Walking Oxy-Morons

I don't really have a good reason for blogging today except I felt like babbling a bit. There is a fly buzzing around in my room and starting to annoy me but I'm too lazy to do something about it. So why not do some blogging instead?

That picture is from last weekend when we went to see The Music Man. It was definitely amusing. Hehe....aMUSing...ok nevermind. Ok to make up for a bad joke I will reveal a deep and dark truth about myself: In most plays no matter how much I like them, I always get a little bored for about half an hour towards the end. I don't really know the explanation for this phenomenon, as I love plays and particularly musicals. I love them; I crave them; I enjoy them. Except for the part where I get really bored towards the end.

But I guess we are all walking oxy-morons at heart. Not that our hearts can walk. Ok maybe that didn't come out right. I just think that in the core of my being, and probably yours too, there are a lot of things that completely contradict each other. Walt Whitman did a pretty good job of explaining that.

Hmm that's a pretty profound thought. I should develop it sometime.

Tejas

I don't really understand how it is that I spent the whole miserable winter in Denmark, and now while it's really nice in Denmark, I'm spending the whole miserable hot summer in Texas. Well, I do understand...it's because the Danish government won't let me apply to live in their country again until I've been gone for 90 days. Why? Beats me. Luckily when we found out, we hadn't sent out the invitations yet, and nobody had bought their plane ticket yet (except us, and luckily we were able to change it easily). So now we're getting married August 15th. Beside the fact that it's flippin hot here and I miss my fiance like no other, it's actually a good development. Because: it means I have more time to plan the wedding, to make money, Morten can be an EFY counselor, I can spend more time with my family before I leave the country again, and we can actually have a honeymoon of sorts before we go back to DK because Morten's summer job will be over by then. So it was actually a good development if you look at it in a practical way. And it's not that much longer....I will be getting married 60 days, 5 hours, and 30 minutes from now actually. Which is not so bad.....

Yes I'm trying to convince myself. I don't know if it's working. But I'll keep trying.

Other than missing my fiance and Denmark, it's great to be back home.

Engagement Pictures!

We finally took the pictures yesterday! To see the rest of them click here. I've also added it in the picture links to your left.

Surprise! Valbyparken

The weather has still been excellent so yesterday we decided to ride out to the beach. We took a (beautiful) bike path down to what had looked like a beach on the map. Morten thought it would be fun to take a little detour road up a steep hill into the trees (I thought it was a driveway at first, I guess that's what comes of spending too much time in Arkansas). At the top we found a great little spot full of big steep hills with benches on top of each one, looking out over the sea on one side and cute houses on the other. No I didn't bring my camera...I will go another day and take pictures. It was a nice surprise.

However there still wasn't a sandy conventional beach, it was all rocks still, so we decided to ride down another path along the beach looking for one where we could dip our feet in the water. Taking a few random turns, we unexpectedly ended up in a huge park. Though it was only a 10-15 minute bike ride from the apartment, neither of us had known it was there. I have since looked it up and found that its name is "Valbyparken" and it's the largest public park in Copenhagen. Convenient huh? It's full of "circular gardens" with flowers and herbs, gazebos, huge trees, a cafe, flowers, very unique playgrounds and exhibits and walking paths. It reminded me of the Dallas Arboretum with one major difference: it's free! So I think I will spend plenty of time down there this summer when I am jobless.

Summing it all up: a very pleasant surprise. I'll take pictures next time.

Middlemarch in May

Denmark has a lot of holidays in the spring. You get the "winter break" along with basically a whole nuther week for Easter, then there are tons of little 3 or 4 day weekends along the way into May. Like this last weekend. Have a billion fun with my sweetheart, yay!

I've also noticed that whereas it is a particularly vile country weatherwise in the wintertime, the spring (and presumably the summer) is a particularly nice time to be in Denmark. There has been a delightful amount of sun and it puts me in a perpetual good mood. And flowers! And green stuff. Everywhere.

Might I also comment on the felicity of bike riding? Though cruising on the freeway with good friends with the windows down and singing energetically to loud music most definitely has its joys, riding a bike also has its own particular joys. It's very satisfying to arrive at your destination knowing that barely more than your own leg power got you there. And then there's the endorphins. All in all, even though I can't have a car, this really is pretty nice. Just more work. But I guess things that are more work are generally better anyway.

If I'm writing a little funny today it's because I've been reading Middlemarch. It's taken me a while to get into it (especially because apparently one of the main characters hasn't even made his appearance yet), but I'm pretty into it now. So...I'm gonna read. MMM-K bye.

No More Excedrin!

I learned something interesting the other day. I've been having a lot of migraines since the tooth thing, mostly because I just got off balance I think. I was getting sick of taking pills every time my head started hurting, which was almost every day last week, so I decided to see if there was anything else I could do instead. I found this website: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/medicine/migraine/natural-cures/ with all sorts of useful information, some of which actually helped me almost painlessly through a 48 hour migraine without taking medicine. So I wanted to pass on the wisdom for anyone who might want to know.

I'm just sitting around listening to the beatles on a saturday morning. Trying to pluck up the courage to clean a bit. Man, you shoulda seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe. Nuff said.

ok, SO...

I started this blog a long time ago when I first came to Denmark and ended up forgetting about it a few months later. BUT as you may know, I am soon getting married and staying here in Denmark. After that it will be a while before I have a work permit, so I figure I will probably have a lot of time on my hands and will be glad for something to do again as soon as life slows down! It will also come in handy when we get kids. So I have done some revampage and now I'm going to try this again. Baby steps, bob.

So, basically, now I am almost done with the au pair job and going back to Texas in exactly 28 days to prepare for the wedding. Yay! Until then it feels like life is moving in slow motion. I long for the day when I will see my corpulent nephews again. July 5th (the wedding) also can't come fast enough. But I'm doing my best to keep myself occupied and enjoying life until then.

Meanwhile, here's how I've been doing:

That's enough for now. Hej hej!