Merry Christmas 2013

Santa Claus and Pup

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas, whether you celebrate it or not.

Last post ever as a 20-something

It's a bit emotional for me, to be honest.
Tomorrow I forever leave "Gen-Y, the 20-somethings". Not that I have been active in that thread, or forum for that matter, for years. Still, there I met some of my dearest friends. There I met crazy, passionate, intelligent, creative, complicated, humorous people. For the first time ever, I experienced a mass psycosis that was litterature related and it was a glorious fantasy-world we created for our selves, a paralell universe where everything was allowed and accepted as long as you were respectfull.
It was one of those rare places of bliss on a otherwise insane and hate filled world wide web. We made Lexilove, we were Lexlings in our Lexily and we had the time of our lives-

SNOW

Just half an hour ago, the first snow of the season started falling :)

upside down

♥ the love of my life ♥

Youtube playlist

The last few days I've been putting together a playlist on youtube, containing songs that I somehow relate to people and/or places. I've been wanting to do that for some time now, but just never got around to acctualy doing so.

I figured I would share it with you, though it is not yet complete. Might never be :) I don't know what makes me connect certain songs with people. Of course, some are really obvious, like it's the persons favorite song, others are more obscure.

I will not say who is related to what song, or why. But if you really, really badly need to know if , for example, "Cars Movie Soundtrack (Sheryl Crow - Real Gone)" is related to you, e-mail me and I'll tell you yes or no.

Here it is: Songs related to people/places

Day 10: One Quote That Describes Your Life Right Now.

I live through music, and can love song for no more than that I love how a few words bend in a choris, or verse. I can love it for a synth loop or a drumbeat, I can love it for it's lyrics or just a single word.
Here comes my quote, from the top of my mind.

Wake me up when it's all over, 
when I'm wiser, when I'm older.
from "Wake Me Up" by Avicii

Day 9: Two Movies You Absolutely Love

This is just plain cruel...

1. Constantine
2. Star Trek (no, that is not cheating!)

Day 8: Three Favorite Cartoon Characters

Of all time? Or at this moment?

1. Nemi (goth chick with a very special set of skills)
2. Donald Duck & co (well, they are a huge part of my childhood)
3. Super Ted

Day 7: Four Songs That Describe Your Life Right Now

This is hard.... Can I go with favorite songs right now? No? Ok then...

1. Morgning has broken
2. Working 9 to 5
3. My life would suck without you
4. Unwritten

Day 6: Five Things You Can Eat Everyday

1. Carrots
2. Chicken
3. Chocolate
4. Apples
5. Nuts
6. Vanilla yogurth

Day 5: Six of Your Favorite Books

So... No, can't do it. I'll have to do series :)

1. Magicians Tale by Maggie Furey, my first ever fling with Fantasy, I never went back :) 
2. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams, I own the full series in both Swedish and English.
3. Under the Never Sky series by Veronica Rossi, she has a very compelling language.
4. A Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin, I hate the story, but can't stop reading.
5. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, because he is the father of Fantasy as a genre, because he deared what no one else did, and because the books are awesome.
6. Twilight series by Stephenie Meyers, because no author have ever toutched my heart with his/her words like SM did. She rocked my world and it is still spinning after 5 years. Because I found some of my greatest friends through these books. Because they made ma laugh, cry, scream out loud and most of all, because she spellbound me so completely with her way of writing that I have never experienced anything like it. Thank You!

Day 4 Seven People Who Inspire You and Why?

At the moment, I'm not very inspired at all, at least by any specific person, but I list some of my all time favorites:

1. Margot Sathaye
   "Margot spent many years training and living in Japan where she attained the highest grade achieved by a non Japanese woman.Margot was a Kodokan 7th Dan and the first non-Japanese woman to be made a Kodokan instructor." quote from: http://www.kanosociety.org/old_news.htm
   
   To me she was a fabulous coach, a true inspiration and a very kind person who still held her own against the establishment.
   
2. Pup
   He inspires me every day, to madness, to greatness, for good and bad.
   
3. My sister.
   She inspires me a lot, but I can never live up to it in my own mind.
   
4. Misty
   She makes me want to be a better person.
   
5. Music
   It's not a person, but music is created by persons, and are my greatest inspiration whatsoever.
   
6. Honey inspired me to do this list ;)
   
7. Stephenie Meyer
   She inspired me, rocked my world, set everything I knew derailing. Thank you! For books, friends, laughs, tears, writings and ramblings. You will never know what you gave me, but I thank you with all my heart!

Day 3: Eight Places You Want to Visit

Acctually, ALL the places I want to visit are related to the persons living there. Therefor, I'll list them both :D

1. USA/Disneyland (Misty, Lily)
2. UK/Scotland (Becca, Sarah)
3. Netherlands (the Tuttles, Paula)
4. Italy (Sonia)
5. the Philippines (Honey)
6. Forks/LaPush (if you don't get it, I can't explain it)
7. Australia (Tabs)
8. Osby (Neva)

Day 2: Nine Things You Can't Live Without

1. Pup
2. Clothes (seriusly, I'd freeze to death!)
3. Orthodontic soles
4. The Internet (pathetic, I know...)
5. Food
6. Water (delicious!)
7. Sleep
8. Music (I can't believe some tracks has been on my mp3 player since 2006...)
9. Friends

Day 1: Ten Things You Wanted/Want to Be When You're Older

1. Airplane Pilot
2. Police
3. Daycare attendant
4. Personal Assistent
5. Employed
6. Mother
7. Pretty
8. Truck Driver
9. Princess
10. Hairdresser

10 Day Challenge!

Swiped it from the dearest little Pooh-food there is, Honey!

