I don’t even know where to start with this post. To say things have been stressful lately would be an understatement.

( Stressing out about work... )

You’d think once I got home from work I could relax, right? Nope, no such thing.

( Stressing the fuck out over trip to celebrate Midsummer this weekend... )

Right, so… To make a checklist:

( Checklist of the weekend... )

I honestly have no idea how I’ll keep my sanity this weekend… :-/ *ready to collapse*

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Argh! So behind on everything! o.O

I'll just split this up in a few posts...

So. Trip first. :-)

We went and stayed with mom for about a week, which was all kinds of awesome to be honest! :-D Not that we did that much, but it was nice to just get away from everything for a while. :-) Not to mention being spoiled. And Alexandra was the one that was the most spoiled. *lol* She got gifts from mom twice during 6 days... ;-) That should be quite telling! *grins*

And then there was mom's big 60th birthday party barbecue party that she'd arranged for friends and family. :-D And it was SO MUCH FUN! I love taking a drink or have some wine and such at times, but I haven't really since Alexandra was born... and now I got my chance to! :-D So I spent that night slightly tipsy since there was so many people that brought wine, not to mention mom has quite the load standing around at home to. :-) So that evening was spent drinking, eating and just have a laugh! My mom and my uncles wife and my aunt get slightly insane when drinking wine, and this was NO exception! X-D Listening to those three, it is easy to see where I've learned it all... If I put it that way. ;-)

Loved hanging out with my brother to, since he spent all day that day at moms. :-D His kids where with their mother, and he didn't want to be alone, so he came over and helped out with mom's stuff for the party. :-) Not to mention he and peting73 where the designated grill-masters. X-D

So that was all kinds of awesome!

Mom worked on Monday and Tuesday, so when she left home on Monday afternoon to work during the night, we all left for the neighbouring little town/village that is AWESOME during the summer. Hjo. It is a gorgeous place with a lot of hte old buildings left in the "city"center. :-) Not to mention the BEST icecream place EVER! So we spent our afternoon there.

Also, mom has THE BEST neighbours ever! She wants to get rid of all her flowerbeds and most of her garden paths. So one of her neighbours came over and did short work of one of the garden paths... so now grass will grow there instead and there won't be a sign left of it. :-) And then her garage is old and the walls aren't very good, so he has also promised her to fix the walls on it for her. So he started doing that on Tuesday... and worked really quickly to! Of course, he'll get some pay for it, but really. If mom didn't have all them AWESOME neighbours, she wouldn't be able to stay in her beloved house that dad fixed up for her (and us).

On Tuesday we left to go home, but made a stop to visit Mariell, my BELOVED cousin who is globetrotting all over the world! :-D She has now moved from Doha, Qatar to Muscat, Oman. Still working for the same spa-company, Essence Spa, just in another country. :-) Anyway, she had to come back to Sweden suddnely since her passport and visa ran out! OUPS! X-D So she'd just gotten home the day before when we visited her. :-) It was AWESOME to be able to give her a hug and just hang out like we used to do! And, of course, she was THRILLED to meet Alexandra properly to!

It was a great trip, filled of love and family and friends. :-D And not to mention relaxing. :-) Much needed. Alexandra behaved GREAT! And loved crawling around on moms big garden! Not to mention hunting mom's four cats... X-D

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This day and this weekend, I tell ya'.... Ugh...

It all started on Friday, really. During Thursday me and Alexandra had been out walking in the pouring rain, and apparently that was not a good idea for me... Alexandra was fine! No worries there. But to me it was not so fine...

Because I got a cold. And not just any cold. But the cold from Hell...

I haven't been that knocked out from a cold before, I am not even joking. peting73 was a doll all weekend and took full responsibility for Alexandra so I could relax and try to heal up.

And I got it all.Stuffed nose. Stuffed throat. Stuffed ears... Stuffed everywhere!

And then on Sunday? I couldn't breath properly. Not even joking. It was really heavy and tough to get a breath. :-/

Now a wise person would have gone to the ER right away, right? Well. I am not so very smart. I am my fathers daughter. Eh... It'll pass. But it didn't. And at 2pm I gave up, and called petingt73 to get the car home (he was at a park with Alexandra) so I could go to the ER.

