Oh my freaking God, never knew or realised that having your own house would mean, you actually have to work on and in it.
It's been like four weeks now since I am working in my new house. Painting the walls, stripping a kitchen, sanding the stairs. The big chores are done now, but most of the little ones take too much time to get done. Hanging up lamps, creating almost a walk-in-closet-room. And yet I can't get help to get the feeling that I'm not doing anything at all. I don't see the progress, I just see unfinished rooms.
The living room for instance, all the lamps are hanging, the couch, diner table and some chairs are standing in it. But they are not in the right place, for the simple reason, the wooden floor needs work. It needs to be reshaped a little, sanded and oiled up. I hired, or contracted a professional, but in the two weeks I was having a working vacation, he didn't have time in his agenda to do our floor. So now we have to wait untill the second weekend of november before we can actually finish the living room. And I don't like to go to the next job without finishing the previous one. But that is all I'm doing now. I start with one thing untill I can't go further and go the a new one. It sucks big time for a orderly perfectionist like me. I like to do things in order, at my job or at home. This way I can keep chaos out of my life, I like structure and if I have found it, I like having it. My life doesn't have to be overorganised, but some structure and organisation helps me to think clearly at the tasks at hand. I do hope the floors get done in the three days, the professional said he would need.
It's the same with our bedroom, only that will take longer to finish. We have ordered some nice curtains, that needs to be made in the right length. The lady just called me last week telling me the curtains aren't in stock now and she hoped they would be ready at the beginning of december. I can't wait that long, but to cancel the order and go to another shop would propably mean that we would have to wait even longer to get them. So this means that we will have to sleep on the floor in the sparebedroom untill our own is finished. It's a good thing the new house has three bedrooms and we don't need them all as bedrooms. Like I said, one room is almost turned into a walk-in closet. The other room will be the computer / toy / cd collection room. But for now we have transformed it into our sleeping room.
The one thing I really dislike is the fact that our turtles have to be in their cleaning tank. Usually they are in their big aquarium, with lots of space to swim around, a medium sized board with a light above to sunbathe in and small stones on the bottom to chew on (at least one eats the stones too). When we have to clean this one, we put them in s small plastic box. It takes us usually an hour to clean it, so it doesn't mind that they are in a small box. But now, they are living in the small box for about a week now. They don't like it, we don't like it, but it's the only sollution we have untill the living room is completely done.
I will be glad when all this is over and I can relax at my couch which is standing in the right place, looking at my happy swimming turtles in their natural aquarium and when it's time to go to bed I can go to my bedroom and close the curtains for the night and lay myself down in my bed dreaming about all the work we have put in the house to make it our own.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Do you have the time?
Do you have the time to listen to me wine? About everything and nothing at all? I am one of those melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it.
Just some words from a Greenday song. And well, I'm going to wine about everything and nothing at all. Just because I can. And there is no stopping me. I'm just a bit fed up with some certain people in the world, some close to me, and some I don't even personally know. First up is of course president Bush, how can a man like him rise to so much power and have no singular braincell in his head? Can it be that the American can't see a dumbass when they see one on television almost every night? Or am I just not well informed about who he really is? This morning I heard the news telling that Bush said that the American troops in Iraq might be reduced. He couldn't tell how many and when. So why say such a thing if you can't answer the obvious questions that will follow such an annoucement. Luckily for my well being he will resign his time in the Oval office very soon, and can't be re-elected, thank god. Only I haven't read much about the candidates that are to follow in his footsteps. I heard somethings about Hillary Clinton as the main Democratic candidate. Don't know if this is true, and well I don't know if she will get the votes because she is the best person for the job, or because all the Americans still feel pitty for for what Bill did to her. The last would of course the total wrong reason to vote for someone. But the Americans reputation doesn't really convince me that they always vote according to the right reason, otherwise why would they have elected Bush for a second term?
Second is a guy much closer to me, I actually know him. He went to university, graduated in some degree and has been working for a longer time than me. But still I find him reacting like a rookie on the workfloor. He is new, well not really new, to the company, he works here now for almost a year. And well in that year I think he caused more problems by acting as a social retard than I would have imagined a real retard would do. Some retarded people I know show more experience in working and acting accordingly than he does. And he isn´t a retard, I think he is just plain stupid.
