was sleeping time. We were still not getting used to the time difference. Geo took so much place in bed that Cyn slept on the other bed. That night he was pushing me out of the bed so I told myself to take the other side of the bed Cyn was sleeping in next night. In the middle of the night Geo his phone began ringing. Somebody in the Netherlands was calling him (it was 7-8 O’clock in the morning in the Netherlands). Grrrrrrrrr. He switched his phone off after that. The next morning we woke up at 6.30a.m. After changing clothes and collecting our beach/swim stuff we headed for breakfast. On our way to breakfast we jumped on a car which brought us to our destination. After breakfast, Cyn and I headed for the toilet and Geo for the towelservice. When we were finished it was time to go to the beach. We looked for a shadowplace and walked over to the water again. Geo was doing his so called “salted-water-therapy” and Cyn and I were playing with the bal she brought along. Back at our seats we had to move our seats again because of the turning of the sun we were in the sun again. In the shadow again Cyn and I got our books and read some pages. Geo had his “siesta”. After a while Cyn and Geo went to the sea again and when they got back Cyn and I got us something to drink at the beach house: Club del Playa. In the afternoon we headed for the swimmingpools. At the shower was a long (read very, very long) line so we thought: we will take the next one. On our barefoot we walked on the hot, hot, very hot tiles. Now we know why there was such a line at the first shower. Never making that mistake again. At the swimmingpool we dumped our towels and headed for lunch. Cyn was talking to a German girl and later with an English guy while she was waiting for her pasta. We will be seeing the German girl again later on that day. But more about that later. After the lunch we found out that it was very hot at the pool so we went to the 4 jaccuzi’s. Here we enjoyed the bubbles, a drink and a good book. The bartender (Manuel) got bored and served us with drinks a lot of times just to have something to do. Cyn her guts told her to go to the toilet so we asked me for the keycard and after half an hour she was back again. She took a shower as well because the sand was itchy. Later on we headed back to the pool at the snackbar. Here, Geo found back his water shoes which he lost before we left for the jaccuzi’s. We played with the ball in the water. The German girl and her (girl)friend we also in the pool. At the bar they were drinking and dancing on the bar stool. The bartender put a piece of ice in the friends short which made both girls jump over the bar for revenge. Later on they were kissing and 1 of the 2 lost her top which ended in 1 of the guys hands (and over his nippels….) At the end of the afternoon we changed clothes at our room and headed for dinner. My stomach did not like the food so Cyn got me some salad (so sweet). After dinner we walked a bit over the beach. On our way to the beach we saw the German girls again. The one Cyn had a talk with was still very nice (and drunk) the other one was snapping at us (will not repeat what she was calling us) which made the nice one say: I’m zowwy… (I’m sorry). After a nice walk we headed back to our room for some relax time and sleep.

The next morning Geo got up early for some fitness. Cyn and I got our books and were sitting in front of the room with our books. When Geo was gone Wimpy called and asked if we were joining him on the Carabic tour. That’s a BIG YES. The next morning we will be picked up around 6.20.

When Geo got back he took a shower and than it was time for some food. After breakfast we stayed at the pool closest by for a while. Later on Cyn and I ate some pizza and fries. After a while we went for the jaccuzi’s again where our bartender of the last day was working again. Here we relaxed some more and in the afternoon we went for the pool at the theater. Here we swum a bit and played with the ball. Around 5pm we went for our room again. All 3 we took a shower and when it was time for dinners we walked to the dinnerplace. After dinner we went to bed very soon.

The next morning it was early (take early and than a bit earlier). We packed our stuff the night before so it was putting some other clothes on and heading for the reception. The car was there at 6.30. The weather was dark but at the Dominican Republic that is not telling you a thing. The sun could be shinning fully within 10 minutes. We were the first ones. After we picked up 2 other couples we had to wait for Wimpy and with him some bad news. We were not doing the tour today. The captain of his boat had called and the weather was so bad that they could not board. So around 7am we were back at our hotel and we headed for some breakfast because that was something we did not do before we left. We had agreed to do the tour on Friday now if the weather was ok. After breakfast be brought our stuff back to the room and went back to the reception because at 9am Laurent of Neckermann would be there again. We wanted to buy some post cards and we wanted to pay a visit at the cigar factory. The weather was even worse than earlier that day. It was raining hard now. There was also a bar with a roof over it. Here we sat down to drink something and write our cards. Three for me (mother and sisters), 2 for Cyn (parents and work) and Geo one (Steph). Before it was 11 am we got some other stuff at our room. With a small van we were taken to the cigar factory. It’s owned by a German family. They showed us how they handmade the cigars. It was very small but nice to see.

