2008-05-31

What the Fuck's Wrong?

Seriously. Now this blog entry ain't planned, just my adorable spontaneous rambling, really. Anyway. There's just so much crap in the world! Yeah, I'm aware, the responses to that are often - From total strangers, of course - "But you're contributing to the crap" or "So, don't just whine and do something about it"

Seriously. I am not contributing to any crap. What the fuck am I doing wrong? I just live my life. Tryina recover from my mental illness. Doing all I can to help those I love. And, yes, I try to stop the evil in the world! But seriously, I can't fix all that's wrong! Yeah, I do good things, I give money to homeless folks, I'm a passionate anti-racist, I'm a vegan, I'm open-minded, but seriously, I can't do everything!

One thing I can't do anything about is free will. Yeah, according to the religious folks, God can't even do anything about free will, some people though, they believe in forcing people to do as they want. That's wrong. Sure, some people are shallow, racist, mean and don't take any responsibility to stop the wrongs in the world, but I can't do anything about that, because people are allowed to be who they are without being punished!

I do believe shallow mean people are a wrong in the world. One of those evils you can't fight. Sure, I can give money to homeless folks and take care of animals, but I can't erase all the idiots and all the abusive people. Hopefully, I could at least keep them away from me and other innocent people if I find them. But I can't be expected to force people to become nice or deep. That's their own fucking problem.

I'm a rich white kid, that's right, a real little princess I am, I sit at home in front of my computer each day, my parents cook for me and pay the rent, so I can put all my money on PVC clothes and gothic comics if I so like. I do, however, not put all my money on that. Lots of money, but not all.

Also, I am not a shallow or lazy person. Don't be prejudiced. All little rich white princesses ain't stupid. When I was an infant, everything was fine, really, nobody saw any signs of autism back then and I hadn't developed any anxiety disorders either. It was more as a toddler, people began noticing I was sort of unusual, really.

Anyway, already as a young child, I had to struggle lots with anxiety and emotional abuse and injustice. My teen years were bad. I'm still a teen. Whoa, fuck, my mental illness has been bad throughout my teens. Now I am OK. Out of the psych clinic, got some lovely little animals, lovely little cousins, lovely "little" friends.

Anyway, back to the rich white princess thing, I have plenty of lovely stuff you'd think people don't need and my parents do simple everyday things for me, like cooking and making my bed. However, though. That doesn't mean I am happy. I feel very empty. I just try to be close to the people I love. Help them with life. Recover from my mental illness. Spend lots of time with animals and children. What the fuck's wrong?

It's the social stuff I guess. People are just too boring. Or too ugly - On the inside, I don't care about looks -. Or too ordinary. Yuck. Anyway. I'm not gonna sink myself down to the level of randomly dating or fucking people. I have found a few people in this world that are truly beautiful to me and I don't need any other friends! And as for people -or person- I might be interested in as more than friends, that's not your business, yeah, I am open about everything, but some things are private!

It really is lonely here. I have my snake and my cats. I love them. All of my friends are in other countries. They all live in other countries. I ain't met any of them in real life. I can't connect with people. And it seems the things I want the most aren't available for me. No. Either I'm not good enough or someone complains or whatever.

I really don't like my family. They can be really judgmental and idiotic sometimes. I really hate my sister. She doesn't like spiders. I just can't tolerate that kinda attitude. Not like spiders? I love spiders! They are amazing! I really can't forgive people who did things to me just out of cruelty. Yeah, being afraid of spiders ain't intended cruelty, but some people are just such garbage!

When I was... Oh, maybe eleven. We were gonna have a cabaret of lots of little sketches in my class. Oh, well, that is how we would say it in Sweden, cabaret, sketches, in other words, short theatre performances after each other. Me and some other people were in a group and we were supposed to come up with a sketch to do and some of those other people didn't like me.

Anyway, it was my assignment to write down our work in the computer and print it out. But then when I had already been assigned that, later, another girl said she wanted to. She suggested we print out half each. I told her that's just messy, two people printing out each half of a script? From different computers on different streets? I had already gotten the assignment, so I thought it would be better if she had her own assignment instead, splitting one assignment in two like that surely is inefficient and messy!

So, the next day I had the scripts properly and perfectly written down in computer print and printed out perfectly, of course. Then, the day after that, I saw that one of the girls came to school with completely different scripts that they handed out to everyone but me. I waited them out to see what they would do.

At the rehearsal, I was just waiting to see what was gonna happen. Of course, not unexpected, when they were supposed to introduce my character, they just skipped me and introduced someone else instead. There it was. The thing I waited for. I barely hurt the girl who obviously planned it.

The teachers, they barely reacted, "Oh, I'm sure they didn't mean to forget about your character, it was probably just a mistake." Yeah, right. That was a very silly little mini-play by eleven year olds, but either way, you don't do that to someone. You just don't. Even if you're eleven. Also, I am still pissed at the teachers for not punishing those kids.