Day 1: Ten Things You Wanted/Want to Be When  You're Older

Day 2: Nine Things You Can't Live Without

Day 3: Eight Places You Want to Visit

Day 4 Seven People Who Inspire You and Why?

Day 5: Six of Your Favorite Books

Day 6: Five Things You Can Eat Everyday

Day 7: Four Songs That Describe Your Life Right Now

Day 8: Three Favorite Cartoon Characters

Day 9: Two Movies You Absolutely Love

Day 10: One Quote That Describes Your Life Right Now.

Pictures :)

Before

After

Wearing granny's glasses

Ready for harvest fair and open farms in the rainsoaked countryside.

Hay-hopping (aka hunting gold coins)

Bull riding (for 5 seconds, then he wanted off)

Crayfish-party

And finally: How you wash a kitten, without getting bitten :)

sweet relief

Ah, how glorious it is :)
D is home, and so is the computer :)

I'll try to see if I can give you some pictures then...

Oh happy day!

Today is a really happy day!

Yesterday my pup fell asleep in the car on the way home, at 6:30pm. Due to a miracle, he didn't wake up when we got home, slept through the night (joining me at 3am in our bed) and woke up full of sunshine at 8:15am. He has been really compliant all morgning.

Today D comes home!

July 2013

D is away, cruising around on the exotic ms Exporter, doing whatever ordinary seamen do on such leasure trips between harbors in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and England.

Anyway, I am a bit indisposed because of that. The day before leaving D found the charger for my camera. Hallelujah, though I had just got around to borrow moms spare camera. Of course. But now I have nowhere to upload the pictures taken. I have to use either my moms or D's dads laptop. Once they're online I can fairly easy repost them via the iPad but it is tedious. Also, blogger has decided that while I amsurfing through the web browser, I am apparently using amobile phone and therefor can only upload pictures from that. It can not locate the pictures map on the ipad. Gah!

testing cars

Today it was a totally still day at work, the kind that comes along a few times every summer. I had an appointment with pup in the afternoon, but thanks to no work, I got out at lunchtime.
That gave me time for a quick testdrive of a car we're considering. Maybe not the exact car, but the model in general.
It went really well, I liked it and could park it acceptable on first try, and perfect on second.

I test drove this one: Renault Megane Grand Scenic 1.6 Extreme

There is also this one, older, more used and lower price, but I don't know. I got an off feeling as soon as I laid eyes on it: Renault Scenic II 2.0

Kitten, puppies and cuddle

Randi, called Orrr, sees a dog. Shes not even half as high
in the back as she was seconds before this shot though.

Pup vs puppy

Hello Kitty!

Hmmm, what to wreck next...

Spring fest at daycare spent in daddys arms <3 br="">

puppysitting

Yestarday pup had a day off from daycare and spent it with his grandpa :)

Today, in just a few minutes, I'll go pick up a real puppy, a one year old wirecoated Dachshund named Xero. We'll puppysit him until after dinner, then return him to his "parents". Really looking forward to that!

May

I keep thinking up blogposts to write, but I never have the time or the energy to write them, and then when I di, I've forgotten what they were about...

Tomorrow is mothers day, D is away doing his ER internship in Stockholm (because you can spend 4 nights in a row in the ER here without there being any trauma coming in...) and will be coming home tomorrow night. My pup is the same as ever, wild, boisterous, deaf and absolutely lovable :)

April in general

First out, I'm in a bit of a panic situation. I'm camera-less. Well, not entirely, I still have the big system operational, but I've missplaced the batterypack charger for my Ixus and can't find it :(

I borrowed my moms camera when I went to Vilnius, Lithuania, and am thinking of asking if I an do so for a longer period, until I find my charger. I suffer from not having camera access.

Anyhow, this are some pictures of what we've been up to:

apparently blogger resists picture upload right now :(

Happy Easter

I know.
I'm sorry.
I can't give you any promises.
I am exhausted, freezing and completely healthy.
But there is no energy. At all.

Have a great Easter!
Don't drink an fly!

babysitting

This weekend we're having D's soon-to-be-7-year old cousin here. We've also had pup's second cousin A a few times the past weeks. He is a delight! So sweet and gentle, such a difference from our wild one.

Tonight is finally the end of the party season, now there's no parties of importance until easter. Tonight I'm going to at he annual Emmaus Ball. Dress code: the best you've got. I'm donning my traditional folklore gear, it qualifies in the highest dress code category and I love it :)

go figures

As a follow-up on my last post...
The order turned out exactly as expected, so 5 pairs of jeans, a pair of shorts, a jacket and two pairs of outdoor pants got sent back. A zipped college sweater got o stay...

scary...

I just placed an order worth 620€ with one of the major mail-order companies here. That IS a wee bit scary :) Not that everything will be kept, I'm counting on at least half the stuff just not fitting right, meaning going up/down in size won't help. But I'd love it if everything fit it's recipients.

Mostly jeans, but also outdoor wear for me. I just figured, that since I hate not having any, I might as well invest even if they cost a bit :) And yes, theese are the colors I ordered :)

pictures owned by ellos.fi

Welcome 2013

This year so far has been calm. Pup got sick x-mas eve on the way home, cough got really bad, and was bad for a while, he's much better now though. Instead, Friday night as I just had fallen asleep, he began throwing up. Badly. And then again, and again... He slept in D's arms on the sofa, and in the morning he woke up at 6 am, happy as a puppy, no wrong in the world with him. Sincew he got a lot od rashes on his neck, and showed no sense of being ill afterwards, we suspect an allergic reaction or something like that.

Moreover, I'm considering a new blog. Mostely because this one seems so tedious. Then again, given the frequency of my posts and the amount of readers ;) it feels kinda stupid. I mean, might as well make the best of what I've got. Just saying this, so you don't fall of you chairs if I one day announce I'm moving elsewhere :)