how to get stressed without working

miei cari, in the last 2 days I have been quarrelling with the shitty computer that I have at work. Just imagine coming back from holidays, seeing pages and pages of red mails and not being able to open a single one because the bloody thing would crash. And getting phone calls from colleagues because I don't know what my calendar looks like. So this morning I went to our IT desk, where after a thorough (?!!) analysis, the guy told me to "disinstall everything and install it again". So I am actually considering to quit my job, pretend that I am a plumber and when a distressed lady calls me because the washing machine doesn't work tell her to unplug it and plug it back in. All with a very professional tone so that I can charge her 150 euros. There goes the business plan. So I disinstalled and installed everything back in, which took me 3 hours (not considering the 3 hours before to back everything up) and left me with a working mail but without archive. So tomorrow morning I will go to the IT desk again and ask Einstein to make my archive appear out of nowhere. And if it doesn't work I am very ready to wear my plant shoes and start kicking him in the balls. Then, assuming that everything starts working properly, I will have a weekend of passion (like the one of Jesus) trying to finish everything before Boss Square comes next week.
Apart from that, my new phone is giving me a lot of satisfaction, which probably means that the bill will take away half of my salary. And Jack and Gaborno tell me that it is the perfect way to catch guys, since it is a neat gadget. This assuming that I want a nerd...
Now I assume I will have to go to bed early so that tomorrow morning I am fresh like a rose.
Alba 0 : Computer 1
merda

I'm back

miei cari, I have just arrived back from Italy. Next time I rent a flat I will either rent it on the ground floor or with an elevator. I had to go up and down 6 times to carry all the stuff. And I live on the 4th floor. So what happened in Italy? Pretty much nothing. I had to stay at home for basically 2 weeks waiting for the police woman to come and check that you can really live in the house, otherwise the taxes would have gone waaaaaaaay up. So the bastard came last Friday, basically screwing up any plan I had for going to the beach. I became the perfect housewife/gardener, cleaning everything, cutting the grass, planting cucumbers, cooking lunches and dinners, doing endless washing machines. I don't really understand how anyone would want to stay at home, if I had to stay another week without doing anything I would have gone crazy. So now I am in my flat with packs and bags and suitcases everwhere, basically I have to jump around to manage to move. Which means that now I will stay in front of the computer to download the manual of my new cell phone, it looks as if it's nearly making coffee for all the buttons it has. Too bad the manual that came with it is in German...
ciaociao

holidays

miei cari, I am leaving today for holidays. Since my new cell phone didn't arrive in time, I assume I won't have access to internet for at least a couple of weeks (unless I find another way). uff...
So see you soon!

I am older but not much wiser

miei cari, so yesterday I turned 29. Which means that I got the first phone call from my mum at 8, telling me that 29 years ago I was 59 minutes from being born. Then she called at 8:15, saying that 29 years ago I was 44 minutes from being born. Then at 8:30, saying that ... whatever, I think I shouted at her. And then she decided to send sms, followed by all her sisters. The bad thing about relatives is that you can shout at them, but that simply doesn't stop them from harassing you very early in the morning. Anyway. So I decided to roll out of bed and went with Betty, Jasmina and Jack to get food for tonight. We got half a pub in Sachsenhausen to celebrate, and I think it went pretty well, at least for what I can remember of it. Then at a certain point, I found myself in a car, possibly Maria's, and somehow managed to arrive home. Next thing I know was that I woke up at 3:30PM today, had probably 3 liters of water, read the newspapers, nearly died of starvation and then St Jasmina decided to cook some filled paprika and feed me. Thanks darling. Funny thing is that I was a bit ashamed because I thought that I had left the pub without even paying, but apparently I did (or I robbed someone on the way, one way or the other I got more money in my wallet). And I think I have decided to get myself a Strawberry, which is the way I call the Blackberry, since eventually someone realized that they should put some color on them and anyway the iphone is not out yet and wouldn't be available for my cell phone provider. Let's see.
And I got authorized to publish here another important news: our Blanquita and Johannes are expecting a baby!!! Well done guys!!

back from Espain

miei cari, I have just come back from Espain. This time nothing fancy, no Radiohead or something like that. I had to go there to work. Still, it was pretty nice to be there to watch the final of the Eurocup, as you all probably know Spain won against Germany and they made a pretty decent mess all the night. After that, i.e. after sleeping 4 hours because of the mess coming from the streets, I locked myself in the plant for 2 days, so nothing really interesting. This morning I woke up at 10:30 (considering that I left the plant after 3 I think I was entitled to sleep longer), just in time for breakfast, then got the car and went to Stiges to get a bit sunburnt. This time I also put sun protection and actually I stayed under the sun for not even 1 hour; still, I managed to nicely burn myself, even though so far nothing hurts. And I really like having some color on my body, after a German winter I started looking like a rotten mozzarella (white with a tendency to green). So now I will go to bed, read a bit and tomorrow morning back to the office. This Saturday Maria, Betty, Jasmina and I will make a cumulative bday party, so if by chance I forgot to send you an invitation just let me know.