Når jeg futter rundt herhjemme lørdag formiddag og ellers husker at tænde for radioen, kan jeg godt lide at høre Mads & Monopolet. Lige som ca. trekvart million andre danskere.
I dag var et af dilemmaerne, at en pige skulle holde en surprise-fest for sin kæreste, og hun var i tvivl om hun skulle invitere hans eks-kæreste som nu var en af hans gode venner. Monopolet var meget enige om, at hun skulle være overskudsagtig og invitere eks'en med, og det synes jeg også.
Jeg er selv gode venner med flere eks-kærester. Jeg har også en del mandlige venner, og vé den nye kæreste som kunne finde på at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved dét. Venner kan man never-ever få for mange af, og jo flere forskellige slags, jo bedre. Det gælder også den anden vej rundt - jeg kan sagtens have det anstrengt med en ny kærestes pigevenner indtil jeg føler mig helt sikker i sadlen, mere hellig er jeg ikke, men noget besøgsforbud kunne jeg ikke drømme om at udstede.
(Det er vel overflødigt at nævne, at jeg her udelukkende tænker på platoniske venskaber. Ikke gramsevenner, eller friends with benefits)
Men så kom jeg til at tænke på - hvad med nye venner?
Altså: lad os sige, at jeg møder en fyr. Vi er ikke tiltrukket af hinanden, men vi snakker bare helt vildt godt sammen, griner ad de samme ting, og synes i det hele taget at hinanden er jättegodt selskab. Hverken mere eller mindre.
Men han har en kæreste. Eller en kone.
Hvad så? Må jeg så stadig godt blive venner med ham - eller er det lige så forbudt som at lægge an på ham?
- Hvad synes mit eget private monopol???
@ N ~ on Saturday mornings I like to listen to a Danish radio show. The concept is simple - you can call or e-mail them with a dilemma, and then the host and 3 Danish celebritites give their opinions on what you should do. The dilemmas vary a lot, from petty issues to some really big things where you really have no clue what you would do if you were in their shoes.
One of the dilemmas today was quite an easy one. A girl was planning a surprise party for her boyfriend and wanted to know if she should invite his ex who is now just one of his close friends. She wasn't feeling insecure about their relationship or anything, but would it be weird to have the ex there?
The vote was quite unanimous - she should be magnanimous and invite the ex.
I agree. I have managed to stay friends with a few of my ex-boyfriends, and I'm really glad to still have them in my life. I also have quite a few male friends. And I wouldn't give up seeing any of them - in my opinion a person cannot have too many friends, and having many different kinds of friends (ie not just girl-friends, if you're a girl) is a gift. Yeah, I do feel insecure if I have a new boyfriend who has close friends that are girls, but that is my issue to deal with, and once I feel secure in the relationship it stops being an issue.
But then I thought - what about new friends?
Say I meet a man. We're not attracted to each other, but we get along really well. We enjoy talking to each other, we laugh at the same things, and basically we just think the other one is really good fun to hang out with. Nothing more, nothing less.
But he has a girlfriend. Or he's married.
Then what? Am I still allowed to make friends with him? Or is he off-limits in the same way he would be if I wanted to go to bed with him?
Opinions appreciated.
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Wanna date a foreigner?
Hvilken decideret behagelig lørdag. Jeg har futtet rundt i mit køkken og bagt Signes mavepine-cookies (anbefalelsesværdige! Kan også med fordel indtages rå - min egen private svaghed ...) og Køkkenfasters knækbrød (bør ikke indtages rå - er til gengæld fantastiske; især hvis man messer for sig selv "det er det sunde fedt, det er det sunde fedt, det er det sunde fedt" mens man spiser sig mæt i dem).
Mens jeg tussede rundt og hyggede mig, hørte jeg radioavis. En af historierne var, at hver anden dansker gerne vil sige pænt nej tak til et muslimsk svigerbarn. Især de danskere, som har pigebørn, kunne jeg forstå.
Nu var mit indianernavn i 7 år jo "Danser med Persere" (iranere altså - ikke kattene). Så jeg synes, jeg har en vis baggrund for at have en mening om det emne.
Og min mening er: det er lige meget. TOTALT lige meget. De skal bare være gode mennesker, svigerbørnene.
Muslimer har jo nemlig det tilfælles med protestanter, at de faktisk ikke er specielt ens. Bare tænk på spændet mellem de allerargeste Jehovas Vidner og kun-ved-jul-og-bryllupper-kirkegængerne. Og hvor mange nuancer der er der imellem.
