Happy messy busy me :)

A small reminder for myself. Who else cares? ;)
Things to do tomorrow:
- Select, edit and upload pictures from Montezuma in Bonn to fanzone.montezuma.nl and to corine.located.nl
- Upload my report to corine.located.nl
- Water the plants
- Tidy up the house (or maybe later?....)
- Buy hay for McDull
- Print a route description to Bamberg
- Reply my emails
- Make hot chocolate (this may seem weird, but it's really important, because I need a picture of hot chocolate)
- Make a picture of hot chocolate
- Drink cold chocolate
- Stay just as happy as today and yesterday and the day before :D

The first wedding pictures

The pictures of the wedding itself are made by a professional photographer and we haven't seen them yet. That will take a while. But our driver made some pictures during the photoshooting and Remco made many pictures during the party in the evening. Click the picture below to see a selection of them.

Wedding

From the ABC

"W"? ;)


My friends made us an ABC-movie, which was very funny. And why Montezuma's Revenge is put under "W" ???...... complicated story.
And they probably didn't know Martin made the picture... hahahaha

Does somebody need a translation?

Thanks :)

We only need to get rid of some balloons...... ;)
We decided not to wake the neighbours at 02.30 this night hahaha.

What a great party yesterday! There'll be pictures online later this week, I guess. And if I can, I'll put a short movie online in a few weeks as well... but I can't promise that.

It's the 15th of October! Really weird; the world doesn't stop after the 14th! haha. There are plenty of things to look forward to right now. Things I haven't been thinking about yet, because everything was about the wedding during the past few weeks.

More about the wedding later.
Unforgettable!

Ich will auch!

Ein bisschen weiter nördlich bitte! Die Schweiz ist so weit weg!! Aber Neumünster ist dann doch ein bisschen zu weit nördlich.... *seufz*
Naja, auf jeden Fall ein schönes Artikel (hier zu lesen). Die Jungs muss ich echt mal wieder sehen...

Und was habe ich gestern entdeckt: Am 3.11 macht LaLeLu ein Konzert in Gronau! Das ist fast bei mir um die Ecke! Aber hingehen kann ich nicht *grrrrrr*

Naja, singen wir halt eine Runde *tsjeng*tsjeng* und pfeifen fröhlich in die Gegend herum weil das Wetter so schön ist und weil ich trotz oben genannte "verdammt-ich-kann-nicht-hingehen" verdammt glücklich bin :)
So. Und das war ein langer Satz. (Ich kanns auch lena!)

Und jetzt ins Bett. Sonst schreibe ich nur noch dummes Zeug weil ich mich langweile.

Me and my pretty shoes - III

The solution?:

More than 5 euro's.... expectations are high.

Vla - the neverending story

My story about German people and vla. Will it never end?

Summary:

- Wise Guys in Münster, March 2005: Dän brings vla for the winner of the quiz. Ferenc is the lucky one. This concert is the reason of the following events:

- Wise Guys Tanzbrunnen concert, May 2005: Martin and I bring vla for some people we know from the Wise Guys forum. Our vlaparty on the banks of the Rhein is still making us smile.

- Wise Guys forum meeting, KusS, July 2005: I bring 4 liters of vla and everybody loves me.

- Wise Guys in Wesel, December 2005: Dän brings me a signed DVD from Bodo Wartke and I give him vla. His reaction: "GEIL!!!" and he looks like a 10-year old having a birthday party.

And ever since, I can't get rid of the topic 'vla'. Right now, there even is a Grüße an alle Vla Liefhaber in the Wise Guys Forum.

And today I discoverd a website which is -for me- too funny. ProVla, a German fansite for vla hahahahahahahaha. This website is a little older, but the fact that it exists hahaha. Ok, I'm curious what will come up next.
At least, I have to make a vla delivery in Bamberg this november.
@lena: Wie viele Tetrapacken möchtest du haben?

I'm wondering if I should bring some liters for the Wise Guys as well? Would they prefer vla after the show in stead of their Kölsch? ;)

To be continued....

Me and my pretty shoes - II

I wrote "Part 1", so there should be a part 2 as well. And I've got to hurry, because there's not much time left.

