Martusia

Wczoraj mnie spotkalo wielkie szczescie - Martusia sie do mnie odezwala na gadu, a do tego jeszcze do mnie zadzwonila :)))))

Jak wracaja wspomnienia

It was a very nice weekend. We had a girls night on Friday at Courtney's place with junk food, 80's movies and a lot of laugh. I slept most of Saturday and got up just in time to go for Mark's birthday. We went to a sport bar to play darts, but they also mentioned something called "air-hokey". I was busy with darts, but when I finally went to see it, it was a great suprise. The air hokey was something we had in Swiniarnia in Krakow. We spend many many hours playing it at the beginning of studies. I just don't remember the name. I need to ask Gucio, he should remember. It was great! I won with everybody :)
And now it's Monday again.

Let it snow

It's snowing!!!! Yupppi!!!!! It actually started yesterday, for the first time this year (season, winter), and it's still snowing. It's beutiful. I love it.

More pics from the US

Just so you all belive me that I was in the US fo Xmas, some pics:

Opening present.

Xmas tree

Xmas Eve on the boat

Washington monument

Capital building.

Crazy Xmas decoration

Me in stocks.

Ships that brought first colonists to Jamestown (first sucessful English colony in America)

Big come back

Welcme back! I'm still alive, everything is fine. I've been crazy busy at work and at home my Prine will not me let use the computer :) No, it's not true, I usually hate computers after 10 hours of work.
Christmas was wonderfull. Everything was great: the crown familly, the palace (it's actually very close to being a palace), the places we went to (Williamsburg, Jameestown, DC). It was also very different and didn't feel like Christmas at all, party because of the weather. Here it was simillar, but we went on the boat:


It was strange without Chrismas Eve, big dinner and 20 people. Nonetheless, it was great.
On the New Year's Eve we went for a dinner to the best restaurant in the world, called Pacific Rim, and we had a flaming volcano drink :) We also had some delicious food. Then we came back to Mike and Kerrie's for a nice evening. We almost missed midnight :D We were smoking and realized that it was midninght just a little bit too late. It was great to meet Mike and Kerrie, after I heard so much about them. Their daughter Andy is sooooo cute.

I had a great time, very relaxing, out of the cities, out of Prague, which was nice.

I discovered that there is Warszawa in Virginia:




I would put some more pics but I'm having issues, so some other time.

After we came back, I had crazy time at work with the new 2 folks in my team. But I like it, the atmosphere is nice and I like all the 3 of them. This Thursday I also went for a party with people from work and it was great! I had such a good time. Maybe because I feel more comfortable speaking Czech, maybe because of the music (I was dancing - and I haven't danced for almost a year probably), maybe because it wasn't planned. I don't know, but I had a great time. Now I'm going to join people from work more often.

Jesienna plucha.

The weather in Prague is terrible - cloudy, rainy, cold and grey so I thought I should at least make my blog look more happy then the reality. (The picture was of course taken by Prince.)

I spoke with Lida about our blogs - her is always so much more interesting, because she doesn't write only "I did this, I went there", her is more philosophical. And more interesting, although I have sometimes problems understanding (it's all in Czech). Well, I'm no philosopher like she is so my blog will stay as it is. If it will stay for long.

So today we did Christmas Shopping part II. It wasn't as enjoyabale as part I (which I wrote about before but I guess in Polish), because of the weather. We went to Christmas markets at Stromestske Namesti and Vaclavske Namest and the market between Staromak and Vaclavac, by the big Ceska Sporitelna bank. Prince did some gifts shopping, I did a little, but I got me a scarf. And I got a cold or a flu (introduction to a flu) or something. Or maybe I'm just getting old, but my bones and musles hurt. So I slept for the whole afternoon and now I'm wondering how I will sleep at night but actaully I could go to bed now. I read in a magazine that there is a disease called hypersomnia. So maybe I am not as lazy as everybody thought, I'm just sick! Hehe. I need a lot of sleep otherwise I cannot function normally. I'm tired - good night :)

Tajemstvi

Yesterday Lida invited me to go with her to the theater (theater, not cinema) to see a musical "Tajemstvi". It was very good. I had some problems with understanding but I enjoyed it very much. It was written by Daniel Landa and I like his music. And the play made me think about sence of life and dead (the answer is of course 42 :) but what is the question?).
Today I'm terribly tired. And lazy. I just don't want to do anything, I want to go to sleep and that's all. And it's just 10 a.m. On the other hand it's Friday so it's good.

