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This is Lasse.
This is Lasse updating from his new apartment.
Just a quick update to say that the move has been did. A thousad million thank yous to Helle, and to Peter and Niels. I couldn’t have done it withut you.
There’s still a lot, A LOT, to do.
And my emotions are very.. It’s Complicated relatisonship status.
But I am sitting in my new apartment, and so far I am alive.
i will try to write a detialed story later. I am so tired and hungry.
Here’s to Day One.
10/11 2025
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Well, what a day it’s been.
I can’t believe I’m sitting in my new home, typing this.
When I sit here at the computer, it almost looks like I’m still at the old place. Since the layout of the apartment is the same and since my big furniture is here now. It could almost look like I just got the old place cleaned.
Until I get up and see all the bags and boxes. And all the little and small difference.
But at least there is some of the same feel, it’s not completely alien.
I can’t believe I’ll be sleeping here tonight. This is the first time I wil lbe sleeping away from home since.. I don’t even know when. That day when I had eye surgery on the only eye with some vision left. I slept at my parents house then. I don’t go on vacations, I don’t go to sleepovers.
I wonder how long it will be before I don’t think of it as “sleeping away from home”. It is home, after all. The bed is the same. Just… in a different place.
I have heard the neighbours. Nowhere near as bad as in the old place. But it’s not completely silent. Still, that’s what you can expect when you live in a big apartment building.
I am more bothered by the ventilation system. It’s placed up on the all close to where I am sitting at the computer. That constant hum is going to get on my nerves. And the breeze. Helle says some people cover it up, even though you’re not supposed to. Maybe I’ll think about doing that. I’m not a smoker, I don’t need that much ventilation. But it won’t stop the sounds.
Alright well, I should write down how the day went.
It was a tough day, in many ways. Invasive in a way that I rarely have to deal with. But I am so thankful for Helle, Peter and Niels. The actual move, the physical act, they made it pretty easy. Much easier than I had feared. The worst part was probably just letting people handle my gross stuff. I really wish I had managed to get some new furniture before this. I still really ant to check the second hand store. I need new stuff.
But, they didn’t complain. And they did most of the heavy lifting. I was mostly just walking along. Supervising.
I did manage to get some sleep last night. Not a lot, but some. I think I woke up around 5. I got up after laying in bed for half an hour, half petrified with fear and half just hinking everything over. So I had plenty of time. Got some breakfast and did some basic computer stuff. Tried to plan things out. Preparing stuff. And then I moved some of the essentials over. Medicine and bathroom stuff and things I need every day.
Fun fact: I forgot to move cutlery. Here I am without knives and forks. Good thing I found one spoon I had in another set of stuff, I’ll use that for some iced cream when I’m done writing this. But dinner was crackers with a bit of leftover cheese that didn’t need to be cut or sliced. Hah.
So I moved stuff over and tried to get the big furniture as ready as it culd be.
Peter showed up first, soon after Helle and Niels came. They are neighbours.
And then we got it going. Five things to move. My bed. My desk. My big chair. My exercise bike. And my computer/TV table/bench.
The computer and the TV I had moved over myself. Paranoid about letting other people handle those. While they are ancient and outdated by today’s standars, they are still my lifeline to the outside world. I was kind of scared moving them, paranoid I would break something. Driving the computer over in the cart, all that shaking over the uneven ground. I was so relieved later in the day when I finally hooked it all up and it worked. Phew.
But we got it all down and outside. Everything fit in the elevator. And then we moved it all over, and up to the new place.
I say it as easy, obviously for the others doing the actual lifting, it was harder. But they got it done. Peter and Niels also managed to lug my treadmill down to the trash place. Oh man I’m so glad to be rid of that. It’s soo heavy. And I barely ever got to use it, spent too much money on it and it broke and I .. just couldn’t deal. So it stood there for so many years. So glad it’s gone now.
But it was such a strange process. I have had a long time to think about it, to prepare. But still. When it actually happened. Seeing the pieces of my life being picked up and carried out of my home. It was surreal. And hard. Once it got going it felt kind of like avalanche. Can’t stop it. It’s happening and you have to deal with it. No going back. it was hard. But Helle and the guys were so nice and helpful.
