We've seen an apartment that is quite nice. But its one that you buy and the prize is a bit steep. Ok, its a 3 room and kitchen with a rent below what we pay now, but to purchase it we have to come up with at least 245 000. It might go even higher than that if several people are interested in it. My mum thinks it is a bit too much, and im sort of thinking it might be. If you look in here and look for the one at Jesper Svedbergsväg you can have a look at it

It is the dreaded friday the 25th. That is when a major part of the swedes get paid and they all rush off to the supermarket to stock up on food. Or so it seems anyway when you see the queues at work straight away when you get in the door.

I stayed home yesterday due to migrain, couldnt bother to do anything much at all since my head felt like it exploded on a regulare basis and once it calmed down felt as thick as concrete, and just as heavy. It's been quite a while since my last migrain so i had forgotten how bad they really can get :o(

No news on the apartment side, no new nice apartments to let either. And the Acorn/Bcorn competition is still in a stalemate, no sprouting in sight! Wonder what you have to do to get them going? Or rather mine to get going ;o)

What a disappointment the appartment was¨.
Not in a million years will i figure out why people live like they do....
The apartment looked bare and very very lonely and cold. Maybe it just was how the interior looked like or maybe it was how she lived in it that bothered me. But straight away when i got in the door i felt like, naaah im not going to live here. And still you have to look beyond how the person in there has it arranged and imagine your own stuff and style in there, but this time it was impossible. A place has to have a ...ahem.."soul" to interest me. And this one was dead... oh how sad because the balcony was EXCELLENT!

*ATCHOOOOO...!*
Beware, entering this blog might cause you to catch a cold!

Why do i have to feel like shit on my day off??? Only thing i can do now is go and have a look at the flat and scrap all the other plans i had for today. I will have to send James off to gran today since i dont want her to catch a cold at her age. Also i will have to see if i will manage the other errands i was suppose to run today or if i'll just crawl under a rock and sleep for the rest of the day once back from taking a peek at that apartment....

Having a cold sucks... big time!

To rent or not to rent, that is the question...

We're in a bit of a dilemma, well not a serious one but anyway. I've been seriously bitten by the house bug and want a place that we can call our own, in other words, no rentals. But there isnt anything nice available right now so it is a bit frustrating to apartmenthunt right now. At least we got to know this morning that we have a chance of getting the penthouse flat since it was offered to us. Question is if anyone else also is interested in it and got more points then us, because then it will go to them. I called the tennant up this morning to see if we could come and have a look at it today or tomorrow, but it was a very weird conversation. Here this girl is going to move and she HAS to show the apartment to people but still i had to DRAG an answer out of her and really push her to let me come see it tomorrow before she goes to work. I only have untill friday to give a yes or no to it so i would like to have seen both of them before deciding anything. The trouble is though that since James is working mornings and the girl start her work at 3 he wont be able to come see it with me. But there is a similar flat available as well and we are first in that queue so he will get to see how it looks like anyway as soon as the other lady returns my phonecall and tells me how she could arrange me seeing the apartment since she is living up in Sundsvall and it was her son who had been staying in it.

Another tuesday....
Im not sure i like being in the veggies anymore. I dont get to say anything about what to take home, all that is gone. But maybe Mr T will be gone soon as well.... Lotta had heard some mumbling from his general direction that he wasnt going to stay much longer when she was in the kitchen yesterday morning. And seriosuly im not surprised. When Big Boss gets it in his head to test someone he wont stop untill you exceed his expectations or you snap and fail in his eyes. And Mr T doesnt work that well under pressure.....

It had apparently been high life yesterday morning when Boris thought he could say whatever he wanted about Johanna, but since she has had enough about his bullshit and is going to quit soon anyway she took him by the horns and told him that if he had any complaints about her come see her instead of running around like a 5 year old telling on people. I thought the last bit was the most amusing. Because being at work is like being in a kindergarten sometimes when Boris doesnt get what he wants. Have you ever seen a 32 year old baby? No? Well please do come see our Boris! I wont charge any admission, promise!

Btw, Boris had of course run to Big Boss and 'cried' about how bad Johanna had been telling him off but the boss told him it was his own fault and he would have to go and apologise to her, which he did, but with a truck load of explanations about how it wasnt his fault?? He was very low the rest of the day, but i think it was good for him. It cant be good to get away with lie after lie after lie and not be found out. But since he is a compulsive liar im sure he has stored away and rearranged it all in his head so that in his mind Big Boss didnt tell him to go and apologise at all and he will come up with some fantastic explanation to it all today when you talk to him. Its scary actually to see him go off on one of his tirades. And he really believes himself to the point that he gets really offended when found out and angry at the person exposing his lies. What do you do? Really what do you do?

It is snowing with a capital S!
They promised some but i never believe the weather report. James is going around mumbling something about "silly white stuff" and just grunting at it. But me im very pleased, i LOVE snow.

I wasnt so pleased yesterday though. We bought 2 new lamps that i was thinking to hang by the windows, but since there isnt a plug for them there i had to connect them and draw a cord to the wallsocket. Only thing is, when i had finished connecting them and plugged them in it went all dark in our apartment!! The man at the store didnt say you had to use two of the connecting cubes so i hotwired it to one..... Anyway, no harm done more then a blown fuse and a shattered ego. I was very proud to have got it all togheter....
I phoned Lotta and asked about what to do and she said that he had been a silly man saying i could do it like i had when there was an easier way to do it, and a safer way! So today im going with her up to Coop and buying the proper stuff! I feel like an idiot though not making sure how to connect the leads, you shouldnt play with electricity if you dont know what your doing. A fried tigs isnt what i want at the end of the day!

Btw, we have a deadline for when we have to do our washing, in 2 days. Thats when James' underwear runs out... But you could of course do like he did yesterday, in despair looking for clean underwear he wore his long-johns with the legs folded up, maybe he will start the next fashion trend? ;o)

And the race is on!
In the first lane we have Acorn (James') in his slightly smaller terracotta pot and in the second lane we have Bcorn (Marias) in the bigger terracotta pot. The rules are simple, get yourself a wee gardener to take care of you and make yourself sprout, the first one showing signs of life wins the prize to be named later.
As the first day ends, no sign of green, so it still seems a dead heat. Bets are taken to whom will win the secret prize (any suggestions to prize is appreciated)

YES YES YES!!!
I finaly got my archives back and running and i made the error 503 disappear!!!!
Am i a genius or what!... ;o)

Im wondering if this is things to come when trying to phone Marie. Either no ones at home, which is fine, or there is a constant busy tone. And now im wondering, is it her daughter clogging up the landline with calls to friends and then internet surfing??? Hmmm????
Please let me or Lotta know if we can meet tomorrow for a fika, ok Marie?.. :o)

I've chopped off my hair again and colored it brown red. I dont know why, but this is much more me then my ordinary mousy blonde color... I've not had my own haircolor for ages now. Wonder how it would look like. Im sure people wouldnt recognise me straight at once if i had my natural color....

Other then that i dont have much to write about really. Life is just stomping on as usuall. We're casually looking for somewhere else to live but since i am so picky i doubt we will find anywhere quickly. There is a lovely looking flat available, but since i've only seen the layout online the final decision has to wait untill i see it in person. It is anyway a penthouse suit (of course ;o)..) Heres a layout of it.


kök - kitchen
sovrum - bedroom
vardagsrun - livingroom
hall - hallway
bad - bathroom
klk - its a walk-in-closet ;o)
Notice something? The HUGE balcony stretching almost across all of the apartment. Thats what i fell in love with, also that its on the top floor with no neighbours part from the underneath ones.

Im kicking YACCS out! Im so tired of the long loading time so im going to try this other commenting system out. Please let me know if it is slow or what else you think of it, still got some fiddling to do since you can add piccies if you likes and me likes that! :o)

Birthday cards will probably come tomorrow, if the postman is willing to drag them off to my doorstep! ;o)

Happy birthday to meeeee, Happy birthday to meeeee, happy birthday dear Mariaaaaaaaaaa, happy birthday to MEEEEEE!

So, its my birthday. I thought it would be a quiet little affair with my mum only. But oh was i ever wrong! James, yes he himself, had gone and orchestrated a little surprise party for me! Well it all started last night really when i asked if i was allowed to open one parcel after 12 o'clock which i could. And i opend the very smelly one from James' parents. I got some Lush bathbubbles and a bath ballistic and some shower gel and soap scented with honey. Lovely, will use them for my shower tomorrow morning. I also got a nice blank book, which i might use as a guestbook. But i forgot to ask people today about writing in it *slaps forhead* I also got a fridgemagnet with some words of wisdome, all this has been stowed away since James' parents were here in sept, and i can tell you its been hard not to have a peek before today!....lol

I had changed my shift earlier this week so i worked early and got home at about 3 o'clock, jumped into the shower to get ready before mum was supposed to come at 4 for dinner and coffe. Mum came as mum usually does, before the time stated. She had made a cake and had bought me an orchid (dark crimsone flowers with white speckles and a yellow center). I also got a gold necklace with a pendant and a pair of nice darkblue lace table cloths from my mum, sister and gran. I got some lotterytickets from my brother, i won 2 new tickets. (YaY) We had our lovely chicken and rice dinner followed by lovely James-made bananacake and icecream. I got a birthday phone call from James' parents and earlier James' gran phoned as well before the storm.

