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Have you been planning how would your Valentines day be like?
How about A Bonfire. If you live in the suburbs, grab some marshmallows, chocolates, and s'mores, then spend the night cuddling up by the fire. ...
Chocolate Tasting and Truffle Making. ...
A Paint and Sip Class. ...
Dancing. ...
Video Games. ...
A Ghost Tour. .
Whatever.
What matter is the thought from each other

So are you looking forward on that day?

It's been a while, but I have been busy with school and work. Monday and Tuesday were spent with school, while Wednesday was spent at work. I went to school again Thursday, and back to work again on Friday. Let's talk about the work first, shall we?

I was going to a place in the Northern part of Sjælland. We were tasked with moving tables, chairs, drawers and shelving units down from the first floor to the ground floor. No biggie! I assumed it was going to be quick and easy.

Oh how wrong I was.. How very wrong I was! Each table weighed a hefty 98 kilos, or 216 lbs. 52 of those tables were going to be pulled down to the ground floor, down a stairwell and into a room, to be lined up, ready for moving next week. My energy level was low! I went to bed at 9.30 pm.

Fast forward to Friday. I was up at the same location again, but this time, the tables were a LOT lighter, plus t hey had wheels on them, so we could just push them around. We had two floors to do, and we started with the ground floor. After about three hours, we were done, so we moved up to the first floor. It's here the first part of this blog's title comes into play. We had one other person with us, form an external company. At one point, one of my colleagues asked the external employee, if the safety shoes he was wearing, was a pair he found at the location, or if it was his own. He replied, that he found them here. He was then told to leave them, as they were brand new and not something to be taken without any permission.

Lunch came, and we headed out, except the external worker. He elected to stay back and eat, which was fine. After about fifteen minutes, he called one of my colleagues, and told him he had been phoned by his doctor, so he had to leave quickly. When we got back, the safety shoes, he was told to put back, were missing.

"Why the big deal?", some of you might ask? Well.. The shoes in question were Nike Airtox shoes, worth a fortune. He told us, that he put the shoes back, but we were unable to find them. Therefore, it's safe to assume he stole them. If you need an example of how to mess up your career as a mover, steal some brand new Airtox shoes from a client.

An absolute idiot!

Now that work has been written about, what happened on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday? And what am I going to have to learn? Well, you see.. I am currently getting my driving license. Monday and Tuesday were spent on theory, and Thursday was spent in a practice yard next to Copenhagen Airport. I had three hours there, where I learned a few maneuvers, among them were a three point turn and parking in a booth. I also had to do some figure 8, both forwards and reverse.

Next week I will have my very first drive on public roads.. I am nervous. Very nervous. But hopefully things will go well!

would be a scary thing to encounter. It would just be somehow wrong. Maybe it has a spatial fold in the space it occupies so the more you look at it, the more your eyes and your head hurt from trying to make sense of what you aren't seeing.
Maybe it looks like a 35 gallon fuel drum, but with an oval hole in the side. Maybe the body looks like it is made out of cast iron, but not quite. Maybe it just sits there in the corner of the room. In the oval opening you can maybe see some gears laying strangely....But are they gears or something that just looks like gears, laying diagonally against nothing. No that's not it. You liik harder and maybe the hairs on the back of your neck begin to stand up because you just realized one of the cast gear things inside the object is larger than the object, a lot larger and inside the opening you realize that although the can in front of you is only 3 feet tall you can see at least 100 feet down inside it and there is no back to the inside of the can, just miles of gear things inside the small can.
Alien technology would be like that.
Picture an old time Roman or Macedonian soldier hearing a weird noise in the forest of town. Upon investigating he observers what is to us a fairly familiar object, but is to him the most terrifying thing he has ever seen or imagined. A running chain saw bouncing around on the forest floor, all plastic and metal growling loudly with a spinning chain powered by nothing remotely understandable biting at the forest floor and whatever it hits.
Would any sane person remain there and perhaps pick it up? Or would they run to tell others at once, or would they simply flee for their lives before more of the monsters come?

I see food and auto fuel rationing again and Terror ahead

Is it?


It’s never easy to say goodbye to people you care about, but finding the right words to express how you feel can make the transition smoother and more memorable.

Yesterday, I was asked if I was able to go to Jylland, on a two day trip. Naturally, I said yes. The first rule of business, was to load some furniture for delivery.

At 9.30, we left the yard. The trip over there wasn't extremely interesting. Nothing major really happened, so me and my coworker were just engaging in conversation.

We arrived at the first customer a few hours later, which was an auction house. We had to pick up two sofas. It only took about ten minutes, so we were in and out rather quickly. The second pickup was a bit more interesting. It was a Norwegian man, who was moving to South Korea, so he needed some things collected.