Companies hires us to do some work they can´t handle themselves. They expect us to do quality work and always keep a sharp eye on us with all that we do. So we have to keep our voices down, don´t get too enthusiastic or too negative about some of the work we have to do. But he... doesn´t really seems to notice that the people from the companies that hire us aren´t really our co-workers. Of course we talk to them, make small conversations, maybe smoke some with them. You know, the socialising thing. But he pushes that a bit too much. And always in a negative attitude. When things changes, he always complains about the changes, without knowing the changes will fall out good or bad. And he tells his grievances (wether true or false) to the people from those companies. They don´t need to hear the shit my company sometimes produces. That is internal, but apparently he doesn´t see it that way, even if our leader tells us not to say anything about it. Once he gets going, he goes on and on how things aren´t well organised. But never have I heard him saying the sollutions to the ill-organised things. And apparently I scare him. He thinks I control him in some sort of way. I don´t have any control over nobody. How he got the idea, I don´t know. I have tried to talk it out of his head, but he is too stupid to realise it. So I just let him believe I control him, and sometimes use that to entertain myself. You gotta have fun sometimes at work, might as well laugh at a colleguea.
Okay so there aren´t many persons I want to wine about, please thank me for it, otherwise you wouldn´t have been finished reading now.
Just some words from a Greenday song. And well, I'm going to wine about everything and nothing at all. Just because I can. And there is no stopping me. I'm just a bit fed up with some certain people in the world, some close to me, and some I don't even personally know. First up is of course president Bush, how can a man like him rise to so much power and have no singular braincell in his head? Can it be that the American can't see a dumbass when they see one on television almost every night? Or am I just not well informed about who he really is? This morning I heard the news telling that Bush said that the American troops in Iraq might be reduced. He couldn't tell how many and when. So why say such a thing if you can't answer the obvious questions that will follow such an annoucement. Luckily for my well being he will resign his time in the Oval office very soon, and can't be re-elected, thank god. Only I haven't read much about the candidates that are to follow in his footsteps. I heard somethings about Hillary Clinton as the main Democratic candidate. Don't know if this is true, and well I don't know if she will get the votes because she is the best person for the job, or because all the Americans still feel pitty for for what Bill did to her. The last would of course the total wrong reason to vote for someone. But the Americans reputation doesn't really convince me that they always vote according to the right reason, otherwise why would they have elected Bush for a second term?
Second is a guy much closer to me, I actually know him. He went to university, graduated in some degree and has been working for a longer time than me. But still I find him reacting like a rookie on the workfloor. He is new, well not really new, to the company, he works here now for almost a year. And well in that year I think he caused more problems by acting as a social retard than I would have imagined a real retard would do. Some retarded people I know show more experience in working and acting accordingly than he does. And he isn´t a retard, I think he is just plain stupid.
Companies hires us to do some work they can´t handle themselves. They expect us to do quality work and always keep a sharp eye on us with all that we do. So we have to keep our voices down, don´t get too enthusiastic or too negative about some of the work we have to do. But he... doesn´t really seems to notice that the people from the companies that hire us aren´t really our co-workers. Of course we talk to them, make small conversations, maybe smoke some with them. You know, the socialising thing. But he pushes that a bit too much. And always in a negative attitude. When things changes, he always complains about the changes, without knowing the changes will fall out good or bad. And he tells his grievances (wether true or false) to the people from those companies. They don´t need to hear the shit my company sometimes produces. That is internal, but apparently he doesn´t see it that way, even if our leader tells us not to say anything about it. Once he gets going, he goes on and on how things aren´t well organised. But never have I heard him saying the sollutions to the ill-organised things. And apparently I scare him. He thinks I control him in some sort of way. I don´t have any control over nobody. How he got the idea, I don´t know. I have tried to talk it out of his head, but he is too stupid to realise it. So I just let him believe I control him, and sometimes use that to entertain myself. You gotta have fun sometimes at work, might as well laugh at a colleguea.
Okay so there aren´t many persons I want to wine about, please thank me for it, otherwise you wouldn´t have been finished reading now.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Real eyes realise real lies
I was listening to a song which had the title that I gave to this entry. The song is about the situation in America in the 1990's. The song is a bit old, but I think the message is still the same. Now you're probably wondering what this has got to do with work. Honoustly I have no idea. If you have any, please let me know through a comment or something like that. I just thought it's a funny title and well in fact there might be some thruth in it. Only how do you know if you have real eyes to realise the real lies that are being told to you by all kinds of institutions and information services? It's a difficult question to answer, and I don't think I know the right answer. It will probably be a different answer for everyone, since everyone has their one true version of things that happened, happens or will happen. I think I'm still a bit naive sometimes, I believe people that they are telling me the truth when they want something for me. Companies like insurance of finance companies usually call you up at dinner time to sell you their products. They always say they are the best, cheapest, truthfulliest or whatever they want you to believe that they are. They talk about changes in legislation thay could effect my finacial future. I usually have no idea if thise changes are true, or will effect my financial future, so I sometimes believe them in telling me the truth. But as I have learned along the way, they usually aren't completely honoust with you, they just want to suck you into their client-database. And after you being sucked into, it's damn hard to get out again. So I think I still don't have the real eyes to see their real lies.
