tattoo

I finally got the tattoo done yesterday. It didn't hurt too much, a little uncomfortable but one little spot hurt like hell. I like my tattoo because i am the only one in the world with this. I designed it myself and he left it as I made it with the exception he had to re-draw the stars..mine were a little odd. I think it turned out ok.

So..

The Thanksgiving party was a blast! The first of many more to come now that this one went so well. Three turkeys devoured to the bone along with my pies and everything else I made. I am so happy!

You can see the pictures HERE

Turkey Lurkey!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Well, to all you Americans out there. I won't be having my turkey day until Sunday due to work...however, I will have plenty of pictures that i'm going to take and yes, I do plan on going to school Monday with a huge hangover from the festivities.
Woohoo! Time to get smashed..hehe

Here is a story about what makes it Thanksgiving (click-here)

I honestly think Thanksgiving was invented so we had an excuse to eat ourselves to death and pass out afterwards from overloading our guts..also another excuse yet again to drink!



Click here for the 'Thanksgiving video and song by Adam Sandler. It's hilarious! Wait for the commercial to pass then it will come on.

Vi var på stan idag.

We were at the natural history museum today looking at bugs and many funny furry animals...I'll keep this short and sweet due to the amount of photos.

My favourite bush monkey!!! Made me crack up. He looks scared.


No comment for this guy!


You can't see his crossed eyes due to the light but he was silly!


We are not sure why they layed these dead birds in the way they did when all the others were pretty and looking quite natural. They look cartoonish laying there all stiff and stuff.


This bear looked like he was talking and sitting quite comfortably.Actually he looks drunk and I think he's burping.


My favourite tiger!



It's a roo!!



This guy could swallow you whole. It was found in Swedish waters in the 1800's.


They took his bones out for display.


My favourite freaks...A siamese twin baby in water..and yes they are real, but this all was before anyone had any human concerns or rights I guess you could say.


Siamese cows anyone?

Mondays pepperspray terrorist

We had an incident at school on monday with an idiot who had 5 times the strength of pepperspray that the police have....he was aiming for 4 people I think? but anyways he had it mixed with oil..it got dumped on the floor or he may have dumped it on the floor? I don't know. But it caused all of us to stand out in the cold for awhile until they just dismissed us all...origionally the news was that there was gasoline on the walls or in the walls and we had to leave the building in case of a fire....this happend on the 5th floor right above where I sat..nice.

If you can read swedish....there is a link to the story HERE. But anyways..that's the bullshit for monday

Woohoo

It's snowing!! See! I took this on the way to school this morning. I guess you can only see the dusting thats on the path.

Silvik

That's the name of the place Paul and I went to today after I got home from school. We had to move pretty fast because it's getting dark here at about 4-4.30pm and I get home at 12.30, plus it takes about 25 minutes to drive there, not bad, and we had to have the car back by 3pm so pops could go somewhere.......So I guess I should explain what Silvik is. It's the name of a place that sits right on the coast of Göteborg and the North Sea that borders the country. I have only ever seen the North sea by airplane before and I have to say that nothing compares to seeing it in person. I was amazed.

It was cold as shit and windy like crazy, which you'll see in the pictures. I have to say though that it takes quite a lot of energy to keep yourself standing when it's that windy out. I felt exhausted when we got back to the car. Anyways...here goes! The rest of the pictures I took are in my photo album page HERE

You can see some of the little cottages along the coast for summertime use, and the little islands that dot the coast. Some places have little houses on them where you stay at overnight or something. We call this place in the pic a skärgården, or archipelago in english.

I love the color of the water.

Was hard to see to take this pic with the wind blowing like crazy, as you can see I'm blinded by my own hair.

Paul

Me

I like how these people live here year-round. I don't know how they make out when there's a storm!

I call this the wind-swept look. I was over-dressed for this place due to the fact I had only gotten home moments before we left to come here. So I look a little out of place..lol

I love how the water splashes up. I touched the water and it was the coldest water in the world I am sure next to Antarctica.

Foamy sea bubbles, my favourite kind.

No diving

As I said before, I have more pictures on my photo page. Theres a link to the right in my link list if you care to see. I truely felt like I was in Sweden being here along the coast. It's so different compared to where I live a little more inland where everything is normal. But as I said before, I only live a short 20 minute drive from here. So freaking cool for me! I never thought in my life before I met Paul that I would ever get to live next to the Sea.

Winter darkness

It's actually really pretty out today. The weather report says it is going to snow starting wednesday. I hope so!!!! Seeing as it's dark already by 4:30 pm I might as well get something out of it rather than being depressed. So snow it shall be to make the darkness all worthwhile.

I don't know what it is about winter in the dark, but it feels so cozy to me. It's dead quiet and you hear nothing, your all bundled up like a snow bunny and even though it's freezing out there while your standing in it, there's just nothing else like it in the world.

I just made some cinnamon rolls with raisins in it. I think maybe they are too sweet but nobody in the house seems to mind it. If it was too sweet they would tell me for sure! I'm happy for that because it's better then being led to think it's ok when it's not, which this time I do think it's too much sugar perhaps- and possibly too many raisins.

