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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So... Yeah. Servers moved to Russia. Not a change of company (yet).

Dude. I've been here since 2003. (See my Archive.) I think I've seen it all at this point. Fights. Dramas. Lock downs. Close downs. Changes (so many changes). New companies (so many companies).

This LJ stays where it is. It has a mirror on Dreamwidth, same username. But I am NOT reading there, OK? I'm even pointing out that the main blog is here in my DW profile. This is where I follow communities and such. And the few friends I do have and can keep up with. You're free to friend there to of course, but I thought you'd know how I work with it. There's links below on every post.

Right.

Back to... whatever you've been doing.

I've been organizing my files today. And made a bunch of phone calls. Tomorrow I'll be doing some more phone calls, because that's my jam when on sick leave, apparently.

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Yeah, it's time for one of them sharing posts again... :-) Next post is going to be about Midsummer. ;-) And after that I have some serious issues I need to get down in words. But first! Strap in and lets go!

As you might remember I visited the swedish festival Sweden Rock! And it was amazing. I went there to see Mötley Crüe. And even though they got really bad criticism for their performance, I really liked it. It was amazing!

( Girls, Girls, Girls... )

( Home )

Sorry about the quality. I just wanted to share that to me was an AMAZING night! I know they aren’t perfect, but they’re good at catching the audience, and it was amazing to see them live, it really was.

And onwards!

Not that long ago, I discovered this, which I found really interesting. You’re short on money? You need a computer? I give you Chip, a computer you can get for 9$. I admit, I’m curious. It’s not that much money, so maybe I should get one? To have as backup? I bet peting73, who is a serious computer geek, would find it really cool to have and poke around with as well. Decisions decisions…

Chip 9$ Computer - Kickstarter

They’ve reached their goal and some, so it’s ready and available to order… *considers*

Next subject!

I kinda love steinsgrrl for sharing this with me. I keep reading all the comments and stories shared on this Reddit page, and it’s SO FREEING, my female friends! My vagina is not abnormal or strange in anyway! There are vaginas that are stranger than mine! NOTHING IS ABNORMAL! X-D Also, guys. You should read this. Just to see what we’re going through on an everyday basis. ;-)

Reddit: Girls and their vaginas

YouTube is a strange and wonderful place… You dip your toe in and you never know where you end up. Here’s some various stuff I’ve found on YouTube or that are connected to YouTube in one way or another.

This short just about broke my heart. The ending especially when you REALLY get what the little short is about… Bring your tissues, folks!

( Gift... )

There’s a swedish guy from refugee parents who live in Sweden and he’s… blunt would be to kind a word. But he has some really interesting views on Sweden and our culture, our politics, our social safety net, our immigrants and refugees… Pretty much hot the climate is in Sweden (and I’m not talking about the weather). Not all his vids are in swedish, although most are. Those that are, like this one, has subtitles. And I’ve checked, their good and has the correct translation.

( Islam and Pedofilia... )

Here’s an article with an added trailer on YouTube about how it is to come out of the closet as a MtF transgender when you’re quite young. This girl did so on YouTube and found a supportive community there. And a movie-maker saw her and she got a role in a movie that tells the story how it is to be a transgender MtF girl. Of course there’s more to it than that, it’s a good article, but it ends with a role in a movie for her. The trailer is in the article, and I will admit I am very curious at the movie, Boy Meets Girl! It looks really good!

Boy Meets Girl - Movie and the story

Right and change of subject again! You still with me? You’re doing good! *lol*

If you read my posts you know I absolutly HATE Fifty Shades of Grey. I hate Twilight to, but that’s nothing compared to how much I hate Fifty Shades of Grey. And I’ve READ THEM! ALL THREE!!!

Anyway, here’s some articles and vids that I hope will make you think twice about reading them…

Unless you’ve lived under a rock, you’d know there’s abuse in these books.

