WTF, Game of Thrones? Seriously? UGH.

First though, health. I'm getting a cold. Again. And it has made it's home in my throat. Again. *grump* I did stupid this weekend digging around among my medieval clothing and stuff, and to say my asthma went high wire then would be an understatements. Stupid. So to say my breathing has been fucked up these last couple of days would be an understatement. :-(

Visited my brother Sunday which is always awesome. :-)

And today I had Dogge Doggelito coming to the school to have lectures for the 15 and 16 year old kids. Man, he was AWESOME! And such a nice guy all around. :-D Worked ten hours though and with the above mentioned health issue, I am now EXHAUSTED!

But I did have energy for Game of Thrones. And I liked most of it. I did. I especially liked Theon and Sansa, although seeing Theon leaving was... sad. :-/ I liked him with Sansa, but I guess the guilt was to much for him poor guy. I don't think his sister will be happy to see him back though...

And Ramsey Bolton, wtf with that character!?!?! Anyone with even the littlest bit triggers need to just change the channel as soon as he shows up. For serious. And now he'll be even more dangerous. Especially since he disposed of his newborn brother and his father. Dude. Cold.

No sign of Daenerys yet, but on the other hand we got some sign of life from Bran Stark, which was nice. And we got a flash back from Eddards childhood. Really sweet! (Oh, Hodor is apparently a mystery to! Interesting!) And hey, Max von Sydow played the three eyed raven! MAX FUCKING VON SYDOW! I love that old man! He is SUCH a great actor and has SUCH a presence even at the age of 87 years old. Dude. He'll probably die in front of the camera. He is AMAZING! I love him.

Sorry about the fangirling there...

Then there's Thyrion who probably have the biggest freaking balls of them all. He's a dwarf and he goes to release two dragons that probably just sees him as food... Only they don't, and man, that scene was AMAZING!

But what really bugged the hell out of me was... Jon Snow. I never really liked Jon. He was to good. To noble. To nice. Only time's I could stand him was with his friend Sam. So I was thinking good riddance with him when he was stabbed.

And now the big shocker in the end is that the red woman brought him back (despite having lost her self-confidence and is doubting in her faith).

So now Jon fucking Snow is back.

I'm not happy about that. At all. :-/

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So... I decided to cut a bit more in my flist. I'M SO SORRY! I thought I'd be able to keep up the way it was, but... apparently not. I really really hope this was enough of a cut so I can keep up now. Since I kinda don't want to cut more. To those I had to let go, it's been GREAT knowing you!

Anyone is OF COURSE free to cut me from their f-list as well. I don't mind at all. :-)

And now onwards to something totally different.

Easter was great, it really was. We went to my mothers and spent the night and got spoiled. As per usual. :-) Mom's gentleman caller was there to. They spend as much time as they can together. He is really nice, with a great sense of humor and makes my mom very very happy, so I am happy for her.

I did do one stupid thing though. My sensitivity against cats BLEW UP! Because I forgot to eat my meds. :-P You're supposed to eat them a few days before exposure to whatever it is you are allergic or sensitive against, and... I didn't. Stupid. *face-palm* I have no problem with our cats, but moms? Yeah, problem. And I can't help but cuddle with them, because they are GORGEOUS! And LOVES being cuddled. And totally spoiled. :-)

Plus I got to meet my wonderful, wonderful little brother that I love so dearly! And his kids! BONUS! :-D

So we had a great time!

Only sad thing was that when I talked about my job, which I am sorta proud of managing the chaos and I do very much care about the kids... I found out that mom's gentleman caller was somewhat racist. :-/ Fuck. As soon as he found out the amount of refugees it's in the area I work and sorta how many refugee kids there is at the school I work at... The previously relaxed happy talk turned... less so. Geezes. So disappointed. And he clearly hadn't read up, because he didn't need to, according to him. 'That kind of people are always like that.' *head-desk* UGH! So I just stopped him right there and said I would NOT discuss this until he'd read up on shit and knew what the hell he talked about. 'The Koran tells them to kill and harm.' Seriously? BULLSHIT! Open the damn book before you speak! I am so not talking about my job near you ever again.