Yeah, I was bullied lots in my childhood and more and more I started believing in punishing children. Because, seriously, if you just calmly tell them to stop once in a while, that doesn't work, they have to be severely punished so they will learn to stop picking on the other students!

I don't believe in punishment anymore. I believe in kind and forgiving education and helping. However. If someone just brutally insults or defames another person, without remorse, they should be clearly shown that it is WRONG and if it will ever happen again, they will get strictly punished indeed!

Let me just say, I am not positive towards electric shocks for children or animals. I love children and animals so so much. I just gotta tell you about this theory I had when I was maybe twelve. Well, I had seen on TV, that monkeys could be trained by getting a small amount of electricity whenever they did wrong.

I told my mother, you should do that to school children as well. Whenever they bully their fellow students, they should get a sudden electric shock, so they learn to stop being bad. My mother got a bit upset by this I believe. Anyway. Yeah, I don't think children would learn from electric shocks. But then on the other hand, my mother wasn't the one who had to be bullied and taunted everyday in school. So I don't feel guilty for what I said, even though I have changed my opinion now.

Children should be treated with love and respect. However, children who are cruel to other children should probably be taught a bit more strictly, that it is not OK. They just can't be allowed to bully other kids. Of course, I've been libeled and abused lots recently too. Well, well. I better stop rambling before my blog entry gets too long!

2008-05-29

The 116 Greatest Songs Ever!

Why 116 I do not know. I just tried to put down lots of songs that I like. Perhaps there are lots of songs that I like more than some of those but that didn't get on the list, perhaps some of them aren't in exactly the order I like them. But hey, I spent lots of time trying to write down my favorite songs and put them in the right order and it's not so easy to remember all my favorite songs or decide in which order I like them all and I really can't spend forever on one list, so I guess I think this list is quite good enough!

1. Diamanda Galás - Scream of Love
2. Diamanda Galás - Eyes Without Blood
3. Diamanda Galás - I Put A Spell On You
4. Rezsõ Seress - Szomorú Vasárnap
5. Joy Division - I Remember Nothing
6. Joy Division - In A Lonely Place
7. John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch
8. Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
9. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You
10. Clannad - I Will Find You
11. Mary J. Blige and Method Man - You're All I Need
12. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
13. Dave Bainbridge and Joanne Hogg - Until The Tide Turns
14. The Blue Nile - Soul Boy
15. The Danse Society - Somewhere
16. Joy Division - Decades
17. Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
18. Bill Withers - You Just Can't Smile It Away
19. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
20. The Police - Every Breath You Take
21. Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - You Are Everything
22. Corvus Corax - Mille Anni Passi Sunt
23. Hocico - Nightmare
24. Iona - Divine Presence
25. All About Eve - Martha's Harbour
26. Diamanda Galás - Insane Asylum
27. Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence
28. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
29. Gene Loves Jezebel - Kiss Of Life
30. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
31. Diamanda Galás and Jane's Addiction - Sex Is Violent
32. Diamanda Galás - Gloomy Sunday
33. Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday
34. Leftöver Crack - Heroin Or Suicide?
35. Jimmy Witherspoon - Everything But You
36. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
37. Luther Allison - Reaching Out
38. Corvus Corax - Rausch
39. Loreena McKennitt - Skellig
40. Enya - I Want Tomorrow
41. Diamanda Galás and Recoil - Strange Hours
42. Hocico - Spit As An Offense
43. Corvus Corax - Zauberlehrling
44. Runrig - Abhainn an t-Sluaigh
45. Clannad - Northern Skyline
46. O'Jays - Now That We Found Love
47. Jimmy Reed - Big Legged Woman
48. Jimmy Reed - You Got Me Dizzy
49. Luther Allison - Serious
50. Jimmy Reed - I Wanna Be Loved
51. Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing
52. Fiona Kennedy - Riverdance
53. Lead Belly - Black Betty
54. John Lee Hooker - Think Twice Before You Go
55. Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City
56. Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do
57. Venetian Snares - A Lot of Drugs
58. Bo Diddley - Bring It To Jerome
59. Mance Lipscomb - God Moves On The Water
60. Sonny Terry - Lost John
61. Adiemus - Adiemus
62. John Lee Hooker - Devil's Jump
63. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightin'
64. Pink Floyd - Keep Talking
65. Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business
66. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
67. Skip James - Shake 'Em On Down
68. Mississippi John Hurt - Stagger Lee
69. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
70. Luther Allison - Life Is A Bitch
71. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
72. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
73. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl
74. Ma Rainey - C. C. Rider
75. David Honeyboy Edwards - Gamblin' Man
76. Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly and Sonny Terry - How Long Blues
77. Mamie Smith - Sweet Man O'Mine
78. Skip James - I'm So Glad
79. Mance Lipscomb - Ain't It Hard?
80. Leonard Cohen - Waiting For The Miracle
81. Skip James - Worried Blues
82. Skip James - Crow Jane
83. Odetta - God's Gonna Cut You Down
84. The Blue Nile - From A Late Night Train
85. Mance Lipscomb - So Different Blues
86. Mamie Smith - No Good Man
87. Skip James - 4 O'Clock Blues
88. Mamie Smtih - So What Papa?
89. Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe
90. Mamie Smith - Harlem Blues
91. Mance Lipscomb - Baby Please Don't Go
92. Mance Lipscomb - Going Up North To See My Pony Run
93. John Lee Hooker - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
94. Clannad - Blackstairs
95. Skip James - How Long Blues
96. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
97. Mance Lipscomb - Angel Child
98. Cage and Darryl Palumbo - Shoot Frank
99. Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self-Destruct
100. Clannad - Newgrange
101. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
102. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
103. Corvus Corax - Tanzwut
104. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
105. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Somliga Går Med Trasiga Skor
106. Máire Brennan - Against The Wind
107. Nine Inch Nails - Closer
108. Kool Rock Steady - You Ain't Nobody
109. Mance Lipscomb - Mama Don't Allow
110. Ray Charles - Hit the Road, Jack!
111. Supertramp - The Logical Song
112. Michael Sembello - Maniac
113. Junior Wells - Sweet Sixteen
114. Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave - Some Velvet Morning
115. Mance Lipscomb - Big Boss Man
116. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