The way things work in the moving business, particularly if we are talking about overseas shipping, is that every piece of furniture needs to be wrapped in bubble wrap. Every single chair, every single sofa, every single cabinet needs to be wrapped. My coworker told me to wrap the chairs, while he wrapped the sofas. When he came back after wrapping the sofas, his first comment was "Wow, you work fast! I was afraid that you would have some trouble with wrapping, since it's your second day. I was wrong!". That made me feel like I was a millionaire. Praise works well with me.

Anyway, we spent about an hour wrapping the gentleman's items, and loaded them onto the truck.

Now, naturally there are some heavy items when it comes to the moving business, but it's really not too bad, once you get the hang of it. Sofas are a weird shape sometimes, but once you place your hand the correct place, you can carry it with one hand.

After we had loaded the items on the truck, we headed for a truck stop, where we finished up the day. It was also at that truck stop, that I was to experience sleeping in a truck, for the first time ever. I slept okay, but I didn't get a full nights sleep, sadly.

Dawn broke, and we had some breakfast. Then, it was off to deliver the furniture we loaded up on the previous day. Twenty minutes later, we were off again to collect some more furniture. Upon arrival at the pickup, we quickly wrapped the first two pieces of furniture we picked up at the auction house, and then we picked up the items we were supposed to get. They were also wrapped, and after that, it was time for some food and then to head back home to the yard.

It was quite a windy day today, so the drive home was sketchy, but we made it in one piece.

All in all, a good trip. I am off tomorrow, because I need to acquire a doctor's notice for when I start my driving license on Monday. I am excited for that! And also to get back to work!

Before I started my education, I had set myself a goal: Do well, make all the school work I was required to do and show up every day.

Now it's the end of the first 5 months, which is the basic course. 20 weeks. 5 days in each week, making it 100 days. Of course, there have been days where I have been away, due to work experience and public holidays, so let's say 80 days of school. 80 days where I have had to sit and listen to a teacher explain something. Most times I have paid attention, but there have been days where I just wasn't there mentally.

At the end of the course, today, we had a small awards ceremony, where the best students were being celebrated. Three awards were given out: Best attendance, best fighter and an award for the biggest helper.

First up, the attendance record. It was close between two people, but in the end, only one could be the winner.

It was me. I was the winner. During these past 80 days, I have an attendance of 99.1%. 0.9% time away! The second place was 0.1% after me, at 1% time away.

The second award went to the guy in the class, who was hard at hearing. Deserved!

The last award, the helper of the year, went to someone in my class, who really helped others out, even when he wasn't supposed to.

What did we win? We won a gift certificate for a cinema, and a small toy truck.

For the first time in my life, I have actually won something!

Simple question but lot of reasons why we cry
Some people cry while reading a sad book or watching videos of baby animals. Others cry only at funerals. And for certain people, the mere hint of anything that arouses emotions can cause tears to flow.

If you’ve ever had tears well up in a meeting or wept out loud in a movie theatre, you may have wondered if it’s normal. Is there such a thing as crying too often or too much?


How about you?

That is a phrase I can use now.

Earlier today, I went for an apprenticeship interview at an international mover, based around 30 minutes from my home. Well, 32 minutes, to be exact.

On my way home, they offered me the apprenticeship, which I accepted!

That means I will have to leave home at the exact same time I am used to, and take the same bus as I usually do, which is absolutely perfect!

"But Philipsen, which countries do move stuff to?", I hear you ask? I'm glad you did. The company has established a van-line, which operates fixed services between the Scandinavian capitals and London every week. Scandinavian capitals means Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo. That means that once I have acquired my truck driving license, the company can ask me "Are you up for a trip to Oslo?", to which I say "sure, let's go!". During the interview, they also talked about a few trips they have had to Scotland, which, as you know by now, is one of my favourite places ever!

So now we just need to finalize the small details, like the start date and such. I am determined to make it there. I will work harder than ever to make sure, that I finish my education at that company.

The next step for me, in 11 days, is my Category B license. I am SO excited for that!

Today, all I had learned up until now, would have to be put to the test. I was VERY nervous. This is my future livelihood at stake here. If I fail, then I will be a disgrace not only to myself, but to my friends and family.

Yes, I am very hard on myself.

Anyway, after some breakfast, it was time to pick the assignment. One of 3 categories, like I mentioned yesterday: Stowing, rigging and forklift. I was certain I would pick forklift, since it's the one I have the least practice in. If I picked that, I would certainly fail.

I drew my assignment. It said C. I went over to the table and picked envelope C2. Then, I took my place in front of a computer. We were then told to open up the envelope and look at the assignment.

On the bottom of the page, right there, it said "Stowing a trailer".

All my anxiety. All my nervousness. All my worries. Vanished. Like that! All because I picked stowing, and not forklift. I even picked the trailer that I had practiced on the most, so I was extremely thrilled.

I began to work, taking my time to do it right, but the teachers and the external examiner commented on how fast I was stowing the trailer. Then, one quick load securing later, the test was over.

Long story short: I passed!

I am SO happy!