Swieta ida

Tym razem po polsku, bo nie chce zeby sie wszyscy dowiedzieli, co im szykujemy na prezenty swiateczne :) W sobote bylismy na wielkim polowaniu i nawet wypadlo ok. Mam juz wiekszosc prezentow, jeszcze tylko mi moje kochanie zostalo. Ale mam juz pomysl, tylko musze miec czas, zeby go zrealizowac.
Wiemy juz mniej wiecej, jak i gdzie spedzimyokres swiateczny. Wyjezdzamy stad w poniedzialek 18go, jedziemy pociagiem do Frankfurtu, stamtad lapiemy samolot do USA! A tam nas odbieraja Roba rodzice. Plan wyglada super, tylko zeby mnie wpuscili do ich pieknego kraju (to bylo powiedziane ironicznie). Kilka dni pobedziemy w Wirginii, a po swietach jedziemy do DC, do kumpla Roba i tam tez spedzimy Sylwka.
To takie plany, zobaczymy jak bedzie wygladac rzeczywistosc. Trzymajcie kciuki za loty.

Lazy blogger

Just to let you know, Prince post something on his blog. And it's funny.

Friday :)))

I appologize for not working more often. Work is crazy... I'm in the office for 10-12 hours, come back home and just go to bed. That's the way my life looks now. But we're also interviewing new people so hopefully there will be someone new soon. I cannot live like this much longer.
Today Prince has a Christmas party, so I have the whole appartment to myslef - I will take looong shower and watch some Czech or Polish or Slovak movie. And maybe read. The most important thing is that I will do absolutely nothing!

And now a story about what can you loose and find:
So my last day in Poland I was packing and I couldn't find my return ticket. I looked in my bag, backpack, everywhere around my desk, under the bed, inside the bed, behind the bed, in the car.... everywhere. I called the bus comapny but they said they cannot give me another, so I was prepared to buy another ticket (as expensive as the two way I lost). Half a day destroyed because of this stupid ticket. So we got to Warsaw, to the bus station and I went to talk to the bus driver about how much the ticket will be exactly. And ... it was for free - he handeled me my old ticket, I just left it in the bus.
That was the first part of the story. The second is better.
A week before going to Poland, it was very cold in Prague so I decided that I will take out my winter coat (very long, big coat). So I looked in the wordrobe we keep clothes we don't use too often - no winter coat. I looked in my regular closet - no winter coat. In the bed, in Prince's closet, under the second bed.... and? no coat. After panicking for 2 hours and trying to figure out how and where I could loose it (together with Prince), I decided to have another look inside the bed. And what I thought was a blanket, appeared to be my winter coat!
Great! I think I'm loosing my mind. The only thought that keeps me all right is that there are worse people (i.e. Lida).

Have a good weekend!

Sweet home

I'm in Lublin, at home. It's so good to be here with my familly. I missed them a lot. And I will miss them again. It's difficult: I'm very close with my familly and I'd like to be able to see them like every weekend (ok, maybe every other) but it's not possible. However, I think I have to come here more often. I feel here so good and far away from all the problems (I hope I won't dream about my work tonight). And I could come more often, I'm just really lazy, especially if I have to plan such a big trip. Now, I can bring Prince with me, as I got back the big bed to my room, so nobody has to sleep on the floor (my sister had it for the last few years so it was always a problem but now she bought a new bed with armchairs so I got mine back - it's very complicated if you have guests in such a small apartment).
So today I got to Warsaw and we were half an hour late but my dad was not at the bus station. I walked by the parking lot hoping I will find him there but no sigh of any car with Lublin's licence plate. So I sat and waited, walked aroung for a bit and become worried: what if he had an accident; maybe he just overslept; but they would let me know; but what if.... all over in my head. My dad doesn't have a mobile so I couldn't call him. Finally he came - an hour later that we were suppoze to meet. They were doing some road construction and he ended up further than the airport (anyone who know Warsaw even only a bit knows that the Bus Station West is nowhere near the airport). And the funniest thing is that when we were going to Lublin, he missed the turn from the main highway. And it never hapens to him! He was very tired, he got up at 4 a.m. just to pick me up. He is the best Dad ever!
So today we talked a lot, we went shopping (I did some Christmas shopping), talked some more, my aunt visited us for a little while, I showed them pics from the US and we talked some more. And now I'm ready to bed, very very tired, and instead of sleeping I'm writting a very long post... OK, good night everyone! Have a good day tomorrow!

