KSena's Journal

Can I get a vacation from my vacation? *lol*

Anyway, to continue my story... After I'd been to the LARP that I wrote about in my last post, I had to do a quick clean in the apartment during the Monday because I was expecting some FINE visitor!

Who you might ask? Well, no other than snowstormskies!!! :-D

( Story of the epic meeting between KSena and SnowStormSkies under here... )

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These last few days have been... somewhat not fun. :-P I know being a parent ain't fun and games all the times, I fully expect that. But when I can't keep my eyes open when my mom comes to visit then things are quite bad. :-P I swear to anything holy, I worked so so hard to keep my eyes open and I just couldn't... I kept seeing double. Then I feel asleep for ten mins or so on her, and I felt quite bad about it. Mom didn't mind, she knows the last few days have been tough, but yeah. Not fun. :-P

Thank anything holy that peting73 is doing SOOOOO much better! And can start helping taking care of Alexandra... It does sound horrible, but sometimes I just wanna... be... and not be a mom. Does that make sense? Just for a few mins. :-P I haven't been able to do that these last days and that has exhausted me both mentally and physically. How the HELL do single moms do it? o.O All my respect and more!

Tomorrow I am going shopping a bit for the baptism of Alexandra on Saturday. I have TWO pair of pants that fit. And none of them are pretty... :-P So new pair of pants for me and one onesie for Alexandra that she can have under the baptisemal gown.

Oh yeah.That gown is a chapter all in itself. Full of history and oh so gorgeous. It is made from the bridal veil of my paternal grandfathers mother... My grandfather had it on his baptism, as did my father and his two brothers... My brother had it as well, and both his kids. Reason I didn't have it, was because my parents didn't marry until I was 4 years old, and my paternal grandma had some issues with that... :-P But Alexandra will be wearing that baptisemal gown. :-) It is here now, and so frail I'll probably be more nervous about that thing breaking then anything else... o.O It is over 100 years old... :-P So yeah... I'll post a photo of it in a few days. :-)

spicehobbit, who'll be Alexandras godmother, is also nervous as hell, since she'll hold Alexandra in that thing to! During the baptism itself. And she loves history and especially history of clothing... So yes, something that old really catches her interest and makes her nervous that she'll break it. :-)

I've prepared most things for the baptism party/feast/whatever you call it... On Thursday and Friday though I'll bake six (!) cheesecakes, since the total people coming is 30... o.O Relatives and friends... Mostly relatives from my side of the family, since there are so many there. *lol* Crazy, crazy...

Anyway!

I am glad all my Christmas cards/care packages got to the recipients as it should. :-) I didn't send as many this year, but I figured if you wanted it, you'd let me know, right? Just a few I sent to extra. :-D

I did get a laugh though when I got a thank you PM from melluransa... Since she'd made a video of her trying out the Swedish candy I sent... Specifically the Lakritsal. X-D I know liquorice is a very specific taste, and hence I sent the kindest one. Laktritsal is not as strong as other liquorice candy is. But still it got a pretty funny reaction from melluransa... X-D Thanx for the laugh you gave both me and peting73!

( Melluransa eating Laktrisal... )

Also I found this on the net:

( Why...? Yeah, that's why...  )

Which reminds me that peting73 soooo owes me a night out with my best friend spicehobbit... We've seen all the other Twilight movies at the movies, so we'll be damned if we won't see Breaking Dawn Part 2 there to! (Yes, it still runs...)

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I will admit that I have had a really really good weekend. :-) peting73 took an extra day off, so he's been home Thursday - Sunday. It's been great!

Thursday we didn't do much. Just hung around at home... But on Friday though! We got busy! *lol* Well, not extremely busy. :-) We got up in a sorta resonable hour, and went to IKEA to shop the last for Nerd Jr. :-) Last time we were there we forgot the highchair for Nerd Jr, so we bought that, and some other smaller stuff for Nerd Jr. AND! Since both our office chairs that we use when sitting at our computers had both given up on us... (Thanx cats for clawing big holes in them...) We splurged and got a new office-chair each. :-) REALLY COMFY! And so much better for my back... :-) So that was definitely a successful trip!

When we got home we went to a store called Babyproffsen (= Babyproffesionals, sorta) where we bought a babysitter (black of course!) and a babycarrier/babysling as well. :-)

A productive day, and I'd say we are definitely prepared for Nerd Jr's arrival whenever she/he decides to show up. ;-) (There's a lot off poking around in there right now... Especially at my ribs and the bladder... Bah. :-P Not appreciated, kid!)

On Saturday though we went on an outing with peting73s mom. :-) There is a medieval old house/castle not long from this city, and I've been scolded more then once for the fact I haven't been there yet. I mean, I've lived in this city since 2001, that's more then 10 years... And I still hadn't seen it, despite the fact I am a HUGE medivial history nerd. *lol* So that is somewhat fail, I'd say.

So Saturday it was time! And we went there, took about 30mins drive, so no biggie. :-) And it was SO NICE! The house was very well kept! It's been owned by the same family since around 1300 or so, and has been used for living since then until the 1800's... after that it was used to store corn and grain etc... which was actually quite good! It keept the old stonehouse dry and preserved all the wall paintings and such! :-D

There's a lot of grounds for this house to, and it is STILL run as a big farm! So at the restaurant all the food they serve there? Is produced on their own farm. It was AMAZINGLY good! My gosh... MIL bought us some really yummy lunch there after we'd gone on a tour of the house and also explored it on our own. :-)

The house is called Torpa Stenhus. Do a google image search for it, and you'll see some gorgeous photos of that house/castle. :-) I loved it. So so interesting! Living and breathing history at it's best, seriously. :-)

Then today, Sunday we lazed about during the day, and then on the afternoon I finally got my ass in gear when getting some unexpected energy boost... and did some cleaning here. Since I'll be celebrating my birthday on Saturday, I figured I wanted the apartment at least moderately clean, so... :-) I've started at least, and will continue tomorrow! :-D