tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35337266072174784852024-03-14T05:55:52.220+01:00ズッコケ女道<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-11010715444859922172011-11-01T13:00:00.000+01:002011-11-01T13:00:38.149+01:00I mooved!I mooved, my new blog-adress is http://greenbaloonsocks.blogspot.com/Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-33434758244894108332011-10-25T21:58:00.000+02:002011-10-25T22:00:45.052+02:00WorkInspired by my good friend Kajsa I thought I'd share with you what my work is like. I currently work at the library in Tomelilla as a Librarian. I have employment there until the 31st of January, then we'll see where I end up. :)<br />
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First off, where is Tomelilla?<br />
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A quick and accurate answer is "way off". It takes an hour by bus which is quite far but it's far enough to warrant using the time which I try to do. I read or listen to audio books, sometimes I crochet and sometimes I'm extremely glamorous and sleep with my mouth open, drooling slightly...</div>
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This is what the house looks like from the front. I hardly ever see this side though since I enter from the back. It's not only a library but also a hall for art exhibitions, an archive for jazz-music, a tourist agency, a museum and an art-school for children. This makes it a very interesting place to work. There are lots of people around all the time and it becomes easy and natural to work together and play of each others strengths. The people are nice and inspiring though the mentality in the country is different from around here, both in my colleagues and in the people who come to the library. In lack of a good English word they're "bonnigare" in Tomelilla. XD<br />
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This is my office, where the magic happens, or something. :P My responsibilities are taking care of all the magazines, handling the inter library loans, updating and managing the web-page and then the ordinary librarian jobs such as sitting in the information-desk cleaning the shelves and sorting out old books, reading the lists and deciding what new material is to be bought. I've also become the go to person for making signs of different kinds and I'm now the computer guru as well. And I'm going to start up computer courses for senior citizens this Friday. I'm kinda nervous but I think it will be fine. :)</div>
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So I'm quite busy every day but I enjoy it, even though some of my tasks are a bit uniform and become boring in the long run.</div>
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A close-up of my desk so you can see how messy it is. But having a desk really makes you feel grown-up doesn't it...<br />
Oh, and isn't the view awesome. XDD <br />
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A few images I found on-line to give you a feel of what it looks like inside.<br />
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It is quite awesome! (And of course more impressive in real life)<br />
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A lot of interesting things happen every day. Because the people who come are different no day it like the other. One day you get to act like a mum trying to solve disputes between children, the next someone gets angry at you because it's not free to borrow books at the library (true story) an yet another day an old dirty man is looking at porn on the computers or someone asking for help in sending in a job application. Becoming a computer consultant is also quite common (at least for me) and a conversational partner for lonely people.<br />
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But I won't complain, even if there are a lot of strange events most people who come to the library are in a good mood and grateful for what you do (even if they underestimate what that is and exactly how much we work for their sake...). Very rarely are you yelled at but somehow you're also seen as an all-knowing guru who holds all the answers, which is very flattering but far from true. If you want to read more on the events that go on in a library I recommend "<a href="http://argabibliotekstanten.blogg.se/index.html" style="color: blue;">arga bibliotekstanten</a>". She writes in Swedish and manages to capture the frustrations of all library personnel. I find it hilarious but that might just be because I share the experiences.<br />
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Hope you had a little fun reading a bit about what I do all day these days. :)<br />
Peace out!Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-36322920414041583932011-09-17T21:59:00.000+02:002011-09-17T21:59:17.226+02:00Självömkan galore!Ok, så alla som inte tycker om att läsa om folk som tycker synd om sig själva kan sluta läsa nu. :P Jag har en hel del på gång i mitt liv som inte är så roligt och som gör mig lessen men jag brukar inte tycka om att prata om det så mycket, jag berättar ju var som pågår men kanske inte så mycket mer...<br />
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Hur som helst så har jag precis haft en av de värsta dagarna i mitt liv, helt för jävligt har det varit. Men vi tar det från början. Jag är nära att diagnostiseras med en sjukdom som heter SLE som är en typ av reumatisk sjukdom men med en hel del annat som följer med den. Det är en kronisk sjukdom och något jag kommer behöva leva med resten av livet, men ja, de har inte ställt diagnosen än men redan bjudit in mig till SLE-skola och gett mig medicin mot SLE så sannolikheten att det blir så är rätt stor. Människor har en tendens att vilja vara uppmuntrande när man berättar om sjukdomar och liknande, och det är en god egenskap och så gör jag också, men det är inte alltid man uppskattar glada tillrop... Samtidigt vill jag inte visa för vem som helst hur lessen jag är för att allt detta händer. Att bryta ihop och gråta i personalrummet på jobbet är liksom inte ett alternativ... Men det är inte alltid roligt att bara höra positiva saker som att det ju är bra att de kollar vad det är och tar det på allvar och att jag åtminstone vet vad det är, det är fortfarande en sjukdom jag behöver leva med resten av livet och det suger fan ta mig balle. Jag vet att andra har det mycket värre, jag kommer inte dö och i det mesta kommer jag kunna leva som alla andra men även om jag inser det så betyder det inte att jag är mindre påverkad av vad som händer mig.<br />
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Ett led i diagnostiseringen av sjukdomen är njurbiopsi, det är vanligt med njurinflammation när man har SLE och eftersom mina prover visat på att jag möjligen skulle kunna ha det så ville doktorn skicka mig på njurbiopsi. Inte världens roligaste men ja, en obehandlad njurinflammation kan leda till förlorad njurförmåga och det vill man ju inte så jag tyckte det gör jag så vet jag i alla fall hur det ligger med det. Doktorn sa att det brukar ta ett par veckor innan man får tid men två dagar senare fick jag ett brev som bjöd in mig till "Ett par dagars inneliggande vård och njurbiopsi" redan en vecka senare. Är det så illa....? tänkte jag då... Ja, början av veckan var ok, fick fixa en del så jag skulle kunna vara ledig från jobbrt och så hade jag ett hål i magen som ville äta upp mig innifrån, men annars bra. Så länge jag var upptagen som tänkte jag inte så mycket på det. Torsdag tog jag mig in till sjukhuset och de tog lite prover, kollade blogtrycket och gav mig ett snyggt patientband.<br />
