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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
6:55 am	Förlåt! Grattis i efterskott nordiclania!! Hoppas att du hade en fin födelsedag och att du får det härligt i fortsättningen också. *kram* (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
2:02 pm	Birthdays Happy Birthday to rzyna and gnine!! I hope both of you will have a wonderful day, and that the year to come will be just as wonderful. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
4:36 pm	I'm in a Eurovision Song Contest mood, right now. I've searched on youtube and found some of my favorite Swedish songs of later years. 2008: BWO (Bodies Without Organs) should have won the Swedish contest with this song: Lay Your Love On Me. One of my sons accuse me of liking this song only because the singer is eye candy. So? (For some reason I always think of Youji in Weiss Kreuz when I look at him.) ^_^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl9dZT4USKo 2007: The Ark won the Swedish contest, but did very poorly in the European contest. I like the song and this bisexual singer is also very cute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEOAmUE6AAs 2003: Alcazar with Not A Sinner Not A Saint. More eye candy. The male singers were a couple at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLsCfU86QKg 2000: Roger Pontare med När vindarna viskar mitt namn. Not eye candy at all. But I love the song, and it inspires me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDkbtCcIMlU Same song again, this time in English from the European Contest (When Spirits Are Calling My Name). Some added sami joik. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYwI-gn0PxE I hope you like it. Current Mood: silly Current Music: BWO- Lay Your Love On Me (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
10:10 am	Dinnershow Yesterday I went to a dinnershow with some of my friends. Or rather, I only knew one of them before, my friend and colleague, L. The food was good, even of some of the party didn't appreciate as much as I did. It was quite expensive, though. And afterwards it turned out that the coffee/tea after dinner wasn't included in the price (we had paid for the dinner and show in advance), so when the bill for the drinks came we all got a little annoyed because we had all thought the coffee/tea was included. The show was fun. Not extremely good, but good enough to be entertaining and enjoyable. I especially liked the sets with music from the 60's. The actors was also those who waited on us. They had help from other waiters too, because the audience was too big for them to handle all of us. As oftem, I was stupid, or at least forgetful. I know the music always is much too loud for my ears to handle. But I forgot my earplugs. That made the night painful. For the last sets of the show I had to plug my ears with my fingers, which was both embarrassing and uncomfortable, but I had no choice. That also forced me to go home after the show, instead of staying and dance at the disco which was what I had planned. Stupid me. Oh, how I wish they could have a more pleasant sound level at those places (and cinemas, too, for that matter). I can never go anywhere without my earplugs. I do not want my tinnitus to get any worse. A funny thing, though. My friend L. wanted to let her friends guess my age, so the three that sat closest to me, made their guesses. One guessed 35, another one 30 and the last one thought "not a day over "26"! Very flattering, I must say. ^_^ All the others in the party were around 30. Well, I'm not blessed with beauty, but at least I got youth! ^_^ (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
7:34 am	Knees I got good news yesterday. For about 8 years or so, I have had troubles with my knees. I can't run, jog, ride a bike, skip, jump or anything that strain my knees more than normal walking. Anyway, yesterday I went to see a physical therapist (yes, finally), and he told me that it's easy to fix!! I need two small surgeries (one for each knee of course) where I only will be home from work about two days each time, and then I will be as good as new! It may take some time before I can get the surgeries but in a year I will be able to do all the things I haven't been able to do for so long. Maybe I can even start Karate again? Who knows? Current Mood: happy (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
