rodneyscat

...and she's off again. To the luxury of a fully equipped cottage; coffeemaker, dishwasher, beds are made when we arrive and they even had an on-line grocery delivery service so we'll have all the basic needs like *cough*chilled-beer*cough* bread and milk when we arrive.

And later this week there will be the rock festival yay!!

See you next week and remember; make loooooove, not wank.

Packing almost done and then we're leaving. First for a camping on one of the Northern islands of The Netherlands. (Yes, we have islands. Small ones.) We'll be spending a week with my brother-in-law, his wife and their 4 children, walking distance from the sea. \o/

Then we'll spend a week in a holiday cottage in the middle of the country just the five of us. This cottage is near Biddinghuizen where a rockfestival will be, for which my daughter, my youngest son and I have tickets. More \o/
Mr. RC and the oldest son didn't feel like going too, so they'll drop us off at the start of each day and pick us up at the end and they'll spend the day biking or whatever they feel like doing.

It will be awesome!

We'll be back late on Sunday August 17th.

Take care all of you!

He'd turned 17 (omg, he's 17 already...) and had asked if he could throw a proper party this Saturday, and we'd agreed.

The party involved about 25 friends, 4 crates of beer, a crate of Breezer, lots of soda and energy drinks and a wide assortment of crisps and nibbles. We'd put a couple of pots with sand in the garden for the smokers (we don't allow smoking inside, luckily the weather was nice).

Mr. RC and I mostly sat upstairs reading and computering, and occasionally went downstairs to get a drink ourselves and try to ignore the necking and snogging that was going on here and there. The guys and girls were all very chipper and nice, most of them introducing themselves (to the point that I asked if we were going to be quizzed at the end of the evening). Every now and then we had to remind oldest that we do as a matter of fact have neighbours, with whom we'd like to continue to be on friendly terms, so could he keep the noise at a somewhat acceptable level (especially since the 'music' sounded something like this; we have different tastes, to say the least...).

Plenty people got drunk. Nobody got sick or agressive.

By 1.30 am the last guests had left, oldest, his girlfriend (who stayed over), Mr. RC and I sat down for a final beer and then we went to bed. The house looked a bit like a disaster area, but nothing a garbage-bag, broom and mop couldn't solve, so everything is back to normal now.

I'd call it a success :D

I'll be the one with the red Mando Diao t-shirt and the big fat grin on her face!!!

Yesterday evening, instead of catching up with lj like I promised, I spend the evening with Mr. D_E and the kids, watching season 2 episodes of SGA, drinking wine and eating my favorite crisps.

Today I'm going to Pinkpop with my daughter.

So yeah, the catching up will have to wait until Sunday. And Monday. And Tuesday. Because I've got all of these days off and nothing planned. *beams*

I've got 4 (four!) days off. And the best thing is, I've got absolutely nothing planned for those days and I can sleep in on all 4 (four!) of them.

I can barely believe it! *pinches self*

*beams*

I'll write this entry by numbers. starfishchick-style so to speak ;)

1. Still loving my job.

2. Tomorrow gayadi is dropping by for an afternoon of SGA watching \o/

3. I've got daytickets for Saturday at Pinkpop!! The Editors will be there!!!!! I'll be going with my daughter :D

4. I found a flaw in my parents-in-law: they're celebrating their 50th wedding-day anniversary smack in the middle of Rock Werchter. loreley_se and I will find ways to schedule around that, I'm sure, but it's a nuisance [/spoiled brat mode]

5. Still very much in love with my husband.

6. Rodney makes a good second place though.

7. For those curious, I wrote the answers to the music quiz.

8. I'm feeling bad for not feeling bad about 'Midway'. I understand where this is coming from, but when I'm really honest I don't feel it that way. And I don't know why. I think I should (not because others would think so, but because I think I should feel differently. Ok, this is getting way too complicated...)

I'm here typing on loreley_se's laptop (and cursing every now and then, because the buttons don't always work the way I expect them to do *backspaces a lot*). \o/

We just watched the final season 1 episodes of Torchwood, Jonathan Ross is on now, and I'm hoping to get a little SGA season 3 squeezed in after that...

I have a ticket for Pegasus 3, which I will attend on Sunday (yeah, just the one day, because I prefer meeting up with Dani to actually consist of meeting up with Dani). Of course it's a shame Kate Hewlett can't be there, but I just read that Andee Frizzell is going to be there instead, which thrills me to no end. Now all I have to do is find out what the Sunday program looks like, because the site doesn't give any details.

Okay, enough with the struggling with this keyboard, I'm going to check if there's more sparkling white wine :D

In case anyone was wondering: I now know from experience that being the mom of three adolescents, combined with having two part-time jobs takes a lot of energy.

I'm really kind of tired right now, so it's a good thing I only have to work one more day and then I'll have two whole days off \o/