Did so. Stressed place that. I got a special inhaler thing there and it cleared it up. Almost, but I figured hey! I can BREATH! X-D So I left and got home with a stop to the drugstore to get more of the inhaler, since I got a recipe for it. :-)

Great right? Well not. Because after I'd been home for... an hour, maybe? It got back. I had trouble breathing again! So I used the inhaler I now had at home. Only worked for a min or so. I know I took it to much, four times in just an afternoon, but... I really really didn't wanna go back to the ER. Instead I went to bed. But as soon as I put my head on the pillow, my throat pretty much closed up. o.O Or so it felt like.

Yay. Back to the ER I went! And now, since I'd sorta overdosed on the inhaler I had at home, they couldn't give me the good stuff. Instead they gave me a ton of other stuff... and nothing worked! Until 4am in the morning, when finally enough time had passed and they could give me that thing again. I COULD BREATH! OMG! Such a feeling... They kept me there a few hours more for observation, threatening to keep me for a few days (over Midsummer? OH HELL NO!). But at 10:30am in the morning... I could FINALLY go home! I had even slept some! :-)

Poor peting73 though. He stayed up until 4am Monday morning worried about me... Then had to get up at 5am and call his workmate to tell his mate he would not come in to work that day... and then Alexandra woke up at 6am... Ready for a new day!

To say he collapsed when I got home would be an understatement. :-P So we just lazed around all Monday pretty much. Doctors orders: Eat five of these pills each day for five days, use your inhaler four times a day for six days, drink plenty tea and water and RELAX! Oh, and those pills give you energy so take them all in the morning... And did we mention relax? *lol*

So that's what I did during Monday..

Fast forward to today, Tuesday.

Where I definitely did NOT follow the Doctors orders... o.O

Watch this:

Alexandra woke up at 6:15am, of course... Not all bad, since I had to start laundry at 7am sharp. So up we went, and got new diaper and both of us dressed. Sorted laundry (A LOT!) and found the baby carrier so I could carry all the laundry and Alexandra down stairs to the basement where our laundry room is. (Alexandra who now weighs about 9 kilos, I might add... HEAVY!) Got down stairs just in time and started two loads of laundry, carried Alexandra up stairs and got morning porridge in her... or so I thought since she was in a MOOD and threw it around, so she only got half if it in her belly. Then we went downstairs to the basement, this time carrying the diaper bag and Alexandra and changed the loads and got the clean stuff in the drier. Then we went to Open Preschool that had their last day today before summer vacations and all that + Midsummer celebration for kids all ages. So we got to our usual bus-stop. Just to find out the quick bus is canceled during summer. Crap. So another buss and off we go.

At this point, it's only 9am.

We got to the Midsummer celebration just in time! Got a message from peting73 saying he might get home early from work since he is not totally OK. So I texted him back telling him all the stuff I'd been doing in the morning, sorta proud!

Got back kinda Oh woe is me, I can not be sick, everything is always worse for you, sorry I might destroy our midsummer-vacation-trip-thing, since I just about puked during breakfast-break at work...

Me: *FACE-PALM!*

So I called him up and we dealt with misunderstanding.

Onwards.

Got nice strawberries and ice cream at the Midsummer-celebration at Open Preschool and then we went home!

Dealt with laundry so everything was hanging up to get dry or in the dryer.

Up to the apartment and getting more food in Alexandra. Then peting73 came home, went straight to bed, still in a mood and not feeling to great.

Took a seat in the couch. Alexandra asleep for two hours (!).

Down to get the laundry. A bit late, so the next person is already there, but she was fine with me being late. Lovely woman!

Folded and got all the laundry ready and then carried all that plus Alexandra in the baby carrier upstairs! (PHEW!)

It's 4pm at this point.

peting73 all mopey, food what, don't wanna cook don't wanna do anything...

So I got all the flowers drenched in water so they'll be fine while we are gone and then set to preparing dinner while I told peting73 to go shop baby-food since we'll need it during our trip. I can't cook baby-food for Alexandra then.

5pm I feed Alexandra and 5:30pm peting73 comes home. Now annoyed he didn't get food BEFORE going grocery shopping. *FACE-PALM!* He is still feeling sick. He goes to lay on the couch after dinner. Me I deal with Alexandra and trying to get all the clothes that I'd folded put away.

