old blog

I realised that my old blog, which I started writing in 2003 and abandoned in 2009, is still up, and I've spent most of today reading it, which is pretty weird. Kind of nice, kind of scary, kind of boring, too. I mostly ranted about meeting and being with Ash and moaned about having to deal with my Masters.

But there were some sweet entries about an amazing summer I had early 2004, when I first met Simon and I had a Norwegian friend Sverre who was doing the Masters with me and the three of us had some fantastic  times. It was quite a weird time, I had just broken up with my then-boyfriend and couldn't let go of him and then suddenly I found myself with some awesome male friends who completely restored my faith in men, and just when I had decided that I didn't need a boyfriend, that I was happy with just boy friends, I met Ash. It was quite a fantastic six months. But then it gets quite boring with me going on and on about how amazing Ash is and how I'm sure that we'd be together forever. I was right about that, though.  But it doesn't make for great writing. That's when my writing went downhill. I was struggling with my writing and I was way to happy to write anything deep.

Am currently watching Eurovision with my cousin Emma, it's appallingly hilarious as usual. It's nice just lounging on the couch with the tv, it's been a while since I last watched tv. We attoe some lovely chilli in front of the tv, really nice and relaxed. It's beautiful being here and just feeling comfortable and away from the stress of getting the house ready for its photo shoot. We didn't do too much today, Mum and I visited a nearby open air museum with lots of lovely restored farm houses from all over Denmark during the last few centuries. It was nice to be outside, though I have to say I wasn't too motivated to trudge around this ginormous outdoor museum, because I was so tired. Kept yawning. I think being on holidays is making me realise how hard I've worked and how much my body is enjoying a break. I'm sleeping like a baby here, too. It's lovely.

I do look forward to getting back and not having to go straight back into working on the house. Granted, stuff has to be done still, heaps of stuff, but the urgency has gone a little, which is nice. And I intend to go back to Amsterdam for a little interlude and catch up with Em and Renée and I have plans to go see Mary Poppins with Mel, hopefully we can still do that before our free ticket stops being valid. Will organise all that when I get back to NL. Enjoying Denmark right now. Sleep and family. Happy times. It's great to see   Emma and her kids, gorgeous little Ruby and Sam, whom I spent a few days looking after two years ago when they still lived in London and I was there when Ash had to work in the London office.

It's so nice to be here.