Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Monday, December 24, 2007
More december stuff
Apart from my b-day (see blogpost below) there's been some other things keeping me busy lately.
First i decided to get myself a Christmas tree this year, quite a unique thing i can say. I also bought some extra stuff to put in it and now it's quite a pimpy thing i think.
Binkie in the mean time, seemed to do better & better. At the vet 2 weeks ago his bloodlevels had improved again and therefore i was allowed to stop the medication and cut down on the daily drip. The past 2 weeks he only needed a drip every other day. More to come though...
Winter also kicked in seriously for once...it's been bloody cold this last week and a half! Coldest temperature i've known about was -6C when i was biking home one night, brrr.
Friday morning when i arrived in Amsterdam, this is what it looked like right outside central station:
That's when i decided not to bike to work that morning but to take the tram instead.
During the little walk from the tram-stop to work i took these pictures:
(ugly white building = uni library, where i work)
In Alkmaar we didn't have snow though, but it was just as cold up here. I think all the white frozen trees on this next photo prove that. Taken saturday morning from my bedroom window.
Now the follow up on Binkie:
In the days just before this weekend i noticed he was trying to vomit sometimes but nothing came out. Then on friday night i noticed he hadn't really eaten any food.
On saturday he was doing that vomitting thing again, this time with a lot of noice...the poor boy was definitely in pain. I called the vet who was on duty this weekend and she concluded his phosphate level had probably gone up again. Unfortunately she didn't have the medication for this available in the weekend...nice one!
Binkie was definitely feeling quite sick and he was crawling away in all the different corners at home all the time...felt so sorry for him and was so scared the whole weekend.
Luckily i already had an appointment at the vet for today. I didn't really sleep well last night and was almost convinced i'd come home again without him.
Things turned out much better than i thought though; it seems he has some sort of infection in his throat/face (noticed his right eye was a bit weird this morning and the vet felt he was swollen on that side of his face right away)...anti-biotics should hopefully do the trick for that.
His bloodlevels, including his phosphate, have improved again actually which means that his kidneys are still improving!
Still feel sorry for Binkie that he's feeling bad of course, but WHAT A RELIEF!!! Hopefully the anti-biotics will kick in fast, in that case i only have to take him back to the vet in 3 weeks! Oh and i can cut down on the drip again, to once every 3 days now.
Immidiately took some Christmassy photos this afternoon, here's Binkie enjoying the Christmas tree :)
First i decided to get myself a Christmas tree this year, quite a unique thing i can say. I also bought some extra stuff to put in it and now it's quite a pimpy thing i think.
Binkie in the mean time, seemed to do better & better. At the vet 2 weeks ago his bloodlevels had improved again and therefore i was allowed to stop the medication and cut down on the daily drip. The past 2 weeks he only needed a drip every other day. More to come though...
Winter also kicked in seriously for once...it's been bloody cold this last week and a half! Coldest temperature i've known about was -6C when i was biking home one night, brrr.
Friday morning when i arrived in Amsterdam, this is what it looked like right outside central station:
That's when i decided not to bike to work that morning but to take the tram instead.
During the little walk from the tram-stop to work i took these pictures:
(ugly white building = uni library, where i work)
In Alkmaar we didn't have snow though, but it was just as cold up here. I think all the white frozen trees on this next photo prove that. Taken saturday morning from my bedroom window.
Now the follow up on Binkie:
In the days just before this weekend i noticed he was trying to vomit sometimes but nothing came out. Then on friday night i noticed he hadn't really eaten any food.
On saturday he was doing that vomitting thing again, this time with a lot of noice...the poor boy was definitely in pain. I called the vet who was on duty this weekend and she concluded his phosphate level had probably gone up again. Unfortunately she didn't have the medication for this available in the weekend...nice one!
Binkie was definitely feeling quite sick and he was crawling away in all the different corners at home all the time...felt so sorry for him and was so scared the whole weekend.
Luckily i already had an appointment at the vet for today. I didn't really sleep well last night and was almost convinced i'd come home again without him.
Things turned out much better than i thought though; it seems he has some sort of infection in his throat/face (noticed his right eye was a bit weird this morning and the vet felt he was swollen on that side of his face right away)...anti-biotics should hopefully do the trick for that.
His bloodlevels, including his phosphate, have improved again actually which means that his kidneys are still improving!
