It's been awhile again. Less to talk about since I am back in Amsterdam. In fact I sit here and wonder what to write. Today I bought curtains, yesterday I worked, life is very exciting. We have had wonderful weather recently so basically I spend most of my time (when not at work) on the tennis courts and on our roof terrace. One does wonder why my parents spent so much money on my tennis training (luckily it was a cheap club, I think/hope. My tennis team knows that with me they will have long tennis days. I lose the first set because I am nervous, then don't want to lose so win the second and then get nervous again in the 3d. In the meantime my teammates finish more than one match, and then wait for me. One day I was so exhausted after 2 three-set matches that I could not even lift my arm to serve in the last match. Bit embarrassing, the ball went in all sorts of directions, but not in the service part of the court. We lost that one... This year I am less nervous, I am just playing badly instead. And if my work is making me unhappy I play even worse, and then tell myself I am no good at anything. Yes, this is a hobby! And I am hoping to excel on the courts once I have finished my dissertation and become a housewife.
Oh, and next week we get our kitchen, which we find very exciting. Given that so far everything (and truly everything) has been a list of going wrongs with the kitchen company we are not banking on getting the kitchen we ordered in one go (but one can hope...). It is going to be a beautiful vanilla white and I can't wait to get cooking in it. My aunt and uncle (+ parents) come for a celebratory birthday dinner the week after so I am hoping to have gathered all the parts by then (at least we already have the fridge). They are planning on carting the kitchen up to our floor by lift - I told them we have a tree in front of the house, perhaps they think they can saw it down?
I'll put a foto on once we have it!