on tour

Let me describe you a life that one (and probably especially me) could easily get used to for a while: sleeping in fancy hotels, getting up (very) late (missed breakfast almost every day) a relax walk in a new town, a bit of shopping, hanging round with the choir-friends, being driven to the concert venue, having dinner, doing a show for about 8 to 10 000 people every night, back to the hotel, talking and drinking in the hotel bar, having fun, laughing… this was in short my week, last week...

and then bang suddenly thrown back into this grey reality, behind the desk on a cold morning at the construction company… Needless to say that the shock was enormous. One week was way to short and I am very glad that after next Friday I will have two weeks of holiday again…

Who can find me a job where I get paid to be sociable, sleeping late and be together with interesting people?

and again, it's friday

yup, as you can read, today monday is friday again!
at least for me! (sorry, couldn't resist)... tomorrow i'll be leaving for a week to Germany to sing with the choir on the proms; Bremen, Dortmund, Dusseldorf and Köln.



in the mean time i have to get through this last day today and make sure that i finnish some urgent tasks. This weekend a decorator has given our office a christmas-make-over. In the big reception-hall there is - instead of a big christmas three - a big branch with some decoration in it... i must say it looks a bit... tacky... and then upstairs, on my workfloor - it looks like a winter-wonderland, or a christmas-market, with, let me count, no more than 7 christmas threes (on at each island) and 14 christmas-y plants... a bit over the top, but it changes the environment, which is fun...

i don't know how soon i will be able to update this weekend, but i promise to do my best, and hopefully post a picture or two from the adventures in germany!

i'm dreaming of a...

Tell me, tell me! When is it going to be colder? Cold as in, freezing cold, ice-cold, super-cali-freeze-illistic cold – I’m in such a desperate need for gloves, scarves, hats, hot chocolates, snow flakes, open fires… and minus degrees! Minus degrees would probably kill as well all those germs and viruses currently nestled in half the population’s bodies, not the least all those germs occupying me at the time… I would finally be rid of this slumbering, underlying, not really breaking through, immensely annoying and hugely irritating cold…

On a professional note: this week I have lost another battle about the infamous border(less) logo. Although my boss agreed, after a restyling-session from our ad-agency a couple of months ago, to have a logo without the border, he has made sure that – against my will – some new trucks will have the old logo with border…

On a cultural note: I go to see a dance-performance tomorrow, directed by the great choreographer Maurice Bejart, called ‘L’Amour - La Danse’ which gives an overview of the best romantic scenes from Bejart’s work.

On a friendship-note: I wish you all a great weekend!

Mama

Last weekend we went to a screening of a short movie of Sissi, a friend of ours (M’s sister-in-law-to-be); The movie, called ‘mama’, depicts the wedding of a young couple, but the only thing missing at the wedding is the mother of the bride. Not to let her mother spoil her wedding, the bride leaves the church to find her mum. It’s a great short movie, we saw it in a group of six shorts and ‘mama’ was definitely the best of them all. Sissi Seifert will definitely be a name to remember!




Now a busy period has started, busy full of parties, gatherings and next week on tour with the proms. I still am a bit cold-ish and it does not seem to have the intention to go away and the lack of sleep does not help a lot for the healing process. Last night, I had, since long, again a rehearsal with the band I’m in; but I forgot to take my keyboard, but after a smart suggestion of my mum, I ended up playing my old (little) accordion; which, I must say, was fun to do (I don’t know if the other band members enjoyed the noise as much as I did);

For the blog-question for today? Did Sinterklaas brought something to you today? For the nice kids? At our office, we all got a little bag with candy and an email from the good man (he apparently works for our company, because he has the email-address sinterklaas@mycompany.be :-)