So, all 36 Christmas cards have been made and sent except for one that we'll deliver ourselves this Saturday when we're going to the Christmas dinner of Matthijs' former student flat. There was a lot of cutting and gluing involved, mostly serial work, but we managed to avoid prefabricated cards.

The next couple of days is going to be busy, or at least they feel busy. Today work, this evening jazz. Tomorrow work, hopefully picking up the Lex photobook from the presser, going to Dorestad 1493, sleeping over at Laurens' place. Saturday going back to Enschede again, shopping for Christmas presents (in a crowded, filled with Germans, town.. yay), Christmas dinner until early in the morning. Sunday sleeping like a log and in the evening back to Utrecht for the musical We will rock you. Courtesy of Matthijs' cousin. Then two normal work days and on Wednesday we'll try to visit 7 (!) houses in Amersfoort.

So far we haven't found Our New House yet among the 9 we've seen from the inside. Either the garden is too small or the house is too small or the interior is weird. Perhaps we're just being too picky, but you have to live there at least 5 years to make it worthwhile so it'd better be good. After these 7 houses we've almost seen all houses in our target neighborhood, so let's hope that we'll have a hit this time. And then the whole mess of financing business, examination, etc. starts. Pfff.. I can't wait to get to the point of redecorating the house and I just don't want to think about the steps before that.

Christmas will be the next logistic operation. First to my mother and her girlfriend, then to Matthijs' mother, next is Matthijs' father, somewhere in between perhaps my grandparents and then my father. In two days.... I truly hope that at the days themselves it will feel more relaxed than I feel about it now. After that I have 5 days off from work and for New Year we haven't planned anything yet. We're not inviting people because nobody would show up anyway (history proofs it) and I'm tired of feeling rejected. We've been invited by Joost so we might drop by there. Or perhaps I can invite my brother for dinner and Arkham Horror. I don't know... I just don't have the whole holiday vibe yet (hell, we don't even have any Christmas decoration in our house yet..).