If you remember I didn't do that good before Midsummer. And in the end, that might have been a blessing in disguise. Which sounds weird as fuck, but hear me out here.

I was still down and a bit out of it during packing in the morning, to the point I almost pissed Peting off, because he figured I could try to see something good with the trip. And I did!! I did! Meeting my huge insane extended family is GOLD! It was what kept me going, to meet them all at my aunts as she holds her annual Midsummer party the day before Midsummer Eve.

So, once we packed (which actually went surprisingly well... very surprising!), we were on our way to meet up with my aunt and her family. One of my cousins are still globetrotting, which she's done for years, but her two siblings would be there. Those three cousins are the closest to me of all my relatives. We grew up as siblings almost, since our mothers are so close.

We hung out with my aunts husband (totally awesome!) and one of my cousins until my aunt got off work. Then we just hung out, talked and helped her. Alexandra charmed everyone that saw her, as par usual, even if she was very shy at first. Also normal. Peting left early, since he had an 8 hour drive to do from my aunts to his friend further north in the country.

Which is part of what stressed me out and left me feel totally out if it. Because now we're basically dumped at my aunts. I didn't know when my mom was going to show, and I knew she just wanted us to drive her to the next party with her gentleman caller and then we'd be abandoned at her home for Midsummer Eve. Just me and Alexandra. By ourselves. During a holiday usually celebrated with family. (Unless you are a teen or of drinking age, then you just get drunk.)

Either way, it felt really depressing and stressful. My aunt hugged me lots and kept saying her sister was insane that she didn't want to hang out with me and Alexandra on Midsummer Eve when we so rarely get to go to visit her.

A bit past 8pm Alexandra was starting to whine that she was tired and wanted to leave and go to bed. She was being very good and had stayed up more than an hour past her normal bedtime, so totally understandable. I had a ton of packing, so I asked my aunt, cousin and some more relatives to help me carry my stuff to mom's car, since she'd arrived an hour or so earlier.

And then it started. How I was supposed to drive her and her gentleman caller here and there BEFORE I could go home to moms and put me and Alexandra to bed and the things there was in the fridge for us to eat, classical Midsummer food, and this and that and I just...

I lost it a bit. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I did. So mom and aunt and one of my second cousins (that I adore) saw and heard.

Everyone hugged me and helped me and all was good. I drove off, just me and Alexandra. She was sooo tired, but was doing good and even though I said she could sleep in the car, she didn't. The phone went off twice during the drive, but I couldn't answer and drive at the same time during the evening, so I figured I'd see who it was once Alexandra was in bed.

She did great, went to bed at mom's feel asleep and all, after almost an hour (!), but that was expected when not being in her own bed.

Checking my phone while unpacking the car (headphones is the shit), it was mom that had called and texted me. She was upset I was upset and all... and when I called her she said she'd cancelled her plans with her gentleman caller so she could be with me and Alexandra.

I felt bad about that, guilty that she cancelled her plans. I had her car, but some relatives drove her home. We hugged and talked and it was all good.

We ended up having a GREAT Midsummer Eve! Probably the best one I've had in a couple of years. Ever since Peting started to go visiting his friend by himself, I'd say. I kept feeling guilty about ruining mom's plans, but it faded eventually.

My aunt and her husband came over to, and we had SUCH a good time! We really really did! Mom told me she had such a great time to, and I believe her! I could tell she wasn't just saying that.

We ended up staying with mom for a whole week! :-D Midsummer Eve and Midsummer Day just me and Alexandra. Peting joined us late late Midsummer Day. The day after that my brother dropped off his kids, and they stayed there as well for the rest of the week. FULL HOUSE! *LOL* It was great. :-D It really was. Alexandra had a blast the whole time. There was much giggling to be heard every night when them three kids was going to sleep. *LOL*

And I managed to relax to! Me, who am always stressing over one thing or another managed to STOP doing that and just... relax and hanging out with the kids. It was GREAT!

We took it easy at mom's, went to the public pool, cooked and baked together... It was WONDERFUL! I could see mom had a blast to being surrounded by all three of her grandkids at the same time, which is pretty rare.

