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Ever had one of those days you feel was very defining, that had you done this things might have been very different? I had one of those yesterday. Probably should keep it to myself, but tha hell with it…
When me and my last “girlfriend” (it’s a stretch to say that since we never got that serious) split it was under real good circumstances and both were totally cool about it and I even joked that next time we meet eachother at a party or something who knows. And I didn’t wanna mess with fate too much so I didn’t go out of my way to make that hapened. But that party was yesterday. Was I there? NO! For alot of reasons I said no to going out with a few of my friends and as it turns out they ended up at the same party. I have no idea what’d happened had I been there but as usual I wasn’t there to find out. I’m a dork sometimes. And I could ofc blame them for not giving me a call but that wouldn’t be right.
Oh well…
Today I donated blood. Again. For the 10th time. And when you hit that mark you get your first pin. Me so proud 🙂 Unfortunately it was a really bad day for the nurse who failed miserably at getting a good vein so my muscles are pretty sore and I’m bound to be a bit blueish tomorrow. Small price to pay I think.
And then the superficial part of me kicked in. The part of my brain I wanna turn off since it goes off on tangents with all kinds of crazy ideas and observations… don’t read on if you wanna keep on respecting me… I may very well be spoiled with all the beautiful women at work and in Stockholm, I just need to walk around the block and I’ll see atleast 10 gorgeous women… but I have yet to find the ward for beautiful women in hospitals. Seriously, where are they? Every time I’ve been to a hospital you may see a cute nurse or two but that’s it.. Why is that? Does it mean beautiful women have superior DNA and doesn’t get sick as much as the rest of us? Or is it because women aren’t that beautiful before they got their make-up on (which most of the women at hospitals haven’t bothered with)? Oh the great mysteries of life. To be continued…
Oooo, ice cream…
You know how sometimes you get so bogged up with your own issues and you check the news and realise that all your problems are small in comparison to the rest of the world.
Yesterday was the complete opposite! I chose to stay home and take care of some practical issues like changing locks and stuff in my apartment and blocking my old badges so whoever stole my jacket couldn’t get in either at work or home and all of these small things that I blow out of proportion and then I turn on the news and the biggest issue of the day was… why did Britney cut off her hair?… seriously, who the hell cares???
On friday we had one of those “pub evenings” at work, when people stay an hour or two after work, have a few beers and gets some snacks and just talk. Pretty fun stuff. After that we stayed a few hours more and played some poker, and then out and ended on O’Learys at the central train station in stockholm. Had a few beers and I started playing blackjack and everything was going swell. I won alot of money but after over an hour sitting there I had to go to the bathroom and when I came back someone had stolen my jacket. The jacket wasn’t the problem, it was my keys and my new mediaplayer (an iRiver Clix) that was in it that I’m most upset over. Right now I can’t even get to my car in the garage because the keys was in the jacket. Damnit, I hate stuff like that. Now I gotta take an afternoon off work to sort that out and then I gotta buy a new Clix for $300, not to mention a new jacket. That sucks… Careless for 5 minutes and that’s what happens…
However… if you know me you know I have a tendancy to be positive so… for some reason I didn’t have my wallet in my jacket which it is most of the time, and I didn’t have my cellphone or my commuting card in the jacket either. And I had the good fortune of having my brother there who just happened to have a spare set of keys so I could atleast get into my apartment. So… could have been worse!
Sorry, not much happening here at all. Life going on, doing my thing, contemplating life and the meaninglessness of getting up int he morning sometimes.
Not much to report…
Oh, redoing the photo gallery so it may be offline a bit. But when it comes back it’ll be better than before. I hope.