Nej, jeg har ikke lyst til at være kærester med en rabiat muslim. Men jeg har heller ikke lyst til at være kærester med en aggressiv indremissionær, som vil trække sine holdninger ned over mit krøllede hoved og få mig til at rette ind. Faktisk vil jeg slet ikke være kærester med nogen, der vil præke for mig og som ikke giver køb på én eneste af sine egne holdninger, thi han kender Den Eneste Sande og Rette Vej. (Det udelukker så også en del politikere)
Jeg vil derimod gerne være kærester med en sød muslim, hvis jeg møder sådan en. Sådan en, der godt nok ikke gider æde min hjemmelavede leverpostej (og den er ellers god!) men som heller ikke forlader bordet i protest, fordi der står både flæskesteg og kyllingefrikadeller på det. En som godt gider at holde Jul med mig og min familie - bare han må slippe for den norske Juleribbe og nøjes med Juleanden - og som til gengæld inviterer os med til at fejre Eid. En som måske nok gerne vil have sin søn omskåret, men hvis verden ikke styrter i grus hvis det ikke sker. En, der holder af mig som jeg er, og som tror på Rummeligheden.
Og ved I hvad? De findes. Endda i flere udgaver. Nu var min eks faktisk ikke muslim, men han kom da i den grad fra de varme lande. Og ja - mine forældre var da afventende, da jeg først kom trækkende med ham. For så mange eksotiske udlændinge bliver man ikke eksponeret for her i Verdens Navle hvorfra min verden går, og i øvrigt skal alle svigersønner jo lige ses an. Men de blev helt utrolig glade for ham - ikke på trods af at han var udlænding, men fordi han var (er!) et fantastisk dejligt menneske.
Og det er dét, det handler om, når man skal ud og finde en, man gerne vil dele sin verden med. Man skal finde de Gode Mennesker. Man skal finde dem, der føles som en handske der bare sidder perfekt. Man skal finde dem, der passer ind i ens liv, og hvor man passer ind i deres. Man skal finde dem, der passer på én, og som har lyst til at fusionere de to forskellige baggrunde til én fælles fremtid. Og så er det faktisk ligegyldigt, om de to baggrunde hedder kristen/muslim, jyde/københavner, dansker/italiener, eller hvad.
Det handler om at finde Gode Mennesker.
Og om at være et.
@ N ~ today's blog post is my two cents on a story I heard on the news today. According to a survey, 50% of Danes would very much prefer it if their future son (or daughter) in-law did not come from a Muslim background.
Now, that is quite a high number. According to some statistics I googled (for Danish readers: Danmarks Statistik, www.dst.dk), around 3-5% of the Danish population are Muslims. They get more than 5% of the news coverage, I think. Mostly bad press.
This is (often, not always) because some of them are idiots. Irrefutable fact. But my unscientific estimate is that we have roughly the same percentage of idiots in the part of the population that are so-called "ethnic Danes". It is probably not the same kind of idiocy, but idiots are idiots.
And we do not want to date idiots. Of any kind. When I say "we", I mean "I", of course. But I hope I'm not alone with this opinion.
What I think is this: It doesn't matter if your future son-in-law is called Hassan and doesn't eat pork. It does matter that he is a good person.
All Muslims are not alike. They're as different as Protestants. In Denmark we have all kinds of Protestants - from the very intolerant ones to the bog-standard indifferent variety. I think it's a safe bet to say that we have a similar range of Muslims.
I do not have any desire to date a radical Muslim. I also do not want to date, say, a devout Latter Day Saint who wants me to adopt every single one of his beliefs without so much as considering any of mine. In fact, I do not want to date anyone who thinks he knows The True Path and is hell-bent on getting everyone else to walk it as well (this also means I would probably have a hard time with most politicians ...).
What I wouldn't mind dating is a nice Muslim guy, if I bump into one of those. The kind of man who politely says no thanks to the standard Danish "frikadelle" (meatball) which is made of pork - but who happily tucks into my Mom's alternative-frikadelle-version made with ground beef (that was an accident, actually - she thawed a package of ground beef thinking it was pork. And went ahead and made frikadeller anyway, and they were darned delicious I can tell you). A man who will celebrate Christmas with me and my family, as long as he gets a juicy piece of roast duck (in Denmark, we generally have roast duck or roast pork for Christmas. Sometimes both). And who will, in turn, invite me and my family to come and celebrate Eid with him and his family. A man who might think that his newborn son should have the traditional circumcision - but who doesn't fly into a rage if his wife disagrees. A man who will like me for who I am, and who will like my family, and who believes in tolerance, give and take, and co-existence.
These men do exist. Also in the Muslim version. My ex wasn't Muslim, but he was certainly from that part of the world, and when I brought him home, my parents were wary at first. After all - this is mostly about fear of the unknown. But it didn't take very long before they just loved him. Not in spite of his background, but because he was, and is, a Good (wonderful, in fact) Person.