And then they all started to drop by.....
First came Rosie and she sang for me and gave me 4 cheers that must have been heard all over the building, i got a nice umbrella rack for my hall and some flowers, i also got a little something from her parents. Then next in line was Lotta and Marie who had bought me an orchid, a great big one with darklilac flowers with red and white bands in them and 2 lottery tickets, didnt win anything though (boo). And then after a while longer Carolina came by and i got Jamie Olivers cookbook from her, sadly i had that one but she will give me the receipt so i can change it to his second one. I like his cookingstyle so i was pleased anyway. We then had mums cake with 30(!) candles in it and i managed to blow them all out without setting off the firealarm so i got a birthday wish! And then there was a lot of cackle going on and laughter and it was a most pleasant and fun evening. From what i thought would be a quiet little day to one like this... and all organized by James, i didnt have a clue! And that says a lot of how good it was organized and kept secret because i usually cop on to these things but not now.... Chucks, i must be getting old!

We won on the lotto!!!!!!

Before you all get overexcited and ask where the champagne is to celebrate i have to tell you we won a measly 25 kr, about Ł1,70...
But we're getting there! At least there is a bit more to go into the kitty for our future night out. Have to get the numbers off Marie yet though, havent heard anything from her, maybe she's won big and ran off with it all! ;o)

Tomorrow is the big day, i thought i bake a cake and take with me to work. Its one of those heavy, sticky, absolutly gorgeous rich chocolate and toffee cake with crushed almonds on top... Yummie! And as things are, only the people that i like at work will be there tomorrow morning, well maybe not all of them, but those who i would like to make a cake for are there. If others can be picky, so can i!

I got some more flowers today, but they are for tomorrow so cant really boast and say i got them just-because this time.... Still, its lovely to get a bunch of them from time to time. Why dont men understand this?!? If they knew how much we women will forgive them for just the odd ickle flower i think the florists would have a field day all year round! Dont you..? ;o)

I have a lovely bunch of roses sitting on my coffetable.. 20 of them, dark red. I got them on wednesday, for no apparent reason it seems.... Made me smile big time though, still do when i see them.. :)))

I might lose my bet about James not finishing the beanybag bird before christmas. But then again i might not since seeing as James did sew the other pair of wings up wrong so he ended up with two left wings instead of a pair of them.. Makes me wonder as well how he will manage the tricky bit of getting the rest of the body togheter. Made me laugh though today when he told me what he had done when i phoned him from work. He is cute you know.. ;o)

I need to unwind

I think im going to have a long bath....
With Lush bubbles.....

My day off...

Am going to grans soon and doing a bit of shopping, then im going to go and buy some eyes to the teddy beanybag bear im making. James bought a book about how you make your own beanbag figures. He has so far got one (1) wing cut out and put togheter, not sawn toghter or anything just pinned togheter so he can run around flapping it from his shoulder, very cute i know but it makes you wonder about the sanity of this guy sometimes. And mine as well since im marrying him! ;o)
Bet you he still will only have one wing by the end of the year, you see it was too much hassle cutting all the parts out, oh not to mention to copy them off the book first! I mean, he is worse then me when it comes to completing stuff you start!!

Any bets on how long it will take him? Booky Tigs is now open, my odds are 20-1 that he will finish it before christmas.... ;o)

Did you all know its my birthday next sunday...?
Well if you didnt you do now
The Big 3 0.....
What am i saying! Of course i wont be that old, i'm just 25! Yes thats a nice age to be isnt it?

It snowed today! YaY!!! Super early as well but who cares, me i LOVE snow!

But it makes for an interesting day when the first thing you hear from James in the morning is, "for fucks sake!!" followed by a very heavy sigh and a lot of grumpy noices at the sight of snowflakes slowly falling outside. This is before we've even got out of bed. I was to say the least very surprised. He used to look forward to snow and go out and jump in it when he first came over here. But now...? I hate to think about how winter will be with James if this is the start of it! But maybe it has to do with that he will have to walk to and from work when there's no buses at night. Or maybe that he usually falls over several times in winter because he walks on like theres no tomorrow and absolutly no snow! Well he just has to get used to it, anyway if he is to live here.....

We went to the big market in Rättvik yesterday. And i had a promise from Mr James that he wouldnt complain and nicely carry my bags. He did quite well untill his small toes got cold (awww) then he started to look very droopy and i knew it was time to poke mum in the side and say it was time to go home. As usuall the market had grown bigger, lots more to have a look at, but i agree with James, if your a sock fetisicht, your in heaven. Cant they come up with anything better to sell??? They had the odd good stall. And of course the candy ones in abundance. But generally i just walk by those and all the other common ones. I always keep my eyes open for the odd one, or the arty one that has quality insted of tatt in it. And i found some this time as well. I found a lovely rug for my kitchen, handmade by the older lady selling them at the market. Since i am into weaving myself i saw it was a good one and i know how much work goes into making one i do appreciate them. Could have spent more money there but resisted. I also found a nice handmade chip basket in different colored wood. James still thinks it will end up in the storage. And maybe it will, but it will be used before it goes out into the big black hole of our storage! Oh, i bought myself a new handbag as well, of course... James didnt bat an eyelid at it, good boy, but he did complain later when i was looking at these nice drawings of elk and bears by Jan Norman. I already have 2 big ones by him hanging over my sofa, one is of a pack of rĺdjur (small deer) and the other is of 2 grazing nordsvenskar (swedish horse breed). I also have one where he pictured a dalmatian. I like his style and thought i might buy one since you cant get a hold of them so easy but then James put his foot down and stomped off after saying that we dont have anywhere to hang it and that we have some pictures still to find a place for! Tssss, i have lots of stuff i cant find a place for right now, i sometimes swop them around but he is right you know. Argh that did hurt to say, James ... is... right...! But i still would have liked to buy a picture!!! And there are plenty of room to hang pictures still, just have to rearrange the ones i got to fit the rest of them in. Its more or less that whats keeping me from framing the others. Do you KNOW how tidious it is to get them all aligned and hung straight?? There must be an easy way to do that, but i havent figured it out so it will have to wait.. Maybe it will be done when we move... :o)

They are very quiet about what happend on the cruise. I suppose we outsiders arent allowed to know what happend! They can have an animated discussion and then when you walk into the staff room everyone shuts up and looks at you a bit like, 'did she hear anything?' Definetly time to get another job....

It is nice out side right now here in Sweden. All the trees have changed color into bright yellows, reds, very dark crimson red and orange tones. And all is framed by exceptionell fine weather. Sun and clear blue sky. Im in awe how beautiful it looks out there right now. No wonder i like autumn best. But best of all is you get the first frost covering everything in glittering snow that twinkles like a million diamonds when the sun rises and taws it away.

The cruise has been, it will be interesting to go back to work today to see who is talking to who and who isnt, and who is too embarassed to!

It is a lovely autumn day outside, sun is shining from a crystalclear blue sky, it is around +3 and a bit windy. Can life get any better? Yes it can...

This weekend a load of people from work are going on a cruise to Finland. No, i've not been invited to go. Since it is the shrewed Big Brother who has arranged it all only a few 'selected' people from our place are going. All in all, 20 of them... Some of us unwanted people have to stay behind and mind the store and slave on because it is a big weekend here (people got paid today). I really dont care that they are going, it is the way they have arranged it that bugs me, they call it a 'staffparty', but how can they do that, theres been no list to sign up to, no information that there would be a trip, nothing. And i suppose if Boris wouldnt have got to know about it we wouldnt have known before it was a fact today that there are people missing.

Ever since Big Bosses brother came to work at the store things have gone from being us the team, to we and them. Theres an A-team and then theres a B-team. Is that a good way to run a store? I dont think so, but the boss dont want to interfere since it is his brother doing the splitting up. Chicken or what? Or maybe it is the old story about men watching out for each other. I know i stereotype a lot now, but hey that is how it is at my work. I am very objective about what goes on, thats one of my best sides people keep on telling me, or worst, depending on how you see it. But at work lately it is all gone to be like 'The Boys Club'. No not mans club, the BOYS club. Note the difference i make..

Just take a little episode that happened now on tuesday. I was on the veggies doing my stuff and when i was checking the order coming in that morning i saw that Mr T had ordered double of lots of stuff we really didnt need or already had quite a lot of. So i was thinking, should i keep my mouth shut and swear while i put it all in the cold storage or should i go and ask the boss what to do with all the extras. I thought, no way am i keeping my mouth shut this time. So off i went to the boss and asked if it was alright to send some of the grocerys back since Mr T had orderd too much. He came out and had a look and said it was alright, i then asked if he would go down to the storage and have a look to see what else there was too much of, really just so he would see for himself so he couldnt say i was imagening things later on, at this point he was irritated about Mr T and said he would have a talk to him. I dont know if he ever went down to have a look, i was putting in the new prices in the computer at the time but later when i went to ask him something completly different he brought it up and dressed it up to that it wasnt that bad anyway and that i should keep the stuff we had got. I must have looked very surprised because off he went on one of his rants about him taking care of it and that he would help Mr T when doing the order the next day and see to that he worked it out alright, and there wasnt a real problem more then me being a bit picky, that i should help him more, and really just making me more irritated by the second by putting some of the blame on me. Or really just walking around the real subject to confuse and trow in a lot of crap comments to make you go away. He is like this my boss, seriously he is. So no wonder i am looking for something else to do. Its a shame really that the boss cant see who really is working and who is really just making a grand show of them doing some work, but really they just sit and drink coffe, chattering.