Success with half of it! Then time to get Alexandra a bath so she'll be clean and nice for trip. peting73 still on couch slightly sick don't wanna...

Right! Me do! And does so successfully at 6:30pm. Alexandra loves it! So she gets a long bath and then her pajamas on + diaper and then she sits in peting73's lap a bit while I prepare her evening porridge. She eats well, but is very tired. peting73 still on couch. Now asleep. AGAIN!

Nature calls for me just when Alexandra is done, prompting a HUGE bout of crying from Miss mini_viking waking peting73 up so he deals with her for a bit until I can again. I take Alexandra with me and let her fall asleep in my lap and take a breather.

PHEW!

What a day!

And tomorrow? Tomorrow we are finally going on that trip! :-D Because now peting73 is fine. :-) Whatever sickness he got it passed during the day, so this evening? Fine. So there will be a trip tomorrow.

Plan is set and will go as follow...

• Tomorrow: Drive to my aunts for the HUGE family gathering / Pre-Midsummer party she arranges every single year! There'll be around 25-30 people there or so, all of us related in one way or another to each other or married into the family. :-) (2 hour drive.)



• Then drive on for 3 hours more to a small city where we'll stay at the main hotel and sleep.



• 21st, Midsummer Eve: We'll get up when Alexandra wakes up and drive on towards peting73s best friend for another... Maybe 4 hour drive or so? And then celebrate Midsummer's Eve with him and his family and some more friends! We'll sleep at theirs that night.



• 22nd, Midsummer Day: We'll spend some more time with peting73s best friend and his family, before we leave. Drive for about 4 hours or so and then stay in another city this time and stay at one of their hotels and spend the night there.



• 23ed: Wake up with Alexandra. Get ready and drive home the last 4 hours on the road...

It'll be an interesting experience for sure to make such a huge trip with Alexandra... But we've prepared as much as possible, so I am quite confident it'll be fine. She don't mind going in the car, and I'll bring toys and such for her to play with, not to mention plenty food and water. :-) So I am quite hopefull for the trip. And it'll be great to meet everyone of course! :-D

Right. I should go to bed. It's quite the day we have ahead of us tomorrow!

HAVE A GREAT MIDSUMMER IF YOU CELEBRATE IT, PEOPLE!

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We have started to use new bigger bottles when feeding Alexandra since she eats more now! Unfortunately not the cool Rock Star Baby bottles that I'd found. Two of them I kinda wanted, but after some research on various mom-sites and such, they weren't very practical. Dammit. :-/ Might buy something else from that site one day though even if it is expensive like fuck (like THIS dress, geezes how cute ain't that! o.O) I really really wanted them bottles. Ah well. Two new MAM-bottles it was, the bigger anti-colic ones. Practical but a lil boring. As soon as I see someone bottle-feeding around here... they have the MAM bottles. :-P They are good for kid, but still. Boring. When we used the smaller ones she had a green one and a pink one, but I refused to buy another pink bottle, dammit! So now she has a yellow/golden one and a blue one. Colours of the swedish flag! *lol* I swear someone will think she is a boy when we use the blue bottle. *shakes head at stereotypes*

My exciting life... I discuss baby-bottles... *lol* X-D

At least I get to be somewhat kinky/pervy at times when I work on the INSANE fic of DOOM aka Hydra aka Let Us Hear You, Let Us Feel You... (Read it at hydrafics AND at THFiction! Let us know what you think!) Thank gawd for that. And for some obscure reason I ended up helping snowstormskies with her sequel to the amazing fic Chained to Morpheus that she wrote... which promptly made sure the sequel might end up several miles long... o.O How the hell did THAT happen? *shakes head in amusement*

Yesterday we had a blast though, all three off us. :-)

Yes, indeed. It was time for the Sexmasters jubilee! :-D I love going to these parties every fith year, since I get the chance to see all the people I used to work with when I did all that volenteer work in the Student Union Pub! And all the people who have done the same work before me... and after me... :-) A bit different this time though, since we had Alexandra with us. Of course we did! These parties with Sexmasters usually end up loud and boistorius and crazy with a lot of alchol and a lot of lovely and crazy people. :-D Let's just say that we sang A LOT of songs and most of them were of the NC17 character... Wait. There aren't that many songs I KNOW that are NOT NC17! X-D And I learned most of them during my Sexmasters year 2003. *LOL*

