WOW what a night. Sitting at a crabby seat at the front row, barely being able to see Per and Marie perform "Wish I could fly" during the first part of the evening. But with the second part, we just stood and walked nearer to the stage (as did MANY others) and there was nothing security could do about it, except for keeping their walking route free of fans. WOW what a night! Marie was performing SO much better than she did a week before, 07-11 in Antwerp (Belgium). Per used the walkway, Marie sang a part of the famous Beatles "Hey Jude" during the Look. They extended some more and it was just fantastic to be there! After the show, since we were parked far, far away and there was a traffic jam to get off the parking, we decided we should check where Roxette's van would depart from. With some small talk to some security guys, we were told we found the right spot to wait :) There were only 5 of us, Eva, Joyce, myself and two German girls. Then, we saw the van and Marie was sitting in front. They came, slowly passed us by and drove on... I could not run but with Eva in the lead, the others quickly followed. The van stopped and was put in reverse! We were pumped with Roxette adrenaline and we were so high we felt we could fly... When the van came backwards, Eva had to jump aside... :) The PA (personal assistant) opened the front door, which almost went with the wind! Marie came out to meet and greet with us for a while and we could take a picture with her. She was soooo sweet!!! When I told her that I thought her show was way better than the one last week, she rubbed my hand (since I was shaking hers to thank her) and asked if I really meant it. And yeah, she was feeling a bit better and was glad we noticed. After some hugs with Marie, she quickly went into the van (before the wind would take her far and away). But they all gave out signatures, all but Chris who was too busy shooting YouTube viddeo's for Per and he also made some pictures of us (wonder if he could send them to me haha). So maybe we'll be on the wwwgyllenetidercom YouTube channel soon :) You never know... I'll keep checking it though, since I was standing right before Chris because I was asking Per if he had any spare guitar pics ;) Oh I really got my new shot of Roxette drug again and I now realize HOW MUCH I missed it all these years... I am not able to attend any more shows (money and work wise). Sobs.... But I will go to Rotterdam with Joyce and meet up with Eva on Tuesday :) Let's relive the night to remember at the Proms...
WOW!
Thanks for a wonderful evening. Thanks to: Per Gessle, Marie Fredriksson, Jonas Isacsson, Pelle Alsing, Clarence Öfwerman & Christopher Lundquist, A.K.A ROXETTE!
Yes, I am still alive… Even though it’s been ages since my last blog. I have been quite busy with my new job and other stuff, been ill with the Mex Flu and I just haven’t had the time or energy to blog. But, well, here I am again.
Much has happened since my last blog about dear, sweet and silly writer Anton Strout. And last I wrote before that was that we were getting ready to celebrate George’s birthday. It was Friday, October 9th, when we got together with some friends. We first hadn’t planned to celebrate George’s birthday, or only with some family. But when friends contact you and ask if they’re welcome to celebrate, we just can’t say no, can we?!? So it took some more arranging than we thought at first, but we managed. A dear friend of mine made us a very special cake for George. It was one with delicious boobs! And when George got it on Saturday morning, he was quite surprised. But he had to wait till there were more party people before he was allowed to cut the cake. It really tasted very, very good! Since we had planned to go bowling with some friends prior to George’s birthday, but it got cancelled, we planned to go bowling with some family and friends. We also ate there. That way, I did not have to cook for everyone :) The bowling was OK, the lanes a tad slow though, and the food was delicious. I still need to upload some pictures that were made during the evening and day. So I will try to share with you in a while. I am currently uploading some Hallowhedon pictures to my photobucket (though you might have seen them at my facebook profile…).
The weekend was a blast and a success. Thanks to all the friends and family who came and helped!
After that, I had to work and get further into it. I still had and have a lot to learn, but I will manage and I do believe I am getting better at several things (which should be so as well! otherwise, something would be wrong).
And then, Hallowhedon (you might have seen the countdown timer on my profile for a while, which is now set for Hallowhedon 2) came! Finally! I did have to work on Thursday evening, but then mum and Joyce came to pick me up from my work (I had all the bags ready before going to work) and we went to Nijmegen. We slept there and we had the first train to depart from Nijmegen towards Utrecht. There we had to skip the train and head for another one that would take us to Schiphol Airport. There we met with Yvonne and went to check in. Hallowhedon here we come!
We had to wait for a while, our plain left late… But we were in time to catch the bus that would take us to Heathrow where we had to skip to another bus that would take us to the Thistle Hotel where the event would take place.
We were very tired but all had gone well. The weekend really rocked and once I have some pictures online I will try to blog about the Hallowhedon weekend here.
There is one downside to the Hallowhedon weekend: I got the Mex flu. Got sick on Sunday afternoon and felt like shit, really bad and a fever that was almost melting me. Even when we entered Schiphol again, I got stopped and asked where I came from. Seems I had a big tomato red head. So the week after Hallowhedon, I was sick and ill and in bed.