To be fair, i sit and relax a bit as well if there is a slow day, but really since you work at the tills as well you dont get to do that so much since you have to be at hand out in the store. At some times i think that we, the cashiers, are the only people with a work ethic worth mentioning at the store, and being cashiers we constantly get overlooked, 'becasue we only sit all day anyway' That is an actuall comment from my boss. He really really thinks we sit and do nothing at the tills. Oh we never take care of your angry customer, lift at least 3 tons a day in grocerys(fact), make sure that people leave the store with a good impression, smile and just make small talk to someone who maybe dont talk to anyone else that day. Small importent things, that without them, you wouldnt have any customers coming back because, who wants to go shopping in a store were they treat you like dirt and give you poor service?

Rant over, but i still got more so.... But maybe not today since the weather is fine and life in general otherwise is absolutely wonderful!

Im getting to be spoilt about computer space, here i am sitting writing my mails and blogging a bit and listening to LOADS of music i saved on the computer...
Long live KaZaa! ;o)

I have said it before and i will say it again, what do people think we(shop attendances) are, their own personal slaves?? How do YOU behave when shopping? I want to know, because im getting fed up with being told how worthless i am by customers who are having a bad day or are generally just pissheads because they can be!

It is really about time i change jobs, so i dont need to bite my tounge every time it happens. Oh the joy of being able to speak your mind and dont need to worry about what the boss migth say once he gets to know about it. Its no good having a job where you end up hating someone so much you would gladly see them slip into the paperpress out back...! ;o)

I dont like when you cant blog, Blogger was being really silly yesterday so i didnt bother with trying to get in. Work yesterday was exhausting. I dont think i would like to work full time like that. Maybe when i was younger, but now, no way in hell...
I fell asleep before James got back from work and that is unusuall.

Part from work being a bit of a drag nothing really interesting happend at all. I finished burning this cd im going to send Jessica. And i managed to figure out all by myself how to do the cd cover as well. It got a quite cool picture of a white tiger on it. Well it had to be didnt it since i am the Divine Tigs.... ;o)

Am off to work soon, hopefully it will be calm and i might be able to sneak home early, but i suppose i really shouldnt be doing that, my boss might get the wrong idea and give me lesser hours if i keep at it.
No reply about the other job i applied for yet. Not that i was expecting any either, but a little note saying we received your application would be nice to get. Im not so sure they got it you see, but they must have!

I was asked on monday if i wanted to work on wednesday instead of having my day off then. So i agreed and in the end i agreed to work the whole shift since Mr T is sent on a course this week.
What a difference a day can make.... my boss was in the veggie section yesterday and it looked absouloutly smashing! Hopefully people will notice and tell him so he might have another consideration about Mr T, but i seriously doubt it. If anything Mr T will get hassled a bit more then usuall but thats about it i think. Mind you he is losing money quickly in his department and if it is anything the Big Boss doesnt like is losing moeny.... ;o)
But what do i care, i am in a hunt for another job, now once i have started i am going to keep at it, and on work that i wouldnt considered before as well, you cant but get a no. As Lotta did put it on saturday, one more day is one to many..!

Im sitting waiting for my mum to turn up so we can go and do a bit of shopping. There is an offer out on Pepsi, the essential drink in this household, so will go and stock up on it while i get a ride there and back. If i wouldnt have i might have considered going up there on my bike. For one i need to offload my presents to Al at her parents house since they are going down to Gothenburg this weekend for Robins birthday. And besides i am in a change of habit i think. Me and Jamie went out for a walk around the lake Tisken on sunday. It is about 5 km around it and we made it in an hour and a bit which i thought was exellent sicne i havent been walking at all since last winter. Biking is my life but not in wintertime, guess i got worried i was out of shape walk wise and wanted to find out if i would be crawling back home. But i wasnt at all tired when we got back home.
Might go out to walk for a bit after the shopping is done, it has really turned autumn like since sunday. It has been raining and is quite cold, around +10, colder during the nights. Wont be long now untill we have our first frost, YaY me says becasue then all the wasps will die off. They are really annoying at work and they are so slow right now i might end up sitting on one at the tills if i dont keep on watching out for them! Somehow they like our chairs we got at the till.

I got a list in the post today, a list of where people from my old class has ended up. Surprisingly many of them have moved to Stockholm. But also a great deal has stayed put here in Falun.....

This over at Michelles just made me laugh insanely as i am a Monthy Python fan myself... ;o)

We have a high school reunion party coming up in october and im still pondering wether to go or not... It would be hilarious to go and see what the others are doing though. I went to the official website where you can sign in and chat to others that went at the same school as you and also see if anyone else in your class left their email or phone number if you want to get in touch. I get all sentimental when i see who has been in and written. Sadly though i am still considering NOT to go since the high school days werent the happiest of memorys to carry around with and i feel that im done with all the shit that went on then. Dont get me wrong, i like my class and had lots of fun with them, but when you start 7th grade you shift from a nice and cosy little school close to where i grew up to this HUGE one in town and from then on i hated it, tremendously. Or rather i hated certain people.... I didnt like going to school again untill I started collage (gymnasiet)

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH!!!!!!
I've just applied for another job, im certain i wont get it anyhow but still, I DID IT!

It is election day in Sweden today. Somehow i doubt there will be a lot of changes done to the government. People will vote for socialdemokraterna and thats it. Even though the polls are showing the right wing parties as the leaders im not holding my breath about us getting a change.

Today is also my mums birthday, YaY mumsy ;o)
And since i invited her here for a dinner and fun and games on the computer i had better get cracking. Got a roast dinner to prepare and get on the way, also have to make a cake and go and vote!

We have had James' parents over for a week now. Sorry for not posting anything but as you might have guessed I have been busy busy.
This time they wanted to rent a cabin since they thought it too expensive to stay at a hotel again since they had no summer offers on anymore. And i agree, hotel prices in Sweden are astronomical off-season which i think is odd. But never mind that, you cant get a boat and free bikes included in a hotel for the price of a cabin by a lovely lake now can you? Ok it is a bit out of town, but think of the upside, you might spot the odd bear or elk as you sit sipping your morning coffe or tea... Not very likely but there is a chance of it out that way. So i thought i would warn them of it... Bad move i think since all they can think of now is getting back to the cabin before nightfall and they are constantly looking out for bears... ;o)

We have had absoloutly smashing weather all week, sunny and quite warm. Only thing coming to Sweden this time of year is that all the tourist attractions are closing down or have already closed, as we discovered on wednesday when we went around the big lake Siljan and did a quick visit to Leksand. The views off Vidablick was fantastic but sadly the viewingtower was closed for the season.
The rest of the afternoon we spent at their cabin, having a go at rowing the little boat and just relaxing.

On thursday we went out to the cabin early in the morning since i wanted to see if we could catch some fish. We spent a few hours rowing around and trying to fish in a drifting boat, we had no anchor, but in the end we gave up since it was so windy we just drifted into the shore all the time. But we had fun all the same, and watching James trying to coordinate himself enough to be able to row us back to the cabin was to put it mildly, fun... ;o)
We played a boardgame called The Labyrinth and had a few games of boule before heading back into town. I wanted to go shopping a bit for some presents for my mum and my friend Ann-Louise's son Robin who is having his first birthday soon. I found a lovely bedspread in lilac and goldstrips, but it was mucho expensive. But maybe if i ask nicely i might get half of it payed by James...

Friday the 13th...
Do i dare go to work?
Do i WANT to go to work?

Sunday, and only one day left to clean up the place for James' parents! Its not that bad really but im a bit concerned how much mess the painters will do next week.
They (Kopparstaden) have decided to paint our windowpanels and frames next week, so i will have to get everything out of the windowsill's and take my curtains down. I asked if they couldnt do that the week after since we are having James parents over, but he said they were doing all of the building at once so it would be a bit difficult. It will take 5 days to do it though. I mean, how can it take that long? Ok, first day they scrape old paint off and put on a base, let that dry to the next day, then come back and put one layer of paint on and let it to dry and then next morning put on the finishing one??? Or how many layers do they actually do??

Soon it is the weekend. And im so looking forward to it this week.
I was called in early today. Big Boss still hasnt filled anyone on Jurgens shifts after he quit a few weeks back since he was going off back to school. So we are constantly one man short on the shifts. Well you can imagine my surprise when i got to work today and Sabbi said that they were one extra since Boris had been playing boss and called in Ulla already without telling anyone about it. So really i had 2 hours of wandering around looking for something to do. I couldnt bother with going back home, besides it was thundering so I didnt really want to either. I had a bit of a strange day you could say. I ended up doin a bit of all sorts including doodling a bit in meatcutting. It wasnt as difficult as i thought. And Vera said it looked good what i was doing so...

We had Rosie and Per over yesterday evening. First time meeting Per i was, to say the least, very nervous. But i think he was more nervous then me in the end. Guy meeting his gf's best friend, who she has talked to about everything, wouldnt you be just a tad nerovus about what she knows? ;o)
We talked politics(!) and lots of other stuff as well, and i showed them the new computer, of course. It was nice, and a change from our usuall evenings lately. Not that im complaining, but a bit of variation is good for the soul. I at least got a good laugh when Rosie instead of saying that she had had an avlyssning said avsugning, that made my day, and Per's who couldnt stop laughing either. For all you who dont know swedish, avlyssning is when you listen to something and avsugning is a blowjob.... ;o)
Its much better in swedish though!