I meet up with my ex, who has SERIOUSLY buffed himself up! o.O My gawd... I said no to THAT? Geezes... Not to mention he got himself a really REALLY good job these days traveling all over the world weeks at a time... Oh, he'll be in China next month... FOR THREE WEEKS!!! o.O Staying in some really nice hotels, working and enjoying life in China while making a good paycheck! WHAT?!?! Again, I SAID NO TO THAT?!?! Oh yeah, I remember now... He hates conflict, is just TO nice and well... He has still to grow up some. ;-) Like growing a spine and some balls... *cough* He is still a sweet guy though, and it was awesome to talk to him and all the other friends there. :-D

spicehobbit was awesome as always and had made a copy of the overalls me and peting73 always wear at events like these for Alexandra, complete with her name on the back of it and a bunch of patches here and there. We have a TON of them patches on our overalls but since hers are new and kinda small... not so many for her. ;-)

We had such a blast! No drinking for me, since I was driving AND taking care of Alexandra. Not that peting73 drank much, since he wanted to be able to take care of her to, but still. We stayed as long as we dared to, until Alexandra got really really fussy, clearly very tired. Then we left. But it was still a blast, and all the other people there were totally charmed by Alexandra. :-D

Already looking forward to the next jubilee in five years... *lol*

(For more info about student traditions around Swedish universities Read Here. About student overalls Read Here. And about the Sexmasters (Sexmästeri) Read Here (it still got nothing to do about sex...))

Oh fuck.... *groan*

I think I am coming down with a bug or flu or something, I don't know... Today has been HORRIBLE! Gawd DAMMIT! Sneezing all day, meaning I have to blow my nose all day... meaning my nose is red and hurt a lil... tender nose. And now, afternoon/evening... a headache just to top it off. WTF, body!!!

Tomorrow... Well, tomorrow I am supposed to go to that birthdayparty... Yeah... The one I kinda don't want to go to. :-/ I DO want to meet up with astroflammante, tekiila, skarvsladden and my other RL old friends that I know will be there... But if I feel like this tomorrow? I don't know... I... just don't know if that is such a great idea to go then, you know? I bet they'll say I got sick because I didn't wanna go, but I swear... I'd much rather be well and meet my friends, then feeling like this, thank you!

One fun thing about today was that our dear darling cats got their yearly shot and checkup at the animal hospital here. :-) The vets there are WONDERFUL! Our cats are indoor cats, so they go a bit crazy when we get them out the door... They are very good about going in their cat carriers. They have one each with soft blankets and old t-shirts in them (that them cats like to sleep on), so they are used to their carriers. So when we put them in the hallway, curious cats wondered what they were doing there and not on their usual spot... and walked straight into a carrier each. X-D Fooled cats are fooled! No complaints, only curious moving around in their carriers when we carried them to the car. And then... THEN! peting73 started the horrible scary car... And the cats started mewing and growling and sounding ABSOLUTELY miserable... Like we were torturing them or something... Keeping it up until we were at the animal hospital and turned the car off. Then they stopped. Just like that.

The vet was very sweet, checked their body, poked them all over. Said they both were in good health with nice healthy teeth (they are 7 years after all), even if both cats were slightly over-weight. Which we already knew. We got a pair of fat cats. X-D And yeah, we buy food for indoor cats that are made to make sure they don't get to fat. Gawd knows how fat they would have been otherwise... o.O Scary thought. Then our cats got their shots, we got them in their carriers again and got to the car... to hear the torture choir all the way home. X-D

Once home both Skuld and Verdandi got some shrimps, and were told what good cats they were. :-) No idea why, but they almost get high on shrimp, they love it so much! So them cats were soon happy again. :-D

One year more until next trip... :-P

Think I'll go to bed early tonight... I really hope I'll feel better tomorrow. :-P

