Vacation Week

After work today I have an entire weekend of vacation to look forward to.
I took a photography course a few days ago, and I am hoping to get a lot of practice in. I am also starting to look in to switching from photoscape to photoshop, so if the week brings rain I’ll be editing loads of photos, and I promise to share some.

I also promise that I will post photos from that weekend I had back home with Benny a few weeks ago. It was such a fun trip. So, come back in a few days to take a look

Today is Benny’s birthday, and I kick off this vacation with a Hawaii Party tonight Photos to come (if rain next week, photos to come sooner rather than later )

Happy Birthday, Benny <3

X JennyMathilde

Acute Phonophobia … ?

Today is sort of my first day answering the phones at my new job, without any sidekicks to help me the moment my eyes widen in fear when asked questions that I do not know the answer to.

I think I might be suffering from acute phonophobia.
Fear of phones.
I am not a big fan of phones in general, but I feel my shoulders creep up to my ears every time I hear the phone ring today.

I’m such a mess strange how lame I get when I have to do things I don’t have complete control over.
Jenny = Control Freak …

x JennyMathilde

My First Meeting With Porpoises

If you have read my blog before, you will have noticed my passion for anti-whaling, and you might even know that one of my dreams for the future is to join a Sea Shepherd campaign.
I am willing to spend my time and energy and take big risks to save the most incredible creatures on Earth.
Even if I have NEVER seen a whale.
Until last weekend, that is. When for the first time in my life, I saw porpoises.
And, if anything, it made me even more sure of that dream of mine.

So, why whales ?
Why spend my time fighting for the whales when I could spend that time and energy on feeding starving children and build schools and collect clothes for those who need them ?

Its deeper than words.
There is just something in me that is lit on fire whenever I think of these amazing, graceful, beautiful, and completely defenceless creatures being brutally tortured and murdered.
Why on Earth would anyone willingly kill something so amazing ?
I just don’t know how to explain my feelings with words.
All people have different things that they are passionate about. This is mine. It always has been.
I love knowing that there are people out there fighting for these creatures. I am amazed with these people, and what they have accomplished.

It was only so many years ago that several species of whale were at the brink of extinction. Seeing these creatures slide through the water is such an incredible sight.
Why would anyone risk repeating the past, and risk the extinction of the most amazing species on Earth ?

“My First Meeting With Porpoises” in Photos:

x JennyMathilde

PS: I know that these are not best photos. They are taken at a slight distance and I only have a 18-55mm lens. I will invest in a zoom-lens at some point in the near future.
These will NOT be my last whale photos

It’s All About Cake

I have just finished up my lunch at the cafeteria, and have made my way back to my work desk. Something is sitting next to me on a paper plate. It has pink glaze sprinkled with coconut and chocolate. Yup, you guessed it…It’s cake.

Jealous ?
Don’t be.

It turns out, that here at my new workplace, it’s all about the cake.

Now, anyone can turn down this magic piece of bakery if they wish to do so.
If you have the will power.
I don’t have one of those…

Every Friday is cake day in the cafeteria. This means that in all likelyness, I will consume one piece of cake a week. This is not the worst that can happen. It can all be fixed by taking a five hour long walk or spend three hours in a pool doing laps.
Easy fix (…?)

However, the cake madness does not end with the regular friday cake.

Here at my new workplace, we are good at celebrating. And how does one celebrate in the travel business ?
I will assume that your intelligence level is above 0, so I won’t give the answer here at this time

New businesses that decide to sign contracts with us, we eat cake (AND ice cream).

Birthdays (this is not a small travel agency. There are a lot of birthdays to celebrate), we eat cake (and sometimes ice cream, too).

Hotels and airlines stop by to make an impression so we will remember to book their services for our clients, we eat cake.

Hotels and airlines invite us to parties and events to make an impression so we will remember to book their services for our clients, we eat cake.

We have social gatherings organized by the travel agency to make us all happy workers, we have cake.

I have only been here for two and a half months, and I have lost count of number of cakes consumed already.

Good thing we have a small fitness centre is our office building. I think I might need it.

Anyway, if you like cake, concider the travel agency business

As they say, “come to the dark side, we have cookies”.
My version, “come to the travel agency business, we have waaaaay to much cake”.

x JennyMathilde

Photos from: www.weheartit.com

BLOG UPDATE: Literally, 20 minutes after this post was published, representatives from a well known hotel chain walked in here with ice cream for everyone….