the naughty little cat took the naughty little pup to go and play in the neighbours' garden. i hope they were asleep, otherwise i'm sure they're going to start hating us again. stupid cat!  ¶ 12:08 AM

  driving to work today i met a man holding a pink little girl in his left hand and a pink little purse in his right. that looked cute.  ¶ 10:49 PM

  midsummer was spent with friends, and friends of friends (but mostly friends of friend's boyfriend). some of them were famous in some kind of skiing sport, which was a bit cool. there was no dancing and no may-pole, though...

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  starting today the days are getting shorter and shorter. and the last snow in the slalom slope melted less than a week ago...  ¶ 11:14 PM

  yesterday i got a letter telling me that a friend has died. it feels weird. i haven't seen him for 6 years, so if i hadn't had that letter everything would still be normal. but now i did have it, so now he's dead... and just because i know it i want to visit him now :(  ¶ 10:43 AM

  today got off to a bad start: i was tired and whiny because it was early, the pup drewled in my lap when we drove to work, at work we couldn't get an internet connection, and the cooffee machine was broken. can it be much worse than that?

after lunch a colleague from östersund came by to tell me we're going to get an assignment we've been waiting for. which means work all summer and no vacation. so i don't really know why i was happy to hear that news... but i was.

and the coffee machine has now been fixed, and the coffee machine fixer guy gave us lots of cookies.  ¶ 2:22 PM

  this afternoon the pup and i went down to the river to get a rose plant i'd seen. i brought a little spade to dig it up with, gardening gloves to be able to touch it and a bag to carry it home in. i felt very well prepared.

the pup ran around like a saab turbo, but he hasn't learned to break very well yet. so after a while he fell down the bank and into the river, and got up all wet. two minutes later we were standing face to face with a woodpecker. he was only about 10 m away, and at the same height as my face, talking like one of those yellow plastic ducks you have in a bathtub. we watched him for a "long time" (at least a minute), and then the pup wanted to get a closer look and scared him away. at the same moment as the woodpecker flew away an ugly looking mother bird with orange head and ugly voice and three kids swam out in the river and started to swim in circles.

i should have brought the camera...

anyway, i now have three little rose plants and a mental map where to get more if these little ones survive :)  ¶ 10:32 PM

  driving home from a friend yesterday night i heard a song on the radio:
i allready know who you are, i allready know your name, what i want to know now is how many centimetres you can take. is there room for a negro, is there room for a negro, is there room for a negro? (translated to swenglish by me)

at first i didn't understand. then i did. i must have been tired, because i thought it was quite fun.

sasoh had been at my friend's place all day, to play with his girlfriend leya while i was in a meeting. and in the evening i watched tv (miiillions of channels to chose between:) with two tired pups in my lap, while the human part of the family celebrated the end of school and the beginning of the long summer break (i want to go to school too, so i can have a 9 week vacation!!). when they came home we had strawberries and cream and cookies and talked and gossiped and then we looked at the baby-rabbits and then it was late and i went home and heard the weird song.  ¶ 9:59 AM

  yesterday a woman/girl called me to ask some questions for a survey.

first question: name as many car makes you can think of. i didn't count them, but after about 15 minutes of car-naming i was bored and pretended i didn't know any more.

second question: name as many clothes chains you can think of. i could only think of 4 (i've come up with 2 more after that).

third question: name as many suppliers of digital-tv you can think of. i could think of one.

i realised what a hillbilly i must be...  ¶ 4:29 PM

  sasoh was on his first date with his girlfriend leya today. they were so cute :)

and today has been the first cold day in ages. and i have liked it! i must be getting really really really old!

and now i really really really want some coca cola!

and i didn't leave work until 17.30 today!

and these two really really like each other :)
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  on the pup walk after work today i met a tiny mouse who stopped to have a little chat. we talked for a while while the pup was running around trying to look like a real big saluki. i was a bit afraid the pup would stomp at him if he met him, so i was trying to convince him to run away. fortunately the pup was too busy chasing shadows of butterflies to even notice the little mouse :)

at the school in the woods i found undressed trees. my stomach started tingling when i touched them. i can strongly advice you to try it too.

and now it's raining.  ¶ 7:29 PM

  it's too warm to think. and it's weekend. great, because on weekends i don't have to think anyway :)  ¶ 7:24 PM

  aaaoooooouuuuch!!!! i just hit my thumb with a hammer! the big kind! and i hit hard :( and tommy isn't here, so there's no use in screaming and shouting... :(  ¶ 6:21 PM

  it's been summer in sollefteå for almost ages now. or at least a week or so. the other day when i was walking the pup i met two young teenager boys with shorts, drinking beer and being cool. it looked so nice i wished i was a cool young teenager boy with shorts and a beer too!

yesterday was our nationaldag, and sollefteå's 90-th birthday. we celebrated by taking the pup for a swim in the river, where we met two of my soon-to-to-be-ex-colleagues (the pup stole their t-shirts, jumped on their blankets with his wet muddy feet and hugged them with his wet muddy arms. and they only laughed and said it was ok. i wonder if they were in a shock, or if they really really like wet dirty pups).

we also went to the park, to have free coffee and sollefteå-cake and listen to people singing and holding speeches. there was a cool mixture of people on our little spot of the park: there was us (= normal people), to our right we had very friendly and talkative alcoholic-looking people drinking beer and smoking pipes and cigars and sweet smelling cigarettes. to their right was a group of serious old teenagers/young adults having real lunch on plates. the girls had embroidered blouses and the boys had black summery serious shoes. and they had bags full of pins in different colours, probably with serious statements on them. in front of the serious group, and slightly to their right was a group of old, pale people with their walkers parked in the bushes. to the left of the old, pale people were three over-weight middle-aged women with flowery blouses, and to the left of them ( and in front of us) was a group of younger (and less serious) young people, with miniskirts and tights and long t-shirts with monkeys on.  ¶ 9:12 AM

  nice weekend: sunshine, summer temperature (during daytime anyway), the smell of apple tree flowers and lilacs, a friend of tommy's visiting, brunch in the garden, barbecue with another friend, rhubarb pie, breakfast in the sun, film in the garden, pic nic on the island with tommy's foreigner friends, kebab dinner outdoors with my swedish friends (:), the pup had his new poodle friend over to play, coffee outdoors in the evening, resting on the sofa, early to bed (hopefully). can it be much better than that?  ¶ 9:19 PM

  i just came in from a lunch walk with the pup.

at first he didn't want to walk at all, but preferred rolling around in the sun warmth grass:





then we had our first quarrel, when he wanted to eat something disgusting (and i didn't want him to eat something disgusting). so i ran away from him and sat down to wait around a bend in the path, feeling a little bit bad for leaving the baby pup alone in the woods (but i preferred that to having to touch the disgusting thing to make him spit it out):



when he had apologised we went butterflie hunting on a field:



and now we're back in the office, having coffee and frolic  ¶ 12:56 PM