And after that busiest week of the year came another busy week, with two nights filled with a cappella music in the theater and lots of other activities. Meanwhile, my "to do" list has grown and is not really shortening yet...
But, today, I've finally planted strawberry plants in our garden, I've been to the travel agency to get some travel brochures (wheee! :D) and I enjoyed the beautiful weather! It's just a pity my energy level is a little low, else I could already have written two concert reviews, finished my choirs website and finally cleaned the windows...
I think reviving the blog is being continued in May ;)
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Boring?
I still don't know the word 'boring'. The past week has been a good example of that. I decided I could write about it in this blog, which I hope to revive the coming time. With so many different things I do during the week, there should be enough to write about, right?
So here's an overview of last week:
Saturday Dutch Festival for Vocal Ensembles. I spent the complete day in Almelo, heard/saw many groups and filmed the performances of VPS KeK and Drienerlalala. Also loved Pur Sang, the Groove Factory, Dutchmen, Fem@il. Unfortunately I couldn't hear Hifive, who won the festival.
Sunday Started editing (cutting) video material (VPS KeK) and visited a concert of Amusing in the afternoon, which was fun. Filmed their performance as well. At night I can't sleep, my head is full of music. I decide I could make a teaser video for VPS KeK. Suddenly my mind is clear and I know exactly how I want it to be. After that I fall asleep.
Monday My day off from work. Thrilled about this review. Spent most of the day behind the computer, making a teaser video for VPS KeK. Making the video was pretty simple and I finished it a lot sooner than I expected. To read the comments on Facebook was a lot of fun and I kept checking their brand new Facebook page and saw the amount of fans grow. In between I cleaned the bathroom.... housekeeping..... *sigh*.
Tuesday Looong day at work. I started at 8.30. First I wrote an evaluation report for one of 'my' kids, then I installed the printer, that's been waiting to be installed for over a year, on the kids computer, and installed some plugins (finally we can watch YouTube on the old thing!) and watched this video with them. The rest of the afternoon I worked with the kids as usual. I had dinner at work, because I had to do a presentation in the evening and traveling home and back again takes too much time. I was pretty nervous for the presentation, which I shouldn't have been because all went well. Got home at 22.30, tired but satisfied.
Wednesday Another day at work. In the morning there was a social skills training with the kids. In the afternoon an evaluation with my trainee and her teacher from school. In the evening I was more than tired and did nothing but checking mail, facebook and cutting some videos (Drienerlalala).
Thursday Partyday. Followed workshops djembe and salsa with my colleagues. Despite the enormous cost reduction my organization is facing there's money to pay this.... Loved the workshops though ;) Normally Thursday night is choir rehearsal night, but it got canceled because of our director being ill. So instead I redesigned the website for VPS KeK. Always nice to do some designing with Photoshop.
Friday A very normal day at work which ended with frustration because the computer system we use is so damn stupid!! After a year, I still can't use it without facing problems. The interface is the most customer unfriendly I've ever seen.
And now? Friday night... I'm waiting to get hungry. Then, I'll do some cooking and tonight will probably be filled with more webdesign, or video editing, or maybe we'll watch a movie in our home cinema (we haven't even done that yet this week!). Or I'll write another blog post, about music, computers, websites, something like that. Sometimes I wonder whether or not I chose the right profession. On the other hand, when my job would be filled with music, computers, video editing, webdesign, my life would get boring, wouldn't it? Working with my kids gives me the perfect variation I like.
Let's see if my honey is getting hungry. He's upstairs right now. Cutting video material ;-) And I can hear him singing.
*sigh. I love my life*
Maybe he'll even cook today?
So here's an overview of last week:
Saturday Dutch Festival for Vocal Ensembles. I spent the complete day in Almelo, heard/saw many groups and filmed the performances of VPS KeK and Drienerlalala. Also loved Pur Sang, the Groove Factory, Dutchmen, Fem@il. Unfortunately I couldn't hear Hifive, who won the festival.
Sunday Started editing (cutting) video material (VPS KeK) and visited a concert of Amusing in the afternoon, which was fun. Filmed their performance as well. At night I can't sleep, my head is full of music. I decide I could make a teaser video for VPS KeK. Suddenly my mind is clear and I know exactly how I want it to be. After that I fall asleep.
Monday My day off from work. Thrilled about this review. Spent most of the day behind the computer, making a teaser video for VPS KeK. Making the video was pretty simple and I finished it a lot sooner than I expected. To read the comments on Facebook was a lot of fun and I kept checking their brand new Facebook page and saw the amount of fans grow. In between I cleaned the bathroom.... housekeeping..... *sigh*.