And you know what, that is what matters. Finding Good People. Finding people who fit into your life, and where you fit into theirs. Finding people whose family you like, and who like yours. Finding someone who wants to take their own specific background and blend it with yours to create a new platform from which you can meet the world together. And this applies to all combinations - Dane/Foreigner, Countrymouse/Citydweller, Protestant/Muslim, you name it.
It's about finding a Good Person. And it's about being one.
Mens jeg tussede rundt og hyggede mig, hørte jeg radioavis. En af historierne var, at hver anden dansker gerne vil sige pænt nej tak til et muslimsk svigerbarn. Især de danskere, som har pigebørn, kunne jeg forstå.
Nu var mit indianernavn i 7 år jo "Danser med Persere" (iranere altså - ikke kattene). Så jeg synes, jeg har en vis baggrund for at have en mening om det emne.
Og min mening er: det er lige meget. TOTALT lige meget. De skal bare være gode mennesker, svigerbørnene.
Muslimer har jo nemlig det tilfælles med protestanter, at de faktisk ikke er specielt ens. Bare tænk på spændet mellem de allerargeste Jehovas Vidner og kun-ved-jul-og-bryllupper-kirkegængerne. Og hvor mange nuancer der er der imellem.
Nej, jeg har ikke lyst til at være kærester med en rabiat muslim. Men jeg har heller ikke lyst til at være kærester med en aggressiv indremissionær, som vil trække sine holdninger ned over mit krøllede hoved og få mig til at rette ind. Faktisk vil jeg slet ikke være kærester med nogen, der vil præke for mig og som ikke giver køb på én eneste af sine egne holdninger, thi han kender Den Eneste Sande og Rette Vej. (Det udelukker så også en del politikere)
Jeg vil derimod gerne være kærester med en sød muslim, hvis jeg møder sådan en. Sådan en, der godt nok ikke gider æde min hjemmelavede leverpostej (og den er ellers god!) men som heller ikke forlader bordet i protest, fordi der står både flæskesteg og kyllingefrikadeller på det. En som godt gider at holde Jul med mig og min familie - bare han må slippe for den norske Juleribbe og nøjes med Juleanden - og som til gengæld inviterer os med til at fejre Eid. En som måske nok gerne vil have sin søn omskåret, men hvis verden ikke styrter i grus hvis det ikke sker. En, der holder af mig som jeg er, og som tror på Rummeligheden.
Og ved I hvad? De findes. Endda i flere udgaver. Nu var min eks faktisk ikke muslim, men han kom da i den grad fra de varme lande. Og ja - mine forældre var da afventende, da jeg først kom trækkende med ham. For så mange eksotiske udlændinge bliver man ikke eksponeret for her i Verdens Navle hvorfra min verden går, og i øvrigt skal alle svigersønner jo lige ses an. Men de blev helt utrolig glade for ham - ikke på trods af at han var udlænding, men fordi han var (er!) et fantastisk dejligt menneske.
Og det er dét, det handler om, når man skal ud og finde en, man gerne vil dele sin verden med. Man skal finde de Gode Mennesker. Man skal finde dem, der føles som en handske der bare sidder perfekt. Man skal finde dem, der passer ind i ens liv, og hvor man passer ind i deres. Man skal finde dem, der passer på én, og som har lyst til at fusionere de to forskellige baggrunde til én fælles fremtid. Og så er det faktisk ligegyldigt, om de to baggrunde hedder kristen/muslim, jyde/københavner, dansker/italiener, eller hvad.
Det handler om at finde Gode Mennesker.
Og om at være et.
@ N ~ today's blog post is my two cents on a story I heard on the news today. According to a survey, 50% of Danes would very much prefer it if their future son (or daughter) in-law did not come from a Muslim background.
Now, that is quite a high number. According to some statistics I googled (for Danish readers: Danmarks Statistik, www.dst.dk), around 3-5% of the Danish population are Muslims. They get more than 5% of the news coverage, I think. Mostly bad press.
This is (often, not always) because some of them are idiots. Irrefutable fact. But my unscientific estimate is that we have roughly the same percentage of idiots in the part of the population that are so-called "ethnic Danes". It is probably not the same kind of idiocy, but idiots are idiots.
And we do not want to date idiots. Of any kind. When I say "we", I mean "I", of course. But I hope I'm not alone with this opinion.
What I think is this: It doesn't matter if your future son-in-law is called Hassan and doesn't eat pork. It does matter that he is a good person.
All Muslims are not alike. They're as different as Protestants. In Denmark we have all kinds of Protestants - from the very intolerant ones to the bog-standard indifferent variety. I think it's a safe bet to say that we have a similar range of Muslims.
