i want chocolate! noooow!  ¶ 12:24 PM

  computer says:

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well... do i? what a silly question. of course i want to change the global normal template! :)  ¶ 9:04 AM

  firsts

yesterday the pup lifted his leg while peeing for the first time. we're going to celebrate that this weekend :)

tonight was the first night with sore throat in almost a month. i'm not going to celebrate that at all!

today was the first morning with frost in the grass and ice on the car.  ¶ 8:15 AM

  i have a lot to do at work at the moment. so i really should be working every minute i can. but somehow, the more stressed i am the more time i seem to think i have to do unimportant things... like this test, for example. i found it on the blogg of an ex-colleague, and of course i had to do it. it also turned into a big competition at work. so far i'm the most norrländsk of us (74%), and the r is the least (22%) :)

update: the winner of the who's the most norrländsk competition (so far): the l, with 81%.

update 2: the winner of the who's the most norrländsk competition (so far): the j, with 90%!!  ¶ 1:02 PM

  i met both the a-b and the u yesterday. nice :)

they a-b is so cool. she knows the names of several different animals and things that i just call "birds", "mice" and "berries". she told me about a bird with a fun name that crashed into her window, and about a big mouse with an ugly name that sasoh caught in the woods. i imagine the world must look different when you know the real names for things... i'm going to study our bird-book this winter!

the u brought us a chocolate cake that her husband had baked. i want to be adopted by her family! (not just because her husband bakes wonderful chocolate cakes :)  ¶ 8:26 AM

  the office is empty again. yesterday the hunters were back from the woods, and loud laugther was coming from the coffee room where they were telling each other hunting stories. but today it's quiet and empty again... but i'm having lunch with the a-b and the pups today, so i have something to look forward too :)  ¶ 11:34 AM

  the pup did well in puppy class yesterday. i was impressed. he's going to be a star :)

today is the mother's birthday. i'm probably going to forget to call her... and i guess it's too late to send her flowers?  ¶ 8:42 AM

  the pup is asleep, looking like a sweet little baby dinosaur. but in only 10 minutes i will leave him to have lunch, and then he's going to turn into a destructive monster pup. how did that happen? he used to be so sweet...  ¶ 11:19 AM

  the pup killed the cable to my keyboard and the enormous cable that's necessary for making the table go up and down (a much appreciated function) in my office at work. not a good puppy! today he will have his first lesson in the puppy class. i hope it will help!  ¶ 10:19 AM

  update on today's outfit: i've managed to avoid meeting the others quite well today by having my coffee and lunch later than usual and rushing into the kitchen to get whatever i need and then run back to my office to eat it. but five minutes ago i had my first comment on the pyjama-and-enormous-pink-cardigan-outfit. it was the nice and polite j who said "are you cold today?".

getting to know the j i think i can interpret that as "what were you thinking!?". (in riga he said that i looked "sweet as a midsummer night's dream" when i was wearing my mary poppins skirt, so you see what level he's playing at :)he's probably the kindest person i've met!)  ¶ 4:01 PM

  help! i don't know what i was thinking this morning. probably nothing... somehow i thought it was a good idea to go to work in my pyjamas with the horrible enormous long cardigan on top (which i don't even wear at home, because it looks so ridiculous). so now i'm trapped in my office and can't even go and get coffee, in case anyone should see me.

note to myself: don't ignore the alarm tomorrow! get up early even though it hurts, so i don't do stupid things like this again.

the good part of it is that i'm very warm and comfortable, though :)

at the å's request, here's a picture of today's outfit...:

  ¶ 8:56 AM

  if anyone had wanted to buy the pup yesterday they would have got him for almost no money at all.

i couldn't bring him to work, as i had to go to a meeting at a client's. the husband had a long lunch though, and went home to take the pup out for a walk and keep him company for a while. after that he had to be alone for another three hours before i could get home. in those three hours he peed six times and pood twice. in the house. not very much fun at all to get home to. i suppose he's becoming a teenager now :(

thursday evening i'm going to a meeting to plan a puppy class.

monday i went chi-balling with the s, the å and the c. great fun, even though i had a head ache. i chose a blue ball that would give me my inner strenght back. the funnest part was when we got to pretend we were trees in a storm! yesterday i convinced the s to come with me to the karate. it turned out karate isn't good for people with bad feet. i hope she woun't get scars for life...

oh, i almost forgot: when i called the a-b and complained about the pup's behaviour she told me her beautiful angel-pup had chewed up an armchair when she was left alone 15 minutes. so i guess our pup might not be that bad after all, considering he is a pup...  ¶ 8:37 AM

  i'm all the way back home! it's been great to visit my family for a few days, i seem to see them less and less lately. but it's really nice to be back home again too :)

my life back in sollefteå so far:
* friday evening i was tired after having spent all day on buses and trains, and it was really really cold, and tommy had turned on the heating earlier that day, and the evening started much earlier than i remembered. fortunately i was so releived to be home i didn't remember to be depressed.
* saturday i slept late, and then i went shopping and gossiping with the s. in the evening the s, the å and i rented the worst film we could find at shell.
* yesterday i had one of my productive days and painted and painted and painted all day long.
* today it feels good to be back to a "normal" day at work, even though there's a lot to do and not much time left. but i've realised i think that's kind of exciting. and my colleagues are so nice and sweet i feel happy just by walking past their offices on the way to the toilets :) after work the å, the s and i are going chi-balling. i want a red or a yellow one!  ¶ 4:10 PM