Blog /All Good Things

April 27, 2011 08:21 +0000  |  Friends Language Moving 5

A series of good things have been happening lately, and I just wanted to share them:
  • I have an apartment in Bussum, The Netherlands. It's mine. I live there. You can now start mailing me things :-)
  • I have a bank account, and a residency card, and a residency number. I am an official person in the Netherlands. Next up is the cell phone and home internet.
  • I have a couch! And a friend who helped me put it together!
  • My computer has finally arrived at my job, so I'm no longer working on my tiny laptop. This new machine has SIX CORES and EIGHT GIGS OF RAM.
  • I made a new friend last night at my Dutch class. That makes *three* people whom I can call if I want company for a movie or something.
  • American movies here are in English with Dutch subtitles.
  • The Canucks won game 7. How is that not awesome?
  • My new apartment is a 10minute walk to work. I can now sleep in.
  • In less than 3 days, I'll be in Yeosu, Korea to watch a dear friend get married in a traditional Korean ceremony.
  • I'm learning Dutch (albeit slowly), but just the other day I actually understood a 100% Dutch conversation and joined in, (albeit in English).
  • It got distcc working on my laptop & supercomputer here at work so I can compile stuff way faster.
  • I talked to my family via Skype while they were all around the dinner table at my grandparent's place.
  • I got my tax returns from the past 5 years in, to the tune of about $7000! That'll help pay off my credit card.

In a blog that's usually plagued with negativity, I wanted to share some happy thoughts.

Comments

Theresa
27 Apr 2011, 11:40 a.m.  | 

So glad to hear things are going so well! Hoping that as of monday you can add "harper was defeated in the canadian election" to your list of good things. Email me your address?

Karen
27 Apr 2011, 1:18 p.m.  | 

But your post title makes me think of the last episode of ST:TNG and now all I can think is, "WHAT IS ENDING?!?!?!"

Happy to hear you are getting settled in.

Daniel
27 Apr 2011, 1:22 p.m.  | 

Heh, I thought of that too, but then I remembered that the official title of the STNG series finalé was "All Good Things..." and I figured it was ok ;-)

noreen
27 Apr 2011, 2:30 p.m.  | 

thank you!

Pavel
18 May 2011, 9:02 a.m.  | 

Hey Dan did you watch russia/canada game. We have won, but I won't watch anymore of those. I am rather confused as to what country to root for =)

Good to hear that you have settled in alright.

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