I went on a date

With my husband! My mother in law generously dogsitted for us and we went to The Hague for an afternoon of shopping (new pants for both of us), catching a movie (The Hobbit) and dinner (Asian/French at Umami). It was heaven! Strange how fast life can change: since our dog is still not used to staying alone in her bench for a couple of hours (we received her after the socialisation phase had passed) we have been working on dog logisitics for months. It will only get worse with a kid, I imagine. We are very lucky with our dogsitting service, as we can drop her off around eight and pick her up at six thirty. The dog always comes back happy.

She has hit a puberty and is close to being in heat for the first time. Man, she's hard to handle right now! We are really putting our foot down and she won't win from us: sit means sit, even if it takes fifteen minutes for her to do it right. She is very defiant, trying to ignore us, or only doing half of what we ask of her like sitting down but in the wrong place, sitting down but not paying attention, etc.

All things will pass surely.

On Sunday we had our annual new years dinner at my dads house. It was fun and entertaining, his newish girlfriend is nices. Strange how my dad likes educated and strong women, despite discouraging his former wife and daughter from becoming one. He showed us various bits of videomaterial from the eighties and nineties, when we all were very young. He wants to buy a new computer or assemble one from old parts. I donated my old computer to him. I had to do a quick format yesterday night and double checked that I backed up all the data I wanted to keep. Found some video material that I was wondering about. I really need to organize my digital archive, as it is now roughly 250 GB. Video and high res images really add up.

I also managed to do a bit of organizing and throwing away during this weekend. I finally threw out my psycholgy study books. I graduated 10 years ago and have since rarely picked up the books, let alone read them. By now, many new discoveries have been made and I am better off reading the newer books in the library if I feel the need. It was an emotional thing to do, I spent five years of my life on that study but it is a part of my life that is over. I also went through my wardrobe and threw out items that I haven't worn in years, always hoping that I would one day reach for it. But I am a different size and a different shape, and even if I turned into the same size once more my taste has changed as well. Good riddance, I say! Once I cleaned up my practice room completely, I'll post a video.

The recent cleaning up stint is started by our plan to add dormers on our house this year. All the stuff in the attic will have to go somewhere else during the rebuilding. The less we have, the less stuff we have to move!