If you have some time, also read this blog: http://watchingdaysgoby.blogspot.com/
It's from a dear friend of mine. And you won't need real eyes to read her blog. Just read it, and maybe leave her some nice comments.
If you have some time, also read this blog: http://watchingdaysgoby.blogspot.com/
It's from a dear friend of mine. And you won't need real eyes to read her blog. Just read it, and maybe leave her some nice comments.
Friday, June 01, 2007
Finishing Up!
On coming monday I'm finally finishing up my project at a company called CIZ (www.ciz.nl). It has been a real experience for me, the last two weeks mostly negative.
But I'm glad to have experienced it, it does make me wiser and maybe in the future more protective of my capabilities. Maybe for my readers, if I have any, the last sentence doesn't really make any sense, but I will try to explain it by telling what happened since 22 march, the day I came to work at the CIZ.
The first few weeks weren't that awful, I had nice collegueas that showed how to work and what to do. Nice ladies, not beautiful ones, but very nice and socially concerning about each other. Social lives were often the topic of conversation at the coffeetable. I got to know them quite rapidly, because I like coffee, so whenever I had the chance to drink it, I took it and listened to their stories about children, grandchildren and so on.
But then I had to leave for a week to finish up a project that I had worked for in the beginning of the year. We just needed a week to tie up lose ends. My manager told me not to say anything to the leaders at CIZ, the office will do so. So I went, said nothing and left my collegueas with big questionmarks above their heads. After a few days being away, I got the message that I have to return immediately otherwise I didn't have to bother coming back at all. The leaders at CIZ threatened to withdraw every person from my agency if I didn't came back. So I went back at the orders of my manager only to find out that they didn't really needed my help. After only two weeks of being back, the leaders at CIZ thought it would be nice for me to do some archive-work. In simpler words, simple, and shitty, archive filing work. Removing 2007 applications from the files and make it into a new file. They thought within 2 weeks I would have been done with their whole archive of 2005, 2006 and 2007. After the third day, they realised it wasn't possible, so they counted how many days it would actually cost. Guess what, it is well over 10 days. Even if you let the work be done by two people. Luckily for my sanity I had a few days off and yesterday I got the great news that after coming monday I won't have to come back, even if they get down on their knees and beg me to come back.
Because my capabilities are not really suitable to do such a mindnumbing work. File after file have passed through my hands the last couple of weeks and all brain activity has ceased to function normally. I have to write on a yellow little post-it to remind my self to take a break now and then, to ease my eyes and hands. So hopefully my readers, if the ones I have, haven't abonded me yet, get a small idea of how happy I am that I'm leaving this company. Hopefully never to return again.
Next week I will work for PGGM, a pensioninsurance company, one of the biggest in the Netherlands, and that is what I'm still studying for. So maybe I get my brain back and my will to study.
But I'm glad to have experienced it, it does make me wiser and maybe in the future more protective of my capabilities. Maybe for my readers, if I have any, the last sentence doesn't really make any sense, but I will try to explain it by telling what happened since 22 march, the day I came to work at the CIZ.
The first few weeks weren't that awful, I had nice collegueas that showed how to work and what to do. Nice ladies, not beautiful ones, but very nice and socially concerning about each other. Social lives were often the topic of conversation at the coffeetable. I got to know them quite rapidly, because I like coffee, so whenever I had the chance to drink it, I took it and listened to their stories about children, grandchildren and so on.
But then I had to leave for a week to finish up a project that I had worked for in the beginning of the year. We just needed a week to tie up lose ends. My manager told me not to say anything to the leaders at CIZ, the office will do so. So I went, said nothing and left my collegueas with big questionmarks above their heads. After a few days being away, I got the message that I have to return immediately otherwise I didn't have to bother coming back at all. The leaders at CIZ threatened to withdraw every person from my agency if I didn't came back. So I went back at the orders of my manager only to find out that they didn't really needed my help. After only two weeks of being back, the leaders at CIZ thought it would be nice for me to do some archive-work. In simpler words, simple, and shitty, archive filing work. Removing 2007 applications from the files and make it into a new file. They thought within 2 weeks I would have been done with their whole archive of 2005, 2006 and 2007. After the third day, they realised it wasn't possible, so they counted how many days it would actually cost. Guess what, it is well over 10 days. Even if you let the work be done by two people. Luckily for my sanity I had a few days off and yesterday I got the great news that after coming monday I won't have to come back, even if they get down on their knees and beg me to come back.
