What The F@%^

Last Thursday when we came back from Lakeside there were two police cars sitting on the side of our street. One with blue flashing lights on, the other parked in front of our house. Tonight when I sat down to read a bit online, I heard some noise outside and had a look out the window, guess what I saw:

The police car again


Read the text on the side

Now what the hell is going on? I wish they would inform us, just to get all the spooky thoughts out of our heads. People start to imagine things don’t they, and I’d really like to know what happened. The police car is now driving around the block, there is one car on the left, parked with his lights on and the crime scene car is sitting there still with his engine running.
A guy came out of the car earlier, carrying some metal plates, talking to someone over the phone and then walking towards the police car. I didn’t see which house he went into unfortunately. He is now sitting in the van, light on, scribbling something down in a notebook…
Total suspense.
I’ve never seen anything like this, worse thing was a firetruck in front of my house in Amsterdam, with a fireman peeking thru my window, telling me not to worry but yeah there was a fire next door. I’ve never seen a crime scene team in real life, just the shows on tv actually, which I find quite interesting btw. So this is all new to me. I prefer watching the foxes near the park at night to be honest…

xMas Shopping

I’m getting tired of xMas shopping. We have been out all evening on Tuesday and tonight wandering around a big shopping mall called Lakeside. I found most of the presents and only need to get a few bits and pieces here and there. 14 People that we need to think off and I didn’t even include the extra people that I bought some things for… It’s always a drag really unless you know the person so well that you don’t need to think of things to buy.
I ordered stuff online, did research online most of today so I could pick it up in the evening. I found cheaper and much better deals online so had to take back stuff to the store and try to get my money back to go buy it elsewhere. I found a nice gift set for the same amount of money and wanted to get this instead of just a tiny little box with one gift. The woman who helped me on Tuesday was very grumpy anyway so I was glad I could take it back and make a scene to get my money back. Unfortunately she wasn’t there and two other most extremely kind women helped us out and gave us another good deal.
Next year I will do things in a different fashion. I will buy stuff when I see it and hide it till it’s xMas so the stress will be less. Just put it in a box and leave it there till it’s time to wrap. It could be nice because you will probably forget what you bought over a period of a year anyway, so perhaps it’s better to wrap it straight away. Surprises would be bigger when it’s time to open them. I think this would be a good strategy. Let’s see if I can get it to work…