So that whole trip ended up amazing, even if it had a very rocky start. :-)

On Sunday snowstormskies is coming here for her, by this point, annual visit! I think it's the fourth time she visits, unless I've lost count. *lol* We don't have any huge plans. Just to hang out, visit mom and go to Karlsborg's fortress. Going to be nice, I think! :-D

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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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So... Last stop on my busy summer story... If that is even a word.

And before this event, I had started work. And dude. STRESSFUL!!! I'll get to that shortly, but important to know is that I was stressed out as hell. Don't think I've ever been this stressed out.

Anyway, so with that in mind... of course the giftcard I'd ordered from IKEA (which the brides wanted), was late. Very stressful. And I just about managed to get time off to go to the wedding. More stressful.

In other words, it didn't look like I'd end up enjoying my trip. Luckily, that was wrong. I had a LOVELY time!

The two brides are my long time friends silvestris and chigrima. None of them very active on LJ anymore, but it's their fault I have one! It all started here and on silvestris's website! She's an amazing artist, and that's why they hung out online talking. :-)

And, not to forget, chigrima and I wrote our masters thesis together.

I swear, I would never have managed to get a masters degree if it wasn't for her. And I told her as much in the speech I held. chigrima is the most academic person I know. For serious. (Her brother and sister agreed with me on that, as it turned out, since they pointed it out in their speeches to! X-D)

But I'm getting ahead of myself. :-)

My wonderful wonderful best friend spicehobbit was also invited. And since she lives quite close by, we borrowed mom's BIG car (a Volvo V70, they're huge) and took the ferry over to the island Gotland where silvestris and chigrima lives. Unfortunately that meant we had to leave Borås at 5am in the morning, so I got up at 4am... Less fun, but we managed.

There's one bigger city on Gotland only, Visby. Where the big Medieval Week is heald in beginning of August every year. Me and spicehobbit has spent so much time there, so as soon as we got of the ferry and I saw the great stone wall of Visby, I squeed and all the stress just flowed off of me.

As soon as we found our hotel, which was really close to where we got off the ferry, me and spicehobbit wanted to explore Visby and remember all the good times we've had. Poor peting73 didn't have much choice but to come with. Alexandra was going in her pram, and was quite content with watching all the strange things going on around her. She was mostly pleased with the sheep shaped jersey barriers. Gotland is famous for all their sheep, so I would guess that's why they’re sheep shaped. *grin*

So Friday was spent shopping and exploring Visby and having a really good time. Alexandra was quite well behaved, even when at the restaurant we found to have dinner at. Not the best one, but hey... they had meatballs and so the kid was happy. *lol*

Next day when we'd woken up in our rooms after sleeping for 10 hours (!). Our room was HUGE by the way! One bedroom, one kitchen/seating room with a kitchenette and one small bedroom for Alexandra... So perfect for us! Such a great hotel! Almedalen Hotel, if you're interested. ;-)

So next day, Saturday... and the day for the wedding... we first made our way to the church ruin where they were getting married to see how long it would take for us to walk there. And to find the way. Then we explored some more. Gotland might be a flat island, but Visby REALLY is not. *lol* So many steep streets and narrow alleys with medieval cobblestones... You need good shoes in that city!

We found a nicer restaurant and Alexandra promptly started "flirting" with one of the waiters, who totally played back with her! Was hilarious! And so cute! He was a great guy, and got a good tip! Food was GREAT to!

Alexandra also found a softie sheep and promptly wanted it, so a sheep she got. *grins*

Then we went back to the hotel and got all snazzy looking and stuff. :-) peting73 went the whole nine yards and even styled his beard and mustache. SO HANDSOME!!!! Me and spicehobbit had bought our dresses from Modcloth, and they looked quite nice, if I do say so myself. :-)

Then we made our way to the church ruin again where friends and family of the brides had gathered.

We got let in, and got a little wedding program from the brother of one of the brides, one each, and then we found a seat in the church. About in the middle or so, so we could still see quite well. I lifted Alexandra up so she could stand on the bench to see better.

