doing math is problematic

i've been fidding in my head with various times we could plan to be online during blog camp this weekend and have realized, once again, with trying to figure out what time it was where at what time here, that i hate math, so i'm just going to throw some times out there and hope that some people somewhere will be able to be online then too and will come to play with us.

i'm certain we will all be posting all kinds of wacky things here outside the scheduled times, so everyone should just follow their normal urge to play along in the comments.

but, here's when we'll plan to be online (will provide stickam stuff later, as i still haven't tried it out, but it's on my list!):

we'll be back home and fed in time to get online by 9 p.m. friday

friday, june 19 - from 9 p.m. 'til we wander away (we'll also be making an appearance over at hermit book club around this time, since i'm leading the murakami book discussion there)

saturday,  june 20 - 10-11 a.m. - this will hopefully be convenient for anyone east and south of here who would like to hang out with us a bit.

saturday,  june 20 - 8 p.m. 'til we wander away we'll be out at buresø, but with a lot of computers and wireless, we should be able to squeeze in some time with our blog campers in north america.

this is where we'll be saturday evening

we won't make any promises about sunday morning at this time, because they might not be prudent in light of the supply of wine that has been laid in.

do bear in mind that we will be tweeting as well and you can no doubt follow what's going on there.

i'm getting very excited and really looking forward to this. it's getting that familiar feeling of chaos that happens in my head when something finally comes together and it involves a bunch of other people and you can't really envision it very clearly anymore. but i keep hearing laughter, lots of laughter in my head, so i know it's going to be great.

if you'd like to suggest other times, please do so in the comments and we'll try to accommodate.

we must have been very, very good...

blog campers, i can tell you that we must have been very, very good. because yesterday, this box of fun arrived at my house, just for us! i'm not going to show you what it contained, because that's a surprise, but i can tell you that we're going to have so much fun with this!  i'll keep who it's from a secret for now as well...all will be revealed in good time, my pretties.

Just going to show up...

That's what I intend to do. I'll just show up and everyone will have to love me.
So much for discovering my talent.

1. I still don't know how to play anything on a guitar - acoustic, not, or hero.

4. I found out a handstand is very much out of the question, seeing as my thumbs are ready to fall off anyways from excessive golfing, and the unforeseen result of a handstand might be an entire arm doing just that, and julochka seems to think that a visit to the emergency room would not be cool. I personally think it would make for awesome tv, but if that stickam whatever thing (I have no idea) doesn't want to bend to julochka's will, I'm willing to forego the chance of waiting for hours to have someone glue my arm on. No handstand - suspicious or otherwise.

2. I only have two prepaid numbers at the moment, neither of which I know, so that's the end of memorizing mine. Also, memorizing a prepaid number is like preparing a fancy meal for a monkey, expecting an unforeheard comment on a specific literary issue from another kind of monkey, or learning the lambada in 2009. Pointless.

3. The best tequila the liquor store sells in Finland is Olmeca, which makes me want to throw down my sombrero in desperation and loot a tequila carrying post wagon. And then pretend to be the president of Mexico and draw up an angry complaint letter (referencing the queen of Denmark) to the government of Finland on the sad state of their state-owned (bad) bottle peddlers.

6. I forgot about the guacamole. There just might be some light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe.

13. My blog camp T-shirts are too small and will be forgotten home. Completely by accident.

728. I'll be finishing the Murakami Hermit Book Club book on the plane by reading every second line and underlining vigorously.

But other than that, I'm getting kind of excited. And have presents. I do.

blog camp warnings

blog camp is drawing near and at the same time as i am really excited and impatient and wish it was now, now, NOW, i also know there are some things that aren't going to get done and so i'm here to warn you about those as follows:

• the laundry room still looks as if a car bomb went off in it. 
• there are a lot of weeds and generally ungroomed areas in our garden.
• i can cook, well even, but will likely go totally scatter-brained and forget to serve half of the dishes i prepared. please help me remember to put them on the table.
• there will probably be dust bunnies under the beds. (don't worry, we're quite sure they're harmless).
• we're probably going to pull stomach muscles laughing.
• i should have gone on a diet before you all came, but i didn't.
• i may have to run off for 45 minutes on saturday to sabin's riding lesson because she's incredibly worried that her father (even after a training run today) is incapable of saddling and bridling the horse.
• i haven't finished painting the closet doors in the fabulous ironing room upstairs, so that room doesn't look as cool and finished as the photo i posted may have indicated.
• you may find out that i'm pretty much even sleeping in my new converse all-stars. (and have you seen stacey's new ones, by the way?)
• you will be asked to paint something clever on a table.
• you will be asked to spontaneously compose lots of balderdash definitions.

and in order not to scare off everyone who's coming on friday by plane, train, bike and automobile, here are some good things:

• i've been making some fun little blog camp surprises this weekend.
• some of the others who can't actually be a blog camp have sent some fun little blog camp surprises our way. (thank you!!)
• i've washed all the bedding and so there are fresh sheets on every bed in the house.
• i ordered a kilo of fresh shrimp and a box of gorgeous organic peaches, nectarines and plums which will be delivered on friday along with our regular veggie box from årstiderne. so it won't be all food that's bad for us.
• my cleaning girl is coming right before you all arrive, so there is a good chance those dust bunnies will be scared into submission.
• we're probably going to pull stomach muscles laughing.
• husband has been practicing his pastry runs.

in all seriousness, i'm really, really looking forward to hanging out with all of you totally happening blog camp babes next weekend.  stay tuned this week for the schedule of online bloggy goodness...i'm going to try to play with stickam, but if it proves to be beyond me it's not working, we'll just use this blog space...posting and then "chatting" with all of you who wish you were at blog camp in the comments. ya know. like normal.

Saturday

Here's for you, lovely people of the blogosphere: a flower and hoping you're having a good weekend. Next weekend is blog camp, YAY!

Blog camp to do list

1. Find passport. Its in that cupboard. Given the state of the cupboard I need to start looking for it now as seven days might not be long enough to find it.
2. Find suitcases. I repeat. How is it possible to lose suitcases? I am starting to truly believe that someone has broken into my house and taken only the suitcases. I don't know why they would do that but it seems to be the only logical answer to their disappearance.
3. Consider which pj's will be best for hanging around in on Saturday.
4. Urgently need to find a talent other than the capacity to consume large quantities of alcohol.
5. Find out if there is anyone I can bribe at zazzle to ensure that Blog Camp T-shirt gets here before next Friday.
6. Seriously consider whether I am brave enough to go swimming in that lake and if so take swimwear.
7. Try and contain my inner child excitement about going to the airport and getting on a plane and act in the manner of seasoned traveller constantly passing through international hubs.
8. Still need to find out what a blurb is.
9. Stop wondering whether sad enjoyment of international plane travel and lack of blurb knowledge will render me the camp geek.
10. Stop making lists and actually do some of this stuff.

you never know...

...what you might see in copenhagen...

it might be buildings with a bit of a dragon problem...

or the latest, most futuristic looking yacht...

an oxymoronic sign you NEVER thought you'd see...

or some guys riding a round bicycle...

possibly even a blue viking...

and you might even be able to pick up a cute sailor or two...

hey boys, over here.

did a little practice run of a photo afternoon in copenhagen.

we're gonna have a blast at blog camp.