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06/07/2005: "Almost going to bed already"

music: Nothing, quietness all around
mood: Tired (still)

It feels like I'm only just home and that I now already have to go to bed again. Strictly speaking this is true, as today I decided to work till 20:30, so I was only home around 21:30.
As it is now 22:50 that makes it 1.5 hours that I have been home.

In that time, however I have called Iryna (one of our Ukrainian friends) but as I could not reach her I called her aunt. However, her aunt only speaks Italian (which I do totally not speak) and Russian (which I'm trying to learn). When I tried to speak Russian I think her aunt was quite surprised, but decided to reply in somewhat quicker and more difficult Russian than I could actually follow.
I tried to ask Ira's number and it took us about 25 times, but then I had written a full phone number down. Lo and behold....it turned out I had indeed copied the phone number correctly!
(I'm so proud at myself)!

So I called Ira and talked to her for a couple of minutes. It looks like she started to think again. She says she hopes she can stay in Italy for the rest of this year, but after that she wants to go back to Ukraine as she misses her family and her friends. And she also says she thinks she will be happier in Ukraine amidst her family... a very surprising turn of events there.

What else is going on: my office manager approved my holiday request, so the planned holiday to Ukraine (and our Godchild) can definitely go ahead! That's also why I'm trying to get some Russian in there, so hopefully I'll be able to talk in basic (very basic) Russian with Grandma, for example.
However, my problem is: wanting to do everything all at once...and that's just not possible. I want to learn Russian (to communicate with our Ukrainian friends and 'family') and I want to learn programming (Perl) and I want to update my website, and...sometimes I just need some rest together with Angela too within everything that's going on in our lifes... So yeah, that's my dilemma!

Anyway...what else is going on in our lifes:

Angela has been talking with her sister and basically they did not get any closer together. They still all talk Dutch and still can't understand each other and at the moment I don't really see a solution.
I know that they don't want what is happening now, but somehow neither of them can change it. And my power is also not that big, so I can't really influence it.

Hopefully somehow we will get through this though, without getting really angry at each other.

Enough for now, I should really prepare my lunch for tomorrow and go to bed. I'm knackered.

I LOVE my new journal (however I do want to change the layout a bit when I've got time)!

Bye for now.