And when the brides walked down the isles, Alexandra got all excited. “Princess, mommy! Princesses!” X-D Yeah, so… They are now and forever Alexandra’s princesses. *lol*

The wedding ceremony was great! Short and beautiful. The brides had written their own wedding vows and walked out to my all time favorite song: Bette Midler’s The Rose. There was a lot of happy tears among the guests, let me tell you!

After the wedding we got invited to a walk through beautiful Visby and listen to the long and colourful history of the city. Well, parts of said history anyway. Until we ended up at Fenomenalen, a science center for kids of all ages. Very old. Or very young. ;-)

Before we got seated, the families had arranged for a little competition among all the stuff in the science center, before we got a chance for food. *lol* Was a lot of fun! Kids and adults working together!

The dinner and everything was served on the second floor of the science center, which was…. somewhat crowded to put it mildly. Which made sure it ended up very VERY hot up there! Us and another family with slightly older kids (like my brothers, I’d say) ended up closest to the stairs down to the toys. Apparently we were all LARPers, and all though that family was friendly and all, I just got the… to-much-feeling from the mother. She was so chipper, giggly and overly supportive of her daughters, I had to take a step back and wonder what she was on…

Apart from that, we sure had a great time! Alexandra kept it up until 9pm, which was very impressive! She’s just 3 years old, and the trip and the wedding was a huge adventure for her. She was doing great!

When the brides left it was only 11pm, so me and spicehobbit decided to go for a drink. astroflammante, skarvsladden (and husband) and tekiila who were there for the wedding to, decided to join in. So we went to a really nice little pub and nightclub in Visby, The Munkcellar. We had a GREAT time talking about chigrima and discussing the wedding. And, of course, the good old days at the Student Union pub where I meet these awesome ladies.

After that me and spicehobbit our back to the hotel and our rooms. Collapsed and slept so DEEPLY! And, at least me, very very happy for the beautiful brides. :-)

Sunday we had more of the great breakfast, after Alexandra woke up. She slept until about 9am, which was GREAT! Then breakfast and… you guessed it… more shopping and exploration of Visby. *lol*

Most of the shopping we did was at Kränku. A tea/coffee/and random stuff associated with the same -store. *lol* Family owned! They mix their own flavours of tea there, which is AWESOME! SO MUCH YUMMY STUFF!

We bought peting73 some kick ass whiskey coffee! (So expensive!) And a gift for MIL since she’s taken care of our cats while we’ve been gone. A nice metal box to keep coffee in. And Kränku’s special roasted coffee. :-D

Once it was time, we gathered us all in the car (with all the packing!). Drove spicehobbit to one ferry terminal, since she took the ferry towards Stockholm to meet up her parents there. We? We took the ferry back to Oskarshamn and then drove for four hours back here to Borås. We arrived somewhere between 11pm and midnight. Alexandra slept the whole way. Was perfect.

The whole trip went so much better than I thought. And I had SUCH a great time!

And, of course, I am RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY for silvestris and chigrima!!!!

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Back to work today. Feels weird and good. I have an easy start though. This week I am working at the library closest to where I live. So it takes me about 5-10 mins to get to work, which is quite the difference how it’ll be later on... I wish I could work there all the time. I love the patrons there and the other librarians that work there. It’s an integrated library, meaning it’s both a regular library and a school library at the same time. And since I love working with both things, it would be perfect for me. Not to mention, Alexandra’s new daycare is in the neighboring house...

Nothing to be done about, I suppose. I know shit will hit the fan when I get back to the school library where I usually work. I have this week here (bliss), next week at a library outside of town (I haz the car), and the week after that... time to unpack the library I packed before I went on my summer vacation/holiday. AND plan and start up my anti-bullying project that I have a budget to use for.

Oh yeah. Back to work. With a vengeance. Can you tell?

It’s good that I keep busy though. If I’d been unemployed I would just have gone around thinking about Tashé constantly. I can’t help but wonder if she would still be alive if I’d been unemployed and able to talk to her more? Crazy thinking maybe and it’ll probably drive me crazy to, but I can’t help it.

