Saturday, September 15. 2007
Stomach cramps, pregnancy, throwing up and passwords
Finally i'm better!
I got really really sick after that last post... I woke up with seriously bad stomach cramps and couldn't hold in any food or water for three/four days, whatever i ate or drank it came out twice as fast as it came in. Not to mention the vomiting itself... I can't describe it any differently then being very violent and extremely painful and it didn't matter if my stomach was full or empty, i had to throw up every half hour. All i could do was lie in bed and fall asleep for 30 minutes, wake up, throw up and then wait for ten minutes untill the cramp in my muscles got somewhat bareable again. Then back to bed only to have the whole process repeat itself again over and over. After 4 days the lack of sleep and food had me so exhausted that i couldn't even stand and walk anymore. My muscles were sore and hurt like hell, even when i lied down and did no move at all. The Hunger and lack of sleep gave me a tremendous headache and made me hallucinate. But the worst was the thirst, in those 3-4 days i couldn't get a single drop of water to stay in my stomach and i was getting dangerously dehydrated. I was really close to being admitted to a hospital but fortunately things went better pretty fast and i was able to eat and drink again, although my muscles were still very painful the days after. In total i lost around 7 kilograms of weight in three days. At first i thought it had to be some form of foodpoisoning but soon everyone i had been in contact with got the same symptoms *evil laugh* And to my surprise everyone that got it started out with really bad pain in their back, just like i had. So i guess it was some sort of viral/bacterial attack or something but to be sure i still have my waterbed's heating up and running nice and warm and even if it didn't cause my backpain, it still makes me sleep a lot better. I should have never turned it off and from now on i'm never going to, lesson learned i guess :)
Other then that, my brother broke his finger this week and now his whole arm is plastered (i think that's the right word for it, right?) So he's out of bussiness for at least two weeks i guess. I also heard some news that made me very happy, one of my best friends is pregnant! I never imagined her to get pregnant, well at least not so soon because she is a girl who likes to travel to far away lands and enjoy life, she is always away doing nice stuff, travelling and experiencing life but when she told me i couldn't help but cheer out loud! The baby is expected in around 5 months from now and i'm really happy for her and her boyfriend! I just hope she know what's she's getting into ;) It's kind of impossible to travel and go out to the bar etc. when you have a little kid at home, you always have to put the kid in first place, but i'm sure she can handle it. I've always wanted kids myself, and i hope that will be reality one day but i need to be ready for it, like i said loads and loads of responsibility and almost no free time at all. It's all worth it, just want to be absolutely ready and 100% sure i have the right girlfriend, that's all ;) I don't want my kids to go through what i've been through with my father and all.. No, if i ever have kids they will get the best life i can give them.
Oh, i haven't heard anything yet from that job i was talking about. My application was slightly delayed because of what i wrote above so it's not neccesary a bad thing that i haven't heard anything yet :) I'm still confident about it and i eagerly await a response, offcourse i would be overjoyed if it was positive, i really really like this job and i really want it, i haven't been this excited about a job in years. But if it's negative then, well their loss, a real shame but no biggy either. I saw a lot of other nice jobs at their company so i can always apply to another one.
Lat but not least.... The coming week or two i will password protect my entire weblog. This is not only because of the spam, but also because sometimes employers google name's of applicants before they hire them and in my case if you google my IRL first and last name, the first link you see will be to my weblog. And although i have nothing much to hide, i still think it's none of their bussiness reading my "online diary". So in order to prevent that i'll put a password in place. I looked around for different methods and considered and experimented with giving everyone his/her own login but this turned out to be somewhat insecure and so i opted for setting the security on my server. What this means for you all is simple: i will send you an email wich has the username and password in it needed to access the site, just fill it in the box (you'll see it pop-up) and the rest stays the same :) Please keep this password to yourselfs, offcourse all my friends can know it but please if anyone asks, tell them to email me and i'll send them the info personally. I'll also post the password on my hyves profile -click- so my friends can look it up there as well if they want (you have to be added as friend by me first to see it). And offcourse if you have any problems logging in, email me and i'll fix it for you asap.
