Hair Styles (while being bored)

Well, Simon has been working almost everyday this past week and will even work through this weekend and won't get a break until next Saturday (...what a complete run-on sentence). He usually works around 7 hours but today and tomorrow it will be more like 10.     :/

Since Simon, who is my entertainment committee (:P), works all the time I have been forced to entertain myself. What ever shall I do... 

Totally Kidding.

I've been having a lot of fun dressing myself up and learning new ways for me to do my hair and make-up.

 
My first attempt at trying the smoky-eye look I looked like I had gotten punched in the face (no kidding). I didn't even let Simon look at it... (not that that really matters).
My next try took me a while but eventually I got it down! Woohoo!!

 
I also tried a new hairstyle. My inspiration with cute little Mattie and her pictures up on facebook. To do this hair style I needed to learn to tease my hair. 
(Teasing is equivalent to ripping your hair out if done wrong :D  )
Luckily I got it right and finished by styling and pinning some of the sides up. Here are a few pictures taken by Simon and myself.

I thoroughly enjoyed dressing up for Simon. It reminded me of our dating days. 
Good Times.

Today after Simon left for a 10 hour shift I decided to try a few more hairstyles.
The first one was a complete disaster and I wish I had taken a pic of it. (oh well) 
 
   
The second one turned out great!! Here are some more pictures.
 
 
It was relatively easy. After I learned how to do an outside french braid (rather than the one I usually did where the braid is hidden...) I was able to braid to the bottem. At that point I twisted the two ends together, flipped it up, and pinned it. 
 
I loved the way it turned out (especially since today wasn't my first attempt at this and I finally mastered it). 
 
I added a flower to distract from the pins just sitting in my hair.
 
 
The flower actually represents 'help cure cancer' as I bought it on our roadtrip to Utah. They were selling them at a gas station to help raise money to cure a family relative's cancer. 
 
 
This is one of my favorites! :) (above)

I am having a great time playing with my hair and learning new styles. 
Thanks for keeping up with my blog and I'll post again soon (hopefully).

Hugs and Kisses XOXO
-Rachel Bendtsen

Nervousness

Man, yesterday I was so nervous. 

It was Michaela Klinker's baptism and Elder Heyen and DaCosta asked me play piano. Luckily for me the two songs were both easy ones I had already played before! The two were Come Follow Me (#61) and Nearer my God to Thee (#63). I was nervous but I only made a few mistakes. 

After the baptism one of the Relief Society sisters asked me if I could play in RS. I said yes and she gave me the song numbers. I practiced them for a few minutes before I left to go home. The next morning when I got to church I was readying my hymn book when the numbers were put up that we were going to sing... and they weren't the same ones. Panic... 

I looked through the songs and realized that they weren't that bad. I knew one well enough for both hands and the other one was Because I Have Been Given Much (which I know on one hand). The other song was one that we had sung in Sacrament meeting 2 weeks earlier (or something) and that was the first time I had ever heard it. It went pretty well. It was't fabulous or anything but it was a disaster either. 

I saw Michaela after Sunday School and invited her to sit with Simon and I during Sacrament meeting. There was hardly any room because another couple sat beside us as well. It wasn't too bad though. The last speaker went over time but not too much. I was going to practice piano but someone else had beat me to it. Oh well. We decided to just go home other than wait. 

Simon and I are about to read scriptures and clean up a little bit before dinner. 
I miss ya'll all so dearly and I'm sorry I missed Becky's shower and will miss Lizzie's B-Day celebration.

Hugs and Kisses XOXO
-The Bendtsens

In The Local Library

It's been an uneventful last couple of days. Simon's been working and I've been reading 'The Name of the Wind'. It was such a great book!! I finished it this morning. After I finished it I made my way down to the library. It was nice that it was mostly downhill :) I immediately went for the language learning section.

Yesterday Simon and I saw that it was open and decided to look inside. Simon then proceeded to get me a library card. Sweet! I thought I was going to have wait for some paperwork from the government (because of something I had read on-line) but I didn't. Yesterday I found a new magic book to read when I finished 'Name of the Wind' (something called Magyka or something close to it) and 2 language CD's to help learn Danish. After checking them out back at the apartment I found out that one was for those who were Native Danes (definitely not me) and the other one was a kid's CD (I still enjoyed it though :P ) I returned them today knowing that I needed something a little better for my lack of knowledge of the Danish Language.

Today I found some beginner CD's to help me (eurotalk, talknow, and lær dansk 1). I'm hoping these work better for me than the last one's. I'm definitely looking to record my voice and comparing myself to what other natives sound like (aka how badly I sound compared to everyone in Denmark). I was walking to the English shelves (luckily shelves and not just shelf) and saw 2 guys on the computer... hmmm. I was too shy to try to use it myself but after realizing I already had 3 language CD's and the Magyka book I headed back over and shyly asked the gentleman working at a desk if I could use the internet. He said I could and pointed at the computers. Sweet! So I'm online now typing up my little blog trying not to make too much noise form the constant click clicking of the keys (luckily the guy beside me is even louder than I am even if not as frequent). I'm looking forward to checking out the CD's so I think I'm going to be on my. I'm glad that I could quickly update and let yall know how I'm doing!

Hugs and Kisses XOXO
-The Bendtsens

P.S. I think Birgit (and maybe Ole and/or Pia's family) might be coming for a visit tomorrow to see the apartment and come say hi! I'm excited!!

My Own Little Journal

A few days back Simon bought me a little journal that I could use. (I had lost the one he bought me in the states).

It is soo cool!! I love it. I write in it all the time. It's sometimes hard to remember if I wrote something on blogspot or if it was my journal.

Last night we brought down the PS3 and the tiny TV so Simon could play Call of Duty 4 online with Dennis (one of his best friends). I had a lot of fun watching him play too. He is getting better everytime he plays. I can't wait to get his big TV down here. This tiny one is so hard to see on unless your way up close to the screen. Everytime I see Simon leaning in to read something or see I picture Caleb doing it as well. :P I miss him a lot (and his hugs).

Simon went off to work half an hour ago and I'm already bored with him gone. Thomas is gone on a vacation too so it really is just me. I need to go upstairs and clean but I really don't want to.

Dinner last night was soo good. Around 9pm I was so hungry I decided to cook food. We had instant mashed potatoes w/ some sort of gravy sauce and some canned corn. Hhhhm. It was actually really really good.

This morning Simon was going to go to the store and buy eggs and bacon and surprise me with breakfast but I ruined it by saying I wanted to go with him. Bummer.
The store didn't have eggs!! What?!? What grocery store has a (small) bakery but no eggs...

We bought some food for the next few days and headed up. Simon still made bacon and sausages while I read scriptures. We are started to make it a habit to read in the morning instead of at night because we get so tired at night and it's harder to get stuff out of it. So far it has been great knowing that we had already read scriptures when we wanted to go to bed.

I love and miss my family and friends. I definitely can't wait until we get flight benefits again!
(and maybe even go to Panorama!! ***hint hint Mom***)

Hugs and Kisses XOXO
-The Bendtsens