Good goat times today.
It’s good to get back to goating. It will be a couple of weeks before I can really get back to the old routine, but for now I’m just enjoying the time I get.
It was a snow day today. But just barely. Tiny little patches on the ground here and there. And a tiny bit coming down. Nothing to really speak of, but winter certainly is here.
Sweet fluffy goats growing their winter coats. And their tummies. A couple of visitors asking if Sky was pregnant, and being somewhat shocked that she isn’t. oh dead. We’ve cut down on rations, but apparently it hasn’t had much effect yet. And going to a couple of weeks without the treatbag has done nothing either.
There was a boy who brought carrots for the goats. He was filming them with his phone. He asked me if it was okay that I was in the film, and I said sure. A little later he proudly told me “I got you in the video!”. Hey, I’m no stranger to being in goat videos!
As the slight snow came down, sweet Sky retreated to sit under the podium down in the front pen. I guess that’s her new safe space. She sat down there last week too.
On the one hand it’s super cute seeing her tucked down under there. And I’m glad she’s got a dry spot where the big girls can’t really get to. But I also feel a little sad that she feels the need to. Hopefully she doesn’t go down there all time. Hopeully when the weather is drier she’ll be out with us more. She is getting to be an older girl, I don’t blame her for not wanting to run around with, and from, the younger girls. I just don’t want her to hide away all the time.
Now, it is soup time. Tis the season now for sure.
24/11 2025
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Where’s Sky at?!

24/11 2025
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Got a surprise this morning when my phone rang with the doorbuzzer number.
It was my mailman, you know my favourite mailman. I was surprised he buzzed me, I thought they had their own access code to the building. But I guess it’s easier for them to buzz up instead of going up to see if anyone is home.
I knew there was a package coming today, but I figured I wouldn’t be able to receive it, since I was going out goating. But he was there earlier than usual. Last time it was later. In any case, I buzzed him in and he came up with the package. First postal package delivered while I was in the new apartment. Glad I got it. Still very happy with my mailman.
Oh and the good news is, I could hear him clearly through the phone. I guess the grocery delivery guy that I couldn’t really hear what he said, he was doing it wrong. So nice to know that I can hear people buzzing downstairs.
24/11 2025
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I know you’ve seen it already, but here’s my new building. Seen from the path I take up to the goats.
I wonder if I can get Helle to take a picture from street level of me standing and waving from the balcony of my apartment. That would be kind of funny.

24/11 2025
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What if the best is yet to come?

24/11 2025
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Had a little too many people in my apartment this morning. TWO. Two too many.
Haha. Well, yesterday when I was at the goat place I got a call from the housing association service guy, asking if he could come look at my blinds that needed fixing. Told him I wasn’t home. So we arranged for him to come over today.
Also today I had a Pepsi&Protein delivery scheduled.
Not like it was a problem, but it did give me a little anxiety. Of course they came at the same time more or less. But it was fine. I got the groceries lugged in while the service guy was fixing the blinds. My social phobia was flaring, but it wasn’t a problem. And the nice thing was the that the delivery guy didn’t have to buzz me, he used the temp code I had set up in the electronic lock system. So that was good, didn’t have to let him in via my phone.
Also had to call the housing association. Haven’t had any bills for next month’s rent. You pay the first month’s rent along with the security deposit in advance. The guy on the phone said I was supposed to have gotten the bill for next month’s rent already. If I hadn’t then “that was a mistake”. Yeah yeah. I’m not a complainer, and generally I have been happy with the way I have been treated by the housing association. But it does feel like there have been a number of little mistakes along the way. Wrong information about this apartment not being renovated. Not getting my name up on the door instead of the old tenant’s. Telling me I needed to buy new pots and pans when I didn’t. Not sending a bill for the rent. Imagine if I hadn’t been paying attention, my rent wouldn’t have been paid. Would they have kicked me out? I guess they would have sent a reminder. Anyway, there have been other mistakes. Thankfully I think we’ve caught everything and nothing serious has happened. But it’s not great when you get official information that’s outdated or just wrong. I know Helle has had her battles with the housing association, she’s the activist type. I’m more the “keep my head down and go along to get along” type. I would usually rather let people walk all over me instead of causing a fuzz. Not the best quality to have. But sometimes you have to speak up and I guess I have gotten some experience lately in being pro-active and dealing with things.
Anyway, I got some cucumber and tomatoes in the delivery today. I have not eaten tomatoes in.. maybe a year, because I was worried about how acidic they are and my teeth weren’t doing so great. Today I’m going to have me a cheese sandwich with cucumber and tomato, I used to eat that a bunch.
May also have gotten some iced creams. May be having some for dessert.
Well, better go pay my rent for next month. Get it added to the automatic bill paying system.
25/11 2025
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I have some bad news.
The tomatoes weren’t good.
Practically no taste. Ah well. I’ll try again next spring. I love a good tomato, but this wasn’t it.
Cheese sandwich wasn’t bad, though.
Another exciting update from the life of Lasse!
25/11 2025
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Here’s Helle’s picture of the gate tonight. It is lit up to promote the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

