tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308397972012-01-31T19:36:37.059+01:00<i>(adj.)</i> 1. proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern.Silmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14150840501817804646noreply@blogger.comBlogger9641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30839797.post-17858040956373178612012-01-27T22:00:00.000+01:002012-01-27T22:00:00.071+01:00

I have blocked Trish. I thought my puzzle mat was sufficient for any knitting challenge, but I actually had to be creative to handle this. Need two more packages.. 200cmx70cm.  If I wasn't so allergic to wool I would want one of these myself - as it was I got rashes from handling it. Nothing bad, but a reminder that I cannot fall for temptation and wear wool.  Pattern will come up in the

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I have gotten picture requests for the new furniture. When I get everything into place where it should be and rid of the empty packaging, I will take better photos, but here are some glimpses. Oh, and that green thing visible in the knitting pictures from the past few days? My new ottoman. Unlike the old it has no storage in it (neither does the sofa) but I will try to manage without :) Hard

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What do you want?! - I had been trying to get his attention to get a picture of him for a while.  He has one of the o-rings from when I fixed the washing machine as a new favourite toy, and I cannot resist messing with him. However, messing with him doesn't work, he just smiles happily.  Sausage cat has wrapped himself well.  Hello. I am here. I love you. And the computer. You

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Like so many others I just had to knit Escargot when I saw it. Now I am on the boring part (knitting stockinette in the round, forever and ever and ever) and I put it aside.

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Been playing with Evi for the past couple of days. It works well during early daytime - when it is still night in the US - but they are having some server capacity problems after a sudden onslaught of users. I am totally amused. The first three sentences we could not understand eachother very well, and the conversation was weirdly disjointed, but after that it straightened out - I worked on my

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It has been a while since I published one of my own patterns. This one, called Trish, will come up when it is done, hopefully this week, else in a few weeks (I will be busy in the interim). Yarn: M&K Mohair. Needles: 9mm (rek 5,5 mm). Will become: A rectangular shawl. You can see about a third of it in the picture. Unblocked as of yet as I am not finished, will post finished (or blocking, or

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I have been ill and mostly not knitting. As I have been getting better I have slowly picked up the needles again. The first days I was well enough to knit I made bracelets (the turquoise one is from an earlier batch). Yarn:  Drops Alpaca. Needles: 2mm. Garter stitch. Pre-threaded 4mm rocaille beads.

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I can finally show you this. Had to save it until after X-mas and it is only now I am well enough to even think of emptying my camera. Knitted as a gift to (mainly) Hanna W, who likes orange and red. Her bf can use it too if he wants. Or they can wrap themselves together in it, it is big enough. Cozy. Yarn: Samo. Needles: 9mm. Mostly garter stitch with some elongated stitches. Oh, and a piece

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I took very few pictures. I blame the rain and that I didn't want my camera to get wet. Kiasma is the Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki. We huddled in their cafe in the rain. It has excellent service, if somewhat dull food and bad tea (though better than the hotel!) The Ounce is a lovely tea shop where I spend way too much money (somewhere between 30 and 40e worth of tea in that bag -

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By now everyone should have gotten their cards, belated or not. So here is a (blurry) picture of the ones I made this year. I also had a stack left over from earlier. Childhood traditions creeping in: Lighting a new candle every Sunday of Advent.   I almost missed it! This was when I realised it. I actually looked at the moon during the full epclipse and thought "oh wow what a cool colour

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...and it is almost not visible, already being taken apart. Someone I know asked a question in FB. I think she asked if people notice (women's, I guess) nails. The answers ranged from on topic to people stating that women in their thirties and up shouldn't wear eyeliner or attempt that goth look or wear too much make-up. I found that very interesting. Especially the eyeliner part. I am a woman

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Not following me in G+? If you read my blog or know me otherwise, you probably should. And if you have a gmail account it is soooo easy. You don't have to share any info to follow others. Here is my profile page where you can see some of my posts (the public ones, unless I already have added you not only as someone I sorta know but a friend or family). https://plus.google.com/