Got it all up and into the new apartment. Seeing that empty skeleton of a place filling out. Like a timelapse of a plant growing. From nothingness to.. almost completeness. Bit by bit becoming more and more recognisable.
The old place slowly withering and the new place slowly growing.
I got my furniture placed in the same configuration as the old place. Couldn’t find a way to make it work otherwise. And I’m sued to this way, so maybe that will help me settle in.
Once we had all the big furniture in place, Peter and Niels said their goodbyes. They were such a great, and so kind and sweet. It’s so nice when you meet people like that and you get to see the good side of humanity. My brain has been conditioned to fear humans. It’s still super hard for me to be around people, but it helps when you meet such good ones.
And Helle of course has been my saviour. After the guys left we went back to the old place and she went to work taking my two lamps down. Good to her word, she handled that like a pro. We took them over and she put them up at the new place. I am so glad I got the lights in right away. That makes it so much easier to be here.
I do think i need something more to cover the windows though. I’m really glad I got the magic drapes in the windows, that means I can feel comfortable and not feel like people are staring in at me. But they don’t keep enough light out when the sun is shining.
At first when the lamps were on I felt like they have much less light than they did at the old place. Now that it’s night, I can see that they of course give as much light as they always did. it just seemed less because so much light was coming in. My eye is so sensitive to light, I really need the windows completely blocked. Hopefully Helle can help me with that too, she as telling me how she was doing it, and I hope I can get the same solution.
After Helle was gone I was over at the old apartment. And it was hard to look at it. Ripped apart. More dirt and grime exposed by the things removed. Junk laying around from the process. It got to me. I had to sit down for a moment, and I almost cried. It was so final. It was so clearly not a place I could be in anymore. Torn out of my safe space, as I talked about. It was hard.
But I had more stuff to do. More things I needed to cart over, to make sure I had what I needed to actually move my life over.
Other than the cutlery, I guess.
So I took a few extra trips. And then I had to start unpacking. The essential stuff, things that needed to be in place for me to live there.
It all took a while. It was almost harder than the move itself. What did the move take? An hour and a half? Maybe two with the lamps? Maybe not even that.
But I spent some hours with the carting and the unpacking. Thought of more things I needed and went back for those.
Not the cutlery, though.
Eventually I felt like I was kind of ready.
Took a long shower. My first in the new place.
I don’t like ths hower. The bathroom is one of my least favourite things about the new place. The sink is tiny. There’s not shelf space. The mirror is bigger, why would anyone want a mirror that shows them theit naked body after a shower?! Ew growss. I would much rather have the small mirror that just show my face and then a shelf for stuff under it. Sheesh. I’m going to need to put some suction cup stuff up in there to hold things. There’s only one set of racks for towels. And they’re set so low that my normal size towels drape down over the radiator below the racks.
And the toilet is on the opposite side compared to the old place and the toilet paper holder is on the same wall as the toilet so you have to reach back instead of reaching forward to the wall in front of you. And there’s barely any height difference betwee the shower compartment and the rest of the bathroom floor. I guess the floor will get less wet when I get a shower curtain put up. But still. I..
okay, I’ll stop. I’ll have to get used to that bathroom.
Got the computer and TV hooked up, and as I mentioned I was so relieved when it worked and hen I got the internet going.
And then I’ve been trying to relax. To calm down. It’s been a rough day, mentally. Uprooted and replanted in foreign soil.
But it doesn’t feel too bad right here, at the computer. So I guess there’s hope that I can adjust to this.
There’s still a lot of work to do, though. Both at the old place and the new. Still stuff that needs to be carted over. (note to self, remember cutlery). Some cleaning. Furniture that needs to go on trash day.
I’m so glad I got to move in so early. So glad I still have 3 weeks.
And lots to unpack in the new place. My first thought was that since there’s a deadling at the old place I was going to work on getting that done first. But after hunting through boxes for stuff i need a couple of times already, maybe taking a couple of days to get stuff unpacked would be a good idea. And then work more at the old place.
