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