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Day 2 of my 1 week off work - and I'm already bored. As always with me being off work for more than 2 days in a row, with no immediate plans, I get extremely bored. Yesterday, I spent most of the day pla...	154	2	0	Apr 23	Apr 24	2 hrs ago
400 years of history up in flames. The big talking point at work today was the fire in Copenhagen this morning, where the old stock exchange, simply known as Børsen, or The Stock, burne...	194	4	1	Apr 16	Apr 17	Apr 25
Attending a birthday and catching some sun. Yesterday, I went to my youngest nieces 1 year birthday celebration, so we went to a pretty nice place in Roskilde, right next to the viking ship muse...	162	2	0	Apr 15	Apr 15	Apr 25
Heading back to the USA for Halloween 2025. I am heading back to see my friend in Virginia. I'm very excited, because now I know sort of what to expect, and most importantly: How much money to b...	259	4	0	Apr 5	Apr 15	Apr 25
Easter-freakout and a few days off Easter has come and gone. With that, my first long time off from work came and went as well. Naturally, some people freak out over the smallest things...	178	1	0	Apr 2	Apr 2	19 hrs ago
New horror movie to my collection and a desire to go on a blind date at some point Being almost 40, with no partner for my entire adult life, I feel it's time to once again throw caution to the wind and go on a blind date, to see who...	221	4	1	Mar 24	Mar 25	1 hrs ago
Getting some surprising health answers. It's no secret that I aren't the healthiest person in the world. I eat a lot of fatty foods, particularly burgers. I like to make big monsters, such a...	524	15	0	Mar 13	Mar 18	3 hrs ago
Making plans for my 40th birthday (part 2) I redid the math, regarding how much everything will cost me for my 40th birthday celebration-bash-shenanigan-event-thing.. With food from a cateri...	493	9	0	Aug 2023	Mar 13	Apr 19

So it begins! I have begun the expensive task of buying what I need for my birthday in three months time. I have so much to buy, but I am taking it in stages. T...	259	2	1	Mar 10	Mar 13	Apr 24
The online dating scene is rough. Picture this - you match with someone on a dating app and get talking. It goes quite well, and you joke around while still maintaining a somewhat seri...	301	5	0	Mar 7	Mar 9	2 hrs ago
New chair, new challenges, a new obsession and new people in the house Back in late September 2022, I bought a gaming chair. It was one of those clever chairs that could go completely horizontal, and it was textile, which...	176	0	0	Mar 7	Mar 7	14 hrs ago
Universal Healthcare - what is it and is it socialism? Let's answer the last bit of the question: Is universal healthcare socialism? No. For decades, developed capitalist countries around the world, hav...	415	7	0	Feb 10	Feb 13	Apr 25
Joining something long overdue. I have been working at my current job since August 2022. Well, since August 8, 2022, if you want to be precise. That means in six months, I will c...	183	0	0	Feb 10	Feb 10	4 hrs ago
Improving at work and learning a new language! For the past few weeks, I have taken on more and more supervisor like tasks, which is a definite improvement from my usual workload. Before I was just...	221	3	0	Feb 6	Feb 7	Apr 20
Changing my holiday destinations Well.. One of them. I am still going to Italy this year and the US next year. It's the year after that, I am changing. You may recall, a few blogs...	236	1	0	Jan 22	Jan 22	11 hrs ago
Solving a dispute like adults. With me living with 8 other people, each living their own lives with vastly different ways of doing things or different traits, eventually there'll be...	268	3	0	Jan 16	Jan 16	15 hrs ago
Long live the King! The time is almost upon us - the time where we will get a new monarch. It will all happen from the Parliament building in Copenhagen on Sunday. I have...	278	3	0	Jan 11	Jan 11	Apr 26
Happy New Year! I hope you had a safe and fun New Years party. Here, nothing major happened. I stayed home, playing video games until 2 am, where I got ready for bed....	297	1	1	Jan 2	Jan 3	1 mins ago
It's been a great Christmas and trying new ideas for cooking. Merry Christmas! I hope yours has been great. Mine was excellent. Good food, good company and some great gifts. My sister and her fiancée gave me...	390	3	0	Dec 26	Dec 27	Apr 24
Making plans for my next three holidays. I have long been wanting to travel and to see the world. Most of my life, I haven't had the financial opportunity to pay for my own holidays, but now...	335	2	1	Dec 21	Dec 21	Apr 24
Drinking the worst tasting champagne ever - and getting paid to do it! On Wednesday, I was informed that my employer would provide champagne for us on Friday, because the company is doing well. Friday came, and the champa...	605	14	1	Dec 8	Dec 14	3 hrs ago