But yes. I crossed the finishing line today, but I am nowhere near done. Mentally and physically there is still a lot of work to do.
I wish i could take a or two to just decompress completely. But I things lined up the next days. While Helle was taking the lamps down, a guy from the housing association called. He was at the new place, he was going to help me correct the doors on the fridge and freezer. So I had to run over to let him in. And unfortunately, like the first guy, he couldn’t do it. So I had to make another appointment with him. Tomorrow at 10. So i have to be up and presentable and do human-ing tomorrow. But i supposed I’m getting the hang of that, almost.
And then Wednesday I have an appointment at the dentist. Fork it. Still dreading that. Tooth is no better. It’s fine when I painkillers, but otherwise it’s bad. I am worried about the cost of all that.
And I would still really like to get a goat trip in this week. I am starting to wodner if I have the capacity for that, though. May need to stay home and get things done here, not sure what I’ll have the energy for. I miss the girls though, and Jeanette.
But I’ll have to see what i can do.
Today was a big day. One of the biggest.
And despite the fear and anxiety and sadness, I am also glad that it went so well and relieved that so far the pieces are fitting in the puzzle and I have not spontaneouly combusted. I couldn’t really have asked for things to go much better.
So many mixed emotions. But here I am. And I guess that’s where I’m supposed to be.
Thank you all for being part of the good that keeps the bad at bay. I am thankful for you all.
I hope I can sleep tonight. It’s going to … weird.
What a day. I count it was a win. When all is said and done. I honestly didn’t think I could make it this far. I don’t know if I could have without Helle. But this far, so far, so good.
10/11 2025
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Day two in the new place is well under way.
Things are going.. okay. It has gone better than I thought it would. The worry is always the worst. This was one of the biggest worries of my life.
I’m not saying everything’s great. But it’s going okay.
My first night in the new place went fine. It was hard to calm sown at first, probably a good half hour or more of just staring at the ceiling, mind racing.
But I did fall asleep. And got a pretty good night’s sleep really, not too different from the old place. Much better than the night before the move.
First morning in the new place. Took it nice and slow.
At 10 the guy from the housing association came to fix the doors of my fridge and freezer. It took some time, seems like it’s not the easiest job. Took a while.
I was concerned after he left because I discovered the door the freezer was kind of shifting up and down, when closed. I called them and they couldn’t send the guy right back, so I had to get another appointment with him for tomorrow. But then five minutse later they called me back and the lady said she’d talked to the guy and he knew about it and it was fine, it was the only way to get the door to sit the way it was supposed. So apparently it’s okay, and we cancelled the apointment for tomorrow.
I do feel a little uneasy about it, there were leftover screws too. I don’t know. Hopefully it all works okay.
Oh and the guy put the freezer door on my hot plates. He made scratches in the ceramic glass things. So that’s not great. I guess I’ll have to put that on the faults report, I have to file that within 2 weeks of moving in, so I’m not liable for problems that were in the apartment when I moved in.
Speaking of the hot plates. I tried them out for a bit today. Not cooking, just testing them. It’s not as bad as I had feared. When I turn on the overhead light I can see the symbols better. I will never be happy with symbols and touchpads, but I think I may be able to operate it without my magnifying glass. I wish there was a guide to how the new induction/ish heat scale compares to the old hot plates. I’m used to just cooking on the hottest setting with the turning knobs. But these new ones get super hot super fast, I probably should not be using max heat setting for cooking. But I’ll have to figure that out. Might try making soup for the first time tomorrow.
After that I had to go pick up a package. That package I had ordered to be the first in my new apartment, well they got it send off quicker than they usually do, so my plans to have it delivered Tuesday or Wednesday failed and the mailman tried to deliver it yesterady, while I was moving. So I had to go pick it up. But that was fine. I was glad to have it, I ordered a bunch of little things I thought I might need in the apartment. Got some self-adhesive and suction-cupped hooks and holders. Nice to have somewhere to hang my dish rag and have more shelf space in the bathroom.
