Three things.....

Three Things That Scare Me:
1. Spiders
2. Heights
3. Guns

Three People Who Make Me Laugh:
1. I cannot pick just one person from school, They all are funny.
2. My sister
3. Tyson!


Three Things I Love:
1. My family
2. Tyson
3. The kitties at my mom's


Three Things I Hate:
1. People who drive slow.
2. Nosey people
3. Repitition


Three Things I Don’t Understand:
1. Ignorance
2. Dumb people. (I have a real issue with people if you haven't noticed!)
3. Uncleanliness


Three Things On My Desk:
1. Coffee mug
2. Speakers
3. Headphones


Three Things I’m Doing Right Now:
1. Thinking of what to eat.
2. Wishing my dad to get better soon.
3. Smelling supper cooking on the stove


Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die:
1. Jump out of an airplane with a parachute(even though I am scared!)
2. Visit the Fiji Islands
3. Scuba dive


Three Things I Can Do:
1. Speak, read and write Swedish almost fluently....and a little little Spanish and a little little Russian
2. Put my leg all the way behind my head.
3. Change the oil in my car if I wanted to.

Three Things I Can’t Do:
1. Read chinese.
2. flip my eyelids inside out
3. keep my mouth shut when I feel strong about something

Three things you should listen to:
1. Your mother!
2. Your gut instinct
3. Keane

Three Things You Should Never Listen To:
1. President Bush
2. An idiot
3. Someone screaming in your ear.

Three Things I’d Like To Learn:
1. To speak arabic..lol.. I know three sentences already!
2. Capoeira.
3. How to teach Tyson to stop pulling when I walk him

Three Favorite Foods:
1. Brioche
2. Mac n' Cheese
3. Äpple paj - Apple pie

Three Shows I Watched As A Kid:
1. The Smurfs
2. Transformers
3. FraggleRock

Three Things I Regret:
1. uhhhhh..getting married the first time.
2. uhmmmm
3. uhhh this is hard, I don't know

Three People I Tag:
Jim
Valdi..if he's watching
Perfect Virgo...

Hell on earth?

It's been a crazy past few days.....

First of all I get a call about the job I applied for at the American cafe....So I go to an interview....
Everything went smoothly and she asked if my first day could be Monday,yesterday. I said yes. Mind you this was only a trial to see if i liked it or not...

Sunday, before bed I get an sms from my sister saying 'emergency. call me" I'm thinking something happened to my mother because she has cancer. So I called her. It was my dad. He has an aneurysm . I was so upset and I cried of course, because it's my dad and here I am a 17 hour flight from him and there is nothing I can do but pray they do something before he dies....

I stayed up very late calling back and forth to my sister making sure what all was going on. Eventually I got to sleep that night, but it was a hard thing for me to do. I think I had 2 hours sleep before I had to get up for work. I thought it was best that I keep myself occupied because I knew all I would do is go crazy if I did not, and unfortunatelly there is nothing I can do from this far. However if the situation becomes worse then I will find a way to fly home.

So I get to work very tired, I manage somehow to get through the day and I talk to my sister to make sure everything is alright still.....My dad has to go to Philadelphia to a hospital there who can specifically do brain surgery.

I go to school today, still a little exhausted but I have to go, school is soon over for the year in like 3 weeks. I get a call at the end of the day right before the class gets out, and it's the lady of the cafe telling me if I want the job I can have it, so I was happy and said yes....at this time I am thinking maybe my father should be in surgery...he was to go in at 7am their time..Then I find out afterwards when I came home that my father is still not in surgery yet and it's 11am for them! Apparently there are other people who had worse then my father and they had to operate right away. It is a 4 to 5 hour process, and it is brain surgery so...now we wait...

I hope my sister sends me an sms soon saying he has gone in.
For gods sake I am tired,exhausted and just hoping my father makes it.
My mother starts chemotherapy on Thursday so she will be sick and won't be able to be there for my dad..sucks!!!!!!!!!!!! I am glad my sister is there helping. If it weren't for her at this moment then my poor mom, I don't know what she would do. Normally though it is always me too helping out but I can't right now..I know my sister is working hard...got to love her!