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Min mamma var där och vi pratade en massa och jag hade en rumskamrat som hade reumatism och varit och tömt knäna på vätska men som hade en underbar inställning till livet. Hon ville inte låta sjukdomen hindra henne och gjorde vad hon ville ändå, kanske att hon inte kunde gå dagen efter men det tyckte hon det var värt att kunna dansa en kväll. Härlig kvinna! Hon gav mig hopp om livet. Denna dagen var hålet i magen mycket mindre och jag hade rätt trevligt, fick äta lite äcklig sjukhusmat och sov helt ok.<br />
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Nästa morgon kl 07.00 började en av de värsta dagarna i mitt liv....<br />
Jag fick kettogan och nån annan medicin i sprutor som skulle vara lugnande och smärtstillande inför undersökningen. Hela världen började snurra, ingenting var stilla och jag kunde inte ha ögonen öppna för det var sjukt obehagligt, sen började jag kallsvettas över hela kroppen och sköterskan sa att jag blev likblek. Men de rullade iväg mig genom kulvertarna bort till huvudblocket där undersökningen skulle ske. Hela tiden blundade jag för jag klarade inte av att ha ögonen öppna och jag började må illa...<br />
Undersökningen gick bra, 3dm nål rakt in i njuren men jag kände inte ett skit, mådde lite bättre och fick titta på nålen och på proverna. Den stackars 16-åriga praktikanten som följde med för att titta på svimmade visst, det märkte jag inte men fick höra sen... Jag tyckte det var lite spännande att få titta på instrumenten och så.<br />
Sen började det bli riktigt illa... i 12 timmar mådde jag så illa att jag inte kunde röra mig, inte kunde prata, inte kunde sova, inte kunde göra något annat än att existera och knappt det. Det kollade blodtryck var 30e minut och det var visst sådär, föll rätt lågt vid ett par tillfällen, sen satte de dropp på mig för att jag inte kunde dricka och jag fick en massa starka mediciner som skulle hjälpa mot illamående, varav ingen fungerade....<br />
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Först 12 timmar och många "sicksacks" senare (även i mitt tillstånd kunde jag uppskatta ironin i namnet :P) blev det lite bättre men jag mådde illa i ytterliggare 12 timmar efter det och de behöll mig över natten för ytterligare observation. Jag kan säga att 24 timmars konstant illamående tar rätt hårt på en men fy fan vad man uppskattar att inte må illa efteråt! På 24 timmar åt jag bara fem skivor gurka och gick ner 2 kilo... eller antagligen mer för det var två kilo efter att jag ätit en dag... De har kollat mitt blodtryck sjukt många gånger och stuckit mig i både händer och armar för att sätta dropp och ta blodprover. Jag var dock lite förvånad över hur mitt blodvärde lyckats gå upp från 103 till 105 på dessa dagar, en minimal ökning men ändå...?<br />
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Jag blev kvar en natt länge än vad de planerat från början för de ville inte släppa hem mig men nu är det rätt mycket bättre. Många nya erfarenheter på två dagar, de flesta hade jag klarat mig bra utan...<br />
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Men så, nu har jag klagat av mig lite, några av er får nog höra mig klaga lite mer men nu får detta bli min helt offentliga dagbok och jag behövde skriva av mig lite. Nu är det bara att vänta på resultatet av undersökningen och hoppas det var värt det... Ja, och så får jag visst inte cykla på två veckor och inte anstränga mig fysiskt på något annat sätt... Lätt sagt... jag ska göra mitt bästa. o_OCathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-89548115785755368482011-09-02T20:34:00.000+02:002011-09-02T20:34:38.582+02:00Librarians don't love booksI recently got my masters degree and am now a Master of Arts with specialization in Library and Information science. Sounds impressive doesn't it! Well, it basically means I'm a librarian (a fancy librarian though!). So I've had a few small jobs, a few hours here and there at different libraries when they needed temps. But I recently started my first full-time job! I've now worked there for two weeks and it feels good! :D<br />
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While I don't boast abundant experience I've come to a realization with regards to librarians, we don't love books. There are people who treasure books as objects, take care of them, love them, hate on libraries when they throw them away... But as a librarian you adapt books to suit the circumstances all the time. They're stamped, they're stuck full of stickers, they're cut up and reassembled and made to look quite different from their original form. And more than anything, they're lent out to anyone who wants to read them. There are books in the library that are broken, full of stains, smell nasty and who knows what else. If librarians really loved books they would just keep then all and never give them to children to chew on, school students to loose, old people to misplace. Library books are dropped in the bathtub, left out in the rain, forgotten abroad and simply lost. Old unread boos are discarded when they are no longer requested. I myself stamped and sorted out books that are over a hundred years old, without being that bothered by it. <br />
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A "real" book lover could never be a librarian, they'd be horrified by what they'd have to do every day and the condition in which they'd find the books. They could probably not stand sending away boxes full of books for recycling. Instead they're the ones who complain and rage when for example Malmö library tossed 30 000 books to create more room for a stage where they could host new activities.<br />
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Here we have what librarians find to be most important, the use of the space and the materials in the library. If the book has no use, if no one wants to read it, it serves no purpose and there is no reason to keep it. I'm not going to say librarians hate books, that would be lying but the love lies in the use of the book, not in the object as such. The more people read a book the happier we are. An old tattered volume with stains and a nasty smell is not all bad, it means it's been well-read and it was well invested money to buy it. It still sucks that it smells and is nasty though...<br />
A librarian works for the spreading of culture, mainly through literature but basically in any way that people want it. In the end libraries exist for the people and librarians do what they can to include all and serve in the best way possible. Well, the ones I've been fortunate to work with are like that, though I know to many librarians out there don't seem to care about people, but then they've chosen the wrong profession. Our work will always be aimed at the people and what we do is always geared at how we can change and what we can do to better serve the needs of society in regards to literature, reading, meetings, discussions, digital awareness and literacy, education, fun, necessities and so on and so on. It is a wonderful place to work, especially with a good work-climate and enthusiastic co-workers and people who appreciate the time spent for them.<br />
