Okay ready for another video of Denmark? I hope so. Here is day three. I’ll be putting these up occasionally as I get them done. I have a few done now and so I need to get them up!
Denmark was so very fun. I want to go back and my sister and I are planning a trip to Germany and Austria in 2012. I really hope that we can get it going. Depends on money, of course. Bleh, I wish we had more money. Maybe some thermogenic fat burners would help too… then we could be skinny when we go!
And here is the video from Day Two… it’s only a couple of minutes long, and it didn’t take me all that long to make this one. But Day Three… I haven’t even uploaded that one yet!
Maybe some wrinkle eye cream would help me wake up and smell the coffee and make more videos! I need a break though, so I’m going to take a wee break for a little bit and work on day four some other time.
Well It’s been a week since I got back from Denmark. I’ll be posting videos off and on as I make them up. But believe me, it’s going to take me a while! Day One and Day Two weren’t so bad, they are only a couple of minutes. Day Three video took me like 3 hours for 7 mintues. LOL. Oh well… here is day one!
I am having fun making the videos but I need a multivitamin to make me stronger so that I have the energy to do them! And I wish it didn’t take quite so long. But day 3 has video in addition to still pictures and that is why it took me a little bit longer than the other ones.
This is gonna be my last post here for a couple of weeks. Sorry about that, but I can only concentrate on one blog at a time when I’m on vacation. I’m heading to Denmark on June 20, I’ll be back on the first few days of July. Until then… I’m only going to blog on my dog blog, Tip Tail. Since it’s a dog trip, I figure that’s where the posts will be appropriate.
So come see what I’m up to over on that blog. Maybe I’ll be able to see some original Moen faucets when I go over there, but then again, are they Danish? Maybe they are German. LOL I dunno. Regardless…
I hope I don’t gain too much weight. And I hope I don’t die in a car crash. For some reason I’m always worried about that. My dog Jet is coming with, he’s a Danish Swedish Farmdog and he’s entered in the World Dog Show. I better get going and print out maps and papers to bring with!
Well, yeah, I’m nervous about Denmark. But now all my dog stuff is just about over. But now my dumb left ankle is really hurting. I sprained it back in 2007 doing agility, and it never quite healed up. Of course. Because I never really stayed off it like I should. Dang it’s hard to stay off hurt feet parts!
Oh well, hopefully in the next week I’ll be able to take it easy and it will feel better before I go. I have almost everything ready for Jet, my dog, for the show. I have to set out my suitcases and get them packing. I’ll need Lipofuze when I get back, I think I’m going to gain a lot of weight… so when I get back, it’s only veggies for me!
Okay I know this isn’t a picture of Chicago proper but it’s the dog show I went to when I was there last weekend. It wasn’t even too humid as to warrant wrinkle cream but it was a bit cold as you can see by everyone wearing coats.
I was born in Chicago… well, Oak Park to be exact. And I do love it there… I love to visit. Sometimes I do wish that my parents had not moved us out here to Salt Lake City, when I was 7 and my sister was 11. We have a great family back there. My Dad’s family is there and it’s great to see them now and again.
Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love my life here and I know things would be completely different if we hadn’t moved here. I love being able to follow my passion, my dogs, and I love my husband and our house and it’s nice living in smaller town. I just sometimes miss the support network we left behind when we moved here. However, I’ve built a new support network with friends and family I love dearly and I’m so glad I have the friends and family I have now.
So, I’m thinking of taking a week trip to Germany this year. I have relatives there, and can probably stay with my Uncle… or at least at his house that he has renovated into apartments. I think I might have enough skymiles for two tickets, so I might drag my friend Marie with me! Maybe someone will give me a gift card that I can use in Germany, for some fun stuff!
I also hope to get some settlement money from my car accident. I should know in a week or two, I think. I really hope to get enough to pay off my mortgage, but so far the other insurance is only offering me $8,000. That is not enough to pay off the mortgage! We owe $23,000 on the mortgage. Dangit, I really want to pay that off. We are so close, I can taste it!
