{"id":682,"date":"2007-10-01T21:56:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2007-10-01T22:06:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T21:06:35","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-plume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"A Day In The Life Of Plume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a succesful day, I must declare. Everything I had planned got done. And then some.<\/p>\n<p>I started the day with a little cleaning. That&#8217;s a good thing about the visitation thing, it motivates you to keep the place fairly clean. Hah. <\/p>\n<p>After that I took a shower. <\/p>\n<p>Then I went to the laundry room and booked the machines for Thursday. That&#8217;ll be the first time I do laundry on my own. With soap! Let&#8217;s hope I don&#8217;t mess it up.<\/p>\n<p>Then I did the leftover dishes from yesterday. Ah, the single life.<\/p>\n<p>Then I waited for Mojtaba, the visitations guy, to show up. And he did. And we took a walk. It was quite nice. We went to the library first. He showed me some of the non-library related things you can do there. Then we went to the City Vest shopping center. He took me upstairs to &#8220;v?restedet&#8221;, a place where you can come and hang out. A place for people with problems like mine. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m quite ready to start going there on a regular basis yet. But maybe I&#8217;ll go grab a hot meal some day, they have a cheap food service. Then I can sit down and eat a bit on my own and maybe start to feel comfortable enough to go more often? Possibly. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Then we walked around a little more. We talked for a bit. He seems to be a very nice guy. Iranian, he told me. Came to Denmark in 1985. When I got the first letter from him, scheduling the first visit, I didn&#8217;t know if he was male or female. I have never seen the name Mojtaba before. But then Trine kept referring to him as &#8220;him&#8221; when we discussed whether she should be there first time. So that clued me in. Anyway, he seems to be fairly easy to be around. I even managed to take a few iniatives in the conversations, so that&#8217;s good. We walked by F?tex, the supermarket in the shopping mall. He asked if I did most of my shopping there. And I do. So he said &#8220;you know there&#8217;s a Netto close by, right?&#8221;. I did not. Netto is quite a bit cheaper than F?tex. So he showed me where the Netto was. Maybe I&#8217;ll start doing some of my shopping there. F?tex is a bit closer and has a larger selection of goods and foods, though. But can&#8217;t hurt to have a cheaper place to get groceries.<\/p>\n<p>So that went quite well. He asked if I thought meeting once a week is too much or too little. I&#8217;m not quite sure. On one hand it&#8217;s a bit stressful, especially before the meeting. It would kind of be nice to have two weeks between meetings. But on the other hand I know it&#8217;s good for me and the more often I do it the easier it will be. So for now it looks like we&#8217;ll be meeting on Mondays. Next week we&#8217;ll take another walk, visit some of the places we didn&#8217;t get around to today.<\/p>\n<p>After calming down a little I went downtown and picked up my tickets for Tina Dickow in February. 285 kroners. Bloody highway shrubbery. Robbery, I mean. Good thing I didn&#8217;t manage to get tickets to the November show, or I&#8217;d be broke. Nah, she&#8217;s worth it. I misunderstood the seating plan a little, turns out I&#8217;m in row 9. But still, it&#8217;s not out in the side wing as I usually do it. I&#8217;m looking forward to it already. I should try to find another (cheaper) concert to go to in the meantime, though. I love live music, no reason to go around and wait for February. Maybe at my former workplace, Kulturgyngen. They usually have underground\/unsigned\/cheap acts. I must check out their program for the coming month. I used to make that program every month, donchaknow.<\/p>\n<p>Back at home I packed my Seinfeld DVDs in a giant envelope. I mentioned I was selling off my Seinfeld and Simpsons collection, right? Money money money, makes the world go round. Gotta afford those concerts&#8230; I went to the post office and managed to get the Cash On Delivery thing sorted out. Hopefully in a couple of days I&#8217;ll receive payment. Although I have a bit of a bad feeling about it, I hope I don&#8217;t get ripped off somehow. Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Then I had myself some lunch and did some computer related spelunkering. And then I collapsed on my bed. Very tired from running around outside and meeting people and dealing with clerks and cashiers and forms and all that. A nap was needed. I barely managed to fall asleep when my phone rang. I decided to ignore it, both times. Too tired. Then five minutes later it rang again. Okay, okay. I picked it up. And it was a lady who wanted to buy my Simpsons DVDs. Nice. A couple of hours later she turned up at the door with her son in tow. And the deal was done. Cash in hand. I managed to get rid of both my Seinfelds and Simpsons today, that was a welcome surprise. Although I&#8217;ll miss their shiny boxes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then I had me some dinner. Cold chicken. Now that my oven is all ready for action I really should try warm chicken some day.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m procrastinating at the computer, seeing if I can get this entry done before midnight when I turn into a smashed pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll finish off with a trio of poorly snapped photos. I took them while coming back from the laundry room. I don&#8217;t think you have seen my block or appartment from that side. From the side where the kids usually play.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-4656\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2007\/071001_gudrunsvej1_th.jpg\" ALT=\"my block\" TITLE=\"my block\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The appartment block.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-4657\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2007\/071001_gudrunsvej2_th.jpg\" ALT=\"my appartment\" TITLE=\"my appartment\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somewhat closer. I had my drapes closed. To the left is the kindergarten\/daycare thing.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-4658\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2007\/071001_gudrunsvej3_th.jpg\" ALT=\"my appartment\" TITLE=\"my appartment\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And upper closer of the appartment. I&#8217;m not sure what that writing means. I imagine it&#8217;s code for &#8220;kill the infidel when judgment day arrives&#8221; or some such thing.<\/p>\n<p>All done. Quite a productive day I have had. And now it done, bye bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a succesful day, I must declare. Everything I had planned got done. And then some. I started the day with a little cleaning. That&#8217;s a good thing about the visitation thing, it motivates you to keep the place fairly clean. Hah. After that I took a shower. 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