2008-05-28

Newer Photos By Me

A rose

My cat Tifa on her birthday

My cousin Majken

Some stuff in my room

My cousins Olga and Majken

My little cousin Olga playing her African drum

My face

2008-05-24

The Greatest Blues Musicians Ever

The best blues artists ever! In my personal opinion.

Listed by birth

1880's
1883-05-26 - 1946-09-16 Mamie Smith
1886-04-26 - 1939-12-22 "Ma" Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey
1888-01-01 - 1955-09-12 Frank Stokes
1888, January - 1949-12-06 Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter

1890's
1892-03-08 - 1966-11-02 "Mississippi" John Smith Hurt
1895-04-09 - 1976-01-30 Beau De Glen "Mance" Lipscomb
1898-06-26 - 1958-08-14 William Lee Conley "Big Bill" Broonzy

1900's
1902-06-21 - 1969-10-03 Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James

1910's
1910-06-10 - 1976-01-10 Chester Arthur "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett
1911-05-08 - 1938-08-16 Robert Leroy Johnson
1911-10-24 - 1986-03-11 Saunders "Sonny Terry" Terrell
1913-04-04 - 1983-04-30 McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield
Born 1915-06-28 David "Honeyboy" Edwards
1915-11-30 - 1996-02-16 Walter "Brownie" McGhee
1917-08-22 - 2001-06-21 John Lee Hooker

1920's
1920-08-08 - 1997-09-18 James "Jimmy" Witherspoon
1925-09-06 - 1976-08-29 Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed
Born 1928-12-30 Ellas Otha "Bo Diddley" McDaniel

1930's
Born 1930-12-31 Odetta
1934-12-09 - 1998-01-15 Amos "Junior Wells" Blakemore
Born 1935-07-01 James Cotton
1939-08-17 - 1997-08-12 Luther Allison

Photos

Born in the 1880's

Mamie Smith


Ma Rainey


Frank Stokes


Lead Belly

Born in the 1890's

Mississippi John Hurt

Mance Lipscomb


Big Bill Broonzy

Born in the 1900's

Skip James

Born in the 1910's

Howlin' Wolf


Robert Johnson


Sonny Terry


Muddy Waters


David Honeyboy Edwards


Brownie McGhee


John Lee Hooker

Born in the 1920's

Jimmy Witherspoon


Jimmy Reed


Bo Diddley

Born in the 1930's

Odetta


Junior Wells


James Cotton


Luther Allison

2008-05-22

If You Need Me

You can be aware of how to find me!

My homepage: http://googlesheepsigne.blogspot.com/

ICQ: 484 523 662

MSN: signe_1989@hotmail.com

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Playdo: Capoeira

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My email: jag@mymelody.com

My witch/pagan profile: Here

Yahoo: SigneRobertson

2008-05-17

Yes, I'm A Sucker For Dress-Up Games!

Here are some of the very best!

The pictures are my creations. Clicky link to make ya own.

1. Play one of the best makeup games there are. Real photo of a girl, lots of options, quite realistic.

I like this style!

2. Design your own prom gown! Lots of options to make your own party outfit, very nice, you can create so many styles!
I like this sorta outfit.

3. Very nice makeover. Lovely graphics. Plenty of options. Easy to play. Four different skin tones to choose from.

I like a simple look... ...But some makeup is nice!

4. FacePlace is a makeover, where you can create a face and even pick clothes - Both girls and boys!
Looks like me.

5. The Barbie makeover, yeah, I'm aware that Barbie is nowadays mostly a sexist pink product, but actually this one is pretty good, quite many options!
Gave Barbie some style.

6. Just because of the cuteness really. Not so super many options, I guess, but I think it doesn't need any more options, I think it is perfect like that, a little extremely cute dress-up game with a very cute little girl.
Made cute girl cute dressed cute girl!