Got a shower curtain too. It helps a bit, but it’s not long enough to reach the floor. The shower curtain rod isn’t adjustable, so I guess I’ll get the rod from my old place and set it a little lower, maybe that will help me get less of a wet floor after a shower.
On my way to pick up the package I stopeed at the old apartment and got some of the stuff I had found I was missing yesterday. Like cutlery! I have fork now. Good.
I thinK I have most of the stuff I need now. Although there’s still stuff that needs to be moved over and some serious cleaning to do. I’m thankful they aren’t going to try to rent it out, getting it in good shape would be hard. But 2-3 cart trips will probably be enough to have everything moved, and then we gotta get the furniture i’m getting rid of down to trash. And deal with the curtains and rods. Helle is helping me get some new ones, she sometimes has to sleep during the nay for nightshifts and she’s got some really good darkening ones. And she can help me get them up. She continues to be a super help and the best kind of person.
I was hoping to do more unpacking of stuff, but I spent time on the stuff in the package, and took some more stuff down to storage. And then I was pretty beat. It’s been a lot, the last few days. So now I’m going to try to relax for the rest of the day. Unfortunately I have to go to the dentist tomorrow and deal with all that. I hope it won’t be too bad.
I really need a day. A whole day. To just decompress and not deal with anything. Hopefully I can get that soon.
I am so tired. Looking forward to sleeping, a lot.
Thank you everyone for all the supportive comments. They have helped me with these challenging days too.
I have been lucky. And I have been helped. And it’s going okay. So far still so good.
11/11 2025
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Here’s a photo that Helle took when we were moving. That’s Niels on the right. It was a super sunny and warm day, so I didn’t even have my sunglasses. I would have worn them if I had known there would be pictures! But here’s a rare sight of me with a bare face. Oh and on the rightmost is the cart what i’ve been driving around for days.
11/11 2025
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It sure is a fun week. All the moving. And now all the dentisting.
it went okay today, I guess.
Dad came to pick me up and we took at axi and then he let me out at the dentist and my brother got in and took my place because he had a wound or something like that on his foot, and with his condition he has to be careful with that, so dad wanted to take him to the hospital to have it checked.
It got a little tense when dad was trying to call teh taxi. He doesn’t really understand how to properly use his phone I think. I think when he looks for the number to the taxi company he scrolls through his previously called list. That’s always worked fine in the past, sooner or later he finds the taxi number and calls it. Today he couldn’t find it. He kept scrolling and it wasn’t there. Maybe he’s made so many call that it’s out of the list.
I was a little worried that I was going to miss my appointment. I walked up to a starnger walking by and asked if he happened to know that number to the taxi line. He didn’t. But i remembered that the number was 4 times.. something i thought 41 or 49, but then dad suggested 48. And that rang a bell. 48 48 48 48. So I rang that, and it was the taxi line. And we got a taxi.
When we were underway dad said “so i’m going up to the dentist with you”. And I had to tell him that no, he wasn’t coming up with me, he was going to continue on with my brother to the hospital to have him checked. Dad had zero memory of that. I had to call my brother to make sure that was still the arrangement. And it as. When I got to the dentist they let me out and my brother got in and they drove on.
I just called my dad now to hear if there were any news about my brother. There wasn’t. And my dad had no memory that we had been out together today.
It’s so scary and sad. I feel like he’s been getting worse lately. Alzheimer’s is such a horrible thing. I wish I could make it better for him. And even with his condition, he is still coming out to help my brother and I whenever he can.
I wish they could invent a cture for that damn thing.
As for my dental appointment. Well its number 1 of 2. I have to go back tomorrow. For a root treatment. I guess that’s what I always hear called a root canal in American shows. I got some prep work done today. And the dentist luckily had an opening tomorrow to get it done.
He said he would send me home pain free today, but I still felt like an electrick shock when biiting down for hours. I think maybe it’s better now. I haven’t tried chewing something yet though. Having soup later.
