Yet another blog

Yes, I've created blog #3. It's in Danish and it's a way for me to get my anger out.
http://surhedsregulerendemiddel.blogspot.com/

This is a story about girl meets boy

A while ago I met a guy. Unfortunately this isn't a story about me being amazing and meeting someone amazing and us walking into a sunset hand in hand. No. This is a story about me going to a music festival all by myself and at the end of the day being sweaty and tipsy and tired and somewhat lonely. This is a story about me talking to a stranger, something that I don't do enough. It always makes me proud whenever I do. But there I was, talking to a photographer about nothing at all, about music and candy and photos. And then he left. He had a job to do, photos to take.
It all happened more than two months ago. I've been searching high and low, but he's gone. Just gone. Nowhere to be found. It's driving me nuts. By now I'm no longer even sure if I want to find HIM, as a person, or if I just want to find him because it seems to be impossible.
Argh! Am I insane? Should I stop watching romantic movies? What SHOULD I do?

I like shiny dresses

And I like sale.

If my nails were a shower curtain

The colors look nothing like they do in real life, I sort of ended up playing around with light and darkness and I actually think it looks pretty wicked even though it's clear that I'm a rather sloppy painter...

I will soon send these little darlings to a friend

I just have to wait for it to stop raining... Sigh!

I like long showers more than I like chocolate

And today I mainly drink hot cocoa because I like whipped cream. What kind of person would I be if I just ate whipped cream? I sometimes do. And today it's raining.
Tonight I'll be at Trailerpark Festival, but before leaving the apartment I need to get dressed and wash my face and apply some nail polish.

Where I keep my clothes, pt 2

Behind the shower curtain! Tadaa!

Would you like to see where I keep my clothes these days?

No? Well, that's just too bad!


This was my very own idea, rather genius, if I may say so myself :D I pretty much just placed my moving boxes on top of each other because I didn't have anywhere to put the things that had been inside the boxes... At some point I will go to IKEA to spend the smallest amount possibly on something more sustainable... But for now, this will do.

This is what happens when potatoes grow old

They become gorgeous, purple aliens. They become alive.

First day in new job, 3rd day in new city

I moved to Copenhagen three days ago and today I started my new job. It really isn't a very complicated job, but never the less, I still feel like my heads is going to explode from all the new information. I keep wondering if 9.23 pm is too early to go to bed, and I know it is, but I'm just absolutely exhausted! I ate french fries for dinner. I wanted to make "real" food, but I guess I'll just do that tomorrow...
My furniture will arrive either tomorrow or Saturday. Right now all I have is a teeny tiny bed. Luckily, my sister (who I'm living with) has plenty :)
I think I am going to like living in Copenhagen. I hope so.

New boots!

These are my old rain boots (Wellingtons, call them what you like)

At first glance they may just look a bit worn (which they are, I wear them more than any other shoes I have. They are comfy and practical and red and they go with everything), but when taking a closer look you discover that they actually have holes in them...

This sort of makes the whole 'boots made of waterproof material to keep feet dry'-thing pointless. So I went out and got me some new ones. I like how fierce they look! The only downside is that they aren't quite as tall as the old ones = more leg exposed to rain.

Now I just have to get myself together and throw away the old ones... No need to keep them, right? But I'll be missing them, I really will.

Life is keeping me busy at the moment

But since it doesn't seem like I have any readers anyway, I guess there's no need to apologize...

I really don't mean to be this negative...

...but I just have to admit that I don't like people who snore while being on a train. Just like I don't like it when people burp, cough continuesly, and talk to themselves. It's very distracting when I'm trying to write cool and informative posts for my travel guide blog.
I do however like that the coffee on the Danish train stations has improved. Thank you, who ever made that happen :)
AND I like that the sun is shining and that I am now in Copenhagen! Yay!

Another post about something I don't like

Friday I went to work at a speedway field some place in the country side. I don't know what speedway is about. And I really don't think I care.

