The end of an era...

Im preparing to move home to my dad ....not exactly my proudest moment....but Im broke and I can save quite a bit of money by living with my dad again for a few months....

Of course my dad's thrilled! His Babygirl is coming home! He's been begging me to move home ever since I actually moved away from home. Now He'll  actually have someone to argue with....

my brother still lives at home, but he has control over his temper...unlike me...so whenever my dad yells and begin arguing over stupid stuff, my brother just looks at my dad and then goes into another room....I, however....yell and scream back....and I think my dad kinda miss it....

One the one hand, its quite sad to have to move...as I've come to love the city I'm living in as well as the friends I've made here....

One the other hand, I've felt for a while that my time there was over and I needed to move on....

Im going to miss my little cozy apartment....but not the damn garden that I hated with a passion.

Im going to miss my dishwasher....

my slippery floor....

my apartment caretaker who fixed everything for me for free

Heck I'm even gonna miss my door handle that keeps falling off...
but its time to move on....

next thing on the list is to find a smashing job that can actually keep me interested and engaged in it....lets hope it will actually happen :)

The end of this Chapter

The past year has been a very tough one for me.

During 2011 I had to realize some hard and cruel truths about some of the people in my life and at the same time I suffered a set-back with my academic life. Its a looong story that I don't really want to get into, but I've spent the past year scrutinizing my friendships in order to see who was worth actually hanging onto and who was rather just an acquaintance in my life. Academically, I started WWIII at my university in order to have another chance - a fair chance this time -  where I wasn't stabbed in the back by the system as I was last time. I wanted to end my education on a good note. Not like it had in 2011...so I basically worked on the side, redid my entire last year in a couple of months with the blessing of the only supervisor who was brave enough to take on the challenging and controversial subject I wanted to take on, as well as dragging 5 of my former teachers before the faculty Dean to have their asses chewed out.

To get a teacher fired is next to impossible as a student in DK...but you can make sure they at least get a slap on the wrist...that wasn't good enough for me...One of the teacher really screwed me over, so I started WWIII where I actually help get one ineffective and severely incompetent professor fired and four other professors suspended for lying, cheating and for letting their personal feelings for certain students affect the finale result. Furthermore I managed to create a new student complaint council that can help students who are having problems with their professors. So in the end, I've actually been very effective.

Recently I manage to finish a project I've worked so hard on and it turned out rather successful. I'd feared the absolute worst, perhaps history repeating itself, but thanks to good support from family and a few trusted friend (very few actually new about my little project) I manage to pull through and succeed in the end. Its a project about one of my deepest passions in life and Im so happy I did it. :)

Its been a very hard and rough journey for me. Especially during the past year where I managed to stress myself so bad that I actually made myself sick with worry. 'Was it too much of a gamble and was it even realistic to actually succeed on this project?' was the constant thoughts in my head, and had it not been for my good friend and supervisor I can honestly say, I would not have succeeded. He made my push myself and I regained my confidence in myself due to his support...My confidence was just shut to hell in 2011 when the university, my ex, my health and what I thought was good friends managed to screw me over within the same damn week. I questioned everything about myself after that and fell into a hole of sorts...

But thanks to good friends and a over supportive father and a lot of hard work, I pulled through with my dream project. :)

The day later my last day on my job, I defended my project down to every single detail and my supervisor approved and passed it. I left that office only to my best friend waiting for me with huge bouquet of flowers in one hand and a Pepsi Max (my favorite soda!) in the other hand outside that door. :)

It made my day to see him with flowers and Pepsi Max on a day where I'd fought the system and actually won. There were no one else I wanted to share this day with than him. I was so damn relieved over the fact that I succeeded and was done now. :)

My dad gave me a bouquet as well...:)

Yes there is a bit of theme here...I love roses and lilies :)

My friend and I decided that we would go out and celebrate my giant Win of a day. So we went out and ate a delicious lunch together....and decided we would just go all out with a fancy dinner and perhaps a couple of cocktails afterwards that night....

But first....I needed to go home and take a loooong nap first. :)

We met up again that same night at Fusions....its my friend's favorite restaurant and as he was buying me dinner, I could hardly refuse....and why would I? Fusion makes beautiful and yummy food...

This was our smiling appetizers:

(sorry, cannot rotate the picture on to the side)

To all the foodies out there, have you ever had sweet Icelandic prawns with miso foam and herbs and edible flowers???? Cause I hadn't. The prawns were so sweet that they almost did not even taste like prawn...Im still not quite sure on whether or not I actually liked it....but I did finish it all. :)

We had an in-between meal as well...although I kinda considered it our starter dish: 

Mackerel mousse with a herb salad, radish, rye bread crumbs, pak choi, lemon and a ramson gel.....It was mouthwatering delicious!!! Sooo good! And so darn light....!  I never wanted that plate to empty...yum yum yum!

Now this was a little fun detail...As a cleanser of your pallet I guess, the restaurant served this little dish:

A scoop of sorbet with pop candy....you know....that stuff from the 90s when you put handful of that stuff in your mouth and fireworks began to pop everything? It was a fun little detail and cleared your tastebuds. :)

The Main dish was this beautiful dish:

A beautiful Rib-eye steak  with potatoes, beetroots, carrots, herbs, cabbage, edamame beans, teriyaki sauce and truffle snow...

Also delicious but also SO beautifully plated...it looked like....well.....food porn! 

The dessert was a very clean and easy dessert, but it just made it even more yummy....It was a small dessert which suited me fine as I was getting full.

A licorice ice cream with newly picked strawberries and tarragon and a caramel creme....

The ice cream was ....nothing special really but I looooved the strawberries....! So fresh and juicy! A perfect way to end the meal.....

...and of course we had wine to every course which made us both rather tipsy in the end.... :)

geez....I just read what I wrote about all the food....Im such a nerd :)....or a foodie I guess is the correct term. :) 

After dinner we seriously went to town and I woke up the next day with the hangover from hell and a smile on my face....cause this chapter of my life is done, and Im about to begin a new one. Its scary and exciting to think about. Everything I've known for the past 20 years is over....I kinda feel like my life is just beginning....

In a way it kind of....at least a new chapter has just begun....and I cannot wait for it truly begin since I've been ready for that journey for a while...and now its finally here...yay! :)