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This is KSena

Usually a friendly sort. Be nice to me, and I am nice to you. Here I ramble on about me, life, work and fandoms. I am a fan of Robin of Sherwood, Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy: the Vampire Slayer, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tokio Hotel and Sons of Anarchy. I don't apologize for anything I write here. This is my mind. And you entered it. Welcome.

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Alexandras 1st birthday!

Aug. 10th, 2013 01:39 am
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So... Today Alexandra turned 1 year old.

It's mindblowing. One year has FLOWN by! It feels like it wasn't that long ago I was at neonatal care worrying about her, and she was just days old.

Now she is one years old, walks around while holding on to things, laughs and "talks" (I need the baby-translator from Simpsons...). She is very active and happy most of the time. Very easy to bring around on trips and meet new people. She seems to be quite secure in herself and not afraid of things. Even though she wants mom and dad sorta around, she ain't afraid to explore areas when she's been there for a lil bit. Or to sit in a strangers lap, well... stranger to her, but friends and relatives of ours. She loves our cats, and crawls after them all the time! Skuld accepts her, while Verdandi is still a bit weary... I did notice today though that Verdandi is slowly relaxing around Alexandra to. Took a year, but I am confident. None of the cats have shown any aggression against Alexandra at all. And Alexandra is really good with the cats. When she does the baby/toddler petting motion (looks like she's about to hit the cats), me or [livejournal.com profile] peting73 just says 'Pet carefully, Alexandra", and she does. She really does. She is very gentle with the cats for being so little.

She is a good kid/baby/toddler, and I am very proud of her already.

To the little birthday party here in our apartment, our HOME, we had quite a few guests! :-) MIL was the first to arrive... with a ton of gifts. Then [livejournal.com profile] peting73's aunt and cousin came along. With more gifts. And his uncle by marriage. Then my darling best friend and Alexandras godmother [livejournal.com profile] spicehobbit also came along with more gifts. And then my brother and mother to! With yet again MORE GIFTS! X-D

Oh yeah. Alexandra has been really spoiled today! LOTS of new toys today and a few clothing stuff. And something to save for when she gets older to. :-)

It was a lovely day all around, and Alexandra behaved wonderfully. She got to stay up 1 hour later than normal, but since there were so many people there and so many new toys, she hardly noticed. When we put her to bed though at around 8:30pm, she feel asleep so fast it was crazy! X-D

So yeah. I've had a great day. [livejournal.com profile] peting73 did to. And so did all our guest, our family. This day. Was wonderful. :-)

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Birthday party, take one! Yay?

Aug. 2nd, 2013 01:52 am
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Tomorrow we are going to visit my mom and do a pre-celebration of Alexandra's birthday.

Pre-celebration, what you mean you might ask...

Well, my relatives are very lazy. It is apparently easier for US to do the two-hour trip to the area where THEY live (and mom) than it is for them to do the same trip to visit us. Hey. And here I thought it was the same no matter what way you went. :-/ Also, mom got a house. Gawd forbid you can have a birthday party for a baby-girl in an apartment... :-/

So we'll borrow mom's house and garden and have our selfs a little birthday party there.

It saddens me a little, because doing it this way means my relatives and [livejournal.com profile] peting73's relatives never get the hang out. And that, quite frankly, sucks. :-/

So, I think we'll only do it this way this year. Next year, when she turns two, they bloody well have to suck it up and take that trip or not congratulate Alexandra at all. So there.

I feel kinda torn about it. :-(

On one hand, I want Alexandra to experience the HUGE crazy family gatherings I got to experience when I grew up.

But at the same time, we live HERE. This is our HOME. Why can't they visit us, when they expect us to visit them all the time? :-/

So, yeah. It'll be fun to meet all and all that this weekend, but I do feel very torn about the whole thing. :-/

Oh well.

At least there will be cake and cookies.

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Ma Birthday! :-D

Jul. 22nd, 2013 11:24 pm
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So, the 19th this month I turned 36 years old. Ladies and Gents... I am officially old. X-D And should really stop fangirling young boys. *lol*

Anyway, it was JUST what I wanted. :-D Calm and nice. And lots of holy unhealthy food. X-D I'd baked two spongecakes, one with vanilla and poppy seeds and one with passion fruit in it, and some coconut muffins. And there were coffee and there were tea (for those like me who don't drink coffee like nearly everyone else in this country!) and for dinner we had swedish pancakes with yam! :-D So lots of sweet stuff got eaten!

[livejournal.com profile] peting73s aunt and family came over, of course! MIL to, naturally! And my darling mom! It was awesome! And Alexandra behaved great, which made the whole thing even better. :-D

I got gifts to, of course! It's not a huge pile of gifts, but still they are awesome in their own right. :-) I got a gift card from my MIL for pedicure/chiropody, which is something I've wanted to do a long time, since I've never done it. :-) Then from [livejournal.com profile] peting73s aunt and her SO, I got another little charm for my Thomas Sabo bracelet! (THIS one!). It's really cute! From his cousin, I got a vanity case filled with nail polishes! X-D I am not joking! 14 of them in various colours! SO COOL! I am going to have a lot of fun with those, that's for sure! (Totally blaming my nail polish addiction to two things: Buying my Konad-stuff... and seeing [livejournal.com profile] fyredancer post stuff...). From my mom I got some really REALLY rocking earings! :-D SKULL-earings! From a swedish brand called Rock By Sweden. They are SERIOUSLY cool! (THESE ones!) And from [livejournal.com profile] peting73, the darling man, I got Sims 3 - Pets! WOHOO! Never played any Sims-game, so that should be fun! :-D I wished for it, so... :-)

So yeah, that was my birthday loot. :-D Not a bad one, if you ask me. ;-)

[livejournal.com profile] peting73's relatives and mom didn't stay that long. His cousin gets all edge and can't stay for long in one place, so they all left with her. Mom was a bit late, since she'd worked during the day, so she stayed until 11pm! o.O And then drove home for two hours! She's nuts! But I love her. She is a good driver though (if a bit fast), so I am not worried about her driving late and far. :-)

So, yeah... :-) My birthday. Soon time for Alexandras! :-D

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The little vacation-trip...