It's been an expensive day today, plus I broke my chair It's almost Christmas, so I have been out buying presents today. I forgot how expensive that is. I'm happy it's Christmas once a year. All in al...	414	2	0	Nov 25	Nov 26	14 hrs ago
Time to buy Christmas presents and the most expensive hand creme ever.. I have been gathering Christmas wishes from the family, so now it's time to buy the presents. I will spend my Saturday buying the gifts, so my week...	505	2	0	Nov 23	Nov 23	48 mins ago
I might have a stomach bug These past few days, my diet has been terrible. Really terrible. Always some oven based meal, with absolutely no nutritional value to speak of. On wed...	632	9	0	Nov 18	Nov 22	18 hrs ago
Applying for a new job in a different country is exhausting. Anyone who knows me, will say that I am someone who has a desire to make it in a different country. I was born in Copenhagen, 39 years ago, but Denmar...	491	6	0	Nov 21	Nov 22	5 hrs ago
The next costume party is close and a wedding invite! On the 29th of December, my cousin and her family is hosting our annual New Years Eve pre-party, since all of the family is spread all over the countr...	195	0	0	Nov 11	Nov 11	3 hrs ago
Weekend! Let's make it a fun - and creepy - one! We're finally at the weekend! A long week of work has finished. It is now time to kick back, relax and make some fun memories. In my case, I am goi...	311	3	0	Nov 3	Nov 5	Apr 12
Darkness lost yesterday - next year will be better! Last nights Halloween party was fun! I went all in with the makeup, the mask and the costume, but it was apparent that it was a cheap afterthought, an...	261	0	0	Nov 5	Nov 5	Apr 18
Making plans for my second trip to the US (part 1) I know I am very early with this, but in October 2025, I will head back across the pond to the USA for my second trip there. This time, I am visiting...	557	8	0	Nov 2	Nov 4	30 mins ago
It's almost New Years Eve, and I have mixed feelings about fireworks Earlier today, something dawned on me! It's almost 2024! Well, when I say almost, I mean in exactly two months. Soon, it's Christmas, and one we...	443	7	0	Nov 1	Nov 2	3 hrs ago
Being lonely kind of sucks.. That feeling you have, when nobody wants to spend time with you. When nobody reaches out to you just to ask "How are you?" That feeling of being lost...	613	14	0	Oct 25	Oct 31	1 hrs ago

October 26, 2023. Yesterdays blog was a bot of a downer one, I admit. The comments on it ranged from "get a massage", "call a lady of the night", "join a club" and "lea...	393	6	0	Oct 26	Oct 27	Apr 14
Nobody told us this would happen today...! Usually, Friday is the quietest day at work. Not much happens, and we're pretty much done by 3.15 pm. Not today.. Why not? Because a trade exhibit...	241	0	0	Oct 27	Oct 27	Apr 25
The urge is back.. Next year, it'll be ten years since my Scottish adventure began. Ten years since I uprooted my entire life and moved across the North Sea, to seek som...	321	4	1	Oct 11	Oct 12	Apr 21
I am not ready for more responsibility. After the disaster that was last week, I did some thinking over the weekend, and I came to the conclusion, that I am simply not ready to be the one wh...	296	3	2	Oct 9	Oct 10	Apr 16
One of those days.. You know, one of those days where you've wanted to quit on the spot. Today was one of those days. We have something at work called innight. It'...	301	1	0	Oct 4	Oct 4	Apr 16
Time to make a change! For the past 25 years, I have been eating very unhealthy food. Lots of fatty dishes, with no vegetables at all. My burgers are huge, with lots of baco...	785	30	1	Sep 26	Sep 30	8 hrs ago
Starting to make that change - tomorrow! I am typing this on the final day of the month, September 30th. Tomorrow, on October 1st, I am starting fresh with more healthy eating. To do that, I...	284	3	5	Sep 30	Sep 30	Apr 12
I have an ambition! (part 2) About a month ago, I published a blog, where I essentially said that I wanted to be more important at work, because I felt that I deserved it. A fe...	253	3	2	Sep 23	Sep 26	Apr 25
How close am I to getting my own apartment? My current living situation is this: In a house with 8 other people.. Well, 6, now that 2 have moved out, but usually, we're 9 people in this house. F...	266	1	0	Sep 13	Sep 13	Apr 16
Sisu - a review! Sisu. Noun; White knuckled grit and determination! I saw a trailer many months ago for a Finnish movie, where one man absolutely eviscerates a Nazi...	189	0	0	Sep 9	Sep 9	Apr 25
Making plans for my 40th birthday (part 4) On today's episode: Decorations! My birthday is nine months away, so it's time to start buying all the decorations for the party. We're talking fla...	237	2	0	Sep 8	Sep 9	Apr 19

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