Because my capabilities are not really suitable to do such a mindnumbing work. File after file have passed through my hands the last couple of weeks and all brain activity has ceased to function normally. I have to write on a yellow little post-it to remind my self to take a break now and then, to ease my eyes and hands. So hopefully my readers, if the ones I have, haven't abonded me yet, get a small idea of how happy I am that I'm leaving this company. Hopefully never to return again.
Next week I will work for PGGM, a pensioninsurance company, one of the biggest in the Netherlands, and that is what I'm still studying for. So maybe I get my brain back and my will to study.
Monday, May 07, 2007
It's been awhile 2
It has been awhile since I actually wrote something on my blog. Today I have a free day from work, so I might as well as put some words here again.
The last couple of weeks have been interesting and very busy. Interesting because my girlfriend and I decided to look for a house to buy. We found one and are currently in negiotiating on the price. Hopefully we'll get the house for the price we want it for.
Also interesting is the fact that I now no longer work in the banking business. My boss has shifted me to a more social, less financial business. It is a totally different environment, much more social and slower in work pace. It is fun for a change, but honoustly I like it a bit faster than this. The decisions are being made too slow to have any result and by the time they start showing result, they change them right back to the way it was. As an outstander it is fun to watch it, but you can't help to get more and more involved and when the changes directly effect your work, it is not so funny anymore. But I don't feel bad about the choice to get out of the financial section. In the future I will probably go back to it, maybe in a different way, but for now it is nice to relax and just do simple work with hardly any numbers.
The last couple of weeks have been interesting and very busy. Interesting because my girlfriend and I decided to look for a house to buy. We found one and are currently in negiotiating on the price. Hopefully we'll get the house for the price we want it for.
Also interesting is the fact that I now no longer work in the banking business. My boss has shifted me to a more social, less financial business. It is a totally different environment, much more social and slower in work pace. It is fun for a change, but honoustly I like it a bit faster than this. The decisions are being made too slow to have any result and by the time they start showing result, they change them right back to the way it was. As an outstander it is fun to watch it, but you can't help to get more and more involved and when the changes directly effect your work, it is not so funny anymore. But I don't feel bad about the choice to get out of the financial section. In the future I will probably go back to it, maybe in a different way, but for now it is nice to relax and just do simple work with hardly any numbers.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Besides working
Sometimes you need to get your work out of your system. I usually do that by biking. And well since this is my own space, I'm gonna just put up some pics of my bike and the one my girlfriend is riding.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Hotel life
Well after a well deserved vacation, the time has come again, or actually, it already had come, that I am forced to do what I'm told to do. Yes, I'm working again, for the ones that don't read between the previous lines. And well my boss thought it would be funny to send me far far away rightaway. Not yet in another galaxy far far away, but I do have to cross the borders with Belgium to get to my working place. My boss and I don't always think alike. I have yet to discover the fun part about being here.
Could the fun part be that now I have all the time at night to study for my exam (again)? Well I don't study for fun, I study to get ahead. Just read an older blog of me about getting ahead in life. So that ain't it.
Could the fun part be that I can see almost everything on tv since I don't have anything else to do in the evening when I'm alone in my room? Well no, because most of the programs in the evening kinda suck. Or they show old and boring movies. So that ain't it either.
Could the fun part be that the city I'm staying in has a very interesting nightlife? When I'm done at 18.00 hours, every shop is closed and so are most of the four bars I found so far. So no nightlife here, hell there isn't even a daylife.
I think I just have to ask my boss what the fun part of living a hotel life is.
Could the fun part be that now I have all the time at night to study for my exam (again)? Well I don't study for fun, I study to get ahead. Just read an older blog of me about getting ahead in life. So that ain't it.
Could the fun part be that I can see almost everything on tv since I don't have anything else to do in the evening when I'm alone in my room? Well no, because most of the programs in the evening kinda suck. Or they show old and boring movies. So that ain't it either.
Could the fun part be that the city I'm staying in has a very interesting nightlife? When I'm done at 18.00 hours, every shop is closed and so are most of the four bars I found so far. So no nightlife here, hell there isn't even a daylife.
I think I just have to ask my boss what the fun part of living a hotel life is.
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