8:54 am	What to do? As many of you know, I work as a nursing assistent to a retarded, multihandicapped woman in her home. I really like my job, but the working hours are killing me. I am a morning person, but my job makes me work to 10.30 pm, 21 out of 28 days (the other seven days are my free days). That means I'm always tired, because I can't go to bed whan I want to, and I still wake up early in the mornings. That wasn't what this post was going to be about. Not exactly anyway. Except for my work (full time), I also study full time, at high school level, to get an education in this line of work. So far I've worked with no education, only many years of experience, but in June I will have the education needed to call me an educated nursing assistent. After the summer I can continue to study and get the competence to be an assistent nurse. (Nursing assistent (paramedic?) and assistent nurse are the words I can find as titles for the jobs. I have no idea how relevant they are. In Swedish I mean "Personlig assistent/Vårdbiträde" and "Undersköterska".) I don't know if I'm going to continue the studying or not. It's not like it's going to give me a lot more money or anything. I don't really want to study any more. Not while working at the same time. I want more free time. I want to be able to read more, watch more anime, and most of all, I want to take up writing again. I'm very stressed as it is now. I could use a more tranquil life to calm down. So, why am I thinking about more studying? Well, if I can be a assistent nurse, it will be much easier for me to get another job if I want to. I don't think I can do much about my pay, but maybe I could get better hours. There will be a shortage of assistent nurses in Sweden in the next years, because many of them will be retired, and it's not as many young people that educates themselves to this work. That means I could probably find something even better than what I've got now. And it will be easier if I get what I want and we can move to Norrköping. (Yes, all my Swedish friends, I know most of you think Stockholm is a much better place then Norrköping, but I have my reasons.) Should I go with what I want, or with what seems like the best thing to do? Or maybe I should revise my computer skills and search for a job in that business instead? But no, or yes... *sigh* (20 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
8:18 am	Job I love my job! Of course not everything is perfect, like the working hours, the lack of colleagues (we only meet when the shift is over) and the routine chores. But there's other things that make this a very, very good job. For those of you who don't know, I take care of a mentally retarded woman. She is mentally retarded, blind and can't walk or talk. I work in her home taking care of her and doing everything that needs to be done in a home. For you Swedish people: I'm a "Personlig Assistent". The pay isn't good, but it isn't bad either. To be a women dominated profession it's allright, but if you compare to men dominated professions it's way low. I recently found out that my pay is the same as what a newly graduated nurse get, and I don't even have an education in this! Guess why they are on strike at the moment? (Even if I'm now going to school to get an education.) But what is so good about it then? The freedom! For example I can take a walk whenever I want to. It has been such lovely wheather this last week (well, not yesterday and today) and I didn't have to sit inside. I could take long walks along the docks. The sun shining, the water glittering, the view beautiful, a lot of people laughing and enjoying the lovely evening. And there are so many seabirds, from swans to seagulls. Then there are those little details. I cook the food, so I decide what to eat and it's cheap since I cook it myself. I also decide when to eat, if there is something special I'd like to do, we can eat a little earlier or later. I can go to a movie (yes, she likes that even though she's blind, she likes being around people and she loves music), and getting paid for it, I don't even have to pay for the ticket. Or I can go to a museum or whatever I want to. Nice, isn't it? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
12:00 pm	Day saving hour For the first time I've been looking forward to "sommartid" (what I think you Americans call Day saving hour, or something like that). I've always detested the idea of changing the clock to not fit with the sun. Mostly becuase I'm a morning person, and have worked early hours. It was depressing to stand waiting for the bus early in the mornings and watching it getting lighter and lighter for every day, and then suddenly it was all dark again! I hated it. But this year it's different. I'm still a morning person, but I work late hours. It means I'm home late at nights, but still wake up early in the morning. I'm always tired. With "sommartid" my inner clock will be telling me I'm going to bed an hour earlier, but I will still wake up when my body/brain tells me it's time to get up. Meaning I will have one more hour of sleep every night. ^_^ Hopefully. I didn't have to go to work yesterday, which was a good thing since I do have a very sore throat today. I wonder if I can go to class tomorrow. I'm attending classes to get "formal competence" in the job I'm performing. It's full time, and I work full time so it's not always fun, but I like to learn things. Anyway, the new course, "Basic medical knowledge" starts tomorrow, and I'm not sure I will be able to go. Oh, well, nothing to do about that, I suppose. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