Here’s an article that, like so many others, points out where and how the abuse shows itself in the books:

There Are NO Grey Areas When Defending Abuse

And yes, she’s rewriting her books from Grey’s perspective… yeah… *cough* Here’s The Guardian’s reaction to that:

Fifty Shades of 'nope': we don't need a reboot from the man's perspective

Now to two vids. It’s both terrifying and interesting to see these. The movie comes with it’s own set of concerns and weirdness. Everything wrong, obviously shows everything wrong with 50 Shades. Abuse and all.

But what I really liked was the Film Theory. Where they compare Christian Grey to the leader of a cult. How Grey follows the same steps pretty much. Now that was terrifying. And girls WANT a man like this? WTF?

( Everything Wrong With Fifty Shades Of Grey In 18 Minutes Or Less... )

( Film Theory: Fifty Shades of Grey Cult Theory... )

And to end this LOOOONG post, let’s have some feel good after that, yeah?

These two vids I am watching when I need a pick me up after a long or bad day. :-) They never fail to make me smile! I hope they will do the same to you.

( Old Men Grooving... )

Britians got talent just never fail to deliver. *grins* There’s more vids with these old guys, btw. They made it all the way to the finals!

Old men grooving on YouTube

And lastly I stumbled on THIS article about a son that made a special personal ad for his mom… REALLY special!

( Looking for Adam... )

And that’s it! Having finished that (finally!), I will now go do something useful... ;-)

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I have three email addresses, which is quite good. One for LJ and fandom, one for work-related stuff and one for the rest. The work-related is mostly empty... But the random-stuff inbox has lately exploded... o.O I just went through it and cleaned it up. 40 (!) new emails... GEEZES! How the hell did that happen?!?!

And I am so SOOOO Behind on answering comments on LJ to... Sorry everyone. I'll get to it, I promise!

At least I am all caught up on my f-list... :-P

Alexandra has been very well behaved, I'd say. Of course, she wants to hang out with mom and dad a lot, but that is expected. :-) She is starting to smile more and more and seek out eye contact if you are close to her face... And today she tried to mimic me when I made funny faces and poked my tongue out at her. I laughed my ass off... X-D The faces that baby can pull, GAWD! X-D

Tomorrow peting73 goes back to work after staying home for 6 weeks... I'll miss having him here for sure. Both for his own sake and for the help he has been with Alexandra. I am, admittedly a bit nervous about being alone with her. I am sure we'll be fine, but it'll be a first day tomorrow. I want to take a walk with her in her pram. I hope I'll manage that on my own...

So yeah, just wanted to let you all know I am not dead and I haven't forgotten you all. :-D

Oh dear me, what a day...

Me and peting73 had a good plan for today... We really did.

Then when I was to check my twitter with breakfast this morning... my computer went belly up. It died. No, scratch that, it didn't even react to anything at all. :-/ We couldn't start it or anything. No matter what peting73 did, he couldn't get it to wake up. So. It died. 5 years I had that computer. Got it as a gift from peting73 when I turned 30. We've changed the graphics card in it once, but that apparently didn't help. According to peting73, it was most likely the motherboard AND parts of the hard-drive that went and died on me. Fuck.

Considering we are working on re-doing our apartment, buying a new computer was NOT in the budget. And we kinda HAVE to re-do parts of the apartment. There is nothing else to do there...

And me? Well, my economy is fucked as always (it's been since I was a student). I got a good salary this month, but I had a ton of old bills to pay, so... :-/ And what does hubby do? Just goes online to see where there is good computers... Picks one out that he knows will be good for me. (He knows what I am doing online and such, after all...) And then goes buy it. No complaints, just comments that if I don't have one, I'll go crazy. And he'd prefer me not-crazy.

Gawd, I love that man SO MUCH!

I hope I'll get a good salary next month to. I'll pay him back. As much as I can at least. So much love for him.

So now I am trying to get used to a new computer. Gladly I update my bookmarks with regularity on MyBookmarks.Com and I have a external HD that I have named Frenchie, since it is a french brand, LaCie. I always make sure to copy all my files to Frenchie at least once a week. So I didn't lose that much. Thank gawd... And nearly no bookmarks either. So awesome.