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This is a somewhat undeveloped post because I am not sure what I want to say with it, really. It is about being fat. And about observing people having fun at what fat people look like. And thinking "Do you laugh at me behind my back, too?". For some reason I feel like writing down my history of fatness. Maybe it is a sort of defense, "this is the reason I am fat" - which might seem childish at

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I mentioned just before Christmas that I was having some sort of illness again - here are the dramatic details in short...: I had been coughing intermittently for about a week, including the trip to Helsinki (which was splendid!), and Dec. 20. I suddenly had a quickly rising fever after lunch. I went home and rested the evening, but the morning after I was worse. So much worse, in fact, that a

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So, the promised new look of 2012 is up. What do you think?

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As the year draws to a close I have got some nasty bug that keeps me with 2c of fever even after taking medicines that should lower the fever. I spend my lucid moments online, among other things reviewing my blog. Here is something which I think should be said again: Solitude

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I posted this on G+ earlier, but decided to add it here too.  I am going to go out on a limb here.. I have for several years been advocating against defining people, categorising them - it mostly appears when related to sexuality but far from absent in other situations. You have no idea how frustrated people get when they can't figure out the gender or age of someone - it is both amusing and

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My days nowadays mostly consists of work. New for this year is that during the autumn I was promoted to a manager position, for good and bad. I also seem to have contracted some cousin to the dreaded winter depression: I am too happy to be called depressed, but I have the other symptoms I associate with depression from personal experience. I pretty much only feel awake when the sun is shining.

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I very rarely have nightmares. Maybe some of my dreams would class as nightmares if another dreamt them, but I mostly find them exciting and interesting and enjoy the action. Waking from actual nightmares is a rarity, happening maybe once a year or more rarely nowadays. The night Fri-Sat (yesterday) I woke from a work-related nightmare, being told I was incapable of doing my job, should never

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While I am firmly atheist I have grown up with a bunch of traditions, so: Also, I knitted another bracelet:

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Hairdying in progress and the result. (PS: I was actually wearing a tank top on the first photo, but it isn't visible and it just looks all wrong. Sowwy.)

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I was so annoyed with the appearance of the blog that there is now a temporary look in place for the holidays, which should give me time to think. What do you think about it? No green at all this time.

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I changed the appearance of this place again, not liking the other one. Unfortunately I realised that I get dizzy if I scroll down the page with this background, so a remake is upcoming.

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The Christmas decorations are up in most shops. Some does it better than others.

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Discover. This was on request from mother, she wanted a turquoise one. I had already knit Explore (in the set I made for Carol) and Dream (for myself) when she pasted this quote and I asked her if she wanted Discover since I liked the coincidence of the words. ”Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the once you did so. So throw off the

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No igloos, no polar bears. Just mid-november flowers, late fruit left on the tree and a space invader.

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With a deadly crochet hook in my mouth, ready to defend myself. (I once got the hook stuck under my skin - it is pointy and sharp as a needle - and due to the hook it was rather difficult getting it back out. Not dangerous, not a drop of blood shed, but an interesting dilemma. That was when I decided it is a good weapon.)

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I framed three of the prints I have bought over the past five years or so by myself yesterday, in off-the-shelf frames. They (the prints) have been sitting around for 12-18 months, so about bloody time when it was this easy! Eleven prints to go. Seven of them I think should work in off-the-shelf frames as long as I can have custom passepartouts cut for them, the last four will (probably) need

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I fell in love with this chair (Lady by Homeline) on the internet quite some months back. When I finally got to test sit it I liked it even more. I want one, in the lime green velvet. Not as my primary chair, for that I want a recliner of some sort, but as a neat little secondary chair that doesn't take up too much space but looks great (beautiful lustrous green!) and is damn comfy - I think

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Today I went through the terrifying experience of being taken too seriously by health care staff. By "too seriously" I mean that it was scary and overwhelming and unexpected, not that they shouldn't have done what they did. Long story very short: In the morning I went down to my local health care center for an appointment to check out a cold that I have had to and fro for over five weeks. The

