Next Sunday Fresh and I will leave Berlin for spending christmas with my family in Holland. Since it’s hard to find someone to take care of our pets at this time of the year, we will take Shanny, our dog with us.
Just like every time we are visiting Holland we are short in time since so many things have to be done before leaving Berlin :s At the beginning of this week I thought I had everything concerning the housekeeping under control. I really hate it coming home in a chaos, so the appartment had to be cleaned, all laundry had to be washed (I am kind of lazy in washing laundry * blush *), christmas shopping had to be done. But now it’s Friday, and when I am looking around I see I must clean again, I am washing the last laundry, need to doo the dishes and after it I need to clean the kitchen, need to buy the last grocaries so I can make some sandwiches for Sunday, we are still wrtiting the last bills for the business so they can be sent to our customers before the end of the year, tonight we have to go to the other side of Berlin so we can give the housekey to someone who will drop by to feed Pugsley, our cat, because we cannot take him with us.
I know, we’ve got tomorrow as well, but we planned to go see Fresh’s family since we’re spending christmas in Holland. So tomorrow is gone as well.  It’s a bit stressy right now, but I think somehow we will manage everything…

Written by Liekie @ 04:29:53 pm
Tags: cat, christmas, dog, Family, housekeeping, Work

I guess it is about time for an update since my last post is is from March this year
A lot has happened during these passed months. The main reason I didn’t update anymore is because Fresh and I both signed up for an account in Second Life last January. For this reason our webcams aren’t online that much anymore, since 5 cams running take too much resources from our pc’s and internetconnection while playing Second Life…
Regular visitors of our webcams might remember the rabbitcam, a cam wich was pointed at the cage of my old rabbit Bugs. Well, I’ve got some sad news about Bugs now. We had to put him asleep last April, because the problems with his teeth got worse. He got an inflamation again due to a tooth groing into his jaw, and at the end the medication didn’t do what they were supposed to do. So with a lot of pain in our hearts we had to decide it was better for grandpa Bugs to put him to sleep. Bugs reached the age of 9 1/2 years wich is pretty old for a rabbit.
We also had some stress with our grandma doggie Shanny. At this moment she´s about 13 years old and because of that she´s getting weaker. She get´s ill sooner as before, just like humans.
Last March we had some scarey moments, because she suddenly had diarrhoea. We went to the VET and he gave her some medication, but it got worse and she started to throw up blood as well. We ended up taking her to the animal hospital at Friday night since the VET couldn´t help anymore. We shouldn´t have wait any longer, else she didn´t make it. She had a terrible lack of fluids because of the diarrhoea and the throwing up. It turned out Shanny had some bad infection in her stomach but it was unknown what caused the infection.
Since this infection she gets some special diet food for old dogs with a sensitive stomach, and she is doing much better since she gets the food.
Last September we finally made it to visit my family in Holland. The week we have spent in Holland was great. It was nice and quit, and great to see my parents, sister and some other members of the family again. Next X/mas we will be visiting them again, really looking forward to it!
Since October first I found a mini job here in Berlin. I work for someone who has some apartments for rent for mainly tourists in Berlin Mitte and in our house as well. If some tourists rent an apartment in our house I will be there to check wether everything is fine in the apartments before the guests arrive, I show the tourists their apartment, and tell them something about the environment (shopping, metro stations, etc.) here and give them their keys. I also do some research on the internet. It’s a great job, because I am able to work at home most of the time
That’s about what has happend these past months. I hope to update this site more in the future.

Written by Liekie @ 02:28:05 pm
Tags: dog, Holland, rabbit, Second Life, update, Webcams, Work

So this Sundaymorning we were sleeping late when suddenly at 10:30 am the phone started ringing. F*ck… At the moment the answering machine  wanted to take  a message , the person at the other side ended the connection so we had to hear this terrible no connection sound as well.
When we were  almost fell asleep, the damned phone started ringing again!!!  F*ck f*ck f*ck!!! But this time  the person who was calling left a message.  It turned out  to be a customer who asked if the chief could call him back tomorrow. Because another tenant has rats in his cellar as well. The tenant noticed a rat coming out of a box, and was so shocked he accidentally overturned a shelf.
MORON!!!!! Couldn’t you call tomorrow instead of Sundaymorning 10:30 am when we are still sleeping!!!!!
This is 1 of the advantages when you are working at home. You cannot oversleep, because there’s always some customer to call you awake…

Written by Liekie @ 12:00:00 am
Tags: rats, weekend, Work

Well, it finally happened. Rico and I have been defeated by a cold. Last Tuesday the Chief came in sick from a terrible cold again and this time he passed the cold on to us. On Thursday it got hold on Rico first. He didn’t feel well all Friday long, but yesterday he felt better again. And last night it got hold on me. it started when I went to bed. My nose got filled with snot and my throat started feeling raw. And now I start feeling crappy… Everything is starting to get filled with snot, I am sneezing all the time and feeling more crappier… Thanks a lot Chief!!!

Written by Liekie @ 07:30:49 pm
Tags: chief, health, Work

Yeah!!! My very annoying colleague Karin is gone for 2 weeks!!
She’s on her holidays now. I’ve only been at work for 1 day now, and it was so nice and quite! Because now the intercom isn’t used that much. You can read more about her in a previous post called Annoying colleague.

Written by Liekie @ 01:29:44 pm
Tags: colleague, Work