Vegan delights

Yesterday I was at the health store and bought multiple ingredients to make a delicious organic vegan cheesecake. For some reason I ended up making it in the middle of the night, but who cares. This being Saturday morning now I decided I should have a piece for breakfast along with slices of banana and blueberries. Yum!

I used this recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/vegan-cheesecake-72526 which was easy as (vegan) pie and even tastier than any cheesecake I've tried! I halved the recipe just because and therefore it turned out quite flat. But on the plus side this means it's not as heavy as cheesecakes tend to be. Sometimes it's hard to just finish one slice cause you get both full and sick of too much cream cheese filling. Less filling = problem solved!

I need to live a place where people would join my spontaneous party with myself. Two Door Cinema Club ain't bad party music! Come on neighborhood WAKE UP!!!

Bicycle, bicycle!

"I love to ride my bicycle"

This week I've spent a lot of my time getting around on my bicycle. It's really not the fastest way and I know I could've saved time by taking the bus or driving the car. But who really cares about saving time when you could be outside on your bicycle enjoying the weather and feeling what it's like to sweat and walk on legs so tired of biking every step they take they threaten to overthrow the person in command. That's what I like. The feeling of being just on the brim of total exhaustion, but still be able to go about and do the stuff that needs to be done! (though it is quite a pain in the ass not knowing if you'll fall up the next flight of stairs.. Adventure?)
According to the map I just briefly looked at I've approximately covered 24 km when I went to work and back Monday and yesterday. Tuesday it wasn't as far. Tilst is somewhat 9 to 10 km from here.

It's funny to look at all the other bicyclists when you're on the move. Most have that fancy gear and look like they're getting ready for Tour de France and some are just wearing everyday clothes and maybe have one of those little engines on their bike for when it gets a little too hard. To my own great surprise most people wear a helmet something I thought most people didn't. The things you learn about people everyday is amazing!

Last Day

Everything today was about my forthcoming leave at work. I got a phone call from my boss asking me when I intended to stop and mentioned I had to teach the new me how to do things at work. Shit.. I'm really everything but the type you let instruct other people. And he's English so plenty more reason I could screw it up.

When I arrived at work my contact person brought up the topic once more. She really touched me when se said they were going to miss me. I'm only covering for someone else as she was on sick leave so I was really flattered that she'd miss me even though all along she knew I'd be gone one day. I decided to bake a cake for them.

Wednesday is the day I volunteer at the cafe. Today was Wednesday which means I was at the cafe. It seemed like today was the day all the new volunteers had decided to start. Pretty much fun although I had to teach one of the new ones a lot of things and as I mentioned before I'm not that type of person. Well, she said she liked working with me so I'm glad. I get so distracted I'm afraid to lose focus sometimes and appear rude.

It's hard to believe it's going to be months from now that I'll be back at the cafe. So weird and odd. I even get a hug from my boss and he's not even the hugging type! (except when he's drunk, but that's another story)

A lot to miss, but also a lot to look forward to! In less than two weeks I'll be off!

Living on my own

It's funny how much weather affects my mood. If I wake up and the sun is shining very few things can break me down and make me miserable. On the other hand of the weather is shitty my mood is quite likely to so too.
This weekend the weather was fabulous! I can't describe how pretty the scenery I had around me was. I was back in my old neighborhood once again and everything was beautiful and perfect! Four days in paradise if I might say so.

I was house sitting for a friend which ie kinda gotten to like since I've done it a few times before. An entire house all to myself for a couple of days is really awesome! I'm closer to the city, dictate my own rules and snuggle up with a cat every evening. What more could one ask for?

I wish I had a place of my own. A small apartment in a nice neighborhood would be brilliant.


My friend and I decided to make freshly baked bread for breakfast and eat in the sun. Doesn't matter if it took us nearly two hours before we had the breakfast it was fun and delicious opposed to just having bought something at the store. Should have worn some sun screen though.

Mother got a flower

I bought this flower for my mother today. Suddenly felt like giving her something nice and ten I remembered this cute flourish shop I've been to several times without buying a thing. Today I decided it was time I actually bought something. Since my mom is all crazy about orchids I chose a big bright pink orchid with the prettiest pattern I've ever seen on an orchid.

And I danced a little with the vacuuming machine. Wonder if they've noticed.

Party like there's no tomorrow

Yesterday was a blast. Fun with friends is never something I'd hate or dislike. Mejlgade for Mangfoldighed 12 was brilliant and so much fun. I teamed up with a couple of friends and had fun with all the booths and stages. They even had free vegan cake!
Unfortunately this year was just as cold as the past two years, but at least not as wet! I dreaded yet another street party with rain, rain and even more rain. But it was cold... Fear not though! Because we found this box in which we sat very tightly all five of us. Pretty awkward that people kept taking pictures of us in the box. And sometimes we got new tenants on top of the box most of which were not too talkative.

