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A busy week comes to an end

What do you reckon? It´s Friday again! Or Friday at last! Whichever one suits you!

I for one am very happy it´s nearly weekend and Valentine´s day on top of it, maybe thanks to the glass of wine and the flowers I bought myself, but I´m not so romantic anyway, so I don´t mind.:-) I´m done with translating the silly Work and Work Place Protection brochure, I´m done traveling for a week or so, happy to be at home with man and pets, not needing to check in or check out, catch any planes or any trains. And it´s just where I want to be. We´re celebrating Valentine´s with Sam´s girlfriend and her parents, who live just down the street, dining and wining.

During the course of the weekend I need to finish some boring accountancy stuff, but first and foremost get lazy with the pets, drink lots of coffee, see a friend or two and take many naps. Haha! Just by reading that I realize I sound like a granny, in fact I used to be teased with that at my former work place, just because I like silk scarves and 60s cut. 😉

I hope you have a lovely day, whether you celebrate Valentine´s or not! And now a couple of pictures from my last days´wandering.

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Christmas presents

This year I´m making most Christmas gifts myself. I am usually a workaholic, but this time of the year business is slow and I learned to enjoy it. Therefore I´m baking and personalizing presents I bought, knitting and writing Christmas cards. Nice time to be with friends, too, if you still have any left when you decide work is not everything in life. 😉 Enjoy your advent time!

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All work and no play

I´m so worked up by my own problems, schedule, moods and goals that I managed to get myself into a really old-fashioned fatigue. No matter what´s happening, I only dream of a holiday. I tried to think of other stuff, get a haircut, buy some new clothes, but the thing is I´m bored with the scenery. So I bought tickets for Tallin, Estonia in december. Figured that 3 days in a spa hotel with lots of pampering haven´t hurt anyone. Besides, we´ll be shopping at their famous Christmas markets and stroll in the pretty old town. I got my hopes up on´vin chaud´or ´gluhwein´or whatever they call it out there, I´m going to have a mug every other hour, I reckon.

Meanwhile, I´m all buried in papers and accountancy, drinking too much coffee and walking around with sky high shoulders. I feel that my days are so unpredictable that no matter how much I try to make it through the day without getting an ulcer, something will destroy the balance- either somebody´s late, which makes me late for my next appointment, or the traffic and the Gods are against me.

That being said, I´m looking forward to Berlin in two weeks. Conference and pleasure, what do you know?! If you feel the urge to recommend some places, please do! Otherwise, I hope it´s warmer there than here and that the Thai food is just as amazing and the drafts just as big.

To wrap things up I just want to tell you that I´m a very proud auntie, I have the cutest niece and I´m looking forward to seeing her soon. She has the cutest smile and already 6 teeth! Take a look for yourselves! Isn´t she adorable?!

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At home

Tired again. I make some changes and then I end up right back on the old path- working too much, eating junk or just drinking coffee and then plunging in bed. Today was one of those days again. I was supposed to be home at 3 and take another walk in the woods with Sam and instead I wasn´t home until 8 and too tired to even speak. Don´t get me wrong, nobody´s forcing me to work this much, it´s just that in this game, you´re either in our you´re out. I kind of feel that I have to. And I love my work while I´m doing it, so it´s easy to forget how tired I feel afterwards.

Enough about that. There´s something about fall and the cold sneaking up on us again, I feel so grateful for having a home, a place of my own, a warm and cosy cave to creep into. I never feel so attached to my home and my little family as I do this time of the year. Thought I´d share some pictures of my home and loved ones with you.

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Couple of things I can´t stand

As we say in Romania, you shouldn´t let your guard down on Tuesdays and Saturdays, you never know what they might have in store for you. Today was one of those Tuesdays. I´m lucky I love my job, can´t say the same of all the people I meet through it, though…

I can´t stand folks who think I´m a “cutie” just because I´m a woman and I don´t look my age. And don´t get me wrong. You won´t see me wearing short skirts or a revealing cleavage, I´m pretty strict on my appearance. And I´m good at what I do. I can state that since I know how it is to suck, too. Still,  this happens to me all the time. You can read “cutie” in any way you like: silly, lacking skills, to be pushed around, whatever. I end up wasting so much energy on asserting myself like a peacock, I come home exhausted.

In my eyes, you can be feminine as long as you´re not cheap, loud as long as you´re not deranged and still be a professional when it comes down to it. We´re not unidimensional, (and thank God for that!), we can pull it through. I want to be able to do my job in the manner I believe I can do it best, looking the way I do and dressing the way I dress and be taken seriously for what I am. I refuse to walk around as if I had a stick in my behind (the way some of my “colleagues” do) just to get them to acknowledge me!

Almost weekend

This week has been mostly about accountancy (which I hate so much I can´t understand how anybody can put up with it as a full-time job), a little bit of work and lots of family time. With so much unexpected time on my hands, I was fantasizing of making apple jam, scones and healthy smoothies everyday, but instead we ate lots of instant noodles and other junk food varieties. I thought sharing an office  would be great- coffee breaks and quirky conversation, but forgot that my husband recently gave up snus (loose tobacco that you put under your lip), so his nerves were a wreck.

My office

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Getting through every day without losing the energy

>Yesterday was one of those horror days, I worked for 14 h. I left home in the morning and came back at night. Nauseous from the train ride, hungry and beat. But as soon as I opened the door, my three favourite persons in the whole world were overwhelmed to see me: Sam jumped me and kissed my cheeks, Beo miawed in his familiar way and rubbed himself by my legs and Vuong told me there was hot Vietnamese soup in the kitchen. I mean, what more can you want from life?! Am I not the world´s luckiest gal?!

My Beo

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