Whatthe...?!
Mood:  surprised
Topic: Everyday life
Suddenly. After two frigging months, the computer decides to suddenly start working. When I finally got the replacement computer installed. When I've spent the entire summer nagging and begging and bugging people about my need for a computer. Well, it'll probably not last until tomorrow anyway... Maybe I shouldn't turn it off tonight?!

Nag, nag, nag
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Nelly Furtado "Loose"
Topic: Everyday life
It feels like this entire weekend's been spent waiting for people, och nagging on people. I haven't really gotten anything done. Well, well, another week, another 24?48?96? whatever hours to waste...

Got a ticket for an aeroplane?
Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: Timbuktu - Jag drar
Topic: Everyday life
Talked to a friend today and she made me really want to get out of here. But where? There's so many places I want to go...

I want to go and see her of course. I want to see a movie at a drive-in somewhere up north. I want to panic while sky diving over a big field. I want to run out of gas somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Texas while trying to find the world's biggest ball of yarn. I want to feel misplaced at some crazy club in Tokyo. I want to chicken out of a bungy jump in New Zeeland. I want to wave with a Swedish flag on May 17th in Oslo. I want to check what they really have under their kilts. I want to fall madly in love with a suck-up latino and forget about him a week later. I want to get lost and end up in Brixton while trying to shop in London.

Birdie
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Nelly Furtado - I'm like a bird
Topic: Everyday life
I sleep with my window open because it's so hot out, and this morning I had the window opened a lot. Under my window I have this paper and feather chicken on a stick that I bought for easter one year, and didn't know where to put when easter was over.
So, I was reading the paper and suddenly I hear a sound and I look up just in time to see a big damn seagull flying into my room, attacking the poor fake-chicken and flying away again. A really bizarre scene!

New baby
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Everyday life
I've got a new baby. A credit card that'll cut in half right away. The only reason I even applied is because they kept sending me these damned letters begging me to apply. So I decided to send it in as an experiment, just to see what they'd say. Any serious company wouldn't give me one, since I don't have any income and a very big loan already, but apparently they're not that serious. And a 20 % interest rate. Can I report them to someone?

Cats
Mood:  chatty
Now Playing: Cats OST
Topic: Everyday life
Second day of cat-sitting. When I got there I was "attacked" by two cats by the door. I let them and myself in and found another two cats by the other door. Jackpot! All cats here already, so I started feeding them, and then one of the wanted to go outside again, so I opened the door, and in ran other cat so suddenly I had five cats, one cat too many, but who was the intruder so I decided to feed tthem all. Problem solved. I just hope they won't tell all the other cats in the neighbourhood ;)

Wrong number?
Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: Fattaru - Sot du ar
Topic: Everyday life
I got a phone call from someone who sounded like they were at a party, I couldn't hear a thing they said, but I assumed that it was a wrong number since I don't know anyone who sounds that happy and enthusiastic. We hung up and I got a textmessage, talk about being surprised when I saw who it was from.
An old friend who I haven't been in that much contact with at all lately. We've met a couple of times, always with lots of other people around and for some reason it's felt a bit forced, in lack of other words, like we haven't really had anything to say. We've been good friends for a long while though, so I was happy that it was her and that I was the one she chose to tell the good news. It was about meeting someone who we ran into a lot back when.
Even though you have lots of friends, you have those special friends who you know are the only ones that'll understand why you're so excited about that particular thing. You might lead different lives. You might not have that close contact that you once had, but still they're the first person you call.

I might sound overenthusiastic over a simple phone call, but it made me think... I've had a lot of time to think about things lately ;)

Who? What? Where???
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: Angels & Airwaves - The Adventure
Topic: On tour
Once again, time for a little roadtrip with my friend and her green turtle. Somehow we ended up arriving almost on time, don't ask me how that happened. We were late, as usual, from the start, and then a shoe broke and so on... The entrance had been place on the other side of town so we had to walk for hours, or so it felt. We listened to lots of bands and tried to get around without being too lost. After a couple of hours we decided to eat, but where were the food? They usually have lots of different foods, thai, tacos and langos, but we couldn't find anything but hot dogs, hot dogs, fries and hot dogs. After a while we went and stood in line for twenty minutes to get some falafels, but when it was our turn they were out of the damned falafels so we went to the little sushi place instead. They were out of veggies so we settled for donughs and went to see a friend. Time to listen to some music again, but where were that damned place and stage?! Suddenly we saw an unusual amount of people walking to and from the toilet-thingies and we decided to follow them. There it was, a big parking place with the stage, things for sale, and the food. So the lesson here kids is, if you think hundreds of people are going to the loo at the same time - they're probably don't!

The band
Mood:  loud
Now Playing: Lots!
Topic: Music
The music we listened to were bands like Ed Harcourt (pretty much like I expected him to be, he went great with the sun and the lukewarm weather), Sahara Hotnights (still can't get over the fact that they're rude little buggers), Looptroop (I expected more), Takida (too loud live - my ears were ringing for two days after) and Mando Diao (biggest crowd so far).

Grown ups?
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: Everyday life
I was talking to a friend who couldn't find anything boring enough to wear, because she wanted to be a grown-up. Her younger friends were all soo much more mature than her, and they always id-ed her and not her friends when they went to the club.
The next minute she said that being an adult ment knowing who you are, what your values are and what you want out of life. And you have to have kids and own your own home. I think that's a common mistake people make, assume that the first thing will lead to the other.
I told her that I don't care if my top's a bit too long for my sweater, and she replied "But that's your thing, to not care about anything like that".

Suddenly I felt very misunderstood. I know that that is how my longtime friends see me, like an fourteen year old going on thirty. But to me that just means that they don't know me at all. Yes, I do wear baggy pants when going for coffee but does that make me less mature? If I'm going somewhere fancy I try to dress accordingly. And yes, I might listen to lots of different kinds music. But does that make me less responsible? No, I don't think so. I pay my bills on time, I don't drink that often. I've tried to dress like a granny, but it only made me depressed, so why should I? Not even old people dress like old people any more.
I have friends of all ages, they don't seem to mind what kind of music I listen to. I'm starting to figure out my good sides and my bad. I'm know I'll never be perfect, but I'm still trying.
I think I'm starting to figure out what I can tolerate and what I don't stand. What kind of people I want to surround myself with. And I can still spend time with those who aren't exactly like me.
Okay, I might not know exactly how I want to end up, but who does? If we're going by that criteria, only about 5-10 % of the population would be grown-ups.