I has been a busy day today. And i think my little wail yesterday helped to keep the rain at bay, anyway untill now.
We went for a picnic today, couldnt think of anything else to do so i made pastasallad and off we went with a blanket and some drink as well. We biked out to the lake and sat there enjoying the cool breeze and the warm sun just really doing nothing. Besides it was fun watching the kiddies playing in the water, or shall i say pushing each other into the water. Must have been cold because i dipped my foot in the shallow water and that was cold so imagine it a bit out. James took some nice pictures from there that im sure will appear at his blog at some time.

When we got home it was turning a bit murky outside so we never went for another bikeride but instead had a rest before i spotted a nice offer on a mobilephone at the local supermarket. So a quick decision later we hopped over to the supermarket feeling lucky they would have some left. Apparently we got the only one they had since you would have to sign up and they order one for you (silly i know but its not common that foodstores sell those in Sweden). But the man was nice and wondered if we would like to take it straight away, and yes of course we did! So, now i (we) have a mobile..... Me who swore that i was never going to get hooked into that not being able to live without one. Some people cant you see... But me, oh no i wont fall into that trap. Maybe just the sms trap then.... ;o)

I found this here and tried it out.


Which era in time are you?

I just noticed, France has to go home from the world cup in football! Snooty ickle frenchies wasnt good enough.... HA!

Sweden is still hanging in there, YaY Swedes! *waves little flag*

It is raining!
Well why shouldnt it be you ask, but but but, its my day of tomorrow and i dont want rain then! Any other day, fine, but not tomorroooooow...*wail*

And if anyone thinks it is nice and relaxing with raindrops falling and whatever, it might be, but not tomorrow! I am deeeply offended that the weather has turned against me, im one of its most loyal followers! So there!

Anyhow, todays moan about work.
It was shitty gritty cleaning up after other people type of work. And i hate it! I even got the attention of big Bosses brother today when he came round all smily asking how things were going. I just gave him a glance and showed him the boxes full of discarded fruit and veggies, most of them soft and rotten. Thats not how it should look like! They should have been sorted out YESTERDAY since YESTERDAY was cleaning day in the fruit and veggies. Well after a very stressful morning it all sorted itself out just in time for when it was time for me to go home. Big Boss had already left the building (yay Elvis) so he couldnt see the results of my hard work. Maybe some other day.

About work... there had been this staff party (yes again) on M/S Slussbruden (boat) last saturday. Well informed participants tell me that they all got really REALLY pissed. Free bar will do that to wannabe alcoholists. As usuall Mr T drunk himself under the table twice and picked a fight with someone else since he was so drunk he could hardly walk. And Big Brother made passes at everyone wearing a skirt and really glued himself onto a poor little girl from our place. She had to be rescued by the galant knight Jurgen who works at the store as well. What is it with men who are supposedly sooo Mucho Macho (but when the ickle missus snapps her fingers comes crawling to please) and young girls? I would like to snipp something off him but thats just me getting tired of the charade of him being Mr Nice guy and then pressing the girls when getting drunk.

Can you tell i like gossip? ;o)

I got this little story sent to me from a friend in Ireland and i thought it to be very good, makes you stop and think ...

On a British Airways flight from Johannesburg, a middle-aged, well-off white South African lady has found herself sitting next to a black man. She called the cabin crew attendant over to complain about her seating.

"What seems to be the problem Madam?" asked the attendant.
"Can't you see?" she said. "You've sat me next to a kaffir. I can't possibly sit next to this disgusting human. Find me another seat!"
"Please calm down Madam." the stewardess replied. "The flight is very full today, but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll go and check to see if
we have any seats available in club or first class."

The woman cocks a snooty look at the outraged black man beside her (not to mention many of the surrounding passengers). A few minutes later the stewardess returns with the good news, which she delivers to the lady, who cannot help but look at the people around her with a smug and self-satisfied grin.

