Healthy Americans?
Mood:  quizzical
Now Playing: Oprah
Topic: Tv
Once again I got stuck watching Oprah. Today they were discussing food, and healthy food for teenagers/kids. Apparently, 80 % of American schools (we're talking 12 years old here) have vending machines. I don't know what it's like nowadays, but back in the day we weren't even allowed to bring chips or soda or candy to school. And when the physician suggested that peanutbutter and jelly (on white bread of course) or pretzels were good lunch options, I just wanted to hit the little man in the tv (I have an anger problem, I know) ...and when he suggested that the kids, if they didn't want to eat their apple au naturel, could dip it in peanutbutter I just had to turn off the tv!

Friday
Mood:  happy
Topic: Everyday life
A typical Friday (even though it's actually Thursday). I helped my aunts out @ grandma's. Long over due. Sorry grans! Then a lunch with sweet F, and a walk around town. We ended up at the playground where I sat down with some friends and enjoyed the sun shine (yes, they had kids with them, we're not complete weirdos!) Then I went home and enjoyed some trashy magazines.

April Fool's?
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: Tv
I'm starting to understand why no one cares about politics any more, at least not here in Sweden. I ended up watching a live broadcast from a debate today, and there's absolutely no action!! There's a guy with a lisp talking and the rest of the room talking among themselves or just doodling on a piece of paper. The most amusing thing all day was a guy called Anti...and he was actually for the suggestion, not against it. The topic in itself was interesting though, and kinda important. They were supposed to vote on gay marriages (when they were done doodling, they passed the law...bill...thingy).

Where are all the girls?
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: Tv
I watched a tv-show where comedians compete against each other tonight and as usual the girls were much funnier. They have a wider range. The male comedians here in Sweden are old and tired and most of then have been doing the same jokes all their lives. But still the men get all the attention, and the title as Sweden's second sexiest (the no. one spot is always taken by an old rude outdated fancy actor). Why aren't the girls on the sexiest lists? Female comedians just aren't that sexy? Why don't they get even half the attention the men get? Why aren't there more female comedians on Swedish tv??

Do'h!
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: Everyday life

It 's lovely to be back home. Really. I got picked up at 5.30 this morning just because someone didn't want to do his duties. And he didn't do them today either. He mostly sat there, drinking coffee or talking to people. When I actually asked for help, he told me he had to finish his conversation first. I was glad I had an excuse to get away for a while at least, to go and see my dear C for coffee, before I went back to complete chaos again. I'm sorry if I wasn't that much fun, hun.

He asked me if I could be there tomorrow as well, because he wanted to go ice fishing. Again. I told him to go...do things to himself.

Lentil this
Mood:  happy
Topic: On tour

My stomach's really fed up with lentils by now. I couldn't even have breakfast this morning. Even though there were two entire rooms filled with just breakfast foods. Instead we went to more meetings, but at least I didn't sleep my way throught it as some did, hehe. And apparently some people were so sick from the food last night that they'd gone home.

When it was time for lunch, they didn't have any food for me. Even though the caterers have a veggie-ish café. But they suggested that I'd eat the...ta-daa, lentils on the plate and leave the rest. Instead we decided to hit Burger King on the way home. We ate, made a stop at the mall (B slept in the car in the parking garage) and stopped for some candy. Halfway home it started to snow, which probably fit our moods pretty good.

Big city life
Mood:  happy
Topic: On tour
This was one tired girl this morning, but the breakfast buffe cheered me up a little and the (not great) latte helped a bit as well. We sat down and discussed (and listened) for the most of the day, with the exception for lunch (sea food salad) and coffee breaks. The afternoon was kinda slow, probably because I didn't really understand some of the technical stuff. Otherwise I actually managed to keep the attention most of the day. Yay me! In the evening it was time for dinner, at the same place as last night. But they'd promised us more food, bigger portions, this time. The dinner turned out to be calamares and then some kind of really really spicy African stew. I got quesadillas and the same lentil thing as last night. And a couple of glasses of a nice red wine. Australian, I think. Once again we had to skip the feature to check in. We gathered in one of our rooms, but one guy was missing. He was sick from the food. The rest of us decided to go somewhere, but we never made it past the hotel bars, which we researched thouroghly. We started off in the lounge, then, around midnight we examened the hot dog stand outside the hotel. They had langos, onions rings AND veggie hot dogs, so they had all the food groups I needed. Then we went back in, to explore the land unknown (the other bar).

Good day
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: Jewel - Good day
Topic: On tour

This has been a good day. We didn't leave too early, we had to make a couple of stops to get rid of snow from under the car, but we had time. We even had time for the police, stopping us under the bridge next to the highway exit. We made it there, in time, said hello to some people and found out that we weren't actually staying there. Boy, were we glad we had a ride and didn't have to carry our stuff all over the city. We got lunch (a gigant bowl of soup, really good soup) and had some intresting conversations. Then a gigant coffee break buffe and more discussions. Then off to a restaurant for dinner. What we thought were entrees turned to be out the main course (mini spring rolls and some kind of lentil thing....and white wine, that did not go with the food). Unfortunately we had to skip the feature for the night to check in. They'd forgotten to schedule that in. We got a cab back to the venue and has a xider before trying to find an open shop (B forgot his BIG bag of toiletries). Went into a sports bar of some kind, had a beer and some Walkers, before getting into a cab and having them driving us to the store.

Nostalgia
Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: Oasis
Topic: Everyday life

I'm lying here in bed listening to/watching one of my old favourite bands, feeling nostalgic. Remembering how much fun we had back then. Trying to remember fun things I've done in the last five years, and I come up with...nothing! Scary! It's not that I haven't had any fun at all, just nothing worth remembering for years to come. Or maybe it's just because I'm so zen, and into the moment. Nah, probably not. I'm just not into my life right now. I'm not diggin' it. The only one that can actually do something about it is me, but I don't know where to begin. What it all boils down to is one thing; money. And that is a factor that feels kind of out of my control right now...even though I'm sure it's not. Everyone else is making it work (as Tim Gunn would say), rite? Then why can't I?    

I don't mean to sound all sentimental, it's more like stated facts that I needed to get out of my system.  Thanks for listening.

Poor piggies!
Mood:  sad
Topic: Bad News
I just heard about the pigs being scalded alive at the slaughter's. It's at times like these that I'm happy I'm semi-vegetarian. Really happy!