lots going on.
skipping over ninetyeight percent of it to say that i had a cozy thursday with johnny in the city.
made an event of going to the udlændingeservice to hand in my ægtefællesamføring papers so i can get that most prized of visas in my (new) passport ... permanent residency, laaa..::glory::.. we took a number and spent the hour of waiting to be called sitting at the lakes, then handed in all the stuff and headed over to have a burger. all thats left is to wait...three months?...until i am approved. and then i can get a job.
in the meantime, i am heading back to danish class. starting tomorrow...really looking forward. i have plenty of time now so...way to fill it with something productive. called the school today to set up an appointment and spoke about five minutes in danish with someone on the other end who turned out to be an american...at which point in the conversation we switched to english, because it feels weird. realized after i hung up that i didnt quite know that was an american accent because none of my american friends ever speak danish, and i had never heard it before. bizarre.
these days have been mostly filled with good intentions, instant coffee, lots of jane austen (for whom i give daily thanks), contentment in marriage and baking. my latest triumph has been sunflower seed bread, which is as easy to make as it is delicious. enjoy the tune below as you are out on your bikes, milking the last truly sunny summer days in copenhagen.
watching // both bridget jones'
listening // "action/reaction" - choir of young believers
reading // emma - jane austen
awaiting // Lost season 5 on dvd (hello, december 8th...)
torsdag, august 20
lørdag, august 8
est. 20.06.09
hej...
finally got around to uploading the wedding pictures to facebook.
here are two little links to the albums:
album // one
album // two
it was seriously one of the most beautiful days in the history of earth.
can hardly believe how we got so lucky when i look at those pictures - both with the weather, and with each other.
john is such a babe.
we went to a movie in the park last night - "zulu sommerbio" - where everyone brings a blanket, grills out on those mini webers, and watches a movie at 9.30. it is Super cozy - like the ultimate summer night. yesterday they showed this swedish movie called "mænd, der hader kvinder" - men that hate women. its based on the first book in a series of three that john has been devouring for the last two months, so we thought we would check it out. yea, apparently there were like 15,000 danes with the same idea. place was packed, and the movie - though Really good - has some super violent and disturbing scenes/themes (but that is a swedish movie for you - they are worse than the danes when it comes to this stuff...and thats not coming from me. i heard three different danes say it last night, no joke) ... so even while youre having it cozy in the open air with the stars and a few thousand of your closest friends, it is still Super Weird when there are like -- totally uncensored booty on the screen!! and there you are, in the middle of the mob, knowing that in every direction around you are tons of people watching that same booty on the gigantic screen. a bit bizarre.
finally started a blog for our business, which we are going to try and get in order so we can hopefully start by the end of spring next year. been reading a lot about marketing, very interesting stuff. we bought the domain name and ive drawn out the page designs and our business model is pretty close to water-tight...so the ball is rolling. and hopefully that ball will continue to roll until we can afford a nice big apartment in the middle of the city by the canals (which is really only 8 minutes away on the bike...we dont have it so bad right now at all), maybe a boat or at least his&hers jetskis, whatever we will need for little ones in the future, and enough left over for lots of family vacations. because i will be wanting to return to key west within the next few years.
speaking of. here are honeymoon pictures:
album // one
album // two
now you are informed.
tonight we are going on a boat ride around the canals, then out for tapas in østerbro. will be super cozy. it is like high summer weather around here right now (even went to the beach two days ago) - so we are milking it for all we can get.
off to continue my reading, and to enjoy my day.
watching // lost in translations
listening // "goodbye" - emmylou harris
reading // "emma" - jane austen ... "the new rules of marketing and pr" - david meerman scott
finally got around to uploading the wedding pictures to facebook.
here are two little links to the albums:
album // one
album // two
it was seriously one of the most beautiful days in the history of earth.
can hardly believe how we got so lucky when i look at those pictures - both with the weather, and with each other.
john is such a babe.
