OUCH!

Apparenty playing catch with the dog isn't such a good idea after a few beers... turns out other dogs had been there to predig som treacherous holes for me to trip into. This is, if you were wondering, what my leg looks like just now. Stinging!

Behold, the SUN!!

So, I just thought I'd mention that the sun is actaully shining outside. Saw a glimpse of it while doing a run to the pharmacy on lunch break. Insane how much money can be spent in one so very unexciting place! I'm not liking the general cost of my constant medicating :(

But one day, I have decided I will be medication free! At least I hope... only three weeks of waiting to get my final verdigt - celiak or no celiak. In the meantime my stomach seems to be extremely angry about the whole camera poking around thing. Back to tummy ache after every meal. Very irritating. Ah well, give it a week and things should hopefully be back to normal.

On a VERY bright note - tomorrow is SPA EXTRAVAGANZA with sister. Woohoo!!! Three hours of bliss. Aaah. Happy Friday!

Summer plans

On a happy note - We've made our first plans for Summer! A four day cruise from Stockholm to Tallin and St. Petersburg. Mmm, mmm, mmm. And we get a one night stay at a hotel in Sweden for free for the trouble. And I think we've found the place. And low and behold - it has a SPA! :) Haha, that week end is all set then. Aaah. Now there's something to dream sweet dreams about.

And until then I have to call my sis who's coming for a visit this week end. Saturday we have a super duper day planned. A three hour spa session with facial, full body massage and footwork. Ahh... So glad I don't have to wait all the way til summer!!

Unnateral poking...

One thing is for gosh darn sure - cameras are not meant to be shoved down your throat... This was my second time doing it, and lets just say that I had managed to suppress the memory to the point of it not being all too bad. After this morning I will be the first to say I WAS WRONG!!

The gastroscopy was long (at least longer than I remember) and very uncomfortable! My only consolation now is that hopefully I can get an answer to whether or not I'm allergic to gluten. Not that I'm really sure I want that answer... that would mean having to eat both gluten and lactose free. YUMMY! I have however found myself a slight silver lining (in no way underpinned by any medical info mind you) that since my lactose intollerance was caused by the colitis, maybe eating gluten free, which can theoretically cure the colitis, may also make me more tolerant of milk. Fingers crossed!

Now, you'd think that the worst part of the procedure this morning was having a long tube with a camera on the end shoved down into your intestine via your throat and stomach... but that all passes. What doesn't pass quite as easily is the incredible amounts of air they use to fill your stomach - lika a balloon. Needless to say going to work in an open office space with air coming up and out of everywhere while my stomach was aching didn't entice me. So I stayed home from work today. Call me a wimp, but I decided that today, I was worth it.

I'm thinking tomorrow is back to work. Not all too enticing even without the stomach cramps. Then again, that may well still be around tomorrow. And I used at least some of my time somewhat wisely today. I applied for a job. Now, I know that goes against the whole starting up my own business and all, but there you go. At this point I'm thinking any way out is a good way out.

More uplifting news tomorrow, I'm sure.

Happy/unhappy/schitzo??

Seeing as how I don't seem to ever blog any more, it's rather doubtful if anyone ever reads this blog any more... but what the hell. For those of you who may be intersted - here it goes.

We are loving the new apartment, Pasco is very grateful for his now much more enjoyable weekend walks and we have SNOW! Well, we had snow for about two days. It has now decided to get all warm again, leaving things very grey and melting. :(

Other than that I've started asking myself some major questions. The main one being: is it completely crazy to quit a full time job in the middle of a recession to start your own business?? Probably, but its looking all the more likely. Mainly because I'm really not liking my current employer very much. To the point of feeling ill when I walk in and miraculously better as soon as I leave.

I realise that my situation probably isn't all that unusual, but all the same. It's not making me a very happy puppy, more like a very insecure and weepy puppy. So, despite possibly confirming other's oppinion of me as a part of the 80's generation that don't stick with anything, I think I'm actually going to go for it. Just wish it wasn't so darn scarry!

And you know what the worst part of all this is?? That I've been fed with that horriffic good girl syndrome, which is really the only thing making me stick with the crap I want to get away from. I mean I know that eventually I do what I want anyway, despite what others tell me... just wish I didn't feel the need to torture myself quite as much first...

A very belated update

Well, here it goes. Not a thing written since February... so I suppose maybe I should just sum it up with - a lot has happened.

First I would like to congratulate my dear friend Camilla who recently had a beautiful little baby boy Oliver. And thank god she seems to be on the mend again after a few weeks of bad health after the birth!

Second I suppose I should congratulate my other dear friend Annika who is expecting her first in just a few short months. All these babies!! :)

Third piece of news is that we are moving. Only been here a year but already moving on to smaller yet better things. It's off back into the city for us. And about time too!

I have just spent the past four months working, buying an apartment, selling an apartment and a whole lot of other things I'm sure that just go under the name of day to day life.

The next thing to look forward to is definitely three wonderful weeks of vacation and moving in to our new apartment. Finally!

That's it. Short but sweet. Really must try to get better at this updating thing... sorry folks!

Opera and a Warm Welcome

Sunday. After leaving Pasco for forty minutes to go for a quick work out, we return home to see this:



This is the joy of having a dog... I had prepared to take all the recycling out later in the day. Should have known I was really just giving him something to play with... Get the fealing he doesn't like being left alone.

Later Nicklas and I went to te opera. Sounds so grande! My first time at the opera I might add. We saw "Friskytten" - no clue what the English title would be. A german opera, which had been translated into Swedish. Lets just say I don't think I'll ever be opera crazy. Some parts were good, but I'm just not a fan of the traditional female soprano in the opera sense. Can't here a word they say, and don't even think it's all that pretty. Sorry. But I'm not saying never. Will keep an open mind, and maybe Jonas will manage on his quest to convert all opera antis out there... including me. :)