Anyway. He said the total with xrays and anesthesia and everything would come to just under 3000 kroners / 464 usd. So that’s just.. swell. That’s almost all the money I saved by not using professional movers. But at least it’s not removal of teeth and impants and tne times as much.
I just hope this is all, that it gets fixed and I can have some problem free teeth maybe. I almost daren’t hope.
So a move and two dentist appoints this week. Fun times. I was hoping to see the goats tomorrow, but I guess i won’t be able to until next week. It’s been way too long.
At least I found my spare phone that i’ve been looking for for days since the move. I don’t use it at all, but I got it when I was paranoid about privacy and I wanted a spare phone for things like youtube. And of course then I couldn’t log in to youtube for days because i didn’t know where I had put the phone. Looking through bags and boxes!
Alright.
Well, it’s time to try cooking soup for the first time in the new place. I hope I can work the new hotplates okay. Here’s to hoping.
12/11 2025
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Achievement unlocked.
Made my first pot of soup in the new place.
It went well. Thankfully with the overhead light turned on, I can operate the new hotplates. I don’t like it, touch interfaces are not good for me. But it worked okay. I can operate it without my magnifying glass, so that’s nice.
Still not sure what heat setting to use, compared to the old system. But I got the soup cooked so I suppose it worked.
My tooth is feeling better too. I was a little worried that i was still feeling jagged pain when biting earlier, but it seems better now. I think. I could bite into carrot pieces just fine. And i like my carrots to be undercooked, not soft.
Hopefully the root canal will fix it all up permanently. Wouldn’t that be nice.
Feeling a little.. swamped. With things I need to do. Gotta cancel internet at the old place, figure out to get my old tv package moved over or maybe the old one cancelled and the new one upgraded to the level I previously had. Gotta get everything unpacked. I did some work on that today while looking for the phone. Gotta get the old place emptied out and ready to go.
I brought over the shower curtain rod today, so I could try to get my shower curtain lower. But I managed to break the rod. I have to be more gentle when working the rod.
Oh well. Maybe I’ll buy a longer shower curtain. Or another rod. Can’t have too many rods.
Anyway, just feels like there’s still a ton of stuff to deal with and then while doing the dental thing and trying to adjust in the new apartment. It’s all overwhelming.
But if I just divide it out and take it bit by bit, like the moving, then it’s not that much. And I still have plenty of time.
Dentistry tomorrow and then I’m going to take it slow for the rest of the week. Try to decompress and take some mental health time, while slowly unpacking some of the stuff in here. And then next week I’ll try to get the old place done. A couple of days to move the last bits over. A couple of days for basic cleaning. Have to find a time with Helle to get the curtains down. And the big furniture to trash.
It will be nice when I only have one place instead of two. The puzzle looks to be very solvable now, it will just be nice when all the pieces are in and I can put it away. And start to move forward.
It’s only the third day in the new place, but I am already starting to feel somewhat like home. Not a safe space like the old place yet. But a home of sorts. There’s still stuff that annoys me. Most of all the bathroom. But when I sit here at the computer with the magic drapes closed, it doesn’t feel that different. If I’m not looking out the windows then it barely feels like the 6th floor. It doesn’t feel so different from the ground floor. From this spot.
By the way, is there any feeling better than pressing the elevator button and the doors opening right away because the elevator was already on your floor? Mm, that feels good.
12/11 2025
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Second dental appointment over and done with.
Root canals are no fun, let me tell you that.
And I am concerned, I am still feeling some pain or discomfort when manipulating the tooth. The dentist said it would be sore for a couple of days. I really really hope that’s what I’m feeling. Wouldn’t it be just great if I got a root canal on a tooth that ended up having to be yanked for some other reason. Or whatever.
I am so tired of dealing with things.
Hopefully it will be all good in a couple of days.
A notable thing today was that I used my Mastercard for the first time. I have never used my physical card before. I have gone through life transfering money to my dad awho would then withdraw cash and give it to me. I’m the last guy still using cash. Or I was.
I thought the dentist’s office would be a good place to try using the card for the first time. Less pressure than in a grocery store or something with a line of people waiting and people potentially less compassionate than in a healthcare place.
