I... don't even know where to start this post. o.O

Let's see... I took over the @sweden Monday 13th. Was a lot of active users following it, around 104'000. So there was a lot of questions and comments being thrown at me. But not more than I could keep up with. The nasty ones I just ignored. :-)

It was fun. I tweeted about my days. I tweeted about my city, Borås. I tweeted about books, since I am a librarian. Gave tips for reading about Sweden. What you can do coming to visit Sweden, and what fun there is to do in different cities.

Just what I'd expected to do on such a Twitter account. And the same thing I did, pretty much, when I was a voice for Sweden on The Swedish Number. Only this time I had to write my answers and to a lot more people then I had done then. So it was all fun and games...

Until after midnight Saturday night (swedish time). When Donald Trump held a speech where he talked about refugees and terrorist attacks. "Look at what's happening in Sweden. Last night in Sweden..."

I didn't know about this. Until suddenly A TON of people started to ask the only swede awake. On Twitter. @sweden. What is happening? Are you OK? Is ABBA fine? Have Måns Zelmerlöf been hurt? Etc, etc, etc... Et infinity...

I was left with thinking, what the FUCK is he talking about? Checking all the sources I could think off (because fact-check, people!), I came to the conclusion it was bullshit. And proceeded to tell the followers as much, mostly to reassure everyone and inform, you know?

This went on for all night until I noticed the time. 3:45am. SHIT! Kiddo usually wakes up at 7am, so I hurried to bed for a bit of sleep.

Woke up all groggy and shit and cuddled kiddo in the couch. And checked @sweden twitter. Between 800-900 mentions. HOLY HELL!!! Obviously I couldn't answer everyone, but I answered a few here and there, and kept informing and reassuring that NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!!!

And (gladly) after I had started to wake up, the media-circus started...

First a web-page/web-news page called Mashable mailed me questions about what had happened.... And then, hold your hats, BBC who I did a live-interview with right on air. And Le Monde (from France), DMed me and mailed me. After that, swedish media got in on it. And they to contacted me.

So I had the two MAIN NEWS SHOWS here in my messy home interviewing and filming me. WTF??? Both Rapport and TV4News.

After than it was the local newspaper that called and did a phone interview, Borås Tidning.

At this point I'm so flabbergasted, I had no words. To me, it was no huge deal. I'd spread information, spoke the truth and been myself. That's all. But these people seemed to see it as if I'd spoken against Donald Trump. *shrug* I suppose in a way I had, but I didn't and still don't see it like that.

Next news-site that contacted me and did a phone-interview was The Local who has swedish news in english. And the Daglige Blad from Norway.

And then... BBC contacted me AGAIN!!! X-D So I did another live-interview with them.

That was the last one I did on Sunday. I'd promised both myself, peting73 and Alexandra that I wouldn't do anything after 6pm at night, since... family is the most important after all.

I went to bed quite late again, since the storm had not stopped on the account. I was still the swede of the week on @sweden. And Sunday night was my last night, so I wanted to keep information coming for as long as possible before I had to logg out. So I did. There was still TONS and TONS of questions pouring in and I answered as best I could. Tweeting information and news as best I could. Until finally I was to exhausted and logged out and collapsed in bed.

You'd think since I was not the swede of the week on Monday I wouldn't have anyone calling me? Wrong! SO wrong!

I'd gotten emails during Sunday from the public radio here in Sweden about doing a couple of mornings show Monday morning. So I had to get up early, since the first one was to call me at... 6:45 am.

So at 6:45am I talked to the morning show in Stockholm. 7:15am I talked to the local radio-show Radio Sjuhärad... And at 7:30am I talked to the the morning show P3 Morgon-passet.

After that I threw myself in the shower taking a shower and after that getting makeup on, because after that...

I was to be on BBC (AGAIN!). This time it was BBC News (what??!?!). I didn't know if they wanted with my face to on Skype, so hence the makeup. Proved they didn't need that, oh well...

My mom came over that monday, THANK GAWD! Because during the day I was contacted by CNN in New York, USA.

I... had no words at this point, and more was to come... So we scheduled an interview late that evening my time. (After Alexandras bedtime.)

Mom helped me clean a bit and we hung out. Went to pick up Alexandra and we stopped at the playground, which Alexandra wanted. And when we hung out by the playground I got a phone call from one of my colleagues who jokingly called me the celebrity. Then she said that there'd been a call to them asking for my phone-number. From the swedish government. WHAT??? Of course it was fine if they called me. So they did.

