What a nice rest full day off I had, I rested well in the morning, and the afternoon was fabulous with a great gift. Today we celebrate Sinterklaas, just like we do every year on the 5th of December.Your all probably wondering who or what Sinterklaas means...
Sinterklaas or more formally Sint Nicolaas or Sint Nikolaas; Saint Nicolas in French is a traditional winter holiday figure still celebrated today in the low Countries, including the Netherlands and Belgium. He is also well known in territories of the former Dutch Empire, including Aruba, Suriname, Curaçao, Bonaire, and Indonesia. He is one of the sources of the holiday figure of Santa Claus in North America. Sinterklaas is an elderly, stately and serious man with white hair and a long, full beard.
He wears a long red cape or chasuble over a traditional white bishop's alb and sometimes red stola, dons a red mitre, and holds a gold-coloured crosier, a long ceremonial shepherd's staff with a fancy curled top and also has a ruby ring. He carries the big book of Saint Nicolas that tells whether each individual child has been good or naughty in the past year. He traditionally rides a white gray horse. A Zwarte Piet (Black Pete, plural Zwarte Pieten) is a servant of Sinterklaas, usually an adolescent in blackface with black curly hair, dressed up like a 17-th century page in a colourful dress.
Often with a lace collar, and donning a feathered cap. Sinterklaas and his Black Pete usually carry a bag which contains candy for nice children and a roe, a chimney sweep's broom made of willow branches, used to spank naughty children. Some of the older Sinterklaas songs make mention of naughty children being put in the bag and being taken back to Spain. The Zwarte Pieten toss candy around, a tradition supposedly originating in Sint Nicolaas' story of saving three young girls from prostitution by tossing golden coins through their window at night to pay their father's debts.
Enough about Sinterklaas, back to me,lol. Like I said I had a wonderfull rest in the morning, just before lunch I putted op my Christmas tree. That was a piece of cake, a foot, the fake tree and a plug, that was it. It's a fake blossom Christmas tree, it can be put outside aswell. But it stays nicely here in the living room, it still needs some more decorations and then it's done. I will have a look around in the weekend. After my lunch I rested a bit more and then it was time to do a few groceries and buying Christmas cards. Yeah I will be sending some cards this year.
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| The Charlie Brown Christmas tree. |
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| It needs more decoration but everything on time, right? |
Around 3:00 I took of to my job, not for work but a little celebration. A nice sit together with every fellow workers and office workers, just because we celebrate the 5th of December. It was actually my day off but most workers were already asking me yesterday if I'm gonna show up today for the celebration. I was excited to go so I surely went, and it was great. When I entered the factory I got a nice welcome and cheering, lol. Some were still cleaning or working, but at 3:15 it was off to the cantine. The cantine was fully packed, I counted 29 people. There were drinks and warm snacks, and joyfull conversations.
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| Just a suitcase I thought, and that was already a nice gift... |
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| .....And then I opened the suitcase. Woot! |
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| Under in the suitcase I found a box with this inside it. |
The 80 Euro, and now this, and it isn't even Christmas yet. I meant what I said, I truly love my job, not only for the gifts and for the outs together. The work is great, I like the fellow workers, I'm blessed. I thank God on my knees for the permanent contract. I said it a few times when I cycled home after the fest, "I'm happy!" But not to hard, I wispered it. Cause when I say it out loud, the next day the oppisite might or will happen. I found that out a few times, or it were just my thoughts.