My new computer is an Asus computer. ASUS CM6730-NRCH45. It is a really cute little computer, really good one. Half as big as peting73s, in size. And not as powerful as his either, but then again. He got one of those crazy monster gamer-computers. The only game I play is World of Warcraft, and it doesn't require quite as powerful a computer. :-) Good parts with playing a game that's been around for 7 years... ;-)

So I named my computer Sweetie, since it looks so small and sweet next to peting73s. X-D So we got The Friendly Monster and Sweetie in the nerdcorner. X-D

Still feel somewhat guilty about my computer dying, even if it isn't that much I could have done about it... Still I do. :-P It was just really shitty timing, is all.

Crap. I wanted to watch Pillars of the Earth as it airs on swedish television, but I missed the first part. No big deal, says you, but hey... Swedish television airs two parts at a time. Bah. :-/ Oh well, I'll watch part 3-4 tonight. Maybe I can follow on in the story anyway, who knows? If nothing else, I am sure spicehobbit can fill me in. She loves those books. :-P (She just told me you could by the thing on DVD... Tempting...)

Have also come to the conclusion I need to buy Windows 7 or a new Windows Vista... Since my Vista is about to give up. :-/ Not amused, people. Apparently a file has given up in the computer and hence, Vista can't update itself. And since it was installed when ordering the computer, I don't have the disk. Oh, how fun... :-P Not.

It is happening a lot with my character at the vampire-LARP to (via emails and communities)... Mostly political stuff, but fun as well! Will probably affect a lot of things during the LARP on Saturday. :-) I am really looking forward to that. :-D

Haven't done much today. It is a holiday here in Sweden today, so was off work. Just been lazy. :-) Has been quite nice, actually! Fiddled around a little with Second Life. Hasn't been logged in for a long, long time. Created another account with a male character. Lets explore that gay boy I have inside, eh? ;-) Doing my damdest to gay him up! *laugh* I'll post screen shots later. ;-)

Now I'll go off and watch Pillars of the Earth 3-4. So I missed half the thing... So what! I'll watch it anyway. :-P

Good grief. The world is coming to end.

My mom was afraid of computers before. I am not joking. But as an assistant nurse she was finally forced to use them, since most off the medical records was... on a computer. So, she went to a short introduction course (that she hated, since she didn't get along with the teacher). It did help her get over a bit off her fear though. After that, she worked on the computers at work. Little by little her fear melted away. Then she was sacked after working there for 20-25 years. (Long story that.) Then, just like me, she started to look for a new job. Not depressed she threw herself head-first in. Finding a job-coach she got a lot off help. And discovered that most things that you need to do when your unemployed today, you need to do... on a computer. On the internet. So, after thinking about it for almost a year she finally took the plunge this weekend... and bought herself a laptop, a printer and mobile access to the internet.

When she told me and peting73 about her plan during our Christmas-visit, she made damn sure we were sitting down. And a good thing that was to, since she really shocked us. We helped her get her stuff this weekend. A good laptop for her needs (it might be a bit better then she needs, even...She got an ASUS-computer.), but she was happy as a clam! The rest off the weekend we had computer practice here. My mom is a total novice. And I mean it. We had to teach her how to turn the thing on and how to turn it off... Little by little, though, she became more curious and brave. She got an email-address now and have learned how to save bookmarks. She has to keep track off me, Josse and Ella-Bella, of course, on our bloggs. Yeah. Mom isn't that good with english, but she gets most off it. So she might be reading this. *shrug* It is nothing new to her anyway. She knows I am a perv. ;-) *blows kiss to mom* She has bought Windows Office to, so she can use Word, so we thought her that as well, at least the basics. It was such a blast watching mom learning how to use the computer, I must say. She squeeked and giggled! Froze in horror! Asked us if she did something wrong (when in fact she did perfectly fine). Told the computer where to stick it... Etc, etc... Oh, it was hilarious! And in the midst off it all, she learned. And as me and peting73 told her: There is only one way to get the hang off it, and it is practice, practice, practice. Now she has promised to practice a little bit each day. I will be checking her on that one. ;-)

So, yeah. It has been an interesting and fun weekend. :-D Tomorrow astroflammante and tekiila is coming over to stay here until Friday. The apartment is moderately clean. At least I won't have to be embarrassed. ;-)

I encourge any and all that have Facebook to read this article:
Facebook is turning evil for profit... Facebook no longer as safe as before.