Still feel sorry for Binkie that he's feeling bad of course, but WHAT A RELIEF!!! Hopefully the anti-biotics will kick in fast, in that case i only have to take him back to the vet in 3 weeks! Oh and i can cut down on the drip again, to once every 3 days now.
Immidiately took some Christmassy photos this afternoon, here's Binkie enjoying the Christmas tree :)
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
vlieland pictures
ok, it's been a month ago since elise and me returned from the dutch island vlieland, but here's still some text about and pictures of our week there...like it or not!
first, here's our little kitchen...with elise being busy cooking in it
and this is the rest of our living room
(note: the fake x-mas tree next to tv)
from our backyard we could see a x-mas tree that was pretty high up
we also rented bikes to go...biking
view on the village
we went cultural in the one & only museum of vlieland
on our last day on the island we took a trip around the sandy part of the island with this thing
it was a beautiful sunny day as you can see
view on the island texel
pancakes on our last night!
we left vlieland just in time, it was kind of stormy that day
and if you didn't get enough of vlieland yet, there's more in my photobucket (see link on top to the right, album '08 vlieland dec 06')! ;)
first, here's our little kitchen...with elise being busy cooking in it
and this is the rest of our living room
(note: the fake x-mas tree next to tv)
from our backyard we could see a x-mas tree that was pretty high up
we also rented bikes to go...biking
view on the village
we went cultural in the one & only museum of vlieland
on our last day on the island we took a trip around the sandy part of the island with this thing
it was a beautiful sunny day as you can see
view on the island texel
pancakes on our last night!
we left vlieland just in time, it was kind of stormy that day
and if you didn't get enough of vlieland yet, there's more in my photobucket (see link on top to the right, album '08 vlieland dec 06')! ;)
Saturday, December 23, 2006
off to vlieland!
it's been a while since i wrote a decent post here...
december has been a weird month, had a bit of a boring birthday (which happens when you don't throw a b-day party of course), was sick on and off, worked a lot at the library and on my thesis...which resulted in the fact that my thesis is now nearly done, finally! only need to write one paragraph that's missing somewhere, the conclusion and a summary in english, that's it :D
and i need to edit it of course and get it approved, and get the paper-work done...blabla...
had a meeting with my professor last tuesday and i can graduate in march, probably mid-march maybe sooner...australia here i come!
so today my holidays started and i've kind of been running around all day, cleaning the house, going to town to get some last-minute stuff (and info about flight-tickets to OZ!) , grocerie shopping and packing! tomorrow morning around 6:45 i'm picked up by chris & elise, we'll drive to harlingen & there elise and me will take the boat to the island vlieland!
yes, some people might think we're crazy, but we are so excited haha! We rented an apartment there for a week, are taking our compfy clothes, books & dvd's and will just spend a very un-christmas like christmas....L-O-V-E-L-Y! i'll be back here just in time for new year's, so have a nice christmas everyone!!!
here's some pictures taken at the dinner we had with everyone working at the uni library last week, as you can see from the pictures (both on the pix and the way they are taken :P) everyone got pretty drunk haha!
december has been a weird month, had a bit of a boring birthday (which happens when you don't throw a b-day party of course), was sick on and off, worked a lot at the library and on my thesis...which resulted in the fact that my thesis is now nearly done, finally! only need to write one paragraph that's missing somewhere, the conclusion and a summary in english, that's it :D
and i need to edit it of course and get it approved, and get the paper-work done...blabla...
had a meeting with my professor last tuesday and i can graduate in march, probably mid-march maybe sooner...australia here i come!
so today my holidays started and i've kind of been running around all day, cleaning the house, going to town to get some last-minute stuff (and info about flight-tickets to OZ!) , grocerie shopping and packing! tomorrow morning around 6:45 i'm picked up by chris & elise, we'll drive to harlingen & there elise and me will take the boat to the island vlieland!
yes, some people might think we're crazy, but we are so excited haha! We rented an apartment there for a week, are taking our compfy clothes, books & dvd's and will just spend a very un-christmas like christmas....L-O-V-E-L-Y! i'll be back here just in time for new year's, so have a nice christmas everyone!!!
here's some pictures taken at the dinner we had with everyone working at the uni library last week, as you can see from the pictures (both on the pix and the way they are taken :P) everyone got pretty drunk haha!
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