I'm happy because we came up with the idea I can easily wear my old, durty but nice and most important comfortable sporting shoes under the wedding dress during the foto shooting. You won't see my shoes anyway, so why bother wearing those beautiful but uncomfortable shoes? So that means I only have to wear them from 1400 until late in the evening, instead of from 1100 until late in the evening. Three hours of feet relief. How beautiful ;)

I do practise almost daily, but my left foot seems to be a little bigger and aaaaarg, well, who cares.

How do you feel? That's a question I'm being asked a lot lately. So here's my answer: I feel great. Just great. And I feel so much in love :) I'm not nervous (yet?), I'm looking forward to the wedding so much. I'm curious what it'll feel like, to be in the spotlights all day. Well... we'll see. Just wait. Be patient.. haha

Is there a better way to start your weekend?

Imagine a long, hard day at work. You go home, tired, but really happy because it's weekend! And you are going to have a great weekend, you already know ;)
But then, your weekend gets even better! When you get home, you find an envelop on your doormat with a familiair handwriting. You recognise it as Nico Jacobs' (Rock4) handwriting and what do you do? You can't believe what you see. He's never been this quick! You only ordered this cd last Tuesday!
But things like this happen :D
He must have known it's my birtyday tomorrow ;)
And Martin is happy as well, because he didn't have a birthday present yet, and now he does. He happy + me happy = we happy!

Btw: The album is just great! I really love their music. Order it here! -->"A Night at the Opera"

Message from the busy me

I'm sorry, the English translation of the report of Montezuma's concert from last Sunday will have to wait a little longer. I'll try to write it this weekend, but I'm not sure if I can find enough time. Also, some people wrote me an email and are probably waiting for an answer, I'll write you as soon as possible. At the moment there are more important things to be done ;)
You all understand, right? :D

But, I can tell you I am feeling really, really good and happy. Life is just great!

Oh, and one more thing I want to share with you: This month, there are so many people visiting my website. Ok, it's nothing compared to big websites, but nevertheless still impressing to me. The amount of unique visitors and the number of visits has doubled this month! Why? I don't know. But I like it :D It's a pity a day only has got 24 hours. I've got so many ideas for my website: Things to write, things to add. I need time, you need patience. It'll come in time :)

Time to go to bed. Still got to catch up some sleep.
Love ya all!

Happy Birthday to me!!!!

Oooooh, I only have 30 minutes to celebrate my first birthday! I only just found out about my birthday. What a coincidence, isn't it. Well, here we go, all together now:

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me-ee, happy birthday to this blog!

Me and my pretty shoes

Part 1.

a) What a lovely day today. It felt like summer; the sun was shining, it was about 25 degrees. Time to wear shorts of course.
b) Today I got my shoes for the wedding. That means from now on I will have to practise walking on them. Although the heels are not that high, these shoes are not the type of shoes I normally wear.

Combining a) with b) makes:


Lovely, isn't it? ;)
I guess with my wedding dress it looks a little better.

To be continued...

Warum bin ich so frohlich?

Ik ben vandaag zo vrolijk

Well, that's an easy question :D
I'm happy because we were still looking for that particular 'transportation' for our wedding, and now suddenly we've got four options! Can it get any better? I don't think so :D I'm so relieved we found them!!! And now we're facing the more difficult question: Which of those four options is the best, the nicest, the most suitable one? But -as always- we'll manage!!
Can I get any happier? :D Yes I can:
Our supersecret mystery is received enthusiastically by the people who needs to cooperate with us. So that will be a succes as well, although it demands quite a lot of preparation. But, the more energy we'll put in it, the more successful we will be.
Oh, it's so nice to be mysterious. But luckily we're not the only ones, our families are organising things as well and they're not making a slip of their tongues as well.
Can I get any happier? :D Of course:
Montezuma Fanzone is going to be released in time :D I'm 100% sure of it now! And I have to admit: I'll be quite glad when it's finished, so I can concentrate a little more on the wedding.