7. Dress and style a bride! Just because it's so cute, really, you can create a very pretty bride and there are some different options!
Thought this bride's outfit was cute!

8. The cuteness! The cuteness! Clothes, makeover, hair, accessories. So fun to play! I like the way you put the makeup on.
Pretty cute theme on this dress-up game, so innocent, this is the outfit I put together!

9. Put on your own eyeshadow! Seriously. You can pick between different eyeshadows and then choose free-hand how to put them on!

Maybe I would pick an eyeshadow similar to this.

2008-05-16

About My Cat

I have three cats. The youngest one is Gloria. She is six and a half years old now. She is like a daughter to me, so childish and affectionate and she is so very small, size-wise. Her biological mother and aunt are both castrated, but Gloria is still on the pill, I will have to make a difficult decision about her.

Alternative A: I don't castrate her or give her the pill anymore, I let her get pregnant. Sure, I don't mind kittens and this is the natural option, but, the thing is, she is so childish and innocent in her personality that I do not think she should have kittens. Also, her body is so very small, I am afraid of there being risks for such a small cat giving birth.

Alternative B: Have her castrated. Then she wouldn't risk getting pregnant and she wouldn't risk getting any tumors or poisoning from her birth control. But. I don't like people cutting in my cat. This is my perfect little girl and I don't want knives in her for no reason at all. Seems like a bad option unless it's absolutely urgent. Also. If if if if I would change my mind and think maybe she should have kittens, then I couldn't exactly have her castration reversed and the only chance for this cat family to have more kittens would be over - Our other cats are castrated. Also, when cats are castrated, their personalities might change and I am much attached to her personality. Wouldn't want her to suddenly become fat and lazy, just because she lost her girl-balls.

Alternative C: Keep her on the pill. No pregnancy. No cutting. Simple. The thing is though, the pill can be risky.

Alternative D: I heard of a weird thing... ...That you can put a q-tip in your cat's vagina to loosen the egg, when she ovulates. Might seem like mumbo jumbo, but apparently it is a thing that people actually do and it is apparently quite safe. The thing is though, I think that is for indoor-cats, because it is a bit difficult to tell exactly when to do this, by the time you notice she's in heat, it might be too late to loosen the egg.

2008-05-15

Sorry If I Embarrass You Now

By mentioning your names, but I just gotta say, Freya and Louis, so many times you've told me you are feeling unhappy or don't like yourselves... ...It makes me feel so sad, you are the most beautiful people in the world and I love you both so much!

2008-05-13

New Photos By Me

Cute lemurs

Crocodiles - Safely behind glass

Rattlesnake - Safely behind glass as well

A fish

A spider - This is a close-up, it is about 2-3 inches long in real life

A very cute baby duck that I patted some

Some child and a goat

A bear - Safely behind glass

2008-05-10

The Countryside

The Countryside

By Signe Robertson, 2008-03-19

My name is Rachel. I live with my father, who works all the time, with some weird projects. Even if I was interested in his work, he would probably never have the time to explain it to me, since he works constantly. Anyway, my aunt, that is my father's sister, got sick and had to live in a hospital a while, so she asked my father to look after her three-year old daughter, Gina.

Of course, he said he could take care of her, which means, I was stuck looking after her all the time. Also, my father had this huge project going on and he said it would be the best if we would rent this big house in the countryside, I could relax there with Gina and he could have lots of space to work on this new project, whatever it was this time.

So, we packed our bags and went there, my father promised he would look after Gina a few hours every day, so that I could get some time to relax in the countryside for once. He really meant it, he is a great dad. So, he would work on his project and I would look after Gina and sometimes he would look after Gina and I could just relax for once.

I needed to relax a bit. For a few weeks I had just looked after Gina. I'm only twenty-one years old, I don't go to school or work, but I'm used to helping out at home, as my father is often busy obsessing about his new work projects and stuff. Me and my father have always gotten along well.

So, this countryside house I was talking about, it was a big house, much bigger than the little apartment we were used to. There was a weird school nearby, very old-fashioned, the principal even lived in a simple room in the school. His sister, who was a teacher at the school, also lived in a room at the school.

The principal had an eighteen-year old daughter named Zilla and his sister, the teacher had an eighteen-year old daughter named Pamela and a four-year old son named Harry. Zilla and Pamela went to the same school, yes, the weird school, there were only a few classes, it was really strange how they planned it.

You see, there was a pre-school right next to the school, for children between one and six, I would drop Gina off there sometimes, they were cool with it, they said it was OK, without even registering her, we didn't even have to pay any money, these people were really nice, they were aware we didn't have too much money and didn't know how long we'd stay in the countryside anyway.

In the actual school, there was one classroom for grades 1-3, one for 4-6, one for 7-9 and one for 10-12. Zilla and Pamela would both begin grade 12, after the summer vacation. As you might have understood already, Zilla and Pamela were cousins, Pamela was just one week older than Zilla and they looked almost like twins.

They were both the same height, had long brown hair and brown eyes. Zilla was just ever-so-slightly thinner than Pamela and had straight, light-brown hair, while Pamela's hair was darker and sort of wavy. Pamela and Zilla spent almost all their time together and they would look after Harry as well.

