And counting

It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back, they say. Well it is the last couple of weeks before my vacation that bring me in a shitty mood. I feel tired, I don’t want to go to work in the morning, I can’t stand the taste of the coffee from that damn machine anymore, and I’m really fed up with all those hey-I’m-just-back-from-a-relaxing-vacation-and let me-tell-you-all-about-it faces that I see everywhere around me.
But I’m almost there. There’s only ten more working days to go. And less than eighteen-and-a-half days before I will get on my plane to NYC. O yeah, I’m counting.

In between there is my birthday, which I decided to not let go by just like that this year. Although that gives me also headaches, because I really just want to invite only a few people for a small get together, but now I’m worried others will feel left out.
I’ll have to think about how to trigger that one.
There will be one very strict rule: no co-workers at my birthday this time. Not that I don’t like them but my birthday will be the first day of my vacation and I don’t want to hear, see or scent anything work related that day. Let that be my birthday gift to me.

Is work that bad Richard, I never heard you complain that strongly about your job? Hmmm, I hear you.
No, it is not all bad. I still enjoy the series that I’m doing on the Spaarne river. I’m walking downstream and write about the things I come across on my way. We weren’t sure on whether to do only a part of the river or the river as a whole. I’m glad that this week my boss agreed on going all the way. To the sluice of Spaarndam that is!
Today my series brought me to a small biological dynamic farm called Vrij (=Free) Waterland. It’s used for educational purposes by an elementary/secundary school nearby.
I must admit that it is far from bad to find yourself strolling through blackberry- and raspberry bushes, fields with leeks and bean bushes and apple trees. There was even a bee house.
Tonite I'm having a wonderful salad with biological dynamic grown tomatos and cucumber. So..

But oooh, how that even more makes you long for a nice vacation away from it all… O yeah, I'm so counting.