Gedanken loswerden - third part

Ok. Here I am again. Just taking a few minutes to tell you all I'm busy, busy and busy. I need to reply some emails, but I can't find time. I want to post some messages in some blogs, but I can't find time.
It'll all be over in a few weeks (will it? haha).
In 12 days the Montezuma Fanzone needs to be running (OMG, really, just 12 more days??? AAAAH!!!!). But we'll manage, of course :D I need to do some more photoshopping, a job which can't be done hastely. And then we have to move the official forum and rebuild it to the new lay-out.... I hope it won't bring too much problems along....
And in a couple of weeks we're getting married. Final preparations need to be taken care of! Flowers are hard to choose.... I've got some books but most pictures look like the bride is carrying a complete bush around and if you know me.... you'll know it doesn't suit me at all. It needs to be small, fashionable, elegant and easy to carry. Hmmmm.... hard....

I'm so glad I visited a Wise Guys concert last Friday. Whenever I think of it these days, there's this smile on my face again. Such a concert gives me so much new energy. Oh, and I got a great idea for a kind of essay on my website about .. well, not going to tell you yet! When I've got time I'll write it. But it will be the first thing written in German on my website, oh yeah ;)
Friday was so great *sigh* *smile*

Der grosse Deutsch Test

Heute warte ich nur. Ich warte bis fünf, denn dann gehts los nach Osnabrück und sehe ich die Wise Guys endlich wieder! Ich warte und warte und weil ich hoffe das die Zeit schneller vergeht wenn ich ein bisschen TV schaue, schaue ich mir die Aufnahme von "Der grosse Deutsch Test" an, eine 2,5 Stunden dauernde Sendung von RTL. Ich hatte diese Sendung aufgenommen weil die lena so lieb war mir Bescheid zu geben. Hape Kerkeling moderiert, und das interessiert mich total, weil ich im Sommer sein Buch gelesen habe (Ich bin dann mal weg) und jetzt neugierig bin wie er im TV ist und wie seine Stimme klingt. Und außerdem könnte ich vielleicht noch etwas lernen von dieser Sendung.

Heute bekam ich dann von lena noch eine Email und sie fragte mir ob ich auch brav beim Diktat mitgeschrieben habe. Das fand ich eine sehr gute Idee. Obwohl ich nichts weiß von der neuen Deutschen Rechtschreibung (die neue Niederländische Rechtschreibung kenne ich ja auch nicht...), jetzt sitze ich hier und ich gebe meine Ergebnisse. Die Deutschen, die da mitgemacht haben, waren auch nicht so wirklich gut, deswegen traue ich mich meine Fehler mit euch zu teilen ;)

Also:
Im Diktat habe ich 8 Komma's vergessen.
Im Diktat habe ich 7 Fehler gemacht wegen Gross- und Kleinschreibung.
Und im Diktat habe ich 6 Wörter zusammen geschrieben die nicht zusammen geschrieben gehörten oder umgekehrt.
Aber diese Fehler sind mir eigentlich egal ;)

Dann gabs noch 17 Fehler in Wörter...
exzellentes, Renommee, dass, Kakerlakenfamilie, Siesta, Mäckeln, Lappalie, Diarrhö, dilettantisch, krakeelende, Putzkolonne, missverstand, landesüblicher Gecko, Schemel und phänomenal großen.

Nicht schlecht, ne? Eigentlich hatte es weniger Fehler geben können, denn manche Wörter hatte ich richtig schreiben können (dass, Siesta, Putzkolonne, landesüblicher, phänomenal, großen) wenn ich nur ein bisschen mehr Zeit gehat hätte.

Und nun interessiert es mir mal: Wie viele Fehler gibt es in diesem Bericht? ;)

So. Und jetzt dauert es nur noch eine Stunde bevor ich abreisen 'darf'. Was man nicht alles tut für die Wise Guys.....

Mister Spider

I'm so happy with our "creepy animal catcher". This spider was really huge. And who do you think was the lucky one to catch it? Me. Because Martin doesn't like spiders. But, to be honoust, I don't like this Mister Spider much as well.... iiiiiieeeeee!


Btw: On this picture he really looks smaller than in real life. Trust me, he's big.

Will it get any worse?

Today I received a letter and I started reading:

How oft do you receive information about products and services that doesn't have your interest at that time?

Ehm.... well, what am I holding in my hands right now?

Please fill in this questionnaire so we'll have a complete view of your interests and information needs. If you send the questionnaire back to us you could win a CD or maybe you win one of the other 1005 prices!