Called on Friday that I would go to work again on Monday. Got called back on Satrurday, asked if I was sure… Yeah, I felt better so, why not? That Saturday evening, November 7th already, the three of us went to Antwerp. And when we finally got there, we almost departed a few minutes after arriving. George was pissed. And even though I understood him, I also got pissed because he was spoiling the evening. When we finally did find a parking spot, we went to get something to eat. Just across from where the “Night of the Proms” was being held. Even though it tasted good, it was a rip off! I had to pay almost double of what I usually need to pay when ordering the exact same thing in the Netherlands. I was quite pissed at the guy and called him a thief… He also tried to keep the change, which George “saved” in time. So I wasn’t all that wrong about the dude. I mean, when you can order pizza’s with 3 different toppings for 10 euros, you won’t expect a Margarita (just the tomato sauce, cheese and some herbs) to cost the exact same thing! A total grrrrr moment!
We were supposed to go with Eva and Iwan, friends of us. But they couldn’t make it and another person would take their place. Since Joyce had the tickets, Eva had given the stupid cow my number so she could contact me IN TIME so we could set a time for a meet-up so they could take over the tickets. But that stupid cow thought it OK just to let me know I needed to be at the entrance for her when she thought she would arrive. EXCUSE ME! I don’t need anything from you, you need something from me! So why should I be your gopher??? And then, we did wait for almost 25 minutes and still, no cow… So we went to our seats and we found out cow was almost 40 minutes later than she promised us. Nope, she did not let us know and we saw like 4000 people passing in the mean time (it was sold out with 15.000 tickets!!!). And when Joyce told her it was definitely not done not to contact us sooner, she blamed Eva for telling her it was best just to call me when she got there… YEAH SURE! Eva knows me since 1994 and knows I want things settled BEFORE and not just before… I was really pissed and she reminded me a lot of Miss Piggy though… Same looks and same attitude!
HAHAHA well, this one, but a bit different :)
But all who know Miss Piggy and her attitude can quite understand why I make this comparison.
But the evening was quite fun. The music was good and it was great to see Per and Marie on stage together again (though I was lucky enough to see them from the front row in Amsterdam, May 6th 2009). I made some vids but they are from far, faaar away. Hopefully I can make some new and better vids next Saturday evening. Then Eva IS coming with Joyce and me (since we got her the ticket for her birthday) to the NOPT show in Arnhem.
Peeps, I am getting hungry! Better call George to check when he’ll be back :)
Today I have been chatting on FaceBook with the author of books from the Simon Canderous series: Dead to me & Deader still. The third book is still in the works and will come out February 23rd 2010: Dead Matter. I have already placed the pre-order and Anton promised to make my copy a signed one. For those of you who know me well, know that I’m really thrilled and ecstatic! I love books and especially signed ones. Makes me feel more connected when I am reading it all. I already have signed books by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden and this will be my first Anton Strout signed copy :) Whoohoo!
For more information about Anton and his books, I collected some websites for you all to check out and enjoy:
I also have some links for his books on Amazon.com:
If you enjoy reading fantasy novels, if you loved watching series like “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel” and if you like some good humor in your book: check these books out! They’re worth the read and I promise you’ll come back for more!
I'm back with a small update. Will try to write more asap but seeing the weekend's not over yet, I am still kinda busy... But I am taking a few minutes for my own now and will try to send a small update now.
Work went ok on Thursday and Friday. It were long days and they took a lot of energy from me. I had to work from 12:30 till 21 on Thursday and from 7 till 17 on Friday. After that I had to rush home and get some stuff prepped for that evening and the following weekend. Seeing some dear friends would come over for fun, games, bowling, drinks and also for cake seeing we would celebrate George's birthday. He didn't know it but Joyce, mum and I had been planning it for some weeks now. George mever really liked to organise anything for his birthday. Last year Joyce and I got some friends together to celebrate and now we invited some family as well. So on Friday, when the friends had arrived and George (very grumpy George) had finally gone to bed, we could start decorating. Blowing up the balloons (or releasing them before tying the knot haha) and hanging the flags. We were pretty busy for some time but in the end it was really worth it.
I had already spoken with a dear friend of mine who loves to make cakes. I had transferred her the money and she made a lovely titty cake for George.
Ow my battery is dying so I gotta send this off now. TTFN and I'll be back!
It's me again. I'm home alone since Joyce is working and George is still busy at his Energy 2009 thingie. So it's only me and Chance now. And I'm watching DVD while typing this blog post on my phone.
The first two days at my new job are behind me now. It's so different from what I was used to do. But it's very interesting and I'm hoping that I will know all the names of the different sorts of bread soon. I did remember a few this morning so maybe some more again tomorrow morning. On Thursday I'l have to work the afternoon-evening shift so I can experience the closing and cleaning up of the departement. Tomorrow I'll have to get up at 6 again for another early start. But I know what I'll have to do. That is, if it's the same as it was this morning.