Well i think i'm done for tonight, i'm gonna treat myself to a nice cold one now :)
Cheers!
Saturday, September 1. 2007
My back and a new job
I just wanted to explain why i didn't write last week and why this week's post is short as well.
I am having serious problems with my back, it hurts a lot and i am unable to sit or stand for anything longer then 10 minutes. Basically i can only lie down on my bed to get some relief from the pain. I don't know for sure what caused it but i think it's because i turned off the heater in my waterbed when summer started. This summer, when it started to get really warm at night in and outside my house i thought it would be a good thing to turn off the heating of my waterbed so that when i went to bed my bed would be nice and cool. Well i think i made a big mistake doing that lol.
There is about 300-400 liters of water in my waterbed and when that water gets cold it will stay cold, even in the heat of summer. So i thought it would be nice to sleep in a cool bed while it was 25-30 degrees in my room. However i didn't take into account that when you lie down and sleep for like 8 hours on 400 liters of icy cold water your body will cool down a lot since all body heat will be transferred into the water, your muscles get cooled down a lot and that doesn't seem to be good for them
With that said here is a small update on whats been going on:
I'll start with some good news, i saw an ad in a newspaper this week, and it was from a big company hiring security people at our national airport Schiphol. As some of you may know i have a lot of experience in that field, i was a cop for some years and i worked 7 years in the footballstadium security bussiness. Sorry i don't know how to describe that any better in English
Something else i wanted to ask you, as you all may have noticed there is a lot of spam in the shoutbox recently. Now there is two things i really hate.... spam and having to log in to post a comment on a site... It just seems that the only way to get rid of this spam is to create accounts and to log in before you can post a comment. So i am asking you, what would you rather have? Log in to post a shout or leave it as it as without logging in and seeing spam. Again i personally hate all those accounts at different sites but for now it really seems the only way to get rid of the spam... So i'll leave this up to you guys and girls, accounts or spam? Please let me know and i will act accordingly
Well that's it for today, sorry it's short but my back is killing me, hope you understand.
Take care,
Degnyx out
PS: Lila don't apologise for writing long comments, i love to read them and i don't mind at all so please by all means say whatever you want and don't feel bad about it even if it's long
Saturday, August 18. 2007
Heidi Klum
Bloody hell i'm tired
I couldn't write last week, I wanted to but due to circumstances i couldn't. I know you all can't live without an update so my sincere apologies to everyone who now has a form of post traumatic stress disorder ;) Any claims for compensation may be directed towards my lawyer whom i have carefully instructed to be on vacation for the next five years ;) Hehe naaah just messing with ya... Except the sorry i couldn't write part, i ment that!.......... I think :D
Anyway i had a nice week, and it's update time, this week in two versions, one for males and one for the females...
Version for the guys:
Friday was awesome, man I got so drunk, my friend had bought truckloads of beer, whiskey and vodka and we were playing strippoker with some seriously hot girls at his house untill it was light outside and everyone was so drunk that they could barely get home. Fuck my head still hurts and i think i lost a lot of money in that poker game! Too bad i forgot that girls name though. :/
Version for the girls:
Last weekend i got a call from a friend who i have known for a long time but unfortunately hadn't spoken to in years. He was away for quite a while, moved to Germany as part of his study and recently came back. He did very well on his study since he now officially has the title of Doctor, which is funny for me in a way because i have known him for like 15 years and since i also know his less serious side (and have the videotapes to prove how he can be when he is drunk haha) it just gives me a giggle whenever i think of him and that title. But seriously he's a great guy to be around with and it's not a small thing to achieve so i have a lot of respect for him eventhough i now regularly tease him by calling him "Doctor" :) So he called and told me he had done some shopping and got some beers and wine for a party he was having at his house that night together with some of my other friends, and he said he would really like me to join as well since it was too long since we'd talked to eachother. You know a guys only night, nothing special, just talking about man stuff and playing poker all night long. So off i went... Upon arrival all my friends were there and i was greeted and welcomed and i immediately felt at home. I was lucky i could park my bike in the backyard, which is locked off from the outside, since i don't have a lock on my bike at the moment and i didn't want to leave it on the street at the front door. Then i got a tour of the house (which was very nice btw. although he really needs to clean his bathrooom!) I noticed the kitchen was pretty clean, so i think he has a girl cleaning it for him since no guy can keep a kitchen as clean as that. Allthough i think she never visited the bathroom!? The livingroom had one of those cozy couches facing the TV, with a small table inbetween and i think he always eats his dinner in front of the tv because there was a plate with some half finished meal on it. He told me how he and his girlfriend were living together and that she wasn't home at the moment but would soon be. I talked and catched up with everyone, it was so much fun hearing the latest news! Did you know that guy has a piercing????? He didn't even hide it! One of his friends told me he had his eyes lasered in Turkey because it was a lot cheaper there, i really got to have the adress since i've always wanted that as well but i am a bit afraid of the long term effects. We chatted a lot and played poker for a bit, not for money offcourse just for the fun, we used matches as a kind of monopoly money because we don't like to play for real money. We had a some beers, i think i had 3 maybe 4... But definately not more because after 3-4 hours everyone got tired and went home.