Ehm.... do they really think I'm crazy??

*sigh*

Keine Waschbären für mich

Gestern spielte Racoon bei uns in Hengelo. Das Konzert war kostenfrei, also ich musste hin. Racoon ist ein Niederländischer Band und wenn ich ihre Lieder im Radio höre, dreh ich oft richtig laut auf ;) Und das passiert bei mir nicht so oft, das ich richtig laut aufdrehe bei einem nicht-a-cappella Band.
Aber, Martin war ein bisschen krank und hatte keine Lust abends draußen zu stehen. Meine Schwiegerschwester konnte auch nicht mit und deswegen ging ich alleine. Macht doch nichts. Aber mein größter Fehler Gesternabend war, das ich pünktlich um 8 da war. Und dann gab es Vorbands.... und damit hatte ich nicht gerechnet. (ok, hätte ich ja wissen können... ich doof!!) Die beide Vorbands waren nicht so toll und nach fast anderhalb Stunden taten meine Füßen so weh vom stehen und warten das ich wieder nach Hause gegangen bin. Also, kein Racoon für mich. Ich war zu müde noch langer zu warten.

Vielleicht gibt es aber Leute in Hamburg (Nina?) oder Berlin (Jana?) die mir demnächst erzählen können wie Racoon live ist:
21.9 - Reeperbahn Festival - Hamburg
22.9 - Popkomm - Berlin
Ich glaube es wird sich echt lohnen hin zu gehen. Wäre ich gestern nicht so müde (und alleine) gewesen, hätte ich geblieben und hätte mehr erzählen können. Tut mir leid. Ich hatte mich schon ein bisschen gefreut endlich wieder ein kleines Konzertbericht schreiben zu können, aber das macht jetzt wenig Sinn haha. Aber, jetzt bleibt für heute mehr Shop-Zeit übrig. Ich brauche neue Kleider!!

I don't want a lot for Christmas....

[sing]Do you hear the sleigh bells ring? Santa is coming to town! A very merry Christmas and a happy new year! Snow is falling, all around me. Children playing, having fun. We are the world, we are the children!

*lalalala* tralalaliiiii [/sing]

Coming in the mood already? I am! YEAH!!! :D

.......

Ok, and now honestly? Here it comes:
Oh my God... I'm hearing Christmas songs! *run and hide!* It's only August d*mn!! AAAARRG!!

But well,
Since we are going to join the worlds biggest vocal pop choir this november... and the postman brought us the practising cd's today...
But why did they chose the theme "Christmas"? I'm not really happy with it actually. But, there's nothing I can change about it. By the way, Martin and I are joining together with some people from Martins choir. But, we are in different voice groups of course. So I guess we won't see each other all day long haha.
Some months ago: "Let's go together, it'll be so much fun!" "Yeah, let's do that" Hmmm....
There'll be about 2000 people that day...
After 25.11: "It was so much fun, wasn't it?" "Yeah, but I didn't see you around, were you really there?" "Let's go together again next year!" "Yeah, let's do that, I really like to do things together with you!" ;)

Hahahahaha. You know the worst thing? One of the songs is "Winter Wonderland". Our reaction when we hear that song can be described like this: We scream and turn of the song as quickly as possible. The reason for this reaction? In 2002 (?) we visited the Vocal Group Festival in Tilburg, and "Winter Wonderland" was the compulsory song during the contest. So we heard this song about 10, 15 times that day, all with the same arrangement. And ever since, we can't hear the song anymore. Now we have to sing it ourselves... omg....

But, don't worry. We are going to have so much fun :D
[sing]....and so this is Christmas aaaaaah aaaaah aaaaah aaaaaaah *ALL TOGETHER NOW!* we hope you have fun | the near and the dear ones | the old and the young [/sing]

Live from Fanzone Headquarters

Jaaaaaa..... a quick snapshot into the room where it's all happening. But I've blurred the most interesting thing: the new Montezuma Fanzone website on the laptop screen ;) Have to keep it secret for a little longer.
Sometimes I'm wondering if we have too many computer (screens)? But we really need them, they all have their own purposes hahaha.

Ok, back to work!
By the way: We're hearing Basta. Enough Montezuma things in my head these days already ;)