Journal of a Time Traveller

*yawns* My eyes are nearly falling shut, at 9am already… I’m exhausted. Spent the better part of yesterday evening in the kitchen baking for today. I’ve made popsicle cakes *s*
Now I just hope the guys here at work like them

Yesterday evening when I got home from work, I met Hendrik in the hallway, with an enormous bunch of flowers. They are lovely! So far I like my 29th birthday, think I will do it again next year

Edit 11:50h: Just spoke with my sister, they are placing our new curtains now. I soo wish I could just take a quick peek to see how it looks. In the store there were only small pieces of fabric. What if it looks horrible. *is slightly nervous*

Today I got the results from my MRI scan and blood tests. The blood test was ok, nothing special. They only found that I do have the genetic factor associated with Bechterews dissease, but I knew that already (it has also been tested in ‘99). But since I have had lower backpains since ‘98-’99 and the x-ray was ok last year the chances of me having/getting Bechterew are slim to none.
The MRI was also ok, the doctor had expected to see some of the intervertebral disc touching the spinal marrow, but there was nothing to see. He did think that he saw bone where it shouldn’t be, but after a double check of the x-ray it was probably nothing. He still thinks that my pains are explained by the intervertebral discs thing, and that it hasn’t avanced enough to be visible on the MRI. So now I have a reverral for therapy, I hope it works. He also gave me some new painkillers, so hopefully I can sleep a bit more tonight.

I’ve been a total scatterbrain today. This morning I could sleep in a bit, because of an hospital appointment at 9.00 AM. I set the alarm at 7.15 AM so I could do some housekeeping before leaving. Took the sheets from the bed and put them in the washer, made my lunch and some other small stuff. In the end I even ended up hurrying to get in the hospital on time.

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Hey… what’s this?? A draft post from a while back *s*
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SiL and baby are home from the hospital, both healthy and happy

Marnix is a cute boy, though very small. It’s so strange, he is the same lenght as my niece Evelyne had when se was born, but in my mind Evelyne was much bigger. I suppose it was the whole sonde feeding and machines around him, which made him seem so tiny.

Today is also BiL birthday, but they are not going to really celebrate it. So I offered to make them a pie. Which I am still busy with, because the first attempt broke in a zillion pieces. Grmbls. I managed to get the dough neatly in the pie form (a silicon one), got the pie form with dough and support filling in the oven, which is quite an adventure with a flexible form, took it out after 20 min to take the support filling out, got the still flexible half done pie bottom back in the oven, all without breaking the damn thing. Then when it was done and I took it out to let it cool before putting the cream in, the damn thing slipped out of my hands and fell in a zillion pieces. Argh!! Ah well, at least the cream had turned out very good, I’ve experimented some with lemon rasp

So instead of spending tomorrow at home relaxing and getting my biological clock used to the summer time, we are going to visit BiL and SiL in Delfzijl. Yesterday evening we became aunt and uncle from a 3000g little boy called Marnix. He was born almost a month too early, with a C-section after they had tried a vacuum pump three times. But mother and baby are ok!

Good thing that I got the 10 days basket I was preparing already done. I just need to wrap the last two gifts.

Two posts in just as many days, I must be sick

But anyways, I went to do some sports tonight, my colleague here in Germany has a second job (for one night a week) in a sports studio. And she said that I could come and execise there. So for the last three weeks I have taken my sports stuff with me, and in two of them I’ve done some actual working out. Tonight was really tough, I think I set the level of the bike a bit too high, because after 8 minutes I was already sweating and panting like crazy, and I had really troubles making it through the entire work out which lasted 30 minutes (+ 5 min cool down) After biking I didn’t really feel like doing some back and stomach exercises, so instead I headed for the sauna. In the sauna my nose started to itch, so I scratched it. Next thing I knew, almost my entire right hand was covered in blood… The heat from the sauna probably stopped it immediately, because after that itch no new blood came, but it was a bit scary for a moment.

Now sleep, and tomorrow wieder an die Arbeit.

For the last couple of months (since October 2008) I have spent most of my work weeks in a hotel. Before I used to drive back and forth, but when you’re having meetings till at least 18.00-19.00 and start early in the morning, driving home would mean getting up in the morning, drive 1.30h to Wesel, work till 19.00-20.00, drive 1.30h back, eat and sleep. Next day, same routine. With me kissing the guide rail with my car almost one evening driving back, because of me being extremely tired, not such a good idea… So instead I am in a hotel from Monday till Thursday, the first couple of weeks we stayed in the Welcome Hotel, then one week in the Hotel Kaiserhof, one week in a shabby place in Bocholt, because all hotels in and surrounding Wesel were booked, Hotel Schwung…, back to the Welcome, Kaisershof, and now one week in Hotel Haus Duden

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Sometimes it’s just hard to believe that sports is good for you. Two weeks ago my sister and I started with Pilates lessons again, the first time gave me muscle ages for 5 days, the second time for 4, and now I already know that tomorrow morning I will be in agony. Even my fingers are already tingling with the anticipation of pain. Never knew a human body had so many different stomach muscles, and all of them can hurt at the same time…

But I already feel some results, my muscles get stronger. And if we continue I might even end up with that trained body I would like to have. Pilates is very good for the “problem zones” or so they say.

This weekend was one of sleeping, reading and relaxing (and the laundry of course )

Today I baked a lot of cookies, I made cocos-fruit cookies, chocolate-pecan cookies and jelly cookies. All starting from scratch. They turned out pretty well, if I may say I’m taking them to Germany Wednesday, to keep the spirit up during the test phase.

Work wise a lot of things happened in the past couple of weeks, but more about that later.