#303: tumblr question time waisting

Hey guys and gals!

It is past 8pm, and as far as writing on my huge paper, my day has. It been productive at all.. My almost one year old niece stayed here from yesterday till about 1pm because my brother and his girlfriend went to an event with the company my brother works for. I really don't mind her being her, I love my niece more than anything, she is my princess - but the timing just really, really sucked.. I had hoped to get a lot done today - and that just wasn't possible. Anyway - since it is getting too late to do anything productive, I thought I might as well just use some time to get something "done" on here :-)

I went on tumblr, as I often do, and found some "Christmas holiday questions" and thought I might as well answer them, as I have nothing more productive to spend my time on. So here we go, questions - whether you like it or not! ;-)

Gingerbread: Do you like tea?
Mostly, yeah. I prefer strong tasting tea, cause even though it is boiled water and herbs - I do prefer to taste the herbs, not the water.. Please.

Tinsel: What perfume/cologne do you wear?

Eh, damn.. Right now I thing I'm wearing Miss Dior or something.. It's a fresh, summery, flowery something. It's nice!

Holly: Who was the last person you sent a letter to?

Uhhh.. I think it was to my aunt, thought it was a postcard. Since my grandmother started using e-mail, I don't really have many opportunities to write letters.

North Pole: What in your life are you most grateful for?

How forgiving my parents and friends can be of me and my weird persona. I know I sometimes bitch a lot about my parents, but they are also amazing at times. There was a time when I wasn't feeling very good, and I made some bad decesions (this sounds like I did meth or something.. I didn't, it was not at all that bad), and even though my parents were mad at me for a while, and made me feel shit - they really helped me through it, and helped me move on from my "dark times". So yeah - I'm grateful for those old crows <3

Christmas Carole: Would you change your name if you could?

When I was younger I thought I really thought I looked way more like an Emilia than a Kristine - but it sort of went away over the years. I sometimes get really annoyed that a lot of people can figure out what I'm called, since there's Kathrine, Kathrina, Christina Kristin, Kristie, Kirstin - and so on! That sometimes makes me wish I had a "simpler" name. A girl in an Irish Starbucks called my Justine,  it sounds good and I could see myself as a Justine - but I'm actually quite happy with my name. It's special, but not too special. So, no.

Santa: What's your favorite month?

May would be an obvious choice, since it's my birthday month - but I think I'm going to go with July. It's the holiday, but most people have returned from their holidays, so I have my friends around, to waste time with my favorite people.

Noell: At a movie theature, which armrest is yours?

I'm actually really good at keeping my arms to myself, but if I'm going to use it, I think it's the left one.

Eggnog: What was the name of your first stuffed animal?

Sadly I'm not sure how the spell it, I'll have to look it up, but as far as I remember it was a white baby seal called "seal" in the native language of the people of Greenland. Some friends of my parents gave it to me, and I actually still have it. Okay I tried looking it up online (Google translate did not support the language), and it is puisi. Now, get your minds out of the gutters, it is pronounced more like "bui-si".. Or something... My first stuffed animal was called Puisi.

Mrs. Clause: Have you ever been on a boat in the ocean?

Not really.. I have been on ferries in "inland waters", if you'd call it that, but I have actually never been out on the big oceans.

Hot Cocoa: What's your favorite thing about yourself?

It honestly varies a lot; some days it's my eyes, others it's my hair or my lips. I generally like my lips, I don't know why - but I just really like their plumb-ness, or something - I don't really have a good reason. Ah, yes - when my nails are nicely done they are definetly the best thing! 

Reindeer: What is your patronus?

I believe I got tested on Pottermore to have my patronus be a dolphin.. I think. I'm not sure what that says about me.

Yule Log: Least favorite vegetable?

Brussels sprouts.. When boiled I personally think they smell like cheese farts and three week old socks - at best.. My parents are apparently sure they can find a way to cook them that I'll like, but right now I have my doubts.

Stocking: What color are your socks right now?

Multicoloured, actually! They have a black "bagground"  (as in; the toes and under the foot is black, nothin more) and then yellow, royal blue, grey, pink, boudreaux and orange stripes, in that order. They're quite funky.

Elf: If you had unlimited money to one shop, which shop would it be?

