Kicking my own ass - Life - Interesting vids...

I am doing what I keep telling others not to. I am not posting because I don't feel like anyone would find it interesting.

*head-desk*

WTH? This is MY journal. I should post no matter what. If it is interesting to me or to anyone else. To write down my thoughts does have a tendency to clear them up. I keep returning. I keep poking at this place. Because it's just... home. If you've posted/written/journaled/blogged at the same place for 11 ½ years, it does end up home, wether you like it or not.

I'll just be writing for me sake. Sharing for my sake. And if anyone else happens to like it, than cool. :-)

So on that note... I got rid of my cast this Friday! :-D YAY!!! Six weeks of me jumping around on one leg (with support) is now OVER!!! I can walk on the leg, although I still have to use regular crutches to take some weight off the leg still. It's stiff as all hell! Geezes... I have exercises that I should do every day which are dull but I can feel they are doing a difference. So dull, but good for me. Isn't that always the case with these things? *lol*

At least now I am more mobile and can move around. :-)

My brother with his kids and my mom came over this Saturday, which was AWESOMELY fun! (And they cooked food for us for some reason...) I love my brother to bits, and when a guy like him (6.2 feet tall!) takes a seat IN YOUR LAP!!! Now that's sibling-love to a whole new level! Also, his ass is bony. Someone needs to feed him. X-D

We had a wonderful time though! And Alexandra got to get out and play with her cousins at a playground which was fun by all, while I stayed at home with my bad leg and fixed coffee for the adults to drink when they got back. :-)

Then today, Sunday, we cleaned the apartment. Weekly cleaning. AND I COULD HELP!!! Yes, you worry-wards. I listened to my body and didn't do to much. :-) Promise! It's funny though how happy you can be from managing to clean the bathroom. X-D It's the easiest room to clean in this apartment, so I felt I would be abel to do that to take some load of peting73. And it worked FINE! :-D So now I can add that to my list of chores until I'm fully recovered. :-)

I am planning on being able to get out of the house on Saturday though. (With crutches!) To say shit has hit the fan... SERIOUSLY! at the vampire-LARP I am in would be an understatement. And not only for my character, but for ALL characters!!! Well, I really Really REALLY wanna go on Saturday! So I am doing my exercises stubbornly every day! And I know there's an elevator where we have our society local, so at least I don't have to hobble up four stories... :-) I have to wonder what our GM's have smoked though... X-D I love all them people, seriously....

To end it, have some pimping of random stuff I've come across online lately. :-)

I found THIS video very VERY interesting! Especially since I wrote my masters thesis on comics. This is about cartoons. In fact, about cartoons that are very very racist. For the simple reason they were made during such an era. It is very interesting and I do really like the way the two guys in the video discuss this. I would have loved to talk to these two guys while writing my thesis to be honest. It could have been interesting. *geeks out*

( Old Cartoons Were RACIST! )

And while we're on the subject of cartoons, I've started following this cool girl Laci Green on Twitter. She's a YouTuber of some fame apparently, and is doing a YouTube show for MTV. It's all about sex-positivity, gender-positivity and just... positivity all around. :-) I have yet to see a vid by her I didn't enjoy. Here she takes up gender stereotypes in Disney movies. But not the female stereotypes, interestingly enough. But the MALE stereotypes! I really enjoyed that, I have to say! And it's not a 'not all men'-thing and hurt-men-complain-thing. No, no, no... This is a feminist girl looking at stereotypes in a new way, and I do like that. :-)

( How Disney Stereotypes Hurt Men )

And now I'll destroy the swedish reputation a bit... X-D I don't remember who sent this to me, but I am now a fan of the YouTube channel Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time. These guys are NUTS! X-D And, sad to say... very swedish. *laughs ass off* They speak in swedish (mostly) but there's subtitles and they don't speak that much so it's easy to follow if you don't speak swedish. I keep laughing my way through these, SERIOUSLY!!!

( Chop Chop Carnage Stew (Alternative Pyttipanna) )

Also, I happen to like Pyttipanna. A lot. ;-D

And it seems like Netflix is coming up with a very intersting TV-show. Especially if you're a Marvel-fan. A new take on Daredevil. Now, I really like the comic-character, but I feel they butchered the character in the movie. This, however... looks very very interesting. Going back to what the comic is REALLY about.