Alright enough about that, i'll try post a bit more later this week about some things that have been on my mind but right now i'm really tired and i seriously need to go to the bathroom. FFor now take it easy and sweet dreams!
PS: I was on PE/EU this week but nobody else was on, spend my last 20 or so ped mining and got nothing back lol what a surprise :S
Saturday, August 4. 2007
New Urbex Project
Almost forgot to tell, we have a new Urban Exploring project this week! And boy is this going to be a nice one! It's an abandoned hospital close to where i live, news reports and the talk of the town tells us that apparently so much weird stuff is going on there that even the construction workers are refusing to go there!! This is offcourse an opportunity i can't miss, i want to know what it could possibly be that scares construction workers off and causes such a commotion. I already assembled a crew of dedicated friends (one of them is a foreman) and in the coming days we are going to check the site out after dark, the entire night, taking pics and hopefully some vids as well if i can get my hands on a good camcorder in time that is, otherwise we have to rely on crappy cellphonecamera's wich i really really hate... I'm saving for one of those superduper 1080i cams but i haven't got the cash yet. More info soon.
Weirdness
It's friday and it's update time! ![]()
This week was rather weird, and since i promised Z to place a warning before posting anything that might potentially keep her awake because it might be interpreted as scary ;), here it is: ---> WARNING Z read this in the morning not at night lol ;)<--- There, promise fullfilled now on with the weird stuff
As some of you may know, especially my Dutch friends who have known me for a longer time, there are periods that weird unexplainable stuff happens in my life and in my house. I always seem to stumble upon it wherever i go and as i stated in a earlier post, i'm keeping a list of strange and unexplained things that i have come across. Now i don't know what it is or what is causing it but most of it happens in full view of everyone who happens to be there and so is not just something i whitness alone. I'm glad others see it as well because if i was the only one seeing it happen i would have surely thought i was mad as hell, afterall seeing and hearing stuff that isn't there is as most of us know a real sign of mental illness. I also have to say, and it may seem strange but it's the truth, that i am a real sceptic when it comes to these things and i make no claim as to what it is. I let everyone have his/her own interpretation of it, all i know is that it happens and i can't explain it. It has happened for as long as i can remember, with the earliest memories (confirmed by my parents) going back to when i was two years old. But that is a different story...
For those of you who don't know me well enough i'll give a very brief introduction as to what's been happening. The house i live in is nice, it's not big or anything fancy but it just feels like a house should feel: warm, safe and comfortable. Over the years that i have lived here some strange stuff has been happening, it comes and goes, sometimes a lot happens in a week and sometimes nothing happens for months, there seems to be no pattern to it. Some examples of what has happened in the past are: lights go on and off by themselves, objects move in plain sight without being touched, strange unidentifyable noises are heard at night, doors opening or closing by themselfs without any draft and many many more things. There even was a period where anyone who was in the kitchen would get a firm tug on their clothes and i even have an event on video. I have never felt unsafe or scared because of any of these things, it doesn't "feel evil" my house is still a warm, cozy and safe place, if anything it makes me smile and giggle. Besides that a lot of other even stranger things happened but it is so much that it's too much for just this post. If you're curious, just ask me and i can tell it all.
