My apartment is starting to shape up nicely now. I finally have a floor this week, and I'm really in love with it. I was cleaning my apartment today, and I was starting to feel at home already, and I felt sad when I headed back to Maastricht. I think this is actually the first time I want to show off my home, I can hardly wait to invite people to come over. September 3^rd is the big day, that's when I'll actually move. The last couple of weeks I've been working half in Maastricht and half in Amsterdam. At first, the traveling and living in hotels and eating outside was really fun, but I'm starting to feel tired now, so I'll be happy when I can sleep and cook in my own apartment.

For the first time in my life, I'm starting to feel stressed. It's not just the whole moving / reorganization thing. A lot of old people are leaving and a lot of new people are coming in, which means tons of extra work for me. And that means lately I'm planning everything around my work, including all the apartment stuff, which means running around a lot just to arrange things. But if it's just that, I could've handled it, it's a challenge I've accepted when I decided to stay at Vodafone. It's just that everything seems to be going wrong lately, at work as well as other stuff.

Last week, I lost my car keys and my key pass to the garage. Of course, I only noticed it when I actually needed the car, so that was pretty stressful. The guy who I hired to lay my laminate floor was 3 hours late, and he forgot to call me, so that totally screwed up my schedule at work. And 2 days ago I lost my phone in Amsterdam (I was already back in Maastricht). Luckily my manager found it at the printer (stupid me!). The mobile phone has become such an integral part of my life without me even realizing it. Without it, I feel handicapped, both professionally and socially. And I'm not even going to start about the stuff going wrong at work. I just feel pissed and frustrated lately, and sometimes I just feel like pounding my fist on the table and scream "I don't care anymore! I'm going home and I'm not coming back for 3 weeks! And if you want to fire me, just go ahead!". But of course, I'm not going to that, so I need a better way of handling it.

At least I have something to look forward to. We're leaving for Barcelona for a week on Tuesday. Yay! I haven't taken a day off (except if I need to arrange stuff) since my holiday in the USA last year, and I'm really desperately in need for some time off. Hopefully I can get Vodafone out of my mind in Barcelona, but I'm probably going to check my work e-mail anyway when I'm there.