"Madam, unfortunately, as I suspected, economy is full. I've spoken to the cabin services director, and club is also full. However, we do have one seat in first class."
Before the lady has a chance to answer, the stewardess continues...
"It is most extraordinary to make this kind of upgrade, however, I have had to get special permission from the captain. But, given the circumstances, the captain felt that it was outrageous that someone be forced to sit next to such an obnoxious person."
With which, she turned to the black man sitting next to the woman, and said:
"So if you'd like to get your things, sir, I have your seat ready for you..."
At which point, apparently the surrounding passengers stood and gave a standing ovation while the black man walks up to the front of the plane.


People will forget what you said...
People will forget what you did...
But people will never forget how you made them feel.

The end of another week. Its been HOT weather so am feeling all drained and tired from it. This week was not one of my best ones, in the mix about me complaining about work and myself living a boring life my gran managed to have her birthday! We went there on thursday for coffee and cakes and to congratulate her. Me and James had bought her a nice coffee cup since she dropped her old one a few weeks back. I think she liked it, but will have to see if she uses it.
Also this week i think i must have sweated floods at work since there isnt any airconditioning and the store is just like a steel barn house anyway. So when the sun shines on the roof it gets warm and heats everything up. We had it warmer indoors then it was outside! This is about the time of year when i wish it was winter again....

My friend Rosie has gone missing. I suspect the kidnapper is called Per, her bf. They are togheter again after a serious row a month ago. And since both of them has been made redundant at their seperate work i suppose they are having a little vacation togheter before getting back to the serious matter of looking for work. And i cant blame them, if there is a time to take vacation in Sweden it is now. You know, sun, sun, more sun?

Jess down in Spain is busy busy with their boat engine company so dont hear much from her either. Btw it is my time to phone so cant really blame her for not getting in touch now can i... :o)

James is off working nightshifts again. So its not my most favorite week i got ahead of me. I really shouldnt grumble about it, it pays well and i see him a lot more then when he works any other shift. But he gets too tired after a few nights and then its no fun anyway. He asked me if i could make him a sleepingmask to help block out the daylight. So thats my next project, mind you i havent still completed the patchwork im doing for our bed or my mums canape pillow..... Well, i hope i get some time and can find the inspiration to do them soon, am feeling guilty about them laying around unfinished....

I usually dont do this, but it was so weird i had to try it. I dont know if it is me but never mind.... :o)

You are the ravest of dance parties, a must for the all night rave! Exciting company you make people feel sexy, sensuality and generally ecstatic. You make people feel close, at one with each other but can also make people feel nauseaous and anxious.If you spend alot of time with someone they tend to be hallucinating, they cant see clearly and feel like they are getting carried away with you. When you spend way too much time with people you fuck up their brain, heart and liver. However, after spending a wopping wonderful night with you, the next day people get deppressed thinking of you and how much they miss you. They get love sick and dont want to eat, they cant sleep, they feel sore in their muscels and cant concentrate for very long as they dream of when they will spend an exhilarating time with you again on the dance floor at the very next rave party. Fortunately for people, the more they see of you the more they realise how bad you are and eventually they dont see much of you anymore.

Find Out If You Were A Drug, What You Would Be!

quiz by ravenritings

I do wonder how many of those weird quiz's there is out there... Anyway, it doesnt really say anything about me being ME. Its like the horoscopes you can get done for you online if you type in your time of birth and place and all that and voila you ge a whole chart of general waffle. I had my stars and planets done for me once. Now when i read it i can see how much she angled it to suit me since she knew me a bit. I have some sort of beliefe in that there is a purpose for us to be here in life. Im not a christian but i do believe in a life after this. But maybe not so much of a life in heaven with angels and all that, but more that you get yet another life to live. Is that reincarnation? I supppose it is then... :o)

Im melting!!!
It is now 15 outside and it is STILL 26 degrees in my apartment!!!!! Go figure how warm it will be later on this summer..!
I want to move to a nice house by the lake so i can go swiming, naked, right now....!

peeeew.... big window open now, bit cooler. I hate swedish houses sometimes, to well insulated to be any nice in summertime.