I also bought a souvenir at the shop. Back at the resort we ate some fries, pizza and nuggets at Pikalo. Again it started to rain so we got our internet stuff and headed for the internetcafe. Here we posted the first pictures on Photobucket.com, mailed some people and posted a small blog at our blogs. After our internet adventure we went for the bar above the swimmingpool. Close by the theater. Here we enjoyed a drink and a game. When I needed to go to the toilet my point finger got stuck. It was bleeding and it hurts alot. Cyn told me to get some ice so I did but is was not stopping the bleeding. So we headed for the room so we could bandage it with a plaster. We sat at the bar till 17.15. Then we changed clothes at our room and headed for dinner. But they we still closed so we got ourselves something to drink at Pikalo. After dinner we went for a walk on the beach again. Cyn wanted some pictures of the undergoing sun.

Back at our room we again relaxed a bit. Later than usually we closed our eyes. Up to the next day which will be remembered for a long, long (read very long) time. But more about that in my Next blog…. Yes I know, I am mean.

xxx

Joyce

Shame on me...

Hello everybody,

I just wanted you to know that I am still working on the vacation diary. But the last few weeks were a bit hard for me. Still no work and I had only 1 interview after the vacation. It's so damn hard but I try to manage.

There is also a good thing happening for Cyn but I will be posting about that later on. When I am sure that it worked out for her.

Chance is doing fine too. Brutus is here now for 3 weeks so she has her playmate for 3 whole weeks. They are downstairs and I will be joining them soon. Geo is in Oeffelt and Cyn is working. I will put the clean clothes in the closet and will head downstairs to clean there and then... maybe... I have the time to finish my second post of the vacation. I also want to do the garden this afternoon so I have to put this puzzle together.

See ya all later

xxx

Joyce

Back Home – Trip to DR

Hello Blogreaders,

We are back!!!!!! It was a long, long day yesterday and I am stil a little bit tired. I slept 1 whole hour in the plane which gave me some pain in my neck. But beyond that we had a great flight and landed in 1 piece on Schiphol. But this is the end of the vacation. Let’s start with the beginning.

 

We started our vacation with going to Nijmegen with Geo his van. From there Cyn her mom dropped us at Nijmegen Central Station where we took the train to Schiphol. This is a lot cheaper than going there with the car and keeping it parked there.

When we arrived at Schiphol we could almost check in immediately. We checked in on Departure 3 – Check in 20. When we were in the TAX-free area it was time for our usual place: the MacDo. We ate something and sat there for a while.

After that we walked around a bit before it was time to go to our gate which was gate D04. After the metal detector (and Cyn’s body check) we had to wait a little bit more before we could enter the plane. Finally in the plane. Finally our real trip to DR started with a flight of +/- 9 hours. When we sat down there entered 2 boys who took place behind us. The guy behind me did not know whether he liked to put his bag or his legs under my chair. dumb ass. First he asked me if I could remove my back so he could place his bag there. But there was space under his chair so I told him that. He told me I had to place my back in front of me because it was the rule and blahblahblah. After the instructions move (which showed that I had to put my back in front of me) he tried again. but THIS time it was because he did not have enough leg space. What the hell does he want. Well, my back ended in front of me and I was damn annoyed with this little man. After a lot of hours we first landed on Puerto Plata. Here we unloaded some people and loaded some people an kerosene. Than it was time to fly to Punta Cana. Here it was our stop. 

Now we had to collect our baggage and check in with Neckermann, Who brought us to our resort: IFA Villas Bavaro Resort and SPA. After we checked in by the hotel they brought us to our room with a little car. (see the picture).

Finally in our room we were so tired. We went to bed immediately. After a long day we fell asleep like a little kid.

This was our first day. I will post more later.

Cheers,

Joyce

New blog from DR

Hello everybody,

I would like you all to know that we uploaded 109 new pictures on photobucket so everybody who wants to see them... well, just click on the link.

Yesterday we had our first tour with Wimpy. We did the Eco tour which gave us some insight in how the pour people live here. Man they are so pour. We went to a few villages and a school. I will post a bit more about this tour when we get home. Than I can use some pictures and I have more time since we have only 34 minutes left on this computer.

On Friday we planned the Caribic tour with Wimpy. It's a nice guy and what we have seen in his other tour (the Ecotour) he is doing a damn good job with his tours. You see things other tours do not show you.

This is it for today. I will post soon again. Geo is going to sport within half an hour and Cyn and I are going to read something in the sun.