I quickly became friends with these girls and we would sit and talk about everything and nothing, while we were watching Harry and Gina play. Once, Harry threw sand at my sweet innocent little Gina and I ran over and lifted him up. "Hey, you can't throw sand at her! She's very sensitive and she's smaller than you!"

Pamela quickly ran up to me and said "Don't yell at my little brother like that! He is just a child, he doesn't know what he's doing!" Zilla would meddle between us and try to get us to be friends and it always worked, Zilla was such a sweet girl, not at all as passionate and bitchy as me and Pamela.

When we arrived to the countryside, you see, it was just in the end of the summer vacation, so Zilla and Pamela would just get back to school a few days after we arrived there. Pamela told me "Come into the classroom with us, it's really fun! They'll probably let you sit there and listen, our school is so great!"

Well, however enthusiastic Pamela sounded, school didn't seem like so much fun to me, but anyway, we dropped the little ones off at the pre-school and I followed the girls into the school. Zilla walked slowly and looked kind of sad, so I looked at her face and she said to me "Pamela's mom is the teacher. That's why she thinks school is so great. But my aunt isn't very nice to me. I like to skip class and just hide out somewhere."

Before I knew it, she grabbed my hand and took me outside, without Pamela even noticing it. Somebody else noticed though and apparently told the teacher on her. The teacher always got so angry at Zilla when she ran away, Zilla told me, that she would personally go out and just grab her hand and drag her back to the classroom.

I had heard Pamela talk about her cousin as her father's disappointment, she was a rebel, always doing what she felt like "But she's my cousin and I love her as she is", she said. Zilla and I were running away from the school, I didn't really understand why, I barely knew Zilla and I didn't know why it was so important for her to escape her teacher, who was by the way her own aunt, but Zilla was a nice girl and she looked seriously afraid of her teacher.

So, I followed her and we tried to run away somewhere, but there weren't really many places around to hide, I guess the escape wasn't so well planned. Zilla looked at me with terror in her face, saying she heard her aunt coming. So, she pulled me down in the high grass and we kept really low there among the wild grass and plants.

It wasn't too comfortable of course, grass and leaves and stones and dirt, but Zilla seemed seriously afraid and held me tight. I heard the teacher as well and I guessed this wasn't a good hiding place. Zilla looked me in the face and I looked back. I leaned towards her and kissed her, stupid me, kissing a girl, not even boys like me, surely a girl wouldn't like me.

When I had kissed her, she just looked at me and smiled and I smiled back, but then suddenly she was pulled out of my arms. The teacher had found us and grabbed Zilla and I looked at them both. "Zilla! You're a shame to the family and a shame to our nice little school. Always running away - And I see you have corrupted the girl from the old house nearby. You're always embarrassing me and my brother! No wonder your mother died giving birth to you. She would probably be ashamed if she saw her little girl grow up to this little rebel. Can't even go to school like her friends."

Zilla's aunt smacked Zilla in the face and then held her in a hard grip and led her back to school. I don't understand why she had to be so rough with her. Anyway, I thought it was best to follow Pamela's advice and start going to school with them from now on, if not just to keep an eye on Zilla, so her aunt wouldn't humiliate or hurt her somehow.

Things went on very casually after that, me, Pamela and Zilla did everything together, we were always three, nearly always looking after the children. Pamela really liked to talk a lot, she was always leading every conversation and me and Zilla would just look at each other a little bit and say a few things once in a while.

We would just sit and take it easy, eat some ice cream under the hot sun, look after the children and talk a bit, that way everything was fine and surely if we just stuck to Pamela, Zilla wouldn't get into any more trouble. Pamela would talk a lot and we would just let her go on and just put in a few comments now and then.

"So, as you can see, my taste in clothes is just great, I know it's summer, but still, black is never wrong and it is tacky to show too much skin, I don't know how you girls can mix colors like that, I mean, a red t-shirt and a green skirt, those colors don't even match! If you wear a red t-shirt you should have a red skirt, a black skirt, a denim skirt... ...Or a pair of jeans."

Whatever. We just let her ramble about her fashion stuff. Nobody wants to wear a black t-shirt with a bra under and a sweater and a pair of jeans under the hot sun, I don't care if it looks more proper that way, me and Zilla would just wear a top or t-shirt with a skirt or a pair of shorts to it, it's warm, nobody cares about fashion or covering up skin, it is warm in August and September, the sun is so hot, you even sweat wearing a bikini, we had to go swimming at least once a day.

So things were pretty good. We spent all time together, when we got up in the morning we would drop the kids off at the pre-school and go to school together and then we would spend our afternoons looking after the children, watching them play, making sure they got food and baths - And of course we would talk a lot with each other. One day, when it was very dry, a fire had started in the school, it was dry and windy in the air and the fire spread quickly.

