Scenario: Mail Deliverer Job

Me: Good day Miss.

Old lady: Good day. Do you have any mail for my husband? You see, it's his birthday today and he is quite anxious for cards. ^_~

Me: Oh, congratulations mister!

Old man: Thank you. I reached 60 today!

Random old lady: Hey, you should congratulate HER!

Me: Huh?

Random old lady: Yes, I saw you in the newspaper. Congratulations with your first book; and in English too! I said to my husband: Look, that's our maildeliverer!


I'm so not kidding. Sure, this was the short version, but still... A second old lady recognised me too; and said she finally knew my name after all these years I delivered her mail ^_^

You can find the newspaper article here. (Alas, Dutch only T_T)

I had a dream last night. For the first time in weeks, months, or maybe even a year or so, I was sad to wake up... because it was such a cool dream! It was like I was playing in a Spy Movie, and some people I know were also playing a part. Some of the girls I can't recall, but two guys... well, I think those guys are really cool. They probably think I'm plain nice, but they don't know how much I look up to them *blushes*.

ANYWAY, the dream... Btw, some collegues or mine think blogging is for people without a life. Well, I never had one, so I can blog!!

It kinda started in the middle of it all. Just walking into a building, finding out something is wrong and when wanting to investigate it, enemies suddenly attacked us. One of the gyus I look up to was on the enemy's side.
Somehow I was the only one who managed to escape, and turned around a corner. A girl yelled at me, but she had really weird hair, so somehow I thought she was a dog so I ordered her to sit down or so. But when I realised she was a girl, I apologised and explained... in FRENCH!! Last time I honestly spoke French was last year. And my French is baaad. Not in my dream; in my dream it was okayish.
So, I escaped, but stupid me wanted to return and help my friends. Why? Why do I keep on being so stupid? So I returned, and found out all were brainwashed.
So, what happens to a girl in enemy territory? Well, of course I was captured and they tried to brainwash me too. Only problem was that they had to 'install' some sort of list with questions or it to succeed... and one question didn't want to get installed! The question was: "Is *enemy cool guy* ever going to be nice?" (Note: Cool guy IS nice; we just fool around a lot XP)
Somehow, that one question caused a huge error in my brain, causing me to very ill. Someone even called me a Female Micheal Jackson (What the??! Where did THAT come from?! I don't even care about the guy!); I looked that bad appearantly to that person.
The second cool guy came to rescue me, overhearing they wanted to kill me, but how no idea how to help me now my brain had been messed up like that.
The door opened...

AND I WOKE UP AGAIN T_T Aah! Now I don't know how it ends! I want to know how it ends!

And why the heck did those 2 guys appear XD? Oi.

But at least it was a cool dream. I hope it will continue tonight XD

Customer Service by phone... how lovely...

Customer Service Employee: I'm sorry sir, I'm afraid I didn't understand the question... do you want me to send you the information about your account?

*silence*

Customer: Are you even Dutch??!

Customer Service Employee: .... Yes, I am, and I do not appreciate such remarks, sir!

Customer: *without listening* I want you to do *this and that!*

Customer Service Employee: I'm sorry sir, that is something I cannot do. I can only send your password to the e-mail you registered with, not some random e-mailadress.

Customer: Well, I see *name of company* doesn't want to sell! Good day! *hangs up*


Guess which of the 2 I was! Honestly, never before had I been insulted on this way. I have a flipping Dutch first name, with a flipping Dutch surname, and speak Dutch without any noticeable accent! And you ask me if I'm even Dutch just because YOU can't phrase a question right??!

What an ass. Even my teamleader agreed on that. What an ass. And most likely a racist as well; I mean, what kind of a question was THAT?! I didn't understood something, so that must mean I'm not Dutch which must mean I''m stupid? HELLO??! What kind of crap is THAT?!

My collegues even said I should have called him back, to make clear that he should show some respect to humans in general! I may be a Customer Service Employee, but that doesn't mean you are allowed to treat me like crap!


I hope all his orders get cancelled due to the fact he's an ass. Because that's what he was.

Some things come totally unexpected. Last night, close to midnight, we got a call. From my mother. She called to say that one of our dogs had collapsed on the field, right before they wanted to go home.

At this moment, we have 8 dogs in our house.

4 of them are puppies; 51 days old
Then you have the puppies' mother; around 4 years or so
Then you have the dog who collapsed; 8 years old
Then you have our oldest dog; who is around 12 years old
And then you have the dog from the neighbours who is staying over because otherwise he had no place to go because his family is on a vacation (happens about twice a year).

You would expect the 12 year old dog to collapse; not the 8 year old. My mom was calm, but most worried. This dog has a somewhat defective heart...thingie. A heart murmer thingie or so.
So, my dad was asked to call the vet, which he did. He was redirected and finally got an assistant. She asked us to first check a few things, and if there was any problem, we could call again.

- Did she drink enough? (it was quite warm that day)
- Isn't she overheated?
- You said she had an infection and had gotten medicine, maybe she is sick of that.
- When you put her onto her paws, does she sink away, or does she keep on standing?
- When she gets home, see how she will act in this familiar enviroment.
- Check her gum; is it nice and pinkish?
- See if she wants to drink.

So, my mom came home and called to see if she could go to the vet. My dad informed her that the assistant asked her to check how she acts in home. So, my mom picked up up, carried her to the door... but had to put her down because she had to take the key. The door opened... and our dog simply walked inside the house, the room, happy as ever and went to take a drink.

We were totally stunned! There seemed nothing wrong any more! Of course, then you get the typical worried reaction: "What the heck is she doing now?! I thought she was sick!"

Well, she most likely was. It may have been a combination of things; the heat, maybe too little to drink, the medicin, her defective heart (niet goed afsluitende hartklep), things like that...

Mom took her to the vet today and she made an appointment for an echo next monday. Maybe her heart condition has worsened a bit. She did not only scare my mom, my dad, or me, but also the dog club my mom was when it happened! One of the people who saw it called and asked for my mom. "She's not home? Oh, I wanted to see how Holly was doing."
I informed her, but told her my mom could be more clear.

So yeah, little sleep tonight XD Dogs are everything in this home and this gave us all quite a scare. It seems Holly is doing fine, but no way will my mom take any risks with her!!

Oh, and I FINALLY got my Card Captor Sakura Manga collection COMPLETE! Not only that, I got a box with gifts from Rocket Stevo! With Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Manga; the Short Stories! HE ROCKS!!!