Waarom worden vrouwen en tegenwoordig ook mannen zo gelukkig van geld uitgeven?
Of het nu uit eten gaan, nieuwe kleding of schoenen kopen of een nieuw hebbeding is,
we worden er gelukkiger van. Kan je het wel geluk noemen?
Geluk bestaat uit momenten heb ik ergens eens gelezen.
Het is niet iets wat je altijd bent, maar iets wat je zo nu en dan beleeft.

Ik beleef altijd heerlijke momenten als ik weer een paar schoenen heb gekocht,
of een broek en of shirt. Mensen begrijpen niet waarom ik al meer dan 80 paar schoenen heb,
ik begrijp niet waarom men dat niet begrijpt. Eigenlijk heel simpel vertaalt
heb ik al meer dan 80 keer het gevoel van geluk ervaart als dat geluk is.
Ik voel me gelukkig als ik de H&M uitloop met al is het maar een mooi tuniekje van 20 euro.
Het hoeft niet allemaal duur te zijn, het is mezelf iets gunnen en dat hoeft niet veel te kosten.

Ik kan zeggen dat ik me gelukkig voel met het zoveelste nieuwe paar schoenen om mijn voeten.
Ze zijn allemaal anders, maar geven me hetzelfde gevoel; blij zijn. Is blij zijn gelukkig zijn?

Ik heb me wel eens afgevraagd hoe het zit met mij.
Waarom geef ik zoveel geld uit aan het volgende paar schoenen terwijl ik er al 80 heb,
of koop ik weer een broek, een shirt, een vest, cosmetica, luxe verzorgingsproducten.

Ik denk eigenlijk dat ik niet eens heel diep hoef na te denken….
Omdat ik te weinig blije momenten heb gekent in mijn leven en ik verslaafd ben aan dat fijne gevoel.
Het gevoel dat je ergens je geld voor verdient, dat je er leuk uitziet,
dat je je als een blij kind voelt die een cadeautje krijgt; Dat is geluk.

in about 4 days we’re having a big ass party at our place.
Freakshow is the theme, I’m thinking about my costume, it’s going to
be awesome I hope.

Today had a good day at work, my colleague Miranda is a really nice girl,
we had dinner after work. The food wasn’t that good, but the chocolate cake
for dessert was wonderful!

Now sitting on the couch with my pink friend typing away. It feels nice to have
a relaxing moment. In a couple of  hours I’m going to bed, hopefully I will have
a good night rest. It’s still a problem, I’m going to bed on time, but I’m not having
enough rest. If you have a good tip, let me know..

Good night!

2010 in the house!
We had an awesome party @ our place. First plan was to have a party
in The Hague, but the house where we should go was already taken by
some other people..aargh..But master plan number 2 was a great alternative.

My first New Year’s party in Utrecht, Dennis and I had 6 people over and played
Lego Rock band en Buzz throughout the night. We had sooo much food!
People who know me, know that isn’t a surprise hihihi. We had a lot of fun.

We went outside to make a toast on the New Year, lighted some kiddy stars
and got 2 Chinese lights. We all wrote our names on it after I wrote a wish on it
for all of us. We lit it up and let it go to the stars and beyond.

After that we watched Paranormal Activity. Damn! The movie was boring!
But every moment in the movie when it was 03:06 am my head disappeared
behind a pillow. I’m really into the Paranormal stuff, but I couldn’t take the scary,
you don’t see anything but you can hear that there’s something haunting you.

We went to bed at 05:30 am and woke up the next day at 12:30. We all were like
zombies, some look better than others and after breakfast everybody went home.
In the evening Dennis and I went to his mom’s place to have dinner at Paradise
with his mom, uncle and aunt. It’s a really great Chinese restaurant but we hate it now.

We had to wait 2 hours for our food. People that came in later got their food even faster
than we had our food, we were still waiting.. The service was to cry for. They fucked up
my order, so I had to wait even longer for my food and it was burned..
Well you can imagine that dinner wasn’t joyful and when we got home our clothes smelled
like awful Chinese Food. Never again..

-10 degrees Celsius outside, it’s snowing..
It looks like a fairytale, finally a white December month.
I’m sitting here having a hard time staying warm and our Museum day
is canceled I think. Bummer, I felt like going to a museum today.

Worked a lot and enjoying my day off. Sale in a shoe store is hard work.
Everybody is surprised by the weather and in need of warm shoes.
Christmas is a good excuse to buy the not so warm shoes, cause
nobody is going outside and the low prices are the best excuse ever.
It’s official, I’m the assistant Store manager of Sacha and I’m happy to be that.

Yesterday had Horror movie night with some friends and watched Black Sheep.
Awesome movie, we laughed our asses off. Even when you don’t like horror movies,
you have to watch this one some time. Before the movie we played Lego Rock band.
I love playing the drums, I’m family of Animal from the Muppet show I think.
It’s so funny to play Rock band with friends, especially when they start singing even
without a lot of booze!

