2009 a year of facebook and tweets.

I walked home from work through a snow blizzard in the early hours of this morning. As I look out of my window now it is still snowing hard although it did stop long enough for me to nip to the store and take some pictures along the way...



( Walking In A Winter Wonderland )

The Rembrandt Square is finished. Yesterday there was a modest opening ceremony or perhaps a celebration that Dutch construction workers have actually managed to complete a building project.

Anyway, it looks nice all opened up and with less foliage and the remains of last night's snow fall.

Last night it snowed quite heavily which it rarely does here in Amsterdam. Of course by this morning most of it had vanished, however I did attempt to take a photo of the winter wonderland outside my bedroom window.



Strange.

I'm still sick, I have a chesty cough, a cold and the shivers, plus I feel truly miserable at the moment. I just want Christmas to be over so I can go on being miserable without the added inconvenience of a complete lack of holiday spirit.

Conversation I had last night.



Guy: So what did you do in Atlanta?
Me: I was basically a housewife.
Guy: Are you sure you weren't a house-elf?

I know I represent the lollipop guild but come on!

We loosely celebrated Hannukah today. I have no idea what it is all about but David had to light a candle 30 minutes before sundown and say some prayers in Hebrew.

He then ate a shrimp cocktail, though I'm pretty sure that isn't part of the tradition.

( Jews )

The weather here is doing a perfect job of reflecting my mood. I took this today mid-afternoon. This is what daylight mostly looks like up here during the winter.



I don't know if I could handle glorious sunshine mocking my misery, although it would certainly make wandering around job hunting more pleasurable.