I could tell this school wasn't well organized, the teachers panicked and weren't sure of how to evacuate the children. As I told you, the school was small and old-fashioned, but it had two floors and a basement and also, there was a pre-school right next to it. The fire and smoke spread quickly, people were panicking and the teachers couldn't decide how we should evacuate.

I panicked as well, I thought of Gina and I ran over to the pre-school, luckily I managed to get out quickly, I guess because I wasn't afraid of running through the smoke, I just tried to avoid inhaling it. Gina was safe, the pre-school was much better organized than the school. I helped getting the pre-school children out, really, the fire hadn't spread to that building at all, but we made sure to take the children somewhere safe.

Everybody in the small countryside community had heard about the fire, which spread quickly in the hot dry winds and people with cars, yes, even a few buses came to take all the people from the school and the few houses nearby to a farm, which was remotely nearby, but safe from the fire. There was a man from there, who had fallen in love with a Swedish woman a long time ago and moved to Sweden with her, they had a son together named Örjan. When the man's father died, he inherited a farm from him and they all moved to live on the farm and Örjan went to school in the same class as Pamela and Zilla.

So, it was good that we had the farm to escape to. Maybe it seems weird how a fire could spread so quickly, but that happens sometimes in the warm and windy countryside, where people just live their simple lives and aren't very well prepared for emergencies. You would think that as dry as it was, people would be more careful and prepare themselves more for things like this, I mean, if a fire would start somehow, it is quite predictable it would spread quickly, but I guess people were way too busy living their little country-side-family-lives.

Finally, we were all safe at the farm, some people who had panicked and not been able to escape the fire quickly, had got burns and some girls were upset about clothes being ruined by the smoke. I had Gina in my arms and I looked around for all the people I knew. Dad was there, Pamela, Harry, lots of familiar faces. I didn't see Zilla though. Maybe she didn't make it. Or maybe she finally ran away. Yes, a fire would be a good opportunity to escape, especially as panicky as people were there. Nobody would have been angry at her if they didn't find her. I know one thing though, she didn't start the fire, she would never hurt anybody.

So, I sat there with Gina in my arms and I thought to myself, Zilla ran away, she ran away somewhere far away where her dad and aunt wouldn't look for her. She probably caught a ride with somebody, somebody who had not yet heard of the fire, yes, she probably just said she had somewhere to go or something and just hitchhiked far away from this little community. That is what happened. I hugged little Gina and smiled.

2008-05-08

Some of the Coolest People I Have Met, I Am Not Allowed to Speak of

Because they are either students I work with or patients that lived in the psychiatric clinic where I lived.

2008-05-07

Beloved Things

Of course, what is most important to me is my little cousins, my cats, snake and my friends, but I also have some objects that I value very much. Not because I am vain, but because these things are special to me, they are things that I wouldn't want to lose. So, here is the list of some of my very favorite objects!

1. I have a list of all the internet communities I am a member at and what my member names are. That list is very important, because I'd be so fucking confused and angry if I would have to try and count and think and remember everything and write it all down again.

2. All the stories and important things I have written on paper or printed out to save forever.I try to avoid storing things on my harddrive too much, in case it crashes or gets a virus or something. The important things I print. Besides, storing too much can make your puter slow.

3. The doll that my grandma made for me. It is made in fabric and is supposed to look like me as a child. I really liked my grandmother and I like this doll she made for me. So pretty it is! I love it. My grandmother was nice. Her name was Elsie. I don't like my grandfather though.

4. My brilliantine pendant. It is in white gold with a brilliantine diamond on it. Of course, I do not wear it much these days, it is so tiny and also I am kinda more into gold and garnets, but I have always liked it very much and I love diamonds, because they are such a pure material.

5. I love stuffed animals. My favorite is a stuffed tarantula named Hjördis. She looks like a Mexican Redknee tarantula or in other words: A smithi. She is quite realistic, although a bit bigger than tarantulas usually are in reality. I bought it during my last time in the clinic.

6. Another stuffed animal. Anka-banka. A very cute stuffed duck I got when I was very very young. Perhaps when I was born... ...Possibly when I was baptised. I don't remember what I was told. Anyway. Anka is Swedish for Duck and Banka rhymes with Anka.

7. Yet another stuffed animal. Fizzio. Fizzio is a tiny stuffed panda I got from a second hand shop long ago. It is an unusually beautiful toy and I have always liked it very much. It looks so old-fashioned and well-made. Fizzio doesn't mean anything that I know, just something I made up.

8. Another stuffed animal. Rivig. Rivig is a big huge stuffed kitty that is really cute and adorable. I wanted it for so long when I was little and then finally I got it one day and I was so happy. It sleeps in my bed next to me every night. It looks very cute and happy.

9. My akua'ba. An akua'ba is a symbolic object that is meant to be treated as your own child. It is very cute and it is easy to get affection for it and even if you are not so into the cutesie stuff, you could still tell it is a nice piece of art. It is in wood and painted black.

10. My Guatemalan mask. It is tiny and red and looks like some kind of animal. It is very beautiful. When I saw it I could tell it very much suits my personality. It is handpainted in a beautiful pattern and it has big white fangs. It looks like some kind of either feline or canine predator, but might be something else.