When i got home today i noticed two quite big boxes in the halway, alright i thought what has he bought now. And when i went to check my emails i noticed something very strange with our desk. Someone had attached a steeringwheel to it in an attempt to drive it away! There were even some pedals on the floor! Im just waiting for the speeding ticket to arrive on the monitor window now... ;o)
And when i turned on the speakers i got a shock from the subwoofer hiding ontop of the computer tower. He said something about being out shopping a bit earlier when i phoned him from work, maybe i should take him out 'shopping' more often if this is what he comes home with! Btw, the sound is superb!

Alright, i think im getting to grips with a bit of css stuff now. Please go here and say what you think. It is sort of finished, im not quite alright about the translucent thingy, still think it looks like a pair of stockings pullded over the text, which makes the quality of text quite poor. But never mind, its early days in my design career.... ;o)

I've been to the dentists this morning. After being there last week to fix a broken filling i thought i might as well go for a checkup and got the time for today. I almost overslept though! It must be subconcious, i knew where i was going but really didnt want to... ;o)
Anyway i woke up in time and just had a quick youghurt and a brush of the pearly whites before biking there as quickly as i could. I got in and the dentist had a good poke around and a scrape or two, also took some x-rays. But no matter how much he poked he couldnt find anything to fix. Im very relieved about that! I hate drilling, its scary! I feel so sorry for Paul who has just pulled out a tooth, i have only done that once since one of my wisdoom(!) teeth decided to grow outward into my cheek. But mine never broke, still it was the biggest tooth i've ever seen with a double root. Yeuch....

So, what to do on my day off. James is sleeping, and snoring mind you, so must be very very quiet. Maybe i will go into town a bit early and do a bit of shopping before heading of to grans. Yes it is once more granny day! Other then that i dont know what to do with today. Mind you it is lovely out there so i might lure James out a bit earlier ,if he isnt too tired that is, and go for a long bike ride.

I was wondering, how long does it take for my blog to load?

So it is night time again and no James to keep me company in bed. But i really have to go to bed and sleep! Im getting up early in the morning so...better be beddie buys now, and thanks to blogger being silly earlier i havent been able to do any more work on my template since access was denied when i tried it out. Also a long post vanished into thinn air since i forgot to copy it before posting the damn thing. And i cant be bothered to try to rememeber what i wrote in it anyway.

Its been a crappy day at work for me today. The only thing i liked doing, im not going to get to do anymore... Big Boss said it was best if Mr T got to order everything for now untill HE knows how to do it, i mean if the guy hasnt improved from when he started at this, ages ago, do you think he will?? Seriously?? Or..else they think im crap at it and thats why im not getting to do it anymore. But why not say so to me then instead of this? I anyway think it is a truck full of bullshit! Pardon my french!!

This is as far as i got for now, have to rush over to work now before im late! Leave any comments about how it looks like. I am thinking of moving the tiger to unde rthe text bit but i have to figure out how to make a translusent textblock first though. Any tips?
Despite that i asked James to do it for me i have been fiddling myself with a bit of help from him. So, bare with me with this one ok? ;o)

Alright, im getting a new page done by James. I asked very nicely if he wanted to redo mine as well since he had a fiddle with his and it turned out very nice. So fingers crossed he will start doing mine up tomorrow, he is such a sweet thang..... ;o)

I bought myself a new orchid today from the market. They were selling lovely looking ones for a quite a nice price if you compare to the prices in the flowershops. And it is from a very good but small gardencenter so i indulged myself and bought another one. This one is light purple with a yellow white sort of middle, i found a picture that matches it quite nicely.

I went with Lotta today to a garden center. And of course i bought a flower. An orchid actually. I had one before that Rosie gave to me since she didnt think it would survive much longer at her place. But it didnt like it at mine either and withered. Will have to see how this one copes with staying in here. They are really beautiful plants, but very picky so... It's a phalaenopsis if that says anything to you. The most common sort of orchid in wedding bouqes so im told by this leflet im reading. Anyway it has lovely light pink flowers with a very dramatic dark purple/yellow center.

No good going shopping today me thinks. I got home with both a new keyboard and a new printer! I hid them under the blanket so James wouldnt see them when he got home, but i think the big bump in the bed gave them both away and he found them anyways! The keyboard is one of those multifunctional ones from Microsoft. It is wide as a ufo me thinks but it is gorgeous to write with. Soft touch buttons, oh heaven compared to my old one which sometimes needed a quite a hard punch to get some keys to work, to much crumbs under them i suppose.....lol.

The printer needs an USB lead to work and since it wasnt included and i didnt read well enough to realise i needed to buy one of those, James will have to trot over and get one tomorrow before we can test it. But right now im going to write a few emails and enjoy every minute of it... how sad can you get about computers and gadgets, like James? ;o)

Oh im so clever i amaze myself!
Here we have been having a bit of trouble getting the keyboard to use swedish letters as well and i had a look around and found where you go and change the settings. So now i have swedish keyboard settings by the press of an ickle button on the taskbar or a key command, arent i clever?

We'll have to see if we get ourselves a new keyboard, i quite fancy this one but im sure i can be convinced that a Logitec one is much nicer to type on and they have these nice shortcut buttons on them as well... Have to see if i will go over to OnOff for a peek of their selection. But not right now, my head is hurting so am going to take a Alvedon for it and go have a catnap me thinks. Still very chuffed i solved the problem with the swedish letters though, especially since James couldnt find where you do it. That is typical male really, you know where i found it? In the Help section of course....... ;o)

I was reading some blogs and stumbled over these jokes/riddles.. They are exactly the sort that James comes up with and drives me nuts with

What makes this noise OOooooo?
A cow with no lips

What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No idea

What do you call a three legged donkey?
a wonky

And maybe my favorite, well not mine but James'

What's brown and sticky?
a stick.

I mean...AAAAAAAHHHH"!
lol

I have a new favorite tonight. Bruce....
I got his new cd through the post today, gods bless the internet and the cheaper prices on cd's and dvd;s and videos and books and...!
I've been waiting for his new cd to come out. Missed his hoarse voice and melancholi... Perfect for a summers night with a cold drink and the subtle breece through the open window.

Are you lonesome tonight.....?

What is it with the mystery and attraction of Elvis Presley? Im listening to a cd with his olden goldies and reflected over the cult that is around his person. I swear there will be The Church of Elvis soon ,if not already there is such a thing i might add! I have a vague memory of seeing some tv program of people getting married by some Elivs inpersonator and that he also did requests on songs to the wedding cermony. Anyone got any ideas why? I mean he was a brilliant singer , misguided though trough his career. But still brilliant.
Is it the early death? The "misspelling" of his second name on his gravestone? What??
Or maybe there is a hidden urge for guys (and girls mind you!) to dress up as him and shake those hips untill they plop off... ;o)

Have you ever thought about how good you feel after having a shower?
Me and water, its something magical. Mum used to say i was a water animal when i was a kid. We were lucky to have a lakeside house when we grew up. And every summer you knew where you would find me, down by the lake, playing, splashing water around on everyone that came to close. I was very slow in learning how to swim, so one winter when i was around 7 we went on holiday down to Austria and stayed at this hotel with a lovely pool. I guess i didnt think (as kids do) when i went to the deep end of it. I almost drowned as i walked out too far, but my brother rescued me and carried me to the shallow part. But ever since then i am a bit vary of water. Not that i dont swim or so but i just dont like it when it gets deep under you.

I did learn how to swim later on in school. But i didnt get over the fear of deep water, and the instructors never understood what had happen to me to make me so scared of deep water. So as i was trying my best in learning, obviously they didnt think i was doing well enough and gave up on trying to teach me the more advanced things. I passed the very basic test and could proudly show off my little swimming knowledge badge you got after doing certain things, jumping, diving and swiming a certain distance. But after that i always came up with an excuse when it was time to go swiming with the class.

I just thought about this today when i heard some people in the store making plans to go swiming later on tonight in the moonlight....
I wish i could go too..

So another week of work, sigh.
I really REALLY dont want to anymore!
Its no good complaining i suppose. It wouldnt be so bad if i only had to work weekdays and have my weekends off. But since im on an every other weekend schedule it is a bit hard. But if Big Boss gets any ideas about keeping the store open for longer in the evenings i will go on strike. I think it is bad enough as it is now when you work untill 8, your not home untill 9 if your lucky when you count your till and wait for the others when we lock up. Im all for regulated shop opening hours. We used to have that before see, but since that got changed you can really have any opening hours you like. And im not so sure it is progress to be able to go down to your local supermarket at 10 - 11 in the evening to buy yourself a liter of milk or whatever it is that you have missing. Im sure people who dont work in supermarkets think it is GREAT, but believe you me, it isnt if it is you who have to work those hours.

Check out my new and improved Guest Map. It is very ...nifty...;o)
Also pls take time to read whats behind the Free Mr Bear button. We cant let the teddy bear go missing like this!