And speaking of money, I was balancing my checkbook today and found out that I’d been calculating my new minivan loan wrong… I actually wasn’t even taking it into account! Crap! So that’s why I’ve been so freakin’ short of money lately. And the Husband isn’t working… he does work occasionally for his brother-in-law, enough to buy food for us and some dog food. But I pay the mortgage and the utilities and such now… plus dog sports and taxes. So I have a pretty major budget I follow. And when it’s messed up, I’m messed up. So next paycheck will be tight again, but after that, I think I’ll be much better off as I finally figured it out! Bleh.
So anyway, Germany would be fun. Maybe we’d take the train around too and see some other things. We’d stay in Bingen in Germany… and there is a ton of things to do just there, and we could walk, and it’d be completely fun!
One of the things I felt most of all when I was on my cruise to the western Caribbean through Carnival cruise lines, was gratitude for what I have at home. We are not rich… well, not be western definitions anyway. But by other countries’ definitions, we are very, very rich. Even being middle class as my husband and I are, we own our own house, three cars (trying to sell one lol) we are able to support six dogs and they don’t really do any major work for us, they are just to love and be a part of our family.
And although I am very angry at our current president (Bush) I’m thrilled that our country finally got it’s head on straight and elected a new president, Democrat Barack Obama. I am thrilled! And I hope he does very well in the coming years.
Anyway… we have so much here in America and we hardly even appreciate it. As I said in my cruise posts, I was getting tired of the poverty. Belize City was the worst. I guess I feel bad about it because I feel helpless about it. And I feel decadent here in the states, as I did on the ship. So much food I felt stuffed all the time. Even on the excursion days when I didn’t eat, I felt stuffed.
Levi and Chase
Here at home I worry about things that most people in the world would find as complete luxury. I do competitions and training with my dogs and I pour a lot of money into those. We try to make our yard pretty and we buy things we don’t really need. We don’t have an xbox 360 but my husband has his computers and so do I, and we have our nice big 42″ HDTV that I watch quite a bit.
Mainly I concern myself with the health and well being of my dogs. And, of course, the health and well being of my human family, too. I try not to create stress in my life that I don’t need anymore. I used to make stress up. I didn’t know how to relax and be happy. Now I do. And every day I wake up and I see my bedroom and I am so grateful I have such a nice house and such an amazing family and such great friends.
Most of the time I have no idea how I got so lucky, especially when I see all the poverty in the world. I am grateful for having been born where I was. And every day I try to live in gratitude.
How fun! I threw this together last night… before my nap that started at 6pm and lasted until 6am this morning. LOL which a short break.
It’s the first day only… I hope to make up little movies for each day with a subset of the pictures I took. Since one day I took almost 600 pictures, it would take hours to look through them all!
I am home. I like being home. This pictures is from me on the ship… in a Carnival bath robe and sitting on my bed, that doubled as a couch. I don’t have any pictures of me at home yet. I’m tired… I’m working from home and I think I may just take a nap at lunch. Zzzzz.
The dogs are playing and outside barking, which is nice and comforting. My husband is taking good care of me and letting me sit on the couch all day with my laptop and concentrate on working. Yeah I’m taking a wee break here to post this.
We also have some sheltie visitors which I love! My friend let us watch Glitter and Chip, a couple of shelties, for a week while they are on vacation. I’ll get some pictures of them up in a while, probably put them on Tip Tail.
So I’m back to normal posting, checking out term life insurance rates so maybe I can make some money to pay for all my darn cruise bills! Actually I didn’t do too bad. I have less than $200 on my credit card to pay off. For a week, that’s not bad at all. And I got some nice stuff, trinkets… and great memories.
I want to put my pictures in a slide show with some music… not sure when I’ll be able to do that, but I’ll try!
Here is day three. I’ll be putting these up occasionally as I get them done. I have a few done now and so I need to get them up!