An all payed for, furniture includes apartment in the heart of Aarhus. That is way too expensive in "real life".. 

Wreath: Are you allergic to anything?

Actually no, I'm that lucky! I got tested for 10 different kinds of allergies, and the nurse was apparently nervous to cause me any serious damage, so for 4 of the cuts I had to have, she didn't cut deep enough, so she had to do it again. 20 small holes in my arm - getting tested for allergies is sooo fun.

Cookies: Top three favorite bands?

Oh, no.. Ehm, I'm really not good with actually "scoring" bands or singers, so it's not really in a particular order..

Queen

Fall Out Boy

One Direction

Toys: Do you want children?

I'm pretty sure I do. In the future, like in about 10 years or something? I want to have a "functioning" life and be able to care for myself (and the man I will have the baby with), before I set a child into this world. I think getting a child you now you won't be able to care for, in one way or another, can be brutal - I've seen it personally and it's really not pretty.. If you're wondering - I'm pro-choice.

Sleigh Bells: Can you whistle?

Yes and no. As far as I know, it has a double mening. I can whistle melodies and songs, but I can't make those highpitch whistle sounds - you know the ones you see the boys do in movies? I think you know what I mean.

Snowman: Do you like accents?

Depends on the accent. But generally, yeah! 

This took a ridiculesly long time to type out on my cellphone - but it got me spending time, which was my goal.. 'Till next time!

#302: The next two weeks

Hello!

This will be the shortest post on this blog (I believe, I'm not going to go through all of my posts to find the shortest one), and it is just a little disclaimer, because the next few weeks I am going to be inactive on this blog. Normally when I don't write on the blog for weeks, I do check up on it and try to write something (but fail to do so), but I'm not going to in the next two weeks.

Reason: I have a big assignment (it's called SRP in my language, but it's not really translatable) for school - 15 to 20 pages of scientific studies and analysis. Yeah.. It is due on the 19th of December, so I better get going. I might be uploading pictures in my "breaks", but just to justify my absence on the blog for this time - I am not going to be posting big text posts before I am done with my assignment.

Peace out, for now guys - AND GOOD LUCK TO MY FELLOW STUDENTS STU(DYING) FOR MIDTERMS! YOU CAN DO IT!!

#301: Formal

Hello once again!

Last Friday, the 14th of November, my school held the annual formal for the 3rd year students. Of course the 2nd and 1st years are there as well, but they just don't really do a lot. The 3rd years are the one getting "celebrated" despite the fact that we have a little more than 6 months left of this school. For some reason the formal is in the fall in stead of the spring, which would totally make more sense(!!), but it's tradition - and it will probably just stay that way. I'm a bit unsure what to call it, there's prom, ball, formal - and surely a lot of other names - but I'm going with formal because it's mostly long dressed, and we learn a certain dance we have to dance, called les lanciers. There's five rounds, and the first round goes something like this:

The version we do at my school isn't totally identical, but it's quite close to what's on the video. I believe the dance will give you a clue as to why I'm calling it "formal" and not a dance, prom or a ball. The most of the years the formal has been held at my school, there has been taken pictures of the classes in their formal wear. Of course it's just a picture, but for a lot of people it's quite a big deal - because it's formal, you're all dressed up, the girls have had their hair done - and it's just a rare opportunity to get a beautiful picture of the entire class, all dressed up.

All formal

As far as I believe, this is the first year there has been a professional photographer out on the school to take the pictures of the classes. The other years it has just been one of the teachers from the school who lined the students up, and took a few pictures with poor lighting, and the students had approximately 0,2 seconds to pose, focus, smile and look at the camera before the photo was taken. This year it was a professional photographer with these huge flashes, a nice attitude and he took a bunch of pictures, and choose the best. I'm quite happy about the pictures. Now, I'm saying pictures, as in plural, and that is because we also took at "silly picture". Prepare, it is gold.

TADAA

We went from a nice, formal pose to complete silly chaos in about 3 seconds, and it felt hilarious! I think I was trying to do a Will Smith - "I made this/Look at this!" pose, and I think it went okay. There is a lot of lifting, grabbing and weird poses and faces, and I think you can really tell that we're having fun. Of course some people are just kind of standing there, but that's how it will always be ;-). The boys in my class are mental, I love those idiots. Oh, and if you don't know who I am - I'm the blonde out to the far right in the red dress.