I've just sent James out for a bikerun by himself since i was getting on his nerves fidgeting all the time while watching a film according to him. I was not fidgeting! I just couldnt get comfy, we were trying out the dvd player in our computer and since we didnt get it to work with the leads to the tv we had to watch it on the computer. Which was fine i thought untill i realised it meant laying in bed. I dont know what it is about that since i am half slumped in the sofa anyways watching telly. But it just didnt seem as comftable on the bed as it does on the sofa. Anyway, hopefully he will come back a bit less restless and then WE can go out for a longer bikeride somewhere nice and cool. Preferable by the lake so i can do a bit of fishing, maybe.. ;o)

With the new computer comes MSN Messenger, so i thought i would use it. So anyone want to get in touch, please do to divinetigs ;o) If i can get it to sign me in that is!!

At last, i used to have this before but prefered ICQ, but with the new computer and all i dont know if i want to bother to put ICQ back on since i only use it to talk to one person. Will have to persuade her to change to MSN as well... ;o)

Alright.. this blog aparently turned up when someone did a search for "hot naked mums washing themselves"...? Should i be worried or should the person who did it be worried....LOL

I cant get over how BIG the screen is.........

Oh we are muchly impressed by the new computer so much i might even write a bit!
It is such a change from using your old trust worthy(well sometimes) win 95 to using the new win xp. But im not sure i like the layout of it. I like the bouncy new keyboard even though its an english one that dont have those essential swedish letters ĺäö... But that can be achived using alt and numbers but still... Might buy ourselves a new keyboard...

Here it is a really wonderful summer. They havent had one of these since they started measuring weather and temp. Only down side is that there are really loads of evil wasps! You know the kind that are so slow and curious and dont care if they land on your hair or arm or what. We have plenty of those, especially at work as our garbage looks like your regulare smorgasbord to them. Hopefully it will come one night of unexpected frost and kill most of them off. It is getting to be like that even though the days are nice and warm. It was only +5 the other early morning when i biked to work. Woke me up for sure!

We gots us a new computer!!!!
YaY and it is working as well with the new networkcard, obviously, or else i wouldnt be here typing this now would i... ;)

I have been working this weekend so feel a bit worn out. The heat doesnt help either. Its been a cracking summer though so im not complaining, but as someone said at the store yesterday, it is time for a bit of cool weather now. Obviously you can have too much warm weather..?

The weekend was really lazy, we went fishing on saturday evening. Sat watching the half moon, all nice and goldy reflecting on the still waters of Runn while waiting for the fish to bite. It was very relaxing to watch the boats go by with their night lanterns on and on occasion feel the nibble from the fishing rod hoping you would catch the big one. I had my best fishtrip so far. I caught 3 small fishys, according to the dictionery its a dace/roach - dark grey back, white belly and red eyes and fins.

Work has been proving to be very trying since thursday. We got a new cardpayment system installed then. Now the customers have to pull their own card and bonus card if they want to pay or get the bonus points of their shopping. Needless to say its been hard on ones nerves to try to be patient and understanding when people are doing something new. But for Gods sake, cant people READ??? Attached on the new machine we have a card, which i think is very clear - big text and very simple instructions, that tells you EXACTLY how you use it... But do you think they read it? NO!
And some refuse blankly to use it, not even try it out saying it is too difficult and why should they do it since i get payed to sit where i sit and serve them! That last comment i got yesterday which didnt improve the already crappy day/mood i was having from the aches and pains i had had all day in my body. Jeanette thought i might be getting a cold but i hope not, colds in summertime stink. So going to work today isnt exactly what i am looking forward to....

No luck on the lotto either this weekend. We were going to win it big this time, we were sooo sure of it ... ;o)

Im constantly amazed how small the world has become. There is this story in the newspapers about a young swedish girl fighting for the KNU gerilla in Burma, and guess what... she used to work with me! Theres no doubt about it. Knowing her from work this is something she would do without blinking. We have to see how it all turns out, my guess is that she will be forced to leave since she might generate bad pr for the gerillagroup if something happens to her. Hopefully she wont end up in a thai prison for getting herself into Burma illegal.

Work today was a sauna. No kidding, the humidity outside was at 90% or so for most of the day and then it rained in the afternoon, but no thunder so still all stuffy. I hate that sort of weather, you dont breath, you drink lukewarm soup like air! Got home and fell asleep in James' arms as i was too tired to do anything else. Siesta i think it is called..lol

Would you go to another town to buy your sausages? That is what mum is doing tomorrow and of course silly me said i would come with her as company when she asked. It will be interesting to see what we find. So after the weekly visit to my gran off we go to Hofors. Not a big town at all, a silly ickle village really but apparently big in the world of sausages! I will be back with a report on the sausage hunt tomorrow.. Untill then, sleep well.

I went to get my hair done today... Its not as red anymore, more brown with a red tint, quite nice actually, and yes it is curly again! I guess i will have to change my trooper soon to fit the new me.. ;o)

I got writers block......
Cant see what would be fun to write about really..

When i was logging in to write a bit today i saw there was a blog updated called YOU ALL SUCK.... what is the meaning of having such a blogname? Do they feel the whole world is against them? Super paranoia or maybe they just dont have any brains? I'll leave it up to you to decide, but i would go with the later one..

Its been a warm week and work is proving to be the ultimate test in how much heat you can tolerate while working, no kidding! Hopefully it will be autumn before you can say geee wizz and i will be happier than a polarbear in the northpole. ;o)

Our famous Boris is on vacation! Oh the joy of going to work knowing he isnt to be seen for at least 2 weeks! But as everything there is a downside to it. We have a Boris wannabe in the temps that are filling in for people this summer. Christoffer is his name and if he doesnt watch it i will wack him one one of these days when im working with him! Can you imagine a boy, newly saved by the halleluja church in town, fed with all sorts of rediculous notions that women are inferior and supposed to obey man and treat him with respect no matter how rude he gets?? That is what we have, but you just wait for friday to come along when im closing the store and he is working ..... Why do i have this feeling i just grew a couple of horns? >;o)

Being back to work is really...awfull? Maybe not THAT awfull, just very disappointing i suppose. You get your body in holidaymood and then have to swing back to stressed out work mood. Monday was fine, lots to do but i couldnt care less since it wasnt me that was closing. I just did my stuff at the tills and counted my money and went home.

Tuesday was ..interesting.. Got back to being at the veggies and discovered what had been going on when i was on holiday. Seems that the first thing i needed to do was clean up. I just dont get it, if something is rotten or dryed up, surely you put it in the trash? You dont leave it to rot further making everything go dodgy, or do you...? Well i must be very weird then in thinking that you DO get rid of it, preferably before it has gone all soggy and wet. And on a closer inspection i found out that Jeanette must have a parsly fetish, because how else do you explain that we already had 6 big boxes with bunched up parsly and she had ordered 2 more for yesterday? Still not selling any of the old stuff of course but we still need 2 more boxes..??? It was at this stage i got into swearing, quite heavily as well since she had ordered just 3! boxes of red apples, and we usually sell 3 boxes in 2 hours, minimum. Anyway, i did some extra orders for the same day and just to be mean put down a few more pallets of fruit and veggies for today. Wonder what Jeanette will say when i see her tomorrow evening... ;o)

Today me and mum went to this outlet store (notice the name, i guess they have a lawsuit pending for stealing the original...;o) ). It is a branch off the big one down in Ullared. It was a disappointment. The clothes were alright but it was very picked out and not really anything for now. I guess if you come the right day when they have new stuff in it would be worth the trip, but how do you get to know when that is? I bought 2 tops and a nice skirt and some other bits and bobs. But mainly thought naaah, not worth it. When we got home i was so tired i had to have a nap. Being up late does that to poor ol' me. As you might have guessed James is working nights again , so, i cant sleep. It didnt help one bit either that i only had 4 hours sleep on monday night since i couldnt get to sleep and had the early morning on tuesday. In all im a poor wacked little tigs with a growing headache, so im going to hit the bed right about, now! Night peeps

I've been a bit slack this weekend in writing, but it was my last few days of vacation so couldnt be botherd. We went to 2 auctions saturday and sunday. Didnt find much but it was fun being there watching it all. But i came home with a box of various textiles and a folder with various pictures, prints and the likes. Nothing very interesting and im sure not worth anything, but all the same good fun.

I had a mail today which i thought was hilarious so decided to share it with you all, well not really, im forcing you to read it so there! ;o) Here goes..

These are actual clippings from church newspapers. It's  amazing what a little proofreading would've  prevented.
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The church is starting a New Young Mother's  Group. Anyone desiring to be a new young Mother is to meet with the pastor in his office.
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Bertha Belch, a  missionary from Africa will be speaking tonight at The Calvary Memorial  Church in Racine. Come tonight and hear Bertha Belch all the way from  Africa.
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Announcement in the church bulletin for a National PRAYER & FASTING Conference: "The cost  for attending the Fasting and Prayer conference includes  meals."
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Our youth basketball team  is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the school recreation hall. Come out  and watch us kill "Christ the  King".
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Miss Charlene Mason sang,  "I Will Not Pass This Way Again," giving obvious pleasure to  the congregation.

