Petville

My first thought on creating a pet in Petville was definitely "oh no!"
I waste my time a lot more than it seems, and games are certainly no good when you want to do something productive. So why did I create a little monster to take up my valuable time despite knowing all this? Well, for once I had a really good reason.

I've been kind of homesick lately. I miss my sister and I miss my family. I hate sitting around on my own, wating, writing, gaming or just for the sake of passing time... Sometimes I even hate my computer. As I was home today visiting my sister, I realised SHE could create a pet for me. It would be a pet that resemble her, something that puts a smile on my face when she's not around. Also she's moving to France next month so I thought it could be something I can keep when she's gone as well.
Luckily she loved the cute pet-making-thing and soon came up with a nice pet for me to keep. We decided to call the little girlie bear "Torborg" as it is an old Nordic name she usually goes on about :)

It turned out really well, and it does put a smile on my face and I do see her in the creature made.

Here she is to the left, to the right you see my friend Bríd's pet Bran :)

Talkative me

I wish I knew how to shut up somtimes. I just got a phone call from a reporter who's going to write an article about me and my book, it's a person I should talk to and tell him all about my book so that he writes nice things about me. Only sometimes I do talk as if I've never met a person before in my entire life.
The thing is though, that everyone I know has already heard the story about me and my book and how I came to do these things I'm doing. They're not that interested anymore, understandably so ;) Besides, sitting at home all day isn't helping and the only people I seem to meet are all shop workers from when I go for groceries. Let's face it, I spend more than half of my days on my own being quiet and I'm a really talkative person who needs some company once in a while.

Still, though... I wish I knew how to shut up.

BOLO Message

It's weird how people manages to disappear sometimes. My friend is a prime example. He seems to have vanished in to thin air. A while back he was online almost as often as I was, now there's no sign of him so I figured I'll post this to tell everyone to be on the look out for him.

So if anyone has seen this nice, tea drinking American please let me know where he is! :)

The new old me

My blog got a little face lift today. It was about time too. That other blue, cold background has proudly retired and a new red, warm background taken its place.
I think I should mind these little things more often. It's nice to refresh certain things once in a while and it makes me feel good. I've been meaning to update the looks of the blog since a few months back, but I never seemed to get around to do so. I reckon it's a bit like saying I'll tidy my flat. I don't really want to in the beginning as it involves some work (yes, I can be terribly lazy sometimes) but once it's done I feel great! I doubt there's anything that beats that feeling!

Now that "Reflections" has been changed to the better, I should to the same to my flat. I'll get to work straight away... Or maybe tomorrow, or the day after that... :)

Christmas dreaming

One thing I really enjoy with winter time is Christmas. I enjoy being sneaky when buying, creating and wrapping gifts. I especially like all the smiles I get in return when I give the gifts away.

Right now I'm being sneaky as I have a great idea for a Christmas gift. The thing is that I can't tell you what it is, since the person I'll give it to is reading my blog. I have only a few more days to finish what I've started and that might take a little while... It's great fun though.

Yesterday I spent the afternoon with my sister and my mother, making Christmas cards. It might seem like a childish thing to do, but it was really nice to hang out, gluing things together and listening to some Christmas songs.

I even have a new favourite Christmas song... I'm posting it here to get you in the mood as well.
Be creative and have fun!

An electronical pile of pants

The suckiest thing in my life right now is this flippin' computer of mine!
All I really want it to write my novels on it, send a few e-mails (even though I'm bad at that) and occasionally listen to music while playing an online puzzle game. But do you really think it will let me?

I hate being in the middle of something when the computer decides to randomly shut down. It doesn't even need all that much, it gets overheated if I try to surf the web, have skype running in the background and listening to some music in my media player. I just don't know what to do with it.

My phone is the very same. It stopped working and it developed some sort of mean habit where it would decide when it wanted to let people ring me. I got to borrow my dad's phone after that and now a few weeks later I found that the sound on that has given up and I can never hear the alarm or when it rings as it doesn't want to tell me out loud!!

I've always loved electronics and I remember going to all the electronic's shops with my dad when I was younger looking at everything with him. But today I just don't think electronics wants what's best for me ;)

Frightened

I have to admit I was a little bit afraid when I went for the Swine flu jab earlier today.
It wasn't so much the possible side effects to the vaccine, it was merely the fact that I was afraid I'd make a fool out of myself. I do think this whole injection sting is very unpleasant... In the past I've half fainted after taking any jabs. I don't know exactly what happens to me, but it just goes black infront of my eyes and I find myself unable to see. That makes me even more scared and I thereby risk vomiting. Things I'm not very proud of. I'm supposed to be an adult these days.

Colm was there, of course, doing his best to keep me calm and not thinking so much about the needle in the waiting room.
As my turn came I went in to the room, all shivering. I decided it was best to tell the doctor how I felt and as I did he asked me to tell him about my concerns. It was nice actually, and when he realised I wasn't afraid of any side effects he also understood that the problem was rather small.
"If and when it happens, we'll take care of that as well." he said with a pleasant smile on his face.

And here I am now, almost ten hours later... And still alive.
... Obviously, since the sting I was so afraid of only lasted a few seconds :)