2011-01-14

What's New? January 2011

Well, health could be better. I hope I'll get to take another bloodtest soon. I'm finding it hard to go outdoors as I'm extremely sensitive to cold.

In some lighter news...

My official firsts of the year:

First outfit of the year - Bright pink t-shirt with candies forming a skull + Checkered white-yellow skirt. Totally cute outfit I wore at the stroke of midnight!

First drink of the year - Soda water + Apple/Strawberry/Cardemum juice. That's what I had my New Year toast with. Not an actual toast, like bread... The "Happy New Year!" toast.

First game of the year - Word games. Me and my mom were playing scrabble just before midnight and after midnight I made anagrams. I'm a party animal.

First read of the year - Ghost stories

First sleep of the year - Fully dressed in the living room couch, with my cat. Actually, that's more or less how I usually sleep.

First dream of the year - I dreamt I was jealous because my little sister got more attention than I. She got better toys and had more friends and I got angry.

First log in of the year - Skype

First eat of the year - My medicine. My breakfast tends to consist of my medicine and a glass of juice. Yeah yeah I know.

First actual meal of the year - Rice porridge with cinnamon and lingonberry jam. That was my lunch on the first of January.

Seeya!

2010-12-12

Moxie Girlz Love Dressing Up Warm And Cozy To Play In The Snow!

Now in Christmas times, there are especially many toy commercials on TV and I noticed this specific commercial - Moxie Girlz are now dressed for fun in the snow and they, I quote, "Love dressing up warm and cozy". Ah, what a great idea, a doll with proper winter clothes, so kids will know that it's cool to dress warm and comfortable in the winter, so we don't get sick from the severe cold!

No? Oh, it's just a doll in a cool hat, no earmuffs, no scarf, a sweater and a funky jacket, hotpants, transparent glitter tights and a pair of trendy boots. No gloves though, but I guess gloves aren't fashionable. Although I'm sure her sassy make-up and long dangling earrings will keep her warm and safe as she plays in the dangerously freezing weather! That's always something.

A quote from an earlier blog entry of mine, from about a year ago:


Well, Sweden sure is cold! Today was something between -15 and -6 Celcius locally. Going out, I wore

One tanktop
One longsleeved top
Another longsleeved top
One t-shirt
One knit sweater
One hoodie sweater
One pair of panties
Another pair of panties
One pair of tights that cover feet
Another pair of tights that cover feet
One pair of pants
Another pair of pants
A pair of socks
A long coat
One pair of extra thick snow pants
A knit cap
A scarf
Thick gloves
One pair of boots

So I was only somewhat cold


But hey, what do I know? I'm only a real human of flesh and blood. Perhaps it's more important to be trendy than to avoid getting seriously injured due to cold temperatures.

2010-09-19

Voting Day Disappointment

Well, I am disappointed. I voted today, but sadly unprepared. I researched the best I could to decide who to vote for. But to vote as specifically as possible, you shouldn't just vote for the party you like, but for the politician you like. It's really not fair - There's nowhere you can see how the voting tickets look beforehand. There are three tickets, one for parliament, one for county council and one for municipal assembly. I had decided to vote for the Green Party. Green Party for parliament, Green Party for county council and Green Party for municipal assembly. Preferably, I would have voted for specific people in all three elections, but it was IMPOSSIBLE to find any information on the candidates for Stockholm County or Järfälla Municipality, but on the Green Party's website, there is luckily a list of candidates for parliament, it is clearly titled, "Candidates for Parliament". I looked through the list and found some that I liked. Cheryl Jones Fur, Helena Leander, Jan Lindholm... So I figured, I can't vote for a specific person for county or municipality, because I can't find a single bit of information on them, but at least I can vote for a specific person for parliament. So, standing there in the voting booth, I looked through the Green Party parliament ticket, read all the names, one by one, went through the list once, twice, three or maybe four times. Cheryl Jones Fur wasn't on the list. What about Helena Leander? Nope. Surely, Jan Lindholm? Didn't seem to find him either. I had to give a party vote in the parliament election too, because none of the candidates I had read about were on the ticket! It was the right ticket and all, the Green Party ticket, for parliament, with a bunch of national Green Party politicians, but none of the ones that I had decided I liked. I feel kind of cheated, there is no way to read up on the candidates before you vote, not for county or municipal, just for parliament and well, of the people listed as parliament candidates on their website, only three quarters of them were on the voting bill. I am mildly angry right now and just hope that in the future, it will be easier to find out a little more about who you can vote for before it's voting time.

2010-08-19

Signe The Corpse

I made this pic after reading about decomposition. Pretty good huh? Yeah, I'm a bit morbid. You can read about decomposition too on the wonderful Anomalies Unlimited!

Link --> Anomalies Unlimited
Link --> Anomalies Unlimited - The 26 Stages of Death

2010-08-17

The Funny Truth

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."
- George Bernard Shaw

2010-08-08

Blue Lightning and Invertebrate Friends

Last night was an interesting night... We had thunder with blue lightning. A huge network of lightning flashes going upwards. Yep, jet lightning, going upwards. It was pretty scary, but a beautiful sight. My parents told me of times they had seen ball lightning and even bouncing ball lightning - Scary stuff. I'm not sure if that actually comes from thunder though or if it is more like... Glowing... Ion or whatever. I'm no expert on this. Like ehm... Ions... That are like ehm... Released from the Earth? Or was that Iodine? Nah, Iodine is what they put in salt. Gaarh. Well, isn't it ions that are apparently released at earthquakes? So it comes from the ground? Dang it I really don't know this stuff.

