Saturday 28 June 2008

Lucia is bugfree and happy

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Sunday 22 June 2008

Rainy Midsummer Day...

...and Linus was smarter than me, and spent the day under the duvet. Today the weather has been quite nice though :)

Bloom

Hibiscus in the kitchen.
















The budding rose bloomed, with the sweetest scent. So glad I bought it <3
And another photo of my bedroom window ;)

Friday 20 June 2008

Wednesday 18 June 2008

Monday and Wednesday

Alright, what I didn't write in the last post because I had to run off to work, was that I went for a little walk to clear my head after the hospital, and wound up walking into shops... and buying stuff. Hah. Got paper napkins, scented candles (lemongrass, yay), normal but highquality tapers in white (since I had only ones in blue, green etc left and they sortof tend to annoy me unless they match other stuff, picky picky..), a new shaker since I broke the old one, incense, some pens and a diary for 08/09 since my old one is ending soon (yep, I am still stuck in the year that starts in august), and a washbag I probably didn't need but which I am convinced is superior to the ones I have. Hmf.

That was monday.

I am hooked on the Dark Tower series by the way. Have.. to.. read.. more.. NOW!

Today. Drafted Christine and her car to drive me, and went and got some plants for my balcony. Looks much nicer now. I still need a chair or something out there so I can sit there and read.. but I guess it will have to wait alittle.

Some pictures of what it looks like now. Just the one end obviously. The other end isn't as nice, it has a Narnia style lamp (except it is mounted on a wall) and a heap of planting-stuff, empty pots and the like - and my old potato-tree from last year, that is finally giving up I think. Guess I'll throw it away (or rather dry the wood and use it, and throw the twigs and the few leaves left away). New potato-tree sitting in a white pot by the wall, this year with white flowers instead of blue/purple. In black low pots, ivy (climbing up the wall) and yellow chrysanthemum. Then in a too shallow pot sits a yellow bush rose (closeup), and in the other pot sits a climbing rose, pink, thats sending an arm up the wall already.

Good thing I am staying at home all summer to care for my new friends!


Sunday 8 June 2008

Waiting for the plane back to Honolulu

Taken from the outside of our hotel room in Hilo.


















Sitting by a Japanese garden in Hilo making time pass. These are the last pictures I have from Hawaii. I have some of pigeons at Newark but they aren't really that interesting so I don't think I will post them.







Water!

I know this is excessive and they probably all look the same to you (but it's actually just 9 out of over a 100), but they don't to me. I recommend looking at the large versions. Look at all the shades of blue in some of them! Oh and Brian piling stones on my foot to our great amusement. Apparently people pay to have stones placed on them.








Saturday 7 June 2008

I still have...

...more photos from Hawaii and the trip home to go through and post, but I thought I would interrupt with an update from home too ;)

Got back here tuesday morning and went to work wednesday morning - jetlagged but still in a "whee" fashion, though I crashed in the evening. However during the day I developed a sore throat, and thursday it was worse. So yep, I got the worst cold I have gotten so far since last spring (was mercifully free of bad ones this winter). To make things better, the elevators are stuck, so its slightly bothersome to go downstairs to, for instance, buy honey, peppermint tea and juice. Today I am starting to cough as well, hope thats not something that is sticking around >:|

Linus came home yesterday, mother and S paid a brief visit early in the morning to hand him over but took off again, wanting to be out of here before the heat became too oppressive. I am glad my flat is facing due east, I get morning sun - enough to heat the flat so I don't get chilled during the day - but before noon the angle is such that I have no sun on my windows anymore, and thus I don't really get overheated.

Was supposed to go to Kajsa's party tonight but with my cold I'd better not. Neither me nor the others will benefit from it. If my current burst of activity persists, I might hang up curtains or organize the bookshelf (finally) - I suspect it might not though, yesterday I crashed sometime between four and five and slept until 0130 am. Fell asleep again around three (I think), after having "breakfast" consisting of the raspberry pies I made with the leftover filodough yesterday.
Still jetlagged in other words, completely on the wrong timezone. Or well, I guess by now I am somewhere in between, I am not 12 hours wrong, but around 6. Still annoying. Gonna try to stay up tonight, so I will sleep longer tomorrow.

Linus thinks the windows and the outside air are interesting. And my bedroom window. :)

Friday 6 June 2008

Akaka Falls

Another waterfall!













Black Sand Beach

In random order: Black volcanic sand, mongoose, a durkey (or tuck) which was totally pwned by the other ducks there though they were half its size, green turtles (turtles!), coconut palms. Edit: More turtles, I couldn't resist. Added on top because blogger sucks. Edit #2: In fact they were for some reason added randomly in the middle. Blogger sucks even more, since that doesn't make any sort of sense.