Gnocchi
Good goat times today. Back where I belong. A beautiful, sunny day. Cold in the morning, though. Around 5C/41F. But the sun warmed things up a little and it was very nice. Just good to be back in my happy place. Sweet kids visiting too. They got to pet the goats, and laugh a lot about all the goat poop everywhere. And the feathers were out flapping with us too. Very nie. Hopefully I am back on track now, and again. Keep your eyes on the prie. The prize is goats.
Time to keep my eyes on some soup now though.
20/4 2026
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Bella sunny side up. I love a good goat yawn.
20/4 2026
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Sky and feathers They are learning to be careful around Bella and Luna, whomst will take a swing at them i they get too close sometimes. But Sky is safe to be near.
20/4 2026
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Back on track. The Lasse train is going off the rails. Wait, this metaphor may be running out of steam.
Anyway. I must try to keep a regular rhythm now. Instead of all stop/stat malarkey, constantly switching between working hard and then succumbing to cake and junk food.
Still got those voices in my head screaming to just give up.
But like a failed reality tv host and casino bankrupter when the pageant mom tells him not to be handsy with the girls, I’m just going to not listen.
Something something.
Fight to live another day.
21/4 2026
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Got my new credit card in the mail. Woo, I’m relieved. Both the bank and the bus card arrived fast without problems. After reading so much about people not getting their mail after Denmark switched postal providers, I was really worried. Specifically I had read about many people not getting their new credit cards from their banks and how they had to keep asking for new ones to be sent. And since I don’t have a smartphone or any other payment options, I was really worried that I’d end up without a cc and not being able to buy anything.
But I got the card. And hopefully I’ll get it activated and in use without problems too. Although, without a credit card I wouldn’t be able to order cake and junk food, so maybe that would be the best diet. Just eat the card.
Hardy harr harr.
21/4 2026
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🎶 and the orchestra plays a cartoon score for war 🎵
21/4 2026
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Got an hour forty on the bike again. Two days in a row. So I got that going for me. I was feeling tired and sad in the morning, so I’m glad I got on the bike. Instead of self-medicating with cake or something. Doing my best to do better.
Feeling anxious because I’m waiting for a phone call from the housing association. About the ventilation system. Even though I really want them to come look at them, tehre is also my social phobic side that gets really triggered at the proespec of having strangers in my house, and just waiting for a call is enough to get me a little on edge. I missed a call from a ‘number unknown’ the other day, what if that was them? What if they call when i’m in the bathroom? What if they call early in the morning and I’m earplugged in bed. What if they call but they’re speaking Japanese and I’m actually on a prank show, you never know what could happen!
But anyway. I’m going to try me some gnocchi now. I had those recommended as a possible replacement for flourballs, and I got a pack before I found the more flourballs. So I’m going to try some gnocchi. I just like saying gnocchi. Well, typing it. I’m very picky, so there’s a good chance I won’t like them. But if I do, then maybe it’s something to add to soup in the future. Gnocchi on wood.
22/4 2026
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Are you ready to hear my gnocchi opinion?
I liked it! Thank you for teh recommendation, Angela. I can definitely see why they would remind someone of flourballs. The shape and size is pretty much identical. They are a little more.. chewier? Dense? But they definitely have the same sort of feel.
I just cooked up some to try on their own today. I’ll probably try the rest in a serving of soup tomorrow. See how that works.
I still hope I will be able to keep getting flourballs regularly, but I may add gnocchi as a regular thing anyway. Quite nice!
Glad I didn’t gnocchi it till I tried it. And so on and so forth.
22/4 2026
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This happened.
22/4 2026
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Good goat times today. A gorgeous day. Lots of sunshine, tmps upwards of 17C/62F. For Denmark that’s practically summe! Oh yeah that felt good. Just lounging in the sunshine with the goat pals. Perfect. Need more weather like this, please.