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But my main point is that a librarian doesn't love the book as an object but rather as a means to an end, we love reading and we want people to read, if a few books are broken in the process so be it. The book in itself it not precious, there are more in the store, but the use of the book is precious.Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-48772459164155792552011-03-18T18:14:00.000+01:002011-03-18T18:14:04.162+01:00Life updateI don't update all that often so I thought I'd let you in on what's happening in my life right now, in Swedish because no one else will be interested anyway and sometimes writing in your mother tongue is nice too.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Skola!</span> Jag skriver min masteruppsats denna terminen och det är det som i slutändan ska legitimera mig som färdigutbildad bibliotekarie som kan söka kvalificerade jobb. Jag skriver tillsammans med en klasskamrat vid namn Moa som är den bästa uppsatspartner man kan tänka sig. Hon är snäll och trevlig och vi har mycket samma intressen. Vi skriver om, för de av er som faktiskt är intresserade :P, det japanska och det amerikanska klassifikationssystemen för bibliotek. Vi jämför delen i båda systemen som behandlar allmän historia och hur det i sin tur berättar en historia om landet utifrån hur det är uppbyggt och liknande. Det är mycket jobb och jag har dålig disciplin och blir lätt frustrerad på arbetet när jag inte hittar vad jag vill och allt är på japanska så jag inte fattar något. Det går framåt, sakta men säker, men jag kan ju inte säga annat än att jag längtar till det är över. Det ligger konstant över mig och stressar mig. Jag har dessutom mått dåligt i ett par omgångar de senaste veckorna vilket har saktat ner min takt och det hjälper ju inte. Nej, det är väl dags att ta sig i kragen snart...<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jobb!</span> Jag har massor av jobb på gång, vilket är jättetrevligt men tar tid från uppsatsen. Jag jobbar på biblioteken i Lund, Lomma, Bjärred, Staffanstorp och Hjärup. Jag trivs bra överallt förutom i Lund och jag hoppas innerligt att något av extraknäcken ska leda till ett lägre vikariat eller att de rekommenderar mig någon annan stans. För jag kan ju säga att jag är lite rädd för livet utanför skolan, kommer jag få ett jobb? En inkomst jag kan leva på? Framtidsångest! D:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Träning!</span> Jag har börjat träna denna terminen, första gången någonsin, och jag gillar det. :) För det första är det roligt att träna med kompisar och när man går på dansgympa som Afro, Zumba och Funk så känns det inte som träning utan det är roligt. Sen känner man sig duktig efteråt och det är också nice.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Födelsedag!</span> Jag fyller snart år. 24 år blir jag. Med allt annat som händer kan jag inte säga att jag har tänkt så himla mycket på det och antingen har jag kommit över åldersnoja eller så är jag för stressad av annat för att orka vara stressad av det också.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Händer!</span> Jag har till slut tagit mig i kragen och gått till en läkare för att kolla mina händer. (Jag har uppsvullna värkande leder och på vissa av fingrarna växer det knölar D:) De tog mitt blod igår och ska testa om jag har reumatism eller om det visar något annat. Jag ska visst på röntgen också, men först om en månad. Provsvaren skulle komma om ungefär två veckor så då får jag se om de kunnat utläsa något från det. Och apropå hälsa så minskar klumpen på mitt ben som jag fick när jag trillade med cykeln ständigt i storlek men den är fortfarande kvar, jag har ett irriterande sus i mitt öra som jag undersökt kan bero på stress och jag har mått illa i ett par omgångar de senaste veckorna, no fun. :(<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kodachi!</span> Urgh, mer stress och mer att göra. Jag försöker skyffla över så mycket jobb på andra som möjligt. Men jag ser fram emot själva konventet, måste bara se till att jobba tillräckligt mycket fram tills dess för att kunna slappna av lite under de dagarna.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vänner!</span> Mitt ljus i mörkret, jag älskar er alla! <3<br />
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One of my favourite mangas and animes ever was turned into a live action movie, starring some of my favourite actors! Needless to say I was ecstatic when I found out 1½ years ago. And ever since then, yes for one and a half years, I've been ecstatically waiting for the dvd-release.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I've finally seen it! :D:D:D:D:D:D</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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To most people this will not say much though so I will try to explain why. The first reason is simply because I love BECK. The story and the characters are undisputedly awesome and the live action does not let them down. All the actors have been chosen carefully and not only do they look like the manga characters, they act the same way, but somehow without making them manga in their manner and thereby making them seem more like manga characters than real people.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The crazy ones, like Chiba and Ryuusuke, are just as crazy, (and post-it man as Chiba is pure win) but in a manner more suited for live characters. Koyuki is as awkward as ever but not as exaggerated as it sometimes is in the manga. Saku and Tairas characters don't take a lot of room but they do an awesome support and live up to my image of them.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All the other supportive characters like Maho and Saitou (the actor here really looks like the manga character, too bad his story is cut out) are really good as well. I give them a special bonus for having foreigners playing all the parts of foreigners, and the man playing Sykes is awesome!! O__O Just his appearance is reason enough to love him. :D</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">It is well-made, the English is good, the story isn't rushed (it's 2½ hours long so it shouldn't be) and I enjoyed every moment of watching it. I admit I'm totally biased, considering I loved it before I saw it but it didn't let me down even though I had high expectations which speaks in it's favour. I really recommend watching it and even though there are no subtitles yet anyone of medium Japanese skills will be able to follow without any problems. I'm not that good and I never feel lost and, as I've said, there is quite a lot of English which helps.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I've also been fortunate because my parents have brought me and my sister to a lot of live musicals and theatres and I love them for it. It's also been a gift from my grandparents at times, which is nice because theatre is expensive! When they still had the free outside theatre in Malmö we went to that every year too.<br />
I love the feeling of going to see them live, the atmosphere of old theatres, everybody's a bit dressed up and excited, there are no unhappy people and the stage presence of the actors is usually so grasping. <br />
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Being a fan of musicals I've seen the movie a couple of times and seeing it live is just <3 <3 <3<br />
Cosmo is my favourite in the movie and he was played by an actor whom I really like so I was happy, and he did all the acrobatics from the movie live, so cool!<br />