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Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house.  Don't forget your  husbands."
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Next Sunday is the  family hayride and bonfire at the Fowlers'. Bring your own hot dogs and  guns. Friends are welcome! Everyone come for a fun time.
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The peacemaking meeting  scheduled for today has been cancelled due to conflict.
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The sermon this  morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water". The sermon tonight will  be: "Searching for  Jesus"
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Next Thursday there will  be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can  get.
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Barbara remains in the  hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having  trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's  sermons.
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The Rector will preach  his farewell message after which the choir will sing "Break Forth into  Joy."
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Remember in prayer the  many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say  "hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you, and hopefully  they will respond.
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Don't let worry  kill you - let the Church  help.
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Irving Benson and Jessie  Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship  that began in their school days.
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A  bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall.   Music will follow.
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At the  evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is  Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir  practice.
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Eight new choir robes are  currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and to the  deterioration of some older  ones.
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The senior choir invites any  member of the congregation who enjoy sinning to join the  choir.
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Scouts are saving aluminium  cans, bottles, and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to  help cripple children.
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The Lutheran  men's group will meet at 6 PM. Steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread  and dessert will be served for a nominal  feel.
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For those of you who have  children and don't know it, we have a  nursery downstairs.
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Please  place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person(s) you  want remembered.
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Attend this meeting and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.
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The church will host an  evening of fine dining, superb entertainment, and gracious  hostility.
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Potluck supper Sunday  at 5:00 P. M. ... prayer and medication to  follow.
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The ladies of the Church  have cast off old clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on  Friday afternoon.
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This evening  at 7 P. M. there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church.  Bring a blanket and come prepared to  sin.
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Ladies Bible Study will be  held Thursday morning at 10AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the  Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is  done.
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The pastor would appreciate it  if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for  the pancake breakfast next  Sunday morning.
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Low Self Esteem  Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM, Please use the back  door
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The eighth-graders will be  presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement on Friday at 7 PM.  The Congregation is invited to attend  this tragedy.
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Weight Watchers will  meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church.
Please use the large  double door at the side  entrance.
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Mrs. Johnson will be entering the hospital this week for  testes.
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The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: "I  Upped My Pledge - Now Up Yours."



Tadaaa, le fin, the end! :o)

No we didnt burn down the house having a bbq, but yes something did happen as always when we meet Mary.
We missed our connection train due to a rookie train attendant not knowing the right platform for the Gothenburg train! He sent us running to a different platform and when we got there we could see our train disappear from the same platform we came in on!!! Talk about having a bad first day at work getting 18 of us pissed off travelers who just missed our train. He looked extra sweaty when he came up to explain he would take care of this and then franticaly started to phone around to see what they could do for us. We eventually got down to Hallsberg where we would be able to catch the X2000, express train, since it would make an extra stop just for poor us. Didnt we feel special... Still we came down to Gothenburg one hour late and missed our train for Trollhättan. But there was one 1˝ hours later. And as Mary said, they would come get us if something else happend. Which it didnt, thank the gods!

So finaly we got to Trollhättan there our driver was waiting for us. First time meeting Philip in real but we knew him from IRC chatrooms. He was a happy chappy and very nice, but oh i understand where he took his nick from , he drives like a mad one! He is called MadWolf.... Im a seriously bad backseat driver at times, which both Mary and Philip can assure you about.. ;o)

We had a lovely bbq dinner and lots of gossip. We gave Mary two, engraved with flowers, crystall wine glasses. Which was good since she got two crates with wine from Philips parents as a thank you for taking good care of him while he was in Ireland working a couple of years ago. After a wonderful evening at Mary's and a good nights sleep we then got a lift in to Gothenburg today because we wanted to do some shopping before getting the three o'clock train back to Falun. Found myself a bargain, trousers to half the saleprice, just the ones i couldnt find up here for full price! And some other bits and bobs.

We got homealright, even though the carriage was so warm it felt like you was in a 3 hour sauna all the way to Hallsberg where we changed trains. And now after kebab and a cool shower and lots to drink, we are going to bed! Night folks..

My last week of doingnothingnotacareintheworld! But this week we will be doing a bit more stuff. Tomorrow we have a concert to go to. Rhapsody in rock with Robert Wells and guests. That will be fun.

And then on wednesday we are taking the train down to Gothenburg to meet up with Mary. We'll just stay there over night though before heading back up, but it gives us a chance to see her and have a good gossip about whats been going on since we last saw her in february. Hopefully we wont burn down the house! Knowing the jinxed story about our previous meets im not holding my breath about anything! LOL
Maybe the bbq planned isnt such a good idea? ;o)
At least i would have made my cheesecake to comfort us if anything happens.....

Todays job is to find a suitable housewarming present for Mary, hopefully she doesnt read this before we are down there, so any suggestions what to give?

Productive day ...
Got up, had a chat to my friend Mary from Ireland on ICQ, got all giddy because we're going down to see her next week since she is in Gothenburg on vacation! Woke James up because we were going to bowl with my mum at 1. Did that, much fun and laughter as my mum managed to TROW the ball instead of nicely roll it away. Im amazed the floor held up for the thuds! After a few games of knocking down pins we went to have a try at the local puttputt game. I sucked at it! But my mum must have practised in secret because she was brilliant at it! Do you KNOW how frustrating it is to get the damn ball through the grid and then use up your remaining shots trying to persuade it into the damn hole! Im useless at putting.
When we had played all 18 holes it was well into the afternoon so we went for some chinese food. And then when we came home i fell asleep! Must be the week of not sleeping properly catching up. I always am an insomniac when James is working nights. Sad isnt it...?

I am SICK AND TIRED OF ERROR 503!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was supposed to be productive in the way of looking for a suitable place to hold our wedding at. But i wasnt in the mood for such things and halfheartedly looked at Rankhyttans Herrgĺrd and then told mum we might as well go out to Sundborn to have a look if we could see any of the other places i'd noticed in the leaflet from the touristagency. We ended up having a cup of coffee at Carl Larssons homestead and then looking around in the tourist trap shops around there. I found some very nice pottery....Im a sucker for well done gorgeous pottery.So i bought a big nice bowl in swedish traditional style, a jug in a more modern fashion and a bowl with a lovely cream yellow inside to the glazed terracotta on the outside.

Later on in the evening there was Cruising in town. Old vintage cars, most of them american, cruising slowly around town, shoking on the fumes and getting soaked with the unexpected downpour of rain... That was our afternoon. And now my stomache is complaining about something i have eaten earlier and im not feeling all that well so i will head off for bed in a minute. Night

The boat trip was nice, weather could have been better but it still was warm and enjoyable.

Today me and my mum went to IKEA in Valbo, its a big shoppingcenter getting even bigger. I found some nice bedside tables that i bought and have now painted a nice ice blue color. Only have to put a few layers of lacquer on now before their ready to use. I also committed myself to sewing new pillowcovers for the bed. But maybe i have to do my mums pillow first, or else im sure she'll sulk. Besides i have to get some zippers for my new project before i can start.

It thundered a bit today, i was busy painting the tables so i couldnt be bothered to get all jittery about the lightning. James kept on pacing the room though and didnt want to sit still when he saw the lightning. Apparently it is worse to see the lightning then hear the thunder? Weird..

Tomorrow i dont have anything planned more then the weekly visit to my grans. Oh, i have to go to the post office for her to collect her pension, but thats all. I also promised my mum i would help out cleaning at grans, why does it seem that all i do this vacation is clean and do household chores?? Not really, but sometimes it feels like that, im just spoiled from when James didnt work fulltime and had the time to do it all for me.

To answer John's question "What is Kubb". Kubb is an old viking game made populare again. In short you trow wooden trowingsticks to knock down bigger blocks of wood in a 'court' measuring 5x8 meters. If you knock one of your opponents blocks they have to trow it from his baseline into your half and first knock that down before attempting to knock any down from your baseline. Once you've got rid of all your opponents blocks you get the chance of taking down the central block called the king. First to knock it down wins. If your interested read more here

Oh how i love family disputes!

Right now my mum is very pissed off with my sister not phoning her at all since the whole mess with sis and her bf started. And since they came up unexpectantly this weekend and never phoned my mum telling her that they were up here, i fully understand my mum. Sister called me to say they were coming up and that meant i had to be messenger to mum about sisters whereabouts. Talk about being caught in the middle! And yesterday could have been a lot worse i suppose in the family drama aspect. But it was enough as it was. The visit to gran was a scene of me talking, mum sitting quietly not saying anything, sister totally unaware of that it was her that had caused mum being so pissed off and James and Hasse trying desperatly not to get involved. It all ended with me saying that since both of them were being pigheaded and no one saying ANYTHING about it all, those who were interested could come up to our place for pie and a game off Kubb afterwards, after that speach i went to get ready and the silence in the other room was deafening untill i returned again.

My mum didnt come, sister and bf did. We had some nice meatpie and sallad and a game of Kubb. Later on we watched Bridget Jones Diary on video and just chilled out. I called my mum after sister had left and she was very sad and depressed. She had been sitting on a chair contemplating her life all afternoon. :o(
I talked to her for a while and she seemed to pick up a bit. I asked her to come out with us on Slussbruden for a tour of the lake and a stop at Torsĺng today. It is a bit cloudy but it might pick up mid day. We're taking our cameras with us anyway. Even James' old digital Mr Speedy migth be able to take a few nice ones. Im off to get ready now. Blog later about the tour!

Rain and more rain....YES!
Humidity raising though...boooo!

