At first I didn’t know why the hell I called this blog Normal life. I have never felt really comfortable with the concept of “normality”. Now I know! Normal life is of course the Swedish Goodrun version of Paris Hilton’s and Nicole Richie’s Simple life! You know, from the glamorous jet set life of international diplomacy to a life as homeless and unemployed on the Swedish countryside! :-)

Odd things happen here too! Yesterday I found myself at a countryside auction and found myself buying a HUGE chest of drawers with a mirror on top of it. Exactly what one needs when one doesn’t even have a home of your own! Well, if it hadn’t been for the fact that the piece of furniture was built by my great granddad we wouldn’t have bought it and it will be placed at my parents’ place for a start.

Those auctions are quite an interesting phenomenon. There you really can find anything and the people you find there are also rather fascinating. Many of them are pretty old but nevertheless witty. I overheard a conversation between two octogenarian men talking about repairing clockworks and an old acquaintance who used to do that. The one man explained that this man had died, the spontaneous reply from the other man was: “then there is another lady available!” Today the same auction hall appeared in a TV-series!

Today I found myself in another interesting and completely new situation. First of all I had to drive a horse transport to pick that chest of drawers up from the auction. For all the years I have spent with horses and riding I had never driven a transport before. No crashes or scratches! Yhohooo!

The most interesting was however that I have debuted as a roofer. I have spent the whole day on the roof of my sister’s house, helping my brother in law removing the old roof cover and replacing it with new. I have never done anything like that before, but I must say it was quite fun and I think the result was quite good. However I am not sure if I will be able to get out of my bed tomorrow, my whole body feels rather sore.

Well as you see, I don’t really need a job, but I could do with an income. So I guess I will soon get started looking for a job. Soon! Cheerio!