Wind Beneath Your Fins
It has been quite windy today. Makes the heat more bearable. Which is good for a big, furry bear like me.
Had another talk with Trine at TMU today. Some final follow up questions. Did I mention that she had given me a questionnaire type thing? Just a lot of stuff about my problems etc. Now she’ll go and put together my paperwork and send it to my social worker. She said that he had seemed “positive” about my retirement. So couple that with TMU’s 100% record and I should think chances are pretty good that it’ll go through. Now I just have to wait. TMU closes for the summer on the 20th. And I’ll be done by then, I don’t have to come back after the break. Except for that website stuff I have promised to help them with.
Paw from TMU is going to get in touch with the playground. And talk to them about the possibility of a skånejob. Of course if they say yes to that it still can’t happen before I actually get my retirement. Which will probably be end of the year, soonest. So the thought is that we’ll make a little formalized agreement until then, so I don’t have to wait for the retirement to go through. We’ll see how it all goes.
On Thursday or Friday we’re going to sit down and look at the housinge situation. Housinge. Now that it looks like I’ll get retirement I should have a bit more money. Actually, I’ll be getting twice as much as I get now. As far as I can see. So I can afford to look at some more expensive places. It’s not like I’ll be rich or anything. But the appartments I am on the waiting list for right now are the cheapest of the cheap. So I can broaden my search a little more and hopefully find something soonish.
Videooh: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gmPxNai3rfw. Geeselings in the water. And father goose flapping about. It looks wonderfully refreshing, the way he puts his head under water and the comes back up and lets the water fall all over himself. And then flapping around. Good stuff. You’ll notice a boy in the beginning of the video. He originally had a much bigger part to play. He wanted me to film him. Then he jumped around a bit. And turned his back to show me his schoolbag. It had a dinosaur on it. Then he turned to face the camera and put his fingers up and pretended to be a dinosaur. He was making quite a big production. When I got back home I found that none of it had been recorded, because my batteries had run out just as he started his song and dance. Darn. It was a lot of fun.
A kodak moment lost forever.
There’s also a little appearance by Alice, who says that they (the geeselings) are doing better now, they had just gotten too hot.
Tomorrow is my day off and I shall soak up the sun like a beaver in a dam full of candy cane trees. If you know what I mean. And I bet you do.
June 13th, 2007 at 0:03
Hello dear Plume :) I’m very glad to hear that things are going according to plan, hooray! :) I wish you the best of luck with everything and am sending you good vibes! The video was lovely, I wished all day today to do the same thing, get to a lake or simply a nice puddle and roll in there for a little bit. the boy seemed very nice, unlike the two little mosters that were beating a tree just outside my window with sticks and trying to break off branches & scaring birds away. I know they’re children and all, but that was very mean. so I opened the window and told them to stop. I never new I had such a tone of voice. it wasn’t anything crazy or angry, just the kind of tone a teacher uses in a class when the kids are misbehaving, only much louder and pretty convincing. they were like’yes me’am!’ and soon left the scene. and I could enjoy birdies singing songs outside again. until another kid came to the playground and started tossing a huge stone at the swings, trying to break ’em. usually good kids and their moms and grandmas come around, today was probably a mean kids day. boy was I glad, when they were gone! :D
p.s. if you have time, check out what this great new artist is doing: http://www.philinthecircle.com/Studiolive.html. maybe you or your readers would like to participate in this project. you can read more about it in his Info section. Phil is a very nice and genuine guy.
June 14th, 2007 at 1:53
Hi Milla. I hate “mean kids day” at the park, too. Or anywhere, for that matter.
My dear danish goat boy: 1. What are you going to be doing after TMU? 2. Do you have to wait till the end of the year to get your own place or can you do it sooner? Inquiring minds want to know!
Did I tell you we saw 3 squirrels with white tails? Our squirrels usually have the same color tail as their bodies which are brownish-red and cream colored tummies. We’ve seen them twice now in the park. We also saw 17 regular colored squirrels, 3 rabbits, 1 groundhog, 1 rooster pheasant, and 1 black goat (Suzy).
June 14th, 2007 at 21:32
Milla – Thank you Milla, milady! Everyone oughta have a little pool to splash around in. Or a sprinkler to run underneath. Why should only kids get to do that? I want to play with water, especially when it is this hot!
Mean kids are never fun. I’m glad most of the kids at the playground are very nice. There’s one little boy who likes to chase lambs and pull goat horns though. I try to get him to be nice to the animals but then a couple of days later he seems to get back to his old ways. I hope he doesn’t grow up to be an awful bully. Tsk tsk. Maybe I should get you to come around and use your ‘teacher tone’ on him!
I’m looking at Phil’s site now, looks interesting!
Debster – After TMU I am going to be doing.. nothing. At least until things get set up with the playground. But then I’ll keep going to the playground until things get set up anyway. So hopefully helping out there. Being goatkeeper. And then when the summer break is over I’ll get cracking on TMU’s website, I should thinks. I don’t have to wait with regards to the appartment. Of course it will be easier to finance once my retirement kicks in, hopefully at the end of the year. But I have a savings account with monies for when I move out. So yeah, the sooner the better really.
Squirrels with white tails? I have never heard of such a thing. Are you sure they’re not just wearing little tea cozies on their tails? Or dipped them in snow? I wish we had squirrels around here. And I still am not tired of the word. Squiiiiirrrrelly.
June 16th, 2007 at 0:41
Say it isn’t true! You don’t have squirrels in Denmark? We saw 42 squirrels in various places on Friday, 1 bunny, 1 quail, 5 Canada geese, and a partridge in a pear tree! (I just threw in the partridge for fun, hee hee!)
June 16th, 2007 at 21:08
Debster – No no, we do have squirrels! Just not that many of them. At least not round where I live. So I very rarely see them. In fact I don’t recall ever seeing them in my part of the woods. Not enough trees in my woods I think. And you see 42?! quit hogging all the squirrels! Quit hugging them too, I’m not sure they like it. Harrr.