I haven't updated about my Saturday! Fail on me! *lol*

Yeah, it was AMAZING! SO MUCH FUN! :-D spicehobbit and I had the best plan EVER! X-D We were to cook food together, drink delicious cider (picked out to us by peting73) and watch the movie Thor. And that was just what we did! :-D

Lovely, lovely food... Chicken with a peanut butter and coconut milk sauce... SO MUCH YUM! And then we drank a french and a british cider with that. :-) And watched Thor... And nearly laughed so hard the food got caught in our throats. X-D IT WAS SO FAILTASTIC, MY GAWD! Brothers, my ASS... They probably fuck like bunnies... X-D You COULD say the slash went through the roof and once we watched the extra deleted scenes it went straight to the stratosphere. X-D Geezes CHRIST! Was the scriptwriters even aware of what they wrote? Probably not since they took a bulldozer and went straight over everything known about old Nordic Mythology. There was not a single thing right there, at all.

The best part of this failtastic movie though, was... the actor playing Thor himself. Both me and spicehobbit was pleasantly surprised. He was not only a real HUNK! But was quite a nice actor to with some really AMAZING eyes... Not to mention watching the usually so serious Stellan Skarsgård be drunk off his ass is always a plus!

So it wasn't a total loss. ;-)

Some photos!

( Friends and food! )

After that we went downtown to find a good club and dance our ass off! And that we did. There is a club downtown called Brasseriet where there is this excellent mix of people, all from the age off 18 to the age off 60!

So that's where we went, and we danced and we laughed and we looked at people and we danced some more and we bought two drinks more and we danced some more... I ran into a an co-worker from the horrible job I had once, who was ecstatic to see me telling me how gorgous I was! That is always awesome to hear. :-)

And spicehobbit ran into this really nice (and cute!) guy who she talked to quite a bit... ;-) Phone-numbers were exchanged, but that is all I know... For now. :-D Keeping my fingers crossed though!

Then we stumbled home to spicehobbits apartment, and I slept on her sofa bed.

It was really a brilliant, brilliant Saturday!

Coming home on Sunday I found out that peting73 had had an awesome impromptu October fest as well! :-D He had his mates had been drunk off there asses and played games and talked and listened to music... "Manly music..." or so peting73 says. Don't know what that means totally... X-D Important thing is they had fun, really... and the apartment was looking just as nice when I came home as it did when I left, just with added bottles in the kitchen. :-)

Rest of Sunday me and peting73 just took it easy and didn't do a thing, because you know... We were tired. He he he...

As you can see on the carnage after peting73s party here:

( Beer-bottles! )

Anyway, then came Monday and my first day at the big city library downtown, or evening since I worked from 3pm-8pm. My gawd. It is so, so different then working in those smaller neighborhood libraries or the school libraries... I was even asked what the difference was by a librarian there, while working putting up books in the shelfs. And, as most of you should know, if you ask me something you get a straight answer. So I told her. The biggest difference is that you don't get the same connection with the visitors like you do in a smaller library where you usually get to know them by name and know exactly what books they like to read. The librarian asking me, told me that this was not a conversation we should have here where anyone could hear about the inner workings about the library... (Like it was such a great secret...) I just looked at her, and said... You asked.

Just saying, if you don't want a straight answer, you really shouldn't ask me a question. :-P

Anyway, it was fun if a bit confusing to work there, let me tell you! And I keep getting more hours there, so I suppose I did something good. :-)

Tuesday the writer Mattias Gardell came visiting the library talking about his new book Islamophbia. And wow... Just... wow... He hit so many important points in that book, my gawd... And now I want to see the Iranian TV-show Sara and her five men... about an Islamic woman and... her five men. *lol* I'd love to see that, my gawd! And did you know there is a goth and rock movement among young woman and girls in Irak and Iran and other Arabic countries, complete with shawls and everything? This is so awesome, I don't even... Everyone should read that book, just saying...

ANYWAY! I had the job to make sure that everyone coming had a ticket to see him, and I got a lot of kudos on how I dealt with that responsibility. Really, it wasn't that hard for me from all the times I've done jobs like that and worse working at the Student Union Pub. *lol*

Then Wednesday and today Thursday I had no job, so I've spent that time at home, hoping to be able to relax. HA! No such thing, since I woke up with a achy throat and my period started so I was knocked out by menstrual cramps. DAMMIT! Well, better I get these problems now, instead of next week... Because next week I work 6 days! o.O Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday AND Sunday! o.O Plus on Saturday evening we are going to visit my brother since he and his wife are celebrating their combined birthday! They have both turned 30 this year! ACK! Busy times!