11. Stuffed animal: Fante. A cute stuffed elephant. It is in a glossy fabric with nice colors. It is from India and it was sold in a store in Sweden when I was a child and I got much affection for it. It is so lovely, it looks hand sewn, I just hope it isn't like child labour or something, I think that store are pretty picky not to buy child labour things, but maybe they don't always know.

12. Stuffed animal: Pig. I don't know if I really have a name for this one, anyway, it is a cute little handmade pig doll in an old fashioned style. I always loved it very much as a child and I guess I sorta have an even deeper love for it now, it is just so beautiful.

13. Black gloss top with the zipper all the way down. From Phaze Clothing. I just love it and it is so so ME, it is pure simple intense, just black gloss with a zipper, it is so very much my style and well it is difficult to find clothes that are just perfect for my style.

14. My black gloss pants from Phaze Clothing.

15. Black under-bust corset from Dark Star. It is lovely and it has nice buckles on it and I think it goes well to pretty much anything. It is difficult to find nice underbust corsets, especially when you are as thin as I am. Lots of corsets are so big or plain ugly.

16. My black gown from Lip Service. It looks sort of 18th century-ish. I love it very much, my mother bought it for my nineteenth birthday and I have worn it several times, I don't need any special doggone occasions, if I think the dress is pretty, I will wear the dress!

17. My black sleeveless gown. It is in a lace-like material and my mother says it looks like a gothic wedding gown. It is very lovely and I like it very much. I love black clothes and it is difficult to find nice dresses. It is difficult to find nice clothes at all.

18. My black gloss skirt that is covered in black flowery lace. It is from Phaze Clothing and it is so absolutely lovely. Ooh I love clothes, I really do!

19. Red gloss skirt.

20. Black lace skirt.

21. Black gloss skirt.

22. My black skirt that is tight on the top part and assymetric and not tight on the bottom part.

23. Black and gold Venetian eye mask.

24. Gold and garnet necklace - It really belongs to my mother, but she doesn't wear it.

25. My dagger earrings.

26. African neck collar.

27. My buddhist rosaries.

28. My lovely African earrings.

29. My red lace choker.

30. My really big necklace.

31. My black and purple top.

32. My lovely underwear! I love panties, bras, socks... ...So pretty!

33. My silver spider/web ring.

34. My silver and onyx spider pendant.

35. All my pretty gem stones and crystals I have.

36. My very broken red Chinese jacket.

37. My spider/web T-shirt.

38. Plastic pigs. One summer when we were on vacation I saw these cute plastic piggies in a second hand store. It is really a one-piece object, not several separate piggies. It is one pig lying down and her babies sucking her nipples for milk. When I went home from the vacation, my mother and sister stayed a bit longer and when they came back my mother had bought the piggies for me! I didn't buy them, though I got very attached to them and by the time my mother got me them, I had almost forgotten about them, but I was happy I finally had them!

39. My huge conifer cones I found in Greece.

40. Black cat statue.

41. My leopard figurine. Once when me and my father - Recently - Where in a toy store, checking out toys for fun - I do have tiny cousins, maybe you can find good presents - We looked at the animal figurines and I asked my father which of the animals was ME and he picked the right one and then he bought it for me.

42. My Lenore figurine.

43. My tiny spider earrings in silver.

44. My less tiny spider earrings in silver.

45. My fibulae.

46. Red jaspis pendant.

47. Quartz pendant.

48. My red and black bag.

49. My big Indian earrings.

50. My less big Indian earrings.

51. All my tiaras.

52. My spider web cape.

53. My Edward Gorey books.

54. My Lenore book.

55. My fan with a handpainted flower on. I got it when I was a child, from the woman who painted it, I believe.

56. My Buddha.

57. My stuffed animal Mnemosyne - She's a rattle snake!

58. My stuffed spider Hedvig.

59. My stuffed bat Agnes.

60. My stuffed frog Signe.

61. My stuffed lion Arne.

62. Drawings I've made and ones I've gotten as gifts.

63. The photo and information about the child I sponsor. I guess if I lost it I could always call and try to figure it out by my personal ID or something, but it would be best to hold on to those things, I am quite fond of that girl.

2008-05-06

The Fairy Tale of a Little Girl Named Mim

The Fairy Tale of a Little Girl Named Mim
By Signe Robertson 2008-03-31

Once upon a time, a woman named Celia and a man named Peter fell in love. They got married and after a year they had their first child, a boy named Harry. Two years later, they had a daughter named Victoria. Yet another two years later, they had their third child, another girl. Unfortunately, Celia died shortly after her third child was born. Peter suddenly became bitter, he was not at all the same as he had been before. He blamed the new child for the death of his wife, but he decided to try and take care of all three children anyway. He decided to just call his new daughter a simple short name, Mim.