Mom, my brother and his kids and spicehobbit came over to visit yesterday. It was good. I needed that, all them hugs and the love. It was nice. We took all the kids and went downtown to the big new playground there and let them lose. It was brilliant. If a bit hot. We have a bit of a heatwave here in Sweden currently, and you can definitely feel it. But the kids had fun, and I had cold drinks with me for everyone.

Then we went to grab a fika at a fika-place close by. While we were there... it started to rain. A lot. So we were quite wet once we got to the car. And after the drive up to our home and the run from the car at the parking lot? We were all soaked! *lol* But I had plenty clothes to hand out to everyone so no one had to walk around wet.

After that little adventure we had dinner and all the cousins played the afternoon away until it was time for them to leave. It was lovely. It really really was.

Week before that I spent 5 days with mom, including my birthday-weekend, so we got home this Wednesday last. She’d arranged a barbecue on my birthday and invited a few friends and neighbors.. and family... *smiles* *shakes head* She’s a bit nuts my mom, and she loves to arrange parties and get-togethers. It was a success though, and I did have a lovely lovely day. Days after the celebration was spent lazing around and also peting73 doing a mad dash back home and returning because he forgot his pain-meds (STUPID!) and me going out drinking and clubbing with my globetrotting cousin Mariell, who have since left to work at an insanely luxurious hotel at the Maldives again.

Good times were had, and I am trying to keep them in mind to ward off too much of the sadness I feel. It’s there, and it should. But I can’t drown in it. I have a family to take care of and be with after all.

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... I created a LiveJournal.

Had I only known how much it would change my life, ups and downs, I would have thought twice about it.

I even named my first entry First Entry... It's HERE if you wanna see. I was writing much shorter entries back then. Short and quick. And I remember I shared a TON of memes and tests.

What happened to all that I wonder? It's not 'cool' to do anymore?

I wanted to do something special for my tenth year anniversary. Like... I don't know. Offer to write a ton of drabbles or something. Or... Maybe even do a giveaway or something...

But I really don't feel like it.

Lately I've tried to figure out why I don't want to post that much anymore. And the other day, I think I figured it out.

It's not LJ's fault. They've done nothing wrong in my book, just tried to develop the site to the best of their ability, and keep it alive and thriving.

But it's the negativity that has spread though the sites users like a plague. Because as soon as I say that I like LJ, I get negativity. As soon as LJ is doing anything, I see negativity. It seems like no matter what, there's negativity. No one even wants to give any changes a chance. And that makes me sad. Bottomless sad. :-/

LJ will continue to be my home though.

Ten years. I created my LJ in December 2003. Just months before, in September 2003 I meet peting73. I've had this LJ for as long as our relationship has lasted.

I've written about my struggles with the Sexmaster's society, the Student Union and it's pub, and writing my national masters thesis at the University here. About my friends and family. About the loss of my father, even if it happened before I got this LJ. About my struggles getting a job. About the job's I've had and lost. About the vampire-LARP and how I've been doing there. About my mixed feeling's about moving in with peting73, and later the fact that all went well. About losing my old friends that I grew up with. About becoming an aunt, and the joys with that. About my disease, Endometriosis, and the struggles with that. When we got engaged, right out of the blue. And my journey to get pregnant, even if I kept it very vague since we wanted to keep it a secret... And when we told, and I've never gotten that many comments on one single post... Birth of Alexandra, and my struggles being a new mom bottle feeding my baby girl...

Just... life. I've shared my life here. Every single detail. I've always been an open book, even in real life. Honest like few others. It's a warning I always give. Disgustingly honest person here. It goes both online and in real life that warning. My RL friends enjoy it, likes it, seem to want it... And I hope that those who have stuck around here on LJ do to.

I'll be here. Seems like nothing can drag my away from this place. I hope someone might take a moment to give me a comment here... Because I miss the discussions I've had in comments like I don't even know what. Used to get 5-15 comments a post... Now I'll be happy if I get two.

Things change. Life moves on.

But one thing's for sure. I'll be here. And continue to be here until the site finally closes down, if that ever happens...