I do not have any desire to date a radical Muslim. I also do not want to date, say, a devout Latter Day Saint who wants me to adopt every single one of his beliefs without so much as considering any of mine. In fact, I do not want to date anyone who thinks he knows The True Path and is hell-bent on getting everyone else to walk it as well (this also means I would probably have a hard time with most politicians ...).
What I wouldn't mind dating is a nice Muslim guy, if I bump into one of those. The kind of man who politely says no thanks to the standard Danish "frikadelle" (meatball) which is made of pork - but who happily tucks into my Mom's alternative-frikadelle-version made with ground beef (that was an accident, actually - she thawed a package of ground beef thinking it was pork. And went ahead and made frikadeller anyway, and they were darned delicious I can tell you). A man who will celebrate Christmas with me and my family, as long as he gets a juicy piece of roast duck (in Denmark, we generally have roast duck or roast pork for Christmas. Sometimes both). And who will, in turn, invite me and my family to come and celebrate Eid with him and his family. A man who might think that his newborn son should have the traditional circumcision - but who doesn't fly into a rage if his wife disagrees. A man who will like me for who I am, and who will like my family, and who believes in tolerance, give and take, and co-existence.
These men do exist. Also in the Muslim version. My ex wasn't Muslim, but he was certainly from that part of the world, and when I brought him home, my parents were wary at first. After all - this is mostly about fear of the unknown. But it didn't take very long before they just loved him. Not in spite of his background, but because he was, and is, a Good (wonderful, in fact) Person.
And you know what, that is what matters. Finding Good People. Finding people who fit into your life, and where you fit into theirs. Finding people whose family you like, and who like yours. Finding someone who wants to take their own specific background and blend it with yours to create a new platform from which you can meet the world together. And this applies to all combinations - Dane/Foreigner, Countrymouse/Citydweller, Protestant/Muslim, you name it.
It's about finding a Good Person. And it's about being one.
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Nu kan man vist godt tillade sig at gå i seng
I kender godt de der dage, hvor man ser på uret og bliver endog særdeles overrasket over, at det ikke engang er sengetid for 2-årige endnu, og man var ellers liiige klar til at krybe til køjs?
Yes, sådan en dag (eller rettere, sådan en aften) er det. Og så begynder en hårfin balancegang, for giver man efter får man måske nok et par timers søvn, men så vågner man (læs: jeg) ved 23-tiden, relativt kvik men desværre med nedslående resultater næste dag. Så kunsten består i at holde sig vågen lidt længere, men ikke så meget længere at trætheden på mystisk vis fordamper.
Som regel læser jeg bøger, men ikke lige i aften. I aften quizzer jeg mig selv i USA's forenede stater, igen-igen-igen. Der er en umådelig god tilfredshedsfølelse i at klikke på den rigtige lille plet, når der spørges "where is Rhode Island?"
... eller er jeg bare en tabernar? Uanset hvad så har jeg scoret rigtigt 3 gange i streg nu (indsæt selv ulidelig prale-smiley), og det må så betyde, at jeg roligt kan lukke ned for i aften.
Hvis jeg får et mere spændende liv at blogge om, vender jeg nok tilbage i morgen.
@ N ~ I've been wanting to go to bed since around 7PM this evening - but I know that will only result in me waking up around midnight, feeling rather awake - and completely rotten tomorrow morning. So right now I'm walking the fine line between keeping myself awake just a little longer, but not so long as for the sleepiness to go away. It is a very fine line indeed.
Normally I'd read, but not tonight - so I've taken an internet quiz and am patting myself on the back because I can now point out ... Delaware. And Kentucky. And Oregon :-)
Aren't you glad I have a blog so you can all see just how fascinating my life is?
No? Yes? ....hello?
Oh, well. It's nearly 9 now. Lights out.
Yes, sådan en dag (eller rettere, sådan en aften) er det. Og så begynder en hårfin balancegang, for giver man efter får man måske nok et par timers søvn, men så vågner man (læs: jeg) ved 23-tiden, relativt kvik men desværre med nedslående resultater næste dag. Så kunsten består i at holde sig vågen lidt længere, men ikke så meget længere at trætheden på mystisk vis fordamper.
Som regel læser jeg bøger, men ikke lige i aften. I aften quizzer jeg mig selv i USA's forenede stater, igen-igen-igen. Der er en umådelig god tilfredshedsfølelse i at klikke på den rigtige lille plet, når der spørges "where is Rhode Island?"
... eller er jeg bare en tabernar? Uanset hvad så har jeg scoret rigtigt 3 gange i streg nu (indsæt selv ulidelig prale-smiley), og det må så betyde, at jeg roligt kan lukke ned for i aften.