Anyway, so apart from that, I had a good time. And Alexandra to, which was wonderful. As always though, she hardly ate anything. And then we came home Monday afternoon and she ate to much and to fast and... threw up all over herself at bedtime. *SIGH* So I had to stay home from work one day so she could recover from that.

The three days I did work has... been both lazy and batshit stressful at the same time. Yeah, I don't even know. And there hasn't been any kids in the library either, or the entire school! I got emails about meetings left and right and... Then noticed that on Wednesday and Thursday next week I'm supposed to be at two or three places at the same damn time. WTF??? I had to ask my boss what to give priority to. *shakes head*

Thank heavens it's the weekend now. And this will be a good weekend, I just KNOW it!

Tomorrow I get to sleep how long I want. SO RARE! SO NICE! OMG! I LOVE MY SLEEP INS! And then tomorrow night it's LARP-night. And I'll play my mentally idiotic but physically extremely strong Gangrel vampire... Let's see how much trouble I can get her in this time? X-D I've played her for nearly 4-5 years now, and she's a riot to play. She really is. It has ended up a bit of a sport for me to see how much shit I can get her in and if I can even get her out in one piece. X-D So far so good. She's still alive (sorta) and kicking. ;-)

I also thought the post apocalyptic Fallout LARP last summer would be the last one in that world/setting, but I found out a few weeks ago that there would be a new one this year. Since the city was NOT going to destroy the lovely military training area were it's been held, but instead restore it somewhat and clean up all the shit in the area. AWESOME! Means there will be A LOT of LARP's and soft airgun games and paint ball games and other sorts of nerdy activities there... And the city gets paid a nice rent every time anyone wants to borrow the area. ;-) Win-win for everyone! It really is a perfect place for a post apocalyptic LARP!

And in a couple of weeks there'll be a special vampire-LARP to! Set in the same world we normally play in, but the medieval ages. peting73 didn't want to go, so told me to. :-D YAY! Gonna be fun!

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I got dragged into a meme. Ho boy... I haven't done anything like these in an age and a half. Here goes...

So for this you're supposed to answer these question with words using a certain letter. And I got the letter W from velvetwhip.

....

W.

WFT? Do you guys know how RARE W is in swedish and how bad I am at finding words for that one? Crap. OK. Here goes.

Something I hate: Oh gawd... I don't know.... W... W... W... WAR! Well, of course. Anyone with half a brain hates war. Or so I hope...

Something I love: Work, actually. That one was easy. I do like my work as a school-librarian despite the crazy ass kids. I thrive in chaos, apparently.

Somewhere I've been: West Point. Yes, that school. I was invited to a trip by my host-family to see the ArmyVSNavy football game when I was working as an aupair in the US. Was... quite interesting, to say the least. At least the buildings is down right breath-taking....

Somewhere I'd like to go: I have no idea. I'm sure there's a city starting with W in Australia, in Japan and in the US (Washington DC...), because I'd love to visit all three of them countries.

Someone I know: I can not think of anyone I know very well starting with W. I do have a few people on my f-list though, but we don't talk overly much anymore. If you are into the Buffy-fandom though and like Spike, I do suggest checking out the works of whichclothes.

A film I like: Walk the line was a movie I did enjoy quite a great deal, to my surprise. Didn't know much about Johnny Cash before watching it. And then there's Wreck it Ralph for the nerd in us (didn't think about that one right away since it's called Röjar-Ralf in swedish...). World of Warcraft hasn't started in the theaters yet, not until June 2016. I can not WAIT to see it though!

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD THIS WAS?!?!? Geezes... I now downright dislike W. :-P

If anyone else dares wants to play, let me know and I'll give you a letter.

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Friday... Oh my gawd, where to even begin?

Well, to be honest i started Thursday already. Doing a few hours in the public library closest the school I find out that the day after, Friday, me and two other school librarians are to meet up and discuss the reading program for the summer holidays so all will be planned and done.

Crap. I'd already made plans with two teachers to have one class come borrow books and to visit another class. And it was my turn to bring in the Friday FIKA muffins...

Stressing already on Thursday I make sure I have the car the next day.