It was quite a productive day today. Went and got my worktrousers that i have had fixed. Quickly went around the shops(nothing had changed according to James) and bought a nice sweater like jacket. Got home and was hungry so made some yummy pasta with bacon, tomatoes, onions and basil. After that we went to the bowling alley. Had a couple of rounds knocking down some pins, very theraputic, but couldnt do too much since my shoulder got hurting. I won over James the last round though, YaY me for that!
Then it was a really relaxed afternoon with the telly. And me doing some cleaning up while James went down to the local supermarket for some necesseties (Digestives....)

My sister came up unexpectantly yesterday with bf (they've resolved the matters before) so we are meeting up with them at grans tomorrow and see where we go after that. Might be a game of puttputt (James word for miniture golf) or we might go back to mums for dinner. We'll see how that ends.. It will be nice seeing her again though.

And now it is bed, im yawning my head off here. Night all!

WHAT do you need to do to get some cooler air?
Dance a raindance, make some sort of human offering to the weather gods.
WHAT????

As you guessed it is AGAIN superwarm, overcast and stuffy, plsplsplspls let there be thunder later on today!
But we managed to go for a bikeride out to Källviken. It was earlier on and it was still cool from the night before so it was wonderful going there and have a rest on one of the benches at the marina and watch the few boats that were out in the very still waters of Runn. The whole lake looked like one giant mirror, not a ripple in sight. Wonderful..

Im now going to get my photos im having developed. Some of them are from last years festival (hohum) But i have to say i dont use that camera that often, thats why they are old in it.... believe me? :o)

Another perfect swedish summers day. I really am wondering how much sweat you can lose during one day! It feels like buckets full, especially since i've been really 'sporty' and biked a lot today.

As usuall on tuesdays it was granny day. I went shopping for her and she came out with me for a stroll to the garbage shoot out in the yard. She met some of her neighbours and had a little chatter. She is still well known from her working days. She and my dad had a vegetable and fruit stand in the market so naturally they got to know lots of people. Gran did work with it untill she was well in her 70's before they had to close down because there really werent any business to talk about in the end. One of the bad things with modern supermarkets, they trow all the old specialized little shops out of business. Well at least here in Sweden that was what happend. Am i old fashioned when i want to go to the local butcher and get my meat? Or to the deli round the corner to get my whatnots of cheese and ham? Sure supermarkets are good and efficent when you want to buy cheap, in bulk and everything at once. But i like the idea of the small shop around the corner.

I've been bored all day today. Is the rest of the vacation going to be like this? If it is it SUCKS. Maybe boredom is to blame in me biking up the long hill to the cemetary so i could go water the plants and discover it was all wet already? And maybe boredom made me go an extra long round to get to my mums to leave her earrings she forgot at the hairdressers and made me go pick up? Heh...well at least it might have the good effect of me getting a bit more toned and slim for it. Not that i would count on it though, LOL!

They have promised even warmer for tomorrow, how, oh how will i survive!

That was a long shopping list wasnt it if it took untill today to finish it... ;)

Well, i wasnt in the mood to blog so, what can I say...

Today has really been cleaning day and washing day and HOT SUMMERS DAY with sweat pouring from every pore in my body! So even though its only 5 in the afternoon i am totally washed up and melting! But there is a bit more clouds out there today so i will be having a shower soon and going off for some shopping of cold drink. The shop was totally out of Pepsi yesterday so James came back with 2 very small bottles, which wont last very long in this sun. So im going a hunting later on, besides i can need a break from all the household chores. No wonder James had this smug grin on his face today when he went to work because he knew what was in store for me with the washing and the cleaning and all that stuff that he generally does.. Am i spoiled? YES! We LOVE not needing to do all of this i'll tell you.
We? Heh... I of course, cant be so pompous as to talk in third person? Well, yeah we can.. ;o)

How life tosses you around...
Friday being my last day before my 3 week vacation i was set to really enjoy myself. But the last day was crap and i totally just gave up on working with Mr T. So in the end i didnt do much at all, leaving most of it for him to sort with during the afternoon. Came home, sat in the sofa and the next minute i slept. Later on when returning my mums call she made while i was sleeping, i got some terrible news from her, which im sorry i wont tell you all about, but that upset me a lot. I still am. But as they so nicely say, only time will tell.
Didnt really feel like going to the festival friday night so stayed in and had a lazy evening.

Come saturday and having talked to mum again i felt a bit better so the three of us went to the festival during the whole day. But im disappointed, it seems as if the festival is getting smaller. There usually is a HUGE market going on in town but it was really..petty this time. And they've done some changes in the festival itself that felt, awkward and wrong. But i think the main thing was that they now have made it forbidden to drink alcohol in the park where it is being held. So you cant bring your own bottle of wine or cold beer to your picnic anymore, which i think pissed many off. And they just have the one big stage now, and not like it was before, 3 of various sizes. So it all felt slow and dragging when there wasnt anything on the main stage and nothing on in the small dance tent. It was BORING! We listend to an american folkmusic group called Child's Play. A wonderful mix of american, irish, rumanian folkmusic played with violins. There were reels, jigs, rumanien dance music etc. And some extras as well as the man making music only using his hands and body. I bought a cd with them as well which im listening to right now,stomping my ickle feet in tune. We also listend to Cara Dillon from Ireland before going off to have something to eat.The main attraction later on in the evening was as good as i remembered, if only they could have sacked the soundtechnician guy. The sound was terrible the second part, to high and screetchy(?)
I will return with more on yesterdays concerts after we've been shopping. :o)

So whats new in the land of the few...
Only one day left for me to work before i go on vacation, YaY to that. But part from that, nothing else to report really. Weather is scorching though but they have promised a bit of reliefe for tomorrow. Im hoping for thunderstorms to clear out the stuffy weather. Im going to bed soon so no nice festival for me tonight. I wouldnt really be up to it either since i am working early tomorrow morning and am really half sleeping here already. But maybe me and James will tag along with Rosie and Pär for the evening out tomorrow. Rosie said there would be some bands playing blues and the likes, so that suits me just fine.

Will be back with a music report later on tomorrow i suppose so blog later. Night

Btw, i hate those robots scimming the net for emailaddys to post spam to! So i've change my email slightly, please make a note of it when you mail me.. ;o) (not a hint at all...)

It IS hot,stuffy and humid out there...
It was just like walking into a thin warm soup, no air to speak of at all. Oh well, hopefully it will thunder a bit later on today, it might help it lift a bit. Im off to visit my gran before going downtown to soak up some of that lovely music festival ambiance. Blog later

Oh, ouch, groan, !#¤#¤*&/&§¤!!!!
I hate the mornings after i work in the veggies and theres been a lot to do! When i woke up just now and stretched EVERY part of my body ached and protested about being moved about! Now it will take me forever to get going, and it is my day off! *sulk*

But, what a splendid day off it is! Sun, sun and more sun. It is about 25 degrees out there as well. Hope it isnt as stuffy and humid as it was yesterday. I havent been out yet....Might as well go out with the garbage and get to know, be right back

Yes, Big Brother is back. But very quiet and 'short'. Maybe the week with his missus wasnt good? Maybe he got his notice from Big Boss? Who knows, i only know that when i saw him at work today he didnt seem to have a lot of spark in him. And sadly i thought that was the most exellent thing i've seen for ages!!!

Yesterday was a very weird day. I start work at 1 but there really wasnt any people in and nothing to do in the store so i got to go home earlier. So the day felt a bit, useless really. I will have to see if Big Boss comments on me leaving early. But i did help Boris out doing all of the dairy section for him before asking if it was alright to go home early since it was my brothers birthday and we were going there afterwards. Speaking of Boris, it has been alright to work with him this weekend. Im still in shock! Well maybe it did make a difference that i helped Boris out previously in the week. You never know how that turns out, helping him i mean. Either he can be very nice to you for a while afterwards, or he will assume that your his slave and he'll put every imaginable work on you from then on. But, i dont really care about which for the moment, Im going on holiday in 4 days time so he can do whatever he likes.

Big Brother was away on vacation last week. Wonder if he is back already? Gossip at works says that he will only be here untill this fall, but he thinks himself that he still has a year left here. It will be interesting to see if Big Boss has the balls to tell his brother off.. Im sure that he gets cut off because of his behaviour against the girls during the parties we've had. But according to Big Brother he has been so nice and the perfect gentleman every time. HA!

It will be so incredibly NICE to see him go you cant imagine it. I dont think i've ever met anyone as false and hollow as that man. I would say he is the classic , not pervert but close, Mr Nice Guy turning ugly. Oh he is really all charm and witt to start with. But if you dont meet his 'standards' you get cut short and backstabbed when not in the room, but still he is all sweet towards you. Yuck!

So at last the music festival is here again. It is one of my favorite things to do in summer, to go and listen to all this new and interesting, weird music. The theme this year is apparently music from the Cape Verde islands. Should make an interesting week. And to those who wonder who is coming to town, of course i mean all the 'alternative' people. Not that i have anything against them. But they are not your everyday encounter down town so i suppose you notice them more. And they always, always bring this smell with them. The smell of incense over a more potent smell of weed. Everywhere they set their little stands up, selling all sorts from the furthest corners of the world, there is this sweet, flowery and strange smell.