Hvis jeg får et mere spændende liv at blogge om, vender jeg nok tilbage i morgen.
Normally I'd read, but not tonight - so I've taken an internet quiz and am patting myself on the back because I can now point out ... Delaware. And Kentucky. And Oregon :-)
Aren't you glad I have a blog so you can all see just how fascinating my life is?
No? Yes? ....hello?
Oh, well. It's nearly 9 now. Lights out.
Monday, 14 October 2013
Jeg kan konstatere ....
... at jeg nok ikke får lavet en kunstfærdigt udskåret Jack o'lantern i år.
... men at jeg fortsat satser på at lære at bage pumpkin pie!
... at weekendens hyggelige tema fortsætter helt ind i hverdagene, hvor jeg har rare aftaler med både den ene og den anden.
... at jeg på mystisk vis har tabt måske 2 kilo (jeg har ingen badevægt). Jeg kan ikke rigtig se det selv; min mave folder stadig underligt, men pt er der lige præcis 1 par bukser, jeg kan passe. Resten er enten utrolig omfangsrige eller - desværre for flertallets vedkommende - passende i benvidden men stadigvæk umulige at lukke. HvorFOR kan det ikke være mavedellen der skrumper, hvis det absolut skal være?
... at jeg må have brugt for meget anti-aging creme på halsen. I hvert fald er netop dét areal pt temmelig teenage-agtigt at se på, med bumser hist og pist. Sehr, sehr sexy. Not.
... at min modstandskraft overfor Captain Morgan's eftervirkninger er øget betragteligt siden sidste efterår. Det kan altså godt svare sig med de rom-toddies; også selv om de svigter hvad forkølelses-bekæmpelsen angår.
... at facebooks såkaldt målrettede reklamer stadig er lidt hit-and-miss. Pt bombarderes jeg således med tilbud om fastrente-lån (hvem behøver det, når man bor til leje hos Far :-), lejlighed i Hillerød (a we' sørme snår æ' om a ku' fall' te derower), hårfjerningsmidler til ansigtet (meget fornærmende), og ÆLDRE SINGLEMÆND (se, det kunne faktisk være noget. Tiltrækker alligevel kun dem der er minimum 5-7 år ældre end mig; desværre er de meget ofte gift eller skilt eller har børn eller en kombination af alle tre ting - jeg magter det ikke, mand)
@ N ~ unscientific list of thoughts-that-popped-into-my-head.
1. I must face the fact that I probably won't get round to carving any pumpkins this year.
2. But I have not yet given up hope of baking a succesful pumpkin pie.
3. Am continuing social success from this weekend, and seeing several friends this week. Patting myself on the back for not just spending every evening on the couch - tempting as it is...
4. Yay news: I seem to have lost maybe 3-4 pounds. Downside: my wardrobe currently holds 1 pair of jeans that actually fit me, and about 10 pairs that are either too big or (the majority) still impossible to zip up. Whatever weight has melted off my body did not come from the waist section, that's for sure.
5. I may have overdone it on the anti-ageing creams on my neck. It has gone into full teenage mode and I am currently sporting 2-3 zits. Terrific.
6. My intake of rum toddies did not help much in last month's battle against The Cold from Hell but it did pay off in that I am now capable of drinking several glasses of rum&coke without waking up with the mother of all hangovers the next morning.
7. Facebook ads were supposed to be "targeted", weren't they? I am currently being offered mortgages, apartments on the other side of the country, a new way to remove my facial hair (mortally offended by that) and dates with "older men". Only the latter is remotely relevant. But I don't really need it - I only ever attract men who are 5-7 years older anyway. Unfortunately, men in that age group tend to be married, or divorced, or have children - or very often all of the above, neither of which is particularly easy to work with. So I think I'll give that a miss, thankyouverymuch.
8. I'd like to go to Ireland next year. Wanna come?
9. Starbucks opened up shop in a shopping mall near me. They serve $8 pumpkin spice lattes. I have considered a restraining order on myself. Am also obsessively googling "how to make your own pumpkin spice latte".
10. This will not help my unintentional weight loss, but it will be worth it.
11. Did you notice the English list is now longer than the Danish one?
12. My birthday is 2 weeks away today. I'll be 37. Am finding it very hard to wrap my brain around that fact. Thirty-seven. It sounds so grown up. Also, it makes me consider if I should be making one of those "40 things to do before I turn 40" lists. Which totally stresses me out, which in turn does nothing good for the teenages pimples on my neck.
