This was prompted by Paul Weimer’s guest post at Pornokitsch about US National Parks. 🙂 . There are 29 Swedish National Parks. So far, I have been to 4 of them. But I want to go to so many more.. Here are the current top 5, listed in decreasing likelihood of an actual visit. LOL! . Gotska Sandön: This is a largeish island located North of Gotland. It is surrounded by the Baltic Sea on all sides. The soil is…
Last night while I was reading, my faithful Cybook Odessey froze. I cursed, pressed the power button to restart it. When nothing happened, I cursed some more before letting it charge over night. This morning, I tried to restart it and nothing happened. So I tried to do a hard reset. Did it work? Uhm. Not really. Now it is caught on the start up screen. And when I connected it to mum’s laptop with a vague intent to reformat…
A couple of days ago, Shamrokon tweeted: Just 99 days to go. I stared at the tweet for a moment, and then panicked for a moment.  Let’s just say I’ll be busy this summer. I’m revising the Wild Hunt, which keeps on growing to Thrizah and Kari’s delight. But being told ” More is good, since it is a fascinating world”by Kari does boost my self-esteem. 🙂 The goal is to finish the revision in June 1st, but I don’t…
Ever since I got a call from Dad, asking if I was interested in a job, my life has been in a slight chaos. To be fair, it isn’t the day job. It is just that the rest of my family don’t seem to realise that I’m working part time and in my spare time, I’m taking the first steps on a career that will be more hectic than the day job.  The last two weeks? I’ve been home 4…
I bought a small tin of Kusmi Tea yesterday, and made a cup. It was really nice( except that I should have let it steep longer), so nice that my mouth protested when I had a cup of Twining’s Lady Grey last nice. sigh. My dad made the most yummy fried rice yesterday with mild turkish peppers, garlic and mint. I was a bit suspicious that the pepper was feferoni, since dad loves it ( I don’t. Too strong for…
A couple of days ago, I reached the point in the synopsis were I needed to re-read the first draft.  I hesitated, but in the end I decided to write the beginning first.  So. Yesterday, I started to write the beginning from scratch. This time, the opening is in the right place.  Today, I pasted in and edited the  sections of the opening scene that I’ll be able to keep.  I am itching to give it a more…
I just paid my membership for WFC in Brighton. Right now I am crossing my fingers that I will not get a refund, due to it being full booked. *twitches* Â ( I had planned to go to P-Con, but it was cancelled…)
Lillian’s post about her new craft store ( And yay for Lillian :))  made me want to take up decoupage again.  I have dabbled in it, primarily serviette decoupage.  Which is fun. But, I want to move on from it. I just haven’t been sure what to do next.   But today I discovered that Panduro has Art Deco decoupage paper. 🙂 So, I plan to buy a couple of sheets and depending on the size of the pictures…
First, a train crashed into a house in southern Stockholm ( thank god the train was out of traffic and the house empty).  The incident is really embarrassing for the train company, since it was a cleaning lady that drove the train (!) and someone had forgotten the key in the ignition (!!). Oh, and the house is newish, and the county hadn’t ” noticed there was a railway so close to the house.” ( Really? The railway has…
This is one of those dull and boring posts, that are more a reminder for me 🙂 To do: Operation Shelfpurge: Start sorting through books in bags, and decides which I want to keep ( I have a feeling it wont be many…)  Enter them into the spreadsheet  Upload them to Bokbörsen General:  Go to the camera store, to see if they can replace the cord  Clean the apartment. ( Enough said)  Wait for answer on the job….