I want some rain, some thunder and lightning and cooler weather. Just for a while.

There we go again with the weather report! I cant believe this...
Am i really this boring?

But still it can be quite funny and hilarious as well... but lately it hasnt been.................!

I wish I could learn languages more quickly. I have a friend in Spain that sent me a translation she wanted help with. She had done it from spanish to english and she wanted me to have a read and see if her english was alright. But it was very hard since I didnt have a clue what is was she had translated. Some of the english i could help and change around, but not knowing what is intended makes it very hard to do it right.

Pew it is warm tonight, its been another lovely day and they have promised even more to come this week. Really, my life is sooo boring if I dont have anything better to blog about then the weather!

So another weekend finished all to quickly. In the end i did watch some of the football since it turned out to be a more intense game then i had thought (pushover win for England i thought) And James got a bargain, i cooked dinner and went for a bikeride with him and he did the washing for me. I still think i got the better half of the bargain.. You might think that i hate household shores when i tell you about James doing the washing up, breakfast and cleaning and what nots, but i dont mind doing it. Im just lazy and really glad if i can wriggle out of it from time to time because i suspect there will be a time when i will have to do ALL of this by myself.

We went up to the mine on our bikes and sat there in the lovely evening looking out over the mine. I do say sarcy stuff about the Big Hole but really it is a historic monument and should be rememered as such. It was at one point a very vital part of swedish economy and the fact that just one man died when it all collapsed on midsummers day in 1687 is a miracle in itself.

I like getting emails, so why is my inbox so empty it is pathetic? I do write emails to others, its not like i just sit there waiting for them to drop in...

James is out doing his leaflets for the very last time. It is a lovely day here, sun, not a cloud in sight so far and a gentle breeze from the lake. If it wasnt for the fact that there are loads to do at home i would just skip everything and go out somewhere with a blanket and a good book and not care about anything, especially football. But since the dust is thickening on my desk (i just noticed i could write in it) i need to do some cleaning, and washing as well, if i cant persuade James that he does it so much better then me... But i dont think i stand a chance today because of previously mentioned football. Very importent game today so what can i do but roll my eyes and do it all by myself. I could fake that the tellys broken down i suppose, but that would be cruel to do to a man that likes football that much that he used to have a season ticket to his favorite team and still jumps all over the place when he follows a web based update on the games. I mean, a commentary update every 2 minutes is not worth bouncing all over the place for, but he does when they score. I usually go Yay other team whenever i can just to tease him, but i dont think he approves of my choices sometimes! ;o)

The fair was a disappointment today as well. I really thought there would be more stalls then yesterday. Well at least the august market is bigger. I will have to find out if there will be the usuall market race, if there is i will enter James in it so he can run it. That is one of the things he said he wanted to do when seeing it on one of his previous visits before he moved over.
We went to grans for coffee today and then me and mum went shopping at the local superstore. In the mean time James went home and had a nap. Working nightshifts really messes him up for a couple of days after it. And having a cold doesnt help it at all. Hopefully he will have recovered untill tomorrow. He mustn miss the important football game, its Sweden versus England tomorrow!
Yay footie.....

How will i survive for 4 weeks!

How to wrestle the remote controll out of James' hands for the next 4 weeks. Simply tickle him into submission so you can watch what you like again! Maybe it will only work the first time because he will have bought a padded tshirt by the next day, or trown up all over me since that is what he says he does when being tickled too much....

Today he almost managed to make butter when whipping the cream for the strawberries we had for dessert. He was trying to do two things at the same time, whipping the cream and wiping of the white splodges he made.....makes a change from brown ones i suppose... :o)

We've been out to the market/fair today and seen the king of Sweden. He came here to be presented with a diploma that Falun has become a World Heritage. Well more likely ye ol' coppermine has. Yes the big old hole in the ground is now a protected World Heritage. Amazing isnt it...

