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Right, so this trip, this Midsummer-marathon…. *shakes head*
No. It was not a good trip. At all. Well, it had some highlights, for sure. Like the country manor where we had our stop during the trip since we didn’t want to drive 8 hours with Alexandra in the car. That country manor saved the entire trip for me. It was glorious. What a place!
But the goal of the trip, the family of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
peting73’s friend? I felt horribly uncomfortable, frustrated and irritated the entire time I was there. And I don’t think Alexandra liked it much there either nor the long trip, since she hardly ate anything at all during the entire weekend. :-/
It’s sad really. I used to really likepeting73’s best friend. He was fun, amusing, eccentric (in a good way) and just a great guy to be around. But that was at the Student Union Pub and at the Student Union Clubs, especially the Sexmasters*. That club was his life, it feels like. At least that’s the impression I’ve got. And when we were all still active in that club he started running these Midsummer-parties with peting73. And it’s been an annual thing since. But there’s less and less coming to these now. Still he talks about all he is going to invite and how great it’ll be. But really, it’s not. It’s just the same old, same old every year.
And it’s interesting.peting73’s best friend insist on sitting at the head of the table all the time. To run the show and everything. And sure, even if they both worked together to create the best parties at the Student Union Pub way back when, it was always peting73’s best friend that did the talking. (Make no mistake, peting73 has a very sharp and dangerous tongue to, but I guess he was content with letting his friend do the talking then.)
These Midsummer-parties, they give the feeling ofpeting73’s best friend’s try to still live the life of a student active at the Student Union Pub and with the Sexmasters, even if it was years and years ago that was a thing. And that’s a bit sad to.
So that was one thing that made me uncomfortable.
What made me frustrated to the point of nearly screaming and tearing my hair out, well that’s the wife of said friend.
Neither me norpeting73 like her very much. She’s… a bit odd that one. I think it’s because something happened to her, maybe… But I am not sure. Apparently every single place is dangerous and possible lethal. Except where she grew up. That’s safe. When she lived around here with peting73’s friend, she couldn’t go outside without he coming with her. And she called him constantly checking where he was or texting him. And he had to call back to her as well, reporting in where he was and what he was doing and when he was coming home.
So when she inherited the farm where she grew up, they moved there with their two kids, because that’s safe. And yeah, they’ve renovated it some, but… it’s clear that she wants that house to stay the way it is. And it’s a HUGE house to! Could easily hold two families, since there’s a kitchen upstairs and one downstairs. But she can’t clean. It’s filthy there, seriously. Which makes the fact she has started to sell cleaning products, Enjo Products, at home parties somewhat hilerious.
And then there’s their kids. They got two kids, six and four years old. One year younger than my brothers kids. A girl who is the oldest, and a younger boy.
The girl is pretty calm, even though she does get some serious temper tantrums. Which isn’t so strange, because as soon as anything happens the wife screams and waves her arms around and goes somewhat hysteric. Of course the girl does the same thing that mom does.
The boy is more or less out of control. He can’t talk in a normal tone, just loud not quite screaming but almost. His body language is much the same.
Me andpeting73 came to the conclusion that both kids act this way to get attention from their parents. Since they get nearly none, unless they’ve done something their parents deem bad. Then they get a pretty harsh scolding and that’s that. Back to get less attention. For example, when they wake up first (every day more or less) they are not allowed to go disturbed their parents, not even to go cuddle with them. Instead they go watch TV until their parents wake up. I mentioned they’re six and four, right?
And they are not allowed to have ANY toys outside of their rooms. That rule almost dragged Alexandra into trouble. Remember how I told you how messy it was? Well, Alexandra found two toycars under a couch that she desperately wanted, so me and wife (after much complaints) moved it a bit and got them out for Alexandra. She and the son played with them, sorta calmly (he being loud and all) untilpeting73’s friend comes out. And starts telling the son off for having toys outside his room and to get them in his room. Alexandra happily played with the car she had until the son tried to pull it out of her hands. Which, according to peting73’s friend was OK. Hell no, I say. HELL NO! All kids should be taught to not pull toys out of other kids hands. So a bit of a conflict there since I put my foot down. I’d just had it.