As I was playing I was also flipping around the TV channels without paying attention. It ended up on channel 5 that was showing some terrible reality show called “My Fair Lady”. Now you know how I feel about reality shows right? The point of this one was that they had like 4 or 5 girls from the… shall we say “adult entertainment industry” that they were gonna convert to serious actresses by having them do Shakespeare plays. I wasn’t really paying attention until one of them having failed a rehearsal of “Romeo & Juliet” and thought that she should do it her way and shoved her Romeo down on a chair and gave him a lapdance while doing the dialogue. It was pretty funny and the guy didn’t know what to do. And I can’t make up my mind if it’s bad or good TV. I mean, most actresses can be quoting Juliet but doing it while giving a lap-dance, that’s respect 🙂
This server has been acting very strangely in the past couple of days so I had to leave WoW for awhile to try to figure it out. Seems that someone had gotten access somewhere to this server and started putting up moves for download and that caused huge overload in this server. I removed all the files and hopefully capped the little security hole they go through and it should now work just fine
Yeap, I wasn’t joking around, every hour of free time has been in WoW but on friday I’ll ding 70 which is the max so after that it’ll be a bit easier. Last weekend I was so totally into it that I completely missed a blizzard that had swept over sweden last weekend with all the snow and all the minus degrees that I’ve been yelling for. I don’t like this cold but I like the fact that it’s cold.
The expansion to Warcraft was released today. Good bye.
(but before I go through the portal, here are the pictures from Italy)
Oh that was one of the best weekends of my life ! ! ! The background story : When I’ve played Warcraft in our old guild, “Evil Inc”, we had alot of italians. One of them was called “Dago” (real name is Mario). So now that our guild is kind of splitting up me and my buddy Mats decided that we have to pay him a visit seeing as we have been playing and talking to eachother over the internet for a year now. So on friday we started our journey to Milan…
Friday : After an uneventful drive to Skavsta we checked in. Knowing Ryan Air hates luggage we decided to only have one carry on with us each and they warned us about new regulations and bla bla, “whatever, I’ve done this a few times”… but oh no, now there are really strict regulations regarding how volume of liquids per container and all that stuff so they confiscated my shampoo, hairspray and stuff. And after that I walked 10 meters to the tax free and bought new stuff. Doh!
Flying down there was uneventful, found the bus into Milan and taxi home to Mario at around 9 pm. Then we decided to go out for a real italian pizza, a beer and just talk. Naturually it was one of the best pizzas ever and we had no problem talking about everything. Then we got home to his place at midnight. Great time to go to bed… NOT! Mario had called some of his students from the snobby school he works at and set us up at Milan’s hippest club where they had VIP passes. I don’t do the club scene that much but that was pretty sweet and they were great, but unfortunately you can’t talk that much. Came back at 4-4.30 something and tried getting some sleep but failed _totally_!
Saturday : After not sleeping at all it was time to get up at 11 for breakfast (and got served coffee in bed!). Then we went out to the shopping part of Milan where we found a huge, sweet cathedral and Mats went crazy with my camera ’cause he loves these things. And my own church – the Ferrari store! After some shopping it was time for lunch – best lunch ever! And after that we went out to his home town of Piacenza where we checked into the Holiday Inn and got an hour of sleep before we went to the next party! We met up with some 20 other warcraft players and some other randoms in a nice little restaurant outside of Piacenza and we sat down for a very long 4 dishes (and 4 hour!) long meal. It was so fun meeting all these people I’ve played with and the bizarroness of the situation, 2 clueless swedes with 20 crazy italians, half of which could barely speak english, it was just great fun. And the food was absolutely awesome! We got home at around 2.30 and this time I had no problem falling asleep.
Sunday: We got up at around 11 and got ready for another long day. We were all very very very tired so we stoped by a nice little street cafe for coffee and walked around the town for a bit, checked out the local cathedral and then we met up with some of the people from the night before for a little lunch. It was suppose to be little cause they said it was a “slice of pizza”. Yeah, it was a slice of a pizza – a 2 meter pizza!! And the crust was like an 3 cm. thick and 1/2 cm thick layer of mozarella all wrapped up in ham. Massive but oh what a feeling. Somehow everything tastes better in Italy 🙂
After that we went out to a little midevil tourist town and walked around in there for a while looking at swords and stuff we’d never get through customs, but it was nice anyway.
