"Reliefed and exhausted."

"Reliefed, and exhausted."

A bit of a exhausting day, but everything went well. I stood up very early this morning, it was 4 am and I sat at my desk surfing the net. I had this weird feeling inside of me and I felt nervous, I wasn't suprised though, cause today the planning was to get the laminate. I had to ask my Boss for a ride to Ikea, eeeek! She already confirmed though a few days ago, but still, will she have the time today?  When I arrived at work my first Boss was there, and the other Boss always comes a bit later. My first Boss asked me how I was, and I told him that I was nervous and feel overwhelmed, I explained why. "Marleen, (my second Boss) will arrive at 9:00, you can ask her then," my Boss told me. Yeah, that's easy, Mr. assertive will just do it like that, lol. I so dislike asking people to do something for me, it's hard for me.
 

When Marleen arrived I went on with my work and waited for the right time to ask her, and I waited and waited and waited. Just before our coffee break at 10:00 I (kinda) asked her, and she said, "Yes." After the coffee break we waited a while and we took off, Ikea here we come. It was already late tough, I had another appointment at 12:00, so there was a bit of a hurry. My appointment was with Paula and another staff member called Heidi, once in 3 months every resident gets a rapport about how the resident is doing. Today it was my time, with a few other residents. Marleen is a good driver I noticed, she had a big car and we were at Ikea before we knew it. It wasn't that busy so that was a good thing too. Parking the (long) car was a bit, hmm, a problem, lol. I had my shopping list what I needed and everything went well. 

The floor I bought.

I still had the measures from the laminate on a paper from when I was visiting Ikea the last time, Mark went with me then. On the shopping list stood aswell the name of the matress what I wanted, with the last visit at Ikea I did a matress test, so I was good. We weren't sure about the underfloor for the laminate, so we asked someone from a Ikea, piece of cake. After the asking it was time to get everything on a cart, 20 boxes of laminate, 3 big rolls of under floor and another 3 packages of underfloor, a matress and another thin matress, done! Funny how the matress was packed, lol Ikea packed the matress in like a carpet, they rolled it in. It was so easy to take with us. When you unpack the matress it has to lay for 24 hours, cause of the foam. 

The matress I bought.

It was time for the paying, the cart was pretty heavy to push forward with all that laminate. The price wasn't that bad, I thought it was much more, I used my new 'Ikea family card' aswell, to get a discount. When I recieved the receipt I knew something wasn't right, Marleen and I walked towards the parkinglot to pack everything in the car. I told Marleen that the cashier made a mistake, she forgot to count the second underfloor (for the laminate) That's alright," said Marleen, "That's your luck today." She was right, I was lucky. I couldn't believe that everything fitted in the car, the car was fully packed and we went back to Reha. It was 11:50 and I knew already I would be to late for the appointment. Marleen adviced me to call when we are back, that's the least I could do. It was a bit of a puzzle how I was gonna solve this day. 

This card saved me money.

The 12:00 'o' clock appointment couldn't go trough cause I was to late, and the next appointment was at 2:00 pm. A fridge will be delivered, strange time though cause the seller told me he will deliver the fridge between 2:00 and 4:00. A nice day to plan things, lol. Anyway, Marleen and I arrived back at work and we decided to leave the stuff in the car and I make a phonecall. After I told Paula that I couldn't make it, she told me that she will call back, well alright. It was a bit after 12:00 and it was lunch time at Reha, a nice time for a break. Planning and thinking made me quiet while having my lunch, My Boss told me that he will drive Marleen's car to my house at 1:30, then I will ride my bike to my house. 

After lunch I finnished what I started this morning, I worked on a wooden lounge seat. One thing I'm really glad off is that I still will be working at Reha, when I live in the my new house. It's all in the same city, here they will be looking for work for me aswell. I'm happy with that. It was 1:30 and I took off, my Boss followed in the car with a full car. It was such a lot of work getting the laminate into my place, ugh!! But we did it, well actually I did the most, cause my Boss had a weak back. (1) 20 Packages of laminate out of the car and into the hallway from the building where I live,(2)  from the hallway to the elevator, (3) in the elevator, (4) out of the elevator in the second hallway, and at last, (5) from the second hallway in my house, *faints*. I was exhausted, and was ready for a short sit down. 

Then the bell ranged, I guessed that was the fridge, and yes it was! I had to go downstairs again to help out, I saw twwo old men with a fridge. One guy looked like he was in his 60's and the older in his 70's, the older man wanted to help, but I told him that I will help out, "You can hold the door," I said. It's an old looking fridge and it sure needs a clean up, but now now, I was exhausted. I payed the two old men, and they took off, and that was actually it for this day. 'Here' for I made myself nerves, there was no need to, but it's normal. Being nerves for a moving sure goes automaticly, and don't say it's not true, lol. I went back to Humanitas for my deserved rest, I planned to go back to the house tonight with a resident, to lay the underfloor for the laminate, then that's done. 

Paula stopped me, when she saw me. She asked me how my day went and I told her how it was, I also appoligized for the chancelled appointment. Paula told me that it wasn't that important, she wrote already the rapport with another staff member, "We can look it in in our next appointment," paula told me. That was alright with me, still felt a bit pitty though that I couldn't make it. Pity for myself cause I really like the staff members here, I want to spend my last days with them, make them laugh or have a nice talk. Paula told me that when I am ready with my house, like you are able to live there, you can deliver the keys and inform the receptionist, then she will write you out and help you further with the money and other stuff, hmm! 

That was not what I actually had planned, there won't be anyone in the weekend at Humanitas, and that's not really a nice goodbye then. Just deliver the keys to a staffmember and then sign a paper and that's it? Au revoir? No, I won't do that. I know why Paula says that though, everyday more here cost me money, 28 Euro a day. I have the money for it, but I can save money when I leave earlier. But still no, I will leave Monday morning when most of the staff members are there. Sunday night will be my last night at Humanitas, am I ready? Emotionally? No, but I will be upcomming Monday, I'm sure. I will prepair myself these last comming days. One last thing I did with Henkie this evening was laying the underfloor, Henkie is a nice guy, tons of tattoo's, wears a cap most of the time but most off all, he's funny, gentle and calm. 

We were done in a hour, it went pretty easy. I never layed laminate in my life, I will learn that tomorrow. So far I have 3 people who will help me out, I hope the laying goes well, yeah I'm a bit of a perfectionist. That's why the nerves a bit for tomorrow's laying, oh well we just will see it. It was a long day, time to relax!