Being slightly sick, I haven't had energy to do much else then sit here and read... So I've read up on all the FQF-fics (there has been some really nice stories with the G's this year! so glad to see they haven't been forgotten. :-) ) and I've read up on my F-list to. :-) Go me! I've seen a lot of my friends on my f-list going through some really tough times... I am so sorry to read that, and I want you to know I do think of you all...

Right. This turned long. Go you if you managed to read it all!

Since I am currently stuck in front of the computer roleplaying... (and having a blast doing so) I figured I could do a wrap up off what's been going on a bit since last... Since LJ has been down thanx to that attack from russian hackers... 0

Work

I am currently unemployed. Again. Well, part-time unemployed anyway. I did my last day at work last of July. I'll miss that library. I really liked it there and I had some awesome workmates. No really, they were brilliant. :-) I learned a lot to that I'll most likely use in my future adventures as a librarian.

So I am fucked, right? No more work? I think not. I already have a few hours here and there and apparently my reputation is spreading, since a library I haven't worked at yet called the other day asking if I could do a few hours there as well. It IS looking pretty good, guys! :-D

Of course I had to wrestle with bureaucracy when it comes to the unemployment fund, but eh.... It is a pain, but not impossible. (So much paper that needs to be sent in, GAH!)

Next week I'll be snatching the car and go on a trip to visit all libraries around here and see if I could get a few more hours here and there... I mean, it can't hurt... and next week all head librarians should be back from their vacations, meaning it's better to do it next week.

So I have a plan, and it is looking pretty good. :-)

Family

Had a bit of a drama in the family last week to. Now, that doesn't happen often mind... At least not in my family. We are very supportive of one another.

Lately though I (and hubby peting73) have started to get quite annoyed at the fact that everyone wants us to go visit my family, but as soon as we want anyone to come here and visit it is such a bother, and such a pain because it is such a long way to go, and we live in an apartemtn, not in a house and oh dear me, what a pain it is... *sigh* And in the next breath they can ask us, so... when are you two coming here to visit? Since it is so much easier for us to travel there... Never mind it takes the same amount of time and is the same journey no matter who does the traveling. *sigh* So, yeah. A bit annoying.

Then Sunday (31th) we were supposed to go to Gothenburg and Liseberg. Me, peting73, mom and my brother and his family. Three days before the trip, my brother called and asked if it was cool if we canceled it and instead we could come over there and we could go on another amusement park (Sommarland), since it was much more convenient since me and peting73 has no kids... Now I had looked forward to this trip for a long time, since we'd talked about it for quite some time, so to say I was disappointed would be an understatement... and again with the 'please drive here, it is so much easier if you do the long drive...' Yeah, I was sad, pissed, and very disappointed. :-/

Talked to mom about it, and she was very understanding saying we could do something else another time. Brother, who reacts to almost anything with anger, got a bit pissed... And yeah, I do understand him. They got two small kids, 4 and 2 years old. Plus he drives around all the time helping other members of our huge family, since he is the skilled, most practical, in the family right now since Dad died... So I understand if they didn't want to make a long trip. But still! We'd talked about this for weeks!

peting73 helped partly solve the situation, giving us a compromise that everyone was pleased with. We had a barbeque at moms instead. Mom got to meet all off us including her grandkids, my brother didn't have to drive that far and didn't have to drive in a big city (he don't like that), and I got to hang out with my beloved family... It still meant we had to do the long drive, but dammit... it was the best option there was.

At least my brother managed to come visit me on my birthday... He didn't last year, so he hadn't been here in two years... *sigh*

Mom don't mind coming here though, and next week both she and my aunt is coming over since then one of their favorite bands, Smokie, are going to play live on a free concert downtown! So they'll come over here to us, peting73 has promised to cook us something delicious and then we'll go downtown watching free music. :-) I think it is going to be great! Talked to both mom and aunt, and so far, no change of plans. They are still both game for this. :-D YAY!

