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OMG! The Christmas Marathon is OVER! *collapses*

This has been our schedule this Christmas:

23ed: Visiting peting73's mom to meet up with his relatives, exchange gifts and hang out and celebrate a mini-Christmas. :-) The gifts exchanged there are only supposed to cost 30SEK (4,30USD), but I cheated a little so Alexandras and peting73s was a lil more expensive. I found some AWESOME bargains on Tradera.Com, though! I am SOOO shopping on said site again for birthdays and christmas next year! :-) Alexandra behaved great, until it was time to open the Christmas gifts... She freaked out at the sound of the ripping of wrapping paper! X-D So we had to take her out of the room... *lol* She got tons of gifts (of course) and grandma had cheated and bought her a few extra and more expensive ones (of course)... Was a great day!

When we got home we prepared and packed as much as possible for the next day...

24th: Pack up all off us in the car with packing and such (geez, you need a lot ot stuff to travel with a baby...), and drive to my aunts for Christmas Eve celebration. In Sweden, the main Christmas celebration is on Christmas Eve. So, TONS of food and candy was eaten. And we drank some serious amounts of Julmust... as always on Christmas. We also watched Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul on TV, as every year. An odd tradition in Sweden that was a bit hard to explain to one of my cousins friends from Estonia (I believe...) who was there visiting. It was wonderful though. All of it. :-)

Alexandra behaved great this time to! She took plenty naps and ate good all day, and didn't freak out QUITE as badly about the wrapping paper this time. *lol* We stayed there almost until midnight, playing games and talking and I don't even know what... Alexandra slept most of it, of course, but that is OK when you are only 4 ½ months old. :-)

And the biggest gift of all... To be able to hang out with EllaBella (Lifemattertome on Twitter), my darling cousin all day. She has changed so so much, and I couldn't be more proud. She has turned into a thinker and filosofer... a lover of culture and different people on the planet. And still, without losing that fun-loving party-girl that can have men at her feet if she wants. She is so beautiful and so strong... that woman. She is meant for great things. She gave us some lovely gifts to! Me and peting73 got two books about Qatar, and Alexandra got some very pretty clothes she'd bought there and a soft toy: a dromedary (Arabian camel). How awesome ain't that???

Anyway! Onwards!

25th: We stayed at mom all nights, so we slept there and during Christmas Day... we didn't do a thing! *lol* We ate a ton of food and even more candy! (I've probably gained a ton in weight... and it doesn't help that we got a lot of candy as gifts to!) Alexandra was a good girl all day, even when being head-butted by moms HUGE cat Måns! X-D So we just lazed around, didn't do much at all. Earlier years we used to go watch a Disney-movie in the movie-theaters, but since Alexandra is so small we watched movies all day instead.

During the evening we watched an old favorite of mine: Lethal Weapon, the first one. And while sitting there, I got a sudden craving for slash between Riggs and Murtaugh.... *HUGE head-desk* I don't even know, people, but now I can't get it out of my head. So if you find any? Do let me know... *cough* I am a weirdo and it has finally been proved...

26th: Next Christmas-party... Yes, on Boxing Day my brother always have a Christmas party for my dads side of the family, and one can NOT miss this, of course! So off we went! It was GREAT fun! More gifts were exchanged! And hanging out with my brother who I've been talking to SOOO much lately on the phone was beyond awesome, really! I love him! He is the best, he just don't know it all the time... Good thing I am good at hitting him over the head with it to let him know he is.

Anyhow, my niece and nephew always get SOOO excited to meet Alexandra, they hardly left her alone a minute! *lol* Well, she got to take naps, of course, and they were almost fighting about whose bed she was to borrow... (She had plenty naps, both beds were used.) And during the Christmas gift exchange, she was actually quite calm during the ripping of wrapping paper. I guess she finally got used to it. *lol*

So that was a lot of fun! :-) We left said party and drove straight home during the late night, two hour drive. It went very well though, and Alexandra slept the whole way. :-)

Then yesterday, 27th, we were HOME!!! SO NICE! And just lazed about. I'd say we needed it.

But it is NOT over yet! *lol*

Since EllaBella will soon return to Qatar (soon moving to Oman), she wanted a gathering to meet all friends and family before leaving so...

28th, today: All three of us packed ourselfs into our car AGAIN to take the two hour drive back to my aunts to visit them AGAIN... *lol* And to see more relatives and friends of EllaBella. Before that though, we went to moms and checked out her new TV that she got during the after-Christmas-sale. A smart-TV... Don't know if I should be worried...