*Chance interruption: she puts one of her tow toys in front of me on the couch so I may throw it ahgain... So I threw it and now she almost knocks my cell phone out of my hands while returning her toy... OK back to writing again*
This morning I had to slice all the bread (with a machine) and bag and label them. I had to put bread in the big oven and also in the smaller one. And of course, I had to get the bread out and put new unbaked bread back in. I had never worked with such a big oven before so it was a bit awkward for me at first. But I got better at it after a few times. I had to put all the unbaked brwad out of the freezer and prep the carts for tomorrow. That way, everything is standing ready when we need to start tomorrow. I cleaned up after all the slicing was done, breadcrumbs everywhere. But not after I got finished. I cleaned some breadboxes which are used in the store so the customers can get their own bread as they please. Connie had already started cleaning before she went home so I finished it up. Then I had to go on reading in the information folders about the bread/cheese/meat for bread departements. When I was finished it was a quarter to three. Nathalie asked if I could help and do the 15 o'clock check for her. It was a bit difficult since I did not know where everything was but when she was finished we finished the checking together which put me a bit more at ease. Then it was time to go home again. My log card still isn't working. Hopefully it will work tomorrow.
Driving the scooter is, since I slay under it a few years ago, still a bit scary for me. When I rode this morning, there was a light rainfall and it was frakking dark. I could not use my wide beam since there were cars every now and then and I did not want to blind them. But I drove easy and it did go OK. The way back I almost had to kick a frakking stupid boy (around 14 years old I guess) of his bike. I honked that I wanted to pass him and his little buddy. And instead of giving me the space he just went on pretending it was too hard to just let me pass. Frakking schoolkids...
Ah well, since I drank about 2 liters of nice warm tea since I came bak home, I wil send of this blog post and head tor the toilet.
Sorry if some things weren't in correct English, I dunno all the correct names for the stuff I am working with. Hope I did discribe them well...
I'll keep you posted!
Ow and I am looking forward to this weekend: dining and bowling with some dear friends and family members. Wednesday the 14th I'll finally receive my new splint at the dentist. Hope this one'll work better than the NTI one... Just another week and then I'll know...
I am writing this while waiting for my mum to get back from her therapy at the hospital. It's been quite a busy week even though I did manage to relax every now and then.
Last weekend two dear friends came to visit. We decided it'd be fun to go bowling (and ever since long before my surgery I had to quit bowling and it would be my first time on the lane again). Allthough we did fool one of our friends she needed to bring her bathingsuit haha. We fooled around till we went to the bowling alley. But first I made everyone a nice dinner in my WOK. And I myself had a microwave meal haha... The next day I would make my "famous" pastasause to be served with pasta, of course...
Ah well, the girls played some Wii Mario Racing while I was in the kitchen preparing their meal. After dinner we walked with Chance before heading out to our lane. We had one lane for 1,5 hours. It was really fun and we all had a great time. After bowling we went home, got into our PJ's and played PS3 SingStar. Even George joined in! I think he loved that he was albe to sit anywhere he pleased now that we have our wireless microphones. It's so much easier than the old wired ones... We also played a whole lot of PS3 Buzz! Games. Joyce and I had bought new batteries since the old ones were slowly dying on us. And that is very frustrating when you're in the middle of a game and your controller gives up on you...
Owww thinking about playing games with my friends.... We really should get the dancemat and Raving Rabbids out more often! It was sooooo funny....
Ow and after dinner on Saturday, my friends filled in my new "Snowwhite and the 7 dwarfs" friendshipbook. It made one of them cry with tears of laugher. It was soooo funny... What do you like to become when you grow up? Haha... We are grown up... Well... Almost...
I have watched a lot of DVDs during the week. And yesterday I have been to the dentist, yes, once again. I had to bite in wax so they could make dental impressions for the new splint I am getting (since the professor kinda killed the old one and tried to get me insane as well...). I am very bad in giving those impressions. It's hard to explain in English since I am not sure on how all the stuff is called. But any of you who has had braces or other dental work done might know the drill. They have special "spoons" that fit around your upper and lower teeth. They make a special paste that goes into that spoon. The spoon goes inside your mouth and they press it hard upon your teeth. But my problem is the paste that's too much and goes to the back of your throat. That makes me want to vomit. A whole lot! And I am told my spit-production (dunno how else to call it) is running wild when needed. So they had to do a lot of suction there as well. I kept them busy... Anyway... All the impressions and stuff came out perfect. Now I have two dates which I need to discuss at my new job on Monday. On one of these two I need to go back to the dentist for the fitting of my new splint. So when I know that on Monday, I will e-mail my dentist and it'll get settled. I will not get a NTI splint like I had before. I will get another one that will fit over my complete upper teeth. Now I'll have to wait and see...
Ah well, mum should be ready in a few minutes so I will send off this blog now.
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