Fandoms

I am contemplating posting my PotC/TH crossover ficlet to THFiction... and th_fanfic. I am scared as fuck to do it! And I need a beta to look it over... Since it has mayor character death in it... and isn't exactly a happy piece... I am quite pleased with it, though... :-P It just needs a beta, since I know I suck donkey balls at grammar...

Talking off fandoms and writers... My favorite writer in the THfandom is leaving said fandom, leaving behind a few WIPs and some of the best done writing I have EVER read! I've had tears streaming down my face reading her stories, and trust me when I say I don't cry easily... I can understand if people wanna leave fandoms, new interests, growing apart from it and all that... But this girl was more or less hunted away from the fandom by idiotic teens and drama-queens stealing her ideas, her identity and just plain being assholes. And that just makes me sad. Damn sad. Fandoms are supposed to be fun, a place to play around... for everyone. Ah well. She is going to rework some of her stuff, and have it published... Just like DJ Redhawk did (from the Xena-fandom... I still buy her books...) and shapinglight is still doing (from the Buffy-fandom... buying her books to...). Seems I'll have another fanfic writer turned professional in my bookshelf soon, because dammit! I'll buy her books to!

LARP

The vampire-LARP is going damn well, I must say! :-D At least for my character, the servant/ghoul Frida Wagner. Well, more or less.... At least she hasn't died yet. *lol* She tried to help her mistress in a fight not that long ago, and managed to actually fight off a vampire much stronger then her (Go Frida!), but in the end she was thrown in a transport container for a few hours to calm the fuck down! X-D It was awesome! She even dented it... *lol* She is seriously a kick ass woman. That is currently living with four grown up English Mastiff dogs, 16 puppies of the same and her vampiric mistress in a trailer.... Complicated life is complicated? *lol*

It's LARP-night tomorrow, so we'll see what happens then. :-)

And... tonight...

I am going to a party at a LARP-friends... It'll be great fun, I think. :-) All my young friends, more or less, from the LARP is going to be there, and they asked me to get my old student-overall on and be wicked and mean like I used to be to other students at the Student Union Pub... X-D I promised I would... I am not sure they are aware of what they ask for... *wicked grin* To be reported at a later date then....

Yesterday was awesomely fun! :-D

At first I went to work at the school-library where I have worked these last six months. Well... It wasn't like I went to work yesterday, it was more like going to a party or gathering. :-) It was the last day of school for all them kids. And the last day for me to see them. So I dressed up nice (even had high-heels on!) and went there. Even tried a new makeup on trying to recreate the classic look by Betty Page, Marlyn Monroe and many others from the 50's. I did succeed somewhat, I think. :-) Got told I looked very nice by many. :-D
The kids were singing summer songs and the head-master held a speech. It was as it usually is when kids end school for summer holidays here in Sweden. And afterwards all the teachers and other staff in school had their own little gathering where we had coffee and cake and AGAIN the head-master held a little speech thanking all the teachers and staff for the year that had gone by.
My boss / colleague that will start another job shortly won't come back to this school, so she got a hug and a gift from the head-master and flowers. :-) She was close to tears, I could tell. And I understand her. Other teachers and staff that was leaving this school also got their flowers and speech. And me! o.O I was quite shocked at that, actually. But yeah. Was told that I had done a great work with the kids and it was a good thing I was a tad bit different, because as he said there is a need of variation and other views in school and life... I was a bit embarrassed actually... What little I have done is NOTHING compared to what my boss / colleague has done, but I was pleased to hear it none the less. :-)

After that we went to visit my second cousin to celebrate her son who graduated today! :-D WAS SO MUCH FUN! I got to meet my huge insane extended family which is always fun and got to give him a hug and wish him good luck in the future. :-) He is such a promising young man, so nice and sweet and... well... full of mischeif as well, as I guess most young men 18 years old are. ;-)

I also texted a lil to my LARP-friend who I'll be meeting today, since she graduated today to! Yeah, A is a young thing only 18 years as well... A wonderful young woman as well. I am sure she'll continue on to great things to!

And today! Today spicehobbit is leaving for Great Britian and will stay there and study for four weeks! :-D She loves that country and the language so I am sure she'll have a blast! She'll spend all her summer holiday there, so once home she'll go right back to work. :-) I bet she thinks it is worth it though!