Friday morning I wake up stressed out. Get Alexandra to daycare without any issues, since she is in a moderately good mood these days (she got new pink wellington boots). Hurry back home and pack up the car. Hurry to work, get the FIKA muffins set up, so anyone can grab one whenever they decide to FIKA. Hurry around the school and find both teachers to reschedule. Class borrowing books coming to the library right away first thing when their class started. And then get to the public library for the meeting. I was only 20mins late. I still can't believe I managed that. And to make it worse one of those school-librarians are a whiny bitch, to be quite honest. The smallest thing is a huge struggle for her and she will let you know. Loudly. And then laugh about it. And then whine again. I just can't with that woman. Unfortunately she's the librarian of the school library closest to mine, so... I have to work with her on occasion. Pisses me off, to be honest.

And to think the rest of the day was calm? *LOL* No. I was still stressed the hell out with that start to my day.

So I was supposed to go to the rescheduled class, and when I get there I find out I can't talk to the class right then because they have to discuss these tests that all schools in Sweden do, so no librarian is welcome right then. And I had to reschedule when my schedule for next week already is so insane I just can't with it.

If someone tells me working as a librarian is calm and relaxing I'm going to punch them in the face.

Gladly today has been relaxing and calm. Alexandra wanted to visit her grandmother, MIL. So we did that and I love my MIL. I really do. We talked for nearly three hours straight, if not more. (Yes, I did complain a bit about Peting, her son. And she agreed with me. *LOL* Felt good.)

I'm caught up with F-list now, but not with my inbox. Holy hell, people! o.O I might have to cut a bit in my f-list if this continues, because I won't be able to keep up. I'll give it a few days, but yeah... we'll see. :-) If any of you need to do that as well, feel free to. I don't mind at all. :-)

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Wow... I am really getting back into this LJ-thing, aren't I? It just feels really damn GOOD! :-D Like I'm coming home. Which, you know... It basically is. *checks* My first entry was posted in December of 2003. Damn... o.O Could say I've spent a significant part of my time here.

Work has been good today. REALLY lazy, so I got in some fanfic reading in the midst of it. :-) Well, not 'normal' fanfic reading. I did, what I call it, my 'commenting-thing'. Where I read through a fanfic before it's finished or made official and see what makes sense and what makes no sense etc. Can't be a proper beta, because well... swedish. Plus I suck at grammar in my own language, so having me as a proper beta would just be a disaster waiting to happen. *LOL* Apparently this 'commenting-thing' is popular, since I have done it for three writers. Currently "only" doing it for two. :-) It's A LOT of fun though, or I wouldn't be doing it.

Had some really cute encounters with kids/teens at the school today. :-) I mean, I know this is one (of two) of the most troublesome schools in the city, but that doesn't mean that ALL kids are hooligans. There's some seriously AWESOME kids in this school, from ALL OVER the world. And that is pretty neat. And the best part of this job, to be quite honest. I learn SO MUCH! Also, both headmasters are very pleased with what I've done so far. And rumors has it that my predecessor/previous eccentric colleague won't be coming back. Which means, this library will be mine. *SQUEEE!!!* :-D

Future is looking fucking bright, if you ask me. ;-)

And to finish this post off, as I do from time to time, I'll share stuff I've found online.

First off I give you this. From this Christmas somewhere in the US. I'm always amazed at how much time US-people spend on the light on their houses. This was pretty cool though, and I know my kid would have peed herself with joy over this, the fangirl that she is. :-D

Frozen lights blinking in time with Let It Go...

This I found hilarious. I live in a straight relationship as it were, so couldn't even imagine. How on earth can people actually say this? It's just... nuts.

( Things people ask gay dads... )

On a bit more somber note, this is both disturbing and interesting all in the same time. Because really, only women is beaten, right? Wrong...

( Domestic abuse advert Mankind )

This on the other hand made me laugh. All big hearty belly laugh, as it were. :-D And perfect for International Woman's Day!

( Revealing dress -lady and old almost dead -lady on the tram... )

Talking off International Woman's day... I give you some kick ass strong women in comics. And I ain't talking super hero comics. I'm talking Elfquest, best comic ever made. And this article tells you just why you should read it... if nothing else for the awesomeness that is the female characters in said comic.

To hunt, to howl, to live free - Heather Johannsen on the powerful women of Elfquest

And... Now I need to go to bed. New day to strangel hooligan kids tomorrow. ;-)

Oh! And lastly, those coming over from 'that meme'... WELCOME! I'll do an about my post tomorrow! PROMISE! :-D Glad to have you here!