And it went okay, after som tries. So, that was interesting.
Got home and spent some time working with cables and connections on my computer. It was all a mess from the move, now it’s a little better managed and I have my external drives hooked up. So that’s good.
And I got my shower curtain lowered with Nita’s trick of using multiple hooks. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that. Hanging better now.
Going to try to relax for the rest of the day. Probably Friday too. Then some work at the old apartment over the weekend.
Oh yeah, I scheduled a grocery delivery tomorrow. So that’s going to be the first one at the new place. Made a temporary door code for the delivery guy. I hope it will work without too much trouble.
i am happy that the move went so well and I am happy to be moved in and moving forward. But I am also really really tired, of dealing with things and things looming and worries. I wish I could take a week off from everything. But I do need to deal. I’ll be glad when it’s all done.
One funny detail, the dentist had a radio going through the procedure. And halfway through, it just went from the public radio station to a static buzz. Ghosts in the machine, man. Also a ghost in my shower. A kind of weird woohing sound. Pretty sure it’s just wind in the ventilation shafts.
Probably.
A Haunting On Golden Gate Hill.
13/11 2025
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Got my first Pepsi&Protein delivery in the new apartment today.
It went.. mostly okay.
I got the delivery, that’s good. Proof that it works in the new place. That’s important.
I had made a temporary door code for the driver, but he didn’t use it. He buzzed me on the doorphone. Upside is that worked fine, I let him in with my phone. Good to try that out in a real world scenario.
Downside, I could not hear a word he was saying. When I tested it out with Helle I could hear her clearly. Maybe that was because I was standing right next to her and the doorphone. The driver was very low and very far away. If that’s the general quality of audio when people buzz me then there’s no way I can know who I’m letting in. I’m just going to have to let people in and hope they’re not criminals. But then I should very rarely be getting visitors I’m not expecting. And if I let people in who aren’t supposed to get in the building, well blame the housing association for having this system.
The important thing is I got the delivery.
There was a couple of problems with it though. I had ordered a couple of ‘cinnamon snails’, pastry things, to treat myself in this trying times. Didn’t get them. I also ordered some BJ iced creams. They were melted almost completely. Never had that problem when ordering iced creams. I wonder if they will still be good to eat after being thawed and frozen again. But i expect to get refunds on it, the delivery service has always been good about that when there have been problems.
How’s the teeth? They weren’t too good when I got up this morning. I have taken painkillers so it’s pretty fine right now. Still worried there’s going to be more trouble. But it’s only been a day, so another day befoer I can begin to really evaluate.
I’ve been sleeping well in the new place. Better than in the old place, I think. The cleanliness, fresher air (though I hate that ventilation motor going constantly still), it may be helping. In the sleeping department I have settled in really well. So much that I find myself wanting to go to bed right away again, instead of facing all the things that need to be dealt with.
But today’s a quiet day. And then I’ll work at the old place over the weekend. Next week the first priority will be goat time.
Aftet that I should probably prioritize to get the old place completely done. I do have two weeks after this one, but I don’t want to end up having to stress at the end of the deadline. Better get that done as fast as possible, with the breaks that I need. The unpacking here can wait. I think i have the stuff I really out and ready to go. Getting everything out of boxes and finding the right spots for everything, that can wait. There’s no pressure on that.
I really want to go to the second-hand store too and look for a new tv/pc table/bench. I really need a new one. A new comfy chair and a tiny cupboard would be nice too. Also, I wonder what the chances of a goodwill thrift store having an old dog house are… for the goats. Wouldn’t it be cool if they had a little dog house thing that I could bring for Sky to use on a rainy day? Well, we’ll see.
Almost time for the first weekend in the new place. Time sure.. times.
14/11 2025
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My dad was over in the new apartment for the first time today.
It’s going to be an adjustment for him too. With the alzheimer’s, it is difficult. Naturally.
