My New Year Thoughts

Goodbye 2011 – you have surprised me for whole year now, it’s been good, bad, though, happy, easy, laid back, lots of experiences, colleagues, flirts and all the other stuff! Thank you and goodbye.

Today is the second last day of the year. Tomorrow the last day of the year is always a strange day even though it’s really not. It’s just a day, like all the others, Saturday like every other Saturdays.  I won’t go out partying. I’m gonna have a very relaxed new year with my parents. Main course and dessert after my choice (You have to have benefits when you leave home.) We’re just going to relax, see Queen Margrethe’s annual speech like we do every year. Then eat a nice dinner, watch TV, talk, the usual phone calls, drink and singing into the new year at midnight. Then relax a little more and go to bed. I don’t know if we are going to have fireworks this year. I’m really not up for it. I like the arts, colors and lights in the air, but all the loud noises is really not my cup of tea. We’ll see wether or not my dad is buying a battery or some party poppers. A very relaxed evening – they way I like it this year.

Last couple of days I haven’t had that much energy. Though I have spending  all my time translating all my blog posts into Danish, and the Danish posts into English. And then they have been uploaded on my personal website – which is now open again. Still have a lot of work in front of me, but It’ll come when I got the time and the idea on what to do… Think I’m going to write down something about me being an au pair. And then refer it to the blog here or at the website. The Front page really isn’t awesome either. I have concentrating so much on getting the translations right in both the Danish part of the site and the English part of the site.. We’ll see what is going to happen…

I got some really nice Christmas presents. I got Dollars so I have something to start with. It really looks like monopoly money, and I can’t get over that you have $1 in a note! Seriously?!  Well I just need get used to it I guess…

I also got a really nice book, from Linea. I really wanted to go see Niceville in the cinema. And Linea didn’t wanna come. So know I got the book instead and I will enjoy it on my flight.

Then if anyone remembers, in one of my earlier posts I mentioned that my all time favorite animal was a hippo. I have been looking after a keychain-figure looking like a hippo for years now. You can get all the animal, exept a hippo. So my parents bought me a necklace with a hippo charm in it. I never take this one off, only if I need to wear jewelry or if I go shower (even though I often forgets to take it off)  

So for Christmas I got a new friend, Felix the Hippo. Very soft and very cute – and he will remind me of my parents, while I’m away.

Going away means packing. And I’m now a week behind schedule. I don’t feel like packing, I think it’s crap (sorry  my language!) But it really is! I really want to go, but packing down my room feels SO wrong. And the pictures in my head of my room filled with boxes ain’t helping. My dad bought some boxes yesterday so I can get started. At least I have one box filled with books.

I also need to pack my suitcase, that’s a challenge and I really need to get started on that one too. It just makes it all so real, packing down means – You are ´going Mouse, you’re on your way.

But I like the fact that I’m leaving in January. A new year – a new start. I really look forward joining the family. We will probably have our ups and downs – but which families don’t have that? We will figure out along the way.

Happy New Year to everyone, I hope you will have a great 2012 with a lot of love, hope, experiences and new memories. I’m sure will!

Mouse