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I actually enjoy the place I work at right now. Believe it or not. Even if a friend of mine who is in training to become a bodyguard asked if he should come work for me instead...

It's located in the area in this city with the most refugees and refugee kids and it's... probably one of the most troubled schools in the city. But guess what? Even though shit happens ALL THE TIME and I work my ass off (believe it or not), I actually enjoy the place.

Mostly because the staff is GREAT! And come summer, I get to pack up the library and move it from the shitty place we're at now and move to the newly built school. And get a WHOLE NEW LIBRARY! Now if that don't make a girl excited, I don't know what will.

I also try to make good things for the kids at this school with a bit of different class-visits from me and also for the bigger kids I finally (FINALLY!) managed to get the artist Dogge Doggelito to come to the school! YES! *fistbump* He'll be GREAT there since he has grown up JUST like these kids basically.

I just hope I get to stay there. My predecessor and previous collaguege is just on a leave from work trying on another job until June. So he COULD come back, but I highly doubt it. His health wouldn't allow it, I don't think. He has a lot of health issues, and working at this school IS stressful, so his health ain't doing to good when working here. :-P

So in other words, I'm doing really good. Just stressing around like nobodies business. Alexandra and peting73 is doing great to.

Peting got his diagnosis of diabetes not hugely long ago, but is doing fine and getting used to it as well. He is doing a bender with sugar when we have birthday parties or christmas, but other than that he is REALLY strict with his food. So he is doing great. Still sleeping long though *grump*, but doing good.

Alexandra is quite cross eyed, so we're struggling with that. Since she won't cooperate with the doctor. She is going hysterical as soon as anyone tries to examine her or make her do something. So that's not very funny. The doctor hasn't been able to do a proper examination, which means she'll most liekly have to be sedated next time we go there. *sigh* Anything to make sure her eyesight develops properly though.

I'm doing good to, health wise! My broken leg did heal up as it should, so it's doing great. Still struggling with my sugar-addiction, but working on it (ricecakes and tea has become my thing). I do have a longer and a shorter leg, however. Never given me issues before in my entire life, but now my hip on my longer leg has started to protest a little. So we'll see if it continues to do that or not. I might have to do something about it. But that is the ONLY THING! :-)

Life moves on as it should. Alexandra grows so fast it's crazy. She's turning 4 years this summer, can you believe it?

Also I've cleaned out all my inboxes and I feel damn accomplished.

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And here I thought I’d have energy enough to actually update my LJ. Apparently not. *sigh*

And I’ll tell you exactly why I haven’t had any energy and why I’ve been so absent. :-P

So I got a new job, right? Started in April. And to start with it all felt good. Yeah, so I worked ten hours on Mondays, 8am to 6:15pm. And three hours one Saturday a month. But that was fine, because the rest was OK.

But that was because my predecessor had finished off as much as possible.

Then summer came and went, and you all know how busy I was then. All good stuff, but rest? I had none.

And to make matters worse the night between Sunday and Monday, the day before work, Alexandra decided to have a grand performance. And stayed up from 00:30am to 5am. Which left me with only two hours of sleep, and peting73 only three. Night before going back to work. And my first day? Ten hours.

I was not all there, let me tell you…

And the first thing we did, boss and I, after the Monday meeting was to plan all months from August until December with all the dates and hours I was to be at all them schools.

Oh, and to make it even more brilliant. Instead of being responsible for 6 schools, like my predecessor, I am responsible for 8 schools.

Great.

And once we were done planning and I saw my schedule, I panicked. No joke. Yeah, sure. I only do activities ONCE in each class on all them schools. But that’s 8 schools, people!!! Whatever I do, I have to do it AT LEAST 8 times, most likely more. Ugh.

One thing stressed me out the more, and that’s the activity called “booktalks”. What you do then is you bring a pile of books to the class you visit and you talk about the books, what they’re about and why they are so great and why you should read them and why it’s important to read. Basically. Which also means… You have to read a couple of them books….

Yeah…

I have booktalks for grade 3, 4, 5 and 6. In each school. That’s a lot of books. And a lot of books that I’m supposed to read. Cue stressed out. Thank heavens awesome boss helped me find suitable books for each class and dividing them up between schools and classes.

