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Brrr... Let's find a holiday!

I just keep wining about the whether. Last sunday we had a beautiful spring day. I think it was about 20 degrees, which was just great for a day at an amusement park and for a BBQ. But the days after where just very cool again. Thursday it was like 10 degrees, which is really cold for the time of the year! Well wining about it doesn't change anything, so my friends and I decided to look for a vacation! Dreaming away with beautiful pictures of the beach, the sea and the sun, but also some mountains and green grass. Love it! Now it is up to the planning of which weeks the four of us can all have a few weeks off at work. It's going to be around the end of July or more towards the end of september beginning October. We still have to figure it out. We were having doubts about where we wanted to go, Cuba, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Thailand or a little bit more close to home with Egypt, Greece, Switzerland. We narrowed it down towards central or eastern Europe. Probably something like CYprus or Montenegro. Next week we have planned to make a visit at a travel agency. Hope we have agreement on the holiday period and we can make some decisions about the location :)

Ciao!

Ixis

Weekend with the girls

Spend a wonderful weekend with my girlfriends the last couple of days. Just old fashion fun, talking about the boys and other things, drinking wine, facial masks, roaming a bazaar, pyjama party, a little bit of shopping, good food etc. It was wonderful! We already made plans to do one again next year! I have to do much more of these fun things, with friends but also in general. Live life, and get out of it what's in it!

Ciao!
Ixis

Getting nerveous

It's been a little over three months that I started working at my new job. However, these little moments of anxiety ('am I good enough', ' am I doing it right' 'is this how it is supposed to be done'?) pop-up my mind. Tomorrow starts a new work week after having had several days off, and I am feeling a little bot nerveous. Nerveous if I live up to the expectations. Sometimes I feel like I am not learning fast enough. Parafrased: insecurity has arrived.

Ciao!
Ixis

Happy Anniversary!

Actually I am two days late! May 6th was the day I have been (more or less) blogging for two years on Ixis Ideas. A lot has changed in these two year. The most prominent changes have been written about on this blog. Graduating and trying to get my masters degree, losing my grandfather, finding a job and settling in there, buying a house en living together, losing my job, finding a new one... and so forth. Ixis Ideas has been a place for me to vent my thoughts, fears and ideas about certain topics. Not that it is a very much read blog (more like the opposite to be exact :P), but I find it to be some sort of online anonymous diary. Why online? Don't really have a clear answer on that. Yes I can use a paper diary and keep it really private. But times are changing and everything is becoming more and more digital. So apparently my diary is evolving with it. I often google 'things' and try and find something I can relate to when I don't (yet) feel like sharing in my personal environment. Maybe there are people who find this blog and read some of the posts and can relate to it as well. Happy Anniversary Ixis Ideas! Let's see what the next year will bring us.

Ciao!

Ixis

Sunscreen

Another beautiful day today. First BBQ of the year is going to be held this afternoon. I am enjoying the sun, feeling its warmth on my skin and letting it tan my wite arms and legs. To protect myself I used some sunscreen. I usually use it when I am in holiday because that is when I can enjoy the sun. So using sunscreen and smelling that smell, instantly gives me the feeling of holiday. It brings memories of sunny vacations. Love it!

Yesterday my boyfriend and I met up with a befriended couple to talk about some holiday plans. A little brainstorm about where we want to go and whether or not we might go together. But where to? We have big plans for next year. To make a trip to new york, go south to Washington, and then all the way to Miami and the Keys. Because that one is going to be quite expensive, will we do and expensive one this year? With the fortsight of maybe be out of a job by the time our USA trip is planned? Well, we are still searching. Mexico, Cuba, Maleisia, or maybe more close to home with Switserland, Montenegro (which is said to be up and coming)? Lovely to think and dream about it. I am totaly in the mood, smelling the smell of the sunscreen on my body.

Ciao!
Ixis

Queensday

Today is/was queensday in the Netherlands. A special one this year, as our queen passed on the tradition to her son. Today we got a king. A day full of tradition. The last queensday as of next year we will celebrate kingsday on April 26th (if I am right).

Ciao!
Ixis