Anyway, meeting all them people was a lot of fun, because I so rarely get to do so. :-) Alexandra was really well-behaved to. For the most part. She ate and took naps and all... Until more and more people showed up, and things got a bit louder, since well it ended up being a lot of kids to. And the more kids you have in a room, the louder they get. Which ended up in a sort disaster...

I had gotten Alexandra to sleep in an empty room at my aunts... she slept find, peacefully. But then she woke up, and neither me nor peting73 got to her quick enough, so she panicked and then there was all the loud noise from the other kids... Basically my sweet baby Alexandra got hysterical. She could NOT stop crying or screaming! She wailed so much, she almost threw up. Only one thing to do then. Pack up and go home. So we did just that, took a quick goodbye to everyone and went on to drive home... When we'd driven for... 5-10 mins she was peacefully asleep, thank gawd. And we had no problems getting her to eat and sleep once we got home. Phew. That was not a pleasant experience for neither mom, dad or baby, let me tell you. As peting73 pointed out, you feel so helpless you just want to help her calm down and feel happy again... and when you can't, you almost get desperate. :-P

So today was a great day to, even if the ending was not so great... :-P

Now though, we won't do a bloody thing until New Years... that will be celebrated at home with an insane amoutn of Star Wars movies and a four-course dinner courtesy of peting73, hang around in soft-pants, and having spicehobbit over. No demands or "has to"s... Just us, movies, food and laziness. I approve of this plan. :-)

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I did go to that birthday party yesterday after all, since I felt quite a bit better. I drove there alone, since peting73 didn't wanna go. Now, I don't mind driving. Actually, I enjoy it quite a great deal, but I'd never visited M, and I do dislike driving in bigger cities. So I was a bit nervous about that, but I did find my way, and it went amazingly! I was so proud of myself! :-D I always have huge problems finding my way as soon as I am supposed to drive somewhere new, so yeah... That was great!

The birthday party wasn't as bad as I'd feared. I wonder if M had taken a chillpill or something? Hmm... Anyway, I got to meet astroflammante, tekiila and L, three old friends that I used to do a LOT of stuff with while I was working for free for the Student Union Pub. :-D So much fun! Another guy who was also sorta active at the Student Union Pub was there as well, a guy called Brain. He is AWESOME! One of the nerdiest people I know! *lol* And an old friend of peting73, so I was told to give my best to him when coming home. And to tell peting73 that he failed for not coming. *grin*

I had quite a good time, discussing weird stuff with people I didn't know, talking with my friends... eating good food and dessert that M had fixed. Checking out M's and J's new house that they'd recently bought. It was quite fun. (Although I did a mayor face-palm when M said how much money she'd spent on curtains alone for the house... Around 8000 swedish crowns / 1130 USD... Girl, you could have gotten curtains just as nice for less then HALF that price! *shakes head*)

Right so, apart from that me and peting73 has continued working on redoing our apartment (parts of it, anyway). It goes slowly, but we do progress every day. Reason why it goes so slowly? Because I've saved SO MUCH SHIT! GEEZ! *head-desk* Crazy, really really crazy... So I am throwing away a ton of stuff, and I know peting73 is to. Feels good though, even if it takes a bit longer a time.

And while working on throwing away stuff I am contemplating to buy more... X-D *lol*

I was surfing YouTube today a bit, and found this little gem. The most famous voice ever!

Don LaFontaine: The Voice

( You WILL recognize his voice, I swear... )

And surfing on looking at old trailers (for some reason I find this amusing), I stumbled on this one...

( The Rollerboys... )

Ah, Corey Haim in his prime... Patricia Arquette... Post-apocalyptic world without adults... Neo-nazism bad guys... drugs... gangs... rollerblading stunts... The Rollerboys is just one of those B-movies that I just can't help but love. :-) At first I thought it was from the mid 1980's, but I was wrong! It was actually made 1990! Neato! And I thought one couldn't get a hold of it either, but I was wrong there to! Can buy it right here in Sweden for 99 swedish crowns / 14 USD! Oh, I so want that old movie... I had it on a video-tape when I was young, but it disappeared I believe... :-) Tempting, tempting...