So what happened this week? It seems like a script from a bad hollywood movie as i write this and i have deleted and re-written this a lot of times because it sounds so stupid but i don't want to spend all night on this post so i am just going to type it in and leave it as it is now
First thing that happened was that i was walking by the TV and as soon as i looked at the screen (wich was turned off) it turned on, everyone in the room looked up and went like: Ehhh, what was that? I immediately looked where the remote control was and found it on top of the tv out of reach of everyone in the room and as soon as i turned away from the screen, the tv turned off again. A few days later when i woke up all the clocks in the house were somehow set to a different time each, only one of them was displaying the correct time. This must have happened somewhere in the night while sleeping because everything was fine before i went to bed. The only thing i could think of was a power outtage but even if that happened it wouldn't explain why all the clocks were at a different time and if power had gone out even for only a milisecond i would have noticed it because my PC is on 24/7 and even the slightest interruption in power will shut down my pc. Looking for an answer i turned to my best friend, who has a degree in electrical engineering and who is a real proffessional in his field. I explained what happened and the only thing he could tell me was that whatever it was, it was not a power outtage. And then there was today (well yesterday already) we discovered a lot of dead flies in the bathroom and even more living ones throughout the house, not just a few but really a lot, more then any that i have seen since i moved in here. We tried to trace where they came from but couldn't find anything. There were so many that i actually went outside to smell if i could smell something rotten, i mean they have to come from somewhere and who knows maybe some old man/woman is lying dead in his/her house in the neighborhood, plus it's been warm and sunny this last week. I didn't smell anything but i'm keeping my eyes on the local news. I have to admit that if seen seperately and apart from the other stuff, these things could be nothing more then a really freaky coincidence, it's just that it happened in a short period of time and in light of the strange stuff that has happened so many times before, who knows?
Sunday, July 29. 2007
The Terror Dome
It's late and I just came back from a nice night out, i'm still slightly drunk so my apologies in advance if this is a bit boring or has any spelling errors in it :) It was not the bar this time but something a bit more.. quiet... I went into the dunes tonight with two of my best friends, the dunes are very close to my house only like 15 minutes walking and it's the perfect spot to relax, especially at night since it's really quiet and there are no city lights or sounds polluting the experience. It was one of those spur of the moment things, i called a friend and had a good conversation and we wanted to go somewhere quiet were we good have a good time together with some beers and wine. We used to go there a lot when we were younger, just sitting by a campfire in the wilderness, drinking a beer, relaxing and having a good conversation. One of my friends was feeling particularly bad this night, troubles with an ex girlfriend and all that stuff so I called him and said to him that sitting at home alone thinking yourself to death wasn't really an option and so i convinced him to come along to get some distraction and ease his mind a bit. Afterall this location really is quiet and peacefull despite it's nickname "The Terror Dome" wich sounds like somesort of horror movie, it will make you feel at ease, away from the stresses and obligations that living in a city can bring you. We agreed that it was something we hadn't done in quite some time so after a brief stop at the local supermarket to buy some alcohol we were off into the night and into the middle of nowhere. When we arrived we found our favorite spot occupied by two people and a dog so we made a slight detour to another spot close by. It was a temporary detour because we felt that those people would leave soon and so we set up camp and waited a bit. It wasn't long untill they left and we made the place ours. It's a small dome like structure on top of a hill with a very nice view of the surroundig area, we had been there before many many times in the past starting when we were like 14-15 years old so the place always reminds me of good memories and good friends. Lots of stuff happened there and each of us could write a book about the stories and memories they have from that place. We had some good conversations and drank slightly too much but we had a great time and we managed to take my friends mind off of his ex.