Happy birthday to me

I'm better now, better than yesterday. Although it's Monday. I was in this stupid mood yesterday when I cry without any reason and everything sets me off. Prince is walking patience. I wouldn't stand it myslef, if I were him.
Last week was quite nice. We went out on Monday with Andrea and Jirka (IT guy - Price was pretending he's jelous of him). We kind of celebrated my birthday which was on Tuesday but Prince works until 9 p.m. on Tuesdays so we couln't really do anything. So it was nice evening, I got a Pilgrim ring (very very cute, with blue flowers). Andrea knew I love Pilgrim but cannot afford it (it's Dannish company, they have really cute jewellery). On Tuesday I got present from Prince: beautiful necklace. I will take a picture of it and post it. It's cooper with 3 little flowers, handmade. It's really beutiful. And then on Wednesday I got 2 cards at work.
It was strange birthday because I didn't really celebrate. I mean there was no party or anything, but I didn't mind. It was just different. And I'm old: quarter of a century! Well, it didn't change anything: the big step for ma was to finish studies, start work and be 100% responsibile for myself.
Oh, I have a story. Few weeks ago I received an email that during my company's "all-hands meeting" I was announced as one of the Spotlight Award Winner's. The strangest thing was that I have no idea what is the Spotlight Award! I thought it was some kind of lotery (during similar meeting in Prague somebody won mp3 player, somebody else gym membership). So I was waiting and waiting and finally on Friday I got the letter. I was shocked! Letter signed by the biggest boss of my company, with quotes from cllients how great I am, in leather cover! But that's not all. In the letter I found small gold envelope with American Express cheques for.... 250$!!!!! It was a good end of a week :)

Niedzielne popoludnie

Wlasnie sie poklocilam z Robem o glupote. Alez ze mnie niedobra dziewczyna.... Szczerze mowiac, mam to gdzies w tym momencie. Tak zreszta, jak wszystko inne. Juz bym chciala byc w domu i przynajmniej przez pare dni nie myslec o pracy, Robie i jego pracy i problemach i wzystkim innym. Mam dosyc stresowania sie wlasna praca i do tego jego. To nie moj problem ze dostal awans, ktory oznacza mniej czasu na pierdoly. I mam juz dosyc wysluchiwania ciaglych narzekan.
Poza tym jestem juz stara: 25 lat, cwierc wieku.
Ide spac, przynajmniej nie bede musiala myslec o problemach. Bede o nich snic...

I'm going home

Kupilam juz bilet i 16go wyjezdzam! W piatek 17go rano bede w Warszawie, moze sie spotkam z Krzysztofem, moze bede z nim jechac do Lublina. Najwazniejsze, ze w piatek bede w Lublinie! Nie moge sie doczekac. Zbyt dlugo tam nie bylam. Rodzicow juz pol roku nie widzialam....

Kolejny poniedzialek

I feel I should write something... I read Elizabeth's blog and it's amazing: she is very good at writting but also, things are happening. My life, on the other hand is borning :( I just work and sleep. And I also lose in poker :( We were playing on Friday. I lost again. Something is wrong. The ccards doesn't like me or ... I'm not a good player. I go for the first one. But I needs to learn to fold: I have 2 pairs and I think it's the best hand possible. I'm so silly.
So this is all for the weekend. We played poker on Friday, on Saturday I was dying, so we didn't do anything, yesterday Prince told me he will be working, so we didn't do anything either (of course, he started working around 8 pm).
This week seems to be nice: today, Ireland has a bank holiday, Wednesday - Poland (and then Friday is off in the company we work for, so 99% of people will take Thursday off as well). So I shouln't have too much work. I hope...

Poranna przygoda

Stoje sobie rano na przystanku, czekam na tramwaj. Piekna pogoda, sloneczko swieci, jeszcze nie calkiem obudzona, bujam w oblokach. Widze jedzie tramwaj, wiec spokojnie, powolutku zaczynam isc w kierunku przodu tramwaju. I nagle... jakbym ducha zobaczyla, skacze jak szalona (no wiecie, jak sie czlowiek przestraszy, to tak skacze). Dlaczego? Chlopak mnie minal.... Niezly mial ubaw ze mnie.

To tyle na moje poranne przygody.

Trzymjcie sie!

Co w trawie piszczy

Hi everybody! Again I apologize for the delay. You know, how it is: a lot of work, a lot of after work activities (hehe I wish), not enough time for everything. Basically I'm at work every day aroud 10 hours. It's not any more the job I liked - laid back and relaxed. Now it's becomming more like a regular job - stressing, tirening and annoying. But this week I'm in a good mood. I think my body said: "NO! You don't need more stress!". So I don't care any more that much. Not that I'm not doing my job or doing it worse. I'm just trying not to take everything so serious. Prince is more happy with me now and everything is better. It is even more better, because I got a real promotion: I am going to be a team leader. And this means more money!!! Which is good, because we have so many plans and not enough money: we're going to the US for Christmas (which means shopping - hurra!!!), we want to go to Scotland next week, and to Egypt (maybe not the next year, maybe next winter). And I have to start paying back my student's loan which is scary.
And btw we were in a nice castle this week: Konopiste. It's around 45 km from Prague, not too popular, but very nice. It used to be Franz Ferdidand's hunting place, so it has a huge park aroud it and tones of dead animals inside (which is not that nice). And there was a wedding in the castle when we were there. It would be really cool to get married in a castle. Also, crazy expensive (probably).
OK, going back to work. Have a nice day everybody, and don't foreget about me! I promise, I will be back.