Jul. 20th, 2013 01:41 am
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Argh! So behind on everything! o.O

I'll just split this up in a few posts...

So. Trip first. :-)

We went and stayed with mom for about a week, which was all kinds of awesome to be honest! :-D Not that we did that much, but it was nice to just get away from everything for a while. :-) Not to mention being spoiled. And Alexandra was the one that was the most spoiled. *lol* She got gifts from mom twice during 6 days... ;-) That should be quite telling! *grins*

And then there was mom's big 60th birthday party barbecue party that she'd arranged for friends and family. :-D And it was SO MUCH FUN! I love taking a drink or have some wine and such at times, but I haven't really since Alexandra was born... and now I got my chance to! :-D So I spent that night slightly tipsy since there was so many people that brought wine, not to mention mom has quite the load standing around at home to. :-) So that evening was spent drinking, eating and just have a laugh! My mom and my uncles wife and my aunt get slightly insane when drinking wine, and this was NO exception! X-D Listening to those three, it is easy to see where I've learned it all... If I put it that way. ;-)

Loved hanging out with my brother to, since he spent all day that day at moms. :-D His kids where with their mother, and he didn't want to be alone, so he came over and helped out with mom's stuff for the party. :-) Not to mention he and [livejournal.com profile] peting73 where the designated grill-masters. X-D

So that was all kinds of awesome!

Mom worked on Monday and Tuesday, so when she left home on Monday afternoon to work during the night, we all left for the neighbouring little town/village that is AWESOME during the summer. Hjo. It is a gorgeous place with a lot of hte old buildings left in the "city"center. :-) Not to mention the BEST icecream place EVER! So we spent our afternoon there.

Also, mom has THE BEST neighbours ever! She wants to get rid of all her flowerbeds and most of her garden paths. So one of her neighbours came over and did short work of one of the garden paths... so now grass will grow there instead and there won't be a sign left of it. :-) And then her garage is old and the walls aren't very good, so he has also promised her to fix the walls on it for her. So he started doing that on Tuesday... and worked really quickly to! Of course, he'll get some pay for it, but really. If mom didn't have all them AWESOME neighbours, she wouldn't be able to stay in her beloved house that dad fixed up for her (and us).

On Tuesday we left to go home, but made a stop to visit Mariell, my BELOVED cousin who is globetrotting all over the world! :-D She has now moved from Doha, Qatar to Muscat, Oman. Still working for the same spa-company, Essence Spa, just in another country. :-) Anyway, she had to come back to Sweden suddnely since her passport and visa ran out! OUPS! X-D So she'd just gotten home the day before when we visited her. :-) It was AWESOME to be able to give her a hug and just hang out like we used to do! And, of course, she was THRILLED to meet Alexandra properly to!

It was a great trip, filled of love and family and friends. :-D And not to mention relaxing. :-) Much needed. Alexandra behaved GREAT! And loved crawling around on moms big garden! Not to mention hunting mom's four cats... X-D

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A less than happy post, but...

May. 20th, 2013 10:51 pm
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Yeah, I just have to get this shit off my chest...

My worry levels spiked this winter, let me tell you... My brother... My beloved brother... He and his wife has had some serious troubles in their marriage since before Christmas... and longer then that... And then, when he called me before Christmas all falling to pieces? He told me she'd gotten an apartment of her own. Behind his back. *sigh*

Not to get into to it much, but safe to say it has brewed this. For a while. I mean, my brother is by no way innocent in all this. But he recognizes that. And he has gotten help through therapy and he also fixed family counseling that they both went to for a while and still do. He has REALLY worked on himself.

But to no avail. And now they've divorced. :-/ So. Damn. Sad.

I am not angry with my brothers ex-wife. Not at all. I just find the whole thing very sad. And I worry about their kids to. They'll live every other week with my brother and then with their mom.

I am worried about her to. There is so much... things that she is doing strangely. She ain't fucking my brother over, don't worry. But there are other things that she does that ain't making sense. Sometimes I think she has... kinda lost herself, if you get what I mean? *shakes head*

My brother is absolutely heartbroken. They meet at school when they were both 16, and she is the love of my brothers life. Still is. And he loves his kids more then anything. He's a wonderful father all around. So this has really broken him down.

He is slowly dealing with everything that comes with a divorce, and we call each other several times a week.

The strange thing is, before all this? Me and my brother called each other about once a month. We talked about an hour when we did, but that was about it. So despite all the sad, I am... in a way... happy we've grown closer to each other again. He says I am his big support right now, despite living 2 hours away from him. I am happy I can be there for him, I really am. He is my baby brother, and I do hope he'll live through this and come out stronger on the other side.

Tough times indeed. At moments like these I am glad I got my fathers patience and steady temper and my mothers stubbornness and strength and both their bluntness and honesty. Seriously. My parents rocked/rocks.

Just had to get that off my chest... :-P

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