A friend asked me what speedway is, and then I googled it to find him a link. Now I know that speedway bikes have no breaks and no gear, and while at it my little search confirmed my suspicion that people who care enough about speedway to actually write about it on wikipedia are no good at writing at all. Just like the people (mainly fat old men with bad haircuts, to whom I sold beer last Friday at the speedway thing) were no good at conversing.
Seriously. I was wearing my mint green nail polish that I love more than any other nail polish in the world. And this old grumpy man comes up to me and wants to buy a beer and he's like "eh... that's quite a colour for a nail polish!" and I laughed and asked if he didn't think it was a pretty colour and then he goes "no, not really. I'm not sure I like it." AS IF I FREAKING CARE! Why do people like that even bother to say anything at all if they are just going to criticize something as lame as my nail polish? It's not like I would ever walk up to him and tell him that he was wearing an ugly yellow jacket. I mean, that's really non of my business, it's not like I'm ever going to see him again. And if he was just trying to small talk he could have commented on the weather (it was raining). No need to be rude.

People like that make me have days where I don't like people at all.

I know...

that I just posted two post with the same title except the ! - but there are no other words to describe it. I will not change the titles. And besides I'm tired and lazy (come on, it's Sunday night, how else am I supposed to feel?), haha!

Eurovision Song Contest!

I can't believe I actually ended up spending my Saturday night watching that show... It was just... terrible! I wish I had at least been drunk.

Eurovision Song Contest

Last night I went to dinner at some friends' place. They got married about a month ago and they seem happy and we looked at pictures and I said 'ah' and 'oooh' at the right places and meant it most of the times.
But we are so young. I've known the girl since we were infants. It just occurred to me that besides my parents, she might be the person I've seen on most days out of my entire life. For A LOT of years I saw her every single day.
And now she's married. And she seems so... married. She says things that you expect a married woman to say. She warns you about not touching the thing she just took out of the own because it will be very, very hot. She could recite the wedding menu exactly the way it had been printed. And she was just so happy about it.
Now, I really do think they love each other and I'm happy for them and all that, but this whole wedding thingy scares the crap out of me. Is this what we aim for? Do I really want to find true love if it means I'm going to be all practical and memorize strange food with weird names that I'm never ever going to eat again. Will I some day actually want to wear a white dress?

Argh! I don't know... I don't think being married is for everybody. I hope there are other kinds of true love - maybe even a kind that won't someday turn me into my mother.

(sorry mom)

Long time no see

I was going to visit some friends when I decided to go to a music festival and suddenly I'd been away for like nine days...

Now I'm back at my parent's house and I have to admit that it's quite a turn off. I mean, I was on the train on my way back and the sun was shining and I read some free newspaper and it said that this music festival was coming up and I started visualising how me+sunshine+music+beer=LOVE. There was no way I could just go home. So I didn't. I went to concerts, I enjoyed the sunshine, I drank beer, and then I went home.

Buuut... being home when it's cloudy and windy isn't any fun, and to make matters worse I've somehow developed a cold during the last four hours.

I've been cyber stalking some people I've met these last few days (which is always a wonderful way to kill time) and now I'll watch lame youtube videos and eat ice cream. Gosh! how I love ice cream. Some day I'll write a song about my favourite foods. Hopefully it's going to make me ridiculously rich and then I'll buy some more ice cream.

Tea

Today is a ridiculously cold day, best spend indoor drinking tea of my mother's new cups.

If you look really really closely at upper right part of the tea you'll be able to see the reflection of my glasses :)

I wonder where the spring went? Right now it feels like fall... AND IT MAKES IT REALLY HARD TO FEEL ENTHUSTIASTIC ABOUT ANYTHING AT ALL! Except for of course tea. I love tea. The tea I'm drinking right now is some sort of cheap rosehip, and from what I've heard rosehip is the solution to almost anything that could be wrong with your body.
My favourite tea must be some sort of herbal tea with liquorice and mint. Nom nom.

Have a nice weekend, who ever you are...

Busy bee

Today I've baked a cake, done the dishes, written a job application... Sometimes I really don't get how people have time to already have a full time job and do all the other things you have to do, too. I'm always SO impressed with the way some people just make everything come together and then they make it seem like nothing at all. My five month delayed New Years Resolution must be: To do more with my days. Starting tomorrow. Today I'll just dance around in my living room and eat cake :)

Grizzly Man

Yikes! What a crazy documentary!

A cry for help

Dear Lush Lovers

I recently bought the Fresh Farmacy facial cleanser from Lush. And I want to like it. I really do. But the thing is... it sort of won't go off. What I do is I wet my face, then I soak the soap, rub my hands and make it lather and apply it to my face and wash off. And wash and wash and wash!
And then my face is still pink.

I like pink. I think it's a nice colour and all, but this just doesn't seem right at all.