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I knit another item in the out-of-production (but oh so lovely) yarn Silk Embrace from Artesano. You can still (as this is written) get a few of the colours at a discounted price at Torgstenen, go go get it! This is the colour "Fandango", about 1 + 1/3 of a ball. Pattern (this is a quickie, ask in the comments if you are unsure what I mean):  I cast on 60 stitches on 6mm needles, and then

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I seem to write most of what is interesting in g+, actually dropping in activity levels here. Add me (and send me a comment about it if you want me to re-add you and you think I might not know who you are) to follow. Most of my posts are public, some random ramble that would normally wind up here is shared only limited.

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My acquiantances (and alot of them former colleagues) over at footway.se has a competition where you can win 12 pairs of shoes. I am pretty damn sure being a known to them disqualifies me, so I won't participate, but I promised to spread the word. GO HERE.

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Acupuncture. Acupressure. Acutorture is the third.

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I have a few coupons left that gives 500 sek discount on glasses from Lensway.se. They expire the last of october so I am handing them out rather freely now. They are also valid for a 500nok/50E discount through customer service, goes for the countries the company sells eye glasses in in northern europe. Interested? Give me a shout and dig up your prescription... And get a pair for each day of

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...messing with the layout here the past few days, or rather, I have been messing with the colours. If you drop by often you will have seen about 6 different backgrounds and colourways. What do you think right now?

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The yearly crayfish-gorging party at work had a wild west theme this year. I brought a horse. Meet Brownie. 

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What's a nice girl like me doing in a place like this (A5, lined) Elephant (A6, unlined) Floral (A6, unlined) Wallpaper (A6, unlined) Two cards snuck in in the upper left. All notebooks A6, unlined. Dull women have immaculate houses, Culinary masterpiece, Pink circle, Complaints to the cook, Grocery store, Let's do lunch. 

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You can imagine it, Best friends, Someone special, Discover. Eat it it's good for you, Java Queen, Memories, Those were the days. Shared happiness, Devoted friend, Inspire, Friendship. Real men wear aprons, Butterfly, Dance till you drop, Follow your dreams. All of the above 16 cards are 6" (15cm) square.  Six smaller cards (12cm x 9cm appr.): Off we go, Sweetie pie, Hello,

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Aphids took over and I let everything die out after these photos were taken. My asters turned out to be late bloomers, not flowering until september. Guess if I hadn't gotten a bug problem I would have had flowers long past snowfall! 

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Upside down floor lamp (99 SEK at Ikea if you like the idea - It looked surprisingly good and what started out as a prank seems to now be a permanent fixture... but the other stuff had to come down.)

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Tuesday was spent with my department - the autumn's kick-off. The day was mostly spent doing serious stuff (those pictures are mostly boring) - but in the evening we got us some drinks. The first one is my boss' attempt to cure my cold: 50/50 lemon juice and whisky. I gave it away, couldn't drink it. Sour! Strong! Ew. 

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Linus confused - what is he doing? Then as realisation is slowly dawning: He is licking Linus's fur! .. unfortunately I didn't get a shot of when Linus screams "Cooties!!" and bats at Ådi.

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Realised after the fact that my nails looked like my scarf, and then of course I had to document that silly fact. This is from sometime early august.

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Swiped from my cousin at FB; dunno where she got it:"Stress is what happens when your gut says No No No and your mouth says Yes, I’d Love To." Or, in my case: "Of course I'll have the report ready by tomorrow morning!" at 4pm. In other news: I have a camera full of pictures for ya'll, I'll try to get some of them posted during the weekend, if I have a weekend instead of a continued week (likely

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For quite a while I used the nick Shttldrgn on IRC - I remember GM:ing role-playing games when Columbia crashed, and sometimes getting silent and distracted reading newsthreads online and my players clamoring for my attention. Anyway, I want this tee. Wish it came as a hoodie, that would be perfect in a darker grey or black! Link here.