7:00 am	Sick I'm supposed to go to work today. I don't think I can, but if I can't get anyone to substitute for me, I'll have to. Yesterday I got a cold, but it wasn't too bad, so I went to work then. This morning, or rather night, I woke up with a sore throat, and now I'm sneezing and my head feels like filled with cotton. Only a little fever, though. Current Mood: blah (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
10:07 am	Happy new year, everybody. May this year be a good one for us all, both individually and globally. My love to you all. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 13th, 2007
8:27 am	I had a sad wake up call this morning. My room has a door to the terrace, and I always sleep with it open. I had barely woken when a voice got my attention. "There is a cat here. It's been hit by a car. It's dead." I ran out of bed, pulled on some clothes and went out to see if it was any of the cats I knew around here. I recognized it but it wasn't one of them I knew the best and I didn't know who owned it. It was a gray cat with white paws, and a pink collar with a small bell, and it was a female. She was still soft and warm, she must have been hit only moments before she was found. Fortunately one of the neighbours knew who the owner was, so I and one other of the neighbours went to their house to tell them the sad news. They were still asleep and a girl around 12 years old opened. We asked to talk to one of her parents, and when the father came he confirmed that it was probably their cat. We told them where we had put it, he thanked us and we went home. I could see the place where the cat lay from my window and I was standing there crying over the cat when the family came to get it. I don't like to pry, but I was so sad and I cried so much, I just stood there watching them taking their cat home. Their wake up call must have been so much worse then mine. The girl was crying. I feel so sorry for them. I'm sorry, but I had to write this down. "Talking" about it helps a little. Current Mood: sad (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
2:01 pm	Every year Stockholm is having a Gay Pride Festival Week, and this year I finally made to watch the parade. It was my work day, but fortunately I can take the woman I'm helping, with me, more or less wherever I want to go, so we went by crowded tram and an even more crowded subway (with her in the wheel chair), to get to somewhere where we could watch the parade. We arrived at 2.30 pm which was about an hour before I expected the parade to pass, but on the other hand we got good spots in spite of it was already crowded in the streets. At 3.30 pm the parade arrived. It was great! A lot of different groups representing different professions - teachers, doctors, nurses, policmen/women (the policemen/women got very big applaudes), different political parties, musicians, and some sport groups. The swedish church were represented, and in an interview a priest said something like this: "Love is the most important thing. God didn't create the heterosexuell human, God created humans. For love." There were a lot of transsexuell men in spectacular comstumes, there was a newly wed lesbian couple, a threesome who called for their right to live as wife and husbands. There were bisexual groups, and 'Pride parents if homosexuals' and, the group I was moved by the most, the group that was "Marching for those who can't". They were marching with tape for their mouths, and wore banners and signs telling they were marching for all the homo-, bi-, and transsexuell people in countries where it is strictly forbidden. Of course there were more groups, but I can't remember all and when my "charge" finally got tired of all the noise, the time was 4.45, and the parade was not over by then. I had a fun time. All the people (half a million people crowded the streets to watch the parade) applauding, waving with flags, cheering, clapping and whistling, it was great. I was keeping watch for my gay friends, but I couldn't see them, it was too many people in the parade. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 15th, 2007
5:25 pm	Spreading the word One of the most convincing argument I've ever heard about the subject of global warming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oi8651Acu4 (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 11th, 2006
8:07 pm	Today I had to say goodbye to elvaron. So, sad. She'd been here for a year now, but today she left to go back home. We, my husband and I, picked her up at her room at the university and she gave me a lot of stuff she couldn't take with her. Off to Arlanda, our last meal together, the last hugs and waves goodbye... She's such a great person. I'm going to miss you, E. (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