Oh, and I saw this the other day that made me grin... Mick Mars of Mötley Crüe fame did an interview for Gibson (since he uses their guitars, I assume), and it was a really fun and nice interview to read! He seldom gives interviews, pretty much being the quite guy of the band. I did get a chuckle reading that interview though... Practice, practice, practice... Gustav, my dear... You're not a Crüehead in disguise to, are you? *wicked grin*
Mötley Crüe's Mick Mars talks Las Vegas, new music and guitar...

And lastly, THANK YOU for all the crystal hearts I've been given! I haven't sent anyone myself (fail me) but thank you so, so much for those that sent me one. :-D Thank you, thank you!

Haven't written anything in a few days... Oh hum... Thought I was going to have a calm weekend... HA HA HA! X-D No, I didn't. I worked. Apparently two of the librarians were sick, and they called in me and my young friend (who is also a librarian and hired by the hour there). It was a bit of a crazy weekend to be quite honest...

Winter has finally gotten it's hold on Sweden. So the weather one would want on Christmas when the weather was spring-like? Well, we got that white Christmas-weather now. Bah. :-/ Do not want. There has even been warnings about the weather, that it might be worse.

With this in mind... One might think not many people would like to go to the library? Well. Wrong. There was SO MANY visitors to the library this weekend, OMG! And everyone of course had a bag or two with books to return. Holy smokes... There was no way we could keep up and get the books back in the shelfs. Then we had a little old man who tried to steal books (yeah, no gramps, it is a reason there is an alarm in them books), the security failed to show up when they were supposed to so we had to call them so they could come and lock the doors, and to top it off... On Sunday we couldn't get the lights to work, couldn't get a hold off the caretakers to help us and finally had to ask my young friend to call her dad who is an electrician. And then when we left we couldn't turn them off either and had to leave them on the entire night for the Monday crew to deal with.

Boring in the library? I think not. *lol*

Somehow, despite working the entire weekend, I managed to go to the LARP as well. Even if I couldn't stay the whole night. Usually I stay to about 4-5am in the morning, but that just wasn't doable. I had a BLAST though the hours I was there! I really do love my LARP-friends. They are so wonderfully insane, young, friendly and just... all around awesome. :-) (I'll never look at snot the same way again... Long story...) My character, Frida Wagner, didn't have that much to do, but she was nearly talked into having sex with another character, which made me lol... X-D Frida is an old military from the special services in Sweden... She likes it rough... And I am a head taller and some compared to the guy who tried to chatt me/Frida up... Let's just say I had a hard time not laughing outloud, going OOC. X-D I had so much fun. :-)

Oh, and then I was talked into going to a birthdayparty I really don't want to go to. *head-desk* I only go because I know I'll meet other friends there that I really wanna see, like astroflammante,tekiila and possibly skarvsladden and a few other RL friends from my time volunteering and working for the student union and the student union pub. They are the sole reason I agreed to come.

The girl holding the thing, M... I mean, she is not an evil person. Really not. She is just... annoying. So, so annoying. At least to me. I can play nice, and I do meeting up with her, but seriously... *sigh* She got a new job one that fits with her education, which is good so I congratulated her for it when she called asking if I'd show. (Always nice to get a new job.) But apparently she didn't come eye to eye with the other employee there. M, she is new on the job and it is her first job. Apparently M didn't like how the old employee did her job, since it didn't fit with how M thought it SHOULD be done... Girl. You are new on the job. It is your first job. Calm yo' tits. But apparently M saw this as the old employee being mean to her and it stressed her out so much she got a depression and she had to go on sick-leave... *head-desk* My gawd.

And this goes through with everything with M. Things not going her way? She gets whiny and pissed. And I have a problem with people like that. A HUGE problem. She loves playing games to, her and her husband (who I adore, he is a really sweet guy), so whenever we hung out we played games. But gawd forbid if you didn't play games the way SHE thought it SHOULD be played... or that she didn't win. Yeah, she is really bad loser to...

Anyway, so we talked a bit on the phone when M called to ask if I wanted to come to her party (me being my sweet self, while I was fuming on the inside). And as SOON as I said, yeah I'll come over to meet you and the others... I mean, the right next thing she said... "Oh, can you drive two of my friends here that you've never meet, since you'll most likely have a car, 'cause you know you can just take the car since peting73 surely don't need it..." Ah. So that's why she wanted me to show. Not to meet me. But to act as a taxi-driver for her friends. Good to know where I am standing. *shakes head*

One and half more weeks before said party is going down. I am not looking forward to it.

Oh, and I'll have to re-install Windows 7 on my computer and all my programs I have on it. Looking forward to that even less.

FML.