He hadn’t gotten a key brick to the place yet. So I was going to try to let him in by opening the downstairs door via the lock portal. I tried doing it, but he said the door didn’t open. After a little talking, i realised he was outside number 44, not number 46 where I live. Number 44 is the entrance in the golden portal itself, I guess because I have told him I live in the building with the golden portal, he thought that was the entrance. But I got him directed to the right entrance. And then I got the door opened for him. That’s a neat function, I can sit at my computer and unlock my front door or the downstairs door. I could have gone down to let him in of course, but it was nice to try out this functionality.
Now he’s got his own key brick, so hopefully he can figure out how to open the door on his own. We tested it out on my front door, and he got it opened. But of course there’s no way to know if he will remember any of that the next time he comes over. I may still have to unlock the doors for him. I don’t mind that of course, but it would be nice for him to be able to et in on his own if I for some reason isn’t answering or something.
Also today I got the first unannounced visitors to my door. Neighbourhood group telling people to remember to vote in the upcoming Danish elections. A good cause, but I really don’t like unannounced visitors at my door. I barely like announced ones. But okay, I won’t be grumpy about it.
Now I’m going to watch the new episode of Matlock and then probably head to bed. Get some of that good good sleep. Before going back to work at the old place.
14/11 2025
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Got some work done today.
Maybe not quite as much as I had hoped.
I need to do some maintennance on my tv/pc table/bench, and it took considerably more time and effort than I had expected. I really need a new one. Maybe I can get a trip to the second-hand store in next week, that would be good.
After I was done with that I went over to the old apartment. Took two cart trips from there down to the storage room. It’s funny how my original plan was to never use the storage room in the new place, and now it’s full up of stuff. Not important stuff, but stull that I don’t necessarily want to get rid of, not yet anyway.
Oh, remember I talked about that little cupboard thing I thought might could work as a little shelter-house for Sky? Turns out it can’t really. So it has gone down in storage, for now.
Got the freezer defrosted too. Wasn’t too caked in ice, but now it’s clear.
And gathered some junk and threw it out.
Worst part was when I lifted up the isolation material stuff that I have had laying under my exercise bike. It has been on there for I guess more than a decade. Yikes. I was not expecting the floor to be in that bad condition underneath. I have really hard a hard time keeping that place clean. I am still worried I’m going to end up getting a big bill after it’s all done. The apartment being done away with is a help, but I think they reuse the floors and maybe other things. Having some of the floor in that bad condition could still end up being a problem. So that’s a worry. I will have to see how well I can get them cleaned up.
And I’ll havee to try my best to keep the new place in better condition. No more covering the floor with isolation material and leaving it for a decade without cleaning it. Sigh.
Coming up on a week in the new place, and things have shifted now. The old place that used to be my safe space, my cave, my home. Now when I go through the door there it is kind of grim. It is apparent how dirty it is, how bad condition things are. And then the emptiness and darkness. It’s like a corpse.
And then I come home to the new place, and it’s so much nicer. In many ways. There are still things that annoy me and things I have to get used to. But there are also many ways in which it is a nicer space.
And it is feeling like home. Which is good. It has gone faster and easier than I thought it would.
Again, it’s not perfect. Lots of issues still. With the apartment, and with me.
But. I also have to appreciate the good. I’m trying. I have been so lucky in the way things have gone. I have to be mindful of that and not just think about the bad things.
It’s a sunny day. We’re going into the colder season now, though. Below zero nights coming. I heard them talking about snow on the news, though I’m not sure if there’s going to be any around here.
I have a really hard time with the cold, so I’m not looking forward to this. But I’m glad we had great weather for the move. Sunny and pretty warm. And it has been pretty pleasant all week. Funny to think I originally thought I would be getting the keys on the 14th. Yesterday. I thought the moving would be starting on Monday. I’m so glad i got all that extra time.
Going to relax now. And tomorrow. And then try to get as closed to finished as I can next week. So the last week won’t be too stressful.
I am worn down. Looking so much forward to boring days.
15/11 2025
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Used my pan for the first time in the new apartment today. Cooked up noodles and fried potatoes.
Found another thing I don’t like about the hotplates. They’re not big enough to use a big pot and a pan at the same time. Guess the controls take up space. So that’s not great. I had to get out a smaller pot.