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I just love theatre, musicals and live performances of all kinds!Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-12550818515928962882010-12-27T15:04:00.001+01:002010-12-27T19:30:08.364+01:00REA I LOVE U!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mellandagsrea! :D</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I tried to think of what that would be in English but all I could think of was tweendaysale? or between days sale which just sounds strange. So I looked it up and the result for mellandagarna is "the intermediate days between Christmas and New Years Day". So yeah, there's just no good word for it...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The sweater was the first thing I bought, couldn't resist it, so cute!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Then I found the jeans shorts and they were only 50:- so I felt they needed to be mine.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Then I found the black shorts! I've been searching for a pair for a while and here they were, and in my size as well. :D I had to stand in line for like half an hour to get them but they were worth it! In the same store I bought a pair of capri leggings with lace at the end and a pair of fold over mittens.The mittens weren't on sale but I've been searching for a pair of those as well so I didn't care, and they were missing the buttons so I got 15% off. ^^d</div><div style="text-align: left;">The colourful thing in the middle is a skirt which I had had my eyes on before and now that it was on sale I got it.</div><div style="text-align: left;">On the left is a black cardigan (sorry Nathan but I like cardigans) that wasn't on sale either but it was cheap and my mother paid for it. :3 </div><div style="text-align: left;">All in all many nice things that I have been searching for and I'm very happy (and a bit poorer).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But the ultimate find is this dress from Whoops Fashion which is gorgeous and I will wear it on New Year's!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The people at Whoops are always so nice, she recommended their leggings which are in a great material and don't have a thin elastic in the waist so hopefully they won't create blobs around your waist. And she was so nice I had to buy them. XDD<br />
And I know we said we'd go together during the "mellandagsrea" but I couldn't wait, and I can always go again! Or more like, I want to go again! :3Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-48726655857233791432010-12-15T20:34:00.000+01:002010-12-15T20:34:14.798+01:00Baking and making sweets!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Christmas is getting closer and closer and I'm a person who absolutely adores Christmas. The decorations, the lights, the mood and all it means in spending time with you family and friends and just having a cosy time with people you love. If it wasn't for the cold (or if I could stay inside all the time) it would be my favourite time of year!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkT1v9ZyUI/AAAAAAAAAE8/XqshLdfbrHw/s1600/tree-forest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkT1v9ZyUI/AAAAAAAAAE8/XqshLdfbrHw/s320/tree-forest.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>I mean, who doesn't love this? </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Every year when Christmas gets close I just get an urge to stay at home, drink glögg, watch sappy movies and relax, which is quite dangerous when you, like me, have a ton of school-work to do over the holidays. :((</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also get an urge to bake, make sweets and eat stuff with sugar in it. :D</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In my family we have long-standing tradition of making gingerbread cookies on the first of advent and I always look forward too it. This year, however, it was moved to the second of advent since my sister had broken her hand and it hurt her do drive. But in the end I got to make gingerbread Christmas trees to my hearts content!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkTPatVSQI/AAAAAAAAAE0/n0S3KqPaC7E/s320/SDC10715.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This is all that's left of the ones I brought home, because not only do I love to make them, I love to eat them too. And I'm good at it. XD</i></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkTP6_EzkI/AAAAAAAAAE4/9n5fz7lOCV0/s1600/SDC10717.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkTP6_EzkI/AAAAAAAAAE4/9n5fz7lOCV0/s320/SDC10717.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>We always have a ton of pigs and trees since I only make trees and my sister only makes pigs. Sometimes the pigs migrate and infiltrate the other cookies but I've already eaten all the trees with pigs in them. :)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkSDdCpwQI/AAAAAAAAAEo/tMCcw6pngd8/s320/SDC10711.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I've also managed to make saffron buns (yum yum)... </i></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkSD712N-I/AAAAAAAAAEs/G1hkQQxXSWc/s1600/SDC10712.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkSD712N-I/AAAAAAAAAEs/G1hkQQxXSWc/s320/SDC10712.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> ...and for the first time ever I tried to make fudge. It went really well!</i></div><br />
Making fudge was really easy and it turned out great! I made banana-chocolate ones and they taste heavenly. They should considering there's nothing but fat and sugar in them. XD<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkSEu2G_kI/AAAAAAAAAEw/WR5naJ_GnUE/s1600/SDC10713.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TQkSEu2G_kI/AAAAAAAAAEw/WR5naJ_GnUE/s320/SDC10713.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The ones on the top are banana-chocolate and the one on the bottom are banana-white chocolate flavoured. The ones with the white chocolate are <b>really</b></i><i> sweet.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm really impressed that it's actually fudge-consistency. I thought they were going to become harder and more like toffee but they're creamy and nice. The banana flavour comes from melted marshmallow bananas.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I found the recipe here: http://www.kokaihop.se/recept/bananfudge</div><div style="text-align: left;">I really recommend it. :3</div>Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-30981274013113076322010-12-02T20:33:00.000+01:002010-12-02T20:33:27.474+01:00Telephone!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've had the same telephone for almost three years now. t has served me well and I've always liked it, and still do. But lately its age has been noticeable; it's been acting up when I try to answer so sometimes I haven't been able to pick up incoming calls. So I decided to get a new phone!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TPerDRGz1nI/AAAAAAAAAEk/QlA3LhYTH9o/s320/telephone+old.jpg" width="239" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The old faithful one I will now be saying bye bye to. :'( </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I looked around a bit and decided on the HTC Wildfire. It has a lot of functions and its touch. :) I love touch screens. I can play with them for hours just because it's fun to use the screen. And that's what I did yesterday when it arrived. :) You can connect to wireless networks with it so I surfed around on the web a bit, configured my e-mail and downloaded a few apps. So now this phone is also my new mp3-player. My old one only had 4GB and I was running out of space so yay for combining two gadgets in one. