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I can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve posted here. Insane. I don’t think it’s ever been that long since I lasted posted here in my home. Nuts.
To say my life has changed would be an understatement. I am now a working mom, working full time. Alexandra is in daycare every day (and loving it, I might add…). The time I have to sit and poke around on the internet is very very limited, unfortunately. Hence the very very few posts here.
As you might have guessed, I got the better job. Full time on a BIG school with around 500 students age 6 to 15. It’s a really tough job. There’s 30 languages spoken in this school plus swedish. In other words there’s a TON of refugee kids and quite a few immigrant kids here. A lot of the refugee kids have some seriously bad memories with them that they struggle to deal with, understandably. Which makes them act out. At the adults in the school. Teachers, staff… librarians. :-P Add to that the fact that the whole library has to move AND we have a new catalogue on the computer where we add all the books. And only one computer where we can actually do any work.
To say this job is stressful would be an understatement. I’d just like to fast forward to July since then A ) I have vacation and B ) when I get back from vacation the whole move will be over. And THAT would be blissful! To not have to worry about the move.
I am not the only librarian in this place. I have a colleague who is a really sweet man, if somewhat stubborn. He is from Iran originally. Had to flee since he and his wife was part of the resistance. Speaks five languages so the refugee kids naturally love him since chances are he can speak their language.
He lived in Teheran in Iran. Told me about his escape and how it was to be in an iranian prison the other day. Was like listening to a damn movie. For me, who has grown up in peaceful Sweden, there’s no way in HELL to properly understand how it is for refugees to have to leave their home, life everything behind. But to hear someone tell me in person, it does help. I hope it helps me understand all these kids to.
We don’t always agree on everything though, even if I do like him as a person. He has failing health, but do you think that means he’ll take it easy? Oh hell no. *shakes head* And he has this tendency to save EVERYTHING and to get attached to stuff, which ain’t really good. Especially not with a move coming up…. He had another colleague here before me who went into retirement five years ago. I found her slippers and her stuff all over the library and I asked him why. Told he still waited for her to come pick it up. Riiiight… So when I was alone in the library there for a while I made a coup. I took all the stuff I could find that was hers and put it in boxes. He wasn’t happy, but apparently called her so she came over and actually picked it all up. Amazing… So now I’ve meet her, and she’s… nice, but seems to be a bit of a special person to.
Now we have less than a month to make sure all books are registered in the catalogue and to pack up the entire library. There’s no way we’ll fix it, but I’ll keep working with that in goal.
So that’s work, what do I do when not working?
Not many hours left at the end of the day, let me tell you. I’m not home until 4:45pm, so I try to hang out with Alexandra as much as possible when I get home.
Can you believe Alexandra is soon 2 years old?!?! o.O Time flies has gotten a WHOLE new meaning since I ended up a mother. She grows so FAST! She’s a tall kid for her age, or so I’ve been told. Runs around all over the place and “talks” all the time. I don’t quite get what she is saying yet, even if there are words in there that I do recognize at times. But it’s definitely getting there. More and more recognizable words every day. I think we’re doing good that reads for her all the time. Makes sure she gets a good vocabulary. And I can not WAIT to find out what is going on in that little mind of hers. She has started having temper tantrums at times, but thanx to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snowstormskies I have a bible to follow, Toddlertaming by Dr Greene. I’ve only read half of it so far, but it has already put my mind at ease about so so much. So THANK YOU for that tip! :-D With the help of that book, hopefully we’ll survive the toddler-years… ;-)
So when I am not dealing with Alexandra or visiting family (my brother who got divorced is doing SO much better now, btw), I’ve dived down the deep end with my absolute favorite pastime…
Roleplaying. And LARP.
I still go to the LARP every other day, and I still love it SO FUCKING MUCH! I’ve always been self conscious about my weight and the way I look, even when I try not to be. But there, at the LARP-club, I’ve always felt accepted for who I am. And no one has an issue with having their character fall in love with my character and pretend to be in love with me and go around hugging me and such. In fact, I’d say the three most handsome young men in their 20’s are the ones that claim to have the most fun playing lovers to my characters and acting that out with me. X-D I guess I should take that as a compliment. ;-) I got some of my best friends there, I have to say. Love that gang of young people to death!