9:00 pm	Olympic Winter Games The Olympic Winter Games 2006 is over. I can't help but love Olympic games. The opening and ending ceremonies make me teary eyed and so emotional. The idea behind the Olympic Games with world peace and working together for a better world, is so wonderful. The rituals that are involved in the opening and ending just enhance the atmosphere. If you disagree with me, and thinks it's ridiculous or that I'm naïve or something, please don't tell me. That would be like trying to take away something precious from me. For once, it was nice to be Swedish during an OG. Sweden did its best Olympic game ever (at least winter game, but maybe summer games, too). We(yes, I know I was not involved, but it's easier to say, and one is supposed to be proud of ones country, right?), anyway, we took fourteen medals! Seven gold, two silver, and five bronze. That put us in sixth place of 82 participating nations. If you look only at the female medals, we came on fourth place (five gold, and two bronze). Only Germany, Canada, and Russia came ahead of us. (All together the U.S. and Austria was before us, too.) Sorry about this, but I'm quite pleased at the moment, and had to write this anyway.^_^ (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
3:02 pm	Okay. Since it seems like people (no names ^_^) wants me to update this journal, I'll give it a go. So, most of you who are reading this already know that I've been to Japan for ten days. For the rest of you, surprise! I was there to visit my daugther shayera who are studying there for a year. I also met naye (or naye as she also calls herself), and gnine there. Yay, fangirl party! And for those of you who have already received e-mails about my stay there, you can still read this, because I always forget things when I tell about them. Well, yeah, I had a wonderful time, and it was wonderful to flee the Swedish winter and cheat by going to the Japanese winter, which is much more like Swedish spring. ^_^ What can one say about Japan? Well, first of all, Japanese people don't believe in winter! Okay, so maybe those who live a little norther than Kyoto, where I stayed, believe in winter now. I mean when your house is collapsing because there are over three meters of snow on it, you might start to believe. I'm so glad I wasn't in that part of Japan. In Kyoto it was 6-10 degrees C. when I was there (28th of December to 7th of January), no snow (except for one day, but it melted immediately), and when the sun was shining it was warm and nice. But, sometimes it was quite chilly, and as a Swede, I was dressed properly :P, but the Japanese women and girls wore short skirts with bare legs! I started to shiver of cold just by looking at them. I even saw some boys in shorts (school uniforms) and, one day up in the mountains (where it was colder and more snow) we saw two boys, brothers probably, mybe 10-12 years old, one had a longsleeved shirt but no jacket, and the younger one wore a t-shirt. Bare armed in the snow!? When it comes to the women, shayera and naye have a theory that the women have their nerves in their legs destroyed by the cold when they're young and must wear school uniforms all year round.^_^ No jeans there. Everything one (read 'a fangirl') sees in Japan reminds of one or another manga or anime. 'Look, a flower shop! It's like where Weiss are working!' (Yeah, yeah, I know they live in Tokyo, not Kyoto. And ignore glühen and what comes after.) 'A playground! Yusuyu from 'Aishiteru ze baby' used to play in a playground like this!' 'Over there is a dojo. It reminds me of Rurouni Kenshin.' 'Let's eat some okonimyaki. Ah, it's like when U-chan in Ranma makes okonimyaki.' 'See the big bell over at the buddhist temple? It looks just like the bell Echizen Ryoma's father, from Prince of Tennis, was chiming with is toe (!).' And so on. Everything could be connected with manga and anime. What? Real life? Yeah, I've heard about it. And shopping. Fortunately for me I had promised to take some of the manga shayera had bought, with me back to Sweden. Fortunately, because otherwise I would definitely have overshopped. I guess other people still think I did. Who else than a fangirl would buy a TV-game for a console she doesn't have, on a language she doesn't understand more than a few words here and there? Well, I did anyway. Sukisyo for Playstation 2. Had to buy a PS2 when I came back here just because of that. My sons didn't mind that at all.^_^ They have been longing for a new PS2 since their brother fluffpudel took the PS2 with him when he moved to his own place. And who other than a fangirl would by a book she already owns, this time in a language she doesn't understand (see, comment about TV-game ^_^), just because the pictures on the front page were wonderful? Guess what, I did. 