yesterday we moved out to strömsberg, my parents' summer house. normally they move there as soon as the schools are over, but this year it's been so cold. for two weeks we've waited and thought that it's be better, but yesterday we gave up and moved there anyway. cooold.

tommy and i are soon going home again, to look at the potatoes and other plants, and to go to our summer cottage. i haven't really decided what to do about my back yet, though. it's still hurting a lot... it's much better than it was two weeks ago, but still not well. so: should i go to the mean chiropracor once more, or just let it be? maybe my kind of back can't be painless?   ¶ 2:46 PM

  tommy and the cats are here, and it was very nice to see them again after almost 2 weeks away "on my own" (together with bob, of course). tommy hadn't noticed if our plants were alive or if anything had started to grow in the green house... but he had seen the potatoes coming up, which i guess is better than nothing :)

in a few days were going back home, to (hopefully) spend midsommarafton at our summer cottage. it'll be very nice to see what has happened in the garden and in the windows at home while i've been away. or at least i hope it'll be nice... maybe it'll be very very sad...

my mother and i went flower hunting in the beginning of this week, so i'll have a few new ones to bring home, in case some of the old ones haven't survived. along the old railway there are lots of interesting things to be found, as the people who live along it throw away the things they clear out of their gardens there. lots of weed of course, but some "real" plants as well. we made some interesting finds that we dug up, and some that my mother will go back and collect seeds from in fall.  ¶ 11:50 PM

  tommy and the cats are coming today!  ¶ 11:15 AM

  i can sit! i sat through an entire film tonight (with lots of pillows behind my back, and changing positions every now and then, but still). yippie! i wonder if it was the mad chiropractor who did this, or if the back would have healed now anyway... i'm still not convinced i'm brave enough to see him again... it really felt dangerous to be there (even though he was very nice and kind, of course. it just didn't feel very healthy to have my neck almost broken...)  ¶ 11:27 PM

  and we saw elvis today. he's alive. he was driving a white car and eating an ice cream (a dark kind of "magnum"). his hair looked a bit greyish, but i guess that's only natural. quite interesting news that too, even though the miracle with my back is greater.   ¶ 8:40 PM

  i can walk! hallelujah! it's a miracle!

it doesn't even hurt very much. so today i've been for rather normal dog walks, instead of very short, very painful and very crooked ones. veeery nice! i was albe to sit on my chair all through dinner this evening as well, and i went to the grocery store with my sister to buy strawberries. great!   ¶ 8:37 PM

  i've been to the chiropractor, and it reminded quite a lot of a scary movie my sister and i saw the other day...

first he used some kind of electricity thing, that didn't hurt very much most of the time, but it felt like little ants running around under my skin. then he twisted and pulled my legs and arms so that my back sounded like fire works, and finally he tried to break my neck. very uncomfortable.

oh, i forgot, he massaged my back for a while as well. before he started with that i thought that it might not be so bad after all, cause massages are normally quite comfortable. but apparently chiropractor massages are not like normal massages, and it hurt like... i don't know what it hurt like, but it hurt very very much. and then he pressed his thumbs in my stomach very hard, so i nearly couldn't breath because of the pain.

i don't know if i think that kind of treatment can be good for people... the worst part is that he said i probably need two or at least one more visit before it'll be ok. apparently my back is worse than bad. i don't know if i should trust him. are chiropractors to be trusted? maybe he is just a mean mean person who wants to break my neck? i'll have to think about this before i get back to him!  ¶ 3:53 PM

  i'm going to a chiropractor (or something) tomorrow morning. i'm scared! i don't like doctorish people...   ¶ 10:15 PM

  my back has started hurting again :(. it started about a week ago, after having been almost normal for a long time. i have no idea what caused it, even though i have thought about it a lot to try and figure it out. yesterday i walked like a crooked little lady all day, but this afternoon i was albe to straighten myself out again... weird thing. i hope it's just something temporary, but i had hoped it'd go away in only a couple of days... as it is now i spend most of the days lying on my back on the floor in my parents' living room, which is not the most fun i can come to think of...  ¶ 11:32 PM

  today i had my first bath in ages (we don't have a bath tub in nyland). it was nice, but it was quite clear that i am not in the best shape... even though i mixed in some cold water it was too hot for me to get in at once! maybe the water gets hotter in tierp than in umeå? i hope so, otherwise i'll soon only be able to bathe in luke warm water!  ¶ 11:27 PM

  i'm currently in tierp, visiting my family. one of my sisters graduated today, so i was invited for graduation cake. bob is with me, but tommy and the cats are still in nyland. tommy is working two more weeks :( i don't know how long i'm staying. i'm on my way to bed now, cause my back is aching very much and i'm very tired... i'll be back :)  ¶ 12:08 AM