And when not spending an evening doing LARP, I am writing miles and miles of text in various roleplaying games with friends and in communities online. I’ve been doing that since 2007, so I really don’t wanna know how much I’ve written through the years. I’ve saved everything I’ve written with friends though, which is a lot of fun to go back to and re-read. :-) And get ideas for possible continuation. ;-)
I also keep track of the two communities I run, fo course!![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
gs_daily and tokiohotelslash! Weekly and daily posts in both! That does keep me a bit busy, but long live scheduled posts, that has helped tons for me! :-D And now when Georg has his own Instagram, I do get new photos of him regularly to add to G’s Daily, which is awesome! I just hope Gustav will start his up soon… I bet it will be fabulous!
Right, so…
I fully understand if no one had the energy to read through all this, or even care anymore since I don’t have the time to read up on my f-list. It’s fine. I understand. I won’t stop posting though. Might be more rarely, but there will be posts forthcoming. :-)
This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.
To say my life has changed would be an understatement. I am now a working mom, working full time. Alexandra is in daycare every day (and loving it, I might add…). The time I have to sit and poke around on the internet is very very limited, unfortunately. Hence the very very few posts here.
As you might have guessed, I got the better job. Full time on a BIG school with around 500 students age 6 to 15. It’s a really tough job. There’s 30 languages spoken in this school plus swedish. In other words there’s a TON of refugee kids and quite a few immigrant kids here. A lot of the refugee kids have some seriously bad memories with them that they struggle to deal with, understandably. Which makes them act out. At the adults in the school. Teachers, staff… librarians. :-P Add to that the fact that the whole library has to move AND we have a new catalogue on the computer where we add all the books. And only one computer where we can actually do any work.
To say this job is stressful would be an understatement. I’d just like to fast forward to July since then A ) I have vacation and B ) when I get back from vacation the whole move will be over. And THAT would be blissful! To not have to worry about the move.
I am not the only librarian in this place. I have a colleague who is a really sweet man, if somewhat stubborn. He is from Iran originally. Had to flee since he and his wife was part of the resistance. Speaks five languages so the refugee kids naturally love him since chances are he can speak their language.
He lived in Teheran in Iran. Told me about his escape and how it was to be in an iranian prison the other day. Was like listening to a damn movie. For me, who has grown up in peaceful Sweden, there’s no way in HELL to properly understand how it is for refugees to have to leave their home, life everything behind. But to hear someone tell me in person, it does help. I hope it helps me understand all these kids to.
We don’t always agree on everything though, even if I do like him as a person. He has failing health, but do you think that means he’ll take it easy? Oh hell no. *shakes head* And he has this tendency to save EVERYTHING and to get attached to stuff, which ain’t really good. Especially not with a move coming up…. He had another colleague here before me who went into retirement five years ago. I found her slippers and her stuff all over the library and I asked him why. Told he still waited for her to come pick it up. Riiiight… So when I was alone in the library there for a while I made a coup. I took all the stuff I could find that was hers and put it in boxes. He wasn’t happy, but apparently called her so she came over and actually picked it all up. Amazing… So now I’ve meet her, and she’s… nice, but seems to be a bit of a special person to.
Now we have less than a month to make sure all books are registered in the catalogue and to pack up the entire library. There’s no way we’ll fix it, but I’ll keep working with that in goal.
So that’s work, what do I do when not working?
Not many hours left at the end of the day, let me tell you. I’m not home until 4:45pm, so I try to hang out with Alexandra as much as possible when I get home.