Cheers,

Joyce

Vacation DR

Hello everybody,

We are here a few days now and enjoying our time. The weather is great (but not today). The people are friendly and the food is lovely. They have a wonderfull white beach with palmtrees and a blue sea

Photobucket pictures

Here is a link with pictures we made so far. We have a lot of days to go and we will enjoy all of them. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I will post again soon (I hope)

With love

Joyce

Still at home

Hello everybody,

I am still sitting at home. No work.... But there is some process in the situation. I am awaiting a reply about an interview I had and maybe, after the vacation I have another interview.

Now I am home I can clean the whole house, do the grocery shopping, walk and play with Chance and some other things. Here is a video of Chance, trying to catch her pig when I throw it away.




Today I am waiting for George to return from Tilburg and for Cyn her parents to arrive. Geo and Gert-Jan are going to hang the last 2 shutters. FINALLY!! I have to clean my room and that's the last thing I have to do. Than I can clean myself and I am almost ready for the vacation. I hope Gerry wants to walk to the center of Cuijk with me so I can collect Cyn her medicines she needs on vacation. I wanted to do it this morning but Geo had a package which they would be delivering and he did not know when so I had to stay at home for that. I am too good for him ;) .

Actually that's everything I have to say for now. I am feeling a bit weird at the moment. Don't know where to go with my head. There's something wrong but I cannot find out what it is. So that's what I try to figure out. As soon as I know I will let you know.

With love

Joyce

PS: I promised some pictures of the Shutters but those have to wait 'till it's finished.

Chance with friends

Hello everybody,

Here are some video's I want to share with you all:

Chance has besides food a lot of friend and this are 2 of them: Dex and Bo.
Dex is the black one and Bo the brown one. Dex lives nearby and we met Bo on the dog cursus. You can say that Dex is her "boyfriend". haha. They like each other from the beginning and Bo is her play mate. Her biggest friend will always be Brutus because she knows him from when she was still 8 months. But she can play tougher games with the other 2 because they are bigger then Brutus.


Chance en Bo


Chance en Dex

Hope you enjoy the little video's

Cheers,

Joyce

Ellen DeGeneres and Pink in the bathroom singing So What

Hello Everybody,

I found this video on YouTube and had to laugh so hard haha



Geo is going to Pennings now for his airco and moving the Mazda because we still have to wait for the batteries to be full. I can't do anything but wait now so that's what I am doing.

Enjoy the video

Cheers

Joyce

A sunny Tuesday

Hello everybody,

It's been a while but here I am again.
This morning we removed Chance her stitches and it looks wonderful. She is her old self again.

Cyn is at Disneyland Paris with Eva. Having a great time I hope but what I read in her blog she IS having a great time what is a good thing. Tonight we will pick her up with my car at Eva's place. I am thinking about taking Chance with us again so she can play with Jumper again.

George and I are working on the shutters again today. We did the first one yesterday (with some help from Tiny). Today we want to do the second one but we have to wait for the batteries to be full again. they were both empty so we cannot do anything at the moment. So now I can play a bit with my laptop, post some replies on Cyn her blog. I did the groceryshopping already.

I am gonna post this now and kick Geo outside so he can remove that brick which has to be gone for the second shutter.

I will post soon again with a picture of the shutters and our good work

With love

Joyce

Chance

Hello everybody,

Here is (blurry) picture of Chance on the backseat of the Honda. George and I are taking her home now. The laparscopie operation went well. They told us that after the operation we had t wait for 1,5 hour before we could take her home but after half an hour she was awake alread. So we received a phonecal that she was ready to go home. You could see she was dizzy when she walked towards us. But when she saw me her taill was in the air. She was happy to see us again I think.

She has to recover today and tomorrow she can jump and play again But.... No swimming for a week.

With love

Joyce

Goodbye Sonja Bakker

Hello Everybody,

Cyn, her mom and I were doing our groceryshopping in Kranenburg, Germany when we saw the candy above

GOODBYE SONJA BAKKER haha. I prefer enjoying these than your theory.

Cheers,

Joyce

Looking for a job

Hello everybody,

Today it's Monday. My second official workless day. Friday was the first and on that day I got a phonecall where in they told me they weren't giving me the job at Quantore. They don't know what they are missing. I felt like shit on Friday but now I am all over it. They don't deserve me... Right?