So, time passed, the flowers on Celia's grave withered, the children grew older and Peter grew more bitter. After a few years, Harry had grown up to be an overweight eleven year old who skipped school and bullied other children. Victoria had grown up to be a nasty nine year old who thought she was better than everybody else and easily charmed the grownups to gain their favour. Mim, however, was forgotten about, her father had not even remembered to let her go to school, she just sat at home all day playing with her stuffed seal Fifi, which was the only toy she had ever had and her dog that she called "Dog". Mim had become a very beautiful and calm seven year old girl.

Harry and Victoria were constantly bothering Mim, slapping her and playing pranks on her. Their father really didn't pay much attention, he had become very bitter and especially did not care for Mim. One Halloween, Victoria and Harry went to their father and Victoria, who was good at charming grownups, spoke to him "Daddy, we would never do anything to sweet little Mim, but, after all, it is Halloween, so we were thinking, maybe, we could just do a little prank on her." Usually they didn't ask for permission, but they wanted their prank to be extra big this time and they wanted some help and advice from their father to prepare it. Just to get the props and plan it, of course, the prank, they would play themselves.

Their father didn't at all mind, he thought, this oughta teach that child and he went to town to get some props for the prank. Then Victoria spoke to Harry "But, town is far to go to, it will probably take a while until he gets back and we couldn't possibly start the prank without the props." Harry looked sad. "But", Victoria added, "We don't need to play a prank on the stupid child this time! Let's just kill her and tell Daddy she just had an accident!" Harry put a huge smile on his face.

They went to Mim and Victoria spoke to her "Mim, do you want to play with us?"
"No", Mim replied.
So Victoria asked her "Why not, sweetie?"
"Because... ...You're gonna hit me", Mim replied.
So Victoria assured her "Not at all, sweetie, don't you trust your bigger sister?"
Dog started barking.
"Dog tells me not to trust you. Now leave me alone!", Mim replied.
So Harry and Victoria went away to figure out another way to fool their sister.

After a while they came back to Mim and Victoria spoke to her "Mim, do you want to drink lemonade with us?"
"No", Mim replied.
So Victoria asked her "Why not, sweetie?"
"Because... ...The lemonade is poisoned", Mim replied.
So Victoria assured her "Not at all sweetie, don't you trust your bigger sister?"
Dog started barking.
"Dog tells me not to trust you. Now leave me alone!" Mim replied.
So, Harry and Victoria once again went away to figure out a way to kill their little sister.

After a while they came back to Mim and Victoria spoke to her "Mim, do you want to go up to the roof and play with us there? We'll teach you how to fly!"
"No", Mim replied.
So Victoria asked her "Why not, sweetie?"
"Because... ...You're gonna push me off the roof", Mim replied.
So Victoria assured her "Not at all, sweetie. Don't you trust your bigger sister?"
Mim looked at Dog. He was asleep.
"Alright, then, I guess I'll play with you for once", Mim replied.

Her siblings had never before made such efforts to get her to play with them, maybe they really meant it this time, maybe they finally thought she was big enough to play with. So, they all went up to the roof, Mim brought her stuffed seal, Fifi. Victoria spoke to her little sister, "Flap with your arms like this and then jump and fly away!" So, Mim started flapping her arms and jumped off the roof and flew away. Her siblings just stood on the roof looking surprised, they didn't know children could fly for real. They looked each other in the face and jumped off the roof and fell down and died instantly.

The end

2008-05-05

The List of Things I Am Remotely Good At And Should Probably Spend More Time Doing

The List of Things I Am Remotely Good At
And Should Probably Spend More Time Doing
Instead of Just Lying Around Saying "I'm
Sooo Booored, There's Nooothing to Dooo!"
(T.L.T.I.A.R.G.A.A.S.P.S.M.T.D.I.J.L.A.S.I.S.B.T.N.D.)

1. If I haven't already, put on some nice
jewelry and makeup, always look perfect!

2. Instead of sitting around thinking "Whoa,
what happened to that guy? I didn't talk to him
in ages!", actually e-mail those people I haven't
talked to in ages!

3. Spend some more time with my pets.

4. Actually go outdoors for once.

5. Work some more on my legal matters I need
to go through.

6. Go shopping, either with my parents or
alone.

7. Clean my
room.

9. Sing.

10. Practice in another song lyric.

11. Dance.

12. Write another
story.

13. Harvest. Yeah, that means going outside
and picking in lots and lots of a particular
plant and storing them.

14. Draw.

15. Clear out all the crap - Old photographs, profiles
that ain't been updated, ugly old blog designs,
people on my friends list I never speak to -
And add the new better stuff on my various internet
communities!

16. Download some music.

17. Burn a CD.

18. Get some imagination or inspiration and
make a nice remix or picture on my computer.

19. Work a little on my scrapbook/photo
album-ish thing.

20. Actually read. OK, it would be poetry or a
comic book then. Possibly even something else...?
Dictionary, an actual fictional story even...?

21. Actually practise some withcraft for once.
I do that so rarely.

22. Actually watch those damn animes or read
those doggone mangas I have lying around.

23. Actually call someone up that I ain't talked
to in ages - Possibly even meeting them!