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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.