And then I found out from the girl, who was very VERY sweet with Alexandra to be fair, that you can’t walk down the stairs unattended nor climb over the gate they have for the stairs or you’ll die…. o.O Because that's’ what her mom told her. That girl is six years old. GEEZES CHRIST! *rubs forehead*
Oh, and to add to the stress, Alexandra got a bit sick from all the dust and from the windy weather this weekend. She got a HORRIBLE cough and got a bit sniffly. Which caused her to throw up. Every night this weekend. URGH!
You can tell my weekend has been horrible, can’t you? Thank heavens for the country manor where we rented a room. It was SO GORGEOUS I JUST CAN’T EVEN!!! Bångbro Herrgård. Yeah, that site is in english. If you follow my Instagram though, you can see the photos I took there myself. It was calm, serene and relaxing there. JUST what I needed after the stress of the rest of the weekend. I LOVED that place! To bad it’s a five hour drive there, but man… WOW! It’s family run, and only has 12 rooms, but that’s some rooms let me tell you. And they are really trusting to! They just left the key in the mailbox for us to pick up. Then they checked in on us, and made sure there was this HUGE breakfast for us (and we paid of course!). But other than that, we got the whole place to ourselves. Amazing. :-D
I love love LOVE staying at small family run places. Yet another little small hidden secret part of Sweden that we’ve found to add to our little list. :-)
So you could say that 75% of the weekend was horrible, and 25% was glorious. One thing is for sure though. I am not going next year and neither is Alexandra. Talked topeting73 about it while we were driving home, and he totally understood and had no problems with that. I love that man so much, you have no idea…
*Still got nothing to do with sex. To “sexa” is a very old swedish word meaning to party. So, Sexmasters = Partymasters.
This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.
No. It was not a good trip. At all. Well, it had some highlights, for sure. Like the country manor where we had our stop during the trip since we didn’t want to drive 8 hours with Alexandra in the car. That country manor saved the entire trip for me. It was glorious. What a place!
But the goal of the trip, the family of
peting73’s friend? I felt horribly uncomfortable, frustrated and irritated the entire time I was there. And I don’t think Alexandra liked it much there either nor the long trip, since she hardly ate anything at all during the entire weekend. :-/It’s sad really. I used to really like
peting73’s best friend. He was fun, amusing, eccentric (in a good way) and just a great guy to be around. But that was at the Student Union Pub and at the Student Union Clubs, especially the Sexmasters*. That club was his life, it feels like. At least that’s the impression I’ve got. And when we were all still active in that club he started running these Midsummer-parties with peting73. And it’s been an annual thing since. But there’s less and less coming to these now. Still he talks about all he is going to invite and how great it’ll be. But really, it’s not. It’s just the same old, same old every year.And it’s interesting.
peting73’s best friend insist on sitting at the head of the table all the time. To run the show and everything. And sure, even if they both worked together to create the best parties at the Student Union Pub way back when, it was always peting73’s best friend that did the talking. (Make no mistake, peting73 has a very sharp and dangerous tongue to, but I guess he was content with letting his friend do the talking then.)These Midsummer-parties, they give the feeling of
peting73’s best friend’s try to still live the life of a student active at the Student Union Pub and with the Sexmasters, even if it was years and years ago that was a thing. And that’s a bit sad to. So that was one thing that made me uncomfortable.
What made me frustrated to the point of nearly screaming and tearing my hair out, well that’s the wife of said friend.