After reading that, I am so, so happy I don't have a Facebook. And I won't be getting one, despite all the invites and questions from friends and family. It just won't happen girls and boys. Just saying. I am feeling much more at home here, thank you. Here I decide how much I want to share, and what I want to share. :-P

spicehobbit posted one off those awesome links that show just how insane Twilight fans are.... They don't even get it when they are being played at... X-D Check this out:
Twilight vampire intervention

Anyway, today has been all kinds off awesome. I was invited along to a Planning-day and Christmas-celebration thing at my bosses boss's home. Quite awesome, I must say. :-) Lots off boring planning was done, and after that there was a ton off awesome Christmas-food. And after that we played a Christmas-gift-game... Yeah. You read that right. It involved dices and gifts. And it was really, really fun. Again it is proved that the librarians I work with are awesome slightly crazy people. Oh, I'll miss them dreadfully when I won't work with them anymore. I also got almost two weeks off during Christmas and New Years! o.O And they gave me so much praise today for my work, that I blushed and didn't know what to say. I do have trouble taking compliments, so... I love working as a librarian, I really and honestly do. Especially with people like this. To bad it is just as a trainee. :-/

After that I went and shopped the last off the Christmas-gifts. ALL DONE NOW! Fuck yeah! And thank gawd for second hand stores. Seriously. Not only are they cheap, but they have so much odd stuff you can find gifts to anyone. Just what I needed because I had the most troublesome people on my list left. There, all solved. YAY! :-D

Oh well. Almost caught up with my flist. :-) Tomorrow we'll clean out the apartment (it is very needed) and then we'll go to the vampire-LARP in the evening! :-D Woot! Will be a great weekend this, I just know it!

It died on me. My computer screen. I am not amused. That was all kinds off annoying. Especially in the end of the month. And this month have been kinda expensive to. Fun things were done for said money, but still. And now this. And as soon as anything on my computer breaks, I feel guilty. Although I hadn't done anything to do so! As peting73 says, electronics can just decide one day to go belly up. Just like that.

Oh well. So, after we helped his mom to move some stuff to her new apartment, and throw away some heavy thrash (car was needed), we went and bought a new computer screen. And it is huge! o.O The difference in price between buying one the same size I used to have and a bigger one wasn't that big, so we went with big screen. :-) I R very very happy! peting73 is so, so nice to me. I sometimes feel I don't deserve it.

So, this is my new computer screen, Samsung Syncmaster T220. It is, indeed huge. It will take some time to get used to. But man... World of Warcraft looks gorgeous, I tell you!!!! o.O

Also, I got a lot of comments on my adayinmylife post today! That was fun! I gotta do that again. :-) You can read them all HERE if you want to.

Not so fun with this virus warning going around, is it? Of course hackers would turn there eyes on LJ. I am not surprised, but it annoys me at the same time. Gladly my little community is quite small, so I doubt they would target that. :-P You can read about it more HERE.

Was quite interesting last night when peting73 decided to re-install Windows on his near-to-death computer... Just for the hell of it... at around 2am in the middle of the night... Yeah. Thats smart. :-P Not. But it worked. So now he can do a little on his computer at least. Most importantly, he can play WoW... Peace in the household is restored. It still dies now and then, so yeah... New comp come Friday... Hopefully.

Also, checked with the new tattoo-studio to see what kind of people it was there... And lo and behold, the artist there is the same one that tattooed Xena's weapons on me! :-D He remembered me to! Neat. Problem was, if I want another tattoo made by him, I'll have to wait until end off July, beginning of August... Thats how long his "line" is. On the other hand, he is very good... I have heard rumors about a really good tattoo-artist in a neighboring city to, Ulricehamn. The son of a work-mate off mine has a tattoo made there, I have seen pictures of it. It was gorgeous and very detailed. So I'll go there to check that one out to.

Yeah. I got the tattoo itch again. Badly. :-P Can't say watching Miami Ink and LA Ink helps... *head-desk*