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TPerCxo2s_I/AAAAAAAAAEg/WXiP0GzoRM4/s1600/telephone+new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TPerCxo2s_I/AAAAAAAAAEg/WXiP0GzoRM4/s320/telephone+new.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>My new pretty telephone. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Even though I'll probably miss my old one a little bit just because it's always been good and it's pretty I absolutely adore the new one. :D It's very nice. And when I don't like a feature in the phone then I can just download an app that does it better. ^^d</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And when you have a new phone, what do you need? A new phone-case of course. So I spent a few hours this morning <span class="tyda_entry_inflected" title="tempus: ing-form">crocheting a new one. I'm really pleased with the results. :3</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TPerB7bKluI/AAAAAAAAAEY/CNz16xTtrow/s1600/telephone+case.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TPerB7bKluI/AAAAAAAAAEY/CNz16xTtrow/s320/telephone+case.jpg" width="239" /> </a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>My crocheted phone-case. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyway, to sum up, I love my new phone!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My only concern now is that I'm getting rid of a lot of stuff that I have straps on... which means that I have tons of straps and nowhere to put them. :( I'll have to get creative, hrm.. can you have straps on your wallet?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Yay, phone! :)</span></div>Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-43142156165210220762010-11-14T17:37:00.000+01:002010-11-14T17:37:28.153+01:00Why Are Thin People Not Fat?I've been watching documentaries lately, well it's not really lately anymore because I've switched over to watching tons of dorama. :D School is a bit easier for a while now too so I thought I'd catch up on some series that I've been wanting to see/finish watching.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TOAO4PQ06vI/AAAAAAAAAEU/n-V6U2glD04/s1600/ist2_10105790-woman-excess-fat-and-thin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TOAO4PQ06vI/AAAAAAAAAEU/n-V6U2glD04/s320/ist2_10105790-woman-excess-fat-and-thin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
But that's not what I was going to talk about. A while ago I was depressed about my weight and looked on the site where I find documentaries after something about weight-loss. It always makes me feel better seeing people who are worse off than me (does that make me a horrible person...) which is one of the reasons I love watching shows like Biggest Looser and the likes. Anyway, I found a documentary with the title <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/why-are-thin-people-not-fat/" rel="bookmark" title="Why Are Thin People Not Fat?">Why Are Thin People Not Fat?</a> and felt that this was a question I wanted an answer to. There were a few different parts to it but the most interesting was an experiment they did with thin people where they had them eat 5000 calories a day for about a month with no exercise to see how their bodies reacted. They all gained weight, around 5 kg each but their reactions to it was different. One of them gained not fat but muscles! His body got a lot of extra nutrient but didn't want to get fat so it produced muscle (this without exercise) which consumes more energy than fat thus using more of the food he ate for things other than getting fat.<br />
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I wish my body would do that... :(<br />
And even though they all gained weight they lost all or almost all of it in the following two weeks. The bastards.<br />
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What the scientists deducted from this (and other) experiment was that all people have a weight that their body is going to deem ideal, it can be 50 kg or 150 kg, and that it will strive towards. That means that if you overeat your body will try to adjust so that the extra energy goes elsewhere. But it also means that when you're trying to loose weight your body will do everything to go back to the weight that it wants.<br />
They had made experiments with overweight people where they lost weight and then were put on a diet made to maintain that weight, basically eating normally. When they measured their brain-activity it was sending signals equivalent of a semi-starving person doing everything to make the person eat more food. So if these people were going to keep the weight off they were going to have to live with battling their brain for the rest of their lives.<br />
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The documentary was very interesting but extremely disheartening, basically telling you that whatever you do your body has the last say in what you weigh. I'm not completely convinced though, there are a lot of people who have lost a lot of weight and kept it off and I'm going to join that group, no matter what my body wants!<br />
I've already lost almost 15kg and I'll fight to keep it sinking! Yeah fighto-oh!<br />
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The documentary can be seen here for those interested:<br />
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<object height="390" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_6-A0iHSdcA&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_6-A0iHSdcA&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></embed></object>Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-44610258755444430022010-10-19T19:41:00.000+02:002010-10-19T19:57:32.775+02:00Review of Max Misty Green lenses in green eyes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A few weeks ago me and my friends ordered coloured lenses from <a href="http://pinkyparadise.com/">pinkyparadise.com</a> and we got them just in time to use for KodachiKun (which is a small convention that <a href="http://mangakailund.org/">Mangakai Lund</a> arranges once a year). When I was browsing aroung trying to choose which lenses to buy I searched for reviews of them and there are a lot of them but I can hardly find any that features people with naturally blue, green or grey eyes. So let's fix that! :D</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> First of all, ordering from pinkyparadise works well, the order arrived in Sweden within two weeks (using the cheaper form of transport) and we got one free super cute lens-case for every pair of ordered lenses. :3</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Free stuff always makes me happy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I normally wear glasses so I ordered the lenses with strength and after some searching around for how to convert the perscription for my glasses I settled for this:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Right: -3.50 ---> -3.00</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Left -3.75 ---> 3.25</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I heard that lowering by half would be good and since I didn't want them too strong I went for that. The strength is not perfect, it's a bit weak but at least I see well enough to get around. I wouldn't have them for every-day use but for once in a while it works fine though I think I'll increase it by 0.25 for the next pair I buy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are my very first pair of lenses ever and it was both harder and easier to use them than I thought. I have quite dry eyes so I was a bit worried and after wearing them for several hours my eyes did become dry but that might just be a case of getting used to it. But it was really nice walking around without glasses, I haven't done that since fourth grade. