May 12, 2012
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(written on 16 January 2013)
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day in the Netherlands and normally that would mean that I would have gone to Limburg today to spend the weekend with my parents. Not so this year though because today Sarah celebrated a big birthday (as in forty time big!) in a bar on Overtoom and that’s where I went in the evening. I had an excellent time, despite the fact that I hardly got to speak with Sarah at all. Instead I spent most of the evening with Nancy and her husband Frank. Nancy worked for our company (and was in fact number two in the staff list when the company started in the 1980s) until she… well, let’s just say that very unfortunately she no longer works for our company. It was great to catch up with her, and later in the evening also with Jing, and to find out how things were going with everyone. I got home not too late so I will still be able to go down to Limburg at an early enough time on Saturday.
One fun thing about weight loss that is that I have started buying new clothes. Where I typically bought XL shirts and jumpers, these days an L more than suffices. Some weeks ago though I had bought a polo shirt in town and when I tried it on then it was just a bit uncomfortable. It was an L, but a rather tight L, and because the polo had dark and light green horizontal stripes it was rather revealing at the time of purchase. Tonight though, several weeks later, I tried it on again and lo and behold! It fit! A bit giddy I wore it to Sarah’s party tonight, amazingly aware of my thinner size, and very happy about it. Soon it will be time to start buying many more new clothes, especially trousers because the ones I have now are without exception too large.
The picture shows a ‘flash-mob’ kind of gathering on Dam Square which I saw in the morning as I was doing some shopping. I have no idea what the occasion was but let’s just say it was in honour of Sarah’s birthday.
