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Work & sports

I have the whole week a DRP training at work. The 2 brain cells that I have are overloaded. Yesterday I played squash with M, P & E. I ran a lot and realised some nice shots, apart from one. During the game against E I hadn't seen that he had moved in the direction where I wanted to hit the ball. Instead of bouncing against the wall, the ball dropped from his hand on to the floor. The mark of the ball is still visible on his hand today.
And off course he has been blaming me the whole day with it.
P will organize her party in our apartment this Saturday. I'm in charge of the music and already started to create a playlist in Itunes. I already have the equivalent of 9 hours of music and made an effort to select music that other people might like.
I'm looking forward to celebrating R farewell drink and dinner. I guess that this will be the last time I will be seeing some of my ex-J&J colleagues. And now back to reality -> DRP training!

This weekend

My parents organised a party this weekend to celebrate their 60th birthday and their retirement this year. They had invited both friends and family. The DJ started the evening after the both warm and cold buffet. My mom was really into it and was almost non stop on the dance floor. The last people only left the venue around 2 in the morning.
We shared the table with a Belgo-Danish, Belgo-half English couple and our friends V and S. If everybody will come and visit us in Stockholm, I'm going to resign immediately and open a bed and breakfast in Sweden. S is seeing somebody in Germany. This guy must be fantastic if you see the smile on her face. I'm really glad for her.
We got back home around 3. The next morning I woke up around 9 to watch match of the day. There were only 2 games. After the football I had the superb idea of going for a run. I went into the forest and ....................... got lost. I had to intention to run for 45 minutes but at the end I was gone for an hour and 15 minutes. I was completely dead by the moment I got back home and the shower didn't really change it.
My legs were still heavy this evening when I played badminton with M., E. and T.

Belgian football

What is happening to your first national sport? It is quite sad to hear that only Anderlecht will survive the winter in Europe. Apart from Standard none of the Belgian teams had to play a team with a more difficult league.
Too bad that the best Belgian team at the moment (Standard) couldn't qualify. At this moment only 2 teams are bringing attractive football. Standard, a team who is playing with a lot of youngsters and Cercle Brugge, the revelation of this season start.
They should do something to make the game more attractive to watch. Even during champions league games I cannot focus anymore. I have the impression that I'm watching a game of risk with lively players.
Apart from Defour we don't have that many young players that see the game, have fun during the 90 minutes and have the balls to convince others to look at the game the way he does. I have the impression that young players are drilled to follow the drills. Let young players which are very talented exploit their talents. Why don't we train them more on indoor football to develop their dribbel skills.
Is this wishfull thinking?

My first week at Oriflame

Today is already my 5th working day at Oriflame. I don't have the feeling that I'm the lost son who found the path to heaven again.
The job content is completely different to what I had done before. I'm looking forward to the new challenge I have undertaken by joining again. I'm at the beginning of a new learning curve, which gives beautiful sparkles to the Oriflame dream. It surprised me that I know so little on the overall process. When you work in a department you only know the touch points with the other departments, but not really everything in dept. Next week I will have to learn all the ins and outs of the DRP process. I will have a continuous head ache. I’ll have to drink alcohol this weekend to free up space in my memory.
I had an SQL training yesterday in a very tiny, warm room. The projector and all the laptops added a few degrees to the average temperature of the room. By the end of the day my few brain cells were boiling and overloaded.
Luckily I still had a game of squash lined up. Danish dynamite made me run and at the end of the game I was completely exhausted. It made my head ache even worse, but what would men be without medication and a good night rest.
Today I'm feeling fine again and ready for some drinks at Place Lux tonight.
Tomorrow my parents are throwing a party for family and friends to celebrate their 60th birthday. I still cannot grasp the fact that they left the fifties behind them. I would like to age like they do. They have rented a venue and after a nice dinner we will be able to stretch our legs on the dance floor. We will have the make sure that we pick our favorite dancing shoes tomorrow evening.

Tuesday squash event

Yesterday was the first time in 2 weeks that I entered a squash court. We were 5 and had to rotate. I started my first game against T. who hadn't played for a while, but you couldn't tell. He won the first set and was leading in the second set. I was lucky and managed to win the second one by 10-8. At the end of the second game I managed my shots better and could control the game better and won the 3rd set. The sweat was dripping on the floor and it was only when we finished the game that we realised that we had played for 30 minutes. Not that nice for the 5th person that had to wait for us.
Tonight I will be playing B. who had a lot of squash practise last week. I will post the result of the game tomorrow.
I will have to decide this weekend if I will continue playing squash in the box on Mondays. They have changed the member fees. L. will give me the cost per month tonight.

My first day at Oriflame

4 months after closing the Oriflame door behind me, I opened the door again.

I started my day with an all day meeting. I thought I would have forgotten a lot, but some braincells picked up the topics of the day again.

I'm fully booked for the next 2 weeks. I will be working very closely with A. as of next week. A lot of vitamins will be required to completely understand the DRP. I have 3 months to grasp the whole process (which is almost impossible).

Organisation at Oriflame is a weak point at the moment. It's understandable since every week people leave and come. I already have a desk and a PC, the rest will follow.

I'm already on a Swedish contract, I need to look for the public holidays and hope that I will have November 1st off.

I was missing the positive stress in the past month. The feeling already came back during my first day.