Flaine...

With more than one hour delay we left for the winter holidays. 10 hours drive and we reached Flaine located in the Haute Savoie region of the French Alps (Grand Massive Area). 267 km of slopes ware waiting for us. They were just right for every one: green, blue, red and black. Quite funny was the fact that some slopes have been named after the Devils, chilling!!! There was Lucifer, Belzebuth, Faust and Mephisto which become our favorite one.

The weather was quite heavy on us, a lot of snow and only one day of sun and almost blue sky but we have been skiing no matter what and warming up with the hot chocolate at Ed’s place.

Our house was just perfect, much better than the last year. Big sleeping rooms for 2 persons with the bathroom, big sitting room with the open kitchen, balconies, the storage room for equipment and the sauna… just perfect place for 12 people to relax and do not step on each other toes.

The House:
My muscles were hurting few days but hey, this was a week of sport and great time!

As usual we have increased our vocabulary with the couple of new words:

HUPPETEE: there we go
PRUTSER: somebody that is quite unhandy, not clever and does silly stuff (so, all of us)
MAKE AN ANJO: loose the way, direction
DE GROTE DALMUTI: number one game of this winter ;)

Now just wait one year for the next….

Almost on the way …

… if the driver wakes up on time. Everything is ready standing by the door, two trainings bags, ski shoes, snowboard shoes and two hand bags with the necessary to survive 11 hours trip.

Where is the driver, where is the driver…

The good guy and the uninspired girl...

The final countdown continues… still 6 days, exclusive weekend, and we are going to France. I cannot wait. It is not even about skiing, mountains or snow but about the free time and rest.

I am already thinking what books to take with me, one thick or better two thin, serious or funny… hard or paper cover… I like such dilemmas… simple holiday problems… I just finished The Good Guy by Dean Koontz. Nice, exciting story and if someone ever makes movie out of it, Bruce Willis should play the main character.

Nothing more, I have lack of inspirations due to hectic days that pumped the whole energy out of my body and the brain. My only creative activity lately is making the sandwiches for my work…

Family visit…

After more than eight months we went to visit Fuyo’s family living Aan Den Noordendijk.
I was curious rather she is going to recognize or feel that the dogs there belong to the same line/family. Noah the mother of Fuyo, Fennah the sister and Indy the half sister.

When we arrived, Fennah was standing and bluffing at the gate, it was funny to see how alike they were from a distance. We were quite shocked that from close by Fuyo was much bigger than her Fennah, she was even bigger than Noah and Indy. However, the expression on Fuyo's face, the hair curls on her back and figure are very similar to her mother. H. said that the curly tail she took after her grandfather(whoever he was).

The group (Noah, Indy, Fennah and Willow) have not given Fuyo the warm welcome, they were quite tough on her at first, just to show who is the boss at the farm. More than one hour Fuyo was with her family, checking each other, chasing, playing, barking…

I made some pictures, of course. It was so cold that not only my fingers stop working but my camera as well.

I think that Fuyo will have a great time being there during our skiing holidays and we will be relaxed that she will be under the good care of H.


Sisters kiss ***Fennah and Fuyo***

Listen to me little girl ***Noah and Fuyo***

***Fennah and Indy***

Happy Fuyo ***picture made by Helen***

Intuition Winter Event…

That was a long time a go that I went to the party…this one was long needed, just relax, dink, dance and forget about the work, e-mails and hectic weeks days. Five hours went in a split of the second (almost) and we had to go home not fulfilled at all, ok, maybe a little…

The music was great, especially Menno did his best (as always). I had a talk with his younger brother who is also trying to be a DJ by playing “Drum & Bass” so I will not be his fan. Now, I am searching where to go, what to do, the Trance Energy comes the same time as my skiing holidays, Cosmic Gate is playing more often in PL than in NL, for Sensation we have to wait still long time, as they say … you can’t have everything…

Ah one advice…do not try to hug the dog when you drunk…you can lose the eye…

Prioritizing…

Now days everything is important, urgent, very critical to be done and dressed in the exclamation point…

How to prioritize when everything should be done yesterday, little time to relax, stop for the moment and think…

How many people do things automatically, alarms go off , shower, breakfast, coffee, walking the dog or not, running for the train/bus/car, traffic, good morning everyone, email one…coffee, email 20…coffee, email 50, lunch, soup, bread, cheese, thank you, email 60…coffee, joke, ha ha ha, meeting, email 75…water, email 85, have good evening, tired, train/metro/car, traffic, home, grocery shopping, dog/cat/goldfish, dinner, tv/computer/children/sport, sleep…

Maybe I should write the stories in the morning or during the holidays, to describe the world a bit more colorful…

Some dogs have a beautiful life…one of them is lying next to me and dreaming … can dogs dream?

Shit, shit, shit…

I hate days like this! Nothing works and everything falls on my head. I am the whole day busy, bla, bla, bla, the day is over and still so much to do! Frustrating... where is the sun that helps to survive the winter.

America...

Well, I thought that he was play backing in the film … you know, the “special effects” but apparently not … he can play and he can sing...

Let me introduce to you … Hugh Laurie in "America".

H is back…

The 5th season of House MD… I have not realized that there were 11 new episodes. I have all of them, saw already four today (privileges of being sick). New stories and he remains the same … sharp, funny and ass as always, just brilliant…

2009…

…and we have a New Year, new beginning and new hopes… but lets see what the old year brought to my life…

 New job
 Fuyo
 Skiing group (this year second holidays together)
 Car
 Running (still not serious participation in any official runs)
 This blog and 71 posts
 A lot of good moments with my family and friends
 Few good parties and few bad ones
 Some really good books… and few movies
 Stolen bike

What will the New Year bring, we will see…I have wished to my family and friends a lot of happiness, health, persistence in reaching the goals, this tiny bit of luck that helps to arrange things, to be at the right place at the right moment … and love, lots of love!