We even saw the king wave to us. Yes especially to us out of all those people that had gathered in the town square he waved at only us! Yay we do feel very special tonight because of that... ;o) (of course we waved back) (gracefully)....

Finaly friday. Work just swooshed by and it was time to go home before i had the time to think WEEKEND!
It was alright at work today i guess. Mr T is trying his best and i suppose i should give it a rest, BUT really, women are more organized!
Instead of lingering on forever with the vegetables we get in the morning i want to get them into the coldstore as quickly as possible and in the order as to when we got them. Oldest on top. But Mr T likes to fiddle with them and leaves them forever out in the warmth and instead is constantly on the phone to the grossers ordering more stuff or just chittchatting to the man in charge. And that annoys me A LOT! Because that means he is walking around trying to be all importent and leaves all work for me or Malin who works there as well.. It is only when i've given him the old evil eye look a few times and goes looking for where he has disappeared that he hustles a bit and gets something done! He is nice and all that but a drifter .... and the boys at work defends him whatever you say so what can you do but moan a bit and get a new job as soon as possible.. HA!

I just opend the window and it smells lovely out there. Its been raining a bit tonight and it smells all fresh and clear with a touch of flowers blossoming now. I dont know the english word for it but here they are called Syren, its a bush with lilac flowers in a spire shape with a really divine scent. Maybe someone knows?

Its still a fairly light dusk out there. That is one of the best things with swedish summers, it doesnt get at all dark, just bit of a darker shade and then the sun goes up again. Makes it hard to get some sleep though since you think it is later then it is.

Just a day left to work untill im freeeeeee!

There is something special with Frankies voice.. I couldnt resist it any longer and went and bought a Frank Sinatra Greatest hits cd. Im listening to it right now and...aaaaah... relaxing from work. James has just gone to work so i thought i'd sit down and blog a bit and fiddle with the template and see what John has written on his page. And a glas of cold Pepsi Max does make everything perfect, at least for me....

Do you know which Frank song i like best? Please dont laugh, but its Strangers in the night. I cant get it out of my head and i almost know the lyrics off by heart. Besides i've been known to pester people with it... I even made a home made karaoke .midi of it! Ask Twinkie he knows... :o)

As you might have noticed i've changed my template, again. But i was getting bored and tired of the darker one with the moon and stuff so i wanted a change. You can still see how it looks like when reading the archives if i havent fixed that... Anyone know of a good template page that actually works?? I would be glad for any tips.

Other then that, my day off has proven to be a disappointment. James had to stay home since his cold has gone worse so i had no one to go watch the cruising with! Its not as fun to go by yourself, and Rosie wasnt home, probably out with her bf. And Lotta has escaped to Greece for a 2 week holiday, lucky her... It left me wondering what the heck i would get up to whole day. Slept in late and felt sleepier when i woke up then when i went to bed last night.

Just one of those days you feel got wasted away... i dont like that.

So, off he went on his bike to work. I've just realised how much i really hate sleeping alone. Its strange how quickly you get used to having someone close, snoring some times or just tossing and turning in bed because he cant sleep. Its quite interesting waking up hearing him talk in his sleep. Mumbling and really ranting sometimes! But i can never make out what it is all about. Mostly it is in jibberish, but then once in a while there is real sentence but totally wacko. Like the time he asked for his eggs now! And the next thing was something about pinning them (the eggs) to the wall. Dont ask me how his mind works, it keeps me greatly amused though.
Im sure he doesnt think the same about my ickle habit of wacking him one in his sleep. I did do that a lot before, but i suppose i got used to having someone there and arent just as violent as i was.... :o)

Got one more day of work before i can have my beloved day off! This weeks day off will be well used. There is this local fair all week. And on wednesday there is Cruising with old american cars or what else you have built in your garage during the winter. It is always fun watching them roll by. Especially the beefed up cars for street racing. There is a special something to the sound of a V8 that is irresistible... Hope the weather improves, right now it is drizzly rain, its been really pouring down earlier today.