Poly-who-what?

polymath: a person of great or varied learning.

Well..........I know this isn't me!

To form it better,
To form it later,
To make it yours,
And to make it mine.

It’s beating like a drum,
Forcing your mind to take over,
Take it over all the way.

Make yourself do it,
And do it right.
Don’t wait for the right moment,
That’s never fun,
Do it always at the wrong time.

Grab what you can,
When you will,
When you want,
Anything and everything…
Is yours….
It’s always been yours.

My favourite song by KEANE....

I always thought that I knew
I'd always have the right to
Be living in the kingdom of the good and true and so on
But now I think I was wrong
And you were laughing along
And now I look a fool for thinking you were on my side

Is it any wonder I'm tired?
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?

Sometimes it's hard to know where I stand
It's hard to know where I am
Well maybe it's a puzzle I don't understand
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
Stranded in the wrong time
Where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme, a soundbite

Is it any wonder I'm tired?
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?
Oh these days!
After all the misery made
Is it any wonder that I feel afraid?
Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed?

Nothing left beside this old cathedral
Just the sad lonely spires
How do you make it right?
Oh but you try

Is it any wonder I'm tired?
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?
Oh these days!
After all the misery made
Is it any wonder that I feel afraid?
Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed?

Football in Sweden??

Went to the store with Paul and seen these guys in the field next to where we park. Woah!
So after we got a few things we parked closer and went to have a look. I can't believe it..I laughed when I seen they didn't carry the ball the way they should of been doing and nobody was yelling and screaming like we Americans do, but you know what? They were having fun and I guess thats what matters right? Like the Swedes say .....'lagom' Lagom is a Swedish word with no direct English equivalent. The Lexin Swedish-English dictionary defines lagom as "enough, sufficient, adequate, just right. ...
Besides, they get carried away with their football, or as we call it...soccer!

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I wish...

I wish for that time again,
the chance,
the moment I missed,
to do it again.

If my heart seems weak,
it's not,
it beats hard and strong,
it feeds on need.

Am I jaded..
probably.

Do I care..
not at all.

My life is a series,
each month a book,
each week a chapter,
and every line.....

as countless as the last.


.

You know...

I found some fellow bloggers with whom I used to read everyday about a year and a half to two years ago, has it been that long? I always enjoyed reading the poems and stories and viewing the pictures, and it made me remember that there was a time I started writing a book.
I worked on that book for over a year. It's still unfinished, sitting here waiting to be completed. I don't think I want to get it done to be honest. It had a purpose in my life and I think it served its purpose. Another 75 pages maybe and it would of been finished.

I feel somedays that I need to write. I get inspired when I read what everyone else is doing and I get in the mood, but I never act on it, thats the sad part......I think I need to get back into what I used to do when it comes to being creative. I have a different life now though, I no longer live in America and I married a fellow blogger and moved to Sweden...maybe I should take from this experience in my new life and adventures and write from that.

Everyday is different,
each one its own little life
making stories
seeing faces
and
each face has its own life to tell.

Thoughts rage through
wondering what was seen
how bad it was
how good it is

It feels like its never enough
not for me
not for them
not for anyone
not anyone who shares my life

I think too hard
I laugh too much
my mind wanders all over
wondering
wanting to discover

Will it ever be?
Maybe not
maybe soon
only time will tell
what's to become of me

Tyson was at the docs today!

Poor guy. He keeps running into things with this. I think he's scared too.... He has a little infection. :-(

So I had nothing better to do....

.........but to put my homework on my last post.
Dumb.
Nobody is answering me on MSN...Did I do something wrong?
Nevermind,..momma answered me! At least somebody likes me.

