A visit to the dentist

I spent the first hours of this day at the dentist, drilling and fixing a hole. Well, they drilled, put stuff in my tooth and now I'm supposed to wait 6 months and see what happens with it. Exciting. I just hope everything works out so that I don't have to do the whole rootcanal thing (a bit too much CJ on the West Wing for me). So, fingers crossed!

I've started my progress over to the new job now and it is mucho scary. There is just so much to learn about things I know of but now need to know in detail. And at the same time there's this tugwar going on about when I will quit my old 'job' and go over to the new one. Too much to focus on in other words.

The only thing I'm worried about now is my summer holiday. Everything has to be worked out before tomorrow afternoon or I'll be spending summer in hell. Amazing, and stupid to say the least.

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In the summertime when the weather is hot...

This has been the weekend from hell! I'm not complaining, just saying. It has been so incredibly hot that I thought I was going to die more than once. It's safe to say I don't do well in the heat. Well, I do when I'm in another country where the temperature by nature is on the warmer side of hot as hell but here? Not so much! I went out for a couple of hourse every day just to get some air but I don't know what was worse, being outside in the sun or inside in the sun. I kept all doors and windows open and it was kind of breezy but the kind of warm breeze you feel when you walk into a sauna. Not at all comfortable. Anywho.

I got a sign I'm actually 30-something (or a 30-something apprentice perhaps since I'm not 30 and something yet) on Saturday night. I don't do well when watching scary movies. They don't have to be very scary, just a little bit, and my sleeping habits go to pieces for days. Humiliating? Bet your be-hind but I've learnt to embrace it. I love to watch them but they scare the sheut out of me. But! This weekend I managed to watch the Village (granted not the scariest of movies) on my own, with the lights turned off (ok, bathroom light and the natural light of a Swedish summer evening two weeks before Midsummer's Eve), and I slept like a bairn. Ok, so I had to switch the channel when the redcoated 'monster' ran at Ivy the first time but after that it was a smooth ride. Not half bad. : )

This week will be interesting I think. I have to plan everything for the transition over to the new job and plan for the upcoming weeks. Exciting and scary at the same time. It should be good but still, a bit scary. : )

Today's soundtrack is the lovely 'Mark Ronson'. Gotta love the Lilly Allen version of 'Oh My God' and the Annie Mac Minimix. : )

Just how stupid do you think I am?

At work we get a lot of mails from persons claiming to be in charge of bank accounts or bank deposit boxes where someone with our last name has left billions (always written in figures and then in CAPITAL LETTERS) of (Disney)money with no one to claim them. So now these persons are contacting us, with the hope that we will not take offence since we have not been properly introduced (like we lived in 1707). The other scenario is person from country x wanting to ship money to our country and if we do it we will get 20% of the total sum only in reality it means they get us to pay 100% to them since there, *gasp*, is no money to begin with. I feel so tempted to write a reply with a simple question: 'Just how stupid do you think I am?'. But, since I work for the government it's not really proper so I end up just deleating the e-mail and marking the sender as a 'spammer'. But one day...

Friday once again and I'm hoping I've gotten one of my favourite books from when I was a kid in the mail. It's a series of three books and I have one (which I won when I was about 5 years old and already by then the books were like 20 years old) and I want the two others. I've found online and the other is on sale at an online market next Wednesday. It seems there are a lot of people looking for these books so I'll have to work hard to get them. Well, two down, one to go. : ) And yes, I turned 30 last February...

The day after June 6th

This week is odd. Yesterday was June 6th, Sweden's National Day, and these days it's a national holiday which means that this week we got Wednesday off. It's actually much better than it might sound. It's great to get a break mid-week and then come back to work and have not be Monday. : ) Not at all unpleasant.

I spent yesterday sleeping in and going to the local celebration of June 6th. Not that anyone knows why it's our National Day but still. There were ceremonies welcoming 6 out of the 40 people who have gained their Swedish citizenships since last year (this being Småland they were of course Germans, Icelandic people, antother person of blond descent and only one person from the Middle East or former Yugoslavia even though they are probably the majority). Then there were fiddleplayers and a marching band and a truckload of ballons and flags. Afterwards I went to the place where I find my rubharbs and picked some flowers. Some of them are the kind that smells amazing at night so I watched Grey's Anatomy in an almost perfumelike scented room. Very nice. : )

Today's soundtrack is a band I first heard on the TV-show 'Dead like me' (very good. lots of irony and humour. only lasted two seasons). The band is called Metisse and the song they played on the show was 'Boom Boom Ba'.

Sundays, Mondays, brainfreeze

I think I might have an actual job. I mean, I've been offered a job and I've accepted but I'm too cautious to do the happy-dance before all the paperwork has been signed. I know luck, it is seriously unpredictable. Anywho, yay for now and keep all fingers crossed 'cause it would be great, and so much fun! : )

For the last three weeks I've had Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias' playing over and over in my head. I really don't know why. Sure, it's one of my favourite poems but it's still odd. Probably my brains way of telling me to take a deep breath and catch up to speed with myself.
The poem goes:

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
’Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Happy, don't you think? ; )

Today's soundtrack is provided by Norwegian band 'Susanna and the Magical Orchestra' as featured on last weeks episode of Grey's Anatomy. Their cover of Joy Division's 'Love will tear us apart' is really good. It seems I'm very much into covers right now. another favourite is Ryan Adams cover of Oasis' 'Wonderwall'. Very good.

Fun, fun, fun and then some.

Last night's TV-dilemma was not as big to work out as I'd thought. One look at Robin Hood resulted in a 'naah' and I switched back to a highly yawn-inspiring episode of Doctor Who.

Another Friday, another weekend. My plans are simple: recover from the cold and get some more rhubarb from the park. On my way home from work yesterday I stopped by the park where there used to be an area where people could rent land and grow what they wanted to grow. The area is free for use right now, no one's using it anymore, and there are still flowers and berries around. Since no one owns it you can just go there and pick what you want. Brilliant! Yesterday I risked my life for some rhubarb and beautiful flowers but I didn't have a bag for it so I have to go back this weekend. It's free and it's good for you. Could it get any better?

So the final interviews are today and I try to be all calm about it but of course you can't help but wonder. There is so much going on around here now though so things could change a hundred times before next Thursday (when they're planning to make the final decision).

My Friday fix in music is the soundtrack for the movie 'Last Kiss' with Zach Braff. My favourites are 'chocolate' and 'ride'. Then I'll probably be listening to some Bassboosa before the day is done. : ) Their version of Chris Isaac's 'Wicked Game' is really good.