we went to a movie in the park last night - "zulu sommerbio" - where everyone brings a blanket, grills out on those mini webers, and watches a movie at 9.30. it is Super cozy - like the ultimate summer night. yesterday they showed this swedish movie called "mænd, der hader kvinder" - men that hate women. its based on the first book in a series of three that john has been devouring for the last two months, so we thought we would check it out. yea, apparently there were like 15,000 danes with the same idea. place was packed, and the movie - though Really good - has some super violent and disturbing scenes/themes (but that is a swedish movie for you - they are worse than the danes when it comes to this stuff...and thats not coming from me. i heard three different danes say it last night, no joke) ... so even while youre having it cozy in the open air with the stars and a few thousand of your closest friends, it is still Super Weird when there are like -- totally uncensored booty on the screen!! and there you are, in the middle of the mob, knowing that in every direction around you are tons of people watching that same booty on the gigantic screen. a bit bizarre.
finally started a blog for our business, which we are going to try and get in order so we can hopefully start by the end of spring next year. been reading a lot about marketing, very interesting stuff. we bought the domain name and ive drawn out the page designs and our business model is pretty close to water-tight...so the ball is rolling. and hopefully that ball will continue to roll until we can afford a nice big apartment in the middle of the city by the canals (which is really only 8 minutes away on the bike...we dont have it so bad right now at all), maybe a boat or at least his&hers jetskis, whatever we will need for little ones in the future, and enough left over for lots of family vacations. because i will be wanting to return to key west within the next few years.
speaking of. here are honeymoon pictures:
album // one
album // two
now you are informed.
tonight we are going on a boat ride around the canals, then out for tapas in østerbro. will be super cozy. it is like high summer weather around here right now (even went to the beach two days ago) - so we are milking it for all we can get.
off to continue my reading, and to enjoy my day.
watching // lost in translations
listening // "goodbye" - emmylou harris
reading // "emma" - jane austen ... "the new rules of marketing and pr" - david meerman scott
onsdag, august 5
better than a haiku
womens faults are many.
men have only two.
everything they say -
and everything they do.
//
too funny...
men have only two.
everything they say -
and everything they do.
//
too funny...
tirsdag, august 4
i check the ice and i brush off my shoulder
wild week.
about eighty projects in the air right now, or five, but it is busy.
redoing the bathroom, because i couldnt stand to look at it anymore...
...started that last monday and "gave it gas" (as the danes say) for three solid days, then both money and energy sputtered out and died.
...and now i cant stand looking at the three-quarters done thing with nothing on the walls and nowhere to hang a towel. but the road to such a bathroom was paved with such intentions.
writing out and preparing to send like, ninety thank-you cards after the chicago party. that has been an undertaking.
its hard to sit down in front of a blank card (though it is fabulous and gorgeously typeset with the color, font and theme that has carried through our entire wedding -- and isnt that just the beauty -- looking at the whole production from invite to "thank you" and appreciating all the details that were planned in advance and tied the thing together...and quietly congratulating yourself for it)...and not spend sixty minutes telling each recipient exactly why you are so grateful that they came to your party and gave you something nice. it took me about six hours just to get through the first twenty. because everybody was so sweet to us. the heart is so thankful but the hand is weak and needs to be iced.
my mother wants me to send the cards from here, instead of boxing them up, shipping them to palatine and sending them there for fortytwo cents instead of about two dollars. and since she is still the boss of me (??!) i didnt feel like contesting. no problem, except that it costs like five times as much, and means that i will be adhering all manner of danish stamps to these cards for many, many hours in the days to come. its like nine kroner to send a letter to the states, so instead of just buying tons of 9kr stamps, i got like - .25s, .50s, 1krs, 2,50krs, 6krs, 8krs - so that every card will had a few different ones on there. it will take forever, but i hope it turns out cool. plenty of good music to tide me over as i work. see below for inspiration.
also been baking lots. friends coming over tomorrow for lunch will be greeted with cockatoo cupcakes (same recipe as the wedding cake, just with more mango these days because...i wish it was summer and this helps) and my new signature cookie: chocolate chip walnut with brown-sugar. i swear, even the most severe dieter would crumble against this cookie´s tasty charm. and yes, clearly, the pun was intentional.
speaking of hilarious and brilliant. wow - heavy sarcasm tonight...
i was signed in to an old gmail account before hopping over here to blogger and so it took me to a "dashboard" from many, many years ago...and brought up a list of a ton of old blogs that i havent used for such a long time and totally forgot about. spent some hours reading about the summer before my second year of masters, actually - gripping, crucial life drama, of course. just very interesting. i guess it was all a really long time ago even though i still feel like i am nineteen and kind of an idiot. being married doesnt change that. getting super old probably wont either. that is both comforting and bizarre.