Oh! And I changed my layout to what I can remember being the closest to what I used when I started using this site... Not exactly, but close enough.

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This has probably been posted by a milion and one on any blogging / journaling platform there is where fans and fandoms exist... But I can not get over how VERY true this is. And I keep going back to it again and again and again and again...

Three cheers for fans and fandoms! *pulls out the vodka*

Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption. Fandom is sitting for hours in front of a TV screen a movie screen a computer screen with a comic book a novel on your lap. Fandom is eyestrain and carpal tunnel syndrome and not enough exercise and staying up way, way past your bedtime.

Fandom is people you don't tell your mother you're meeting. Fandom is people in the closet, people out and proud, people in costumes, people in T-shirts with slogans only fifty others would understand. Fandom is a loud dinner conversation scaring the waiter and every table nearby.

Fandom is you in Germany and me in the US and him in Australia and her in Japan. Fandom is a sofabed in New York, a roadtrip to Oxnard, a friend behind a face in London. Fandom talks past timezones and accents and backgrounds. Fandom is conversation. Communication. Contact.

Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. Fandom is Snacky's law and Godwin's law and Murphy's law. Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you've ever had them.

Fandom is female. Fandom is male. Fandom lets female play at being male. Fandom bends gender, straight, gay, prude, promiscuous. Fandom is fantasy. Fandom doesn't care about norms or taboos or boundaries. Fandom cares too much about norms and taboos and boundaries. Fandom is not real life. Fandom is closer than real life. Fandom knows what you're really like in the bedroom. Fandom is how you would never, could never be in the bedroom.

Fandom is shipping, never shipping, het, slash, gen, none of the above, more than the above. Fandom is love for characters you didn't create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn't create. Fandom is appropriation, subversion, dissention. Fandom is adoration, extrapolation, imitation. Fandom is dissection, criticism, interpretation. Fandom is changing, experimenting, attempting.

Fandom is creating. Fandom is drawing, painting, vidding: nine seasons in four minutes of love. Fandom is words, language, authoring. Fandom is essays, stories, betas, parodies, filks, zines, usenet posts, blog posts, message board posts, emails, chats, petitions, wank, concrit, feedback, recs. Fandom is writing for the first time since you were twelve. Fandom is finally calling yourself a writer.

Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak.

Fandom is distraction. Fandom is endangering your job, your grades, your relationships, your bank account. Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.

Fandom is where you found yourself.

(Written by hesychasm and originally posted RIGHT HERE. Credit where credit is due.)


I just want to show this to all my friends and relatives that don't know what fandoms and fans and fanfic is... Because it is just that good.

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FINALLY! The last birthdayparty/summerparty/vist/what have you is over. It's the same thing every year from mid-July to beginning of August. Tons of parties and birthdays and I don't even know what.

And everyone in my crazy family goes there. No matter if you are only months old or 70 years old. You show. So I feel awful those times when I can't show. Because I KNOW those parties are AWESOME! They always are. And there's so much love everywhere and just...

Sometimes I regret moving two hours away. Because it is SUCH a pain in the ass to drive every time. But then again, I have Peting and Alexandra here... Not to mention ALL my friends that accept me and love me for who I am. So I wouldn't wanna live anywhere else. :-P

Today though it was my cousin who had her 25th birthday party. Wow. I feel old. o.O

Anyway, my cousin did a smart move. She invited EVERYONE at the same time. Relatives. Friends. Work-mates. Everyone. X-D Which came out to a total of 69 people. And she'd bought food, soft drinks, alcohol of several kinds, desserts, coffee... Anything you could ask for, and offered it up to everyone that showed up.

Now THAT'S a party! It was a lot of fun, despite me being a bit down on the traveling. It really was. :-) And Alexandra did GREAT! She usually goes to bed at around 7:30pm. Now we didn't leave until 9pm, and she STILL behaved great, playing with my mom! :-D

Didn't take long before she fell asleep in the car though. ;-) *lol* And it worked great getting her up to the apartment and down in her bed again to. She woke up. Got a new diaper. Some gruel. And then promptly feel asleep again. :-D

She is quite easy to handle. Well, most of the time. ;-)

So yeah. No more traveling back and forth... until Christmas time. And that is quite far off yet. :-)

Also, I've apparently come back to the habit of updating here again. Damn. That feels REALLY good! :-D

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Right, so... after our little vacation trip it was time to clean out the apartment. Like... seriously. It was not so very nice here, if I put it that way... And we didn't have that much time to do so! Because we got home the 16th... and on the 17th I had a Doctors appointment and on the 19th I have my birthday... SO CUE STRESS!

