Train
October 26th, 2025Good goat times today. Managed to get up and get going. After the vomit fest last night. And not much sleep.
Maybe I shouldn’t have gone out in the cold, now I’m feeling extremely tired and queasy. But hopefully it’s just after effects of last night’s bout and not sleeping. I still think it was something I ate. Hopefully I’m not coming down with something.
I was not the only one feeling poorly today. I think something’s up with Bella. She was shying away from me a lot, and sitting down a lot. And worst of all when I put out breakfast for them, instead of her running to it and claiming the first bowl, she walked away and sat down next to one of the podiums. That’s not a good sign.
I think she may have been overfed. I told Jeanette about it. She thinks the weekend guy gives them too much food. He doesn’t understand the instructions properly or doesn’t care, Jeanette thinks. Unfortunately they can’t find anyone else willing to work all weekend, so they can’t fire him. Ugh. And Jeanette has a general sense that her instructions about things are often not understood or followed. Sigh. Very frustating.
But we’re keeping an eye on Bella. Hopefully nothing serious. When I got there in the morning she was out in the pen with the others, foraging. And she took some treats. So she’s not completely non-eating. But just off.
So it was a bit of an unusual day, spending my time mostly with Luna and Sky. Often together. Though I had to keep Luna to one side so Sky wouldn’t run away from her.
I started feeling cold and queasy, was coughing too for a bit. So I headed home. Gonna grab me some soup to warm up. But I may need a nap first. Super tired.
It’s a mondaying Monday.
20/10 2025
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Poor Bella, hope she’ll be back to her old self soon.
20/10 2025
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Sky and Luna. I have been noticing that Luna is often seeking out Sky, going up to her. Sometimes for headbutting, but sometimes it almost looks like she’s trying to socialize with Sky. Sky has her ‘proximity alert’ bleater going whenever one of the big girls get close to her. Most of the time she will run away pretty quickly, but sometimes she’ll stay for a bit. I wish she wasn’t so timid. But she’s always been the small one who had to run and hide.
20/10 2025
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Heading to bed soon. My tummy seems to be doing okay. I had a big ole pot of soup and it sems to be holding fine. A nap helped too. Physically I think I’m okay.
Mentally? Well… look behind you, a three-headed goat!
*sounds of footsteps, a door slamming shut and a goat cart driving off into the distance*
20/10 2025
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Okay. A big new development.
I got a message calling me to moving-in inspection and HANDING OVER OF KEYS. On Monday November 3rd.
So. I’m going to call them tomorrow to make sure I understand it. But it looks like I will have my apartment on the 3rd then. That’s eleven days sooner than I expected. I guess they don’t have to do any real work to fix up the place, so they don’t need those two weeks. If i’m understanding it correctly.
Not completely sure how I feel about it. On one hand my avoidant self wants it to be as far away as possible, I don’t want it sooner.
On other hand getting things done as fast as possible would be good.
The earliest option from te mover was th 19th, so that would mean 16 days of access to the new apartment before I actually get my stuff moved in and start living there. That would give me a nice long time to slowly move small stuff over and get used to stuff and plan stuff and.. worry.
I also have to change my official address 5 days after taking possession of hte keys at the latest, so that would be the 8th at the latest. Which means 11 days of having my official address in a place where I’m not moved in yet. Not sure how great that is. But ah well.
I suppose it’s a good thing. But it also means that it’s awfully close. 13 days until I have the keys then. that’s terrifyingly close.
Another thing is that they say I have to bring an ID with photo when I get the keys. I do not have one. My passport expired decades ago. I ahve some bus cards and stuff with pictures, but I can’t imagine that’s good enough. I have my social security card, but that doesn’t have photo. When I got my national electronic ID thing set up, they required photo ID too but there I think it was enough with my social security card and my birth certificate. Hopefully that will be enough here too. I’m not even sure you can a photo ID issued by the government in 10ish days.
Hey, I’ve lived in your housing association for 18 years, you should know who I am!
Hopefully that won’t be a problem.
Hopefully none of it will be. I spent some time today organizing my List. There’s not that much to do and it’s not that hard. But I’m just the eternal worrier.
I need to get the moving date settled so the other pieces of the puzzle can get slotted in around it. It doesn’t look like Helle’s moving men will be possible, I don’t think we can get it settled in time. Unless she’s got news about it for me today then I think I will have to accept the housing association’s company. That should be fine, though. Even if the social movers would be a gentler experience probably. But. This isn’t a huge move, not that much stuff, not that far. I think it should ok.