25/11 2025

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Well, you’ll never believe it. Or maybe you will. I hurt another rib.
I was sitting in my chair with my psoas massage tool. I don’t know if any of you know those. They’re shaped kind of like a U. Two ends justting out. I leaned over and one end jabbed into my lower rib and I felt a sharp pain. Pretty sure I bruised another rib, this one was the lowest one, I think. On the right side again. So that adds another week or so of pain, to the one I bruised or bent last week. Sheesh.
I was telling Jeanette about my hurt rib, and she wondered if I might have Osteoporosis, since I keep bending or bruising those ribs. Apparently all it takes for me is to lean some weight on a rib and it just .. cracks. Well, I guess they’re just bent or pushed or bruised or whatever. But weeks of pain isn’t fun. Maybe I should talk to my doctor about it. I do take calcium and vitamin D supplements, doctor’s orders since the diabetes beginnings.
So now I got two hurty ribs on the right side. I have never hurt the lowest one before, I wonder if that will hurt worse when it gets really going. Fun times.
Got my rent for December paid today. My rent is actually lower than at the old place. It’s supposed to be higher, since it’s a renovated apartment. But it’s lower because the prepay for heat/water/electricity is way lower. It’s set to the average used by similar apartments. I know from experience my usage is going to be considerably higher. I had the prepay increased at the old apartment, that’s why my rent was higher there.
What’s it called in English when you pay a set amount in advance each month, and then once a year you either get money back or have to pay extra? It’s called “a conto” in Danish, and google translate suggests “on account”. Is that right? Or just ‘prepay’. I’m not sure.
Well, anyway. I know from experience that especially my heat consumption is a good deal higher than average. I get so cold, so I have to have the heat turned up. I also have a fairly big electricity usage because I basically have my hefty computer running 24/7, along with other things. I’m trying to keep my heat turned lower than at the old place, but that means I have to run my space heater sometimes to give me some warmth. Not sure if using a space heater a couple of hours a day is cheaper than running the heat higher 24 hours a day or not. But either way, my consumption is going to be higher than average.
So, I may be paying lower rent for now, but at the end of the consumption year (I think that’s in August) I’m likely going to get an extra bill. Instead of money back, like I’ve been used to getting in the old place.
I have cut way down on my warm water usage, hopefully that will make up for some of the heat I use.
And next year I will see if I get an extra bill. If it’s too big then I’ll try to get my monthly prepay increased to a higher amount. But for now I think I will just let it be. Enjoy the lower rent.
it’s been an expensive month. I had the dentist. I have been buying stuff for the apartment, taken advantage of some ‘Black Friday’ deals, I got my annual insurance bill coming up. Helle just dropped off the curtains for my new place, have to pay her back for those. I’m paying a month more of TV/internet than I needed to because I was too slow in cancelling at the old place. Bought a lot of iced creams and pepsi too.
Thankfully my finances are very healthy. I live such a basic life that I usually come out ahead most months. But this move is going to make a dent in my bank account. Nothing I can’t handle. But the dream of buying an island somewhere in the Caribbean and forming a goat commune, well it will probably have to wait.
I am secretly dreaming of getting my deposit back from the old place. That would be nice. I don’t dare really hope for that, though. I would be happy if I don’t get any extra bills from that. I’m still scared about that. But I will find out soon now.
Now I’m just going to relax for the rest of the day. Tomorrow should be the final work on the old place . And if we have time Helle will help me put up the curtains at the new place. I may have a package to go pick up too. So there will be stuff to do.
The sun is shining right now. Lighting up my apartment. I wish it didn’t hurt my eyesight so much. It’s so nice having sunshine, but it makes it much harder seeing the screen here. And it’s already hard enough. It will be nice to have the curtains up.
Hope you’re all doing well. Can you believe it’s almost December? Feels like only yesterday it was summer and nothing interesting was happening and I thought I’d have a simple rest of the year to look ahead to. And here I am a tooth less, a root canal and some bruised ribs more, and a whooole lot of moving and peopleing later. It’s been a crazy forking half year. But at least it looks like it’s going to end up.. okay.
26/11 2025
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Here’s Sky in her litlte hidey hole. I’m glad she’s got a little safe space where she can sit and not be bothered. But I’m sad she feels the need to have it. I don’t want her to withdraw from the others. I can’t blame her though, since I am mostly withdrawing from others too.

26/11 2025
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Here’s Bella on snowlogs. A little taste of winter.

26/11 2025
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HelloOOoo! It’s meEe!
Haha I don’t even know if you can see where I am in the lower part. With my eyesight, I’m like a little blob. Where’s Lasso?!
But thank you to Helle, for incredible work today, and or taking the pictures. It’s.. peculiar to see myself like that. In my deluxe apartment in the sky.