Can you believe Alexandra is soon 2 years old?!?! o.O Time flies has gotten a WHOLE new meaning since I ended up a mother. She grows so FAST! She’s a tall kid for her age, or so I’ve been told. Runs around all over the place and “talks” all the time. I don’t quite get what she is saying yet, even if there are words in there that I do recognize at times. But it’s definitely getting there. More and more recognizable words every day. I think we’re doing good that reads for her all the time. Makes sure she gets a good vocabulary. And I can not WAIT to find out what is going on in that little mind of hers. She has started having temper tantrums at times, but thanx to
snowstormskies I have a bible to follow, Toddlertaming by Dr Greene. I’ve only read half of it so far, but it has already put my mind at ease about so so much. So THANK YOU for that tip! :-D With the help of that book, hopefully we’ll survive the toddler-years… ;-)So when I am not dealing with Alexandra or visiting family (my brother who got divorced is doing SO much better now, btw), I’ve dived down the deep end with my absolute favorite pastime…
Roleplaying. And LARP.
I still go to the LARP every other day, and I still love it SO FUCKING MUCH! I’ve always been self conscious about my weight and the way I look, even when I try not to be. But there, at the LARP-club, I’ve always felt accepted for who I am. And no one has an issue with having their character fall in love with my character and pretend to be in love with me and go around hugging me and such. In fact, I’d say the three most handsome young men in their 20’s are the ones that claim to have the most fun playing lovers to my characters and acting that out with me. X-D I guess I should take that as a compliment. ;-) I got some of my best friends there, I have to say. Love that gang of young people to death!
And when not spending an evening doing LARP, I am writing miles and miles of text in various roleplaying games with friends and in communities online. I’ve been doing that since 2007, so I really don’t wanna know how much I’ve written through the years. I’ve saved everything I’ve written with friends though, which is a lot of fun to go back to and re-read. :-) And get ideas for possible continuation. ;-)
I also keep track of the two communities I run, fo course!
gs_daily and tokiohotelslash! Weekly and daily posts in both! That does keep me a bit busy, but long live scheduled posts, that has helped tons for me! :-D And now when Georg has his own Instagram, I do get new photos of him regularly to add to G’s Daily, which is awesome! I just hope Gustav will start his up soon… I bet it will be fabulous! Right, so…
I fully understand if no one had the energy to read through all this, or even care anymore since I don’t have the time to read up on my f-list. It’s fine. I understand. I won’t stop posting though. Might be more rarely, but there will be posts forthcoming. :-)
This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.
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Date: 2014-05-20 11:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-26 01:58 pm (UTC)However said it was relaxing workign in a library is a liar. X-D
Most of the kids are awesome though, so it's rewarding as well. :-)
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Date: 2014-05-21 12:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-26 02:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-21 08:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-26 02:01 pm (UTC)I need to update Alexandra's to, I KNOW!!! X-D I really should get into that. I post a lot of photos of her in my Instagram though. ;-)
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Date: 2014-05-22 11:18 pm (UTC)No, I can't believe Alexandra will be 2 soon! Wow! She's growing up so fast! I always love seeing the pics you put on Twitter or Tumblr--she's beautiful! <3
Hope that you continue to be well and take care and find time for yourself to keep having fun! Love you!
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Date: 2014-05-26 02:03 pm (UTC)Thank you about Alexandra! :-D I don't know what I did right when it comes to her. But it must have been something. ;-)
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Date: 2014-06-09 11:59 am (UTC)Your new job sounds very stressful, though interesting. I'm glad Alexandra likes nursery. I hope the toddler years won't be too bad. I look back on them very fondly now. Kids are little for such a short time.
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Date: 2014-06-11 12:48 pm (UTC)It IS very stressful, but at the same time nice to know I still got the knack for it. :-)
Yep. Alexandra does have her share of temper tantrums. But only at home which makes sure we constantly get comments on what a sweet natured kid we have... X-D
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Date: 2014-09-15 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-09-16 10:43 am (UTC)I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees Livejournal as a home on the net. It's been that to me for nearly 11 years now. Insane.
Lately a lot of people have had dreams about me, especiallly about me visiting! I wonder what that means! *lol*