I loved that evening, and I feel like wearing my beautiful dress all the time! As you might see on the picture I wasn't wearing the biggest of heels, as my boyfriend is "only" 8-10 centimetres taller than me, and I didn't want to be taller than him - luckily I found a cute pair of silver sandals to wear. Despite the heels, the dance went amazing! I didn't trip or fall of stumble - we remembered everything, and we were smiling and we were just fantastic! My dancing partner and boyfriend is the silly manboy 4th from the right in the row of boys.

The pictures were up yesterday, so I figured I would post them here, and just give you all a little update. Tonight I'm going to see a basketball game in the EuroChallenge leauge, with my boyfriend and his father. It's my boyfriends birthday tomorrow, and the dude is going to be 19! I know I usually say I feel old, but at least I'm not as old as that old wreck ;-) The bell is about to ring, to call off the school day, so I'll wrap it up!

See ya - and thanks for reading!

#300: Glasses and London

Hello one again!

It's been quite a while, I am aware of that. It is sort of silly how I can get writer's block just because of a blogpost, but apparently I can - woobdidoo! I just opened my blog, and I haven't posted since the start of September, and before that it was 14th of August.. Well, poop. I remember when I felt like I could post fourteen thousand things a day, but I felt like I would be posting too much, and well, now I'm shit at posting regularly. I do, somehow, still get views, and not just on the "chainletters" post, but on other posts as well - which is something I don't really understand.

Since September a lot of things have happened. I've gotten glasses, which is one thing! The glasses I have are reading glasses, but I'll be wearing them "permanently, because the "top" of the glasses are only +0.25, which is almost nothing. I got tested to 0.25 in the top and +1.0 on reading distance. The dictionary tells me that it's called "crossfade" and we should always trust the dictionary. My glasses are crossfading, so I can use them on class, for when the teacher writes on the blackboard or the smart-board but also look down and read.

I honestly thought that crossfading glasses would fuck with me and my sight, but it works really well. It has really been a relief to get glasses, I had almost forgotten how it felt to read and have relaxed eyes. It sounds weird, but people with reading glasses will know what I'm talking about! I looked at a few pairs, but ultimately ended up choosing the ones I saw first, and I'm starting to see a pattern here, it also happened with my formal dress (more about that later). Of course it was the most expensive pair of the three, but as my father said: when it's glasses you're going to use for years, it better be glasses you like to wear, or else you're not going to wear them at all.

This is a still from a video, it was the first thing on my phone.

In my fall break I went to London with my boyfriend - LONDON BABY! I've been to London once before, but the circumstances were quite different. First time I went, I went with my parents, two of their friends and two of their three children. Doest that make sense? Okay.. My parents + me. Married couple friends + two "children". The "children" were about two and four years older than me, so we didn't interact much. Anyway, the other family wasn't much of a history-loving family, so we spent most of our time in London visiting attractions and just seeing the city, and we went to see Lion King as a musical. I loved it, but I really wanted to see some of the historical parts of London. 

Another thing was that I was in a wheelchair, because I had some sickness in my foot. Another thing that was special about the trip was that we were staying at a super, over-the-top, extremely and almost way too fancy hotel. It was crazy. We were there celebrating my parents' copper wedding, which is something we celebrate at 12½ years of marriage. We were then staying at this crazy fancy place, with a huge breakfast room, with a chef in each room, ready to cook omelets and all sorts of crazy stuff - and you almost weren't "allowed" to move a finger yourself.

This time around I was there with my boyfriend, and we stayed at his cousins' girlfriend's place. It was extremely cozy, and we went out for drinks, saw a play with one of the girlfriend's friends as the lead role, and I actually got to see some of the historical sites I've been wanting to see. The fact that we stayed in an apartment, and went out to get our food at shops and small pus and so on, made it feel like we were living in London, not just visiting on vacation. I really loved it, and I got to go to Tower, which is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. 

Aren't we just hella cute? I think we are.