27/11 2025
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Phew. Hard work today.
Mostly for Helle, I mean. But I helped!
Helle is just amazing. She has done so much for me. She’s been an electrician, a mover, a cleaner, a carpenter, a photographer, a champion. I can never properly repay her for all she’s done for me.
It is strange to think that I’m done in the old apartment now. Unless something unforseen pops up, I’m done. Just one more time in there, next week for the final inspection and handing over of keys.
No more being alone there. I don’t even know if i’m technically allowed to be there after Sunday. I’ll have the keys until Thursday, but December 1st I guess it’s legally no longer my apartment? Well, it’s not like I’m planning to throw any parties there. But it is an odd feeling. After eighteen years in a place. Part of me thought I’d be dragged out of there in a bodybag some day. But the powers that be had other plans. I suppose that’s not a bad thing. So far it’s all going.. pretty well.
I got up early today and went to do some work in the old apartment by myself before Helle was going to get there. I didn’t want her to have to spend too much time cleaning. So I went over everything with a cloth. And washed the floors. That’s basically the extent of the cleaning that was required. I am so lucky they aren’t going to rent that place out anymore. It would have been a very different undertaking if I had to get the place in rentable condition.
And even so, my floor washing wasn’t quite up to standards. Helle ended up washing the floors too. Putting a lot more work into it than I did. I am not a great cleaner. As should be evident.
But we went through it all. Have to leave it in a good condition for the handymen/construction workers that will be working in there..
I’m still scared of the final inspection. But it will be what it will bee, buzz buzz.
After cleaning and locking up for the last time, we went to the new place. And started work on getting the new curtains up. We didn’t get it all done. It was kind of hard work. Screwing isn’t easy! Sorry. But it was harder to get the curtain rails up than expected I think. We got curtains up on two of the three big windows. There’s one big window and two doors and one small window left. But I’m going to try leaving the last big window without the extra curtains. To keep some light in the apartment potentially. That window is kind of shielded by a half-wall, when I’m sitting at the computer. So I’m hoping the light that gets through the built-in blinds can’t bother me in this position. That’s kind of how it was at the old place, I left that window with a single curtain instead of the double darkening curtains. But the layout of the windows here is a litle different than at the old place. So I’m not sure if it’s going to work okay. I’m going to have to see on a sunny day.
In any case, we’ll put up some more curtains in the weekend, is the plan. The doors at least. Yes, the doors require curtains too.
Helle did a lot of hard work today. I am very thankful for it. I didn’t work as hard, but I did work and I was on my feet for 6-7 hours. And with hurting ribs. My back has been hurting more too. When I was cleaning the apartment last time, I was bending down in some bad ways for too long. Since then my back pains have been a lot worse. I hope I didn’t mess it all up. I’ll have to try to get back to stretches and exercises and hope it will help.
But for now, it’s time to relax and soup. I am hungry and tired. All that waving from the balcony really tires you out!
27/11 2025
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. I am thankful for my friends, now more than ever. Near and far. Couldn’t have gotten through the last couple of months without you.
Hope you all have a lot to be thankful for too.
27/11 2025
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Not a very interesting picture, but for the record here is Helle working on putting up teh curtains. She has been my superhero through all of this.

27/11 2025
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Well, I got a nasty surprise last night.
I went out to the bathroom, and I heard water running.
There was just water running through my toilet. I pushed the flush button, which seemed to stop it. And after a little time, it flushed normally and seemed to not be running anymore.
I went to check my water consumption. Eight hundred liters of water. 800. I usually use about 50-50 liters in a day. I don’t know if that’s more or less than usual. But 800 is .. a lot.
Sigh. I really look forward to not having to deal with things again soon….
I called the housing association first thing when they opened up this morning. They can’t send anyone until Monday. I was looking at their site yesterday, apparently a running toilet doesn’t qualify as an emergency either, you can’t call their emergency number for that. Have to wait until their open hours.
Anyway, the toilet hasn’t been running since last night, the water consumption is normal. So hopefully it will be fine. And their man will look at it, see if it needs to be looked at by a real plumber.
Just great. Now I’m going to be paranoid about my toilet for the rest of my life.
I don’t even know how long it took to use those 800 liters. A couple of hours? I guess 6 or 7 at the most. If it ran like that for a whole day it would be like at least 3-4000 liters. Geez.
Got a package delivered today. The mailman buzzed me, and I could barely hear him on the phone. Seems like it’s hit or miss whether you get good reception through that.
My mother was also just over, and she buzzed me but it didn’t go through. I think that was when I was on the phone with the housing assocation though.
I am really tired. And it’s 10:42 am.
28/11 2025
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By the by.
Denmark is getting ready to introduce a new national ID app. For amongt other things, age verification online. To prevent minors from accessing things such as gambling, pornography and social media.
I have not been able to find any infomration about what alternatives will be available for people without smartphones. Knowing how the world is going, I wouldn’t be surprised if the alternative is “fck you”.
It’s supposed to be introducted next spring. If Facebook, as one of the biggest social media platforms in the world, will require this app.. well I don’t know if I will be able to continue using the site.
I guess we’ll find out in spring.
Surely, there must make some kind of alternative? For old people, for handicapped people, for privacy nuts.
Surely?
Don’t call me..
28/11 2025
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Well, it hasn’t been a great day. I have been pretty tired and depressed and worried, most of the time. Fun fun.
Had a couple of packages coming today. As I mention, I got the one from my mailman. Worrying though that I could barely hear him on the doorphone.
I had another package that didn’t get delivered, From the delivery company BRING. The tracking says they tried to deliver it at 9:50 am and it was ready for pickup at the package shop at 9:53 am. Which makes me question whether they even tried to deliver it or they just took it straight to the package shop. I just hope they didn’t try to buzz me and it didn’t go through. I am uneasy about that doorphone buzzer system, it seems a bit hit and miss.
And then then there was the phone call to the housing assoc about the toilet. That went fine, but I wish they could have sent someone out today, instead of having to wait till Monday. Still, the toilet has behaved since last night, and from what some of you have said on here, it seems not too bad. Just the doohickey that got stuck in the skewer and I just have to jiggle the flapper. Or whatever. But those 800 liters of water kind of haunt me. I’m never going to walk away from a bathroom visit without waiting to be sure the toilet has stopped flushing in my life again. If that’s what happened.
I have also been feeling like it’s colder and noisier here. I know it’s irrational. But I feel like after the housing service guy was here to fix the window controllers for the blinds, there has been more cold air and more noise from the construction outside. I know it’s just in my head, he just attached the controllers with sticky glue or something, it’s not like he would have opened up anything that lets cold air or noise in. It’s just the same noise as always. And that damn ventilation system sending a breeze through my apartment.
I hope Helle can give me a good way to block that thing. I’m not a smoker, I’ll just open the windows to get some fresh air in now and then. I don’t want a constant breeze.
My body and system is such a mess. i’m so sensitive to the sunlight, but I get depressed from the dark. I get so cold from the slightest breeze. All my ribs are breaking, my back is aching. It takes me 10 minutes of worrying to make basic phonecalls. I feel like i’m a goblin that should be living in a cave somewhere, instead of a human living in society.
Bla bla. I have generally been really happy with the move, and how it has gone, and the help I have received. I have to get back to that mindset. Instead of worrying and sadness.
Now I have to stay home on Monday to let the housing guy in to look at the toilet. And with the final inspect of the old place and the internet technician here, I probably won’t be able to see the goats next week. I hope the rest of December will be less complicated. I really need to settle into a routine that’s less stressful.
I have put on more weight too. Self medicating with bad food. I tried doing rod exercises for my arms, but my ribs hurt. My exercise bike still isn’t set up to go. I almost ordered a new one, had it in my shopping kart and was checking out. The site emailed me the next day telling me I forgot to complete my purchase. Mhm. i’ll hold off. i would like a new one. But I want to see if maybe they have one in the second-hand store. You never know. Or maybe I can make do with the old one. It’s so unstable though, I’m worried it’ll make too much noise now that I have downstairs neighbours. I’d like one with a smoother glide.
Anyhoo. I was going to stop complaining, wasn’t I? Time to sleep. I think Helle is coming Sunday to get more curtains up. I don’t know what I would have done without her. This is me coping with things, imagine what I would have been like withouth her help? I wish our society was better at helping people in need and with special needs. Not everyone is lucky enough to know a Super Helle.
Oh by the way, to be fair I have to say that regarding my rent for December, I said the housing association hadn’t sent me the bill. I found it in my mailbox yesterday, so they had sent it. I guess it’s just with mail being delivered so infrequently, I thought I hadn’t gotten it. But I got it both on paper and electronically, so no problem there.
And the package I got today was the new modem for my internet connection. I was wondering why I hadn’t gotten that yet, so happy to have that. On Friday the technician will come to upgrade my phone/internet jack, and hopefully I can get everything installed and working. It will be nice to get back on highspeed internet. The emergency mobile broadband has worked great, and I sure am glad I didn’t have problems with it. Hopefully the actual broadband will work out too.
Okay, I’ll shut up now. Been tired all day, it will be nice to go to bed.
28/11 2025
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goatlog