Alright oh and also I did an hour on the bike today. Along with the organizing the list and checking a couple of things off. So. Productive day capped off with big news. Phew. It was going to be a fasting day today, but I think I’m going to let myself have iced cream. I am stressed and worrying and reality is too real. But I suppose.. I almost believe it can be okay. Can I let myself believe it? I don’t know. I just hope I can get through it. Survive and see what happens.
Okay, that’s it.
21/10 2025
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Okay, a further update from the last big news.
I have talked to Helle and it looks like I can use her movers after all. This will hopefully mean that I can move earlier than the 19th. If I get the keys Monday the 3rd, then hopefully I can move Monday the 10th, or that week at least. Would give me a week to move stuff over and prepare and plan. And then be done with the move sooner than the 19th. That would be good.
I have to call the housing association and tell them I don’t want to use their moves and that they should pay out money to me instead. And I have to reply to the assoc movers and tell them i won’t be using them.
And then hopefully Helle can get me a date for the move soon so I can get everything sorted. Book the electrician. Book an internet technician because they need to upgrade the phone jack for a higher speed connection. Book a cleaning crew.
Oh yes, that’s another big news. Huge. Helle told me that they have confirmed that they will not be trying to rent out the apartment. That means I don’t need to do the huge cleaning and fixing, i shouldn’t be liable for stuff. I still barely believe it will go that smoothly, but it looks like it. I still want to hire a cleaning company to do the basic cleaning. But it’s a lot better to have to leave the apartment clean than to have to leave it as it was when I moved in. Because that would not be possible withot paying a lot of money.
But yes yes. I will have to trust that everything falls into place.
Feeling serious stress and anxiety, but some hope too. Hope for hope.
21/10 2025
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Talked to the housing association. Got confirmation that I get the keys and can in theory move into my new place on the 3rd. And that bringing my old passport and my social security card should be fine for ID. And that we’re going to use our own moving company.
So that’s all… good.
It’s getting scary. But it’s moving forward.
Hopefully Helle can get me a date for the move with her moving people soon. I hope it can be around Monday the 10th. I don’t know how flexible they are on their scheduling. Should be sooner than the 19th as was the original plan anyway.
So. Twelve days from now I should be starting to move my small stuff over bit by bit.
Yup yup yup. It’s all happening now. Definitely definitely. Feeling sick to my stomach. But so far I guess it’s going well. And it the plan holds up then it might just be okay. Just need to start seeing the pieces sliding into the correct spaces in the puzzle. So far it looks like it could fit. So far.
La la la. Going to try to de-stress today.
Need to start looking at booking the electrician and arranging the new interet provider. But I’d really like to know the exact moving date first.
Deep breath.
22/10 2025
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Don’t you hate when you drop something under the couch?
22/10 2025
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A further update. Not great this time, but it should be okay.
Helle called me and told me not to panic, but there was a problem with her moving people.
Without going into the technical details of it all, it turns out we can’t use those movers she had suggested. So that was not a great thing to hear after I had told the housing association’s movers.
But Helle told me not to worry, she knows people and they will help. Basically we’re going to be doing the move ourselves.
Which isn’t ideal. But it does mean I get to keep the money for the movers. So that’s not bad.
But yes. it should be okay. Helle assures me so, and I trust her.
There isn’t that much to move after all. And not very far to move it.
The big things that I need help with are really only… my bed, my desk, my tv table, my exercise bike.
That’s kind of it. And it’s only really the bed that’s really big and heavy. I really hope it fits in the elevator. I am not sure. Getting it down from here wouldn’t be so bad, but hiking it up 6 flights of stairs in the other building wouldn’t be fun. But we’ll see about that.
And then later I’ll need some help getting my bookshelves and running machine and chest of drawers down to the garbage area.
Not really how I wanted it, but it should be okay. And it means i get to move on the 10th like I had wanted.
So. Two and a half weeks. I should be moved in. If it all goes okay.
Let’s hope.
Today I also called the dentist and rescheduled my upcoming appointment. I had one on November 6th. And now that’s going to be the big moving week, so I just don’t have the capacity to deal with the dentist too. After the tooth ordeal a couple of months ago, i do want to make sure I don’t stay away from the dentist for another decade or two. But it will have to wait till December this time. I’m going to need all my strength the next month’s time.
It’s getting awfully close. Phew.
22/10 2025
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Good goat times today. Good to be back at my sanctuary, my oasis. First I had to go int othat pesky real world, though. I had an appointment at the eye doc in the morning.