Where did I go wrong?

Love,
Nanna

Is it better

to eat an ice cream and THEN two carrots or JUST the ice cream? I know the best thing is to not eat ice cream at all, but since I'm an ice cream addict I sort of can't help myself :)

Just wondering...

Oh, and I ate it all. That's just how I roll, haha!

Listening to She&Him vol 2. I would like to be Zooey Deschanel. She's so pretty and cool and wonderful.

And on a different note: I just started a travel blog. Go check it out http://wheninplace.blogspot.com/

My parents are out looking at windmills...

Down down down

I feel rather uncheerful tonight. It might just be the usual feeling of coming back after a trip. But I really do hope tomorrow will be better. There are things I need to do, places to be, people to hug.

Golden nails

For quite some time now I have been searching for a not glittery golden nailpolish.
But let me just start by telling you a different story:
I went to NYC. Then I went to Brooklyn to check out some 2nd hand shops. I walked through Williamsburg and all those very Jewish Jews scared the hell out of me. Then I accidentially found Target which was good because I wanted to see the Zac Posen collection that was coming out the following day.
Going through the dresses and jackets and skirts took me about 7 minutes (give or take). Walking through the rest of Target took me an hour.
And theeen... I found a not glittery golden nailpolish! Tadaah! However... It was a $9 Sally Hansen click-and-go pen thingy. I was rather sceptic but my eagerness to have golden nails made me buy it.
Am I glad that I did?
Yes.
Will I buy another 'nail polish in a pen' if I can get the same colour in regular nail polish form?
No.
The brush is too big and it's quite hard to get the right amount of polish out. But I like the idea and there is no doubt that this golden colour is going to look absolutely amazing when(if) I get a bit of a tan and wear light summer dresses.
And who knows, maybe I just need to practice :D

I'm back...

... with some heavy, heavy bags filled with goodies and a head filled with stories and a bunch of pictures, too.
The vulcano didn't affect me at all, on the contrary I actually think it somehow made people cancel their trips because the flight back from JFK was less than half full (I had a row of four seats all to myself!?).
Blog posts will come, I promise, but for now I have plenty of things to do while being jetlagged. Like, I'm 20 days behind reading blogs, watching youtube videos, and I've missed a couple of episodes of tv shows that I have to see. Oh, and I will at some point need to unpack and do laundry and clean the kitchen floor because I just dropped a bowl with rice and curry. Oops.

Idea

As mentioned I went to Fanø. The sky was BLUE! It was perfect weather for pictures. And for spending quite some time on a play ground trying out the three different kinds of swings.

When walking home I found this strawberry on the road. Along with the sunshine and blue sky and birds that sing it reminds me that summer is on its way.


When all that is said, I've been thinking about making a travel guide blog thingy. Writing down ideas on where to go when you're in this or that country/city/town. Special things to eat and drink and buy.
I'm pretty sure I'll be doing this, but it has to wait untill I return from the USA since I'm leaving in two days and... uhm... I still have to pack. And tomorrow I am meeting a friend for coffee. I just really think it's a good idea, like something I would be good at doing. And no matter what, that's a good sign, right?
I've been watching Black Books and listened to the Smiths non stop lately. In about three days I'll be in Consumer Paradise. Life is great right now :)

Happy Easter!

Wow, Superbad really IS superbad...
And look, the cress has grown:




































Next time I'll go a bit more easy on the seeds, this is somewhat too dense :)

I'm going to a little island called Fanø to spend Easter with my parents. Or actually, I'm going to a little island called Fanø to spend a day with my parents, since tomorrow I'll be back in Esbjerg. Right now the weather is quite nice and I'm looking forward to walking by the beach and the wind messing up my hair and all that jazz.

Happy Easter, who ever you are

I'm leeeeeeeeeeeaving on a jet plane

This is my favourite kind of toothbrush:


For some reason they're pretty hard to get hold of, so when I found this last packet (with some numbers written on it, maybe someone's phone number?) I made a sound like "IMWAEH!", grabbed it, and went home happy.