It worked okay I suppose. The small pot is barely big enough for my noodles though. And juggling a pot and a pan at the same time when you’re not familiar with the heating levels isn’t particularly fun.
And then I had a panicked moment when the pot boiled over and I think I got noodles on the hotplate and I read that you’re supposed to have razorblade scraper to clean the glass ceramics, and there was a scraper in the cutlery drawer when I moved in and I thought that was for that, but I guess not because it seemed to be made of plastic and it started melting when I tried to use it and you’re not supposed to get plastic on the glass ceramics I think and I was convinced i had ruined the hotplates already.
I don’t know. There’s some left on the hotplate now, stuck. Hopefully not too serious. Not like I’d be able to live here many years and leave a spotless glass ceramic stove top. Would have been nice if I hadn’t grimed it up on the second go, but oh well.
Yeah, that whole thing gives me anxiety. I hope I can used to it. At least I can operate it. But I don’t like it.
The sunny day today also showed me that I definitely need the blackout curtains. I’m really glad I have the blinds built into the windows, so I could feel I have some privacy right away when I moved in. But they don’t keep out the sun enough. The sun affects my eyes too much, so it will be nice when I get the curtains up. Helle will be helping me with that.
But that’s enough for today. I’m going to try to sleep in late tomorrow. And take it easy. The seventh day in my new apartment. i can’t hardly believe it.
15/11 2025
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Almost a complete week in my new apartment done now.
I celebrated the 7th day by ordering pizza here for the first time.
I succesfully got my pizza, so that’s good.
The door continues to be a bit annoying. First the delivery guy called me and said he would be there in 5 minutes, could I come down to get the pizza? I had to tell him no. I paid for delivery to the door, I’m not going downstairs. That’s not my job. I’m spoiled like that.
Then 5 minutes later he calls me to get the door opened. Apparently people don’t read the comments on orders. The grocery delivery service didn’t use the temp code I made for them, this guy didn’t use the temp code I made for him. Sheesh. But ok. He didn’t use the door phone either, he just called my phone. Good thing I can open the door via the lock portal, so I could let him in. If he had buzzed me I could have just pressed 5 on my phone to let him in.
But ok, he was nice when I opened my door for him, didn’t seem mad that i had forced him to come up to the 6th floor. And the pizza was good, nice to get the first one in the new apartment.
Today I submitted my fault reports for the apartment. You have 2 weeks to report problems. I just had a few things, nothing that’s actually a problem. Just has to be noted so I’m not liable for them in the future. Now I have to get a time for the inspector to come and look at the things I have reported. I was tempted to not report anything just to avoid having to deal with that. My avoidant mind.
Also doing some online shopping for things I want and need for the apartment.
And that’s this week. It’s been one heck of a week. Moving and root canal. Yeah, it’s been a week.
But succesful I guess. The move went a lot better than I had feared, thanks to all the help I got.
And the teeth are doing okay, I think. I could bite into pizza without pain. I’m still a little paranoid about it, if it’s all completely fine. But I think so maybe. I hope.
Got a couple of tough weeks ahead with finishing the emptying of the old place, discarding big furniture, cleaning, having to deal with terminating internet and tv over (should have gotten that all done way sooner), getting curtains down over there and new ones up over here.
It’s not as terrifying as the move and the fear of completely unknown territory. But it’s still a lot. I just want to sleep and spend my energy settling in here and getting used to everything and getting unpacked. But I need to take care of all the other stuff.
Doesn’t help that the freezing is setting.
But ok ok. I am thankful this week has went as well as it has. There’s a lot to be thankful for. And three weeks from now, hopefully the future is looking a lot less complicated. Here’s to hoping.
Thank you for helping me through the week, you all everybuddies. I super appreciate it. I could not have done it alone. From the bottom of the lump of coal that the Indiana Jones grinch carefully put in place when he took my actual heart and ran from the boulder of my belly, that imagery went off the rails sorry. But thank you, thank you.
Goats soon and then work work work.
16/11 2025
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That’s all for now.