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Saturday
Jan022010

God Nytår! Happy New Year!

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!

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Saturday
Jan032009

nine things in two-thousand-nine

Well, it's the New Year.  With only two official blog posts in the month of December it's safe to say that I was really busy this holiday season.  Christmas at home was truly wonderful.  My fiance is the perfect man.  He made me a dvd about us getting married - if I find a way to post it, I will!


We stayed with my aunt & uncle and I was cuddled and snuggled every day by my favorite little children in the whole wide world.  They got me the coolest present - my very own Black Lab Webkin!!  Now, for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about - in essence Webkinz is an online pet community.  Thor, the black lab, is very spoiled.  I'm addicted to a couple of the games on the site so I'm building up revenue for him to build him an empire.  

Now - we all know that this is the time of year where we make New Year's Resolutions.  I asked Christian what his resolutions are and he said "to get married." Pfff, what a little sarcastic brat (whom I love dearly!).  The following are what I consider to be my 9 resolutions for 2009 in no particular order:

1. blog more - do you like that?
2. have better posture - slouching makes for hunchbacks 
3. stop cursing like a sailor - it's seriously an issue sometimes
4. run more - this would help achieve the whole (now half) marathon thing 
5. stay on top of my health - this means calling the dentist on Monday
6. do something incredible at my job - get them to move me to London
7. keep my nails strong and healthy (that one's for you babe)
8. manage finances better - aka pay off my stupid credit cards... this unfortunately includes me picking up shifts at Cactus pfff
9. stay in better touch with friends and relatives - can you all remind me of your birthdays? 

Well that's a lot to get going on, whaddya reckon?  I think maybe one additional one would be to stay organized so I can actually attempt to achieve numbers 1 through 9 above.  What is also not mentioned here is that I'm planning a wedding hahaha.  Let's all laugh at me as I attempt to get through 2009 sanely.

I just asked my roommate what his new years resolution is and he  said, "to save some f**king money."  Okay, this was him swearing - not me already breaking resolution number 3!  Oh man, I'm slouching.  This is going to be a pretty impressive year if I'm able to pull off all 9.

Does anyone else ever get the feeling that there are not enough hours in the day?  Or do you think we're all too quick to make excuses?  I won't even try to make excuses for not running for the past 2+ weeks.  I will just likely want to kill myself when I get to the gym on Monday, out of shape and fighting some stupid other new year ressie for the good treadmills at BSC.

There is still tomorrow to look forward to.  Tomorrow is EAGLES playoff game number one.  I still am so happy about last week's whoopin on the Cowboys and when the stars aligned to get the birds into the playoffs.  Let's do this, Philadelphia.

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