Fun fact, that was the first time I’ve gone to the eye doc on my own, usually my dad comes with. But the new place they have moved to is easier for me to find and I thought it was about time I started going on my own. And it went fine. I did get my eyes dripped. Dropped? Which made my severely limited vision even more limited. That’s when it would be nice to have someone with you to help. But it was fine.
And then I went straight to the playground to spend some time with the goatsquad. Checking up on Bella. She was doing better today. Not completely back to her old self. But better. Still retreating a little when I went near her. I hope no one has been mean to her.
But she seemed okay physically. Taking lots of treats, not sitting down all the time. And she did also get more social with me. Maybe it was the treats that convinced her I could be trusted. Did some hoof shakes, got some good face scritches and some nice body scratches. Something she’s not always a fan of even when she is her normal self. So a lot better than on Monday, I think she’ll be just fine.
And then a walk home in the rain. It’s soup weather, and you knwo what that means. It means soup. That’s, that’s pretty self evident.
23/10 2025
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Bella feeling better. Still gotta keep an eye on her.
23/10 2025
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Further progress today.
Got a hold of the electrician and booked a date for the lamp moval.
And I got the date I wanted.
So the move itself is planned for the 10th. And I booked the electrician for the 11th. One day without my loft lamps and then I should have lights back on.
On the 10th I will have to make do with table/floor lamps. I have one floor lamp, I need to check if it still works. Because it hasn’t been turned on for a decade. Loft lamp. That’s not the right word, is it? Ceiling lamp? The lamps hanging from the ceiling. Loft is the danish word. In English that like the word for the space ABOVE the ceiling. Right?
Oh whatever. It’s the hanging lamps that get moved on the 11th.
So that’s another piece of the puzzle that has fallen into place. Assuming it goes okay. But the plan is there.
Next I need to deal with the internet. I would really like to have the interent installed and ready to go when I move in. Hopefully I can get that arranged.
But yes. Progress is progressing and it’s getting real real and real close now.
23/10 2025
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Bella and Luna, mentally telling me to get tha picture taken so they can have some treats.
23/10 2025
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Sometimes I wonder if wind is just old clouds angrily yelling at humans.
23/10 2025
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Ugh. Today didn’t start fun. Troubles with the move. Hopefully not too bad.
I was happy yesterday that i had booked the electrician visit for the moving of the lamps.
Today the contact me and say that the housing association has cancelled it.
I was not aware that telling the assoc that we would handle move ourselves also meant I had to handle the electrician myself.
I guess it makes sense, that was part of the moving package. But. That’s not great.
So now I have to re-arrange that. And I will have to pay for it myself. Two hour’s of electrician time, thats not going to be cheap. It should still be less than the money I get from the housing assoc because I’m handling my own move. Have I mentioend that? Since the assoc has to move me, they either pay their moves to do it or I get the money to do it myself. Since we’re going to do the move ourselves I would get to basically pocket that money. But now some of that will go to the electrician. Hopefully it won’t be too bad.
It’s probably going to be around half of the money I’ll get from the assoc. Assuming the estimate the electrician gave me turn out close to correctly, he couldn’t give me exact numbers.
i just hope it all works out okay, it would have been so much nicer to just have it done by the housing assoc and not have to be personally involved in it. But I mean, people hire electricians to do stuff all the time, I’m sure it will be fine, right?
Also slightly concerned whether I’ll be able to have my internet connection ready to go on the 10th when I’m planning to move in. Might not be able to get the technician visit booked in time. Might end up being a few days after that. But I’ll just have to deal.
May have to do some jiggling of the pieces, but hopefully they will still fit in the puzzle.
24/10 2025
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Friday winding down.
Not the best day, the electrician thing was an unwelcome hindrance. Had to talk to both the electrician and their secretary on the phone. Ended up sending an email asking if they could set me up in their system so I could get the appointment booked again. Haven’t heard back on that email yet.
But now Helle has just said that she can move the ceiling lamps. I must admit I am a bit nervous about us messing with electrical installations. I have no clue how safe or easy it is to take down and put up a ceiling lamp.
But. If Helle says it’s something she can do. She has been the hugest help and lifesaver in all of this, and it certainly would be nice to save that money, and anxiety, of the electrician. So hey, mabe that’s what we’ll do.
Got some other progress on the List stuff today. Got proceedings started on the new internet connection. Should find out tomorrow what date it will be ready. I really hope it can be done by the 10th, when we’re supposed to do the move. Might have to consider postponing the move a little if the internet connection isn’t ready by then. Their site says the technician visit can be booked 10 days in advance. And then working days is what we have until the 10th. So it might be close. We’ll see.
