Home.

Ah! Home Sweet home! We came home at 3.45 Thursday morning, after impulsively deciding to drive all the way home from Gothenburg in one day, instead of two as originally planned.

I have realised a couple of things about myself lately, and I am going to share them with you whether you want to or not!

1. I am strangely unable to tell white lies in SMSs or similar. Really! If somebody asks me what I’m doing, for example. If I tell them I’m playing the guitar, when in fact I’m not, I will always pick up the guitar before or directly after I send the message. I can’t really see why, because I’ve certainly told worse lies to people eye to eye, which is supposed to be worse…

2. I actually like writing. This is new to me. I think I have always loved the idea of writing, but not getting any satisfaction from actually doing it. And I do now. When I was driving home from Sweden, I found myself writing stuff on my book marker for lack of anything else to write on, longing for my notebook. And I certainly write more than I used to. The longest period of time I have been able to keep a diary is a week. I’ve kept this blog for almost a month now:)

The thing is that I don’t particularly like inventing stories and ponder over intricate plots. It’s the writing I like, the words and the sentences. (Which is why I write a blog, where I only write stuff that has actually happened or my own opinions.) I love it when I finally figure out how to write a sentence so that it not only makes sense, but also sounds nice. I will read books that have poorly written themes and plots as long as the language is exciting and well written. Hmmm. I think I’m a bit weird…


And here are a couple of things I WISH I’d just realised about myself:

1. That I suddenly seem to know everything there is to know about html, and can design my own blog instead of using this pre-made, fill-in-information-here -blog. (Any good teachers out there?)

2. That I can play the guitar perfectly, and make it look like it’s the easiest thing in the world. (But of course that has and will not happen unless I practice. And practice I will, because I will NOT go back to guitar class in August or September sounding like I do now!)


Sidenote: I have a weird and slightly disturbing feeling that everybody knows more people than I do.

Link:
Shared drawings: Maja and I had a blast making this. It’s a collection of drawings that Maja has made on my computer, complete with comments from both of us:) Check it out! But beware, you might laugh!

Music:
Bought McMusic Double Norwegian yesterday. (And I admit I should have seen my mother’s “Don’t spend all your money on CDs”-comment coming) Two whole CDs crammed full of music from Norwegian artists. Gotta love that! Personal favourites are Kaizers Orchestra, The Margarets, Morten Abel, Furia, Sondre Lerche and Tweeterfriendly music… Actually, I’d be better off listing the songs I didn’t like, because that would take way less space.. But I won’t…


No no no! Too much stuff in one post. Please forgive me. This is what happens when too much time passes in between posts.

In Sweden. 2.

Hey everybody! Left Örebro some days ago, and went to Västervik, which is on the east coast of Sweden. This is a comprehensive list that describes my stay here. (Sadly, there are no internet cafes or such here, but my father saw my distress and kindly whipped out his laptop and let me use it:)

Things I have done:
-Some swimming (like twice)
-A lot of eating.
-Slept.
-Read.
-Listened to music.
-Jumped on a trampoline at sea. (Really fun, I guarantee you)
-Modest shopping.
-Watched TV. Believe it or not. We have cable.

Things I have bought:
-TOO MUCH candy!
-Presents for friends:)
-The new Red Hot Chili Peppers CD.. By the way..
- Dawsons Creek CD (59 SEK on sale. Makes for really good background music.)
-Sahara Hotnights – Jennie Bomb.

Books I have read:
-Hotel World by Ali Smith
-A Fathers Diary by Fraser Harrison

Things I haven’t done:
-Sun-tanned. I don’t have the patience, and I can’t stand the heat. Besides, I never get that much colour anyway.
-Gotten to know anybody new.
-Slept late.

Things I'm going to do:
-Liseberg!! A big amusement park in Gøteborg:)
-Spend more money, but preferrably not on candy.

Other mentionable things:
-We met up with another family we know from home in Örebro. They have no kids my age, only younger (The oldest is three years younger than me, same as my little sister) but we had fun anyway: I went swimming with the two youngest kids a couple of times, and we spent the evenings playing cards, ludo, cluedo and twister and had fun despite the age difference.

I've had some fun here, but what I'm really looking forward to is going home. And I think this will be the last tine I go on a camping-trip with my parents. At least till I have kids on my own.

In Sweden.

Don't have much time to write, so please check out what I wrote in the shared blog that Maja and I have:) Am haveing a wonderful time here in Sweden, and already spending way too much money on candy and stuff like that:)

In the meantime...

...here are some links I highly recommend:

http://www.tshirthell.com. This page kept Maja and I busy for a while. It's...um.. fun doesn't quite cover it...

The spark. Bored? This is the best place to waste time.

