i'm full of mosquito bites and ant bites. i just don't understand why we can't all live together in love and harmony!  ¶ 9:22 PM

  i can't really decide whether to have a headache or not. maybe i'll go out and water the poor dying löjtnantshjärta while i think about it.  ¶ 8:00 PM

  i'm not ready for another monday!!!

i've had a nice and productive weekend, though. yesterday i worked in the garden. i moved a tree and some of the sweet hairy flowers, watered and watered and watered, turned the weed garden into a vegetable garden with (hopefully) ruccola, carrots and broccoli. and my seeds have started to grow! both the spinach and the flowers. seeds *are* my cup of tea after all!

today the pup and i went to another doggy show. the judge said he was beautiful and masculine (they all do) and he got another lilac bow to show his girlfriends. it really is extremely boring though... when we got home we barbecued on the balcony. nice. and i remembered to call the mother. one of the sisters had made a fancy dinner. everyone was there except for me. i wasn't even invited :(  ¶ 9:15 PM

    ¶ 6:17 PM

  i'm digging and digging and digging and watering and watering and watering in the garden. my garden. very soon i will have to stop and have a bath.  ¶ 5:04 PM

  i'm back home.

i was supposed to stay at the c's sunday night, but i had told him the wrong date and he turned out to not even be in the right country. so i went to the parents to sleep instead. but first i met the sister in the royal capital. we had dinner, and met the funnest and friendliest waiter i've ever seen. then we decided to go to the cinema, and found one just in time to see something about las vegas. after that it was suddenly late. i had time to sleep less than 4 hours.

monday and tuesday i was at steningevik, learning how to be a good consultant. if you ever get a chance to go there i can strongly recommend it. it was beautiful! and they had the wonderfullest bread i've ever had. i even dreamed about it at night. and the pillows were comfortable, and the curtains were sweet, and there were sweet little books placed here and there and everywhere.

and now i'm home and it feels great :)  ¶ 6:52 PM

    ¶ 7:04 PM

  today: sunshine, snow, rain, snow, hail, snow and hail, hail, hail, snow, rain, rain, RAIN... and i made the first rhubarb pie

and

there are a few things i think are essential in a garden:
1. rhubarbs
2. apple trees
3. lilacs
4. big rocks

except for the big rocks we have them all. i have a favourite rock not very far away in the woods though, and i have decided it belongs to our garden :)

of course i also love the roses, crocuses, bird cherries, thistles, nettles, dandelions and everyone else. as long as it's alive and in our garden i love it.

the newest member of our family is the husband's gooseberry bush. and my löjtnantshjärta (two semi-essentials). i hope all the snow didn't shock them...  ¶ 9:15 PM

  wiho! the husband is a kind one! i had a horrible glass of a horrible healthy drink and now i'm allowed to have coca cola while i look at lost. nice :)

but i'm going to miss doctor house :(  ¶ 8:51 PM

  i've been *so* house wife-ish today!

i went grocery shopping after work (i even got milk!). i also bought a birthday-bush for the husband, as i was too tired and selfish to give him a birthday present for his birthday... when i came home i cooked dinner without any help at all, while the husband was on the phone (as you know i *never* cook. ever.) after dinner i planted the husband's bush and millions of seeds that came by mail last week (i'm bored of seeds now. not my cup of tea at all). *and* i baked kanelbullar! the husband said they were the best kanelbullar he had ever had (but i guess he would say that even if they were horrible... it's his job to encourage me).

soon it's doctor house. i love him.  ¶ 8:51 PM

  the pup and i had a busy weekend. friday after work we went to söderhamn with the i and two of the girls, to prepare for a lure coursing test and a doggy show. when we were done preparing we went to our hostel, and drank some wine and talked and ate blueberry muffins. the three dogs decided to share my very tiny and hard little bed with me, even though there were lots of empty beds available. (the day after we were told we had spent the night on the man-floor. i'm sure the woman-floor had nice soft big fluffy beds. and clean toilets. and roses in pots. huge mistake!)

saturday we went up early for the final preparations. then we lure coursed and doggy showed and carried things back and forth and talked to doggy people and looked at dogs and pointed out directions all day. the pup was too young to lure course with the real dogs, but he got to do a test-run when the big ones were done. his girlfriends did well in their races, and one of them was the second best in field! she got enormous piles of prizes.

sunday the pup and i went to a doggy class with the a-b and the princess l. it was really a two-day class, but we thought it would be better to miss only half of it than to miss it all. we had great fun, and the pup had half a kilo of meat balls. and the teacher said he was perfect. of course he is!

after that we were just tired. i still am. the pup is not.  ¶ 5:43 PM

  i want to have the same job as the man on our tv! he's a "nature observer", and walks around in the woods following the tracks of a wolf. i want too! like going for long doggy walks during working hours. how much better could it be?  ¶ 8:44 PM

  help! the teo cat has worms! and i only have anti-worm-pills for dogs at home! and the pharmacy has closed! panic!! i wonder if i could give him to a neighbour? or if he could sleep in the garage until i've dewormed him..?  ¶ 6:50 PM

  tjohoooo, life is great! i'm done! as soon as the computer is done pdf-ing a document (which means in about 15 minutes or so) i can go home! with a little help from the husband and the reliable home-computer the eps-files were finally created. and with a little angry-talking and rough hands framemaker finally gave up and let me have it my way. sweeeet!

by the way: when i went shopping a dinner-sandwich i overheard a sulky little bored boy saying to his father "äsch, jag går och tittar på leksakerna". i thought that was cool.  ¶ 7:23 PM

  right now life sucks! i'm not allowed to create eps-files. the stupid framemaker won't cooperate. and i just realised that the files i managed to create earlier are probably wrong. and it's getting late. i suck at this!  ¶ 7:00 PM

  gaaaaah! i don't understand this! is framemaker really supposed to be this slow? and why am i not allowed to save eps-files? and what did the grey little man who just came to visit me in my office want? and why am i not at home relaxing right now??  ¶ 5:21 PM

  and: today is the galdor cat's birthday. and it's been a year since we went to get the pup  ¶ 8:05 PM

  right now it's difficult to believe it has ever been winter.

and i have to find a way to not have to work so much. i don't have time to spend my life in front of a computer! i have a hen house to paint. and plants to plant. and dog walks to walk. and sun to sit and relax in. and nice stones to find. what to do?!

but two of my colleagues helped me emptying an office with a window today, and as soon as i have time enough i will start moving in. i will get my very own view!  ¶ 7:55 PM

  i want to win this. but how? i just have to tell them why i should win it. but why should i? everyone should win a pool!  ¶ 9:27 PM

  the pup broke a nail the other day. apparently it hurts me more than him. silly

today we had summer in sollefteå. the husband has been raking almost the entire garden and i started painting the hen house. and we had waffles in the sun. and the sheets are hanging to dry in the garden. i even started picking some weed and grass from the flower bed. but i soon started feeling like a gardening hitler, so i stopped. weed and grass are welcome in my flower beds! i'm so proud of all the maskrosor and thistles and nettles that have started to grow, and i *so* love lifting piles of dead leaves and finding pale green grass growing under it. even if it happens to be in a flower bed.  ¶ 8:23 PM

  right now there's a very sweet boy on our tv, telling how he is using his one year old sister as his private journal. he can talk to her about everything, because she understands everything he says and feels. sweetheart!  ¶ 10:36 AM