( Marvel's Daredevil - Teaser Trailer )

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My dear vampire-LARPers...

I just have to put this here, if not for my own memory. I love my LARP-friends, so so so so dearly. No matter if they're 30 years old or 15 years old. We are of ALL ages in that LARP-club. I think that is what makes it such a great club, all them different ages and experiences. We oldies help the young, and the young keeps us oldies young... Sorta. If you all get what I mean? To go there, even if I might play a serial killer vampire that night... It's still the highlight of my month. Just to meet all them people.

I've never really seen me as a brilliant LARPer, or actor for that matter. Since that's what you do pretty much. I just do this because I think it's fun. Yeah, there's a few guys that apparently love playing with me / against me. But I never gave it much thought. Apparently... they did. :-D

Every time we end a chapter, the GM's ask if there's anyone we players feel have done a good job and should get a boost for their character. Apparently some of the oldies new players felt I deserved that. o.O WOW! I'm touched to see that, really. Might not make much sense to anyone that hasn't been involved in a LARP, but I got both touched and tickled to see that. :-)

So here's what they said (Emma is my real given name):

Johnsson has been a GM in the past, and he was one of those that started the LARP 15-16 years ago or so. He's also one of the BEST LARPers I've ever acted against. So to get such nice words from him? Means the world!

Emma - I always know I'll have a very fun LARP when Emma is present. The development between our characters have been a lot of fun to follow and I hope our plans together will continue. Emma should also be praised for all the after work she is doing since most of the time I see her with the dishes at the end of the LARP and most others have gone home.

Thirre was one of the first female LARPers I meet when I started 2001. She is a gorgeous woman, really funny... And scary clever. A wonderful LARPer and actor. And she's the GM of the post-apocalyptic LARP I go to each summer, so to say she got one vivid imagination would be an understatement. She's really REALLY good! She made a list of LARPers she thought were good at acting. Including me.

Acting - These LARPers have shown acting skills either through a variety of characters and/or through different situations where the acting they've shown/done has really given a clear picture of their characters concept and personality.

Then both Tobbe, who has been around in the LARP for YEARS as well, and Lucas one of the younger and newer LARPers made a list each as well, just listing different LARPers and what they thought they were good at.

Tobbe put me down as a LARPer with Good acting skills.

Lukas put me down for Good acting and initiative.

All these things might sound a bit silly for anyone not involved with any LARPing, but for me it meant the world and really warmed my heart. :-) Silly? Maybe.

My goal now is to get my leg as good as possible so I can go to the LARP this Saturday and hug them all! You gotta have a goal right? I can walk moderately well with crutches, so it's not an impossible goal!

And, just because I can, have a few YouTube-vids and links that I've found interesting since last!

Anyone who follows me or peting73 on Instagram knows we suffer a fangirl in the house. Alexandra has turned into a Frozen fangirl of EPIC proportions. Not even joking. I've seen that movie by this point more times than I can count. Nearly every day she comes pulling on me. "Princess, mom! Want to watch Princesses!" which in Alexandra-speak means Frozen. We've tried to show her other Disney-movies, and they work for a little bit, but she always returns to Frozen. So when steinsgrrl sent me this...? I could relate. A bit to well, actually...

We are all this mom... (Snowed in with a Frozen-crazy girl)

I did include a vid about crazy swedes in my last post, and here's another vid about swedish costumes and habits. It's a really fun song! And if you think they joke in the song, I'll promise you they don't. :-D

( Business Like a Swede )

I've ended up following more and more body-positivity bloggers, vlogers and basically people online. Considering I've struggled with my low self confidence for years since I was bullied in school. I founds this. And not only is that girl DROP DEAD GORGEOUS!!! Listen to her. And listen well.

( Plus-Size Swimwear Lookbook )

It's people liker her, my LARP friends who keep telling me how gorgeous I am, and my family who has given the confidence I HAVE gained today. :-) The confidence to decide to buy THIS bikini this summer. I have saved up. I can afford it. I will have it as soon as a LARP-friend or my best friend gets a chance to get over here and take my measurements. :-)

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