Blogs..

For being a blogger myself, I guess I read very few blogs. Hardly any to be honest. But today my colleague and I started talking about blogs and why people read/write them. That made me surf around a bit and made me end up reading some blogs I haven't visited at all before. Some by people I know a bit and other by "celebrities" or wannabe-celebrities. Some by people my own age but the ones that really opened up a new world to me were the ones by teenagers. It is definetly a different world, although I can still recognise parts of it from my own youth. The only difference is that we might have written those rather pathetic poems and "philosophic" reflextions in a diary that we kept locked and stoved away somewhere secret. The pictures they post are definitly very different and making them more open and public don't make it all better I promise. However I wonder if making them public at all, really is a good idea for the writer. I wonder if those rather small and average problems don't actually get bigger and more permanent this way... But that is on the other hand just an other unscientific reflection.

More obvious is however how many really bad and uninteresting blogs there are out there! I wonder who can be intereseted in most of them. It also makes me seriously consider killing this blog. Or maybe just admit that I am just as pathetic as all the others...

It worked...

For all of you who just can't wait to know what happened to my lipgloss by internet order. I can just inform you; I am thrilled!! It arrived by mail today. Picking it up at the post office I was quite surprised to find the package nicely wrapped up with a light purple silk ribbon on it, just like a birthday present, not like an awerage postal package. The guy behind the counter seemed also rather amused and surprised.
When I got home and unpacked the box there was a lot of plastic packing as if it would have been something very fragile. In the midle of the packing the box with the tube in it was all wrapped in metallic purple gift paper. I was amazed! That someone actually takes the time and the effort to do this for such a simple thing as a lipgloss!! It was not even very expensive. Ok, at least not more expensive than this kind of gloss normally is. So now I have my favourit gloss again!! And so far I haven't noticed that my credit card has been misused. I feel so satisfied with it I will even recommend the site. www.strawberrynet.com

Off to the islands

Waiting for the boat to take me to the Stockholm archipelago for the weekend. B-)

Revenge by proxy

I really like my new apartment and love the area. The only things that really annoys me is that smoke from my neighbours cigarettes comes into my apartment. I think I could live with getting smoke on the balcony when they are smoking on their balconies, but when it gets into the apartment it is really disturbing. I have spoken to the landlord about it in case there was something you could do to the ventilation to prevent this, but obviously it isn't. Instead they sent out a note to everyone in the house to respect the neighbours and avoid smoking on the balcony. I can't say it has been working very well. Ok, on the one hand I admit I am a strong anti-smoker and would not mind if smoking was totally banned. On the other hand I realise the unrealistic in this and I don't want to forbid my neighbours to smoke on their balconies as I am generally not in favour of banning things (eventhough I do think it is equivavelnt to the general ban on grilling on balconies in Sweden.

However I got particlarly pissed off this morning when I found ashes and a cigarett butt on my balcony. I mean smoke is one thing, it is difficult to stop it from spreading, but if you smoke or have smoking guests at least you can use an ashtray!! Angrily I threw the butt off from my balcony down to the yard. The moment after the thought struck me that I ought to have thrown it down on my downstairs neighbours' balcony!! Their smoke is the one that bothers me the most. Of course I realise the butt can hardly come from them, but this would have been a (small) way of getting back on them. To show them that smoking on the balcony affects the neighbours and that it is pretty disgusting. Some kind of revenge by proxy.

I regretted I got this idea too late. But on the other hand, maybe I should be glad things like this is not the first thing that hits my mind. That I am above this kind of petty revenge...

Sceptical Net-shopper

ha ha, I just did something I never thought I would do! I bought make-up on internet!
I don't really know why I find that so funny, I do buy other things over the net, like books, music and tickets, but buying make-up over the net seems something teenagers or housewives in the province do, I mean I have access to all the fancy stores and even travel quite frequently hence can buy a lot on tax free.
But for some time now I have been looking for my favourite lipgloss from Clinique and everywhere they told me that this specific product and this specific colour is no longer available, that they simply stopped making it. As I really liked it I started looking for the similar colour by other brands, unsuccessful.
I had almost given up on it as I just thougt I might give it a try o search for it on the net. And voila!! There it was!! Not very cheap, but at least it existed. I was not familiar with the site as such and did not feel very comfortable giving all the personal details required and not at all giving my credit card number, but there were ways around that. So, now I will just have to wait and see if it lands in my post box. I am still a bit sceptical. Might be too good to be true... Let's wait and see...

As I don't have that much to write at the time I might at least post some pictures from my Normal life, from my home and my work.



My neighbourhood. You don't see my house though, it is just one block up from the quay. You can swim here.



The view from my office. Just opposite the royal castle!! The bridge looks a bit messy right now. I suppose they have to work hard on it to make it ready for the royal wedding next year.

Blog pause

I am sorry for not writing so much on the blog at the time. I just don't seem to havet the time.
New job takes a lot of time. Being in Stockholm and having a social life again takes the rest of my time. :-) And as long as the weather is ok, sitting at home in front of the computer is not the most temtping activity. Maybe next time there is a rain period...