13. Oh I had the weirdest pregnancy dreams last week. In one of them, I suddenly found out I had been pregnant for many, many months - but nothing was "happening". Mad stress, trying to decide if I should go see the doctor, or if I should just keep ignoring it and hope it would go away. In the other dream, I did actually have a baby. And promptly forgot about it and went away on a weekend break. Suddenly realised I had left baby at home, rushed back in panic - and found out that -relief!- it wasn't a baby at all, it was a litter of tiny kittens. Am sure these dreams are a sign of age-related panic, and doing my very best to ignore-ignore-ignore.
14. Fortunately I have also had other dreams, of the less disturbing kind (but unsuitable for blogging). Hee hee.
15. I should definitely end the list here, and go to bed.
... men at jeg fortsat satser på at lære at bage pumpkin pie!
... at weekendens hyggelige tema fortsætter helt ind i hverdagene, hvor jeg har rare aftaler med både den ene og den anden.
... at jeg på mystisk vis har tabt måske 2 kilo (jeg har ingen badevægt). Jeg kan ikke rigtig se det selv; min mave folder stadig underligt, men pt er der lige præcis 1 par bukser, jeg kan passe. Resten er enten utrolig omfangsrige eller - desværre for flertallets vedkommende - passende i benvidden men stadigvæk umulige at lukke. HvorFOR kan det ikke være mavedellen der skrumper, hvis det absolut skal være?
... at jeg må have brugt for meget anti-aging creme på halsen. I hvert fald er netop dét areal pt temmelig teenage-agtigt at se på, med bumser hist og pist. Sehr, sehr sexy. Not.
... at min modstandskraft overfor Captain Morgan's eftervirkninger er øget betragteligt siden sidste efterår. Det kan altså godt svare sig med de rom-toddies; også selv om de svigter hvad forkølelses-bekæmpelsen angår.
... at facebooks såkaldt målrettede reklamer stadig er lidt hit-and-miss. Pt bombarderes jeg således med tilbud om fastrente-lån (hvem behøver det, når man bor til leje hos Far :-), lejlighed i Hillerød (a we' sørme snår æ' om a ku' fall' te derower), hårfjerningsmidler til ansigtet (meget fornærmende), og ÆLDRE SINGLEMÆND (se, det kunne faktisk være noget. Tiltrækker alligevel kun dem der er minimum 5-7 år ældre end mig; desværre er de meget ofte gift eller skilt eller har børn eller en kombination af alle tre ting - jeg magter det ikke, mand)
@ N ~ unscientific list of thoughts-that-popped-into-my-head.
1. I must face the fact that I probably won't get round to carving any pumpkins this year.
2. But I have not yet given up hope of baking a succesful pumpkin pie.
3. Am continuing social success from this weekend, and seeing several friends this week. Patting myself on the back for not just spending every evening on the couch - tempting as it is...
4. Yay news: I seem to have lost maybe 3-4 pounds. Downside: my wardrobe currently holds 1 pair of jeans that actually fit me, and about 10 pairs that are either too big or (the majority) still impossible to zip up. Whatever weight has melted off my body did not come from the waist section, that's for sure.
5. I may have overdone it on the anti-ageing creams on my neck. It has gone into full teenage mode and I am currently sporting 2-3 zits. Terrific.
6. My intake of rum toddies did not help much in last month's battle against The Cold from Hell but it did pay off in that I am now capable of drinking several glasses of rum&coke without waking up with the mother of all hangovers the next morning.
7. Facebook ads were supposed to be "targeted", weren't they? I am currently being offered mortgages, apartments on the other side of the country, a new way to remove my facial hair (mortally offended by that) and dates with "older men". Only the latter is remotely relevant. But I don't really need it - I only ever attract men who are 5-7 years older anyway. Unfortunately, men in that age group tend to be married, or divorced, or have children - or very often all of the above, neither of which is particularly easy to work with. So I think I'll give that a miss, thankyouverymuch.
8. I'd like to go to Ireland next year. Wanna come?
9. Starbucks opened up shop in a shopping mall near me. They serve $8 pumpkin spice lattes. I have considered a restraining order on myself. Am also obsessively googling "how to make your own pumpkin spice latte".
10. This will not help my unintentional weight loss, but it will be worth it.
11. Did you notice the English list is now longer than the Danish one?
12. My birthday is 2 weeks away today. I'll be 37. Am finding it very hard to wrap my brain around that fact. Thirty-seven. It sounds so grown up. Also, it makes me consider if I should be making one of those "40 things to do before I turn 40" lists. Which totally stresses me out, which in turn does nothing good for the teenages pimples on my neck.
