Monday
08Feb2010

go saints!

DateMonday, February 8, 2010 at 10:22AM

Hooray for the New Orleans Saints. Incredible game. They played hard and deeply deserved that win!

I would be lying if I said I solely rooted for the Saints because of all that New Orleans has gone through with Hurricane Katrina. The other less important and more ridiculous reason is because their logo is the Fleur-de-lis... aka one of the themes of our wedding, haha! Yep, I am absurd.

The commercials were above average this year, better than years previous anyway. I found myself laughing a lot, although it could have been the company I was with. Laughing is contagious with the Dartmouth crew :)

Did anyone else notice a theme of no pants throughout several different brands? Weird. ETrade never disappoints (just me?). Did you catch the David after the Dentist cameo? Loved it. Best car commercial, Dodge Charger about being a man. Hilarious.

Well what will we all do with our Sundays now? :)

Until next year, NFL. GO BIRDS!

})i({

Authorjillianc | CommentPost a Comment |
tagged , , in , ,
Tuesday
02Feb2010

flashin lights, lights...

DateTuesday, February 2, 2010 at 8:05AM

I consider myself lucky to know so many talented and ambitious individuals. It's good to have people in your life that make you say, "I wish I could do that."

Take for instance the lovely Jenn Delahaye, who is making her move on photography. One of her photos has scored prime real estate on Boston.com's best photos of 2009:


(Photo by Jennifer Delahaye)

Kudos to Jenn, I absolutely love the photo. And well done for pursuing something exciting, challenging and ultimately something that makes you happy!

I definitely wish I stuck with my own budding photography hobby way back when. Most of you know that my Grandpa sort of has a stop bath thumb (or whatever a green thumb of photography would be called). He's a great inspiration, but he's also retired. :P Here's a brilliant shot from New Foundland where he and my grandma summer:


(Photo by Edward Huberty)

I know I still owe my readers my New Years resolutions. All my health and fitness goals are kind of necessary more than a goal at this point, ha. The biggest resolution is to start my first book. Details yet to come! 

Another resolution is to save money for a digital SLR and see if I can't get myself back into the darkroom.... aka photoshop on my laptop. Though... there is something therapeutic about a 35mm, a reel of film and hours in a dark room afterwards. I always remember the classical music playing in my grandpa's dark room, even a girl who's gaga for Lady Gaga can appreciate the serenity in the dark making potential master pieces.

So, in 2011 when I have my new toy, "can I shoot you?" Always got a kick out of that question as a kiddo, Grandpa loves a play on words!

})i({

Authorjillianc | Comment2 Comments |
tagged , , , , in ,
Tuesday
26Jan2010

birthday week in review

DateTuesday, January 26, 2010 at 7:45AM

Yes it’s me. Me and my $14/mo neglected website. Whoops!

I think most of you know that since I got back from Denmark over the holidays everything has been absolutely manic.  Not even joking.  January turned into Tornaduary.

All things aside, life has been pretty great.   It’s a good thing to be busy… I’m pretty sure, anyway.  I was just in London last week for a few days, more on that some other time. This is my dedicated princess birthday blog post!

I turned 25 last Monday.  Richard (my boss) and I found ourselves to be the only ones willing to get a drink after dinner on monday night in the spirit of our birthday.  the birthday that we share… yes it’s weird… really weird. 

But my princess expectations of my birthday week were not forgone.  I celebrated on the Thursday night before I left for London with some friends at Cactus Club – my second home.  Went out a bit in London while I was there and then ultimately my hubby finished up my birthday week with a bang!

I got to Denmark on Wednesday night, completely shattered from sitting in a meeting room for three days straight.  In I walked to the bedroom to collapse and suddenly what did I see?!

My very own princess mirror!  I don’t think I complained a lot but Christian never had a full length mirror at his house.  This is obviously an issue.  Which was gracefully resolved by this beauty!  So shabby chic, I can’t believe he’s going to let me have my big girly mirror in his room!  Woop!

Better yet… Check out this hot Gaga inspired card he wrote me:

How friggggggen adorable is he?  He is my second half, my better half and more.  I love you, Christian!

Moving onwards with my birthday week… we went out Friday night to a tapas dinner in København and then out to the bars in Nørrebro with friends afterwards.  I finally found a bar in København that serves up proper margaritas.  Fresh ingredients (I nearly collapsed) and she knew what I meant when I said …. On the rocks no salt.  Rock on. 

I literally ran home at 5am… it was cold, I thought I was going to die.  Seriously… felt like I was in Antarctica wearing a cocktail dress and tights.  Whoops!  However, Christian told me that my “running” wasn’t much faster than he could walk behind me, pfft!

Saturday I didn’t emerge from my dyne until 1pm at which point operation cook dinner for 13 people commenced.  Slicing and dicing and baking and pan frying… We used every bowl, pot, pan and piece of silverware in our tiny kitchen!

Dinner was held across the terrace at Farmor’s house.  Lots of girly decorations (Thanks to Christian’s Uncle Bjarne for the gorgeous flowers).  Jilly style for sure.  Food was great, but we were so exhausted (and smelling pretty badly of onion and meatballs haha).  

