Food, cars and coffee

I baked an egg for Milan this morning. Since I don't eat egg myself I had only once before made a scrambled egg. This was my first ever normal baked egg. I think it looks lovely. Almost wanted to eat it myself. But I'm scared I'll puke :-/

After some chores I sat down in the garden to enjoy the few hours of semi-warm weather outside. I heated up the lovely tomato soup that Simone made yesterday and I bought some nice buns and I had my favourite literature ;-)

When Simone came home I gave her a little present that I went to buy just before. She's wanted one of these coffee makers for soooo long now. She was very happy with it and now she thinks I'm crazy ;-)
We tried it twice today and I have to say it does make a fab cuppa joe! Also the creamer is sweeeeet. Lovely cappuccino!

The cup of coffee

When I left for work this morning two doves were sitting on the branch in front of the door. They were cleaning each other.

On my last bit of the walk to work I passed this garbage truck with the back opened. I thought I'd quickly snap a photo because you don't get to see this often.

At work I put my coffee mug in the coffee jar and for some reason thought it was absolutely the coolest thing I'd seen today.

Looking at the pictures I still think it's the coolest thing I've seen today. I went to lots of colleagues to show them. I don't know what came over me.

Lunch time but there was something funny with my camera lens. It applied the "pencil" effect but I didn't do anything for it. I think the lens was dirty...

After work we went to the Thai restaurant Lemon grass. I skipped the starter and only had grilled Barramundi with a LOT of vegetables.

The first coffee

Nicole driving off after she dropped me off. No, she is not speeding.

I finally was able to use the coffee machine I bought for work. I still have to figure out how to make a nice coffee. The first batch was too weak and the second too strong. One of my colleagues made a cup that he liked a lot he said...

Walking to PJ's after work.

Nicole arriving at the PJ terrace.

We had bird shit on our car. You need to remove bird shit fast coz it can stain badly. So we took the car through the car wash on our way home.

We received quite a few CHRISTmas cards this time around.

The presents

Lunch!

It was busy outside so I thought I'd illustrate that with this photograph... of an empty bench. It's not easy aiming with a phone.

In the afternoon I went to the coffee place to buy more beans. $18.50 for half a kilo of coffee beans.

After work we went out for beers because Hoang, my colleague is leaving to England again next week. In the picture, from left to right we see Luke, Melvin, Hoang, Craig, Buddy, yours truly and Ben. We stayed till the end with Hoang and his girl friend who joined us later and Luke. We left around 20:30 when it was already dark.

We walked past this graffiti that we saw being made a few weeks ago. It's a pretty cool one.

When we came home we found a parcel from Alkmaar! My moms and dads birthday pressies had arrived! THANK YOU mum and dad! :-)

Then I did my blog while listening to Boot liquor. I'm tired from this weeks work. My back aches and so does my neck. I'm looking forward to some decent, undisturbed sleep.

Shiny balls

The coffee gods were good to me today. Or maybe it was because of the email my colleague sent out to everyone after my big coffee machine cleanup extravaganza. Who knows? It was ready to roll and it made me a good cuppa Joe too. Something probably goes very wrong next time...

The morning was miserable. A storm started right after Nic came back from the toilet at 4 AM. We feared mostly for the two cockies outside. We tried to give them shelter but it also increased the surface that the wind can blow on and thus it increases the risk of the cages to be blown over. Anyway, after 4 AM we didn't really sleep much also because a banging sound that reminded us of parts of a roof being ripped off somewhere. On top of that we had to get up at 6:45 because it was Nic's first day at work and they have an early meeting every Monday etc. etc. Whilst leaving the house I heard that banging sound again and went to investigate. It was created by two f&@*!ng lemons bigger than tennis balls banging against the metal plated fence. Beauty. On the way to work we even got some hail. It was all very unpleasant. By lunch time the sun was out again.

After work I walked to the pub again. As I passed the mall's balls I noticed the little lights below it. I've always wanted to see them on but it was never dark enough.

Aren't they pretty? They weren't always there we think. I can't remember seeing them before we arrived this time.

I was desperate for my fix of Magners Irish cider and ordered a bottle of it. It fits exactly one pint. Very exciting when pouring because you can pour it out fast and everybody who doesn't know will think you're gonna spill it hehe. Yes, I know, it's a dark photo. Maybe it will improve when I buy my iPhone... IF I buy one...

Driving through town on our way home. Pretty lights everywhere. It's very nice to have a drink and a meal after work.

Pretty yellow stickers

The start of a new week. It was actually quite a struggle to get the top half of this Joe in (it's 2 serves) because the coffee maker almost died on me...

Here is yours truly in his lazy-ass position..

For lunch I didn't go far. 2 shops down to be exact. There's a soup/salad place called "leaf & ladle". Very very VERY nice soup indeed. I tried the roasted vegetable soup today. I was lucky, there were only 2 people in front of me. usually the line-up goes all the way onto the street.

Cable guy was working again today. I see him pulling cables through our ceiling all day long (until 14:30) but I never see any wall sockets finished. I guess he's saving it all up for the big climax...

This pretty yellow sticker is on the door going into the stairwell.

This pretty yellow sticker is on the door going into the toilets.

This pretty yellow sticker is on the wall behind the toilet.

This pretty yellow sticker is on the wall in the stairwell.