29/11 2025
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Well, I wasn’t planning to. But I ended up ordering pizza today. More self-medicating. Still feeling pretty down. But better than yesterday, at least. And now to enjoy the pizza. Couldn’t hear the delivery guy at all over the doorphone, but I got the call and let him in, so i guess that’s good enough.
Oh and by the way. I’m keeping the stapler. The previous tenant has not come asking for it.
So I’m keeping it as a trophy. Some guy lost a stapler here. I GAINED a stapler. I won. I’m coming out ahead. You have to take life’s little victories. That stapler is going to be a good luck charm for me. It’s going to ensure me great success. I don’t lose things behind loose cupboard walls. I find them. I retrieve them. I’m a winner. 2026 is going to be the year of Lasse, I’m going to crush it.Buy into the dip, guys. Everything’s coming up Lassehouse.
And so on and so forth.
29/11 2025
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Ever feel like water is giving you the finger?
29/11 2025
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Third week in the new apartment is almost over. How crazy is that?
I know, i was also amazed.
Pretty quiet day today. Helle was going to come over to do curtains, but she only had time later in the day, and I prefer doing things early in the day. So we’re going to do it on Thursday, after the final inspection, instead.
It’s one of my weird idiosynchrazies. Being around people, even people I like and trust like Helle, and doing things. It just takes a lot out of me. I like doing them before noon. Then I can have the rest of the day to calm down and recharge. I often think of myself as a battery. I get drained an then I have to recharge.
I also prefer doing stuff early in the day if I have to go out, because then it’s light out and there are generally fewer people about.
Of course when it comes to something like doing stuff with Helle, she’s the one going out of her way to be so helpful, and I appreciate that so much. So if she wants to do something at a certain time, I certainly will comply to the best of my abilities. But she’s also been super understanding, and she said Thursday was fine.
I have to admit. Reluctantly. That sometimes it’s even nice to spend time with people. It’s difficult for me, as you know. But with people like Jeanette and Helle and Peter, it’s actually nice. In small doses so I can handle it. My point is that it’s not just that Helle has been such a giant help through this. It’s also just nice being around her. It’s good to get that little bit of social interaction, instead of being completely isolated. I appreciate that.
I didn’t completely do nothing today. Went and picked up a couple of packages from the parcel shop. Stuff I had ordered. And on my way I stopped at the old apartment and checked the mailbox. For the last time, I guess. From tomorrow it is no longer my apartment. Even if I have the keys till Thursday.
Mailbox was empty by the way. But from now on, Lasse don’t live there no more.
Next week will be challenging.
Monday I got the housing assoc service guy coming between 8-12. To check the toilet. There haven’t been any problems since Thursday night. But given that 800 liters of water went poof, I feel better having it looked at.
I also have a couple packages coming. Knowing my luck they’ll probably come right when the housing guy is here, and I’ll have to deal with two humans at once. But it shouldn’t be too bad.
And then a couple of days to try to get my battery fully charged. Thursday will one of the most important and scariest days of this whole thing. With the final inspection of the old place and giving the keys back. Hopefully it won’t be too bad.
Helle will be there with me, which I very much am thankful for. I don’t know how long that will take, but hopefully not too long. And then we’ll go and put up the curtains on my windowed doors.
And then Friday the ISP technician will come to upgrade my internet plug.
I’m not sure if I’m going ot hook up the new internet line right away. I may wait until Saturday.
And I’ll see if I find some time and energy to do some unpacking. I kind of want the curtains and internet plug done first. Because when that’s done then there shouldn’t be more work to be done in the apartment, then I can sort of get things into the places where they should go permanently. And then I shouldn’t have to keep moving boxes around, like I am now.
But after next week, it should all be pretty much done. It’s been a journey. But I can’t complain about how it has gone. I have been very lucky. Apart from the teeth and the water and such. But generally. Very lucky.
I’m still very tired. Had a couple of little dizzy moments. I think my blood pressure is probably too high right now. Got my yearly big checkup at the doctor coming up in a week and a half. Dreading the readings. I have not been living healthily the last couple of months. But it will be good motivation to get back on a proper track. Hopefully.
30/11 2025
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I wanna know what a giraffe is. I want you to show me.
30/11 2025
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That’s all for now.