You get the african rastas, the indians from peru, the overgrown hippies from Sweden (yes they look overgrown) tourists from all over the place, saying how quaint and exotic it is, new age gurus, plus many more. And everywhere these tam-tam drums, fiddlesqueeks, didgeridoos playing constantly all through the night. You also get the spontainius street dance parties, general drunkeness, and the mix of music you get when people meet up and ask how your strange instrument works and if you would like to jam with them to see how it sounds like. I bet Rosie will be out shaking her african rattle with some music lovers in the park this year as she did last year.

I saw one today... :)

They are coming.....

It was easy work today. Even had time to sit down and have a little gossip with the girls at work becuase it was so quiet. There were lots of angry shit talking going on because of the recent developments at work. And previous staff parties... I do wonder more often why im still at this work. But i have to bend and stay at it a bit longer. James still havent got any steady job so cant really scamper out of my work just yet.

I was thinking today when sitting at the till how nice it would be to have a house. I started to wonder what sort of house i would like to have one day. Well thats not really true, i've been wanting a house for the last half year or so. Can you get a lust for houses? Really really needing like? Maybe i just want somewhere that i can call my own. Where i can do whatever i like, whenever i like.

Is it really morning?
Why am i so tired then? Maybe because i stayed up last night watching Moonstruck on video? Naaah cant be that...

It is as usuall pouring down with rain today, welcome to the swedish rainperiod. Hopefully it will be better soon because i dont want it to be like this on my vacation that start in 7days! 3 weeks of lazy-doing-nothing-filled days... oh joy... Sad thing is that James will be working the first two weeks of it. Oh well i will just have to go fishing a lot or do something else to amuse myself. Wonder what that would be though. I dont really have any hobbies or what you call it that really interests me so much i that you could call it a hobby. Hmmmm, maybe if i wasnt such a scatterbrain i would be able to focus on something more then the first interesting new bit and actually finish it. Which doesnt happen all that often. I like to try things out, but most dont get finished, they lay strewn all around my apartment looking sad untill i clean them away thinking, i will finish it some day, soon, very soon or maybe a bit later....

See which Greek Goddess you are.

Are you bored? Go PLAY!!

Yet another night where it is hard to get to sleep. Good thing is that im off work tomorrow so im not that stressed about needing to get in bed. Yet that is..

When do you know when a friend isnt a friend anymore? Does it just dwindle into nothing and you really dont know at what point it happend or is it a sudden kind of aha moment? Im always blind to the fact that some people just dont want to be friends anymore and get a rude awakening when it does happen. I suppose i dont see it because i dont want to, or something like that...
I know you sometimes grow apart, you chose differently and no longer have anything in common with each other more then that you knew one another when growing up, but when it happens suddenly i just dont get it. One minute your someones friend and then the next, your not? Just because? Because of what? Really i have no idea why. Is it too much to ask for a why? Why, what did i do, or not do, you never know do you. And that is what hurts the most, you just dont know why and dont get told either because your not a friend anymore....

Why do friends leave...?

Mondays... there should be a law against mondays....

This weeks monday was ok-ish though. And since it is now just a looong countdown to when my vacation starts (11 days) i suppose i can stand it for a bit longer. Nothing really interesting happend today at all. Work was alright, lots of people for a change but not too stressed out about it. Only downside is that James is working nights this week and i oh so hate it to go to bed alone. Thats why im going to be fiddling wiht a puzzle we bought on Saturday untill my eyes cant stay open any longer and then im just going to dive into bed and try to sleep. But cant stay up too late since i got an early morning tomorrow.

The thunderstorm yesterday did hit a 100 year old tree not far from where we live and the lightning cut the tree in half and pulverised it. No wonder the loudest bang made our windows rattle and all my flowerplants to shudder in the shockwave. Scary, because another lightning hit the hospitals officebuildings just across from where we live. I saw that one and that was too close for comfort. Its been a lot of thunder lately and they are more violent. I can still remember the one from last summer that came very quickly in the night and lasted for over an hour with hundreds of lightningstrikes in the Falun area. Im of the opinion that it is the global warming that is making these effects shown. And as they say , the weather will only get more extreme the longer it goes on for. And we still havent seen the effects of the pollution put out in our time and age so you really do wonder what is ahead to come...

Things to do when there is hale, thunder, torrential rains and storm gusts outside.

a) Make a brilliant sunday dinner with roast pork and roasted vegetables and potatoes
b) Hide unde the covers when the lightning and bangs are not seperate
c) Figure out where we are going to get married
d) Get your toenails painted icy green by nice boyfriend
e) Paint said boyfriends toenails bright pink!
f) Finaly go out just to turn at the door because bf complains he cant go out with pink toenails if he gets hit by a car. (but going to work with them is apparently alright, well maybe because i hid the polishremover just because... ;o) )

Im not kidding when i tell you it was like standing in a shower full blast outside this afternoon. And chuck in some hale corns the size of bigger peas you'll get the picture. Oh and the thunder wasnt nice either. The road outside turned into a flowing stream for gods sake! And it kept that up for the better part of an hour!

Doing the toenails were funny though.... *snicker*

Did i mention that James keeps kronas in his underwear? It was a surprise to me when he got up this morning and he went chi-ching and spat out a krona! But he denies it, it wasnt him. But since he usually collects kronas in the most peculiar places im not surprised at him denying it! But please, in your underwear? Can i call him a tight git? Yes i can!... :o))))))

I think i know why im so tired, it was my sister who put me on the lead. It must be my grassallergy. Im taking some pills for it so i dont feel any of the effects like sneezing or runny eyes or whatnots. But it makes me tired as well, my sister is too and she has it worse since the pollen season is longer in the south of Sweden.

Yesterday we went to a big shopping mall in the next town. There is the summer sales on right now so i wanted to have a look. I found some clothes but only one on sale, but what a bargain more then 50% off. Made my day, but not my mums who has to shorten the trousers for me... ;o)
We also bought a fish... a carpet one for our bathroom. But we got in to a little argument if it was too expensive and James didnt like it that much but I won so to speak and it is now nicely laid out on the bathroom floor and he admitted that it does look nice!

We did also go fishing, but gave up on the casting bit and just went for a quiet bit of angling. And there were lots more interest in our baits this time! We got one fish each! But James didnt want to unhook his so i had to. He got a small perch but i got something else. I have to look it up in a natureguide i have. As usuall the sunset was magnificent with multi colored clouds in golds, pinks, darkblues, greys and a bit of lilac. I think that many like fishing just because of the nature aspect of it. As we headed back home we saw yet another deer on the grassfields by the road. It is still very light during the nights but you can notice a slight difference since midsummer. How depressing, not that i hate winter or anything but its just the feeling you get when you know it will be getting much darker soon i dont like.

Also i will be having my birthday this autumn, one of the 'biggies'. Well not really but i still get a bit jumpy about turning 30. Im usually very laidback about age, but lately im getting the jitters ?? Well, we'll see if i will stop having birthdays after this one and go a year younger from now on... ;o)

ehm.. does this mean i've been living too long with an englishman???

As dictators go, you're kind of pathetic! Instead of military coup or systematic persecution to get power, you just happen to be the head of the only party in the UK that isn't totally worthless! While not very impressive it is none the less effective! You can do whatever the hell you like without any chance of getting voted out of office! People know that the only alternative would have them eating their children if they ever got back into power! However, you still think that you are as loved as you were when you were first elected into power… News flash for you: You're not! What tin-pot dictator are you? Take the "What Dictator am I?" test at PoisonedMinds.com

This morning when my alarmclock went off, i didnt know why it had for a moment. I looked at the time and wondered why i had to get up at six. It took me quite a while to realise that i had to go to work. Is that worrying?

At work it was as usuall. Sometimes i wonder if i should try out not doing anything one friday and see if Mr T gets the hint.... Somehow i doubt it though.

Marie came by the store because me and Lotta and her were going out for some coffe, spending our meager little winnings from the Lotto we play each friday. We got some coffe and a nice pastry each for the money and theres some left still. Hopefully we will win a bit more the next time so we can do something fun for them. Or we could win really REALLY big so me and Lotta can march into Big Bosses office and give him our notice and our piece of mind! Oh what joy that would be ....!
We sat there gossiping about everything for about 2 hours. Its a very nice oldfashioned cafe with small and big rooms. We sat all alone in one of the small rooms and strangly enough everyone that came looking for somewhere to sit left us alone. Maybe it was the fact that we sat in the middle of the room, talking quite animatedly, loud and laughing a lot that scared them away. It was nice though to have it all to ourselves. Swedes are so consideret.... :o)

Its been the usuall thursday for me, late sleep, bit of shopping (crap sales tho) and then working afternoon. Nothing really interesting happend at all, besides that i phoned Jess down in Spain for 2!! hours. Oooppsss!

Never mind the phonebill next month eyh..? Well it shouldnt be too bad and i only do this once in a while and she phones me up more then i phone her so... Got to talk about the wedding plans with Jess, what wedding plans??? There is no plan! Because everytime i try to talk to James about it he hmmms a bit and says it will be fine whatever we do...! MEN! Jess wanted to know where we are going to have it, me too, and what we are going to wear, me too, and WHEN we are getting hitched, me too! Any suggestions to what to do to get a straight answer??? Im getting wee bit stressed here by all questions from friends and from my mum as well about the how-when-where and i dont have any answers more then that yes we are getting married, next year, some time.. soonish...?