Dni, których jeszcze nie znamy

Tyle było dni do utraty sił
Do utraty tchu tyle było chwil
Gdy żałujesz tych , z których nie masz nic
Jedno warto znać , jedno tylko wiedz , że
Ważne są tylko te dni których jeszcze nie znamy
Ważnych jest kilka tych chwil , tych na które czekamy
Pewien znany ktoś , kto miał dom i sad
Zgubił nagle sens i w złe kręgi wpadł
Choć majatek prysł , on nie stoczył się
Wytłumaczyć umiał sobie wtedy właśnie że
Ważne są tylko te dni , których jeszcze nie znamy
Waznych jest kilka tych chwil , tych na które czekamy
Jak rozpoznać ludzi , których już nie znamy ?
Jak pozbierać myśli z tych nie poskładanych?
Jak oddzielić nagle serce od rozumu?
Jak usłyszeć siebie pośród śpiewu tłumu?
Jak rozpoznać ludzi , których już nie znamy?
Jak pozbierac myśli z tych nie poskładanych?
Jak odnależć nagle radość i nadzieję ?
Odpowiedzi szukaj , czasu jest tak wiele ...
Ważne są tylko te dni , których jeszcze nie znamy
Ważnych jest kilka tych chwil na które czekamy ..

MAREK GRECHUTA (1945-2006)

Praca, praca, praca

I appologize for not writting - I have a loooot of work. Mainly because I was kind of promoted. Kind of because I didn't get more money and now it seems I'm on probation period in the new position, and I'm doing both jobs - the old and the new one. I work for 10-12 hours a day and I'm just always so tired I don't want to do anything. Today I feel like crap. Yesterday I had problems with my stomach, I spend half a day in bed. It's not much better today. I'm getting back to playing cards - first time since I came back from the US. I don't feel like doing anything else.
Be patient, I'll be back.

Grand Tetons

Finally I have a few minutes free at work. It's Monday morning, people didn't get to the office yet so they are not bothering us. No worries, it will soon start but not yet so I can write about my great trip to the US.

Travelling was nice, without any problems. I got to Pittsburgh late Sunday evening after almost 24 hour trip, I took a shower and went to bed. And woke up at 4 am. Rolled over on my side - nothing. Rolled again on my back - nothing. I just couldn't fall back asleep. So I read till 6, do some ironing and went to work. Ariba building is huuge - over 30 floors, although we occupy only 3 of them. I finally met all the people I notmally communicate by email or phone. It was nice and a bit funny: when you know somebody for half a year but never saw him and finally you meet him. Our manager is nice but she was ignoring us for most of the time. The girl who was doing most of the training took care of us during work and in the evenings. We went shopping twice, went for mexican dinner (real, not Prague mexican) and I had one of the best cheese cake in the world. Almost as good as my mum's. We also went to the baseball game which was a lot of fun. You can't see it in Europe.
Pittsburgh is a nice city, not too big, not too small. It has very nice downtown. I enjoyed it a lot. But then came the best part: Grand Tetons!
The mountains are amazing! It's not like our mountains, which always have hills in front of them. There was a valley and sudenlly huuuuge mountains. Very impressive (I'll try to post some pictures some day but we have so many of them it will be hard choice.) I think they were the best mountins I've ever been in. And we saw a lot of wild life: mooses, bizons (or buffalos), bears, chipmonks, eagles, coyote, deers... probably I missed something. We also went cannoing which was a lot of fun. And to rodeo. But the views were the best. Amazing... I lack words to describe it so it have to be enough.
After a 5 days in Grand Teton National Park we went to Yellowstone which was nice but I prefer Grand Tetons. We didn't really hike in Yellowstone, so we spend most of the time in the car, just stopping to see some gazer (which were pretty impressive but I still prefer the mountains). We saw Old Faithfull and all the famous places there. But hiking in Grand Tetons was better. Here we drove and had a short walks on prepared paths (I know it's because you cannot walk on the ground - it's too dangerous - it's all on a huge volcano) so it didn't feel like nature too much. On the other hand in Grand Tetons we hiked a lot, sometimes there were many people, but sometimes there were nobody except for us. And the mountains...amazing. You all should go there, it's the best place ever.

OK, I have to go back to work. I have a few stories to tell you, i.e. about meeting the wild life, but it have to wait. Work first.