Neither me nor
peting73 like her very much. She’s… a bit odd that one. I think it’s because something happened to her, maybe… But I am not sure. Apparently every single place is dangerous and possible lethal. Except where she grew up. That’s safe. When she lived around here with peting73’s friend, she couldn’t go outside without he coming with her. And she called him constantly checking where he was or texting him. And he had to call back to her as well, reporting in where he was and what he was doing and when he was coming home. So when she inherited the farm where she grew up, they moved there with their two kids, because that’s safe. And yeah, they’ve renovated it some, but… it’s clear that she wants that house to stay the way it is. And it’s a HUGE house to! Could easily hold two families, since there’s a kitchen upstairs and one downstairs. But she can’t clean. It’s filthy there, seriously. Which makes the fact she has started to sell cleaning products, Enjo Products, at home parties somewhat hilerious.
And then there’s their kids. They got two kids, six and four years old. One year younger than my brothers kids. A girl who is the oldest, and a younger boy.
The girl is pretty calm, even though she does get some serious temper tantrums. Which isn’t so strange, because as soon as anything happens the wife screams and waves her arms around and goes somewhat hysteric. Of course the girl does the same thing that mom does.
The boy is more or less out of control. He can’t talk in a normal tone, just loud not quite screaming but almost. His body language is much the same.
Me and
peting73 came to the conclusion that both kids act this way to get attention from their parents. Since they get nearly none, unless they’ve done something their parents deem bad. Then they get a pretty harsh scolding and that’s that. Back to get less attention. For example, when they wake up first (every day more or less) they are not allowed to go disturbed their parents, not even to go cuddle with them. Instead they go watch TV until their parents wake up. I mentioned they’re six and four, right?And they are not allowed to have ANY toys outside of their rooms. That rule almost dragged Alexandra into trouble. Remember how I told you how messy it was? Well, Alexandra found two toycars under a couch that she desperately wanted, so me and wife (after much complaints) moved it a bit and got them out for Alexandra. She and the son played with them, sorta calmly (he being loud and all) until
peting73’s friend comes out. And starts telling the son off for having toys outside his room and to get them in his room. Alexandra happily played with the car she had until the son tried to pull it out of her hands. Which, according to peting73’s friend was OK. Hell no, I say. HELL NO! All kids should be taught to not pull toys out of other kids hands. So a bit of a conflict there since I put my foot down. I’d just had it.And then I found out from the girl, who was very VERY sweet with Alexandra to be fair, that you can’t walk down the stairs unattended nor climb over the gate they have for the stairs or you’ll die…. o.O Because that's’ what her mom told her. That girl is six years old. GEEZES CHRIST! *rubs forehead*
Oh, and to add to the stress, Alexandra got a bit sick from all the dust and from the windy weather this weekend. She got a HORRIBLE cough and got a bit sniffly. Which caused her to throw up. Every night this weekend. URGH!
You can tell my weekend has been horrible, can’t you? Thank heavens for the country manor where we rented a room. It was SO GORGEOUS I JUST CAN’T EVEN!!! Bångbro Herrgård. Yeah, that site is in english. If you follow my Instagram though, you can see the photos I took there myself. It was calm, serene and relaxing there. JUST what I needed after the stress of the rest of the weekend. I LOVED that place! To bad it’s a five hour drive there, but man… WOW! It’s family run, and only has 12 rooms, but that’s some rooms let me tell you. And they are really trusting to! They just left the key in the mailbox for us to pick up. Then they checked in on us, and made sure there was this HUGE breakfast for us (and we paid of course!). But other than that, we got the whole place to ourselves. Amazing. :-D
I love love LOVE staying at small family run places. Yet another little small hidden secret part of Sweden that we’ve found to add to our little list. :-)
So you could say that 75% of the weekend was horrible, and 25% was glorious. One thing is for sure though. I am not going next year and neither is Alexandra. Talked to
peting73 about it while we were driving home, and he totally understood and had no problems with that. I love that man so much, you have no idea… *Still got nothing to do with sex. To “sexa” is a very old swedish word meaning to party. So, Sexmasters = Partymasters.
This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.
Re: Psych Rotation Stories
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