just a short post, to remind you to feel very sorry for me: i'm ill.

it started as an 8-day-head-ache, which changed into a soar throat and pain in the legs, and after that i've been feeling sick for three days. it's much better today though, and i don't feel like throwing up anymore. but still bad enough for you to feel sorry for me.  ¶ 7:47 PM

  on a walk with the nephew earlier today

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  the nephew and niece just left. everything in the house is sticky... the parents-in-law are still here. have to go and entertain them a bit. ...but i can't really decide which one to take care of... the father-in-law who is pulling cables through the ceiling or the mother-in-law who is doing the dishes in the kitchen. cables are more fun, but there might be some kind of rule that the daughter-in-law should help in the kitchen? especially if it's my kitchen... so, i'll put on a smile and go downstairs for a while :)  ¶ 1:19 PM

  inauguration of the fire place
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  i made it myself!
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  my head hurts :( i'm feeling very very sorry for myself. a good thing about head aches is when they leave, though. so i'm going to look forward to that, and remember that without head aches you can't recover either. and it's only the right side that hurts, so it could have been worse.  ¶ 4:55 PM

  yippie! we've got an orange organ!  ¶ 2:24 PM

  even though i have now cooked food on a wooden board there are still things that make me behave like a five-year-old. the words "please close the lid!" written in big black unfriendly letters under the toilet lid, for example. especially when they are followed by "welcome back!", as some kind of attempt to make it all sound nice. as part of the beautifying process of the toilets at work, they now all have those two sentences written under their lids. so, today i started leaving the toilet lid open.  ¶ 7:56 PM

  i have cooked! and it both looked and tasted like real food, made by a real grown up person :) it feels like a big step towards being a housewife when you start cooking food on boards...
  ¶ 7:47 PM

  i haven't really kept you informed about what's happening with jämtteknik, i guess... i do have a good reason for this, though: i'm hoping that if i don't think about it it will sort itself out and i don't have to make the final decision. it doesn't seem to work, but you have to admit it was worth a try :)

the truth is i'm (most likely) going to start at jämtteknik in january next year. the "(most likely)" part could probably be left out, but i still can't really make myself say it for sure... i went there yesterday to talk about practical things, such as wages - which will be better than what i have now, but not as good as it sounded on the interview. they said this would only be for the first 6 months, when i'm going to learn cool things such as how to turn military vehicles into pieces (and probably turn them back into vehicles again) and boring things such as the name of every little piece the vehicles consist of. after 6 months i'll be able to renegotiate the wages (i've heard that one before, though. that's exactly what they said at the job i have right now. and after 6 months they said "what??? noooo... are you sure? that can't be right..."). fortunately i don't really care much about the wages. what upset me a bit though is that i'm going to get 7 days less of vacation. *that's* going to be negotiated after 6 months for sure!

something else: a grumpy old dog has moved into one of the tiny little toilets at work. when i first saw him it was a pleasant surprise. then i realised i'm only going to see him for the second it takes to open the door and turn around to be able to place myself on the toilet. that made me a bit sad. then i realised that my male colleagues who pee standing up can look at him while they are peeing, which felt a bit unfair. why should the men have a grumpy old dog to look at while they're peeing while i have to look at the boring door? (*then* i realised that if the men look at the grumpy old dog while they're peeing, it may be bad for the freshness of the toilet...)  ¶ 5:30 PM

  something weird: the moon has been full at least three nights in a row now. i thought it was only supposed to be full one night at the time?

and i still haven't seen the northern lights. i'm beginning to think that å was wrong, and that you can't see it this close to the city :(  ¶ 7:09 PM

  ok, i admit: i'm old and boring. i almost fell asleep at the pub, took a taxi home instead of walking, and am already at home, brushing my teeth... and it's only 23.31. the real party hasn't even started yet, and i'm on my way to bed. but i don't mind, i really really like my bed :)

(å and a went home too, and they are four years younger than me)  ¶ 11:36 PM

  the sisters have been visiting us this week. they came on sunday evening. tommy and i went to ikea in sundsvall before they came, so we had the car full of packets containg bookshelves and other things for the living room (lots of the things we were going to buy were sold out though. irritating). every day except sunday turned into some kind of theme:
monday: manufacturing. we made our own pizza (very good) and put together ikea furniture for the living room. it's now starting to look like a real room :)
tuesday: halloween. we made a pumpkin man and rented a horror movie, that we watched screaming and jumping under a blanket.
wednesday: girl-night. we wore pyjamas, tried to bleach our hair (but didn't work), put on pink warm face masks and treatment in the hair, and watched a romantic girly film with the hair wrapped up in towels and the faces shining and sticky, eating two different kinds of ice cream.
thursday: winter games. went stjärtlapping down every slope we could find.  ¶ 9:08 PM