I also got an email sent off to a cleaning company. My two posts on Danish reddit only yilded one recommendation for a cleaning company. So I have contacted them to ask if cleaning my apartment they could take. I emailed pretty early in the day, but no reply today. Hopefully they’ll get back to me sono. May have to call them early next week if I don’t get a replty. Still worried about my emails going into people’s spam folders.
But those were three big things on the List. And they are now progressed to “Waiting For Replies” status.
And I checked how to cancel my current internet subscription. That shouldn’t be a problem, when I’m ready ot do so.
And that’s pretty much the List done. At least of important stuff that can be done before the move. There are some small things left, but that’s just simple stuff to do in the apartment, and then clearing of my storage unit in the basement.
But there’s nothing really big left to do before the move.
I’ve been debating whether to start packing the stuff I’m going to move myself, putting it in boxes or stuff or something. But. i don’t really think so. It doesn’t need to be packed down as such. it’s just stuff that I will grab and move over.
Yesterday I got a package delivered of stuff I ordered. Including 4 big storage containers. And I’m going to order another 4 next week I think. This will basically be my furrniture. Instead of the bookshelves and chest of drawers and another couple of things. Instead of furniture I just want those storage containers. And i can use those container when i move stuff over. Instead of packing stuff in moving boxes I’ll put them in the storage containers and move them over like that. And then I can distribute it in the new place.
It shouldn’t be too hard. I’m not sure how physically draining it will be, but with a whole week to do it, i should be able to cope. Mentally I am not sure how hard it will be either. Ripping everything out of its space. I am so opposed to change, so set in my ways, 18 years of routine and digging myself into ruts. It’s going to be challenging to tear all that apart. Even if I hope to put most of it back together in the new place in mostly the same way. It’s still going to be hard to.. dismantle my world.
i spent so long putting up walls around myself, it’s going to be hard to take them down.
But hey, hopefully it will go okay. if you can’t turn back then you must move forward.
24/10 2025
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Look, you know me. I don’t like to get political.
I do think it seems kind of odd that the American military is now running on anonymous donations.
gofundme incoming?
Bizarre. I’ll refrain from saying all theo ther things I could say, because it would eiether be preaching to the choir or falling on deaf ears.
Can’t wait to get back n my bubble and out of reality.
25/10 2025
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Oh no.
There’s a problem. A big problem.
This could completely wreck my plans.
(UPDATE AT END OF POST. maybe plans not wrecked)
Internet support guy comes back and says the earliest date he can book a technician visit is December 5th.
Their website says I could have highspeed internet in about 10 working days. Now it’s December 5th?!
I don’t know what to do now. I am waiting to hear back further from support.
But if i can’t have internet in my new apartment until December 5th, what am I going to do? I can’t be there without internet for that long. I will pretty much have to change my moving date from November 3rd to… as late in November as possible.
fk fk fk.
He said that he’d send me an ’emergency solution’ I could use until then, but it’s ‘mobile broadband’. I don’t know exactly what that is, but I assume it’s something for the phone. Something for smartphone or tablet. I don’t have that. I don’t think you can use mobile broadband to get internet to a desktop pc?
I dont fkn know. I am waiting to hear back from the guy, he hasn’t replied back in 45 minutes. Panic setting in.
Fk.
Worst case scenario I guess. I’d have to reschedule the end move to November.. 30th. or that weekend. Even then I’d still have the first 5 days of December in the new apartment without internet. That would not be good.
I really hope we can find some solution to this.
I should have started securing internet in the new place earlier. But their website says 10 working dys!
Fk.
UPDATE
Support got back to me, and they say I can hook up my pc with my network cable to the mobile broadband modem. If I’m understanding it correctly then I should still be able to use internet at the new place, from November 3rd. That would mean plans are back on track. Mobile broadband probably isn’t as good as the superspeed broadband I’ll be getting, but as long as I can be online through my cabled pc, then it should be okay.
Jesssus, my heart.
I hope it will be ok.
And Helle has a colleague that knows about mobile broadband that maybe we can ask about stuff if needed. Because Helle is magic.
Anyway. I really hope it works out okay. I need that internet. Even if I had to go without the entetainment and socializing aspect, I need it for contact with the housing association, ordering stuff, important things. Sometimes being left behind from the smartphone wifi device world isn’t so great.
Anyway. Maybe it will be okay. Move is back on for November 3rd I guess. Sheesh.Fk.
25/10 2025
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“I don’t know who keeps pooping here, you should look into that”
25/10 2025
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Here is a photo of where I live. And where I will be living. Taken from tjekdet . dk.