I want to go outside but my jacket is wet. I just washed it..so...maybe I have another one, thinner for sure. As long as I don't get sick that's all that matters right?

Last winter, my first one here in Sweden, I walked the dog outside in the middle of the night so he could do his business. I wasn't afraid. I would just walk the trails behind the house through the trees. Just me and the dog, little Tyson. It was great just going out there only seeing by the light of the snow. I felt really safe.

My early morning run

This morning at about 5:15am I head down to the spårvagn station(tram-train sort of thingy, the one in the link is at Brunnsparken where I go every day.That's the #7 going to Bergsjön), when I walk through the doors I look up at the screen to see the next one is comming in about 1 minute. Now I know it's usually a little off, so I start running down the escalator as fast as I can, only to get to the bottom and see the spårvagn leaving.

The escalator is like 2 or 3 normal ones long...I have to go way underground. So anyways, the screen down there said the next one in 10 minutes. I look at my watch and see I have plenty of time for it, of course I have no choice but to wait anyways if I want to get to work. So the #9 comes, I get on and stare into space in my seat listening to my ipod not caring about anything.

We stop and go through a few stops and along comes central Göteborg, Brunnsparken ( You can see many more pix of this beautiful city if you click the arrow at the top of the page on this link. I started at pic #19 looking at brunnsparken. It goes from 1-32 and yes it really is that beautiful here in the summer.) I get off and walk over the little waiting area and look at the screen there. All spårvagns are to come in about 45 minutes, but one will come in about 4 minutes, the one I need to get on directly to my job. I'm watching and waiting for that #13 to show up any second. I look up again, 1 minute to go. I know they don't go very often in the mornings but they were very slow today for some reason. Usually I can catch what I need every ten minutes.

Perfect timing I think, considering I have not long before I need to start work at 6am. I have to go and unlock the door because if I am not there on time then the other person working will be waiting outside in the cold air that comes off the North Sea...and trust me it's really cold!

So, that minute passes by and no tram, I look up to see it turn from '1 minut' to 'nu'..well I think, its not here NU!!! where the hell is it? I decide to wait about another 4 minutes. It doesn't show. I look at my watch and it is 5:45am. F&%king hell! I got 15 minutes to be there and I am nowhere near close, but maybe if I run I can just make it and not be too late.

So off I go,running down the street. I notice I am alone and that I had better turn off my ipod so I can notice things around me better. I see a man come out of nowhere on his bike right in front of me and I wonder where he came out of? the bank thats closed? Nah....

I look to my right and see the water that comes in off the sea through the canal that runs through the city. I think nothing of it and then next thing I know, passing right between the water and me is the #13 spårvagn. Oh for f¤¤ks sakes you've got to be kidding me right? Do I cry and keeping going, or give up and cry, or just go. I don't know what to do because I don't want this crap this time of the morning. I just go and tell myself it'll be ok. I keep running.

I really am alone and it's very dark. I turn around the bend and see a bus stopping at Domkyrkan and a man gets off, he looks at me, probably wondering why the hell I am running, in semi-heels no less. I hear only them clanking against the sidewalk. Then I look down and realize I hate the sidewalks here. They are pretty to look at but they can kill you. Its like walking on marbles. Shitloads of little stones make up the sidewalks. Who's idea was that???

I round the next corner, Grönsakstorget.....ok almost there. I look at my watch and I have 10 minutes. Hmmm I'm going to be pretty late, but I know a little short-cut. Do I chance it alone out here in this big city? Yes I do and I go for it. I keep running, I turn another corner and cross a little bridge. A woman is crossing it too across the canal. She's blonde, maybe 43 years old I guess.

My legs are killing me and I am sweating. I don't think I can run anymore. I'm going to be terribly late. I see Hagakyrkan and know it's a 10 minute go from there. I walk as fast as my legs will take me. I feel I have no energy left. I have 1 minute till 6am.

Crap. I start running again up past the University, around the corner. I see the golden crown on top of Skansen Kronan. They have a light shining up on it so you can see it at night. Cool. I keep going and after a minute I see my work. I run like hell and see mmmm.... I forget her name, she's pretty new, but anyways she was inside! Apparently Therese gave her a set of keys. Thank god!

First thing I did was take off my coat and make myself a latte. All day my leg hurt, my left one..ah well, thats what I get for running in semi-heels for about 25-30 minutes straight. Now I'm dead tired. It's 8:35 pm and I am wondering if I am going to make it through the next hour.

Paul just made 'kanel-bullar', but with a sugar-vanilla filling instead of sugar-cinnamon. They were good so I had some of those and my tea and here I sit...ready to fall over.

If you want, you can see a little video that was taken this past summer in Brunnsparken. The person holding the camera is missing the best part of Brunnsparken but I guess he only wants to show the spårvagns. Its HERE . I have to say that here in Göteborg, for the most part you either walk, take the spårvagn, or ride a bike. Better for the environment.

Sorry I made this post so long. I guess I had a lot to say.