'Luck in the Shadows' with the prettiest pictures of Alec and Seregil you could ever imagine. Who could resist? Besides from fangirly things we visited a lot of temples. They are marvellous. And it's so nice this blending together with buddhism and shintoism. At New Year's Eve, we went first to a shinto temple to offer five yen, and then to a buddhist temple to hear the monks chime the bell 108 times (well, we only heard a few of them of course). We found out afterwards that we should have gone first to the buddhist temple to bid farewell to the old year, and then to the shinto temple to greet the new year. But we didn't know that, stupid gaijin as we are. A lot of people were out that night. Like everyone in Kyoto? Everone headed to the temples. There were many cops out, too, to handle all those people in the traffic. At midnight there were no fireworks. None at all. We (I, shayera, khetienn, and vargen stood on an old bridge and wished each other a happy new year. I really liked that New Year's Eve. Shayera and I went up to the mountains twice. The first time we visited a temple in a National Park. It was very beautiful up in the mountatins, and it was a lovely day. The second time we went to the Onsen in that small village, Kurama. It was so nice, and Japanese, to do a thing like that. Getting outside naked in the winter to the small pool with warm water. Mmm, it felt so nice. Five times (yes, five) we went to sing Karaoke. I really loved that. I sang western songs, but Shayera, khetienn and gnine sang mostly animesongs. Oh, yes. I've walked on Gojyo, and slept on Hakkai. Eh...? Heheh. Gojyo is a street. The 'Fifth Street', and Hakkai in this case means the 'Eight Floor', which is where my room at the hotel was.^_^ That was at least a little about what I did in Japan. If anyone wants to ask me anything, please feel free to do so. I had a wonderful time, and I'm already thinking about what I can do to be able to go back there some other time. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
12:00 pm	I saw this at ainbthen and got curious. Your Birthdate: October 28 You have a Type A personality so big it makes other Type A's shrink away in shame. You never shy away from adversity - and you love to tackle impossible problems. Failure is not an option for you, and more than a few people are put off by your ego. You tend to be controlling, and you hate leaving anything up to chance. Your strength: Your bold approach to life Your weakness: You don't accept help. Your power color: Bronze Your power symbol: Pyramid Your power month: October What Does Your Birth Date Mean? What can I say. There is truth in this, but I didn't think it was this bad. ^^;; (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 29th, 2005
6:37 pm	Wow, look at my 'Love' score! This Is My Life, Rated Life: 6.3 Mind: 7.3 Body: 5.7 Spirit: 6.4 Friends/Family: 5 Love: 9.1 Finance: 6.3 Take the Rate My Life Quiz (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 24th, 2005
6:25 pm	Ramblings Should have been on a trip and watched a lot of ancient monuments with the Archeology class today. Unfortunately I came down with a sore throat yesterday, and it wasn't exactly better this morning. I'm glad I'm having a wonderful husband anyway. When he saw I had awakened (around 11 am) he come with a tray with tea, juice, sandwiches and a chocolate bar, so I could eat while in bed. I just love him.^_^ I tried to study for my exam Thursday, but didn't get very much done. Instead I watched four (48-51) episodes of 'Bleach'... I'm feeling a little down because I had looked forward to this trip today, but I'm still glad I didn't go. I feel even worse at the moment. The throat is a little better, but my nose are worse, and I've started to cough. I just hope I will be well enough for the examination. And that I have energy enough to study for it. Hmph, at least I'll have an excuse if I do badly on the test:P Oh, well. Otherwise life is quite good at the moment. (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
10:55 am	What's happened since last time? The archeology classes are continuing, and I really love them. They are so interesting! I love thinking about what happened a long time ago. I had an examination yesterday about the Stone Age in Scandinavia. I don't know how I did. I will find out tomorrow. (This seems to be a fast faculty. When I studied earlier at the university the results took weeks to know.) I've also made new friends at the archeology. We are four girls/women (well, females) hanging out together. It's really nice. I've also met with elvaron some more times. It's been fun. We've been walking in the forest, and watching 'Mirage of Blaze' among other things. Yesterday shayera left for Japan. So sad. I won't be seeing her for a whole year. Hopefully I can go visit her sometime next year, but probably not until June. (Yes, yesterday was bad. First saying goodbye to my daughter at the airport, and then an examination. I was quite stressed.) It turned out I couldn't attend 'Gay and Lesbian studies'. The professor who was responsible sent a very impersonal mail, asking me to attend the class another year, because the course is popular and there were many people wanting to take this course, and I shouldn't take up a place for someone else who could use it better. I can see the point, but I still felt disappointed. First of all I wasn't going to be away that much, but obviously the professor thought it was too much. Second. I didn't like that the mail was so impersonal. I answered it, but never got a reply. Otherwise I don't think anything special has happened. Oh, fluffpudel, I met your old friend Johan B. at university yesterday. He asked me to tell you to call him. I'm telling you here, because it's so hard to catch you. ^_^ (8 Comments |Comment on this)