Anyways, I'm off to the USA in a couple of days and I've been thinking about cool things to buy and see when I'm there. I will be going to Portland, Oregon, Michigan, and New York City. I want to look into things like OPI, China glaze, essie, L'Occitane, Lush, Clinique, NYX, Burt's bees, Yes to carrots, and Urban Outfitters nail polish.
If anyone has any good advice on places or brands to check out, please let me know :)

The times they are a-changing

Yesterday I made these with a friend:


A nice mix of easter rabbits, chickens, and sheep. In a wide range of colors. And we actually enjoyed ourselves. Even though we tried not to. While listening to Ace of Base and jazz (oh my, what a mix!). But it all had a certain childhood feel to it (except the jazz) and in a few days time we will have cress


Afterwards we made things out of papier maché and watched 30 Rock and when we were about to go to bed (around 3am) the fire alarm started beeping. And then we remembered that last night was when summertime started.
We had to get up before noon today to go look at a house that's for sale (no, we're not a couple and no, we're not going to buy a house, but that doesn't mean you can't look at it, right?). The house turned not to look like a place with an open house arrangement going on so we just walked back home and made more easter decorations.
I've pretty much survived on chips and coke and cake. It'll get better tomorrow, I pinky swear :)

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America

I hate planning trips! Right now I'm planning to go to the USA for about 20 days in April, and it's just so much work. Most of the time I can't help myself thinking about how much easier (and cheaper) it would be to just stay at home. Which would mean being stuck in Esbjerg... Where nothing ever happens. Except for of course when I'm in America and missing out on both a wedding and a house warming.
Had a birthday dinner last night. Involving a lot of food and mojitos and wine. Nom nom. Ended up going to a small, creepy bar with old alcoholics and a jukebox playing sing-a-long songs. I often find that people at these places are so much more friendly than the people at cool bars. And I felt very grown up while remembering to actually remove my make up before going to bed :) Well, waking up today to a fridge filled with left overs was pretty amazing, too.
Easter is coming up and right now it looks as if it's going to be sort of busy. A lot of friends are coming to town to visit their families. I have to do some laundry. And hopefully I will be able to write something more exciting than this, haha! But right now I have a full fridge waiting for me to indulge in.

Skittlemania

This picture pretty much explains what I did on my 22nd birthday. Went to the beach with a friend and his dog. Please note that the sun is shining :)

But of course I was running late. And of course I decided on emptying the dust bin on my way out. In Denmark most dust bins look like this:


... and somehow the bag got stuck to the metal thingy and before I knew what I was doing the door was on my foot and not on the hinges.
But as I said, most dust bins in Denmark (and Sweden, and maybe other places as well) are placed under the kitchen sink. This is good to know when people invite you to stay for dinner and you want to throw away your gum. However, in the very few cases where people choose alternative places for their trash it always causes confusion and you have to walk around and look for the bin with your gum between your fingers and it gets sticky and you have to laugh akwardly when you finaly find the dust bin and strugle to get the gum off of your fingers. Sigh!

Another thing you should know about Denmark (and Sweden) is that you can't buy Skittles. Something about them being too artifical... And we all know that people want what they can't have :) So when I tell my friends that I bought Skittles in London they somehow transform themselves into drooling zombies with a haunted look in their eyes and tell me long love stories about how they know someone who knows someone who paid an indescribable amount of money on amazon to get their hands on a bag full of these little sugary wonders.

I'm flying to the USA in two weeks time and I have no doubt about how I will end up stuffing my suitcase with treats so unhealthy that you can't find them in a Danish supermarket. This will certainly impress my peers!

note: we DO have candy in Denmark, our government is just trying to protect us from things with too much artificial taste and color.

Losing my hair as I get older

Sigh! My parents woke me up at 6am, gave me my presents, and then I went back to sleep. Later on I woke up again and discovered that my arm was... streaky. Further examination of my body revealed discoloration on the other arm as well as my legs. I was this close (holding my fingers pretty close together and waving them at the computer screen) to calling my parents and ask them to take me to the hospital because obviously it had to be some sort of blood infection, when I remembered putting on bodylotion with a slight selftanner yesterday. I've done this for years, but usualy only in the summer when I'm already somewhat golden (I don't get a tan. I don't really get red either, my skin just sort of turn a bit golden). And now I know that this is the only time of year I should actually use this, since using it while being as pale as I am right now, makes it look as if it was applied by a 5-year-old.
Even a shower and a pretty harsh body scrub didn't make it go away. However, I lost a big lock of hair. I wasn't even surprised by this, since my hair is quite damaged by more than a year of bleaching and now it's permed.
If anyone has a good trick as how to make damaged hair look a bit more alive, let med know :)

Now I will find some nice ways to enjoy my birthday!