Why is there a helicopter flying over the house?

sigh*

Me sleeping at le-my's

På fredag kväll, gick jag och Carolina till vår kompis lägenhet och såg en film. Filmen heter Persuit of Happiness. När filmen var slut, åkte vi hem på spårvagnen klockan tre på morgonen. Jag sov till klockan tolv, sen promenerade jag i en timme med min hund Tyson. När vi kom hem, körde jag och min man till ICA för mat. Efteråt, lagade vi mat och åt med familjen.
Senare kom några vänner till min svärföraldrar och tittarde på tv och skrattarde. Jag glömmde nästan min läxa och jag sitter här nu och skriver den. Jag vet inte vad jag gör imorgon.
Hej då.

Too damn cute!

Jaså?

Yes really!

So it's really cold outside,what the hell happened to the nice weather we were having here? I mean..I think we are backing up into winter again. What's up with that??

I need a job! ugh!

So...the little problem with Kelvin and Nima is solved...He didn't steal his money, shocker..NOT! I think he had every intention of doing so but then thought better of it after he told me about it and got him a månadskort anyways and for the cheaper price too! However that will pose a problem for Nima if the tram controllers decide to check him out, and he will be in deep shit, it will be Kelvins fault..Nima is too old to have a card thats priced for people younger then him..I'll probably be thrown in the mix too coz I am the one who told Nima what Kelvin told me he would do with his money..steal it!

yeah I told, so what? It wasn't right...BUT..I don't want to get caught up in the mess if there gets to be one..so anyways...

I met an American guy in school today...guess where he's from? 20 minutes from my home in the USA!!! what????? Are you for real you say? Yup I am..small world dangit...he moved here 3 months before I did..maybe that was 4 months before,anyways......

I screamed at Amaro this morning, yelling out the second story window of the school,across the parking lot.."hey puto!!! vien aqui !!"..hey bitch come here..lol..Whoops! I couldn't stop myself. He is from Chile so he understood me quite well..he just laughed...only one other person knew what I said, Edson...then later when I left school and I was on the tram, I passed Edson and Amaro..they were on the street on their bikes...I pressed my face to the window and I stuck my tongue out at them and gave them the middle finger..(needless to say I had to stop writing this part for a second coz I cracked up laughing thinking about it..jeez)...they seen me, the look on Amaro's face was priceless.

What else..uhm...thats it.

I think BLOGGER has gone mad.

Well today was kinda fun in school. We had to go to the computer room..which normally is boring, but until we got set up and everything i was having fun looking at my pictures online and laughing with other people...I know, i'm not in high school anymore but sometimes you can't resist.

So I have my morning break and talk to another American who has been here 7 years...funny thing is, when he speaks swedish it's so..weird..its like he speaks swedish words with the american accent and he tries not at all the swedish way of speaking, so basically he sounds like a foreigner, big time!

I get on the tram later to come home and I took a few pix of my friends on the tram, well my cell phone cam has something called 'warp'..it totally messes up your face when the pic is taken, its hilarious..we..or I should say, they wrestled my cell phone away from me, or tried to coz they wanted the pix deleted. I guess thats a good thing that I did get rid of them, coz I would of posted them here..lol...not that they have my website or anything!

Ah yeah and Kelvin stole money from Nima..I'm not happy about this so I will tell Nima tomorrow..it was 400 kr !! thats about..hmm..60 american dollars!

So I got home and went to the library. I decided I wanted to try and read a Swedish book, not that I'm THAT good yet, but the librarian was nice enough to point me to 2 shelves that had well known books,some well known, for beginners speaking Swedish. I started to read the one and it's ok, not too bad, so far I understand but I had to ask Paul what a few of the words meant. The ones that I didn't find in my little dictionary. Almost done with the first chapter. Basically they take the story and cut it down with smaller, simpler words and short sentences, not ones that are a mile long, and short paragraphs...basically I can read it and get the point of the story. I like it.

Anyways, time to email Eliana our homework assignment..oi!