Also, www.blogger.com has links to a lot of blogs :)

And...

Here's something to look forward to:

Coming this fall to CBS...
From the creators of "Touched By a Canine," comes an epic new series that will touch the hearts of dog lovers everywhere. One would think that Gracie is just an average pooch, until, that is, you take a closer look. Gracie has talents and abilities that other dogs just can't match. She can bark, she can walk, she can eat, and she can even lie down. She is . . . AMAZING GRACIE. (Coming soon to CBS. Welcome Home.)
(Discalimer: I didn't write this. I don't have the fantasy it takes to come up with something like that, so I ruthlessly stole it from some person I don't know. Just so you know...)

Leaving.

I’m off then. I leave for Sweden early (yes, 9.15 is early!) tomorrow. Hopefully, I’ll be able to write something from Sweden and feel kind of like a travel journalist:)

I’d write a longer and more boring review of the family-thing if I had the time, but I am at the moment swamped in things I need to do. Packing is one of them.


Family gathering.

So I spent most of yesterday at a family gathering, or something like that. Loads of people who are related stuffed together in one restaurant can only mean one thing: Noise. And believe me, there was a lot of that! The company was nice, food was okay, nothing more, nothing less, but plentiful, the toilets were huge, my second cousin’s daughter was adorable, and I had an overall good day:)

Doh.

(Written Saturday 6.june)

This is approximately (meaning it was longer. I have shortened it because 1. It takes less space this way, and 2. Frankly, I don’t remember all of it, and don’t want to) how a conversation between Maja and I sounded like yesterday:

Maja: Did you know that those Christian people will live longer than you?
Me: No way. (thinking this isn’t serious)
Maja: Way. I read someplace that religious people in general live longer than other people and live better and more healthy lives than, say, atheists. Some scientific test says so.
Me: Bullshit! (Of course, because this means a shorter life for me, and I refuse to believe that Christian people live better lives than me.)
Maja: You don’t think so?
Me: No.
Maja: But this was a scientific test. You believe in science.
Line: Yeah, well… oh crap.

This is how Maja finally got me speechless, using one of my favourite arguments against me. Then I said that maybe we ought to be religious as well, then, and Maja suggested Islam or Satanism. Needless to say we didn’t follow that train of thought very long:)

Now, I didn’t think about it right there and then, but maybe there is something to it. I mean I’m probably going to die a really miserable person, because I believe that there is no afterlife, that when you’re dead, you’re gone. Forever. (Man, atheism has to be the most depressing religion.) Meanwhile, religious people can die peacefully, believing that there is actually another life waiting for them. It would be so much easier to die if I could believe in heaven or something like that. And there’s probably a shitload of other situations where religious people are better off. I’m obviously doomed to have a non-healthy and short life.

I think I'm going to go throw away that bag of chips I've been wanting to eat for a while now...

To do. 2

Since I have been pretty bored today, and haven't had sense enough to do any of the things on my to do list, I have made a list of things to before I turn 40:
-Travel extensively.
-Learn how to keep a room tidy (or, alternatively, find a guy who can.)
-Overcome my shyness and become smug career-woman with high self-esteem.
-Find the perfect hairstyle.
-Revolutionise the fashion world: Practical will be the operative word.
-Live at least one year abroad.
-Give my 15 minutes of fame to somebody else.
-Get married and have kids (if that doesn’t happen before I’m 40, I can just forget about the having kids part!)
-Learn how to fly a helicopter:)

Okay, so all of the suggestions weren’t entirely serious (like the fashion-thing), but still…

I think my life will be pretty good if I manage to do all of these things:)

To do.

Right. We are now over a week into the summer holiday, and I am very mad at myself for not doing fun things, creative things. (Really, I have spent an enormous amount of my time in front of the TV or in bed.) So, I made a list of things to do the rest of the summer. Here goes:
-Exercise regularly (Starting tomorrow. Am going to force my sister to come with me and play football, go hiking or something equally sporty.)
-Write e-mails to my friends from school who live elsewhere. (To Mari, Idunn and Sabine, if you even bother to check out the page: I promise to write mails soon. I have, in fact, started, but I found out that there wasn’t that much to write about really.)
-Go swimming as much as possible (In the ocean, that is.)
-Drive as much as I can (Though I managed to break the mirror my dad needs when he’s tutoring me, so it might be a while before I get behind the wheel again. Oops.)
-Eventually kick ass on the guitar (Which means a lot of practise. Sigh. But that’s good. Gives me something to do.)
-Finish the birthday-gift-project for Katja that Maja and I started a week before her birthday in February.
-Take at least three of the scariest rides at Liseberg when we go there (I actually promised my sister I’d do that.)

Hm. Maybe I’ll put in more stuff as I think of them.