Tuesday Looong day at work. I started at 8.30. First I wrote an evaluation report for one of 'my' kids, then I installed the printer, that's been waiting to be installed for over a year, on the kids computer, and installed some plugins (finally we can watch YouTube on the old thing!) and watched this video with them. The rest of the afternoon I worked with the kids as usual. I had dinner at work, because I had to do a presentation in the evening and traveling home and back again takes too much time. I was pretty nervous for the presentation, which I shouldn't have been because all went well. Got home at 22.30, tired but satisfied.
Wednesday Another day at work. In the morning there was a social skills training with the kids. In the afternoon an evaluation with my trainee and her teacher from school. In the evening I was more than tired and did nothing but checking mail, facebook and cutting some videos (Drienerlalala).
Thursday Partyday. Followed workshops djembe and salsa with my colleagues. Despite the enormous cost reduction my organization is facing there's money to pay this.... Loved the workshops though ;) Normally Thursday night is choir rehearsal night, but it got canceled because of our director being ill. So instead I redesigned the website for VPS KeK. Always nice to do some designing with Photoshop.
Friday A very normal day at work which ended with frustration because the computer system we use is so damn stupid!! After a year, I still can't use it without facing problems. The interface is the most customer unfriendly I've ever seen.
And now? Friday night... I'm waiting to get hungry. Then, I'll do some cooking and tonight will probably be filled with more webdesign, or video editing, or maybe we'll watch a movie in our home cinema (we haven't even done that yet this week!). Or I'll write another blog post, about music, computers, websites, something like that. Sometimes I wonder whether or not I chose the right profession. On the other hand, when my job would be filled with music, computers, video editing, webdesign, my life would get boring, wouldn't it? Working with my kids gives me the perfect variation I like.
Let's see if my honey is getting hungry. He's upstairs right now. Cutting video material ;-) And I can hear him singing.
*sigh. I love my life*
Maybe he'll even cook today?
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Still here
I'm still here, don't worry. Just a bit busy. June is a pretty full month this year. Our vocal festival Amusing Hengelo took place last weekend and it was fantastic. Due to this festival though, I didn't have time to finish the review I'm writing about the a cappella festival in Dortmund, which was also absolutely fantastic. I hope to finish writing it today. It's a bit hard, because my notes are too short and not so clear, and I decided to write in German which goes a little slower than English or Dutch. I'll have to dig my memory for the final details. After that I still have to select, edit and add lots of pictures, which I'm already looking forward to :) Maybe I can upload the review tomorrow...
The coming weeks we have planned two small a-cappella-concert-trips to Germany and I'm still doubting if we want to make three of it. Our summer holiday is also coming closer and we still have to think of a sunny, warm destination we want to visit. It's probably going to be a last-minute flight to somewhere south, I guess. Tips and ideas are welcome. Keywords: non-touristic, peaceful, nature, scary-disease-free and I prefer not to fly too long...
The coming weeks we have planned two small a-cappella-concert-trips to Germany and I'm still doubting if we want to make three of it. Our summer holiday is also coming closer and we still have to think of a sunny, warm destination we want to visit. It's probably going to be a last-minute flight to somewhere south, I guess. Tips and ideas are welcome. Keywords: non-touristic, peaceful, nature, scary-disease-free and I prefer not to fly too long...
Friday, March 13, 2009
Just a little update
So what's new? Not much actually. We still have to find and buy chairs. We still have to stain the banisters. And we still have to connect the DVD-player to the TV, which is most important *cough*, because there are three (!) very nice a cappella DVD's coming up this year and I want to have them all and be able to watch them ;)
New is, that I found out how to take a shower without leaking water! The doors of our shower cabin are a bit weird, but I finally discovered how to close them properly! Very useful indeed.
I'm busy at work, because I have to catch up for the time I took off in January and I'm also doing a course about first aid and stuff. Today I learned how to revive somebody and next week I'm going to put out a fire. Also very useful.
Our free time is mostly filled with a cappella music, in many ways. Kin' de Lele is playing over and over again in the CD player and when I don't hear it I practice the "wa p t ba da da t ba ba chi ki ba tsao" from the Real Group (Chili con carne). I have to learn some songs by heart, because there are two concerts coming up with my choir with new repertoire. Besides this, I somehow planned to visit six concerts within four weeks (which is too much, but so much fun), I wrote one review and have to write another one this weekend.
In the mean time I've read 'The Kite Runner', which is a book I could hardly put down. A moving, but beautiful story! New reading tips are very welcome!
And now it's time for the weekend... in which we will also fill in the tax papers. Wish us luck!
New is, that I found out how to take a shower without leaking water! The doors of our shower cabin are a bit weird, but I finally discovered how to close them properly! Very useful indeed.
