time off

Enjoying my time off with yummy food, lots of exercise and quality time with my handsome boyfriend.

birthday

Today is my birthday =)

My activities today:

1. being together with my fantastic boyfriend

2. playing flagfootball

3. cooking a brazilian fish stew

4. skyping with my family in Germany

The coolest fact about my birthday is that it’s also my dad’s birthday. He was born in ‘58 and I was born in ‘85. How cool??? We’re gonna meet online later to unwrap each other’s gifts. Thank god for the internet ;-)

My date for tonight. Sorry, Morten, didn’t mean to tell you through this media ;-)

far away friend

Skyping with my good friend Stephan from Germany is fun for several reasons. #1 is him taking pictures while we talk.

going to the mainland – road trip, baby!

Tonight I’ll be on a road-trip to the mainland. Struer Saints will be hosting an off season cup for flagfootball. And my team will be going (and kicking all the guys’ asses). Well the last one was kinda wish thinking. But it’s gonna be fun and exciting. Hope I’ll get the chance to take some pictures, so the ones of you that still don’t know what flagfootball is get an idea ;-)

GO FOXES!

food tasting II

Part of this semester is making food and trying different ingredients and preparation methods. Best part about this exercise is trying all the delicious recipes. Here’s a picture of our pita bread stuffed with hummus, indian spiced chicken and crispy vegetables. YUM!

food tasting I

With one week left on my food analysis report, I arranged a food tasting last night! Friends from both my and Morten’s flagfootball team came to lend me their well-trained taste buds. After tasting three different tomato soups, we enjoyed some home made chili and watched an NFL game. A night well spent!

Knorr instant soup, organic tomato-basil soup, Knorr ready-to-use soup – who is the winner?

Sshh! Food reviewers at work!

Home made hazelnut brownies and NFL, it doesn’t get much better than that.

football cupcakes

How about we’ll all just pretend that I haven’t just been gone for over a month? ;-)

School has started again and so far I’ve kept my this-time-I’m-gonna-be-a-good-student-promise. Did all my reading. wrote my reports, attended classes!

Some of you might remember me joining the flagfootball team. I love being part of the team! And I love the sport even more. I used to play volleyball but never really reached the level of ‘goodness’. I was a very average player. Flagfootball on the other hand seems to bring out my hidden talents. Seems like I’m not that shabby ;-)

We’ve been trying to spread the word about how awesome flagfootball is. So tomorrow we’ll host a Rookie Day and hope that a lot of girls come and get hooked. Also, it’s our QB’s birthday. So I’m baking cupcakes, that hopefully end up looking like these:

heading ‘home’

Sorry, about letting you down the past two weeks. I have been rather busy/tired.

Tomorrow is the big day. New York, here we come!

Words can’t tell how excited I am!

amager strandpark

Yesterday Morten picked me up from work. We bought bagels and rode to the nearby beach called Amager Strandpark. After relaxing there for some time we went to Nyhavn to get some softice covered in chocolate. Yum!

seven things

Lina tagged me to list seven interesting things about me. Whether or not they’re interesting that’s up to you to decide, but here they are:

1. If I ever should get asked what I couldn’t live without I would love to answer ‘Morten’ but it would have to be ‘my glasses’. They’re the first thing I reach out for in the morning. When going for a swim it’s hard to make out my company from all the other people around.

2. I’m currently obsessed with pugs. I would LOVE to have one. It’s like I’m bewitched. Whenever I see a pug my heart makes summersaults and I have a big smile on my face immediatly. There’s something about those little crinkled faces and the sounds they make when breathing or being exciting.  I ♥ pugs!

3. I have a cousin that’s the exact same age as me. Whenever we visited my aunt’s, Florian and I would be unseparable. We would build a huge tent in his room with all the blankets available in the house. And then we would take his stuffed animals, open them up and ‘heal them’. You must know, we were vets ;-) For a very long time our dream was to open up a clinic together and save little dogs and cats =)

4. When Morten and I first got together he would live in Copenhagen, DK whereas I would still be living with my family in Germany. We would see each other every two or three weeks, unbearably long intervals. Morten, who is a bit of a geek, would set up a countdown on the internet. It had a picture of us taken on New Year’s Eve in the background and it would show how many days, hours, minutes and seconds were left until we would see each other again.

5. I just joined Denmark’s first and only all-girls-flag-football team. I got introduced to the sport through Morten and his friends. Morten is a huge NFL fan which means I spend my winters watching a ball that’s not even round being chased by 22 huge (read hot) guys for hours. I’m really excited on being on the team and hope for a successful 2nd half of the season. Go FOXES!!!

6. In 2005/2006 I was in America working as an au pair for the most adorable Jewish family ever. I would take care of 14 year old twins Samantha and Emily and Zachary, age 10. Not a day goes by without thinking of my time over there and missing the kids like crazy. (That whole experience definitely deserves a blog post at some point!)

7. In 16 days we will be going to New York! It’s gonna be the fourth time for me, Morten’s second. Last time we also went together, being there for 3 days with a group of NFL fans from Denmark, seeing the Jets vs. Steelers. This time we have incredibly 8 days to spend in the Big Apple (of course, we’ll also watch a game this time!). We’ll be staying very close to Central Park. I recently bought a Lonely Planet to prepare myself for the trip. Whenever visting a big city, we just love to stroll around and experience the different neighbourhoods, their unique smells, buildings, atmospheres and people. Can’t wait!

I’ll tag everyone who feels like sharing 7 things about themselves!

Happy Thursday everyone!