Thanks to Maja I got quoted in the Icelandic Review for an in-flight magazine and I just received it in the mail today by the editor who wrote the column about here in Gothenburg,Sweden.

Thanks Maja for pointing me her way!

Three Things That Scare Me
1. Spiders
2. Jack Black
3. heights

Three People Who Make Me Laugh
1. The kids
2. Paul....
3. Anmar & Kelvin & the gang...I could name more but I'll stop

Three Things I Love
1. My family
2. Pie
3. my cell phone

Three Things I Hate
1. Brussel sprouts
2. Caviar
3. 5:45 am

Three Things I Don’t Understand
1. Why I can't be perfect
2. Why Tyson acts like he understands english now
3. Immigrants like me in Sweden

Three Things On My Desk
1. speakers
2. cell phone pc cord
3. a sticky note saying to call the Swedish Consulate

Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. visit as many countries I have already been to, I'm at 10 now? so total-20
2. Take my children on an airplane.
3. find the cure to live forever for my momma

Three Things I Can Do
1. Speak many languages....i think 5 now, but only two is understandable enough
2. whistle like a man
3. drive a 5 speed manual

Three Things I Can’t Do
1. bungee jump
2. be serious for 24 hours
3. have hugh grant or enrique iglesias

Three Things I Think You Should Listen To:
1. yourself
2. music you don't like, just once
3. your kids

Three Things You Should Never Listen To
1. someone telling you your not worth anything
2. country music
3. people saying your dreams are stupid

Three Things I’d Like To Learn:
1. how to be a master chef
2. how to be smarter
3. more spanish

Three Favorite Foods:
1. Pie, almost any kind
2. Japanese
3. Empanadias

Three Things I Regret
1. not telling my parents i love them more, can never say it enough
2. not listening to my mother when i was a teen & skipping school
3. having cervical cancer..its gone now though...

This is Rose-Marie

Needless to say, we had so much fun with my cell phone camera....

I haven't really much to say...

Pauls in the shower, carolina, pops and momma are upstairs having their lunch they bbq'd and I am sitting here waiting for the time to pass until we go to Mimmi's apartment & tyson is sleeping under the bench next to me. We are going to bake...Not sure what yet, but it will just be me, paul, caro mimmi and le-me....


I swear it feels like sunday.


UPDATE: from hours later...

We went,we seen, we made blåbär paj. Caro & Le-mi deciding..."Do we eat this?"


We had candy and I had dracula teeth in my mouth....


This is the Paj...excuse me...pie..yummy!

Not sure what we were doing at this point...

Mimmis new hairstyle thanks to me! We were just messing around.....

Looking at a word puzzle. I only pretended I knew the swedish words on it.

One year ago today.....

This is our first wedding anniversary. We were married here in Sweden, in Hammarkullen Kyrka May 4th 2006......................

Trip..work..trip...work..work..

We went to Halmstad yesterday after school....the 2 hour drive took 1 1/2 hours with Julius driving....I thought we were going for orientation,which is what we were told, so we weren't prepare to actually work..it's a good thing my husband told me to wear sneakers instead of the heels I had on.

So here we get to the place, and find out we will be working in a huge walk in fridge, and it was cold as shit! and it turns out that normally it's much colder..jeez...so anyways I had on only my good thin jacket..paul had only on his jumper, and we worked picking orders for food to go to Presbyrån and 7/11 stores...

They said you don't get a break, we only got a break because we had to wait for the sandwich truck to come....I needed the time to defrost. I didn't like the job even though it was simple. We were told it would be 6 hour days..not 12 and working to sometimes 4am !! forget it. I'll look for another job. I didn't go to school today coz we didn't get home til after 1am...

Just a few pix on the way down there. For a split second I could see the water along the coast to my right, but I didn't get a pic...

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Nice days,
beautiful ways,
sticking your thumbs up your nose.

The wind blows,
and who knows
maybe the wind will carry me away!


yeah ok, I am just being dumb now.