A really long week

We have moved... and finally gotten working internet. Took over a week - no thanks to comhem. But now it works, and our business with them is done in a month.

Moving has been quite an ordeal. On top of it all I had to start preparing for today - possibly one of the worst days of my life. As most are aware my stomach is one of those things that generally works badly in my life. So today I was in for some testing. Starting with a quick gastroscopy, and moving on to an extremely painful endoscopy. Mmmm... now there's something I never ever want to go through again in my entire life, unless possibl if it's a matter of life and death.

It all started yesterday, when lunch was my last meal... went home to start drinking four - yes FOUR litres of laxatives... My friends - dont't do it. I have never tasted anything as vile in my life - and the following eight hours weren't exactly anything to wish for either. So today, I went in for my appointment at 12.45 without having eaten anything for over 24 hours and having had little to drink since last night.

Now, everyone has always told me that the gastroscopy is the worst. I beg to differ. Yes, it is very uncomfortable, and gag reflexes were definitely being triggered - but it was over withing 5 minutes. My throat maybe hurt for another half hour. Now the edoscopy - a completely different story. They give you laughing gas as part of the standard procedure and stronger stuff if you need it. Well, they gave me the shot when I started crying and hyperventilating in the gas mask... After it was all over, my butt feels extremely violated, and on top of it, they blew so much air up my ass I'm not even going to go in to the rest...

Now, on pain killers I'm feeling a little less miserable. And I get to eat. Yippee! Although now I'm not feeling even half as much up for it as this morning. At least they didn't find anything. I seem all "healthy" - just have to wait for the the testing of the samples they grabbed to know for sure. It seems I am getting closer to the definitive diagnosi of IBS. Woohoo... or not as it may be.

Well, over the week end we are off to a lovely bout of family reunion on my dad's side of the family. Should be fun - get to go back to where we used to have our old summer house when I was a kid. And in true family tradition, I'm sure it will rain all week end.

Toodles.

Approaching Old Age??

So today I started the day by mailing my travel card together with the letter I had in the same hand. Was very impressed by that. Was very pleased when I realised that today was the last day of it's validity, so I didn't make a huge loss in the process. When I following this tried to tell Nicklas about my rather idiotic blooper, I realised that I had left my phone at home.

Wonder what the rest of this day will bring...?

I really do never learn!

Another wonderful week end has passed. Friday ended with a great tapas dinner with Annika and Ida - with a little too much wine. Saturday was stiflingly hot, and was spent doing laundry and watching the Stockholm Marathon. Nicklas' cousins were running and came in on a whopping 3 hours and 19 minutes I think. Pretty darn good!


Saturday night we spent picnicking in the park. Great company and yet more wine. Sunday I paid for all the good times, with a good old hangover... and my tummy is still making itself known. At least we got some packing done.
By the way - anyone other than me wonder what Linnea has to say to my dog? Is there a hidden talent I don't know about?



Here is Nicklas looking his coolest. Sadly he now has a cold, and has taken to his bed. And I am hungry again... why? It seems like we just ate! Just in case anyone was interested...

School's (almost) out for Summer!

Ah, freedom is near. The sun is shining, and global warming is giving us a fantastic Summer so far... can't really say that I've ever been in the situation of mid June with 30 degrees before. At least not in Sweden! But I am liking it. Very much!
Other than that we finished off our last project yesterday. Woohoo! That too was mainly a success even if it wasn't perfect. Now the only real problem that remains is the fact that I still don't have anywhere to do my internship. I just keep getting no's from everyone. But I shall keep trying. Next week it'll happen. I'm sure... I hope!

On a very happy note - we move next week!!! In one week at this very point of the day, most of the stuff should be out of this apartment and into the new one. YIPPEE!!! Then we start repainting etc etc, but that'll hopefully be done within a week. Then I start work. I'm starting to think it might even be fun to work for a bit. It's nt impossible that I will change my mind on that rather quickly, but it's worth a go.

And after that the real Summer starts. A few weeks in Gränna, then we're off for three glorious weeks to the US of A. Hotels are booked, and we've booked som stuff to do too, like we have tickets to a base ball game in San Francisco. Since one of the web pages cocked up when we were buying, we actually ended up with four tickets. Anyone up for base ball?? Hoping we can sell the extra tickets on ebay... We've also booked a wine tour of the Napa Valley and a table at the Sears Tower restaurant in Seattle.

In preparation of our paddling tour off Vancouver Island, my brother was kind enough to give me the book The Swarm. In it global warming somehow (haven't gotten that far yet) drives all sorts of creatures crazy... among them whales who start capsizing ships, and leaving the people to be eaten by rogue orcas... I have been told that orcas otherwise don't eat people... So this could be somewhat interesting. Let's hope the book is more fiction than truth, and that we may have a peaceful whale encounter!