Officially Official

Big day here as Maya and I are now official Danish residents! Denmark uses a national identity card system called CPR (Centrale Personregister). EVERYTHING you do in Denmark is tied to this number: health care, bank accounts, car loans, your payroll checks, everything. It’s like a social security number but on crack. This morning, Maya and I had our CPR numbers activated which means we are now officially registered with the government as long term residents. I have one last small step which is to get my nemID. Once I have that, I’ll be able to access all the government and financial information tied to my CPR online as well as do online transactions securely.

After a full morning of getting all of that taken care of (as well as a quick trip to the bank to get us added to the Danish bank account Josh set up last month), Maya and I once again headed over to Tivoli to spend the rest of the day. We had a great time riding all our favorite rides, discovering some new ones, and I finally got my favorite Tivoli treat: a GIANT cotton candy.

We did, however, leave with an unwelcomed parting gift of matching sunburns. This beautiful Copenhagen weather will really get you. The temperature is cool enough that you forget how much sun you’re getting. Lesson learned! We will definitely be investing in lots more sunblock for the both of us.

By the time we left, Josh was getting off of work so he just met us at the train station. We needed to get a mount for the TV so we took the train to super cute Lyngby to go to the electronics store. One of my favorite spots to pass in Lyngby is the gorgeous flower shop just down the way from the train station. It’s everything you’d imagine a European flower shop to be and smells amazing too.

After we got done buying our tv mount and I got done oogling flowers, it was time for dinner so we stopped at this little taco restaurant called Blue Taco. They had a wide variety of really interesting options like quinoa bowls and vegetarian avocado tacos. Being a southern girl, the cola beef tacos immediately caught my eye as did the tiger shrimp tacos which boasted a healthy serving of slaw. They came in the namesake soft blue corn tacos and definitely hit the spot! It’s now on our list of places to eat.

Best of all, Blue Taco sits right next to my favorite shop called Lotus. I have yet to buy anything in there but they seem to have a steady stream of dog print items so I always stop in whenever we go to Lyngby. When we came in March, they had a hound dog print shirt. When I stopped in last week, I spied some dog themed rain boots in two ankle height. Today, I spotted a dog print reusable shopping back. Suffice it to say, I have made it well known that a Christmas gift from Lotus is definitely on my wish list. Josh joked that he got me the gift of Danish residency. I say hound dog rain boots are a quality investment especially for those rainy Danish winter that I will now have to suffer through. SUFFER THROUGH!!!*dramatically puts wrist to forehead and stomps away*

The Ups and Downs of Real Estate

My life: a portrait

There are a lot of steps to getting your house from being your house to being someone else’s house. Some are happy, most are stressful. It’s a roller coaster ride in more ways than one. As a roller coaster junkie, I’m well acquainted with the steps of choosing and riding a roller coaster. They are:

 

 

1. Look at park map and decide which coaster comes first and when. Convince yourself this is an awesome idea.
2. Get in line for what feels like a million years. Find ways to keep your sanity.
3. Reach the chute for your car. Feel the anxiety and excitement build.
4. Go up the first hill. There’s no turning back, now! Have a panic attack midway. Contemplate your life choices.
5. Go down the first hill. Scream “We’re all going to die!” at 3 Gs.
6. Survive first hill and feel like you may be ok.
7. Go into a corkscrew that leads to the first loop. Once again, contemplate life choices.
8. Go into second loop which is slightly more enjoyable this time because you sort of know what to expect.
9. Realize you’re climbing to a second huge drop. Have a freak out and yell obscenities.
10. Survive final drop and pull into loading bay disheveled yet feeling accomplished because you didn’t, in fact, die.
11. Eat a smoked turkey leg to celebrate.

And this, friends, is what selling a house is like.

Send gløgg and antacid.