anyway. baked cookies, baked cupcakes, made some kick-ay pizza dough with basil and enjoyed that tasty pizza with john, who is as handsome as he is patient and loving. a pretty good day, i will admit.
ps. spent an awesome afternoon on sunday in the middle of copenhagen with about 10,000 danes at a fest called stella polaris where they just set up a few tents in a huge garden by the state art museum and pump some really beautiful electronic music for hours and hours. it was totally surreal. there were beautiful danes all over the place, so chill, laying on the grass with a beer in one hand and the other in the air. that rolling stones remix down there was quite the hit. just saying - we have been out and about these days. gotta love this city.
watching // "scrubs" - season four
listening // "you cant always get what you want (remix)" - rolling stones / soulwax
reading // "a little princess" - frances hodgson burnett & "homicidal psycho jungle cat" - calvin & hobbes
about eighty projects in the air right now, or five, but it is busy.
redoing the bathroom, because i couldnt stand to look at it anymore...
...started that last monday and "gave it gas" (as the danes say) for three solid days, then both money and energy sputtered out and died.
...and now i cant stand looking at the three-quarters done thing with nothing on the walls and nowhere to hang a towel. but the road to such a bathroom was paved with such intentions.
writing out and preparing to send like, ninety thank-you cards after the chicago party. that has been an undertaking.
its hard to sit down in front of a blank card (though it is fabulous and gorgeously typeset with the color, font and theme that has carried through our entire wedding -- and isnt that just the beauty -- looking at the whole production from invite to "thank you" and appreciating all the details that were planned in advance and tied the thing together...and quietly congratulating yourself for it)...and not spend sixty minutes telling each recipient exactly why you are so grateful that they came to your party and gave you something nice. it took me about six hours just to get through the first twenty. because everybody was so sweet to us. the heart is so thankful but the hand is weak and needs to be iced.
my mother wants me to send the cards from here, instead of boxing them up, shipping them to palatine and sending them there for fortytwo cents instead of about two dollars. and since she is still the boss of me (??!) i didnt feel like contesting. no problem, except that it costs like five times as much, and means that i will be adhering all manner of danish stamps to these cards for many, many hours in the days to come. its like nine kroner to send a letter to the states, so instead of just buying tons of 9kr stamps, i got like - .25s, .50s, 1krs, 2,50krs, 6krs, 8krs - so that every card will had a few different ones on there. it will take forever, but i hope it turns out cool. plenty of good music to tide me over as i work. see below for inspiration.
also been baking lots. friends coming over tomorrow for lunch will be greeted with cockatoo cupcakes (same recipe as the wedding cake, just with more mango these days because...i wish it was summer and this helps) and my new signature cookie: chocolate chip walnut with brown-sugar. i swear, even the most severe dieter would crumble against this cookie´s tasty charm. and yes, clearly, the pun was intentional.
speaking of hilarious and brilliant. wow - heavy sarcasm tonight...
i was signed in to an old gmail account before hopping over here to blogger and so it took me to a "dashboard" from many, many years ago...and brought up a list of a ton of old blogs that i havent used for such a long time and totally forgot about. spent some hours reading about the summer before my second year of masters, actually - gripping, crucial life drama, of course. just very interesting. i guess it was all a really long time ago even though i still feel like i am nineteen and kind of an idiot. being married doesnt change that. getting super old probably wont either. that is both comforting and bizarre.
anyway. baked cookies, baked cupcakes, made some kick-ay pizza dough with basil and enjoyed that tasty pizza with john, who is as handsome as he is patient and loving. a pretty good day, i will admit.
ps. spent an awesome afternoon on sunday in the middle of copenhagen with about 10,000 danes at a fest called stella polaris where they just set up a few tents in a huge garden by the state art museum and pump some really beautiful electronic music for hours and hours. it was totally surreal. there were beautiful danes all over the place, so chill, laying on the grass with a beer in one hand and the other in the air. that rolling stones remix down there was quite the hit. just saying - we have been out and about these days. gotta love this city.
watching // "scrubs" - season four
listening // "you cant always get what you want (remix)" - rolling stones / soulwax
reading // "a little princess" - frances hodgson burnett & "homicidal psycho jungle cat" - calvin & hobbes
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