I'm busy at work, because I have to catch up for the time I took off in January and I'm also doing a course about first aid and stuff. Today I learned how to revive somebody and next week I'm going to put out a fire. Also very useful.
Our free time is mostly filled with a cappella music, in many ways. Kin' de Lele is playing over and over again in the CD player and when I don't hear it I practice the "wa p t ba da da t ba ba chi ki ba tsao" from the Real Group (Chili con carne). I have to learn some songs by heart, because there are two concerts coming up with my choir with new repertoire. Besides this, I somehow planned to visit six concerts within four weeks (which is too much, but so much fun), I wrote one review and have to write another one this weekend.
In the mean time I've read 'The Kite Runner', which is a book I could hardly put down. A moving, but beautiful story! New reading tips are very welcome!
And now it's time for the weekend... in which we will also fill in the tax papers. Wish us luck!
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Keine Sorgen, mich gibt's noch...
...bin nur ein bisschen müde. Zu müde zum Bloggen.
Ich könnte erzählen von der netten Halloween Party am letzten Samstag, bei der ich das Draculaspiel gewonnen habe, oder vom Bummeln in verschiedenen Möbelladen, auf der Suche nach Inspiration, von der neuen Übersetzungsarbeit für unsere Festivalwebseite, die irgendwie nie fertig ist, von der normalen Arbeit, die auch immer weiter geht, von meiner neuen "Mission", ein niederländisches Theater zu finden das meine letzte deutsche A-Cappella-Entdeckung buchen wird, vom neuen Facebook-Account, wo ich schon 14 Freunde habe *g*, oder von der Erwägung, vielleicht mal Dänisch zu lernen.
Aber nein, heute Abend mache ich's mir gemütlich auf dem Couch mit eine Tasse Tee. Ich erzähl euch ein anderes Mal mal wieder mehr.
Ich könnte erzählen von der netten Halloween Party am letzten Samstag, bei der ich das Draculaspiel gewonnen habe, oder vom Bummeln in verschiedenen Möbelladen, auf der Suche nach Inspiration, von der neuen Übersetzungsarbeit für unsere Festivalwebseite, die irgendwie nie fertig ist, von der normalen Arbeit, die auch immer weiter geht, von meiner neuen "Mission", ein niederländisches Theater zu finden das meine letzte deutsche A-Cappella-Entdeckung buchen wird, vom neuen Facebook-Account, wo ich schon 14 Freunde habe *g*, oder von der Erwägung, vielleicht mal Dänisch zu lernen.
Aber nein, heute Abend mache ich's mir gemütlich auf dem Couch mit eine Tasse Tee. Ich erzähl euch ein anderes Mal mal wieder mehr.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Überdosis a cappella
Ich mag dieses Wochenende. Es gab die Premiere der neuen Rock4-Show, es gab einen Auftritt eines tollen Chores mit einer Afterparty mit unseren Freunden von Stimmrecht! Zwei Abenden spät ins Bett gekommen, weil wir uns verquatscht haben und an beiden Abenden als letzte das Theater verließen... Es war, vor allem bei der Premiere, wie ein A-Cappella-Treffen mit vielen A Cappella Freunden. Richtig toll!
Und jetzt gibt es eine menge Arbeit. Ein Konzertbericht und eine Rezension sollte noch geschrieben werden. Plus einer "Zwischenumbau" meiner Seite. Ja, denn der große Make-Over wird es doch noch nicht ganz bald geben, dafür haben wir im Moment wegen Umzug und so zu wenig Zeit. Ich habe mich aber eine Zwischenlösung ausgedacht, die nicht so ganz viel Arbeit kostet. Es ist die höchste Zeit, meine Seite jetzt täglich an zu schauen, denn die Änderungen sollten bald sichtbar sein.
Vielen Dank noch an die Zeitumstellung auf Winterzeit. Schade aber, dass es nur eine Stunde extra Zeit ist, ich brauche mehr!
*weiterwusel* und immer noch *hibbelisch* :D
Und jetzt gibt es eine menge Arbeit. Ein Konzertbericht und eine Rezension sollte noch geschrieben werden. Plus einer "Zwischenumbau" meiner Seite. Ja, denn der große Make-Over wird es doch noch nicht ganz bald geben, dafür haben wir im Moment wegen Umzug und so zu wenig Zeit. Ich habe mich aber eine Zwischenlösung ausgedacht, die nicht so ganz viel Arbeit kostet. Es ist die höchste Zeit, meine Seite jetzt täglich an zu schauen, denn die Änderungen sollten bald sichtbar sein.
Vielen Dank noch an die Zeitumstellung auf Winterzeit. Schade aber, dass es nur eine Stunde extra Zeit ist, ich brauche mehr!
*weiterwusel* und immer noch *hibbelisch* :D
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