So only good things, yeah!

Only bad thing I can think off is that yesterday I did Thursday night I did a stupid. :-/ I use Semagic when I post and edit and what not on LJ. I love it, works so fine. But Thursday LJ was a bit slow, so when I tried to load a post, my private post where I have my HUGE list of fanfic-to-read-when-I-have-time that I have added to for over a year... I clicked stupid and that ENTIRE post disappeared. Yeah. It is a stupid thing to be upset about, but... I admittedly am. :-/ DAMMIT! I have opened a ticket for help with LJ, but I have little hope of getting that entire post back. :-P Stupid, stupid.

Today though it is LARP-day! YAY! *runs off*

First! Lets see how many dares to.... ;-)

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Gonna go fix dinner soon, waiting for spicehobbit to get here. Tonight we are going to the Burlesque Club Tip the Velvet... And I can't wait! :-D Gonna be so much fun. :-) She even bought an ascot pin yesterday that I can use with the ascot she has fixed for me. o.O Amazing... And I have shopped some really nice makeup from Make Up Store that we'll experiment with. Gonna get damn interesting this. :-)

Yesterday was a calm and nice day at work, thankfully. I think I needed that after my stressful Thursday. :-P Short day to, but I was still so beat after my Thursday, I collapsed on the bed for over an hour when I came home. :-P Such is life. My boss / colleague told me I should talk to big boss about the troubles we have every single Thursday, so I will. :-P She is a great, really strict but cool lady, so I am actually looking forward to that talk. :-) And me and my boss / colleague decided that from here on out, none of us should work alone on Thursdays. Good call, I think. *nods*

Right. So. Off to make dinner, and then we'll see if I survive the evening... ;-)

I forgot to tell you about my Sunday, actually. Where I was invited to skarvsladdens birthday bash. :-) It was a 1 hour 40 mins drive, one way. With a printed map from the internet. On snow and ice. It was... interesting. :-P At first I wasn't so sure I wanted to go, but once I was there, I had a really good time. :-) astroflammante was there, as was tekiila and chigrima and plenty more of my old friends from my years at the university here. Was brilliant to talk to them again, catching up and generally having an awesome time. (Note though: Chi? You ARE so cute! X-D Just saying...) skarvsladden is very much a scout. To the core. So she had some competitions on her birthday party where you had to these scout thingies on time and everything. I failed. Mayorly. But fun was had by all. And she liked my gift to, so yay!

Working so far this week has been brilliant. It is a bit staggering to be partly responsible for a school library yourself... For sure, mayor responsibility is my colleagues / boss, but I run it on a daily basis with all what that entails. Tough stuff. I had my first group of kids on my own today. It went.. surprisingly well, and the kids had a good time while learning how to find books in the library, following the cataloguing system we have. So yeah. :-) It was very good, all of it, I'd say.

Now for them mentioned memes... I was supposed to post another voice-meme, but I couldn't get the mic to work... Weird. I'll have to ask peting73 about that. :-P

And I do have that 30 days about me meme, and I missed a day here and there, so have three days of it today. :-)

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8. Are you a fitness guru or a couch potato? Talk about your exercise habits.
Very much a couch potato. I really don't like exercising. :-P I do have my Zumba DVDs that I do now and then. And running around the library after kids that can't behave... Does that count?

9. Favourite meme at the moment.
The voice memes... It is kinda cool to hear what people sound like, isn't it? :-)

10. Talk about your pets, or the pets you would like to have.
I have two black cats, Skuld and Verdandi. They are six or seven years old by now. We got them after we have lived together for a year me and peting73. At first we thought that we were going to get to black boys and we had decided to name them Castor and Pollux... but no, they were two gorgeous black girls... :-) So we had to think of some other names. And we wanted to use mythology names. So instead, we picked our favourites names from the Norns from old Norse Myth. :-) Our cats are sisters, and a bit nuts, but we love them to bits and pieces. :-) I have grown up with cats my entire life, and I can't see a live without at least two cats in it.

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Also, have a meme about LJ. Why one uses it, friends, what one gets out of it, etc.... Maybe someone might find it interesting. :-)

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