A fabulous New Year with Friends :)

If you are wondering what we have done in our New years party, well it was
a B-L-A-S-T!!!
We were invited to our best friends Hans and Lisa (who has a very interesting blog herself : http://awitchinthecity.blogspot.com/ it's full of surprises so check it out).

We had great food that Lisa made, tasty drinks, a very nice karaoke session , in which everyone joined along, brilliant gift game, which was so cool.
I brought a brownie cake also. It was so nice to watch the fireworks together and also to put on silly hats, so here, these are the nicest pictures :D

We were still shy in this one :

 What a nice presents game

I wish you all lots of love for 2012 !!!

We wore silly hats, yeah, and this is my snowman

Thanks Lisa and Hans for such a good time, I won't forget it and hope for much more joined parties together.

02/01/2012

It is just amazing how hard days can change into fun days in just a number of hours

Today I started my day at the hospital, giving some blood for some more tests, after having taken some not so nice pills, and I had to deliver some more samples. I felt nauseous cold and uncomfortable. Luckily my man was there to comfort me. I love him so much. Thank you sweetheart for being my friend.

Later on , we stopped in the HEMA, which is one of the nicer stores in Holland. They also have a restaurant , and we had a nice breakfast together. After that we went back home, and I found out I could probably still attend dutch school, so tomorrow I am going down there to see if I can attend one of the ongoing courses.

A little bit later my Israeli friend Racheli who lives in Belgium , her husband and 4 kids came over for coffee and snacks. I haven't seen them in a year and a half, and it was really nice to see there sweet kids, who had no problem playing on a carpet with no floor, they are so sweet.

It was nice to speak Hebrew again, with Dutch and English all in the same sentence.

This Thursday a great friend of mine is going on a vacation, to London .
I want to get her something nice for the trip, any ideas?

I hope these upcoming years are going to be as happy and great like the first few days of 2012. I wish you all a fantastic new year.

The mad Scientist

Happy New Year

I love Oliebollen.
Oliebollen are the dutch doughnuts. They are balls with raisins in them fried in deep oil. In Israel we call them Sufganya, and we fill them with Jam.
We eat them to celebrate Hannukah and the miracle of the Menorah that gave light for 8 days instead of one. That's why there are a lot of oily foods around these times of the year. Here is an Oliebol:

Here is the Jewish version, the sufganya:

I love both versions.
In this time of the year, the streets in Holland are full with stools which sell those everywhere, it's beautiful.
I had my official one yesterday with my man, and this is how we looked after it. 

I wasn't around so much since I went to the hospital and was busy with my health for a couple of days. 

The doctor thinks I mave have a conidtion called : Cushing's Disease, which means that I have extra Cortisol in my body. And that makes me tired, anxious, nervous, fat (I gained 30 kg's in 2 years), and I have a very swollen belly all the time. 

There are a lot more symptoms. If you are interested in knowing you can read about it here:

http://www.medicalook.com/Hormonal_disorders/Cushings_syndrome.html

Since this condition becomes worse when I am stressed (since Cortisol is the stress hormone), I am going to talk about happy things now :

Tonight we are going to celebrate new years with our best friends Hand and Lisa, we are going to have a nice dinner and drink champagne and play games and just see the fireworks. 

Here in Holland, it's legal to have fireworks throughout the last day of the year, so throughout the day, children are playing with fireworks. It's a bit scary since I am not used to those sounds of explosions, but I can't wait till tonight when it's all pretty and the fireworks are amazing!!! 

I WISH YOU ALL A WONDERFUL (HEALTHY) 2012 , 

may it bring joy in your homes and love in your arms

Cheers from the mad scientist