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Here is the full post.

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They actually are friendly enough to sleep in the same chair. Unless Ådi tries to lick Linus in which case Linus screams COOTIES, YUCK! and tries to bat Ådi away.

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Automatic cat laser toy. Automatic cat string toy. Automatic cat mouse-under-blanket toy.

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Too much coffee, every day and all the time. Withdrawal symptoms (headaches and bad mood). Smoked a cigarette last week and it started the cravings all over again, after 6 years (weak girl). Too much shopping (retail therapy?). Not enough effort at work (lazy bitch). Too much food and not enough exercise (fattie me). Some of these are easier to correct than others.

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I did get to go to Sthlm Pride anyway. Spent the evening there, while they played horrible music. We drank champagne and hung out in a VIP lounge before doing the rounds of the festival area. Lovely evening, thanks dears!

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Here is the first autumn fashion of 2011 from the Yarndragon: Illusion This is, as you probably guessed, not a sweater. It is a fake polo. A tubed scarf, a snood with a bib. It does the job of a scarf, while looking like a sweater, having no flying ends in the wind, and, best of all, it makes sure no cold air gets to the part between the scarf and your low-cut top. I actually knit it for wearing

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I really like weird stationary. Post-its with origami prints or weird sayings, nice pens, and other random stuff like this: Itsy bitsy coloured pencils in a little case, just a bit bigger than a credit card. Perfect for my bag and much beloved. From Muji.

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Stockholm Pride Festival begins today. I doubt I will have time to actually go in to the city this week, but hey, I can at least show some opinion through my nail polish? :) "Traditionally" (ie the past three years) I have had different coloured outfits all week, with matching make-up. Turquoise, Green, Pink, Red, Blue. Somehow I doubt any of my coworkers actually understood the symbolism ;)

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Made from a square of paper (piece of post-it) less than one inch across:

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Have you ever played the flash game called Bloons? Here. There are a bunch of sequels too in case you get hooked - we played it at work one easter back in oh, must have been 2007, had a little tournament. 

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This is from saturday a week ago, when I cut some flowers from the "garden", and lit a candle indoors. I realised during the week that the one place I did not post a youtube link to a specific song was here on the blog. Both G+ and FB and IRC got the link saturday the 23rd mid-day. Here you are.

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I finally gave up and ordered a dishwasher. It will arrive end of next week.  Import food: Fish cakes and Hansa.  Dinner the day after, trying to compensate for the Fried Food overdose. A glimpse from my living room too. A cool lamp. I might actually move it to the kitchen, haven't decided yet. It  feels a bit small in this big room. 

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Yesterday a rightwing extremist in Norway killed more than 90 people (the number is expected to rise). A few were killed by a bomb in Oslo centrum, but the majority were youth gunned down at a summer camp.  You can read the news for more details, but it is all fairly horrid.The island were the summer camp was held belongs to a political youth organisation, and when they don't use it they rent

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Poppies for socius. They are fairly stunted, but surprisingly beautiful and ethereal in their fragileness.  There were spider mites on some of the 4o'clock, and they seemed immune to everything I sprayed them with. Thus, there are no more 4o'clock on my balcony - I cut them all down :( ..Easy way out, to be honest. This one was funny, all speckled in different colours. Normally they

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Just won the Big Ben picture at an auction. YAY!

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I sorta fell in love with this a bit more than a year ago. Here.

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xkcd analyses colour.

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Because people (including myself!) seem forever confused about whatever I would want when it becomes time to name wish lists, I decided to compile a wish list here, with the tag - wishlist. Here are the first few items: - Knitting needles. Specifically these. - Flying! I love flying. Balloon trips, parachute jumps, flying lessons, etc! - This picture is called "Big Ben" and is by an artist

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Copied my first public G+ post to post it here as well: So, now I am here on G+. Going to be interesting to see what it works out to be. In a way I hope it will be the end of FB, which I have never really liked but felt forced to join to not become a total reclusive. Maybe it will not become the new place for all social networking though; maybe it will be a place for information more than pure