Luna managed to ditch her collar twice today. The second time Jeanette helped me find it. The first time I was walking around looking at it when a boy who was halfway up the fence called out “one of the goats is missing its collar”. And he managed to spot it in the grass and direct me to it. That was super nice. And man, it must be nice to have strong youthful eyes like that. Jeanette told me later that the kid had excitedly told her that he had helped find the collar. Sweet kid.
Lots of kids today. Some of them making hot cocoa on the campfire. And the boy who likes shaking hooves and getting goat kissies was back and spent more time with us. He was very happy happy every time he managed to get a goat to lick his hand or shake hoof. He was trying to do it so much with Luna that she went from happily playing along to getting kind of getting annoyed at him and started grumbling at him and looking like she was going to try to headbutt him. Haha, he was a bit much for her I think. Maybe because it was so hot. She was trying to sit on the tub and relax and she was like “I get it kid, it’s fun to play. But I need to nap in the sun”.
Lovely day in the sun. Now I’m going to get me some soup with gnocchi balls AND flourballs. I’m going to have so many balls I won’t know what to do with them. Other than stuff them in my mouth hole.
23/4 2026
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T-shirt weather for the first time this year, hooray.
23/4 2026
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Such a gorgeous day today, it would have been nice to have had it be a whole goat day.
But I only got about half. Because I had an appointment at the eye doc in the morning. So i had to spend time on that.
It went fine. Well, the bus trip was a little triggering. The sound system in the bus was not very good, so it was hard to hear the stops. I had to ask the driver if it was the right stop to get out. But that went ok.
I tell you, I have complained the modern busses in Denmark, because their design is very unappealing to me. There are seats facing each other, if there’s anything I don’t want when i’m in a bus, it’s to be facing strangers. “Conversation busses”. Gross.
But one thing that’s great is the sound system. When it works. An automatic system that announces every stop. That is really great. When I was a kid, there was no such thing. If you were lucky the driver would announce stops over the loudspeakers. But usually they wouldn’t. If you were going somewhere that you weren’t familiar with, you pretty much had to go to the driver and ask him if he would be nice enough to announce when you got to your particular stop. I do not miss that.
Anyway, that was as tangent.
The eye doc visit went fine. Situation stable. Prognosis is still that the doc does not expect any worsening in the foreseeable future.
In fact I did better on the sight test this time than the last couple of times. Withing statistic margin of error, or whatever. So it’s not like my eyesight is actually getting better, but it’s better to do better than to do worse. So that’s.. good.
I’ve been going to the eye exams every 6 months, but we agreed that it would be fine to just do it once a year. I can always call them if something happens or circumstances change. But it’s nice that things are stable.
it has helped a lot too that I got those glasses last year. They help a lot at the computer.
So that took some of my time today. After that I headed into the sunlight for the beautiful goat time.
23/4 2026
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Set up the camera to take a selfie with Sky. Before the self-timer went off, Luna had entered the scene.
I miss when things were less complicated between the girls, it gets a little exhausting trying to make sure everyone gets a fair share of the attention and snacks. And it’s hard to see Sky running away. I have to be careful, like if I go to sit with her when she’s relaxing I risk one of the big girls following me and then Sky will be disturbed and have to get up from her relaxation.
She has been standing up for herself more, I hope she’ll continue to get more confident.
I got enough love and snacks for them all.
23/4 2026
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So I tried the gnocchiballs in soup today for the first time. Still good! They are yummy. I will say, they are a lot more dense than the flourballs. The flourballs I can snarf down like marshmallows. I underestimated how filling the gnocchiballs are, I put too many in the soup. But that’s okay, I saved some for leftover snacks tonight.
I do will am to be saying, I do prefer flourballs in my soup. They are lighter and don’t take it over as much. The gnocchiballs are like a meal unto themselves. But if I would at some point become unable to get flourballs anymore, gnocchiballs would be a good substitute. And I will still eat them from time to time, in fact I got a couple of packs added to my next grocery delivery.
Okay, that’s enough ball talk for today. We’ll put the balls away for now.
23/4 2026
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Hey Bella, sunshine girl.
23/4 2026
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Normally Friday is a break day, but I’m trying to kick things up a notch Make an effort. Be the best I can be. Reach for glory. Maximise my potential. Fiddle my snickerdoodles.
