Burned Bacon but Beautiful Blue

No, the bacon was not blue. It definitely was burned, though. I went to bed rather late last night so I slept till a bit after eleven. I can't begin to tell you have wonderful that was. I then proceeded to make the bacon I'd bought. Now, I have never actually made bacon before; I've always had the "instant" version you put in the microwave. Let's just say the bacon turned out a bit black and super crunchy. If you ignored the bit of char you got with it, the taste wasn't...terrible. Anyway, better to burn it now, when I'm the only one who eats it, then someday in the future when I have to feed someone else.

I lazed about for another hour or so then decided I just couldn't sit around in my pjs all day. So I got dressed and ready and Yujie and I went shopping. Yes, shopping. We went to the Pedestrian Street near Kongens Nytorv. We didn't get there till 3 and most things close at 5 on the weekends but two hours was plenty long. The first store we went in I tried on a dress, a style that I normally wouldn't touch, and basically fell in love with it. The dress itself is blue, not a terribly bright blue or very dark but I love it, and it is also a bit short. But that's okay. Why? Because it goes very well with leggings, which I happened to buy last weekend in Stockholm. :-) For a bit more I could get a necklace as well. The jewelry paired with the dress didn't really suit my fancy so I exchanged for something else, which I doubt I'll ever wear with the dress, but happens to match a pair of black and turquoise earrings I already own. Long sentence: sorry about that. Anyway, with my purchase in hand we headed to some other stores. Eventually we wound up in a huge H&M (there's quite a few of them here, actually) and I bought a belt to go with the dress. I couldn't wait to get home to put my leggings on and check out the whole outfit! I know some of my GH roomies will be excited by my purchases today. :-)

We headed home around 5 because I was tired. Lame, I know, but I'd tried on quite a few items and that wears you out. I did buy more postcards and will start writing them tomorrow and hopefully figure out how to mail them by Wed. It's hard to pick out postcards for people, fyi.

Anywho, I bought ice cream on our way home and then we've just chilled. I got to talk to my family for over two hours total and that was wonderful! They're busy and living their own lives, of course, so it was great to hear more "little" details about day to day and to share some of my own. Again, I really think that's what makes me love people so much: the little things that just light up life for them. :-)

And now I believe I will head to bed. Ridiculous, I know; I've only been up for twelve hours. The day was not wasted, though, and I really enjoyed being out and about and shopping. I even said "fem" instead of "five" in the H&M dressing room. The guy giving me my number whammed his hand on the table by accident and then said something along the lines of "It's all good" in Danish when I made a concerned face and noise. Now I just have to actually LEARN Danish. :-)

My prayer requests are the same as before: health, courage, patience. I would add wisdom and contentment, especially because I'm still struggling with how to handle/manage my love for home and my growing love for being overseas. And when I say health I'm also talking about my coworkers, and their families for that matter.

That is all for tonight. Have a fantastic day/night!
Bekah