And it was the Head of Staff at the Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström. Who called to give me an official thank you from the swedish government.

WHAT??!??! I was beyond happy I was sitting down at that point, let me tell you.

Mom stayed with us all day, until bedtime. I even dozzed off leaning against her at one point after dinner. It felt wonderful. I swear to anything holy, I'll always need mom. She is my piler of support when things storm around me. She, peting73 and my best friend spicehobbit.

Anyway, later that night CNN called me up on Skype, and everything got set up and all. They were very very professional and effective. The interviewer, live on air and everything, was Brooke Baldwin, apparently. I couldn't see. I only saw my screen, but apparently they had me on image on the show. They had to cut it short though, since Donald Trump announced new members of the White House staff. Which was fine, really!

You'd think that was the last of it, but no...

The day after, Tuesday, I was doing a live-thing on Facebook with a couple of people from The Swedish Institute who runs the @sweden twitter account and are responsibel for it. It was weird but also a lot of fun.

That, however, was the last of it!!!!

Today I've just stayed home and not done a damn thing. GEEZES CHRIST!

So... How was your weekend? X-D *LOL*

And here's all the links to everything I've done. Only thing I couldn't find a link for was the Norweigan newspaper. :-) In case you wanna read, listen or watch. If it's in swedish, I'll make a note for it.

( All the interviews about the swedish incident aka #lastnightinsweden... )

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I promised to say if I got any fun calls on The Swedish Number as a random swede. And I did some time ago actually. While doing dishes. In my pajamas. X-D

I had made myself available to take calls, and I got a call. And it was from a radio station in Paraguay. And I was suddenly live talking on the air.

...

Yes, I'm not even kidding. X-D We had a bit of a language problem since I couldn't speak spanish and they could barely speak english! *LOL* But we made do, and it worked out moderately fine. They wanted to know why I was taking calls, if I thought it was fun. Approximately where I lived in Sweden (so they could look on a map) and the best things I could recommend about Sweden (NATURE, NATURE, NATURE! And Allemansrätten!).

That was a FUN call! The guys were really cute. One of them could speak moderately well english. And I found out he'd learned it from movies. In particular, the Star Wars movies. Apparently such a big fan, he was called Jedi. Ha ha ha! SO AWESOME! They tracked my twitter down after I gave the name to them, so now I know what the station is called. Mandiorama! A bunch of true gentlemen, to be quite honest! So if you know spanish, well... ;-)

Here's their twitter: @Mandiorama and their Facebook: Mandiorama.

Since then I haven't taken that many calls, though. :-P I've amused myself to catch up on the the swedish TV show Let's Dance instead, which is the swedish version of Dancing with the stars. :-) It's very campy and cheesy and filled with clichés, but I can't help but love it.

I also follow a very nice documentary series that try to understand the many many beggers from Romania we have here in the city were I live, Borås. It has become a problem, and the question is HOW to help all these people the best? The documentary series is not saying it has an answer, it just wants to show that these are people too, they have a reason for being here and have lives like everyone else. It's gut-wrenching to watch, but important to, I believe.

What's more been going on? Not much. After Alexandra's run in with high fevers and that fever cramp, things has been going on as normal with her. Nothing strange there.

We visited mom and celebrated her birthday, which was GREAT! :-D When I asked mom what she wanted she said she wanted socks. OK then! The woman wanted socks, she’ll get socks. *LOL* So I bought a lot of fun ones from SockDreams. Made me giggle, and I knew mom would love it. :-)

Only problem was that for some reason they had some problem in the US, namely LA, when the package was to be shipped, so I didn’t get it until it was too late. And I’d ordered it with plenty time to! So she got some flowers instead and we decided she’d get her gift when next we meet.

Two days after we got home, her socks arrived. Which Alexandra thought was so much fun, so day after they’d arrived she decided that we were going to post grandma a package with her socks. *LOL* And Alexandra was SOOOO DETERMINED! So we wrapped them up, we sorta wrote a letter and after dinner we went to the nearest post office and posted it. Alexandra thought it was SO MUCH FUN!