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway, on to the pictures (which is probably the most interesting part for potential buyers of these lenses).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" height="155" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TL3OgDHxN4I/AAAAAAAAADY/h7CTVTrYT00/s400/Green+eyes.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This is what my eyes look like without lenses...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> (this picture was taken at the end of the day so my make-up is falling </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>and I look really tired, please ignore these facts)</i></span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TL3OhR0v07I/AAAAAAAAADk/5mgLPN1fY-4/s1600/Max+Misty+Green+lenses+in+green+eyes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TL3OhR0v07I/AAAAAAAAADk/5mgLPN1fY-4/s400/Max+Misty+Green+lenses+in+green+eyes.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...and this is with the lenses.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looks: 5/5 </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's a big difference from my normal colour and since these lenses become a little yellow towards the middle they blend well with my eyes. On this close-up they're more noticeable but from a distance and when the light is not so bright you don't see it as much. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With these lenses it's apparent that they're not real, they don't look natural but they give a great effect and really enlarges and defines your eyes. This would be the only minus about the looks, since they're so unnatural I won't wear them just anywhere but instead wait for a time when unnatural-looking eyes is OK. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Comfort: 4/5</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They're OK to wear, they became uncomfortable when my eyes dries up but that might just be me so don't make or break your decision on that. :) Before that it was all good, I felt them but didn't feel any discomfort.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Overall: 5/5</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I really am very pleased with them and can't wait for the next time to wear them!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TL3WaorsAhI/AAAAAAAAADo/yvk3iRTCdCc/s1600/Max+Misty+Green+lenses+in+green+eyes+%282%29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TL3WaorsAhI/AAAAAAAAADo/yvk3iRTCdCc/s640/Max+Misty+Green+lenses+in+green+eyes+%282%29.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Photos from a distance, thank you <a href="http://kingofkavki.blogspot.com/">Kajsa</a> for taking lovely pictures as always!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TL3WbLJ2cUI/AAAAAAAAADs/XsMyBSTjenc/s1600/Max+Misty+Green+lenses+in+green+eyes+%283%29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TL3WbLJ2cUI/AAAAAAAAADs/XsMyBSTjenc/s640/Max+Misty+Green+lenses+in+green+eyes+%283%29.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-64674395213521311842010-10-05T16:44:00.000+02:002010-10-05T17:06:35.698+02:00Playing with my hairI love this song, it makes me feel better about my life. You can listen to it as you keep reading. :)<br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H4gbW_-x4A0?fs=1&hl=en_GB"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H4gbW_-x4A0?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><br /><br />Yeah, sometimes I get a bit depressed about how incredibly boring my life is and how it feels like I'm headed nowhere, just standing still waiting for life to come to me... I don't even know what I want to happen, just something...<br />I have two different future dreams, in one of them I'm a rich, strong, independent woman that people respect. I travel the world and always learn new things and am proud of myself the way I am.<br />In the other I have a huge family, no money but lots of love. I don't even know which of these I want, I guess it depends on whether I find someone to make a family with or not. :P<br /><br />Anyway, enough of this and on to more important stuff; hair!<br />I don't really like my hair, it's thin and super shiny (which I guess is a good thing but it also makes all hairstyles fall flat within 30 minutes...) But even so I tried playing with my hair a bit. This is a hairstyle I've been wanting to try for a whil and now I felt I had a little time to do it.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKs6HOKCcUI/AAAAAAAAACo/5ScA4rABdac/s1600/DSCN4890.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKs6HOKCcUI/AAAAAAAAACo/5ScA4rABdac/s320/DSCN4890.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524573263633740098" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Yay, mohawk inspired.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I also bought blush today, can you see it?</span> </div><br />It took quite a while to do it, since I have almost no experience in doing hairstyles and since my hair never does what I want but it was fun.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKs9paYjj6I/AAAAAAAAACw/zLOOQAaS87s/s1600/DSCN4891.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKs9paYjj6I/AAAAAAAAACw/zLOOQAaS87s/s320/DSCN4891.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524577149566291874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Another picture. :)</span><br /></div><br />I'm pondering whether to have this hair on KodachiKun or not, it depends on how long it lasts and how much time I have to get ready in the morning. And also the weather.<br />It's already gotten a lot flatter, and it's only been about 40 minutes... I hate my hair. :(Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-45943597563371478112010-09-28T21:36:00.000+02:002010-09-28T22:08:55.962+02:00SapeursOn my way home from the book fair I read a few of the magazines I'd been given and a came across one that really caught my eye. The article was called "Gentlemen from Bacongo" and what really made me stop and look were the awesome photos, here are a few of them and a few more I've found. :)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKJEr4S_eoI/AAAAAAAAACI/agaGulo6NQs/s1600/pink-sapeur-small_1522488c.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKJEr4S_eoI/AAAAAAAAACI/agaGulo6NQs/s320/pink-sapeur-small_1522488c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522051613746756226" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This was the first page photo,</span><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" > can you do anything but love it?