the challenge is still working out well. :) my stumach is working slo-mo but it's (almost) ok. it just means that i don't go to the toilet as often as is recommended by... whoever the wise people are. so what i've eaten these past 2 or 3 days is still in there somewhere. LOL. so this week's weigh in is back to 89kgs. but it's still less than when i started on the challenge, so i am not freaked out about it.

birger has begun to be more outside his cage again :) it's so cute and weird how he sits on the side of the cage with his head downwards and drinks water from the water dispensor from where the two parts of the dispensor is assembled. aparently there is a little bit of water that comes out there. when he's inside the cage he only tries to bite his way throught the bottom of the water dispensor. he's a freak :D but at least he gets outside the cage more :D

tomorrow i'll go to a christmas dinner at Lars' place. he lives with 7 other guys and he told me we'll probably be 10-15 people at the dinner. i just hope i'll know someone besides Lars. hehe. and i plan to eat a lot and have my fair share of beer :D

i have planned out what to do for christmas: on the 20th i'll go to a yule-blót with marie louise and her asatru-friends. i'll just look but i'll be there. :D i don't think i should participate in a blót when i don't know how to do it and i don't share their beliefs. so i'll just look (while getting drunk?). :D
on the 24th i'll go for a long walk in this forest in the suburbs of the city. then i'll go home and watch the disney christmas show on tv. after that i'll go and prepare dinner and after that i will either put on some DVD or read a book.
i know it sounds like a weird and lonely christmas. but i'm actually looking forward to it! i don't want to go to my dad's to celebrate christmas because... it's not fun. it's always so damn tense and i don't enjoy it. so this year i will have a relaxed and über comfortable christmas :) because i've been at my dad's to celebrate christmas for so many years i've "learned" that a family-christmas is not necessarily a nice christmas. i want a nice and relaxed christmas for once. oh.. and another plus: i don't have to explain why i haven't put this and that food onto my plate! i'm a bit picky (i only like about half of all the food you get at a danish christmas) and i can do fine with just some potatos, some grease and some ham. but each year i have to explain to my grand mom and to my dad's wife that i don't like half of what they put in the salad, i don't like the jelly(? it's kind of... the fat/liquids that you get from having the meat in the oven and then it's made stiff... ew) and i don't like the risalamande (i am not even sure how to spell it... lol. but it's cold rice pudding with added cream and almonds....) and so on. it will be WONDERFUL to not have to explain why i don't eat all those things. *yay*

and i don't have to walk around the tree and sing those stupid christian christmas songs. last year i asked my dad's wife if we could just sing the songs about christmas time and how it is celebrated (we have songs about christmas shopping, how stressful that is and we have songs about the christmas tree and how the atmosphere on christmas eve is and so on). but noooo... she WANTS to sing the christian ones because it's a tradition and if SHE can't get to sing those songs SHE won't feel it's christmas. great. you don't have to think about the two children that just hate those songs. as long as YOU feel it's christmas...

so... i'll have a strange, but relaxing christmas. :)

but now i'll go and put on some great music and take a shower. after that i'll go and study a bit for the exams. i am a bit behind with the Europe in the World class. like... 4 classes or so. but i am working on it. so my plans for today is the shower, studying and at 6 pm i'll write letters. :D

today i washed a LOT of clothes! and i also did a little gardening. i don't really know what to do in the garden but i'm getting rid of plants that has died or that is definitaly not wanted. i found that i have a tiny mini-rose in dark red in the middle of the garden. it's really cute and it's the only one there. i wonder where it's from. i mean... it's a weird place to plant a tiny plant. hehe. 

i took a nap after all the clothes was clean again. i had this weird dream that contained a message from my mom (in the dream). the message said that all the time in your every day life that you eat unhealthy foods are times in your life that are not worth living after all. i told my mom this when i talked on the phone with her and she said it was a great saying (hmm... what about no. it's a terrible saying. i usually feel good and comfortable when i eat unhealthy foods. it's afterwards that is hell). 
in the dream i had just moved into a new house (it felt like this house but it didn't look the same). the house was bigger than the one i have now and the previous owner had left some furniture so i could use it. it was huge cabinets (that looked like some cabinets my mom used to have) that was filled with plates, knifes, forkes, spoons, police medals and emblems (the previous owner's late husband had been a police officer) and i even got a mail man coming in to my house with a package with the late husband's police cap. it's kind of weird. hehe. but i like weird dreams. 

i made the tzatziki for tomorrow. i think i might have put a wee bit too much garlic in. but that's ok. i've warned ppl about that already so they can be prepared. LOL. let's just hope noone complains about it. 

for dinner i made turkey meat balls with lots and lots of dill in. and lots and lots of oregano and spices. they were great! just like my mom used to make them. *yay*
it's really nice how i've come to love experimenting in the kitchen. i bake, make new dishes and i look for new recipes. i'm not at all "scared" to try something new. 

i'm also really getting to love hanging out in my garden doing garden-stuff. LOL. it makes me feel that i can easily learn how to take good care of my garden soon. but as it is now i just have to do the little stuff until someone (perhaps my dad... if his wife lets him.. blah) helps me getting started with the real new garden. this far i'm just looking at and taking pictures of the flowers i see in the garden that i might want to keep and i'm getting rid of the stuff that i can see does not belong in my garden what so ever (bad bad weeds... hehe... and the dead stuff). 

i'm really looking forward to my healthy july. and i love the fact that ppl in the weight loss-groups i'm in are up for taking a healthy july with me. i'm so glad i'm not alone about it. it's gonna be great! especially now that i can also make turkey meat balls. they are truly amazing! 

my cooking book is so gross. i keep spilling stuff on it when i'm baking and cooking. like today when i made the meat balls i accidently splashed some egg on the page with the recipe. and the page with the tuna meat balls have had lots of showers of bread crumbs, egg, tuna... you name it. LOL. 
my cooking book is a notebook where i collect all the recipes i want to try out. i'm pretty picky (well it's not THAT bad anymore... but still) so my goal is to make a cooking book only with recipes for foods that i like. hehe. 

for my party tomorrow we'll be martine, signe, the princess and ricky. and me of course. LOL. simon from my old class will only come for dinner as he's going to roskile that same night with his friends. (yes it's the festival i'm talking about). i think it's gonna be very nice. not too party-ish but still not just a movie night at my house. hehe. 

in 20 minutes i'm gonna go and watch tv. there's this channel that will show the three of the nerd-movies. *yay!* i bought a six pack of popcorn for the party tomorrow but i think i'll make one tonight while i watch the movies. i haven't seen them since i was a little girl and i don't really remember anything about them besides the fact that i loooooved them. i hope i won't get disappointed. *crossing my fingers* 


i just hope i won't feel sick after eating the popcorn.. :S 

birger spent some hours in my living room today because i was trying to get some drought in my house and tiny budgies don't do well with that so i had to put birger in a non-drought room (= my bedroom). he seemed just fine with it even though it's his first time in there. hehe. and now he's in the livingroom again and he has gotten this weird idea to fly really close to my face and then in the last moment fly right over my head. hehe. he's a crazy little bird. and i looove him for that <3