( Alexandra and the package to grandma! )

Silly girl. *lol* Mom loved to get a surprise package though, so I’d call it a success. :-)

Work, well… it’s insane as ever. Preparations for our move from our temporary premises is in full swing behind the scenes. I’ve seen furniture and shelves for the new library presented from four companies, and it looks wonderful. Once everyone else have decided what company they like the most, it’ll be decided and work to start furnish the school and library will start. This a slow process though, and I’m already stressed over August when school starts up again. (That’s healthy… not.) I’m really looking forward to have a totally fresh and new library though! :-D

When not working I’m totally fangirling online like always. A lot of time goes to roleplaying with @Duodeathstar. And to help tattooofhername with her MASSIVE fic Transition! Dark, so very dark a fic. But DAMN! It’s SO GOOD! Proud to be a part of that. :-D

Talking off fandom’s and such, one of my new friends on my friendslist, denorios, has written SUCH an interesting piece of meta on the evolution of fandoms. And it’s SO GOOD! You need to go read it stat! Who is the best fan? The one who followed the band/actor before they were popular? Or the fans that just discovered them? Or are ALL fans just as good? ;-)

What are your thoughts on the evolution of fandom?

You can probably guess my view on the matter. ;-)

Sad thing lately, and well… All of 2016 is all the artistic icons that keep dying this year. Latest in the list is Prince who died last night (my time).
He was such an amazing artist and seemed to have been an amazing human being to. I’m quite sure he’ll be greatly missed. Not only by fans, but family I’m sure.

Here’s Prince’s halftime show from SuperBowl 2007, which is so damn impressive. Pouring rain, lightning and thunder… And what does he do? Rock on in one hell of a halftime show on a slick stage with electric lights, playing several electric guitars and walking around on crazy high heels. The man rocked. Hands down.


( Prince rocking out on stage in pouring rain! )

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Yep. It ended up really fine, that pre-birthday party for Alexandra.

We went over to moms and took it easy the day before. Well, evening before more like. And then during the Saturday, we picked up the cakes that mom had ordered from a lovely little bakery in the village, and fixed everything up... Took care of Alexandra and well... It just was a lovely time of it all. Alexandra got to try something sweet for the first time, that is her cake... I made sure she was only in her diaper in her high chair and let her have it on the cake. I think she got two or three tiny mouthfuls in. The rest was... ALL over her! X-D And I mean that. From head to toe! Not even joking! *laughs* Thank heavens for IKEA high chairs, because they are darn easy to clean up after such a mess! She got lots of clothes as gifts, one handmade with kittens on it that I absolutely find adorable! :-D Not that many toys, and thankfully no soft toys... She got SOOOO many soft toys it is insane!

So all in all it was a success. :-)

And for those that were concerned in my last post about it, I did make a good point about that next year we'll be HERE. In OUR home. :-) I did point it out friendly enough, so no one was hurt or anything, and still I think I got the point got across. I suspect there'll be plenty visits next year. ;-) *happy*

Only sad thing was when we got into discussing the four big predators here in the North. That is: wolf, bear, wolverine, lynx. I love these animals. They are ABSOLUTELY gorgeous and by FAR my favorite wild animals ever. I do have a wolf tattooed on my shoulder/upper arm for a reason... My relatives, however, are mostly farmers. And to farmers any predators are the enemies, so while I am VERY happy the wolves are getting stronger and more plentiful here in Sweden, they are not. And are just as blunt and honest as me in their discussions, so yeah... :-/ Not so much fun to listen to. *shrug* But that was the only thing that put a damper on it. Thank heavens they didn't stay on that discussion for to long. :-P

Now I am preparing for the REAL birthday party on Friday, when Alexandras birthday is. She was, after all, born 35mins after midnight just when it had turned into 9th of August. :-)

I think I got all of it covered, cake, cookies and all. Cleaned the kitchen today, so it shines. And made sure the rest of the apartment ain't to much a mess. :-) So there's that.

AND! Since the big post-apocalyptic Fallout-LARP is this weekend as well, and I can't join, I did prepare some surprises for my good friend who I am doing some plotting with. ;-) I play his lover/mistress, and since I can't join the LARP this year I prepared some loveletters for his character. With some gifts in them... *wicked grin* He'll have a blast checking them out during the LARP! So I have to visit the grounds where the LARP is to take place, just to give the letters to the GM's/organizers. :-)

But that shouldn't take to long, and then... back to cleaning and baking!

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This Boston bombings, gawd... I am so SO grateful that all my friends in and around Boston has checked in and are OK. I am very glad my host family that I lived with when living in the USA don't live there either. *shakes head* It's a crazy world folks. This happens all over the place. Every day. Every hour. Every min. :-/ We should be glad any of us have any compassion and empathy left to teach to our children.

