Today my new passport arrived by mail. It came faster than I expected. At the consulate they told me it would take 3 to 5 weeks, but it arrived after only 2 weeks. Because my visa is still in my old passport I will have to travel with two passports from now on. My old passport has been made invalid though with lots of holes in it.
The good thing about it arriving so early is that I now can start arranging our holiday to my home country. It means paying lots of rent up front, making sure all bills are paid, booking the cats into a pet resort, booking the tickets, arranging insurance, holding the mail, talking to our lawyer about the latest stuff, and so on on. Whenever I go on holiday I am always so worried that I forget something.
In a way I am so stoked about going on holiday, but on the other hand I just think about all the money that it’s going to cost and it makes me depressed again even though my family is paying for the tickets. Also the thought that our house will be empty for about a month or so is not a very nice thought. We don’t have any family here that would like to look after it while we are gone. Not long ago someone broke into our shed, but fortunately we didn’t have anything of value in there (hubby keeps his tools in the house). Holiday is supposed to be fun and I can’t wait to get a break from everything, but I am stressing about it all.
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Today is all about having fun! I need to have a break from all the stress and negativity! So to lighten my mood a bit I surfed around youtube for funny video’s and came across video’s of Jeff Dunham. When I saw this comedian I remembered I once saw him on TV with Achmed the dead terrorist and how hard I had to laugh when I saw it. The video is not exactly new or anything, but still heaps of fun. Enjoy!!!
Sometimes something small happens during your day that can have a huge impact on your mood. For me that something was “Lunch with Pearl Jam” on the Max channel. Lunch with Pearl Jam was an hour filled with lovely Pearl Jam music. As you might know Pearl Jam is one of my favorite bands and listening to their music brings back a lot of memories. So seeing all those Pearl Jam video’s was GREAT!!! It totally made my day. I turned up the volume of the TV, sing along as loud as I could and now I just feel so much better.
Since it really lifted my spirits I decided to post a video of Pearl Jam singing one of my favorite songs at a concert I went to (the concert was awesome by the way). Hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.
One of my hobby’s is scrap-booking, or maybe I should say scrapping because I like to make all sorts of stuff from left-overs; scrapbooks, cards, boxes and much more. Since I am on a very small budget lately I have mainly done digital scrap-booking, but every now and then I still like to make the ‘real’ thing.
Whenever there is an occasion I like to make hand-made cards to send to my family and friends. I’ve been told a couple of times that I should start selling the cards that I make, but sometimes the supplies are expensive or I just don’t have enough left-overs or other stuff to make a lot of cards. Anyway, with all the new babies in our family I’ve been creative the last few weeks to make new cards.
It was a heap of fun, except for one little thing; I cut myself in my finger. Not a little cut, no a pretty deep cut that will probably leave me a nice scar. Hubby panicked straight away when he saw the blood. I felt sorry for him, because I am sure he got flashbacks of his own work accident where he lost two fingers. So to make him feel a bit better I have bought safety cutters that have a safety spring for automatic blade “shoot-back” into the handle in response to an uncontrolled movement. They’re pretty cool cut knifes and it just makes me want to make more cards. If only I had more material to work with.
Here is a little speed test for you in case you are bored or if you just want to see how fast you can type per minute. My score is 400 characters per minute which translated into 72 words per minute.
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