An addition to my collection

What a lovely surprise awaited me in the mail box yesterday - a fabulous pair of Hello Kitty socks to add to my ever growing collection :-) Bea kindly sent them all the way from the US ...... and I love them. Am wearing them as I type this! Still have to devise some kind of "display" of my bits and pieces that I have collected so far.

Not much of note happening here at the moment. Things are really busy at work again (thank goodness!), and Jeroen and I have been busy planning our own vacations for 2009 :-) In the planning so far are a 5 day weekend in London next week; a 3 day weekend in Berlin in March; a week camping somewhere in the sunny south east of France in July; and 4 weeks in Oz in November :-)) We still also have a couple of gift vouchers to use - one for a weekend away at a spa/sauna retreat, and one for a hotel somewhere in Germany ....... the perks of working in the travel industry hey ?! ;-)

On a more sporting front, there are 2 important football games coming up for our hometown team NEC. You may (or not!) remember that beyond all expectations NEC managed to qualify for the next round of the UEFA Cup, the Round of 32. That means they now have to play two games (one home, one away) against HSV (Hamburger SV) - eek! HSV are currently third in the German domestic competition, the Bundesliga, so it's not gonna be easy :-/ The first game is here in Nijmegen on 18 February, with the return game in Hamburg on 26 February. Fingers crossed "super" Mario Been and his boys can pull off some kind of miracle and NEC goes to the next round.

Alli xxx