Today I went hike training. 12 kg in my backpack and then I left with doggie. We went out and about. Pavement, rocky roads, grassy trails and almost any imaginable kind of paths. I met one of my friend's parents while they were walking their dog.

When I got home I was quite tired. My stomach hurt so I decided to sleep. Sleep is the only cure I have against stomach aches. People always tell me to slip a pain killer of some sort, but I really don't like that idea. First of all I don't think you should just swallow medication just now and then when you feel like it and secondly I find I have a tendency to vomit when I have paracetamol.. Pretty good reason to avoid the stuff!

Into the wild

I knew it would rain - hell it rained just fifteen minutes prior to my departure. Now I'm back home again with damp hair and sore shoulders. Don't ask me why, but I had to go for a ride on my bicycle this evening before it got dark. The air was filled with water particles all the time and it looked so beautiful the mist-like haze above the trees in the forest. I would've taken a picture, but my phone didn't reflect what I was seeing so I gave up.
Suddenly I felt the urge to abandon my bike and walk into some forest near the road I was driving along. I went further and further into the forest and tried to forget myself and be in the moment. Atop the hill in a evergreen forest then a valley of leafy trees leading to human interference. Cut-down trees, dead timber and spoiled soil. Such a sad sight for sore eyes.
Suddenly I spotted her though. She was right there in the middle of once-was-such-a-tall-forest-but-now-merely-timber. The female deer wasn't even 50 meters from me and hadn't noticed me at all. I stopped and watched her. Waiting for her to spot me which surprisingly took quite a while. The dripping from the rain must have been my advantage.
She spotted me and did the oddest little moves with her head. I figure she was trying to determine whether or not I made a threat to her. After a while she wandered off into the forest, but as I moved she ran for it.

Such a magical moment.

Here's a little 10 second video I made:
The windmill

Traveling bike

Grabing my bike by the handlebars. Riding into the sunset the last rays of a spring day stinging my skin. Riding fast, faster, faster even. Sudden stop! Look at the scenery! So pretty and peaceful. Who knew the industrial area could be this beautiful?

On the road again. Riding past warehouses, trees and semi-forests. Take a turn ride down the road hit a dead-end and turn around. Look to your right. The gravel road seems oddly welcoming. Ride fast feel the uneven terrain and notice your head and hands shake as you propel through nature faster than you could ever control. 

And then you've hit yet another dead-end. Unless you wish to continue along the highway. Turn around and take another gravel road. It appears to go on forever. Taking me further and deeper into the forest. The smell. The unmistakable smell of the presence of cows. There! Between the trees to the right. 

Get off. Look around. Run like a manic person through tough terrain. Sudden movement ahead. Deer scared by my retarded energy outburst. Run with it. Feel the euphoria grab you as you run while the feeling of getting tired increases for every step you take. 

Back to the bike. Fast, faster beehives. Abandon bike and walk the end of the forest. Eat a leaf and become part of nature.    

Weird feeling being weird

It is in fact very seldom that I upload anything on DeviantART. At least that's how I feel about it. But when I do upload something I upload a ton. Today I was in the mood for uploading some pictures and a sketch. I don't know if I just picked a very good time to upload or what the hell happened, but within no time I had so many notifications I didn't know what to do! Resulting in me fleeing from my computer not looking at it again untill seven hours later.
Don't get me wrong I was extremely flattered, but I really just couldn't handle all that activity around my creations. It's just too weird.

I have to share this weird piece of information. Thursday I went to donate blood and as I got off the bus I noticed a flag further down the road at another ward in the hospital. It was steadily waving halfway up the pole. I suddenly felt colder and hurried inside. It turned out my friend's mother should be the nurse poking the needle in my arm. I like having her do it.

When I later returned to the hospital to go to work I noticed that the flag down the road was now waving at the top of the pole. Confused as I was I wondered if these patients each get their prime time with the flag.

It's funny how when you realize you're fearing something and then decide to speak it out loud then irony has a way of coming right at you. The irony here being me working at the hospital once again after so many months of not doing so. Though I found I rather liked being back in the hospital. There are so many things to explore and discover even though I know I'm only suppossed to do my job and nothing more. I just can't help noticing all the interesting stuff going on around me at such a place. I really wish I would someday get to ride their little personel "bus". It seems so fun to ride!

The power of the sun

I'm in a bus. (I'm on a booaat) it's slowly taking me closer to work. Closer to the beginning of a work day. A work day with 10,5 hours of work. If I'm lucky I'll be finished by 00.00. That kinda would be nice.

Yesterday was lovely! For the first time in many years I did nothing political on May 1st. Felt rather weird, but on the other hand I wasn't really feeling political at all anyway. And neither did I feel like meeting the folks I know would be there.
Instead my friend and I sat our sorry asses in the grass in the city hall park. Man did it feel good! No worries for so many hours and for once doing something just the two of us. The weather was great. We adopted bees and just relaxed.

33 days till departure.