Good goat times today.
Finally. Back to the goat place.
Two and a half weeks away. I can’t remember the last time I was gone that long. Not in Sky’s lifetime, surely.
Well, it was so good to see them again. The one place that has not changed, the constant that anchors me to reality. The goats, as it were.
It was kind of weird in the morning, trying to reconstruct how I do things. And trying to find things I need. Haven’t unpacked much yet. Couldn’t find my microphone for the camera. Or my extra batteries.
Of course I ran out battery power almost immediately when I got there. Oh bother. So I barely did any camera work. But I did lots of goat cuddling work, and that’s what I get paid the big bucks for. So that’s okay.
Lots and lots of cuddles and treats for the goats. They remembered me! Although the weather had them a little subdued i think. Freezing cold, frost everywhere. None of us likes that.
The goats seemed fluffier than last I saw them. Must be growing their winter wool. i’m fluffier too. A little heavier and with several layers. It’s sweater time. I don’t cope well with the cold.
Funniest thing today was when I couldn’t find Sky. I heard her bleating in response to me. Then realised she’d gone down underneath one of the podiums. I didn’t realise the could fit down there. Reminded me of her hiding out under the goat house at the old place.
Good to see Jeanette too of course, had to tell her all about my big move. And root canal. She sympathised! I’m so glad we have her to take good care of the goats.
Hopefully we can get back into a good routine soon now.
Right now I’m going to get back into a pot of soup. Tis the weather for it.
17/11 2025
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Frosty Luna, with a little Sky in the back.

17/11 2025
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Oh no. I hurt myself.
Leaning over my chair.
I don’t know what it is about my bones. They are so brittle. I just leaned over the side of my chair, and ouch. There goes another rib. That’s like.. the 6th or 7th time? 8th? Sheesh. I guess it’s bent.
Usually when it happens, it starts hurting the next day. This time it seems to be hurting right away, when I move in certain ways. So that’s going to be hurting for weeks. Which is going to be super awesome this week when I try to get the last stuff moved from the apartment and do some cleaning. Just swell. Just great. I’m a mess.
In other news, I did a little shopping after the goat trip, and I used my credit card in a proper store for the first time ever. After trying it in the dentist’s office last week.
it went ok, except I didn’t realise I don’t have to enter my pin. I guess it just works when you hold it over the terminal. Anyway, easier than carrying cash, that’s for sure.
Also moved some more stuff down to my storage room. I’m planning on bringing the shelves from my bookshelves to the playground and use them to make something for the goats, maybe covering some mud with them or something. But for now I have moved them down to the storage room. Hopefully i can get the bodies of the bookshelves down to the big trash later this week.
I am super tired and now I’m hurty too, and I have been feeling the depression and anxiety rising. I would really like to take some days off to just do nothing, but I gotta work on the apartment and try to get as much of that done as soon as possible.
Must soldier on!
17/11 2025
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I am considering getting one of those comedy sized bolts in my neck like Frankenstein, just to hold things together.
17/11 2025
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Bella missed her treats!