</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKJE5nT8PNI/AAAAAAAAACY/jpIFFE_WhcY/s1600/sammansatt.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKJE5nT8PNI/AAAAAAAAACY/jpIFFE_WhcY/s320/sammansatt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522051849705503954" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Here are all the photos included in the article</span></span>.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKJE0Otex8I/AAAAAAAAACQ/eDIlXvc7G14/s1600/sapeur_5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TKJE0Otex8I/AAAAAAAAACQ/eDIlXvc7G14/s320/sapeur_5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522051757202393026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And a few more based on pure awesomeness.</span></span><br /></div><br />Now at first I was caught by the photos but as I read the article I started to admire these peoples whole nature and lifestyle.<br />They call themselves Saepur from the French word<i>Sape</i> which is slang for “dressing with class”. It takes a lot to be accepted into the circle, most of them live in the slum but spend all their money on beautiful clothing, going by "A sapeur is a happy man even if he doesn't eat, because being well-dressed gives nourishment to the soul and pleasure to the body".<br />They also have ten commandments (although two of them haven't been written yet) which go:<ul><li>Believe in God</li><li>Honour Sape</li><li>Be hygienic</li><li>Don't be a racist<br /></li><li>Don't believe in clans</li><li>Don't discriminate</li><li>Be a pacifist and a gentleman</li></ul>This restores my faith in man and I respect them so much. If everyone abided by these rules the world would be a better place. (OK, I'm not to fond of the believe in God rule but to each his own right) I do believe that food is more important than clothes but apart from that I totally support their lifestyle and absolutely adore their fashion!<br />Apparently they have rules so as not to become to showy such as never combining more than three colours. :)<br /><br />Well, anyway, I had to become their instant fan and share their existence, it you want to read more <a href="http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/2008/11/stylish-sape-return-to-elegance.html">this page</a> has a short article, a few more photos and links to some other places.Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-53167283077951075772010-09-24T09:11:00.000+02:002010-09-28T21:36:31.300+02:00Gothenburg Book Fair! :DYesterday I went to the annual book fair in Gothenburg and it is awesome!<br />The faculty arranges a bus to and from the book fair every year and even though I'm totally swamped with school I love going so I didn't care and went anyway. XD School will work itself out somehow. The school's offer is great, all you have to do is tell them you want to come, no charges or anything, they just give you a free ride to and from Gothenburg. And I managed to get my hands on a free entrance ticket ans well so I was happy. :)<br /><br />The fair is held at this huuuuge venue, it takes a full day to explore the first floor and that is if you walk past most of the booths. Then there's a second floor as well! I didn't even go there this year. They hold lots of interesting seminars but they cost freakishly much, 500 SEK per seminar! I can't afford that ;___; so I didn't even look at the program so as not to be disappointed in not being able to attend.<br />For you to get a slight idea of how big it is, here is the map of the first floor:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxTtnL00-I/AAAAAAAAABQ/xRjXCZqrRYY/s1600/Bok+Plan+1+2010.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxTtnL00-I/AAAAAAAAABQ/xRjXCZqrRYY/s320/Bok+Plan+1+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520379286327186402" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This is also your survival guide since<br />you'll never find anything without it!</span></span><br /><br /></div>I always get totally hyped at fairs, and become a total shopaholic (even more than usual) and therefore I was carrying around a ton of stuff towards the end. I returned home with this (and my normal bag which is not in the photo).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxUoLG0vaI/AAAAAAAAABY/vJ21b-_aAj8/s1600/SDC10640.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxUoLG0vaI/AAAAAAAAABY/vJ21b-_aAj8/s320/SDC10640.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520380292402298274" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The black and the yellow bags were free (yay for free stuff, another reason to love fairs :D)<br />and the green one you got if you bought a book from them,<br />so I bought a book because I wanted the bag. XD</span><br /></div><br />And since this is a book fair you can't return home without books right. :) Oh, and there's a dish rag there too, it came with the purchase of the Cookies for Rookies book. :D<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxVYmOQyJI/AAAAAAAAABg/ltShBcOuLjc/s1600/SDC10643.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxVYmOQyJI/AAAAAAAAABg/ltShBcOuLjc/s320/SDC10643.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520381124314974354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Cookies for Rookies I bought for Kristina since I know she loves to bake,<br />the two on the bottom came in a gift bag from BTJ,<br />the one in the middle is the one I bought to get the green bag<br />(and I've been interested in it for a while),<br />the green one I got for free upon entering a contest,<br />the fairy tale book is a present for my niece and<br />the one on the top will get its very own review because it is so awesome!</span><br /></div><br />And some magazines:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxVd-WCvEI/AAAAAAAAABo/n8onHARtHfo/s1600/SDC10642.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxVd-WCvEI/AAAAAAAAABo/n8onHARtHfo/s320/SDC10642.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520381216689404994" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">There was a booth where they handed out free magazines so I took a few,<br />some of these were handed out in other places as well.<br />I will make a post about a thing I found in one of them because it made me an instant fan.</span><br /></span></div><br />And other stuff:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxVkK8zGlI/AAAAAAAAABw/fM0xkn89_SI/s1600/SDC10644.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxVkK8zGlI/AAAAAAAAABw/fM0xkn89_SI/s320/SDC10644.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520381323152398930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I also bought three calendars, got myself a library lovers pin<br />and got a free note book for my mom.<br />I'm really happy about the calendars, the small one is great and only cost 30 SEK, a find!</span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxWjNaP4yI/AAAAAAAAACA/kdb-sy-cB24/s1600/SDC10649.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxWjNaP4yI/AAAAAAAAACA/kdb-sy-cB24/s320/SDC10649.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520382406144549666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">These are the pictures inside the calendars. They had so many great I could have bought all of them but I have no use for 10 calendars... I got two though and thought I'd give one to my parents. :)</span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxWdTOfouI/AAAAAAAAAB4/FvO_QWYPa9c/s1600/SDC10641.