Well I’m going to warm myself up with a cup of tea or something.
Have a lot of snow fun and success to all of you that need to go somewhere today,
tomorrow, well the rest of the week!

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O dear, I went shopping with Dennis for some small presents for Sinterklaas and when I watched
the Dutch cuddly news that evening I noticed myself and Dennis on TV for a split second.. *sigh*

Monkee back in action, it’s been a while.
Working hard at a Sacha Shoe store.
I’ve got to get my biological rhythm in place now.
I’ve to get up early in the morning and in the evening when
I arrive home, I’m spend. We still get a lot of visits of friends,
but I have to say that it isn’t easy anymore now that I’m working.
Don’t get me wrong I do want to see my friends, but I hope they
don’t mind that I’m not the hyper Monkee they used to know.

I really want to do my own work after I’m done working, but
for now that’s out of the question. I’ve got some energy left to
eat my dinner and use the remote control of my TV, but that’s
about it. But I’m confident that I will combine my powers to be
able to go to work and create games in my spare time with friends.
I will.

In the meantime our shower is still borked…argh…It’s been like 3
months ago and I’m still showering at a friend’s place next door.
Hopefully at the end of this week our shower will be fixed.
I want my own shower back!!

8:00 am, captain’s log, too damn early!!
I was running and jumping around, Dennis didn’t feel
like waking up. De Efteling is a theme park in Kaatsheuvel.
We all went there as a kid, it’s magical, now we’re big kids and
it’s still magical.

But 9:00 am is a bit harsh on a Sunday and when everybody
arrived @ el Casa del Monkees’  a lot of coffee had to be poured
down everybody’s throats. We went to De Efteling with two cars
and had a lot of fun driving, but then a big-ass traffic jam just one
kilometer away from the theme park was about to spoil the day.
But Monkee kept everybody positive and we kept on driving, well
standing still. We should have arrived at our destination at 10:00 am
but we arrived at 13:00 pm.

The first ride was the toilet and of course the men could go in and out
of the cheap toilets and Candice and I had to wait 20 minutes before
we could be released of the pressure.  After that we decided to go to
Villa Volta, a ride where a room is rotating around the audience. The
ride is amazing. We had to wait for 30 minutes, but that went by really
quickly. But before we started the awesome rides we visited the Diorama,
a small mountain village with a lot of miniature trains. Yay! *bah humbug*
Dennis and Vincent really liked it, so the rest of us were waiting
for like half an hour because they were glued to the glass of the Diorama window.

After that Vogel Rok (a roller coaster in the dark), Spookslot (a haunted mansion),
De Piranha (a white water course, we got totally wet..awesome),
De Halve Maen (a ship that swings to an 90 degree angle), Fish and chips break,
The Flying Dutchman (a roller coaster in the dark that ends up in the water) and
finally we ended the day in the boat of De Fata Morgana (a relaxing, magical boat ride
through the Arabian Nights). We had to stand in line a lot, I think all together we spend
half the day waiting, but we couldn’t care less. It was crowded, but it wasn’t annoying,
because we had each other for company.

So my final words are going to be:
Dennis, Vincent, Candice, Mark, Arnoud, Huub and Tom, Thank you all for an awesome
day! I love u guys and girlie!

DAMN! How can a living being survive with a toothache!!
On November 2nd I have an appointment with the dentist for a
root canal treatment, but 4 days ago I had a severe pain in my mouth.
I couldn’t sleep, stuffed myself with ibuprofen, but it didn’t help.

After two nights of no sleep, I couldn’t take it anymore.
I called the dentist and made an emergency appointment.
I went to the dentist, got an anesthetic and he started drilling.
Not a painful procedure, but the smell that came out of the molar
wasn’t exactly cherry blossom. I was embarrassed …

The dentist invited Dennis to have a look, his remark was that
he’d never seen a hole like that in me…hehehe…
After the treatment I went home with a numb mouth.
I was relieved I didn’t feel the pain anymore, but when I went to
bed, I almost died… The pain was so bad, Dennis called the
emergency medical practice for advice; I had to take some
paracetamol and there was no more we could do..I just had to
put up with the pain..

I woke up every hour, but the next morning I woke up at
6:30 am and went to work.
I’m in possession of  a temporary filling that is crumbling
in my mouth and November 2nd the dentist is going to
finish what he started. *sigh* hopefully painless…

I’ve got a new job!! Yay! I can say “I’m off to work!”
I’m going to work as a floor manager of Sacha Shoes.
For me, a shoe addict, a really good place to work,
if I may say so myself. hehehe. I’m a happy girl!!

Started a new hobby, I’m painting Warhammer figures.
The Space marines to be more clear. I’m painting them
in my own colours, my enemies should wear sunglasses!
When the space marines are ready for action, I will
post some pics for the world to see.

Now listening to Beatles tracks. After a few songs on
Rockband I opened the Beatles collection and I’m
enjoying myself while singing with Paul and John.
Relaxing day…Yay!