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Quickie

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Been busy and will be busy… so here’s a brief list of thoughts and events that happened this week and then I’ll be away from this blog for a while until things start to settle a bit…

  • Had interview on Monday: went well! Although a few really tough questions were hard to answer I left with a positive feeling!
  • Client asked for quote: once agreed I’ll have to design new spring collection catalogue.
  • This sad pathetic person once again checked my business website last Friday and looked for the presentation that I’ve password protected.
  • Had to get loads of groceries for my mum’s birthday and clean her house.
  • Still been bothered by a severe cold and fever and having to go out three days in a row to buy all necessary stuff for a birthday is not helping much when you should be in bed.
  • Received a phone call on Friday that I’m through to the 2nd round, there’s only two available places so in two weeks I’ll know, but getting through feels great already!
  • Received a ‘friend request’ on this business networking website from a former teacher (Graphic Design study), exchanged emails with him, he invited me to come and talk. He’s a good contact and a really great teacher so I should head over one day!
  • Received two great references from MvdM to place on the aforementioned website and my own business website.
  • Updated my portfolio on my business website with projects I’ve worked on, should update blog as well, perhaps later today after some ‘me’ time.
  • Younger bro came over and stayed all weekend. Of course I wanted to entertain my sweet 1.5 year old nephew and my 3.5 year old niece!
  • Crocheted a stuffed toy for my nephew in five hours: a cute lamb…
  • My niece named him ‘Kerrie’ (Dutch for curry *LOL*) she’s got great sense of humour!
  • Took her out for a walk today to feed the duckies, she loved it.
  • Sis-in-law wondered how I felt about having/watching a mini version of myself running around the house: I just love it! She’s too cute…
  • My Vaio laptop needed formatting/new OS: I use it to check cross-platform website design, needed it coz I’m working on one. Bro helped me out. Bloody windoze…
  • Going to start working on my business plan in a few: will start product design because after a busy week I need some wind down time for me.
  • Managed to put myself first without feeling guilty or selfish, I could suppress the urge to only make time for others. Instead I set priorities and left those things to wait.
  • Cut the Valentine’s day roses, even dried they remain gorgeous.
  • Time to get started on my product designs…

Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!

Update February 28 13:51:33: wow, at times it’s good to have tiny kids around with globs of snot. My previous annoying cold has now turned into a full-on flu and fever. One week and I’ll feel better again…

© Zesty Gal – ‘Kerrie’ a crafted gift for my cute nephew

© Zesty Gal – Still gorgeous…

A Day in Town

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Today I was supposed to meet up with the manager of the City Auditorium Ms. S. but her secretary called and canceled this morning because Ms. S. was ill. It’s been postponed till next week but I can’t deny that I was slightly disappointed because I’d been looking forward to meeting up with her and show my portfolio. In a way it’s good though because I still need to go through my folio and perhaps add some more designs that I’ve been working on lately.

I decided to go into town and check out the one and only toko here, a mainly Chinese toko that seem to stock all my favourite pastes, noodles, noodle soups, herbs, condiments and even some cool Chinese crockery. Another Aladdin’s cave to me, I couldn’t resist buying something, so I took a nice big jar of Thai green curry paste. I use this to make a chicken soup with coconut milk and rice noodles, very tasty and it only takes 20 minutes to prepare.

I also got myself a refill for my personal mini organiser mainly because I’m scatterbrained most of the time. But also because lately my desk is covered in notes jotted down on small pieces of paper: names, dates and times that suddenly seem to disappear when I need them most. This can be quite inconvenient. Especially when my nature is that of trying to be organised… scatterbrained but organised: yes that is possible, at least in my case it is *wink*.

Sooooo, I’m back to a typical Dutch habit: keeping an organiser to keep track of things because I have, what feels like, a million appointments planned. One tomorrow afternoon because my GP needs to see me and ever since I’ve spoken to her assistant I feel the need to ‘see her’ as well… It’s not going to be a civilised chat I’m afraid because I’m not happy about how she and her assistant have to approach things: I’m about to look for another GP.

More on that in another post probably… It’s been a strange week and next week is going to be even stranger… I hope in a good way! Have a beautiful weekend…

© Yummie Thai Green Curry Paste!