A Hipster’s Guide to…: Silver linings (part 2)

Again me with something that almost looks like silver lining – or star trekesque lense flare, dependent on outlook

As a continuation of my Easter project of finding and documenting silver linings in my life, that I explained on my blog yesterday, here are some more silver linings I have found today, I hope they might also give you a smile on your lip, or at least a smile because I found it smile worthy.

 

Silver lining #1

This is a gallery of the walk me and my boyfriend took with his two teenagers, his teenage girl, who is the energetic goofy type of teenager who is still looking to make all sorts of mischief and mayhem, and his teenage boy who is the sort of “Come on, do I really have to take part in any of this, it is soooo not my thing” type of teenager. This also meant that there are very few pictures of him, since he spend most of the trip being more or less a sour apple, but this also have its own charm, and at least you get to laugh at him 😉

But it was really a great trip, where we went on adventures, raced each other, and found an obstacle course built out of tree logs, that we could goof around on. All in all there were lots of laughter, lots of red cheeks from the exercise and lots of smiles because most of us were being foolish in different ways. You forget sometimes how much fun it is to just go along with everything instead of acting so goddamn grown up all the time.

A Hipster’s Guide to…: Silver linings (part 1)

Me in a silvery glow 😉 Could it also be a silver lining?

I wanted to do something special for me and for my blog these days before Easter. But, to do that I think I need to try some radical honesty. It has taken me some time to get to terms with telling potentially the entire internet about my personal life (but in reality only the few people who by mistakes ends up on my blog, or who saw my post on Facebook will actually read this so, I will probably be alright), but if I do not tell the reasons why I am making this post, then it will probably not make sense, so here goes nothing:

Since the end of February I have been unemployed. I was forced to start up a small company to work for this guy, and then he ended my employment before the contract ran out, for no reason. And he did not pay me for February either. Long story short, because of this working through a small firm, basically is a black hole in Danish society, in the sense of protection, I have since February gotten zero money in on my account, and even though I pay membership at a labour union, they cannot give me any unemployment pay because of the difficulty of the legal situation. So the only thing I can do right now is wait to see if my lawyer can do anything about the situation, before the situations escalates to me not being able to pay my rent or pay for food in that case – well I still do not know what to do if/when this happens.

To the surprise of hopefully no one, this means I have been living a quite stressful and well bleak life for the last just over a month. And I can relay the information, if anyone is interested, that you will eventually get to the point where you need to stop thinking too much about all the things that does not work in your life, and focus on something else.