17/11 2025
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Productive day today. Got a good deal of stuff done diddly done for.
I was planning to work at the old apartment today and tomorrow, but now I’m thinking I will take tomorrow off.
Partly because I wasn’t feeling great this morning. Aching ribs, hurting head, tired. Also had a weird memory lapse, I couldn’t remember I had rebooted my pc, but I had, and there was nother thing I’d done but I couldn’t remember doing. I hope it was just because I was so tired and feeling off.
Yeah, not feeling super great. But at least I got going and did things.
I called the housing association to book a time for the inspector to look at the faults i have submitted. Since the first two weeks of me having access to the apartment is done now, can’t submit any more faults. Got it booked for Thursday morning. And I have time ‘booked’ with Helle for later Thursday, to take down my furniture that’s going to the trash and hopefully the curtains. So betwen those two appointments I have some time I can work in the apartment. And then I can have tomorrow off, which is nice. I do need those breaks, physically and mentally.
The old apartment is close to done now. I got stuff moved, some of it to storage and some of it to my new place. The old place is almost empty now. I left a few things. Some stuff for cleaning, some stuff I’d rather wait with, some internet router and modem stuff that I’m not sure if belongs all to me or the housing association.
But pretty much, there’s less than a cart-load left. And it’s all ready to just be grabbed.
So the moving of stuff is 99% done. Got a bunch of stuff thrown out too. Finding stuff in old cupboards and hiding away in corners.
It’s so empty now.
I’ll try to do a little cleaning before Helle comes. And if we get the curtains down, then it will almost be done. With a week and a half to spare. I will probably ask Helle to look through it all, with my blindness I am bound to have overlooked things. And she has said she would help with the cleaning too, she says it is just sweeping the floor and runnign a cloth through all the cupboards and stuff. I will probably try to wash the floor and maybe do some other basic stuff.
Anyway, it’s close to done. It will be nice to not have to run back and forth between two places.
And it will be nice to be able to turn the focus to getting the new place done. Get everything unpacked and see how everything will fit, how I want it to be.
But I’m feeling okay in the new place. It is starting to feel more and more like home. Coming home to it is nice. And again, it’s almost a little exciting to have the chance to set up things differently, be better organised and easier to deal with.
And the things that annoy me, I will just have to get used to coping with them.
It has all worked out so so much better than I had feared. I am thankful for that.
Today I also finally got my tv package at the old place cancelled. If I had done it last month then i would have saved a month’s pay. But ah, I can live with that. At least I got it done today, despite my anxiety rising. I hate calling, people places anything. Doesn’t help that I got their ‘phone bot’ system. Sheesh, bots everywhere. Had to tell it what I wanted, and it didn’t understand the first time. Second time it sent me onwards, and I had to punch in my account number. Which it did not understand. Maybe I hit a wrong number. Second time it sent me on. And eventually I got through and talked to a support person and from there it went fine.
I also have to cancel the internet at the old place. Something I also should have done sooner. But I wanted there to be internet over there, in case things went wrong with the internet here. I haven’t had problems over here though, so that’s fine. As I said, I’m a little unsure of what equipment is theirs. I will have to return their equipment. But I have been a customer for so long, that I have had several didferent hardware things sent to me. And there’s a box I think the housing association put in when they put fiber through.. I can’t remember. I hope the ISP can tell me what equipment I have to return. I’ll have to figure that out.
Today I also contacted the housing association because their system isn’t reading my temperature in the apartment, like it did in the old place. And there are no readings for heat/radiator usage showing, only electricity and water. Turns out there’s some problem wit the heat measuring thing and it has to be replaced. They will let me know when the next servicing of the system will be. Great. But at least I asked about it and something’s being done about it.
Stuff’s getting did and being done is getting closer. Phew. Very. Very tired. And hurty. At least not tooth hurty.
Alright. I need foo in my mouth hole.
18/11 2025
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Those faces. Sigh.
19/11 2025
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I tell you what, it’s nice to be able to bite into things without feeling electrocuted.
I went for a long time with the nerve in the tooth. I got so used to just.. biting with the other teeth, chewing on the side. It wasn’t until the week before the root canal that it got so bad that I couldn’t just bite and chew around it.
Now I have to train myself to bite normally again. Pretty nice.
The tooth feels kind of weird in the morning a lot though. Not pain, but it’s like.. different. Maybe it’s because it’s been gutted of nerves?
Anyhoo, fun fact. The dentist said I had several other teeth that were getting close to being worn down to the nerve. So I’m probably going to ahve more root canals in the future, hooray. Hopefully it will be a while.
Also, my ribs have really started hurting. Not in an alarming way. I can handle it. I know it’ll be those 4-5 weeks. But it sure is annoying.
My body is like the old apartment. Just worn down with mistreatment.
Anyhoo hoo.
I’m a lot like an ai picture. With a passing glance I may look somewhat normal, but if you take a closer look you’ll soon realise “hey that shit ain’t right”.
19/11 2025
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Productive day again. Stuff got done diddly done for
The inspector came at 8 am to check the fault list I had submitted.
I always worry when having to meet people. But it went fine. It was literally 5 minutes. I had just submitted a few things and he looked at them and that was it.
For now at least. I have to have a carpenter over to fix the back of one of my cupboards. And someone from the housing association service to fix a couple of lose controls for the blinds. More people over, oh good!
But it’s fine.
After that I called the ISP for my internet connection at the old place, to cancel. Spent about 25 minutes in queue. I wonder if the wait was that long for people who didn’t want to cancel their subscription… I’m sure they wouldn’t understaff that particular branch of the support system, right?
Well, eventually I got through and got my internet cancelled. Thankfully I don’t have to return the hardware, I’ve been worrying about that because there are several things and some may belong to the housing association. But I don’t have to return anything, so that’s a relief.
After that was done I had some time before Helle was due to arrive. So I worked a little in the old apartment. Did some actual cleaning. Basic stuff. But still. I felt so productive.
And then Helle came, and Ingrid too. My neighbour that I borrowed the moving cart from. They helped me move down the two bookshelves and the chest of drawers. With the shelves out of the bookshelves and the drawers out of the chest of drawers, they weren’t too heavy or difficult to move. My hurting rib didn’t help, though. But we got it down to the trash place. Out and done with.
I thanked Ingrid for the help, and she kept the cart. There’s almost nothing left to move, so I don’t need it anymore. But having it sure was a great help. Slowly moving stuff over in the cart was so much better for me than the experience with an actual moving company would have been. Plus the money I saved paid for my root canal. So that worked out great. I am so thankful that I just had to move to the next building over.
Helle and I went back up to the apartment and then we took the curtains down. Helle brought a screwing machine. Wait, that’s probably not how you say that in English…
haha. But she got the curtain rails down. I have to remove everything I put into the apartment, and we put those up when I moved in. Eighteen years ago, jeepers. I don’t think I have washed the windows even once during all that time. It shows.
Once again Helle was a brilliant help. And just having her and her positive attitude there made me feel less worried about the state of the apartment. She doesn’t seem to think it will be a problem. I can’t help worrying of course, that’s what I do. But hopefully it’s all good.
We’re going to do a last round next week. Very basic cleaning and Helle can look through the place to see if Blindy McBlindface has missed anything.
And that… will be about it.
I moved the curtains and my floor lamp down to my storage room. All that’s left in the old place now is a chair and some cleaning supplies. I think I forgot a plate. But that’s it. So empty now.
If things go as planned, I will only be in there two more times. Next week for the last go-through with Helle. And then December 4th when we have the final inspection and I hand over the keys. Helle will be there with me too.
Crazy to think I will only be there twice more times. I almost feel like I should bring a tent over there and camp out for the weekend, for old times sake.
Almost.
I am happy to be in my new place. I am happy it has gone so well. I am happy that I’m close to being through it now. I did not think I could get through it. But with help from the right people, turns out I guess maybe I could.
And with all the things done today, I get to relax and do nothing tor Friday and the weekend. I should probably take a day during the weekend to get some unpacking done in the new place. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t. The thought of three days of doing nothing is alluring. Next week there will be goat times and the apartment finalization. And the week after there will be the final inspection, and there will be the internet technician visit. Plus the carpenter and housing assoc visits at some points. And the following weeks I have doctor and dentist appointents coming. And then it will be christmas.
I hope 2026 will be uneventful!
I got another story from today, but I need to get soup on now. Sweet nourishing soup. I was up at 6 am and I’ve been running around since then. Need to unwind.
20/11 2025
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Helle working on the curtains.