I refuse to do work when I’m not at work, which means I somehow have to find time to read books when I’m at work. Not easy, near impossible. And when I don’t feel like reading, it’s really hard. Even if it is my job.

And to make matters even more fun, during all of August and much of September, much of my time was consumed by the feast given to those kids who managed the challenge The Summer Book Club where they had to read at least 6 books during the summer. As a reward they got a feast. And since I’m a school librarian, I was involved in arranging this feast. And since I’m the newest hired, my other two colleagues took most of the responsibility. My job was to keep in touch with the magician that we’d hired (no problem! cool guy!) and to keep in touch with the janitor off the premise we’d hired (hard to catch on phone, but then no problem).

So no problem, right? Wrong.

See, one of my colleagues are badly burnt out. No kidding. And during this time it got painfully obvious. She barely managed to do what she had on her plate. And me and my other colleague had to remind her constantly.

My other colleague? She quite. She got another job, and then was just gone. Within a week. Boss knew about it, but shit. Not a good timing. Now it was just me and burnt out colleague. And she is incapable of taking any responsibility.

So I ended up responsible for the whole thing.

I did not have fun. Thank heavens I’ve been responsible for crazy shit when I was active in the Sexmasters* at the Student Union Pub, just saying! Because I channeled my wicked Sexmaster personality and turned boss of hell on her ass… *grump* If I hadn’t, things would not have ended up well. Colleague that had quite was there anyway, because the kids knew her and missed her. But she had no clue what to do either. Only me.

I don’t know how, but the party ended up a success. Much thanks to the magician Reggie Simon, I believe. BRILLIANT man! And an american that has moved to Sweden, so I got a bit nostalgic there. :-)

But to say I was a wreck when I came home that night would be an understatement.

So did it calm down after that? No. Hell no. Well, workload yes. A bit. I’ve gotten more comfortable with my job and I am starting to feel that I actually know my shit, unlike panicking all the time which I did during the entire time of August.

BUT! Burnt out colleague… Ho boy… While I got all the schools on the countryside here, she got all the daycare centers. And the responsibility for the art showroom the library have.

And she can’t do it. I’ve seen some of the stuff she’s sent out to parents and employees and newspapers and I’m just… It’s beyond unprofessional, and that’s coming from ME that really is not very professional to start with.

She forgets information to the artists that shows their art in the art showroom (which forced me to stay one HOUR longer than I should have the other night so I could fix that). She sends the wrong information to the newspapers. She forgets when she’s supposed to be at work. She sends what time of day she’s to visit daycare centers, but not what date… She puts books in the wrong place. She loses books. She promises patrons, daycare centers and schools things she shouldn’t, since she can’t do whatever it is and the rest of us don’t have time to.

It’s just one thing after another. Unending. And who gets to clean up her mess? Me and my other awesome colleague and my awesome boss. I’ve worked here since April, and the longer I’m here the more shit I see that she’s made a total mess off. My awesome colleague has been here for 10 years (older rocker guy with nearly no filter, I love working with him) and is so feed up with everything it’s not even funny. And my boss, who hasn’t been here quite as long (and really got no filter either while being an awesome leader, I love working with her to), is so stressed out I fear she’ll burn out badly to…

It’s just an extremely bad situation all around.

We’ve tried to contain it so the patrons won’t notice too much. But now it has becoming harder and harder to do so. Burnt out colleague has some hours in the information desk, but she can’t even do that these days, since the patrons flat out says she’s to confused and they don’t feel they get the help they want.

It’s annoying, stressful, frustrating and beyond all, sad. So fucking sad.

Because burnt out colleague? She was my boss on my very first library job I got at a school library. And back then she was in total control even though she worked way to hard and way to long hours. And we had SUCH a good time working together then, and she taught me so much.

Just to end up like this. It’s so heartbreakingly sad to see in the midst of the stress and frustration.

Anyway, so yeah… That would be the reason why I’ve been absent. I’m just stressed out as fuck, and try to hang on and concentrate on my job with 8 schools and the bookvan once a week.

I have this job until December 31st, so I’m hanging on until then. Not sure I want to keep this job if I’m offered, to be quite honest…




*Still got NOTHING to do with sex. To sexa is an old swedish word that means to party. So it basically stands for partymasters with a bit of an innadu.