On Friday and today I send 2 other mails about a vacancy and I hope they will reply soon. For the one on Friday (Sligro in Haps) I've got a confirmation of my mail already. For today's mail I did not hear a thing yet. But it's only a few minutes ago since I send this one. Why takes waiting so much time? The vacancy of today is about a helping drivers with loading, their papers and stuff like that. I did that already for 2 years at Talke Nederland and at DHL I prepared the papers for the drivers, but I did not have contact with them. But well, it's what I really like to do so I so hope they want me to have a conversation with them. I am keeping my ers crossed.

I have to leave soon. Cyn smsed me if I wanted to come to Laco so we can go to AH for grocery shopping for today. We need to eat something tonight right.

I will be back.

With love

Joyce

Jadzia dax

Yesterday evening, everything was fine. I was watching Star Trek Deep Space 9, season 6. Until I came at the last epi. I knew it was coming and still I wasn't prepared for it. Gul Dukat killed Jadzia Dax. Well actually it wasn't Dukat himself but still it was his body the bad guy used (don't know his name. I would say "pha wrat" but that's wrong. Gonna look it up). There is always 1 character you like the most and why do my favorite characters always end up dead. Don't tell anybody but I even let a tear fall down because of it. Poor Worf. It was all so sad.

Well... I guess I am an addicted freak of star trek now. I cry because people die and people die all the time. Not that I cry all the time but hey... She was special (in star trek DS9). Haha. Ok serious. I do not cry all the time when people die. Only when it's in a scene so sad that it makes my cry. The last thing Dax said was to Worf: our kids would have been beautiful. That's so sweet.....

Ok people I found it, it's called a "Pah Wraith".

Well I guess this was the last time I saw Jadzia Dax alive. I hope I do like the new Dax. And I can always watch back the other episodes (not the one where she dies). Ok... I am a star trek freak... I know that now. How the hell did that happen.

Bye bye!

Joyce

Cynni's birthday - 11th of May 2009

Hello everybody,

The story continues here. I left you all on Sunday afternoon and it starts here on Monday morning. Today is Cyn her birthday. She will be an old, old, old, sexy lady... haha. Sorry. Just had to think about Nichelle Nichels again haha. Just kidding sweety.

Actually I have to start at 0:00 hours. We were still awake (don't know how.... right George.....) and... I was the first person to say Happy Birthday to Cyn :D . haha. After that we fell asleep very fast, I think. But we had an early wake up call because we should be leaving around 8am. I gave Cyn her birthdaycard with pinguins on it :D . When you open the card there's a spinning pinguin in it haha. I really loved the card and had to buy it for Cyn.

Around 8am we were leaving for Nijmegen. Today we wanted to go to the Efteling. joehoeeeee. It's been a while but and we really enjoyed it. First thing we wanted to do was "de droomvlucht". So George brought us to the Python. He did not understand us and thought we wanted to go to the roller coasters first. Ok first the roller coasters then. Gerry joined us in all of them. First the "Python", Then "de vliegende hollander" and "Pegasus". "Python" is going very fast and it's so cool. The people behind us started screaming and did not stop before the end. Gerry wanted to go into the "de vliegende hollander" so we did. Cyn filmed it all. First it was very dark and you only hear music until we go outside. I think the movie worked you fantastic. The "Pegasus" is a wooden roller coaster. It goes hard. It's like an old fashioned wooden roller coaster. I really enjoyed the ride, all 3 of them. After that Cyn and I started to get hungry and really needed to eat. So we bought something to eat. The moment we finished it all the little happy, and sometimes so annoying, schoolkids were sitting down so it was time for us to go. It was time for the "piraña". that's in the water and there is a big chance you get wet. Always great fun haha. Well I got wet. Not much but I did. But who cares. The weather was lovely so it will dry fast enough. Up to "de droomvlucht". A few years back I really did not like it but now I can enjoy it. Wonderful how they made it and it looks so deep (that's the reason I did not like it in the first place) After that we walked over to "la villa volta". I still love "la villa volta". I've been in it many times and every time it's fantastic over and over again. We really had a great time. After that we headed for the next roller coaster: "de vogelrock". So amazing, Cyn her mom joined us in everything... wow.... Cyn tried to film it all but it was to dark. You can here the music which they play in the ride but that's all. We wanted to go a second time. Gerry stayed behind and George, Cyn and I walked back into the line. Too bad it's only a short ride. After "de vogelrock" it was time for "carnavalfestival". After that I was hungry AGAIN. hihi. But first they wanted me to join them in "pagode". How I so not like that. It's so high... So I sat down and did not look over the edge. I made it... wow.... :D . After that I was even hungrier. I ordered some nasi with spice chicken and loved it. Bought Gerry and Cyn also something to eat. George did not want anything. I think that was about the last thing we did. We had seen everything and it was time to go home. We walked by some souvenirsshops but Cyn did not see anything I could buy for her for her birthday. I wanted to give her something because she will get her prezzie the 25th of May. She has to wait for that.