17th I got up early to go to the Doctors office... but when I got there, they said I should have been there the 15th. When I wasn't even in the city. WHAT! Hell no! On the note they sent me it SAID 17th! But of course I'd thrown that away and the young nurse in the reception didn't believe me. :-/ Gladly the nurse that me and Alexandra usually meet up with was there and she helped me so I got another time with the same Doctor in the afternoon instead. :-P Thank heavens for friendly helpful people!

So home I went and collapsed on the bed! It was my turn to sleep in, and I wanted to take full advantage of that. ;-) Even though it was slightly ruined...

After that and Alexandras feeding times and her naptimes... We went grocery shopping, because after our vacation, our fridge and freezer was pretty much empty. Refill, refill. Plus I needed to buy stuff so I can bake something for my birthday. :-)

And then, the Doctors office again. And I gotta say, even though I was annoyed at the troubles, that Doc was wonderful. :-) What a lovely man!

Remember when I went to the ER so many times since I couldn't breath? Well. Apparently I got asthma. So now they are starting an medical investigation to what kind of asthma it is... There's more then one, apparently... o.O I had no idea. At least the Doc said it couldn't be the cats, since if it were I wouldn't be able to breath at any time at all! Thank heavens for that...

So after being interviewed by the Doc, we had dinner... and then during the evening when peting73 put Alexandra to bed, I cleaned the entire kitchen. Except the floors. :-P And baked coconut muffins.

Next day MIL, awesome woman, came over. She took Alexandra with her to babysit her for the day. First time Alexandra was somewhere else with someone else than her parents... :-D And it worked GREAT! They spent the day hanging out at peting73s aunt's garden. :-)

Which sounds absolutely blissful since during that time me and peting73 cleaned out the entire apartment. Well, apart from the kitchen that I'd already cleaned. :-P And I baked TWO sponge-cakes... to add to the muffins I baked the day before.

But the apartment SHINED! And the fridge was filled with food and cakes and it felt great when we went to pick up Alexandra and thank MIL. Apparently Alexandra had been a doll all day and not complained once. Brilliant. MIL will be used as a babysitter more then once after this, I can assure you... ;-)

I felt really accomplished after all that, even though it really sucked while we were doing it. :-P

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No one should be surprised over this... ;-) Here's a sharing post!

This will be in a jumble I am sure. *lol* Anyway...

First up, I really like this sign language translators view on her work. I really do. :-) I'd love to see her work on a concert one day!

Meet the interpreter who has signed for the Wu-Tang Clan, Killer Mike, and the Beastie Boys.

And this kinda made me smile, especially since I try to start exercising more.. and I as well try not to be seen as I try to run in the tracks... by looking down and looking away... So yeah. I loved this. :-)

( To the fatty running on the Westview track this afternoon: )

Talking of weight, this to made me smile. It really did. This couple ROCKS! :-D

I'm Overweight and My Boyfriend's Not. Big Freaking Deal.

And this? This is just to freaking cute! :-D James Marsters who played Spike in Buffy... gets to meet his mini-me... Or Mini-Spike at any rate! :-D Such an awesome character he created is STILL gaining fans! Such a cutie! :-D

( Mini-Spike meets real Spike!  )

Maybe I should buy this book once Alexandra is getting old enough to have an argument...? Which will most likely be shortly. :-P

How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk.

Will admit to consider that...

Hey, Dreamwidth users! :-) This might be something of interest if you like to use different layouts and such... ;-)

Tutorial: Using Flexible Squares at Dreamwidth (Smooth Sailing, Mixit, Nebula)

I am considering trying this out on my secondary journal, to be honest...