So I got that going for me.
Some of the stop-starting and falling into bad habits has been on days when I haven’t been doing anything and then I fall into my own head and the big deep dark hole in there and then I end up making bad decisions. Getting on the bike is a good decision.
Measured my blood pressure before starting, and it was just fine. So that’s good.
Also got a Pepsi & gnocchi delivery. I was completely out of Pepsi. Literally. I drank the last drop yesterday. Normally I order stuff in good time so I’m never completely dry. It’s better to always have a few bottles in reserve.
Yeah, the Pepsi is one habit that I haven’t been able to really work on. I know it’s bad for me. At least it’s without sugar and calories. But I probably drink 2 liters a day, and that ain’t smart.
But what can you do. Don’t tell me I don’t have an addictive personality.
That’s something to work on in the future. Right now I have other priorities. And now I have 18 bottles of 1½ liter Pepsi Max. So that should last me through a couple of days. I’m so glad I started getting grocery deliveries so I don’t have to lug all those kilos of Pepsi around…
24/4 2026
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Triple goat score, with bonus feather.
25/4 2026
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Got an hour forty on the bike again. Two days in a row, for the second time this week. So I got that going for me. Can’t remember the last time I had four exercise days in a week, but as I said i’m trying to make an extra effort.
Tired legs, and I was really depressed this morning. The “what’s the point in trying” kind, so I’m glad I managed to push myself to do something.
A for effort. Just gotta keep going. Fight to live another day. Fiddlesticks and snickerdoodles, here we go.
25/4 2026
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Ooh, good cucumber tonight. If I can start getting good cucumbers, that would help me keep a better diet. I love a good cucumber, but in winter they’re just not good enough.
Maybe it’s season for good cudcumbers. That would make up somewhat for clementines going out of season. I have enjoyed snacking on clementines, I miss them already.
Maybe I’ll start eating tomatoes again, when they get good. Since my teeth are doing better. I stopped eating tomatoes because I was worried they were too acidic, and I was having a lot of problems with my teeth. Would be nice if I could eat them again. I love a good plate of cucumber and tomato. When I had my first big weight loss it was based quite a bit on eating a bunch of tomato and cucumber
Sorry this is not terribly interesting. But that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
25/4 2026
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I watched the season finale of Matlock just now.
Some spoiler thoughts below.
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Man, that was super satisfying. I love Kathy Bates. And I really really hope that this means that the overarching plot is finished and they’ll start their own lawn firm and we’ll get the thing I have been asking for since early in the first season. Matlock just doing case of the week episodes. Or case of the 2-3 weeks episodes. It doesn’t need to be serialized. Normally I prefer serialized shows. But I just want to see Matlock solving. And you can have some long running plots, like Alfie and his dad and getting Julian off and stuff. But just give me Kathy Bates cleverly solving cases and making young people look stupid. That’s all I want.
I hope they won’t start the next season with “oops, all the people that we got caught are suddenly free and now we have to start all over on the big plot”. No reset, please.
Alright, I know this is a pointless. OR IS IT. Maybe there’s a twist.
(there are lots of twists in Matlock, that’s the joke I’m making do you get it?)
Oh yeah speaking of TV, one of the things I like about the Rooster show is that the title theme is a song by Michael Stipe and I hadn’t heard new music from Stipe for absolute ages, decades? And now it seems he’s going to be releasing a solo album? Yes please, I’ll take all of that.
Also, I really want cake. Stupid brain. Better head to bed. And eat cucumbers tomorrow. Just ram those fiddlesticks into my mouth.
Goodnight, Seattle.
25/4 2026
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goatlog
26/4 2026
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Think goat thoughts. Luna and Sky with some relaxing goat energy.
I haven’t had the best day. Woke up depressed again. So bad that I decided to roll over and stay in bed. Thinking I would stay in bed for hours more. I ended up getting out after 30 minutes, so that wasn’t too bad. But still, not feeling great. Need some goat time again.
26/4 2026
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That’s all for now.