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In inverse order: Ordered five new books to read that won't arrive until a week hence Read 4 books in 3 days (fantasy books of the fluffier kind) Rebuilt my bedroom (moved furniture, took apart the bed frame, added new lighting) Spilled ice tea over my laptop which nearly killed it Cat-sat for almost a week Turned my day around somewhat; sleeping till 9-10am and being up till midnight

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They actually have become fairly ok friends now, getting into trouble together, generally hanging out in a friendly fashion and playing in non violent ways most of the time. A few seconds before they were hanging on one side each of the tree, but I was too slow to catch that.

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I was right. There was one, hovering right outside.

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Nestor and Nemesis are here. In the photos it looks as if Linus is always sitting on top of the tree looking angry, but this is not the case, most of the time he is snoring in the sofa or an arm chair :)

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I have been thinking about lace knitting, and about doilies and table cloths of the kind that, well, my mother's generation and those older knit and crochet, mostly in pastel colours. And so I was pondering this, and I decided I wanted to knit myself a little table cloth (or actually, as large as I would have patience for), but I would spice it up with kitschy neon colours. And while suffering

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How could I have missed this?

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In addition to slowly reading through "To Room Nineteen", mostly at meal times, I am listening to a book called "Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science" by a guy called David Lindley.

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I found myself amused, glancing out and seeing this image of domesticity. Laundry drying on the balcony, curtains up (first time since december in any room!). Now for the real garden report:  I found this growing along the bottom of the little wilderness and poking out at one side. I don't know what it is - yet.  Zinnia. Same as yesterday - it is gaining petals! More zinnia.

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The 4'o clock has a myriad of flowers and they all look different. I am mostly fascinated by the shape of the flower before it opens, the perfect symmetry. Also I find it interesting that they tend to be speckled. The evening sun over Sthlm. 

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The cornflower especially was trying to take over the rest of the balcony too, so I made a string fence around it.

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Been drinking beer. I am supposed to photo document what I drink, so I can remember what I like and what I hate. I mostly forget to do so, this was the third beer that day and the only one remembered. Linus likes his tree, and has now moved in on the top shelf as well. The lower shelf is a place for resting and cuddling, the upper one is for playing and attacking.  During day my balcony

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Unusual need to share today. Or maybe an influx of excellent links? Translation tool for species! 

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Just when the horizon was turning pink with the coming day, I was woken by loud babble in a Far Eastern, so far unidentified, language. It was like being in the same room as four people of mixed genders talking and laughing loudly. When I could orient myself, I realised it was the neighbours to the east, on their balcony. I struggled into my bathrobe and stumbled out onto the balcony, thinking to

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While waiting for my physics-audiobooks to 'arrive', I have been listening to Harry Potter. The first book and about half the second, so far. The voice reading them has a nice language; but his tendency to pronounce k's very sharply (black-k-k!) is beginning to get to me, and I really dislike and disagree with his interpretation of the tone of the characters. I doubt they all speak with whiny

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Time for the start of four weeks off work. Hopefully that means I can get something done at home (like clearing out the closet). If nothing else I plan to get a whole lot of knitting done! But first: Time for the first whojito (bastardised mojito with whisky) of the year. Happy midsummer!

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And Linus in the morning sun behind my back in the chair.

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I hope the other seeds will come up as well...

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Hillary is a nice guy. He makes sure noone feels left out in the group, not even the fish. By the way, never go to a restaurant called Stavros close to Medborgarplatsen (by the steps heading towards Södra Station). Horrible horrible service. Worst I have encountered in many many years.

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Cornflower, rainy weather, more mirabilis buds, Linus.

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The Yarndragon is happy today, although it is raining (I really want sun, seeing as we planned a picnic with work for tomorrow...) I finally got fed up with tangled yarn, trying to wind it into usable balls on my own this friday so I placed an order for a yarn tree and a winder here. Today it arrived - very prompt dispatch, I am happy. And I totally love my new toys, of course.

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The cornflower won.

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