I remember the time I was in London with my parents, my mother feared the tube like it was the devil or something. My dear mother found the system hard to navigate through, and left it to my father and I to figure out where we were going. This time Marcel and I had some time on our own, which meant that we were also going to navigate through the tube all by ourselves. It went well, but damn did we get weird look for eating in the subway.. Is that not normal? Anyone from London who could help me here? We lived in Fulham, and the tube ride from there to Tower was 50 minutes.. 50 minutes. My dear lord, that was soo long. 

All in all the trip was amazing. My goal is still to go to the "Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter", I am a huge Harry Potter fan, and I would love to go there! Marcel has been there before, and I am honestly super jealous.. So next time I go to London, it is a must for me to go there! And I will be going to London again! Marcel-s cousin and his girlfriend said that they would love for us to come back again some time, and we definitely will!

This is it for now, it feels good to finally have written something. Why it always turns into freaking novels, is something I'll have to work on - bye ;-)

#299: 8crap - relatable

I know I haven't blogged in a while.. I'm sorry guys! I just havent really had the time, and I have no idea of what to write :-/

#298: Let's get back to business

Summer vacation is over, and the time to relax is therefore as well. And my neglect of this blog should be changed and it should be done something about.. Which I'll try! I'm honestly totally lost, when it comes to what topics I should write about. I want to write, and I love doing it, but right now I'm just a bit lost.. If there's anyone out there how would like to suggest a theme, a topic or something like that, feel free to do so in the comments! :-)

I've started my last year in the gymnasium, which means that at this time next year, I'll be all done with school.. For now. I have no idea if I want to start at university, or what I want to study, and when or where to do it. Basically I'm a bit lost - but when it comes to uni, I've been lost for a couple of years, so I've gotten used to it by now.

I am trying to sort things out, so that I can go to Australia for some time after I'm done in school - it's something I really want to do afterwards, because I want a break after having studied for 13 years of my then 19 years of life. - And because I've always dreamt of going to Australia and experience all of the lovely country (even though 90% of the animals are indirectly trying to kill you..).

Last year in school went horrible when it comes to grades.. Of course I had some subjects I did very well in, but overall I dropped at least one grade - which sucked camel balls. Obviously this didn't just happen out of nowhere, it happened because I was 1) lacking overview and surplus to handle things 2) feeling like I wasn't good enough for school and my class 3) fighting myself and ended up convincing myself that I might as well just give up. I ended up pulling myself a bit together and saving a few of my grades in the last two months, so I didn't fall completely through - and in the one exam I went to last year (oral German), I got what's equivalent to an A+, so I didn't fall completely on my ass.

So during the summer holiday I have had some conversations with my parents and myself about what to do this year, to better myself and to help me gain some of the surplus I've felt I've lost during the last year. Time schedules dividing the time I have between school, boyfriend, friends, scouting and spare time in general, should help me gain overview over my life and give me more energy. 

My parents' reactions have varied a lot - starting the summer vacation they were very upset with me and my grades, and were telling me how I should have done much better in school, how I wasn't living up to my potential and tried forcing me to get a tutor for some of the subjects where I didn't understand my teachers. Even though I now believe that their disappointment and anger was a reaction of being hurt on behalf of my future - their statements hurt me very much at the time, and I do still feel hurt from time to time, having a hard time believing that my own parents could say things like that to me - feeling they called me stupid and not good enough. That wasn't what they meant, but words are perceived differently when you are in a different mind-state.

After some conversations and long discussions during the summer,  I was dreading the "family meeting" my mother had announced we were going to have, a few days before I should start school. I was really scared that it would be sort of a "slaughter" of me and just mocking and grinding me down to nothing. Despite my fears, the "meeting" actually went okay. My parents seemed much more supportive, and it actually seemed like they had "forgot the past" (as I had begged them to do in tears a couple of times during the fights we had had in the summer) and they were finally ready to move on, and look forward and try to see what could be done to help me back up on my feet.

After that meeting I feel like my parents are actually with me and not against me, which is really something I need to get through this year, and not die, or go down with stress in the process. I feel supported now, and I feel much more ready to take on this year, and come out as a victor! 

I hope you guys haven't died reading this, apparently I felt like it was a good thing to get off my chest, and also to start off with.

(Did you notice the number #298 in the title? That's a new thing I'm trying to do, just for fun - and then we'll see how I like it)

Cheers!

Just a little something important!