13. Oh I had the weirdest pregnancy dreams last week. In one of them, I suddenly found out I had been pregnant for many, many months - but nothing was "happening". Mad stress, trying to decide if I should go see the doctor, or if I should just keep ignoring it and hope it would go away. In the other dream, I did actually have a baby. And promptly forgot about it and went away on a weekend break. Suddenly realised I had left baby at home, rushed back in panic - and found out that -relief!- it wasn't a baby at all, it was a litter of tiny kittens. Am sure these dreams are a sign of age-related panic, and doing my very best to ignore-ignore-ignore.
14. Fortunately I have also had other dreams, of the less disturbing kind (but unsuitable for blogging). Hee hee.
15. I should definitely end the list here, and go to bed.
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Sommerhus-weekend
Aaah - er netop landet i egen sofa efter uforligneligt skøn, hyggelig, doven og afslappende weekend i sommerhus på Nordfyn sammen med Familien Hittemis.
Det tog lidt tid at komme derover - Lille Blå kører ganske vist med lynets hast, men mod uheld på Vejlefjordbroen kæmper selv alverdens hestekræfter forgæves. Så der opholdt vi os i en lille times tid, mens vi flyttede os for udrykningskøretøjer der kom både højre og venstre om. Det med højre om, det forstår jeg godt - det var nødsporet - men der kom også et par stykker op mellem venstre og midterste bane, og det var et værre mas for dem at komme igennem (i den forbindelse er sådan en som Lille Blå ganske fiks - den kan faktisk nærmest holde på tværs af en kørebane, så det er let lige at smutte ind bag en lastbil, så indsatslederen kan komme forbi). Så det undrede mig lidt, at nogle af dem valgte dén vej, når nu der faktisk ikke holdt en eneste idiot i nødsporet. Hm. Nå, nok om det.
Men vi nåede fint frem, og straks efter ankomsten blev jeg installeret i nærheden af brændeovnen og fik et glas rom & cola i hånden, og så blev alting ellers bare bedre og bedre derfra. Eneste ting på agendaen var afslapning, og jeg er stolt over at kunne sige, at det lykkedes til fulde.
Nå ja - og så fik jeg også årets sidste badetur. Nøj, det var vikingeagtigt (men SKØNT!!). Der er vist ingen vinterbader gemt i mit ellers så omfangsrige legeme ...
@ N ~pics from this weekend. Stayed at a summer house with friends. Consumed rum&coke, red wine, hot cocoa, and good food. Managed to squeeze in several naps AND went for a quick swim (well - dip...) on the beach. I do have the pics to prove that, but not on my own camera so you'll just have to take my word for it :-)
Det tog lidt tid at komme derover - Lille Blå kører ganske vist med lynets hast, men mod uheld på Vejlefjordbroen kæmper selv alverdens hestekræfter forgæves. Så der opholdt vi os i en lille times tid, mens vi flyttede os for udrykningskøretøjer der kom både højre og venstre om. Det med højre om, det forstår jeg godt - det var nødsporet - men der kom også et par stykker op mellem venstre og midterste bane, og det var et værre mas for dem at komme igennem (i den forbindelse er sådan en som Lille Blå ganske fiks - den kan faktisk nærmest holde på tværs af en kørebane, så det er let lige at smutte ind bag en lastbil, så indsatslederen kan komme forbi). Så det undrede mig lidt, at nogle af dem valgte dén vej, når nu der faktisk ikke holdt en eneste idiot i nødsporet. Hm. Nå, nok om det.
Men vi nåede fint frem, og straks efter ankomsten blev jeg installeret i nærheden af brændeovnen og fik et glas rom & cola i hånden, og så blev alting ellers bare bedre og bedre derfra. Eneste ting på agendaen var afslapning, og jeg er stolt over at kunne sige, at det lykkedes til fulde.
Nå ja - og så fik jeg også årets sidste badetur. Nøj, det var vikingeagtigt (men SKØNT!!). Der er vist ingen vinterbader gemt i mit ellers så omfangsrige legeme ...
@ N ~pics from this weekend. Stayed at a summer house with friends. Consumed rum&coke, red wine, hot cocoa, and good food. Managed to squeeze in several naps AND went for a quick swim (well - dip...) on the beach. I do have the pics to prove that, but not on my own camera so you'll just have to take my word for it :-)
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Alternativ form for selvforsyning
Indre Erna har været til banko i forsamlingshuset - og med mit kødforbrug rækker gevinsten faktisk til flere uger. Win!! :-)
Sunday, 6 October 2013
Optursweekend
Aaaaahrmen, har det ikke bare været en dejlig en af slagsen? Lun vind, temmelig meget sol, oceaner af god tid.