Got this link, and I think it is brilliant. The Boston Bombings and the Cognitive Limtis of Empathy.

And that's all I'll be saying on that.

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Originally posted by steinsgrrl at 798 (129) - All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012

Originally posted by steinsgrrl at CISPA is the new SOPA

Dude. I just watched a documentary about Sarah Palin. A british documentary. Called Sarah Palin - you betcha!.

It was very interesting. The interviewer who traveled around Alaska interviewing people and tried getting an interview with Sarah herself was very polite. They were all open to find out who she was. Tried to talk to everyone. Very neutral and everything. Trying to find ALL sides of the view of Sarah Palin.

So it starts out neutral, even positive! But the more they dig around, the more ugliness they find...

And I gotta say... That is one SCARY woman... o.O I am glad she is far, far away in Alaska and not around here. And if she one day tries to become president? For GAWDS SAKE! Vote against her, will you?

Geezes... The apocalypse is coming? Only true Christians will survive? Only true faith is Christianity (think it is called revival-Christanity...) Thinking she is an anointed one...? No idea how Europe or East Asia looks like...? (Not interesting, since they are not "America", and hence the enemy...) Can't find on a map? Thinks education is overrated? Uses her positions in personal and family vendettas? Has followers online that threatens to kill people?

A scary, scary woman.... hiding behind a smile. *shakes head*

( Trailer for Sarah Palin - you betcha! under here... )

Dat ass... needs a church of it's own. I had no idea the pic I posted of Khal Drogo's ass was from episode two of Game of Thrones. Apparently it was. Holy... o.O I'll just... be over here. Worshiping Khal Drogo's ass.

I think I am turning into a Khal Drogo and Daenerys Targaryen fan. And I ain't even sorry.

Talking about something totally different...

Seen this? Facebook spies on phone users' text messages, report says

Knew there was (yet another) reason I don't have a Failbook. :-/ *shakes head* I have just a few social network apps. Twitter, Plurk and Tumblr. That's enough for me. Let me know if anyone else is a spy, yeah?

Talking about social networking making an impact... I know there has been a lot of my friends on my f-list that has bitched and moaned about Livejournal and the russians and the DDOS attacks and the changes and I don't even know what... Well. You know what. Livejournal is important. And I am not talking about fanfiction and fandom-movements and such. Not at all. I am talking political and a platform for free speech. Don't know what I am talking about? Read this:
LiveJournal: Russia's unlikley internet giant...

There is a reason why I don't mind supporting LiveJournal in any small way I can. By having paid RP-accounts (at least the ones I use regularly) and having extra userpics. Of course it is nice to have the extra bling, but... *shrug* It'll help keep LJ out there. :-)

Talking of journals, I have deleted my Dreamwidth account since I was far from comfortable there. So if you had me friended there, that would be the reason why I am gone from your DW flist. Or whatever it is called there.

I had a journal on Greatest Journal (dead site) and on Insane Journal to, but I've deleted everything. This is where it's at. Only here. Livejournal is my home. Take it or leave it.

And again, something totally different. :-)

I found some really REALLY awesome alternative takes on the Disney princesses the other day... that really talks to the darkfic fan in me. :-) I fell head over heals for this artwork.

( Dark Disney-princesses? You bet your sweet ass... )
All credit to Jeffrey Thomas aka Jeftoon01 on DeviantArt. (Both clickable for BIG!)

Damn, I love these. :-D And he has all these short dark background stories for nearly each and everyone to (Maid Marion HERE) that makes them even MORE awesome! Takes the classical story as it is... and then in the middle of it something don't go as planned... and things twists to the dark. Fucking amazing. My favorite is clearly Maid Marion. Such a badass.

Right, I am rambling. But it is in the middle of the night, so maybe not so strange. ;-) I'll just crawl to bed then. :-P

Originally posted by jadehunter at FYI

Originally posted by musique_style at I can't with the American government.

Well that is just fucked up. :-/ For gawds sake, USA!!! STOP being such a fucking world police! :-/ You are NOT the greatest country in the world! Your laws are NOT the best! Other countries DO exist, thank you! Now leave the rest of the world the FUCK alone! *pissed*

Edit to clarify: It is the government and the policicians I am pissed at. NOT the US-people. Really. You should all know me better than that.