When we got back in Cuijk we had dinner at "Birsen" We ate shoarma there and loved it. I had a little menu, Gerry the a bigger menu and George and Cyn even a bigger than the bigger menu. Well I think Gerry had the normal menu and George and Cyn the big one. We all enjoyed it. When we got back home Cyn made an dvd for her mom with all the pictures and movies on it and after that George brought her home. Cyn and I were so tired we stayed at the attic. Me watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 and Cyn working on her blog.

But that night... Well, I think you all read that in my blog "guestroom".

Sweety: I hope you enjoyed your birthday and you look forward to your prezzie. It's gonna hurt a bit but hey.... don't think I have to tell you that. It's not your first haha. I enjoyed your birthday very much and I had a wonderful time.

*I wanted to post some pictures and maybe a movie with this all but Photobucket isn't working along with me so I guess I have to post those later on.*

Have a nice day everybody and I will be back.

Joyce

Hello People,

I've been listening to an interview with Sarah Bettens and tried to find an video they were talking about. Could not find the correct one but I found one of my favorite songs of K's Choice:

Birthday Weekend May 8-9, 2009

Hello everybody,

The next story I am going to tell you is about our birthdayweekend. Steph, Cyn and I wanted to celebrate it together since we all have the same friends and our birthday's are on the 4th (Steph and myself) and 11th of May. So that was the plan.

On Friday Kim and Steph were coming over already. In the afternoon we wanted to do the grocery shopping for the weekend. So Albert Heijn, Makro and Lidl it was. After the shopping it was time to eat. Cyn made her super delicious pasta and we all enjoyed it very much. Before the shopping we exchanged the prezzies we had for each other. Steph gave us a WII game of Disney. It's like Buzz but only with Disney questions. Kim gave us a yummy pack. There was alot inside Cyn and I can enjoy. We gave Steph her Teddybear and T-shirt we ordered for her from "River Dance". The thing we are taking her too in December for her birthday.

After dinner we played the WII Disney game and we all enjoyed it very much. After 12 it was time to go to bed because around 10 am the next morning Sjak will be there with the cake.

The next morning Sjak was there together with her husband and son Thomas. Chance loved Thomas and before Thomas knew he was sitting on his behind because Chance jumped against him. They would be leaving soon because they went to Breda to buy Thomas his birthdayprezzie. Sjak would be back later on.

We played a lot of games during the afternoon as in only 1 game. The Disney game Steph bought us for our birthday. :D . I really, really, really enjoyed it. When we were having dinner I was playing it alone because all the others wanted to eat. Halfway the afternoon Sjak returned and played along. Cyn had made all different kinds of shots and wow... they were lovely. Only the pure rum hit me hard in the face but wow... I think I can fly... We started to get so drunk haha. After playing some games and having dinner (soup with bread and salads) Sjak left for home again. We kept on playing and drinking and after Cyn her parents arrived. They also had some lovely cake Sjak made and enjoyed it. after a while we started a movie. Can't remember which one. I think it's Hard Spy but I am not sure. The time pasted by so fast that before we knew it, it was over midnight already. We went for bed around 3am. I am surprised I could find our bed haha. But we made it and I slept very good and.... we could sleep long as in very long. We had our brunch the next morning around 12 and nobody was in a hurry so we enjoyed it every second. We had our brunch in the garden where the sun was shining. After brunch we played a game of Buzz on the PS3 and after that it was time for Steph, Kim and Yvonne to leave. We said our goodbyes and after they left we grabbed our stuff and Chance and headed to the Maas. Chance loves swimming. But.... we don't like other dogs bumping on her. She starts to smell nice again and all the other dogs wants to take her.... not again!!! It started on Friday when we took Brutus with us. He kept on trying to take Chance but he did not succeed happily. Then the dogs at the Maas. I think I should call the Doc for changing the date for her operation.

But we had a great, great weekend and I really enjoyed it.
I hope you all enjoyed reading it.

With love

Joyce

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Huh.. weird. I published the pictures of Emmen Zoo first but they are standing on top now....

Cyn... help...

Pictures Emmen Zoo

Hello everybody,

I typed my blog for the Per Gessle concert already but that's standing still saved as a concept because first, I want to show you some picture which were made while we were at Emmen Zoo.