I also announced my intention to walk to Rome, as i told you in a previous post and to my surprise the idea was met with enthousiasm and encouragement. One of my friends said he definately wanted to come along and we made some agreements to start training for it next week. It's still a bit far off but the plan is starting to solidify and it's moving from the planning stage into the actual training and preparing phase. So that's a step forward in the right direction, one step at a time and we'll get there, boy that's a phrase i'm going to say to myself a lot when the journey's finally started :D I'm still trying to get my hands on a laptop so i can post my daily journals for all of you to read but i'm doing my best!! Other then that and long conversations about life, troubles in the world and the fact that people keep telling me i should start a political career since i (according to them) seem to inspire so many with my ideas and the way i talk about them (ehm, ok...) , we had a great night out and now i'm at home, tired but satisfied. I just opened my last beer for the night and i'm going to enjoy it before crawling into my beloved huge waterbed and falling asleep like a baby :)
Cheers and sweetdreams everyone!
Saturday, July 21. 2007
Toep!
It's going great! I seem to have lost J4ck as a reader, and my other Dutch readers still haven't commented plus advertisement income has been zero (like it ever was more then that haha!) It's getting quiet in here folks! Guess it's proof of how boring i really am!
Nah i'm just kidding you, I'm feeling better and better and the pageviews are increasing :)
Anyway here's an update on what's been happening:
Last week i found out that an old friend that i hadn't seen in like 13 years or so now was the owner of a bar in the city here. It's only 10 minutes walking from my house so needless to say it was time to pay him a visit! So after a very satisfying dinner and the nessecary beers in one of my favorite (other) bars, i set off with my friends to meet this long lost friend who now had his own bar. Seems like he did good for himself, because as from how i remember him to be he was always a nice, friendly and funny person, the perfect barkeeper. So we set off to "assess" his newly founded establishment, Upon entering and to my surprise, i was immediately greeted by someone else who i'd also hadn't not seen in like 13 years and after exchanging greetings and the nessecary tall stories and beers , we sat down at the bar on a stool to talk to the man himself, the owner of the place and the guy we had not seen in such a long time. The welcome was very warm with cold beers and both sides were anxious to hear what happened to the other and after some trouble concerning the barkeeper getting into an argument with something wich looked like a lightbulb and an electrical cord we cought up on old times and had a nice conversation about what had happened in between. I soon lost track of the time, and things rapidly started to get hazy as i noticed that my beerglass was somehow magically re-filling itself as soon as it was empty and before i knew it i was participating in a drinking game involving all my friends, the barman, playing cards, and a lot of alcoholic drinks. (We call it "Toepen" in Holland and the loser of the game pays a round of drinks to everyone playing.) With my, and equally my friends, Blood Alcohol Concentration rising fast, our judgement severely impaired but with a rock solid self-confidence (or so we thought at the time) we played the game. As we fell into fits of laughter reminiscing and catching up, we got new drinks faster then we could drink, and there was the frequent sound of: "Hey mietje, drink eens door joh!" Which very roughly translates as: "Hey faggot, drink faster man!" But as any good drinking game should be, the game went too fast to be able to keep up, everytime someone finished a drink he/she had 2 new ones to drink. So everyone got really drunk which, offcourse made the game even more fun. Unfortunately at this point my memory started to fail me big time because i can't seem to remember much about what happened next other then that it was fuuuuuuuuun *big smile*All i know is that the game went on for some time and for some reason i woke up the next day with a major headache :D Anyway we seem to have gotten home safely eventually and although we lost a couple of million braincells, we gained a lot of good memories.
I'm sure we'll be back in my friends bar soon, albeit probably in the weekends since the percentage of women is a lot higher then during weekdays. I mean lets be honest, what's a party without hot girls eh? :D And i'm sure his bar will be a success if only it was for our drinking games ;)
Cheers!
Saturday, July 7. 2007
Feeling good!
What a week!