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I don't even know how to get all this in one post... o.O I'll try to anyway.

First off, my leg is doing fine. :-) Really well. It's still stiff and I lose my balance sometimes since all muscles aren't all OK yet, but all in all. I've lost my balance two times so far, but I haven't fallen over. So that's good!

I'll just do this in bullet-points. Hope you won't mind!

• My new job is both more relaxed AND more to do than my previous job. How does that work, you ask? Well, more to do since I'm responsible for 6(!) school-libraries on the country-side and so have to drive between them, while my base of operation is at the library. It's more relaxed because even though there are many libraries, I can still decided what I wanna do in another matter, and I'll do the same thing for all the 1st graders (for example) at all schools, so it's less planning. And I get to do some work in the regular library as well. Win-win, if you ask me.



• The first impression of the library I am at still holds what with being friendly and nice sweet workmates. To an extent. What has cracked some is the surface. I have to do a bit more work in the regular library, since one of the librarians there HAS run headfirst in the dreaded wall and had a breakdown. She has gotten better and works more, but she is NOT as OK as she thinks she is. Which ends up with the other librarian having to pick up a lot of her slack, which has him TO be on his way into said wall. To say the mood is not as good all days would be an understatement. :-P



• I've ended up being the dishwasher. No one takes care of the staff kitchen. I guess that is part of the above, but still. Geezes. Having a nice kitchen and staff room does improve your mood.



• The above mentioned male librarian is wonderful a man. He really is. A long haired old rocker boy who goes to festivals and concerts still. And he is a fan of various fantasy book series, and LOVES Game of Thrones. He also finds this thing with fandoms, fanfic, fandom-friends and all that to be really interesting. He don't like social media (like at all!), but he still finds it interesting so we talk about it quite a bit. :-) We're having a great time working together, we really do!



• One of the first days I was alone and on my own I re-arranged the office I work from. One would think all librarians are organized. Not true, for your information. I'm not extremely so, but my predecessor was really a sad case.



• Working from the library van/book van is AWESOME! :-D The schools and pre-schools we visit is so excited to see us! It's wonderful! People being excited about borrowing books makes me happy. And the driver is a HOOT! X-D A mom with six kids, one special needs. And a horse farm. And she's a diehard Dr Who fangirl who reads Dr Who fanfic and goes to convention. And who's husband is building her a Tardis on the farm. Thursdays with her are hilarious even if they are the longest day of the week for me. :-D



• Best part about this is teachers and kids at the schools are all excited about seeing me. It's not like working at a school in the city where the teachers feel you are intruding and kinda don't want you there and the kids are bored and 'do we have to read another book?' You know the kind of attitude... Totally opposite in the schools on the countryside! Which is encouraging really and makes me happy to go to work!



• My schedule is very up and down. Some very short days, some very long ones. And some very late ones and some very early ones. So even though Alexandra's schedule at daycare really changed, she is getting shorter days, so me getting this job was a win for her to, I'd say. Also, we get a smaller daycare bill. ;-)

All in all, I am very glad I took this opportunity to take this job. I think it was good for me, despite the downsides to it. I like my job. Still LOVE my boss! And my workmates are awesome, despite their flaws. I like it. I'm hired until the 31st of December. I hope I get to stay after that to. Fingers crossed!

Next post will be about New Yorkers on the swedish countryside!

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Interestingly enough, things are looking up. :-)

I got the job I wanted! WOHOO! OK, so I didn't dislike the school-library I was at, but... It's a school-library. I was to work as a school-librarian. Again. And it's a really REALLY active! With a lot of kids and a lot of activities and I don't even know what. A good thing of course! But geezes fuck, after working at that bad school? I just want a break from school-librarian work. :-P I am told constantly that I am great at it, and that's always nice to hear. Still though. :-P Please no more schools with crazy ass kids!!!