With love

Joyce

Per Gessle live @ A'dam

Hello everybody,

After last nights blog I fell asleep. Well... A little bit later then that. Around 4 am to wake up again at 5.50 for a toilet break.

I am going to write alot today but let's start with:

Per Gessle live @ A'dam on the 6th of May 2009.



On Wednesday morning Cyn had to go to work for half a day. She took me with her to Nijmegen. I should wait for her at her parents place. I took my PSP with me and my new game which I got for my B-day from Cyn. It's called Silverfall. I really enjoyed the game and played it all the time. Until George came back. He dropped Cyn at work and me there and wanted to pick us up again when we got back from the concert. Around 12.30 hrs. I walked towards de Super de Boer where Cyn works. I had to buy some drinks and candy for on the way. When I was waiting in front of the shop a lot of schoolkids were entering the shop. When a small group walked out Hans (Cyn her chef) followed them. Asking one of them if he had payed for the can of cola he had in his pocket. The guy said that he put it away somewhere in the shop. Hans wanted him to show it. In the end the guy was sitting in the office because he stole it. That was around 1pm. Cyn and Anika were finished for the day and waved to Hans and Michiel that they went. I told Cyn what happened while we were waiting for the bus. On the trainstation we had to run to get the train but we made it. We would be half an hour earlier now. But we had to change trains at Utrecht Central Station. We thought we had to run because we arrived at station 7 and our next train was leaving within 2 minutes on station 5. But.... In the end there was no station 6 and 5 was next to 7 so we made it easily. Also a very good thing was that we had 1st clas tickets. The chairs were sitting very comfy. Around 2.30 hrs we arrived at Amsterdam Central Station. It was my first time in Amsterdam and wow.... What a lot of people are there. The streets are full of people all the time. Cyn showed me some shops while we walked towards Leidseplein. The Melkweg (where the concert was held) was close by there. We also walked through the Kalverstraat. Again damn what a lot of people. After a lot of searching (lijnbaangracht had 3 streets in total different places) we finally found The Melkweg. There were people in line already so we decided to join them. We had seen a McDo close by so I bought some food there and together we waited and ate something. We were standing there since 4pm and the doors would open around 8pm. So we were standing there a long time and still no sign of Eva and Iwan. People were pushing alot already so Cyn walked over to security and showed her hip-card. Told them what was happening already outside and they told her she could walk in earlier with 1 friend. Cyn also told this to the girl in the wheelchair. Finally, around 6.30pm Eva and Iwan joined us. We told them that we could go earlier but that we would try to hold them places A few minutes before time we walked in and after a while we could walk further. I thought I was smart and bought some T-shirts already for the 2 of us.When I paid the man I had to run because I saw all the others running towards the security guy inside. I was right on time to help Cyn holding places but Eva and Iwan did not make it. Everybody was pushing so damn hard. There was even a guy who put his elbow in Cyn her side so I gave him a hard push and told him to fuck off. Idiot. I was so angry at him. He walked away and we were standing in front of Per his mic on the first line. We did a pretty good job there. We really enjoyed his concert. It started with a guy called Martinique. The first 2 songs were ok but later on I did not like it. After Martinique it was Per his turn and wow.... What amazing. He was jumping, singing, playing. I could sing almost everything along.



Per also send some guitar chips our way and 1 of those landed a few centimer away from me but I could not grab it. Cyn told me to put her jacket and the bag on top of it so I did. This one is ours...we thought. There was a stupid Marie look a like who called for security and told the guy that there was a guital chip under HER jacket. Damn her.... That was Cyn her jacket...... But we weren't beaten yet. We still had the envelope in our bag for the traintickets so Cyn wrote a message to Per, asking him to put one in her cap. Per did not see it, but Helena did. She grabbed a few and send them our way. 1 on Cyn her shoulder and 1 in her cap... Yes.... On the other side of the envelope she wrote: thank you Helena. When she saw it she gave her the tumbs up haha. So cool. There was also a very special guest. The one and only: Marie Fredikson! Joehoeeee. This was so wonderfull. It was my first concert and the first time I saw them on stage together. I really enjoyed it. They really are partycrashers haha.



It all went by so fast. It was over before we knew it. After the concert Per would come over to sign our stuff. The only question was where.....The other bandmembers walked around so one by one they could sign Cyn her CD. For Per we had to....(you never never guess...) queue Whoohooo haha. Per signed our CD and after that we headed for the Tram to bring us to Amsterdam Central Station.



We had the last train towards Nijmegen and there was no train driving to Cuijk so we had to call Geo, asking him to pick us up at Nijmegen. He was angry because it was 2.30am and we had to go home earlier and he only wanted to pick us up at Cuijk. Blablabla.