Off to bed

And when I wake up I'll be 22 years old :) I always get overexcited around my birthday and Christmas, almost like a 4-year-old child waiting for the presents, haha!

Inside of me there's a drag queen waiting to come out

I was running late today as well... I feel as if I'm late for all my appointments these days. It's horrible. Don't know what's wrong with me, I have so much time on my hands and I still can't seem to be anywhere on time. And I only ever do like half of what I'm planning to do.

A friend of mine just got dumped. I haven't seen her in forever and we don't call each other very often. I have no idea of what to say to her right now. I just try to cheer her up by saying things like "the sun i shining, take a bath, get some fresh air". It's like trying to help a complete stranger. And I've never even met the guy.
What do you do to cheer up your friends when they are feeling down?

More from London

While being in London I went to Tate Modern where they have an exhibition right now, that's pretty much just a HUGE container that you walk inside of, and it's completely dark and scary and really really cool :)
Sunday I went to Brick Lane and the Sunday Up Market. I found this ring, it was almost too good to be true, so af course I had to buy it. And I remembered putting it in my suitcase when I was flying back so they wouldn't confiscate is as a weapon



Obviously I went to Topshop as well, since we don't have one of those where I live. I alway get extremely confused when walking around in Topshop on Oxford Street - It's too big and I'm so afraid of missing out on something good and the music is loud and in the end I'm just really dizzy. However, in all my dizzyness (is that even a word?) I litteraly walk into the Barry M counter and found the love of my life. A mint green nailpolish that I'd been looking for all over London!



It got me so excited that I sqeaked and bought another nailpolish in coral and a dazzle dust in gold, as well.









These pictures don't show how ubelievably GOLD this gold actually is. It's... just SO... gold. It's like applying genuine gold onto your skin. Not sure when I'm going to use this, but being in my buying fit I couldn't walk away without this little darling.

Going to the pharmacy and then to the library and then to a friend to eat cake, nom nom <3

Let's do the time warp again!

The reason why I spend what turned out to be three hours today watching Fanny & Alexander, was that I had borrowed it from the library and I had to take it back along with some other things. But while returning the things I discovered that I had forgotten a cd at home, so I'll have to go back tomorrow.

And I was late for my coffee date because the movie was so long.

The good part of today is that at the library I found the soundtrack to The Rocky Horror Picture Show and now I'm dancing around in my living room :)
And my nails look amazing - the coral color is almost luminous in dim light.

Another thing that makes me happy is my birthday. It's only two days away from now, yay!

A quick post before going out for coffee

My socks, now color coordinated



and my stockings



Yes, a potential waste of time, since it will probably be a mess in two weeks time anyway...

Just finished painting my nails a beautiful coral color while watching Fanny & Alexander - a really really really long Swedish movie! I find it hard to concentrate when movies are too long.

On a different note; I went to London last week, and loving free things, I bought a couple of magazines. One was Glamour where I got some sort of hair mask (haven't tried that one yet), the other was Marie Claire, which came with a facial creme from Neal's Yard. And OMG! It's amazing! Should you be in the UK, maybe you should consider spending the £3,5o the magazine costs.

I'm off to drink coffee with a friend!

Tell me, what is your favourite nail polish right now? What kind of movies do you like? Do you buy magazines to get free things, even when you don't really need them?

// Nanna

FTC disclaimer: I haven't received anything from anyone to write this. All thoughts are my own.

Wait!

I forgot to show you my drawing:

Another Sunday night

Hello world!
So. This is my very first blog post. I'm writing because it feels like the world is coming to an end. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamies, depressions, break ups, divorces, bad friends, backstapping, the financial crisis, crime. I could go on. But I won't. I'd rather try to make the world a better place. I'd like to be perfect.
But I'm not. I'm not quite sure of what I am, but I'm certainly not perfect. Most days I'm confused. I have too many things to choose from. Too many ice cream brands even when I know I shouldn't eat it at all. And more importantly, too many future career opportunities to choose from.
I'm confused and I don't know what to do with my life. I could use some advice. Maybe your advice? I'd like to give advice as well. Advice about travelling, products, and what ever else I know anything about. I'd like to exchange experiences. I'd like to make it okay to have off days. To try to focus on the positive even when it feels like the world is coming to an end.
And I hope you're with me :)
I will write something proper tomorrow, but right now I'm off to color coordinate my socks...
// Nanna