In the end my birthday week celebrations culminated with drum roll please…LAGE KAGE…  whoa.  This the end all, be all for cakes.  I’ve been talking about my lage kage from Farmor for about a month now. 

It was obviously just as good as I dream about it (sick, I know).  The butterfly decoration was actually some teamwork between Christian and I and was made out of Marzipan. 

I suppose you want to know what “Pillefinger” means… basically it’s like poke/tickle finger.  It was a word I made up when I was trying to remember the different names of all the fingers in Danish.  It was kind of suiting, though.  I tend to poke and tickle Numsemund a lot.  I’ll let Christian explain his Numsemund nickname…

Or not.  I will.  It literally translates into “Buttmouth” hahaha.  I also made this up.  I think it sounds cute in Danish – and the fact that it’s absurd makes it all the better!  I am so clever!

And that was my princess birthday week in a big coconut shell.  I hope you had fun reading… or looking at the pictures.  I probably would have stopped reading by now.  :)

Love you monsters! Xx

})i({

Authorjillianc | Comment2 Comments |
tagged , , , , , in , ,
Thursday
07Jan2010

warm and fuzzy

DateThursday, January 7, 2010 at 7:24AM

Every once in awhile someone does something so completely thoughtful and amazing it blows you away. I am lucky enough to have had many a moments but yesterday was extra special.

My Christmas present from my dad arrived yesterday. He had my one and only baby blanket redone. It's gorgeous....


It's not the best picture (camera phone) but all the stitch work in the squares is the original, that's why they're yellowing in comparison to the whites. Some of the stitching is coming undone but after nearly 25 years, and likely 10 years of heavy use, it's to be expected.

The blanket was originally stitched and sewn by my late great Aunt Mary, my grandpa’s sister-in-law.

I may not have been a thumb sucker but that blanket went EVERYWHERE with me, including college. My dad found it digging through all my college storage at his house.

My dad's friend's wife apparently is a master quilter and agreed to try to give my blanket another 25 years. It’s now sturdier and warmer with thicker fabrics. So absolutely special. She did an amazing job.

My dad signed the card, "Love, Daddy (Pop-Pop)"... Whoa. Pump the brakes dad! ;) But yes, some day one of children will hopefully love it as much as I did.

Thanks pops, you rock! Xx

})i({

Ps. I wrote this quickly on the T. Please note that my life is absolute chaos this week and the next so I will be hugely MIA. :)

Authorjillianc | CommentPost a Comment |
tagged , , in , ,
Saturday
02Jan2010

God Nytår! Happy New Year!

DateSaturday, January 2, 2010 at 1:34PM

Hope you’re all in a good spirit with the prospect of a new year and new possibilities.  I certainly think that 2010 is going to be a big year for me and the hubs.  No babies, I know what you’re thinking and that’s not what I mean!

Here is some prime footage of our typical NYE in Copenhagen… enjoy my commentating.

Did I mention that I hate my own voice? ;)  I posted all of our NYE pictures on FB but I’ll add some here for fun. 

I am really digging the whole halo headband look.  The sparkle halo headband is from Danish designer Friis & Co.  I gave it some extra sass by adding the feathery flower hair piece I had from H&M a few months back.

We spent New Years Eve with family for dinner and dessert and then drove in to Copenhagen to meet up with friends and get crazy.  We got a hotel room for the night because trying to find our way home at some absurd hour in the morning was likely to be just as expensive.  

 

We met up with friends Sebastian and Lykke and some of their friends at a party.  Very fun! Christian & Sebastian lit fireworks in the street, well maybe you saw this in the video.  I think our heads hit the pillow a little after 5am. Whoa. Anyway here's a good pic of the men:

 

The hotel gave us a 2pm check out time, thank god.  And god bless Denmark for having McDonalds open on New Years day across the street from the hotel.  I never felt so American, haha.  Perfect hangover cure!

And with that... I haven’t officially decided on my 2010 resolutions.  Obviously they only start once I’m stateside again, which, sadly, will be tomorrow.  I am going to miss Christian a lot.  We’ve had some great QT together over the holidays this year.  Meget hyggeligt :)

However, I did dig up my 9 things in 2009 blog post to determine how much of last year’s resolutions I accomplished…

1. blog more – 21 entries in 2008 and 78 entries in 2009, check.
2. have better posture – yeah, hasn’t happened. 
3. stop cursing like a sailor – somehow it’s gotten worse, ugh.
4. run more – a handful of 5ks, 10 mi race and a half marathon in ’09, check!
5. stay on top of my health – yep, even though I wished I kept my wisdom teeth in afterall! Check.
6. do something incredible at my job – I got promoted in ’09, can’t be all bad! Check.
7. keep my nails strong and healthy – I’m a little better with this… so… check.
8. manage finances better – top of the list 2010, for sure.
9. stay in better touch with friends and relatives – not sure how to measure this but I’m going to say check.

So I guess I achieved more than half of what I was after.  Not terrible.  There is some serious room for improvement, though.  I will have to have a serious think of my 2010 resolutions and keep you posted.

To 2010 o-m-g-ers!  Skål!

})i({

Authorjillianc | Comment1 Comment |
tagged , , , , , in
Page 1 2 3 4 5 ... 21 Next 5 Entries »