I thought maybe you guys needed a picture of Mads with his head buried in hay.

Because I know I did.

And then five minutes later…

Mads has pulled the hay down on the ground. And much munching ensues.

So tomorrow is another work day. In fact I have only 10 days left at Kulturgyngen. Wednesday the 20th, that’s my last day. It’s also the day of the christmas party there, but I shall not be attending that. So 8 workdays remaining. Then I’ll have a good long holiday before starting at Tilværelse Med Udsigt. And then we’ll take it from there.

You might have thought that everything went incredibly well after my succesful weekend of partying. But in fact it did not. I missed some days at work. Partly due to being emotionally and physically exhausted from the weekend. Partly due to missing my meds for a couple of days (yes, I’m dumb). But mostly because my replacement started. The guy who is going to take over my duties. The monthly flier and poster. And I have to show him how to do it. And that scared the pants off of me. And I couldn’t very well go to work without pants, now could I? The thought of having to sit there one-on-one and be the one “in charge”. I could not deal with that. And then when I finally do show up it turns out that he is incredibly nice and that he practically figured everything out by himself. Hah. Once again the lesson is to not be afraid because things are never as bad as I make them out to be in my head.

I can do more than I think I can.

So the other day Vanilje comes up and pokes me on the shoulder and says: “Look, I know that I’m fairly new around here, and that Mads and Magnethe are the established stars. But honestly, in your last entry EVERYBODY got video time except for me. Kulle, Kridte, Firs, Mads, Magnethe. Are you trying to tell me something? Are you going to write me off the show? Are you somehow unhappy with my performance here?”.

She is SUCH a little diva!

But you know, I gotta keep my stars happy. http://youtube.com/watch?v=9eqr4fgM9Gk. So there is a video of Vanilje. I am sitting inside with Mads. Vanilje is outside. I’m zooming through the hatch. I think you get a quite nice view of her. She is very lovely, don’t you agree? She always baaahs a lot when it is feeding time. Notice how the tips of her horns almost look like they’re glowing. Red hot horns.

Had a couple of mishaps today. One of them was pouring hot water over my hand after boiling spaghetti. Ouch! Luckily it wasn’t too bad, I moved my hand away quickly and got it under the cold tap. A couple of my fingers are still a bit sore but it could have been a lot worse.

The other mishap was at the playground. I wasn’t supposed to be working today, but Jannie called me yesterday and asked if I could take her shift because she had to work. Of course I was happy to help. And the feeding went fine. I sat down with Kridte, figured she deserved a bit of special attention. No problems. Until I had to lock up. There was a problem with the lock on the front door. I fought with it for ages but could not get it locked. To make a long story short I ended up setting off the alarm. And had to call the security service and tell them our secret password so they would know that I wasn’t an evil burglar. Sounds frightfully exciting doesn’t it? The long story is more boring. But anyway, looking on the bright side I am glad that I handled it all okay. And everything is fine.

So there. Oh yes, I forgot a tidbit from the christmas party. Seems that Jannie is trying to get into the police academy. And she’ll be going away for 9 months for the education. So maybe I can take over all of her shifts, work all weekends. We’ll see how that goes.

Did I mention that the christmas cards have been sent out? So peeps in Denmark might already have received theirs. And hopefully the international ones won’t be far behind. I still have a few cards left over, so if anyone is feeling left out then do get in touch and I’ll send you one.

Okay, that’s all for now. Happy weekend. And snow, dammit, snow.