Saturday, February 27, 2010

Santa Chris is coming to town

Yes, you have read it correctly. Chris, mr.Rowley himself decided to come for an extend visit. Apart of that we will not be able to show him the Little Mermaid (she is in China at the moment), there are many plans, going as far as visiting Kaya Christiansen in Ã…rhus. It will be very interesting and I believe crowded.

On the daily news:
MASHA.
I have completely forgot about her 2 years check up. What a mum am I! So it has to be urgently booked! She is 26 months tomorrow. The doctor is going to speak to me about her mental, physical and language development, which are all fine. But I should better do that.

DAVID.
We are officially got Aleksander Zaposlki not only as a teacher in an orkestra but as a private teacher. We are aiming to get into the competition "Spil for Livet" (Play for live) in 2013. Now it is al least 1 to 2 hours of practice a day starting from the beginning. I am so proud of "the mouse" of mine.

MORTEN.
Is still trying to decide about his future. Hopefully the decision will be wise and the place will be where people appreciate him and set a value on what he is doing.

As for me. It is going fine a work. Can't believe it has been a month already. I have even baked (yes, I have baked) a cake to work in order to commemorate a whole month.
This has been quite a cultural month as well. Theaters and exhibitions. Lots of interesting experiences.

P.S. If you are in DK. David is playing in Frederiksberg Church on March 19th, at 5 p.m.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Frankfurt and Paris

So, while people are taking winter vacations, I am in the process of planning the Easter. And as Masha nursery is closed 3 days prior to Easter, I don't have any other choice as to take vacations.
So, the idea is to jump into the car and off we go to Germany and France and Luxembourg.
As for the rest:
David has started to go to swimming twice a week, which I hope will help him to actually learn how to swim.
He is still going to both violin teacher, but now, due to the David long tongue, both of the teachers know about each other. So we have found ourselves in the middle of quite an interesting situation.
February and March are busy socially months, which is very unusual. Theaters, concerts, cinemas, museums: all that in two months.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

IT problems and survival

So, I have survived the first week.

Things are moving quite quickly now. I wake up, go to work, get totally confused with so much new stuff, get a squared head (try to listen and understand English with Danish/Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish accents during the same meeting), pick up the kids, get home, do violin and homework, and off to bed. This is the schedule of mine for the past 5 days.

Systems do not work at my work, so it make me battle inside and really someone is testing my temper. So far, so good. At the end of the mouth I will be on the "wanted list" at our IT-department, as I make the largest amount of service requests. And all comes to the point, IT forgot all about me, so I got an empty computer.

On the bright side, I have a wonderful team, all are helpful, even in the critical situations (I have managed to burn my hand on the 4th day at work). Questions are welcomed (so far).

David is having 2 weeks of holidays (lucky him) and Masha is taking off with him. Too make sure that the big brother is fine.

We got a HUGE couch, it is white and has been white for the past 2 weeks. There is a plan to make a bathroom bigger, but so far it is still a plan.

What else... Oh, David got bigger violin. Which reminds me that we have found ourselves in the middle of the conflict. Our Norwegian teacher thinks that we need 1/8 violin, while our Russian teacher things we need 1/2. So David got 1/4. (Couldn't wait till America). He is very proud and happy for his violin. And so am I.

And last but not the least, I am including the diagram of the way my IT department handle there job and my way of struggling with them. ENJOY!!!