Anyway, I tried the tricky art of lightning photography, but I didn't catch any lightnings. Well, actually, I did photograph some lightning flashes, but the visible bolts only seemed to appear when I put my camera down for a change. Just like snakes seem to appear in the forest everytime I don't bring my camera, Anyway, after a while, I decided to turn on a flash light and read aloud to my parents. I read aloud to them sometimes and well, I don't know if it's true that you should turn off all electrical appliances and pull out the cabels when there's a thunder, but we tend to do that just in case.

Anyway, so I read a chapter of The Count of Montecristo before we decided it was night-night time. A cute little moth came to join me, flying around the flash light and sometimes resting on me or on the flashlight. Then a little later, a nice daddy long legs spider came crawling up my hair to my face. It stayed with me for like fifteen minutes, crawling on my hands and arms. Then after a while it decided to walk behind the couch and who am I to stop it? With the moth flewn away and the spider crawled away, it was kind of lonely and boring on the couch downstairs, so I went to my room and lay in my bed. I called for the cat to come and sleep with me, but she didn't come, so I took my dolls to bed instead. About two minutes later, the cat did come into my room to sleep with me, so me and the cat slept next to each other, while the dolls could rest next to us in bed. Yes, I have dolls.

2010-06-29

Shrimp, Birds and Stones

Yesterday, me and my mother went to the lake in the nature sanctuary. I stayed in the water for two hours. I made a lot of friends. The best one was the shrimp, which stayed in my hand and let me feed it. It stayed with me for about a half hour. It would follow me around and eat plankton off dead plants which were floating around in the water.

I also cleaned up the lake to help my other friends, the clams. You see, there are clams on the bottom of the lake, but when people walk in the water, they might crush the clams. So I searched the bottom of the lake and picked up the clams and put them in the reeds instead, because no one ever walks in the reeds. I also made friends with a fish, whom I am pretty sure was a baby pike.

Oh and I did something brave! Me and my mother swam out to the white waterlilies. I love white waterlilies, but I'm a little bit afraid of swimming among waterlilies, as their stealks and pads tend to scarily brush your leg! But it's less scary when you're swimming with your mom and she says she's not afraid of waterlilies at all. I'm not really afraid of them either, I just have this instinct from my childhood, that it's scary to swim where things brush your legs.

There was this cool bird circling the lake. I remember how it looked. It was pretty big. It was brown on its back and white on its underside. It had some dark spots on the underside of its wings and a thick dark line near the wingtip, on the underside, but not exactly at the wingtip. I cannot exactly recall if its belly was just white or if it was spotted. The bird kept diving down to fish, I guess.

After I was done swimming, I got dressed and started walking home. I stopped a lot along the way to try and identify some flowers, but I found out there are a lot of flower species that are basically identical, so it was pretty difficult. I guess it doesn't matter so much to know exactly what variation of the flower it is, but I do like to try and find an identity for them! Which, by the way, I still haven't managed to do, concerning the bird!

When I got home, I tried to photograph an apple. Should be an easy task for a photographer, but it was so hard to really show the beautiful color of the apple. It was pale yellow, with burgundy brown-red uneven stripes on it. It was so beautiful. I think someone ended up eating it or baking a pie with it or something, but I don't know who got the honor of eating that beautiful apple.

Today, I went out to get an acorn for a magic spell, but then I noticed there really aren't any acorns around, must be the wrong season for acorns I guess. My fat cat Tifa followed me. I saw another cat, which looked a lot like another cat I know, so I figured they must be siblings or something. I cuddled and played with that cat, but my cat got kinda jealous, I think.

There were no acorns, but there were little tiny trees spurting up everywhere, those tiny tiny ones that are like maybe 4 inches - a foot, more or less. The little baby trees that usually get cut off by the lawnmower before they get to be big trees. I figured I could dig up one of the smallest ones and plant it at home. I tried, but it was hard to dig with my nails in the ground. There were so many roots everywhere, I didn't want to damage them.

I couldn't get the little tree up that I tried, but instead I could get two other little trees up. Unfortunately, on one tree I didn't get the root, but on one, luckily, I got a small part of the root, so I put it in a little bottle of water in my room. I will see if it grows! I considered giving it a name, maybe like Ayodele or something nice like that, but then I decided that just calling it "the tree" or "baby" would suffice.

I still needed an acorn, so I asked my mother for the plastic bag in which my stones and pine cones are. Then I found she had made the idiotic move of pouring them out in the garden and over the pet cemetery! Stupid! I said I hadn't properly gone through the stones yet, to decide which ones go indoors and which ones go outdoors. I just hope she's not gonna go as dumb as her father.

My mom said she had forgotten that and figured the stones were safe in the pet cemetery, but the thing is, children walk by there and can take my lovely little stones! My mom said she felt so sorry she could throw up. She said she wanted to give me a stone, to make up for her mistake. She said it was black and white and oval.

She couldn't find it and said that maybe she had already given it to me earlier, so I took out my gem box and asked, "was it a gem?" and she said "no, it was just a beautiful pebble." And so I said it was probably in the garden or at the pet cemetery, as I had put all my non-gem stones in that bag which she had poured out all over the land.

And so she plucked up my stones, washed them and let me go through them all. Most of my precious babies, I told my mom to put in the garden. Some tiny ones, I put in a glass jar. The pine cones, I think, can be put anywhere in nature, they tend to rot anyway. There are still a few little stones which I am not sure where they are. My tiny flint stones and the cute black one my sister gave me. Maybe they're still in my room somewhere, at least the flintstones might be.

And now my mom says she wants me to have a piece of her jewelry instead. I said "I already have all your antique jewelry in my room", but she's like "But I want to give you a piece of jewelry". You see, my mom lets me keep my favorites of her jewelry in my room. I especially like the oldest ones and the ones with precious stones.