Jeg har været helt og aldeles overladt til eget fantastiske selskab hele weekenden. Efter eget valg, må jeg hellere skynde mig at tilføje! Og jeg nyder det så uforskammet meget, at det varsler uhyre ilde for at jeg nogensinde igen kommer til at bo sammen med nogen. Har ellers læst at "Living Together Apart" (dvs. gifte par, som bor hver for sig) skulle være det nye sort. Men hallå, lækre mand som er enig i dén filosofi - wo bist du?
Nu vi taler om lækre mænd, så havde jeg en meget spændende oplevelse i sidste uge. Sindsoprivende, faktisk. Jeg så nemlig en pæn en af slagsen i den lokale Dagli'Brugs! Ih dog! Jeg kan slet ikke huske hvornår det sidst er sket, og spekulerer naturligvis som en rasende på om han er lokal eller bare var på gennemfart. Det vil sikkert aldrig blive opklaret, men hey, det var 2 minutters intens spænding.
Dagen efter sad jeg ved siden af et helt basketball-hold i toget. Whoop whoop, alle de høje unge mænd. Ganske vist kun fra Horsens til Vejle, men hey, det var da 15 minutters intens spænding. OG jeg fik et stykke chokoladekage.
Her i dag fik jeg så den ultimative kompliment. Eller måske blev jeg udsat for en særdeles snedig indsamler. Jeg vælger at tro det første. En familie bankede på min dør og spurgte om jeg ville give et bidrag til Røde Kors. Da jeg gik ind efter min pung nåede jeg lige at høre den lille pige sige "ej Mor, hun er SMUK". Totalt nem som jeg er gav jeg dem naturligvis alt hvad jeg havde af småpenge. Og skrev det derefter på facebook, så venner der skulle ud med raslebøsserne kunne lære tricket.
Det har været en travl, men dejlig uge, og en lad, men dejlig weekend. I morgen starter endnu en uge, som jeg tror bliver travl. I'm ready for it.
@ N ~ hope you enjoyed your Sunday as much as I did mine.
It is almost embarrassing how much I enjoy my own company. Sometimes I feel I could happily go for days and not talk to anyone. But then, I go out and have fun with friends, and "more wants more" and I launch into a whirlwind of social activities. Then I get enough and revert to being a hermit again. Back and forth, so it goes.
The last couple of weekends I've just been at home, but the next ones are full of lovely plans. Good thing I got my IKEA wardrobe assembled yesterday :-)
Jeg har været helt og aldeles overladt til eget fantastiske selskab hele weekenden. Efter eget valg, må jeg hellere skynde mig at tilføje! Og jeg nyder det så uforskammet meget, at det varsler uhyre ilde for at jeg nogensinde igen kommer til at bo sammen med nogen. Har ellers læst at "Living Together Apart" (dvs. gifte par, som bor hver for sig) skulle være det nye sort. Men hallå, lækre mand som er enig i dén filosofi - wo bist du?
Nu vi taler om lækre mænd, så havde jeg en meget spændende oplevelse i sidste uge. Sindsoprivende, faktisk. Jeg så nemlig en pæn en af slagsen i den lokale Dagli'Brugs! Ih dog! Jeg kan slet ikke huske hvornår det sidst er sket, og spekulerer naturligvis som en rasende på om han er lokal eller bare var på gennemfart. Det vil sikkert aldrig blive opklaret, men hey, det var 2 minutters intens spænding.
Dagen efter sad jeg ved siden af et helt basketball-hold i toget. Whoop whoop, alle de høje unge mænd. Ganske vist kun fra Horsens til Vejle, men hey, det var da 15 minutters intens spænding. OG jeg fik et stykke chokoladekage.
Her i dag fik jeg så den ultimative kompliment. Eller måske blev jeg udsat for en særdeles snedig indsamler. Jeg vælger at tro det første. En familie bankede på min dør og spurgte om jeg ville give et bidrag til Røde Kors. Da jeg gik ind efter min pung nåede jeg lige at høre den lille pige sige "ej Mor, hun er SMUK". Totalt nem som jeg er gav jeg dem naturligvis alt hvad jeg havde af småpenge. Og skrev det derefter på facebook, så venner der skulle ud med raslebøsserne kunne lære tricket.
Det har været en travl, men dejlig uge, og en lad, men dejlig weekend. I morgen starter endnu en uge, som jeg tror bliver travl. I'm ready for it.
@ N ~ hope you enjoyed your Sunday as much as I did mine.
It is almost embarrassing how much I enjoy my own company. Sometimes I feel I could happily go for days and not talk to anyone. But then, I go out and have fun with friends, and "more wants more" and I launch into a whirlwind of social activities. Then I get enough and revert to being a hermit again. Back and forth, so it goes.
The last couple of weekends I've just been at home, but the next ones are full of lovely plans. Good thing I got my IKEA wardrobe assembled yesterday :-)
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