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TJxWdTOfouI/AAAAAAAAAB4/FvO_QWYPa9c/s320/SDC10641.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520382304626647778" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I also shamelessly took free candy from here and there XD</span></span><br /></div><br />I got one more thing as well, maybe I just fell for their marketing trick but we'll see. A man stopped me and asked if he could clean my glasses, I though that it can't hurt, its free and all (yes I'm a sucker for free stuff ^^''''). It turns out the thing he uses is anti static and it makes your glasses not fog up! I found it awesome and bought it straight away. It actually works really well, and if there's one thing I'll always have to do it's clean my glasses so at least I'll use it.<br /><br />I also attended a few "events". I listened to a woman talking about how to market your library and watched a demonstration on how to make interesting gift wrappings. I also saw Mark Levengood in SR's monter talking about how his mother can't cook and I walked past Björn Hellberg giving autographs to a few teenage girls, which was a bit odd to say the least. XDD<br /><br />All in all it was a great day, I met a few people I know as well which is always fun. :)<br />I wish I could have attended the other days as well though and have seen more authors and listen to interviews and such. I hope I can go next year too. :)Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-46531293124589043692010-08-15T12:12:00.000+02:002010-08-15T12:17:20.120+02:00Sunao ni Narenakute<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TGe9xYudiEI/AAAAAAAAABA/Oj_dcghfsbo/s1600/Suanoninarenakute.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TGe9xYudiEI/AAAAAAAAABA/Oj_dcghfsbo/s320/Suanoninarenakute.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505577725632284738" border="0" /></a>
<br /><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CCathrin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normal tabell"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CCathrin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C03%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normal tabell"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">This is a Japanese dorama about a group of people who meet over twitter and their relations to each other. This kind of theme is quite common in Japanese doramas; a group of people who didn’t know each other before become friends and these new relations change their life. But they always make me wonder; didn’t these people have friends before this?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">These people don’t know each other when they first meet, yet they depend on each other from the start, when a major crisis happens they call the person they have only known for a week… New friends is always nice but if something happened to me I wouldn’t call a new acquaintance; for more than one reason. Apart from me being uncomfortable with a person I hardly know, consider the other person, a new friend you’ve only met once calls you and wants you to (as in this dorama) accompany her to the maternity clinic and pretend to be the father of her child. I would be extremely suspicious and feel the stalker warning light coming on. But maybe that’s just me…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Ignoring this part of the dorama, (maybe Japanese people don't have friends and bond very quickly with strangers?) it has a nice feel to it. The characters are well developed and feel real. They also have a nice chemistry between them, especially Eita and Ueno Juri, but they’ve co-acted in several doramas already so they’re probably comfortable with each other. I also want to give a special mention to Mr. Park (I don't know his real name) who did a great acting job and made me find him adorable even though I don't like him as a person.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">This doramas strength doesn’t lie in the plot, which is quite a mediocre plot about love and relationships, but in its characters and their chemistry. It reminds me of <i style="">Love Shuffle</i> and <i style="">Last Friends</i> in it’s atmosphere, though <i style="">Love Shuffle</i> had even greater chemistry between the characters and <i style="">Last Friends</i> had a stronger story.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">All in all I enjoyed it and would recommend it to people who enjoy human doramas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-19922800510961999812010-07-20T11:31:00.000+02:002010-07-20T11:37:53.379+02:00Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TEVtfnc-blI/AAAAAAAAAAU/lRXGs5kav9U/s1600/GoodOmens_MassMarketPaperback_1185845373.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c8wQchyFXLA/TEVtfnc-blI/AAAAAAAAAAU/lRXGs5kav9U/s320/GoodOmens_MassMarketPaperback_1185845373.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495919310209445458" border="0" /></a>
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<br /><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The book in general is quite slow-paced and with quite detailed descriptions of all the characters doings, especially the few hours before the supposed end of the world. Some of these parts seem to be included for the sole sake of wittiness, which is confirmed in the interview with the authors in the end where they say the goal of what they wrote was to make each other laugh. The book is admittedly witty and smart in an amusing way but wittiness for its own sake can push it over the line and make it tedious.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The concept is smart and clever and the way the Christian theory of evolution is used is spot on. It is a well-written book and I like the wittiness, even if it goes overboard at times. Good Omens is a well-loved book around the world which it could not have become without being as well-written as it is, but its strength lies more in the technical skills of the writers than the content of the story. On a whole I liked the book, if not all parts of it, but to me it will not become the tattered worn copy that has been read and re-read dozens of times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<br />Cathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533726607217478485.post-36061776237346010972010-07-08T18:44:00.000+02:002010-07-08T18:56:59.227+02:00First postWell, you need a first post when you make a blog and since I can't figure out what to write about just now I'll just make it a random first post. ^^d<br />In my mind I kinda wanna make this a blog about series I follow, books I read and those kinds of things (yes, notice my extremely varied and detailed English :P). Well see if thats how it turns out. I'm generally bad at writing about myself and stuff going on in my life because I find my life uninteresting. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it for the most part but I can't imagine it being interesting enough to report about.<br /><br />So yeah, that was my first post and now I'll go back to my uninteresting yet slightly enjoyable life and I'll write again when I find something I want to write about. Welcome to all followers and yeah well, it ended up being in English for some reason but hey, a reason to polish my skillz. :PCathrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811852579228165825noreply@blogger.com0