Some Easter Family Pics

Nicklas and I cosy on the couch :)


The obligatory Easter fire


Anton "helping" my sister bake a cake


Anton at his most mischievous

Yet Another Easter Older

It's funny how you go around waiting for something for so long, and then it all passes so quickly. I realised while in Gränna, that I hadn't actually been back since X-mas. Kept meaning to but just didn't get around to it. Bad, bad.
Either way, it was very nice and relaxing with a few days off. As usual, the fresh air knocked me out for the first day or so, but once adjusted there was plenty to keep us all out of doors in the nice weather. Having all the kids around was a blast, and the dogs caused havock as per usual. Pasco charmed everyone once again... he sure knows when to pick his moments of perfect behaviour!
The only downer was the fact that I couldn't eat most of the candy, and the beautiful cake that my sister and Anton made... it taunted me for three days before the others had finally finished it off!
Now we're all back in Stockholm, and back to planning and plotting - along with quite a bit of school work. My apartment should be coming out for sale on the internet tomorrow. Woohoo! And it's now only just over 2 months until we move. Pretty cool! Always lots to look forward to. I think the nearest item on my list is a looong night of sleeping. Toodleoo!

Easter is upon us

Wednesday afternoon. Tomorrow we're off to the country to join the whole family. Quite looking forward to it really. Not that it's going to be quite as calm as I had initially planned. There will be 5 kids under teen age around for the first few days, so I'm sure we will be kept busy and awake a large part of the day's 24 hours. But at least the sound of screaming children will be a nice change from the constant traffic and drunken ramblings outside our window!
The sale of my apartment is becoming more real every day. Yesterday they were here to take pictures, and seemed very pleased with what they saw. Their system for setting prices is somewhat questionable though. You're not allowed to set a price that the seller wouldn't accept to sell for... but the price they're setting on mine for bidding start is way lower than I would ever sell it for. Chances are very good that I won't have to, but it seems somewhat wrong to set the prices like that all the same. Well, it's not my head in the noose if someone objects in the end.
Having some difficulty concentrating on what I'm supposed to be doing... which is work for school. And as usual anything I don't do now, I have to do over the week end... sigh. Right. That's it. Work. Have to work...

Monday Bloody Monday...

Mondays just never stop coming! So frustrating, especially Monday mornings. But as most Mondays, this too shall end I suppose. Before it does however, there is much to do... Tomorrow 10 AM is photoshoot time in my apartment... We've spent the whole week end packing and moving (although Nicklas and Andreas did most of the moving due to my back - Thank you!!!) and now there is the cleaning left. Did some last night but think the windows probably have to get a little once over with the polish cloth.
The apartment will probably be out on the internet during the week, and showing is a week or two after Easter. Eek! But so nice to finally get it over with! Once it's done, we can really start focusing on the new place. Only 2 1/2 months left now... count down is constantly running! Woohoo!

Wish I could say things would settle down once the showing is over, but I very much doubt it. School has really stepped it all up a notch and there is much to do at all times. It's fun but lots. Some things almost seem like too much fun... But it's all evened out by the other stuff, so I'm not going to worry about wasting my time and money just yet.

Ode To My Chiropractor

I think my chiropractor takes first place on my list of health care professionals. It's pretty close between him and Christer, my tummy-doc but Martin (the chiroproctor) is great because he gets such immediate results. My appointment was at 8.30 am, now an hour later I am sitting at my desk in only very mild pain - a HUGE improvement. I love it. And he thought I should get well after just this visit. Woohoo!!! No more old lady!!!
I have started thinking though... since there always seems to be something wrong with me - should I really procreate? I mean granted, none of my ailments are technically hereditary, but it does seem that I was not put together quite right. Or maybe I should just not let my kids snowboard their back into disalignment... or eat too much dairy... not that I know if that's gonna help.
Anywho, back to work. I have a text on what is being done about human trafficking in Sweden to write... very uplifting subject!

I'm all alone...

Weird feeling. We have the afternoon for independent study, and I'm the only one still in school. Very empty and quite lonely really. Only reason I'm here is that I've thrown out my back again, and the chairs here are so much better than the ones around my kitchen table at home... Since Friday night when it happened (not 100% sure what actually did happen...)I've been thinking that however fun Friday night may have been, it was not worth this much pain. The hang-over maybe, but not the back. So I'm back to the chiropractor - soon hopefully!
It's already wednesday again! Time flies. Getting old again... But at least this week end we get to start packing up the apartment to store all the stuff that shouldn't be there for the showing. They'll be taking pictures for the web next week, and showing just after Easter. Scarry, but very very exciting! :) We're both getting rather impatient now to get moving. Especially now that the drunks are becoming ever more attracted to the park down the street, and walk past our window yelling every night. I thought 4 flights would have made that not such a problem, but was I ever wrong!
And now I think I will go home after all. Hopefully I'll get there after the dog walking lady has dropped Pasco off again. She gets ever so annoyed when she sees that we came home earlier unplanned - again. Strikes me that she really shouldn't care seeing as how we do pay her... anywho - more next time...

Politics

Politics is a funny thing. So many people get so worked up about whichever party they belong to, which I just can't help but find somewhat amusing. I, like everyone else (or at least it should be everyone else!) vote, and have my oppinions of right and wrong. I however have also accepted that I vote for the party that has the ideas and ambitions that I agree with most. I don't agree with any of them one hundred percent, and I also accept that everything they say in the campaign is not going to happen. But that's the same for any party. None of them are perfect - that would be utopia - and none of them are going to make this country into the perfect state. Since people are involved - there will never be such a thing. But some people don't seem to want to see this, or they just ignore the fact that everyone has faults. I can happily acknowledge that "my party" isn't perfect, but at least they prioritise what I prioritise. I guess it has to do with me being rather disillusioned with the Swedish state of mind too... Not that I don't like it here, but some of the attitudes here drive me nuts. I think you have to have grown up here to accept them up front. I've lived here for a few years now, and have voted in two elections. But I still can't say that I feel like a real Swede. My passport is Swedish, and I love Swedish nature, and the fact that we build proper houses - but other than that, I just don't feel it. The love I mean. Maybe it will come.
Funny - in writing this I find that, despite all the above, I am quite passionate about my views. I won't go into them here - don't like discussing politics with people, it always gets ugly - but most of you know where my loyalties lie... Maybe I am, even if it is reluctantly, becoming a Swede. What a very odd thought. Just as well I suppose, since with Nicklas in school I won't be leaving any time soon... even if it does tempt me at times...