After a long day we were finally back home. It was 4am before we lay in bed. Cyn had to go to work tomorrow morning. I wished she could sleep in. She needs it. But well... She managed, like always. That's my girl. I love you sweety.

Xxx

Joyce

guestroom

Hello everybody,

Lying here awake in the guestroom. Don't want to wake up anybody because of my throught isn't working propperly. There's something in there and I can't get it out. Lying awake for a few hours already I thought I should start this blog.

Tomorrow I have an appointment with Quantore again. I have to look on my best for this. I think I will need a very warm bath so I can sweat it all out. And I want to steam a bit.

Yesterday before going to bed I watched a few episodes of Star Trek Deep Space 9 and I cannot stop thinking about it. Fantastic that kiss Odo and Kira shared and I think they are making process in the war against the Dominion. It's a nice thought that I met a few of them already. They are all so nice.

I think I should try to get some sleep. Getting extremily tired now.

With love

Joyce

Efteling

Hello everybody,

We are in the Efteling now. Queueing AGAIN...... I start to think that life is queueing all the time Anywhere and everywhere you are. We are made for queueing. That's because we can stand on our 2 legs instead of hands and feets. Standing on our 2 legs takes less space than 4. Ok.... Back to the efteling. You can see it's early in the season and it's Monday. There are only schools here and older people who took a day off.

Will a post a blog about the Efteling soon. But first I will typ something about Per Gessle concert and last weekend That is in my next blog.

TTFN!

Joyce

4th of May - my B-day

Here am I again. Just posted the last day of FedCon 18 and now it's time for the story of the 4th of May which is my birthday. I had to get up early again because we had to be in Nijmegen at 8.30hrs. Cyn her parents had a surprice for me for my birthday. But first I received my prezzies from Cyn. I so loved them. On Friday she already gave me 1 prezzie. The book Death's Daughter of Amber Benson. Now I got a PS3 game named: Devil May Cry, a PSP game named: Silverfall, A SCI muck which she bought in Movie World and a PS3 eye cam. :D . I am really happy with those prezzies.

When we arrived in Nijmegen I received my prezzie from Cyn her parents: A PS3 game named: Singstar Queen. So now we can sing along with Queen. After everybody was ready we took the car to I don't know where. Well.. Then I did not know. Turned out they took us to Emmen Zoo. The weather was (still) nice. there was a wooden penguin and Cyn made a picture of me and the penguin. First we saw all the penguins and they were sooo cute and funny. Emmen Zoo has 2 parts. First we saw the smallest part which they are still building. After the smallest part we had to walk a bit to arrive at the largest part of the Zoo. We took the Zoo Route so we could see everything. Half way we ate some soup and a roll with a croquette and a paper cup with cola/Ice tea. The butterfly garden was wonderful and I really enjoyed it. The monkeys and Siberian Tiger were also beautiful. They deadheads monkeys were very close by. You could almost touch them. The most funny thing of the day was that all animals were having the spring in their heads. They all were busy for new ofspring haha. We took alot of pictures but I don't have them on my laptop so I cannot post any yet. I am sorry for that people.

We took the whole tour and I loved it. After we saw everything we walked back to the car and drove back home. I am happy that I had my phone because it almost was a deadman's ride. Next time, hopefully, somebody else is driving. We ate fries at Cyn her parents place and after that we headed back home. Cyn and I sat down on the attic. Both busy with our computer/laptop. While I was busy with my laptop I watched a few other episodes of Star Trek Deep Space 9.

That was my birthday. I got a lot of lovely prezzies. Now it's waiting for Wednesday: Per Gessle Live in Amsterdam :D.

Cheers,

Joyce

Sunday - FedCon 18

Hello everybody,

I wanted to tell you the story of the last day earlier but I just could not find the time to typ it down for you guys. Now I just finished with my preparations for this weekend and sat down on the couch to tell you the last part. Chance is lying next to me on her blanket. She always want to be close by.