Instead I'll be working at a library a bit outside of town, in the in one of the small communities outside of town. I think it'll be great. I really do. I'll be the contact/school-librarian (still!) to the tiny schools out there on the countryside. Which will be a lot more fun, I think, then working with the schools here. Small tiny classes 10-15 kids (instead of 20-25 kids) and kids that really REALLY want to meet the librarian when you visit (instead of disinterested troubled kids in town, not all of them, but still). AND once a week I'll be librarian in charge of the library-buss... YES! HOW COOL AIN'T THAT! Just me and a driver and a buss filled with books. I am really looking forward to this, to be honest. *lol*

And today... Oh, today was great as well. I've contacted a cleaning company some time ago and asked them to come do a serious spring cleaning of doom in our apartment. Of course, I'll have to pay them for it. But man. It was NEEDED! And today... Today they were here. :-D It took 2 girls (one older one younger) 5 hours approximately to go over the whole apartment. They only took shelves we've emptied, but that was fine. What I was the most interested in was the ceilings and the walls of the rooms. To get them cleaned. ESPECIALLY in the bathroom! To be quite honest, the walls in our bathroom was... quite disgusting I'm ashamed to say. And the windows got cleaned and the curtains that I've ordered, almost all of them were done, so they are up and it's just... so damn nice here now. I am BEYOND pleased!

While they were cleaning the place we went to my MIL and got dinner and Alexandra got to play with all the toys that she's bought for Alexandra to have there while Alexandra visits. And my MIL is quite awesome, I have to say. She was not just hinting at wanting Alexandra to spend a night there again, she was downright doing the sledgehammer of hints with that. X-D So we'll make sure to make plans for that in the near future. Alexandra loves sleep overs at grandma, and we get a break, so all wins!

Of course, peting73 had to grumble over the fact I got a cleaning company here. Not for there reason you might think though. No, he kept saying I expected to much and would get disappointed. OK? What I wanted most was our bathroom to get a good once over. And it did. Our windows sparkle. And the rest? Even if I paid for it? Bonus. So he can just shut it. *grump*

At least we've now sorted our DVD/Blueray collection, which is good. All cartoon movies / kiddie movies is at a special place now, so whenever Alexandra wants to watch any of her favorites, they'll be easy to find. :-)

All in all, I am VERY pleased with the experience and might do it again. Spring-cleaning is a pain in the ass to do yourself anyway, isn't it? ;-)

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So yeah...

I'm alive, more or less. I just needed to step back and take a break from Livejournal there for a while. Plus, RL got hella busy you could say.

I worked for 9 months at that tough school with all the troubled kids. Which was tough, but oddly rewarding at the same time. My colleague there was... eccentric to say the least and didn't exactly do what he was supposed to. Which he'd hidden from the higher ups. Until I got there. So I hope things will be sorted there now. From what I've heard, he is getting a lot of orders from bosses and stuff to actually do his job. Which, you know... wouldn't have been a problem. If it wasn't for the fact his health is... less then good. I suspect they'll be without a school-librarian there before long. :-P

My employment there ended, so I am now at another school-library. At another school which is both more and less to do. The school I'm at now is really REALLY working with the library so I have A LOT of classes and stuff which is fun and interesting.

(I even dressed up for one of them... ;-) )

And my colleagues there are fun and a bit crazy in just the right amount, which makes me feel RIGHt at home. And it's located next door to Alexandra's daycare. So it takes me ten mins to walk to Alexandra's daycare and 2 mins from there to work. It's bloody perfect. :-)

But of course.... I had to go break my leg.

No really. I literary broke my leg. I was walking to Alexandra's daycare, same road I walk every day, this Friday. The ice was really slippery that day so I made sure to walk slowly and carefully.

Apparently not enough, because all of a sudden my feet just disappeared from under me and I heard a crack when the leg broke and then all I could focus on was pain - pain - pain... And Alexandra crying. Since it was just me and her alone. Luckily it happened outside a house so the guy there called the ambulance right away and two women stayed one taking care of Alexandra and one taking care of me as much as they could. Called peting73 as well, so he could rush from work to take care of ALexandra. He arrived just before the ambulance did.

Once at the hospital I didn't have to wait long before I ended up in surgery where they put metal parts in my leg to keep it fixed in place. And a big cast.

So currently I am feeling absolutely worthless. I can't help peting73 with anything at home. And Alexandra has trouble understanding why mom can't play with her like I used to. I'm more or less stuck on either the couch or on the chair by the computer. It sucks mayorly.

Now I'm on prolonged sick leave. 3 months. And I'll have a cast on for two months at least. I'll probably go nuts before that time is over. :-P

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