the day goes to pot.....

Hi ya'll,


Today was supposed to be "get the hell out of here day" but NOOOOOO.


We have been sick (and still are) and snowed in for days ,andddd every thing has been closed for the last 2 or 3 days.


I go stir crazy on a normal day. This has really been awful.



Christmas eve we wanted to go out to eat. Everything was either booked up and /or closed. We were so sick ,we didn't really care any way.









Christmas day we lazed all day. I cooked a roast (to dried out perfection)


We thought about going to a movie, we were too sick to bother.


We opened our presents around noon and later called all the kids.

That was it.









Most of our prezzies haven't arrived yet. My main gift is a Kindle. Woot! I'm sure I'll love it once it gets here :)














Hubby has watched endless old and /or boring movies. I have laid around in my bed trying to read ,but all the books I have sucked. I just can't read a bad book.













Last evening we finally got off our asses and decided we just HAD to go somewhere, anywhere, even if it was just riding the subway back and forth.













We got off the subway at Kongens Nortov and some how wound up in an area called Nyhavn. It is right along the canal and so far I had never been there.(simply because I hadn't found it)











It was dark and snowy and really beautiful.


All the restaurants were setting up like they expected to be really busy.












We walked along and by "walked" I mean my husband pretty much speed walks and drags me along as fast as my stubby legs can carry me.













So, all the pictures were taken as I ran down the street.
















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We finally stopped at a place called La Sirene.

They had room for us so we stayed for dinner.













It was a little italian place .I really liked it. The atmosphere was nice ,the service was great and the pizza was good too.
















(cute lamps)













La Sirene ??











It was SOOOOO nice to get out and do something.


Today ,I packed up all my library books ,took the subway and walked all the way to the library only to find them CLOSED. Gah!




Meaning ...not only was I still bookless, I also had to drag 40 pounds of books around for the rest of the day.


That was fun.


I just got home , my back is killing me and I must say I'm not looking forward to dried out roast for dinner :)


Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Can't wait to read all about them and see everyone's pictures.


luv me

Who's cat are you calling spoiled?

Hi ya'll,



Today ,I should have stayed home and done chores.....such as ironing and laundry. But nooooo....I did not. It was snowing like crazy and I just had the urge to get out of the house.







My hubby was in Finland ,so I took off out in the world today wearing NO makeup.I thought " ah ,who cares, nobody knows me anyway."



So what happens , since I'm out looking like hell ? Naturally ,I hear a woman on the subway speaking English! She was talking on the phone and my plan was to speak to her.Well she would up leaving the subway,never getting off the phone. Damn it! I lost my chance to talk to her.



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We live in Orestad.I took the subway all the way to Vanlose to go to the store Jysk. I was looking for colored christmas lights. They had ONE box left.


As you can see, Vanlose is about as far away from home as I can get.






They also have a library there,one thrift store and a nice grocery store. I wound up hauling groceries around all day as well.








A florist. This looked really pretty in the snow.















The countryside ,from the subway.














Also at the florist.
















Vanlose, on the main street.
















Lady with big baby stroller. Everyone has these. I rarely ever see (or hear) a baby that's awake.














Run like hell ?












Off into the wild blue yonder....













Our homemade Danish stockings. I got these at the flea market. I have no place to hang them.(they are on the fridge)














This is our "Christmas tree" :)

The cat's needed that ladder shelf to get on top of the closets.So we are using it instead of a tree.


(?????)






I got this little outfit today at the thrift store for 10 kroner. It was doll clothes.O'Reilly would NOT cooperate at all. Cavuto is Mama's good baby.




Crazy cat lady out. Happy humpday guys!

Ow! that trash shute is sharp.....

And so it begins.......


Winter in Copenhagen. This is what we woke up to this morning.



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Yesterday, I went down to our storage bin and got that big suitcase out.I then walked down to the Metro with my huge empty suitcase in tow , rode the Metro to the last stop then walked through Vanlose with my suitcase, to the wonderful store called Jysk.

http://www.jysk.dk/

We were in dire need of a table or shelf of some sort to hold all the electronic crap,which is all over the living room.

I got that bookcase (pictured next to the suitcase) and then got to finagle it home in my huge wheeled suitcase.


A sight that would be laughable back home, not that uncommon here.Welcome to my world :)


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Night before last , after much searching, I finally found my arctic snowblast of a coat.



As it was clearly designed for 6 foot tall ,statuesqe types,believe me when I say that it makes me look exactly like the michilin tire man .








Next up was to get some snow boots.No big deal right? Wrong!


Last night I went to the biggest mall in scandinavia and the women were all on snow boot buying frenzy.


They had snatched up every pair of decent looking boots in the entire mall. All that was left were navy blue or gold moon boots.




Was it because they were on sale ,cheap? No! It was because those bitches KNEW it was going to snow last night.


I came home empty handed and now must go out in cold, rubber wellies to find some freaking boots, somewhere.






Maybe one of these too cuz I'm sexy like that.







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Last weekend, I actually did go find the flea market.


It was no easy task to get there. A subway, a bus and a very longgggg walk thru a bad-ish neighborhood.



It was freezing BTW.


Anyhow, the flea market was huge and had a ton of stuff.The problem was, none of the stuff had prices. As a rule, I don't like that.If I had bought anything major I have no idea how I could have made it home. All I bought were a bunch of kitchen utensils and a coffee press. (Hubby was upset that I did not buy a table and carry it home) yeah right!





They had a bunch of these kind of things ,which I was very tempted to buy .(For the house back home)
Maybe I'll go back when it's warmer and get some.







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And finally......How gross was my shower?





The shower is VERY tall.So they had patched this yellowish material onto a blue and white shower curtain.



The hooks were all rusty. I'm pretty sure the entire creation had never been removed and laundered.











You can imagine my joy every time the ugly thing wafted towards me and clung to my naked body.



heeby jeebies? anyone?(and I mean over the curtain, not my naked body)




Something had to be done. But what????






I stumbled upon these things on Amazon Uk. (don't ask how,cuz I have no clue) and inspiration struck me.











Thanks to those cheapy key chains and jysk.....




Ta da!














Now if I could just find some tablecloth weights for the bottom of it ..........










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In other exciting expat-y news......I was recently thrilled beyond words to find a box of yep...crackers. Woo hoo! real crackers and they even had salt on them. Bite me you saw dust flavored WASA crisps. you will never darken my doorstep again.



I aslo scraped the shit out of my arm yesterday on the disgusting garbage shute,trying to stuff my overfull trash into the thing. Hope I don't get gangreen.



Oh yeah....hubs has agreed that we can go out to eat for Thanksgiving.There's is an American restaurant doing up the whole turkey dinner thing.


Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I'll be thinking about ya!

love me