And, who said bag pipes are boring? Seriously, this guy rocks... ROCKS! Rock on, mate! :-D *LOL*

( The BAD PIPER!  )

Here's his website... And he is pretty much naked on his official poster... ;-D *grins* The BadPiper.Com.

More music! I do so love music. :-) This to was pimped by one or another of my friends, and I gotta say... Even though I am no huge country-fan, this music-vid was gorgeous. All props for the artist to be an openly gay guy in such a macho music-genre. :-) Loved it. Absolutly loved it. :-)

( All-American boy by Steve Grand )

Such a gorgeous gay storyline in both the song and the vid, wasn't it? :-)

And then I got this from another one of my friends who started talking of not having enough spoons... Cue me being confused. But when she showed me this, I kinda got it. Brilliant theory to explain the unexplainable. So others can understand. If any of you start talking spoons, I will most likely get it next time. :-) Or at least have an easier time trying to. :-)

The Spoon Theory

Good way to explain the unexplainable, wasn't it?


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Oh hum... Tomorrow Alexandra will have her baptism... even though neither me nor peting73 are religious in ANY way shape or form, she'll still be baptised. I never saw it as a religious thing though. And I've been to my fair share of baptisms, what with having a HUGE family. I see it like a.... Oh... How to say...? Like a naming-ritual and an occasion to celebrate the new member of the family. You know? If Alexandra wants to leave church and join another or not be a part of any at all when she grows up, then by all means I'll support her all the way. :-)

I was baptised, went to Sunday School until I was 12, done my confirmation and everything.... But I am far FAR from religious. I'd most likely call me an atheist then anything else. But I haven't left the Church of Sweden. I'd like to be married in a church one day... Not to mention be buried in a graveyard without my relatives having to pay to much...

Anyway!

Baptism. Tomorrow. :-) Looking forward to it! The antic baptismal gown is ready and waiting, fixed up so it won't fall apart to much. I've ordered food for everyone, and yesterday and today I baked 6 (!) chocolate swirl cheesecakes! I couldn't do all of them on the same day, since they took 1 and half hour in the oven. Ugh! But we tried one, and they are delicious, so the time spent is well worth it. :-) Two didn't turn out to great (doing two in the oven at the same time = bad idea apparently...). But the other four look wonderful, so I'll say the collapsed ones for last tomorrow. :-)

Mom is coming a bit early with her big car, to help us drive all the food to the parish house that we got to borrow and hang out and eat in. :-) We'll be around 30 people there, what with friends and family! :-)

It'll be a lot of fun, I think!

I know I have complained a lot on peting73 lately, since all he has been home sick and stayed in bed until 3-4pm... I know, I know... if he'd been well, he'd be working until that time, but it ain't the same. I see him in bed, and it has just... bugged me. Apparently it COULD have been gastric catarrh... We are not sure, but he has gotten way better lately what with us eating nicer food... Not fried and not to spicy. (And he loves spicy food...) Let's hope it turns out alright tomorrow... *crosses fingers*

What else, what else...

Oh yeah! In the midst of preparing for the baptism, me and Alexandra started going to Baby Swimming classes! :-D

It is at the public bath (that has some water park elements) so it is a bit noisy and big even in the changing rooms, so I figured Alexandra would be scared by it all. Oh no! Not my daughter! *lol* She was VERY CURIOUS at the whole thing, eyes HUGE when she was looking around at everything. No crying, no nothing. Just curiosity.

Not even when we went into the pool, used specifically for classes like this. It is warmer in the water and in the room where the pool is. And there were to leaders there to, giving us tips and ideas how to hold such a lil baby in the water and some games one could play... Four moms and babies we were! It was SO MUCH FUN! And Alexandra truly enjoyed it to, splashing around and grinning the entire time! It was only for 30mins, but lil babies like this... It is enough for them, really.

I am so so happy I decided to do this with her! :-D We got ten more Wednesdays to go, and I hope it'll be this fun every time! :-D

Now to bed I go so I can be awesome mom tomorrow for the baptism! Wish us luck and a well-behaved baby! :-D

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