Another Day, Another Project

Friday. Finally. Although this week has gone incredibly quickly. We now have a new project to work on. My first web page is done - for what it's worth, and we're moving on to doing an information website about human trafficking. Pretty cool although not completely uplifting... We'll see how it goes.
The first web page went alright. Hadn't made any huge bloopers, although looking at some of the other pages that were presented I felt like I had missed quite a bit. Ok, so most of the ones that I was jealous of were made by people who have a) been doing this for some time, and b) are doing the graphic design variation of my course. There was a point to not choosing that one in my case, namely that design isn't my strongest point. I don't think I suck at it but I'm not quite a creative as some of them, that's for sure.
Anyway, tonight Nicklas has invited some friends over. Should be fun even though the apartment is still so full of boxes and stuff, that I'm not quite sure how they're all going to fit!

Some Days...

are just crap from beginning to end. You know when you wake up that something is just a little bit off, and it doesn't seem to go away. Well that day is today. Saturdays are usually a favourite with me, but I suppose knowing it was Saturday and I had a trip to Ikea to look forward to kind of bummed it from the start. Ikea wasn't a complete waste though. We managed to get there before most of the families who bring all the kids and grandma along for the ride. Why do they do that?? Anyway, we managed to find a few things that will be good for the new apartment. Among other things a bed that will in total be about the same that just the frame that we were considering before would have cost... and we came home with the moving boxes that were the reason for our trip in the first place - along with a few toys for Pasco. I swear that dog got on a plane and came to heaven. Spoiled little brat is what he is. But cute - which some days really is the only reason we keep him around! :)
To add to the joy of the day, the apartment is a mess. We have boxes and things EVERYWHERE, since we have no storage room left. At least we can start moving stuff out for the showing at the turn of the month. I cannot wait for a bigger apartment! At which point I have decided that a lot of stuff is going to have been thrown out as well. I just can't be bothered with it at the moment... so I suppose I'll have to blame myself for the mess. And now it is time for me to do some well needed studying. Have a website due Wednesday.

My Stomach

I believe it may just be a miracle! I went to the doc yesterday (Thank you Christer!). This is the first time that they haven't looked at me like I'm crazy, and actually confirmed my own diagnosis right away. It is most probably IBS. It actually felt even better than expected to have your constant pain and agony named and recongnised, rather than ignored and dismissed. So now I'm on more meds to help calm my system, and I'm to keep off the fat and the caffeine and all that, which I already was. He's sending me to the specialists at Ersta so I can have all the remaining tests like - colonoscopy... NOT looking forward to that, but Christer said it's not as bad as it sounds. Not so sure I believe him...
Sadly I have no hopes that all this is actually going to lead to a cure, but I feel better on the careful diet than off, so I think I'll stick to it. Maybe not to the extreme, but most of the time seems to help enough :)I'm taking bulk fibres and all sorts of calming things for my intestines... And drinking oh so much peppermint tea. Good thing I actually like the stuff, or I'd be in a really bad way!
As a little perk and a bonus going off the candy has done what I was hoping - the back fat (or camel humps as Annika calls them...)are receding. Yippee! And it's not even as hard as I was expecting. Good thing I can still eat things made with cocoa powder though, or I'd be in real trouble. I've realised that chocolate sauce is as easy as cocoa powder, sugar and a little bit of soymilk heated in the microwave and stirred. Mmmm, YUM! I really do miss kebabs though. At least pizza can be made healthily at home :)
Today is all about photoshoping my first web page for school - and waiting for the final bid on Nicklas' apartment of course. Last bid was 1,470,000 - Insane! And they're still going too! He's a really happy puppy right about now - except for his math exam this afternoon of course... Am getting rather excited about selling my aparment soon too! See the dollar signs rolling in my eyes?? ;)

Late Night Revelries

...or not so late night as it turns out. Because even if it feels like very late night, it is in fact only 10.56 pm. This makes me feel like I should feel somewhat sad and old, but it just doesn't. Some would think that at 26, I should still be living out my youth and clubbing until dawn every chance I get but fact is - I just don't have the energy. I just returned home from a wonderful dinner with friends, whereof the male half decided that venturing out into the Stockholm nightlife was a good idea, and the female half preferred to return home to bed with some sort of candy in our pockets. (Except for Ida ofcourse, who I think would have preferred a full night out ont he town but couldn't quite convince us...Sorry! :) ) My thought is - why do I feel ike I should be wanting to go out more? I don't actually feel that, just feel like I should feel that. Is this me getting "old"? Because 26 going on 27 just doensn't feel old to me. God knows I've done my fare share of far too long nights and drunken stupers, and I just feel like a nice buzz is all I need. Especially on a Friday night! Besides, I now have a cute little dog who needs someone's attention every now and then. So tonight I used him as an excuse. (but fact is he actually did need some tlc and a pee-round). Some of my friends have remarked on how much like having a child it must be, since we can leave him, but not too long. And it is quite like that I suppose, and yet I have thus far never regeretted it. On that note - I wish all well for the coming week end and look forward to a nice sleep-in tomorrow morning. As long as Pasco agrees that is...
Can I also - just as a random thought say - how very difficult it is to type correclty with a bottle of wine under your belt. I apologize for any misspelling and typing that may have occurred in the above. It seems that Pasco is wanting to send a "Squeek Squeek" out to all his dog pals out there who know the meaning of a good squirrel toy. Happy Weekend!

Good old criticism

Criticism is a funny thing. Even if someone starts off their judgement by saying - this was really good - it really makes no difference whatsoever when they add that "but" and start clanking. Even if it's constructive criticism, and it's great to move forward, it still doesn't make for a fun afternoon. Because although I mentally know that it's a necessary evil, and without it I won't be improving - emotionally it just doens't quite hit home the way it should. I'm hoping that this is another one of those things that I can get used to enough to let it not bother me. Kind of like blushing profusely while speaking in front of an audience - even if I know everyone in the room, I just can't help that involuntary reaction. So that along with once again wondering why on earth so many seem to think that it is ok to pee in subway stations, are the thoughts that have stayed with me during the day. I am just so sick of the smell of urine.

Thoughts of the Day

Just in case anyone is wondering what the pictures in my last two posts are, they're posters I had to make for my new schooling. Beautiful, huh? I'm still in awe of what photoshop can do when you have a version later than that of 1995, which is what I had the honor of dealing with at my last job.
Random thoughts of the day:
It's a little weird that people are actually reading my blog... good, since I'm not too good at the whole keeping in touch with people thing, but scarry all the same. Also, why does my dog keep getting more rowdy, when we've finally finished the course where he's supposed to have gotten the hang of behaving??
And finally, who at the Swedish student loan agency decided the rules?? Because whoever it was, has never ever been a student themselves. Seriously. Because Nicklas has to sell his apartment, which he will hopefully make a nice profit off of, this profit means that they will cancel his loans and make him pay back the loans he's taken this term toute suite. But it makes no sense because all the money he makes he's putting into the new apartment... and really needs the loans still... so this means we now have to go through quite a few extra steps to fool the bastards - which luckily the estate agent is very happy to help us with. How sick is that? (Not that we're not grateful!!) Do they not see the system is screwed up?!?!?! But at least now it's solved, we can be sure to actually move in to the apartment. Phew! A few more months to wait. Really trying hard to be patient... I want my jacuzzi!!!
End of random thoughts.

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