20/11 2025
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I want to give a big shoutout to my mailman.
I have mentioned before that he knows me by look and name.
Today I was expecting two packages. One of them quite big and heavy.
Normally packages get delivered here around 9 am. I was just finishing my ISP phone call around 9. And I was really hoping for those packages to arrive. But time went on and eventually I had to get ready and get out the door to do some work at the old place, before Helle got there.
So I told myself “Oh well, guess those packages will get here while I’m out, and I’ll have to go pick them up at the parcel shop”.
So I went ot the old place, and I was in there doing some work. And then the doorbell rang. And I was confused, because it was too early for Helle to get there, and she was going to call in advance too make sure I was over there.
So I open the door, and there was my mailman. And he told me that he had two packages for me, but they were addressed to the other building. And he said he thought maybe that was a mistake or something?
So I told him that I was actually in the process of moving, and I was just over here because I was cleaning out the old apartment. He asked if I wanted the packages over here or over ther. So I went out with him to his truck and he gace me the two packages and I lugged them up to the new place.
But that was super cool of him. That he went to the old address to check if there was a mistake. He didn’t have to do that. His job really is to deliver the packages to the addresses on them. Really cool that he saw my name and thought the address could be a mistake and he went to investigate. I think the postal service in Denmark is under a lot of pressure, they do not have much time and staff to get it all done. Which is why you hear A LOT of complaints about the postal service in Denmark. I read about it on reddit all the time, a lot of people seem to experience the whole “you weren’t home when we tried to deliver a package” even though they were home and waiting for the package. And I have had my issues with the postal service (but I think not with his guy, it’s with other guys). So it was just really nice that he cared enough to investigate and take the time. And that I got my packages and didn’t have to go collect them another day some other place.
I think him profusely and told him that in the future I should be getting packages at the new place.
Thumbs up to that guy, he has always been really nice when we have briefly talked.
20/11 2025
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The carpenter came by this morning, around 9 am. Fixed the back of my cupboard.
It’s funny, when the inspector was over to look at faults yesterday, he remarked on the loose back wall “We better get that fixed, we don’t want anything falling down into the exhaust hood thing below. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are already a pack of spices down there or something”. The cupboard is a small one, above the hotplates and the suction hood thing.
Well, the carpenter opened it up to fix it and… he didn’t find any spice. But he found a stapler.
“Is this yours” he asked. Haha. Nope. So if the previous tennant of my apartment reads this, I have your stapler. Let me know if you want it back.
21/11 2025
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A quick look at my old apartment. As I’ve said, I don’t like showing it, due to the poor condition. But at least my mess is mostly out of it now. The floors are in bad condition. The walls could use a paint job. The windows haven’t been washed in a couple of decades. Lots of stuff is practically falling apart. But it has been a good safe space for 18 years.
The view from ground floor certainly doesn’t compare to the one from 6th floor.
21/11 2025
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goatlog

22/11 2025
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I had planned to do a lot of unpacking today. I didn’t get as much as hoped done. I ended up spending a lot of time doing online stuff. Some amazone shopping among other things. Spending too much money on stuff for the new apartment. But that’s okay. At least I got some Black Friday deals. Pretty sure it’s not Friday today, but what do I know.
And did get some unpacking done. Probably about halfway done with it. No rush.
Made noodles and fried potatoes today. Went marginally better than last weekend, I suppose. But I still find it difficult to balance both a pot and a pan on that stove. I used the small pot again and it boiled over again. Not vigilant enough with the wooden spoon. Next time I will try and see if I can fit the bigger pot. At least I have mastered soup making on the stove I think.
Other than that, mostly just relaxing now. The calm after the storm. Or, I hope so.
22/11 2025
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Midnight Caller. I loved that show when I was young. For some reason it has stuck with me through all these years. Randomly thought of it today and looked it up on the youtubes. The video hadn’t even started and the music was already playing in my head.
Goodnight, America. Wherever you are.

