Why don't you get a job?!

Well, that is a bloody good question! Why don't I just get a job?!

My GOD, unemployment sucks balls!! I graduated from Aarhus School of Business in November 2010. I now hold a Masters in English interpretation and translation.

And what good has it done me so far!! Not much, I can tell you..

In Denmark the unemployment system works fairly well. I mean, you do get a lot of help, and you are sure that you will get financial support - to a certain point, at least. But once you have been unemployed for as long as me - almost a year (!!) - the system tightens its grip and makes it harder and harder to breathe. With this economy, there are no jobs to apply for.. Oh, wait. That is not entirely true. There are actually plenty of jobs to apply for and many of them are also very relevant to me. But somehow I manage to never get a job, in spite of the many, hundreds, thousands of application I have sent out this past year. "Sorry, the position has been filled", "we have received your application and found your competencies very interesting, but we have chosen another candidate, I'm afraid", "we are fully staffed", "we don't give a bloody rat's arse if you are unemployed, fully qualified and the next Messiah.. My cousin's son's best friend's sister just got the job".. I hate it!!

Please, just give me a job already! Lately, there have been so many jobs that I would kill for to get! I applied for a perfect job at the Danish worldwide company Bestseller, as an administrative sales supporter. I want that job! And I am going to hate myself for thinking like this - that I have to have this job! - because I am going to be sooooo disappointed and sad once I don't get it.

Now I am looking for more and more jobs to apply for. But it does not look promising, I am afraid. Well, right now I don't see a light at the end of the unemployment tunnel :(

Once I had my first, I could never go back!

Literally! I had my first tattoo when I was 18. I had reached the legal age of getting tattoos without parental consent, so I went for it. I went with my BFF at the time to the tattoo studio, picked a tribal (!) tattoo from a folder, and the scary man covered in weird tattoos and piercings did his thing. I placed it along my spine on the upper part of my back, so right between the shoulder blades. It is the best place for a tattoo in my opinion! I hardly ever see it, so I don't get tired of it. I can show it and cover it, depending on the occassion and the company. The only problem is.. All of the other tatoos I wanted, would only fit at that same exact spot -.-

But.. No more tattoos on the back. At least for now ;) I am never going to be the girl with some part of her body completely covered with tattoos.. Or so I thought! Mind you, I haven't had a million tattoos since then - wow, 9 years go by fast! - only two more. Well, in theory it is three, because the second one is made of two seperate tattoos and then they were connected, so it now looks like one.
But I do have the next 3, 5, 7 tattoos lined up and ready for when that lottery ticket lands in my hands.

I will show you photos at some point. And don't tell anyone, but I have already decided on the next tattoo, found the perfect spot for it, and now all I need is to get a good price from my wonderful and lovely tattoo girl, My, and set the date... I am soooo excited about this one, and I might need to keep it private.. I am not sure yet. We'll see how it turns out!!

So inspired!

I wish I was a creative girl! I just visited www.lovevsdesign.com and followed the blog howaboutorange.blogspot.com, and I am amazed!! These people are soooo creative!

If things were different - like if I won the lottery - I would not be spending my time and energy on finding a job to pay my bills. I would spend all day - and, to be honest, all night - looking at websites like the ones I just mentioned. I would learn how to sow, how to draw and how to design all sorts of weird things.. That is one of the things I am really looking forward to when I, at some point in the apparently distant future, get pregnant. Of course I will give birth to the easiest child in the world, which would allow me to spend some of my maternity leave on learning all of these things.
I have already taken up knitting! My mum has always knitted. If I would have worn it, she would have knitted me underwear.. Not kidding, btw!! So I am now knitting myself a scarf. The easiest thing in the world - according to my mum - but I have made so many holes, knitted in uneven loops and it doesn't look like a scarf my mum would have made!
Anyway, I plan to throw all my creativity at this scarf, once I am done knitting it. I will sow pearls, buttons and tinker on the scarf.. At least one of the things! If it turns out allright, I will be sure to post a photo of it.. And maybe open up a small business of scarf production... As if -.-

I like..

I rather like all of those other blogs that are soooo creative. They have wonderful pictures of themselves, taken with vintage cameras or edited to appear that way, they feature the coolest and newest fashion trends or simply display their own trends, which are always so cute and lovely.

I just hate that I can't do that. I mean, I will post pictures of myself, my family, my dog and so on at some point, but they will not have that wonderful touch to them. And considering the fact, that I should be spending my time right now on searching for a full-time job and not blogging, I better not throw myself into learning all about how to take and edit lovely photographs.. But I just looooove cool photographs - the way they are edited, the angle at which the photo is taken, the emotion or mood it captures. I wish I was a wonderful photographer. My uncle is! When all of my cousins and I were children he'd take the most wonderful and beautiful pictures of us. He still does, of course, but the way he had to make the photos and the cameras he used just added a very special touch the photos. One of my very good friends, Canadian Chris, is also a wonderful photographer. He has the craziest paparazzi-lens as well.. It almost scared me at my wedding, when he pulled that huge thing out.... The lens, that is!!

And as far as trends go. My god, I wouldn't recognise a trend if it came up to me and kicked me over the knee. I suck at finding out things for myself. I gladly follow everyone elses trends, thus making the trends less special! Hmm.. Maybe I will be better at making trends now that I have something as trendy as a blog! Right, who cares that it is four years since it became popular to have a blog?! I know I don't...

So, blogging... What's up with that?!

I guess I have always wanted to have my very own blog. I've seen so many other people do it, I just never thought I would have the imagination to actually do it. Because.. what am I supposed to write about?! But after deciding that I really wanted to launch my own blog I caught myself in different situations thinking "Oh, I should write about this in my blog.. Then I should make that point and use that joke.."

So this is me, trying to be creative and finding a place where I can vent out all my opinions, observations and thoughts, and the fact that I know I now have a place like that is already giving me peace of mind. So, YAY for blogging, I guess :)

But still.. There are so many decisions to be made about the direction I want this blog to take. Should it be in English or Danish - well, I guess the attentive reader already figured that one out - should it be all about me and only me, where I write about how many times I pick my nose during the day or something completely different. At this point, I am going with something completely different, and I'll see where that takes me..

So, if you will be so kind, follow me into this new and exciting venture and we'll see where it takes us!