I currently live in the building on the right.
And in two weeks and two days, if all goes well, I will be living in the building on the left.
The golden gate premium luxury flats, oh hey. I will be living in the single column on the right side of the gate. On the 6th floor. The top floor is the 7th. So… it must be the line of apartments right over the open gate.
My spatial awareness is pretty poor. I think my apartment would be the one immediately up and to the right from the topright corner of the golden gate.
i may be slightly off on that, but close enough.
And we have the road running right through the building.
it’s not the prettiest thing, but I’ve been happy to call it home for coming up on 20 years. i like it better than some of the new stuff they’re building.
25/10 2025
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Friday is almost done.
It did not go as I had expected.
I thought I would get up and wait for the news about the internet and that would be uncomplicated and then I’d do exercising and have soup.
And then the internet news got very complcated and I had quite the panic attack. And when the situation was resolved, hopefully, I was just not up for exercising anymore. So instead I made grilled cheese sandwiches. Been a long time since I did that. Melted cheese is just good for the soul. And the heart, I assume.
I will try to still get some exercising done in the coming weeks, but there will be a lot to deal with.
At the end of the day, there was progress. Should be getting my mobile broadband to use from November 33rd, and the proper internet connection from December 5th. So that’s all arranged now. Hopefully that will work out okay.
And I called off the electrician thing. Since saint Helle will move my lamps! It would be nice if we could do that on the 10th, during the move itself. So I’d have light right away.
I won’t be completely lightless in any case. I got another item checked off the List today. Testing my old standing floor lamp. I don’t think it’s been turned on in more than a decade, I only use my ceilings lamps, and a table lamp on the kitchen tamble. So I was a little surprised that when I got the standnig lamp out of its corner and hooked up, it turned on and shone. And gave a lot of light too. I guess because it’s an old fashioned lightbulb, not the new LED kind. I don’t think you can even buy the old glass lightbulbs anymore? I think I have a paperbox with a bunch of them, I think I bought them when I found out everyone was being forced to change to LED. I think I still have that box laying around somewhere.
So, the day brought progress, despite the bump in the road that sent my mooncar flying into a panicked orbit for a while.
And nine days till I get my keys.
Oh and tonight is daylight saving change in Denmark, so I get an extra hour to sleep. Perchance to dream.
The pieces seem to still be fitting in the puzzle, it’s getting close to completion.
Phew.
25/10 2025
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goatlog
26/10 2025
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I don’t want to poke holes in the Superman origin story, but you’re telling me that they are a super evolved society on Krypton and their planet is going to blow up and they only manage to make one tiny spaceship so they can only save one little being and then they choose to send out a baby instead of a goat, I find that very unlikely.
Remember to buy the first issue of my new comicbook SUPERGOAT. Up in the sky! It’s a plane! It’s a boat! We don’t undestand the concept of things in the sky! Why is it raining berries?!
And so forth.
26/10 2025
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Time is running out. This week is almost done. Next week is the last week, before I get the keys.
I’m super nervous. But there’s also a certain sense of.. calm? You can’t stop the train. Just have to ride it to the end.
And the pieces seem to be fitting in the puzzle. Mostly thanks to the cheat code of Helle. It all feels a lot more manageable because of her help. So hopefully I will manage.
I talk a lot about negative feelings around all this. But I have to say that going through this whole process, I am quite aware that I am lucky to have found the apartment I’m getting. The location and the timing, I am lucky for that.
The original plan that we made with the housing associaton is looking a lot less favourable now. The part about having one week to move. I’m sure I could still have done a lot of prep work leading up to that, but having to fit everything into a week. I don’t even know how I would have gotten through that. Even with Helle’s help.
Even though more time means more time to worry, I am really glad I have had the time to deal with all of this without the pressure of a tighter schedule. And the way it’s coming together now with a week to do most of the moving slowly on my own and then the big move, and then having almost 3 weeks of access to both places. It feels like a luxury and I’m happy to have it. Happy to just be moving next door.
i am still super worried about things going wrong. But considering I am forced into moving, I really couldn’t have asked for better timing and location. So far so good.
I will try not to worry too much next week. There’s some stuff I have to do, but mostly I just have to get to next Monday and the keys and that’s when it will really get tough, but hopefully also close to a satisfactory ending. Or beginning, dependong on how you look at it.
A week from now it will be the day before I get the keys.
Two weeks from now it will be the day before I make the big move.
Two weeks and a day from now will probably be the first night I sleep in my new home.
Nothing to worry about la la la. Choo choo here we go.
26/10 2025
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That’s all for now.