On Sunday we had to get up early. And because we went to bed very late we did not get much sleep. After putting some other close on and putting our stuff in bags we went downstairs for some very lovely breakfast. We had fresh bread, eyes, tea and juice. After we filled our tummies it was time to go already. But first we had to put our stuff in the car since we had to check our before 12. We asked if it was ok to let our car in the parkinglot and that was no problem. after that we walked to the Ubahn and bought our tickets. (since we used our tickets from Friday on Saturday we had to buy new ones. But who cares. On the Ubahn station we saw Sandra already. The 3 of us took the 16 to Telekom station and from there we had to walk to the Maritim Hotel where FedCon was held. When we walked in there was a big, big queue already. Cyn and Sandra waited in line and I walked to the front to see if maybe Imanuel was already there. Happy for us he was and the guy was standing almost in the front of the line sooooooo.... We walked over and joined him. We gave Imanuel our picture for Nichelle because we would to the queue for the autographs in the Holerdeck and Imanuel would be queueing in the line for Nichelle Nichels. When they opened the doors we ran too the place where we had to be. Cyn and I were first in line :D . Joehoeeeee. In the queue we decided that it's was a good idea to buy a picture of Christofer Judge. So many people were crazy about him and we still had to see Stargate so I run to the front of it all to buy a picture. When I looked up the the second floor where the queue for Nichelle was, I saw that Imanuel was also standing in the front of the line. I made a picture of it :D . When I got back Cyn walked over to Imanuel to ask him something. She told me that there was 1 person in front of him but that he/she only wanted to ask something. So that makes him first. After an hour there was a big line standing for the Holerdeck, and we were first. Damn that feels good after yesterday. Around 10am they opened the room and we could walk in after the gold cards. First we ran over to Nana because we had so much for her and in this way we had plenty of time :D . First of all we gave her the "stroopwafels".



These are dangerous she told us haha. She already new them and loves them so that was a good treat. After that she signed Cyn her back, the picture from the photoshoot, another picture and the picture for Eileen. Cyn told her that the picture they made earlier did not go well because Nana looked away and asked for a new one. Nana agreed and now we had a joined picture with Nana.



After our great time with Nana we joined the queue for Christofer Judge. He is a nice guy and I really like his smile. He also got "stroopwafels".



The next queue was for Summer Glau. You can see her in Serenity, Firefly and The Sarah Conner Chronicles. Summer posed with her "stroopwafels".



After Summer Glau there was Erin Gray. Such a wonderfull woman. She was so nice and we had a little chat with her. She also liked the "stroopwafels and took a bite of it right away.



after this we went over to Michael Hogan and asked him if he could join us for a picture since we had pictures with them together (James and Michael) but not alone. He agreed and walked over to us.



James was sitting next to us and we also asked him for a picture. There was a guy in front of us and he had to pay 20€uro's for his picture. Cyn had the great idea to ask him if he like the "stroopwafels". Since he agreed she asked him if he wanted the last "stroopwafels" we had for a picture together. Again he agreed.



The last picture we made was with the happy couple Bonnie and John:



After this we left the room with a damn good feeling. It was time to go and find Imanuel which was a hard job. We looked everywhere. Finally we found him on the second floor. Together we collected our pictures of the photosessions and went for the mainbridge to watch some panels. When we walked in Dominic Keating was having his panel. We sat down and enjoyed, as in really enjoyed. the guy is so funny.



In the second picture they wrote down his name wrongly. They wrote Dominik instead of Dominic.

We also saw the panel of the people of Eureka and Summer Glau and Jonathan Woodward, Mark Sheppard and Battlestar Galactica. After that is was time for the Star Trek Panel with Nichelle Nichels, Nana Visitor, Robert Picardo and a few others. This was the panel we have been waiting for and we really enjoyed it. We ate a few bags of chips since there was no time for eating.





After this panel we had to wait for a while. Imanuel and Cyn went for some more drinks and chips and Imanuel wanted to put his back in his car. After a while Cyn came back but there was no Imanuel Where the hell was he. When we got home we found out he lost his ticket and went home angry because they didn't let him enter the convention anymore. But at FedCon we were still wondering where he was because he was still not there when the End Ceremony started. I went to the front to make a lot of pictures. After a while I walked back and told Cyn to come too. She said no but later on she was sitting on the ground behind me. The Ceremony was great and again everybody loved Nichelle her speech. It's such a wonderfull woman. What a power!!!! But first they started with a singing Max Grodenchik followed by a singing Robert Picardo. Fantastic!!! really. John also had something for us: his jeans which he weared the whole weekend. Bonnie told him from the balcony to make sure that the other one stayed on and clean because this was the last spare one he had. haha. Those two are so damn funny.

Here are some pictures of the end ceremony:











After the end ceremony it was time for us to take the U-bahn back to the hotel and there take the car back to the Netherlands. It was time to go home. This weekend past by so fast!!!!!! poor us. I really enjoyed it and we are looking forward to next year. We already booked rooms and tickets for next year. So I am already looking forward to that.

With love

Joyce