22/11 2025
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Oh, don’tm ind me. I was just having philosophical discussion with an AI Rene Descartes.
It’s actually kind of interesting.
But maybe I should ask how many fingers he has…
23/11 2025
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I can barely believe it. But it’s been two weeks in my new apartment.
It is feeling a lot like home now. More than perhaps I thought it would.
After 18 years in my safespace, I could not really imagine fitting into a new space. I suppose it helps a lot that the space is physically almost identical to the old one, just new and fresh. And that it’s geographically so close to the old one.
But yes. I’m feeling almost… happy is a strong word. But it’s not bad. Being here. There are a few things I don’t know if I will ever like, but I’ll get used to them. And there are things I do like. It’s nice getting a fresh start.
Once I get everything unpacked and the old place completely severed from my life, I think I will be able to get into a good routine here. It’s already pretty good. Sleeping well. Doing the things I need to do. Mostly.
It has not been an easy time, but it has started to feel a lot easier. I am so thankful for the help I have gotten and for the place I have found. I thought I would never be able to manage this. But the hard times have been manageable because of the help I have gotten, and I have gotten through most of it now. Thank you all for the positive energy you have sent to help me along the way.
I need to try out my new oven at some pouint. I need to get my exercise bike set up and start using it again. Need to get the last stuff unpacked. But I’m not dreading the days anymore. And that’s nice.
And it’s big weight lifted off my shoulders. For a long time there was the sword dangling on a thread above my head. These renovation and demolishing and rebuilding plans, they have been going on for many years. And I used to look at the information pieces we got and look for my building. And years passed and the schedule for when my building would start being worked on came closer and closer. And I was convinces I could not do this. I don’t mean to harp on about it, but I did not think I could survive it. It felt like a deadline, something that would be the end of everything. A boundary I could not cross. And it kept coming
closer and closer.
And now. It seems like I am on the other side of it. The sword above my head fell and I sidestepped it. And now it is gone.
You never know what the future will bring. What swords will come.
But I am so very relieved to be where I am now, and to have made it here.
I don’t mind being on the 6th floor either. It’s kind of nice actually. Being on the ground floor in a building with open access meant a constant coming and going of people outside my door. And with the poor sound proofing, i heard a lot. And my bathroom was right next to the front door, so i would sit out there paranoid that people heard me doing my business. Like when I could hear the guy above peeing from my living room. Haha.
Being on the 6th floor in a closed building means it’s a lot quieter. And no people outside my windows. On the ground floor people could potentially climb onto my balcony. It happened a couple of times. I think kids accidentally throwing balls onto there and going to retrieve them, or stuff like that. But even just when people would walk by outside. Because of the bad sound proofing, it would often sound like people were standing right outside my window. Sometimes it didn’t feel too nice.
Up here, ain’t nobody climbing up to my balcony. I doubt kids could get a ball up here. And I can’t hear people out on the ground. The construction noise is a lot less intruding too.
All in all it’s pretty nice being on the 6th. In fact I only wish I was up one more level, on the 7th, which is the top floor. Because then I wouldn’t have an upstairs neighbour.
That’s one of the few downsides so far. I was hoping for zero neighbour noise. That’s not the case. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nowhere near as bad as the old place. No constant tapdancing elephants, no bowling alley, no shouting, no kids screaming and running and shaking door handles. But I do sometimes hear, I assume, the tv going upstairs. I was really hoping to be able to completely stop using my fan/space heater as background noise. But I find myself having to turn it on sometimes to cover up the sound from the tv up there. it’s not super loud, but that background sound grates on my nerves, so it’s nicer to have the space heater going. It’s usually not for too long, an hour or so in the evenings.
Then there’s the ventilator hum, and the radiators are kind of loud when they turn on, and the freezer is kind of loud when it turns on. I wish I could have just a completely silent place.
But I know you can’t ask for that, when living in buildings with other people. Even though it’s been renovated, the building itsels is still an old one. And anyway, it is a big upgrade from the old place.
But that and the ceramic hotplate and the tiny sink in the bathroom, I think that’s the only real downsides so far. I think it was on bluesky I said, I want a bathroom sink so big I can use it as a bath tub. Shaving my head is more annoying with a tiny sink. And it doesn’t seem to hold water completely, the drain plug is some annoying thing that you have to push down, but even when it’s in down position it doesn’t seem to be completely tight. I am not even sure if that’s a fault or if it’s a design to keep water from overflowing in the TINY SINK. Anyway. I have put up some suction cup shelves and hooks and now that I have the shower curtain lowered, the general bathroom experience isn’t too bad. Even though I liked the old one better.
Oh, and the showerhead. I ordered a new one. I feel like Kramer in the shower now, there’s not enough water pressure! I don’t know if a new showerhead will help that, or if the water pressure is not influenced by that. I guess I’ll find out. But I need a stronger stream, even if it will increase my water bill.
I think that’s about it. Soon you’ll no longer be plagued by endless apartment and moving rambles, hooray!
Next week should be fairly simple. Some goat time. One session in the old apartment with Helle to go through it all one last time. And that’s probably it.
Almost everything has been crossed off the to-do list. Only a couple of pieces left of the puzzle. The apartment session next week. Finishhing the unpacking. Getting curtains up in the new place. The final inspection and handing over of keys next week. The proper internet being put in here. Unless something unexpected turns up, that should be more or less it. The end is the beginning.
So far I can only be really happy and thankful with how it’s gone. It’s been hard, but I had feared it would be so much worse.
Now I just hope I’ll never have to move again. I’ll Home Alone this apartment if they try to get me out.
Two weeks down.
23/11 2025
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That’s all for now.