I'm really happy! It seems i'm really getting out of my depression, this week i decided to really put some effort into making contact again with everyone i knew before this whole depression thing started. It was scary and to me a big step since i hadn't seen or spoken anyone in like two/three years. I didn't know how my friends would react and since it was me who stopped calling i was expecting a lot of cold shoulders and well, to put it plain and clear i wasn't expecting anyone to react positively at all. Boy was i wrong! The response has been so incredible and overwhelming, it's so much more then i could ever have hoped for! It all started when i was surfing the internet and came upon an old classmate from highschool she had a page on hyves and when browsing her profile i stumbled upon another friend and then another, and then another, and another. This kept on going and going untill i had visited about 150 pages of profiles of people i knew. So i took the plunge, into the deep i went and i made my own profile , despite the fact that i have always really despised social networking sites. What the hell was i doing? I heared myself thinking that but somehow i continued and contacted the people that i had once had been in contact with daily. It didn't take long for reactions to pour in and despite my fear of everyone hating me the reactions were overwhelmingly positive and everyone seemed to be genuinely happy to hear from me. I was baffled, this was not at all what i expected, in my head i had seen this scenario many times and i always thought of the worst. (that's what a depression does to you) But at the same time i was happy to see that many people were genuinely concerned about me and somehow understood my situation, even if i didn't explain everything as much i thought was necessary. So i was happy and feeling good but unbeknown to me, it was to get even better.
Someone who i consider one of my truly closest friends (but unfortunately i lost contact with her a long time ago) and deeply care for popped online and after exchanging some messages she gave me her new phone number and before i knew it we were on the phone for a long time reminiscing about the good old days, and talking about how good it was to see eachother again after all these years and about what we both had experienced in the time between. We really go a long way back, both of us have had our share of tragedy in our lives and we have always been there for eachother, like back then, the connection was still there and after a while we decided that we just didn't have enough time on the phone and msn to tell eachother all the things that happened and so she invited me for dinner next thursday. I can't begin to tell you how happy this makes me, to re-find an old close friend, someone who ment so much to me, someone who made a huge difference in my life back then, someone i thought i'd never ever see again. I haven't felt this happy in a very long time...
Thanks for listening
Degyx out
Friday, June 22. 2007
I need a laptop!
I managed to get those pics i promised from my last Urban Exploring trip from my digital camera to my pc. Unfortunately the battery on my digicam died while halfway through our exploration in the first location so i only have pics from the first building we visited, but fortunately that was the most interesting and best location of the two. I should have them up tomorrow or the day after so stay tuned!
Other then that i'm feeling good and summer is treating me nicely! Well, i'm sure a lot of my fellow Dutchmen would disagree hehe They all complain about the storms and rain (boring people eh?
I'm mostly occupied with finding information about my 2008 holiday destination, as you know it will be either China, Japan, India or Australia (well that's the plan for now at least). And since my best friend and i want to go backpacking and not a boring pre-arranged trip, i'm sifitng through all the info about these countries and starting to plan our trip. We agreed we wanted to go the way i went to Egypt, which is just buy a ticket with an airline to get you there and from there on go to whatever we think is fun, if we end up in a cool place we stay and if the place sucks well, then we move on right away. Offcourse we try and plan a little bit of what we want to see and do in advance but basically we just take it as it comes with some general ideas about what we want to see and do but nothing is set in stone. We also agreed that the entire trip should last about a month or so, so we have plenty of time to explore the country and get a nice feel of how it is at the other site of the globe. So far my favourite is Japan followed very closely by Australia while my friend thinks China or India will be the bomb. So a lot of discussion to be had about that but i'm sure we will come to a very nice compromise.
If i can get my hands on a laptop i will make a daily report here on my weblog of how our journey goes and what we are going through, a daily travel log. But no promises on that yet, since i have to find a laptop or someone willing to borrow me one for the duration of our trip. So if you know someone let me know!
Another thing of interest is that i have decided to go on with an old idea of mine, which is (and you'll call me completely crazy) a trip to Rome.... ON FOOT! You know take the old pilgrimage route and walk to Rome! This roads takes you through great forests and beautiful landscapes, and no it's not just asphalt fortunately
Ok enougfh talking, i'm off for a beer now! Maybe i'll be back a bit later on with another post, if not: have a nice weekend and see you soon!