Then we went back to Milan to get the bus back to the airport. After the checkin and security screening and again being robbed of my shampoo and now even hairspray we were ready to get going home. But oh no, due to fog the plane had been redirected to it’s alternate airport so we had to take busses over there. That shouldn’t be a problem, right? but it took around 3 hours and we lifted off at 23:59:30 as opposed to 20:35:00! The reason I know it was 30 seconds before midnight is because the captain kept yelling that the aiport shuts down at midnight since it was close to a residential area and we had to leave NOW! And we made it with 30 seconds! Landed at 3 and got home and crawled into bed at 4 am, got up at 10 and went back to work!
Oh man what a weekend that was! It totally owned everything! The food, the company, the atmosphere, everything was just awesome!!!
(pictures coming soon)
After almost two years I’m going back to Italy today! Only for the weekend, coming home on sunday night. It’s a perfect example of just how social playing computer games can be – I’ve gotten to know a bunch of italians that I’ve played WoW with for about a year and now that our guild is splitting up and the WoW expansion coming on tuesday we thought “it’s now or never”. So now it is! So me and Mats are just about to leave now for a weekend that will be awesome!
And today I did something I’ve never done before – I passed the annual “let’s see if your car is road-worthy”. They have pretty high standards, MTV actually had a problem finding a car for “pimp my ride” since all cars were in such good condition due to this. And I’ve always failed on the first one, but that’s good cause you get a list of things that’ wrong and you go to the shop and say “fix it!”. But today it passed with flying colours!!
Had a weird dream last night. I don’t dream alot, or as far as I know anyway. For some reason I remembered alot of dreams when I was out travelling, but normally I don’t. But last night I had a really interesting dream that got me thinking. It was basically me waking up on my 14th birthday and changed some of the things in my youth and making my teens better. Some specific things in there but nothing I’m gonna go into. But it made me really think and consider if I could do things over and change stuff… would I, and would the outcome still be good? How many things in my life that are some of the most awesome things would never have happened. I wouldn’t have applied to college in Växjö if I’d known then what I know now. But if I didn’t do that, I might not have gotten the job at MinDator. And had I not worked there I wouldn’t have ended up at Pulsen and getting the job to travel the world. And I wouldn’t be here at the lawfirm either…
I don’t like dreams…
Sometimes when I write things here I don’t really think about exactly how other people will interpret it or feel about it. And as I was chatting with one of the girls I had dated last year I kinda realised how terribly special she must’ve felt about me saying “went through 3 girlfriends”. Didn’t really sound that good did it? And I don’t wanna be too nasty against the other two, but the only one that really had any affect on me was the last one, for alot of reasons. The other two didn’t work out and it didn’t really affect me that much and I don’t regret breaking it off. But I do regret not fighting more for the last one…
Anyway, been spending 2 days adding my diary entries for 2001-2004 now so you can all ready what pissed off back then. As always interesting flashback reading from when I was out travelling the world!
This weather situation is reallt gotten me worried man. I mean over the past 10 years the freezing cold & snow has arrived later and later every year but atleast it’s gotten freezing cold and we’ve had snow. So far this season I’ve yet to see the temperature go below zero and except for the blizzard in november and the 10 minutes of snow 2 days before christmas I haven’t really seen any snow at all. And it’s the 5th of january! I mean all of these “global warming alerts” have said we’re in trouble in like 50 years or something, but the way it’s now it’s gonna be in 5 years.
Every family has there odd little thing, habir or trait and ours became embarassingly obvious during the New Years Eve that I spent with my parents and sister. We were mostly just sitting around and enjoying the company and relaxed mood. And watching Vh1/Vh1 Classic and singing along to all songs, good or bad, old and new. Unfortunately there’s really no logical reason why I can sing-along to “I’m a Believer” but I can. And there’s really no reason why I know the videos so well that it took me one second to recognize the video for Lionel Ritchie’s “Dancing on the Cieling” but I did. One of these days I’ll stuff something usefull into that part of my brain…
That’s 2006 done with. Let’s do a little positive overview : I went through 3 girlfriends, had a blast at work, took myself out of the country twice, got my finances in order, lost a bit of weight and haven’t been to the hospital once (not counting my blood donations). A negative overview : I went through 3 girlfriends, only got out of the country twice, still don’t have a savings account, I’m still at 100 kg and I ended the year in a sad “where is my life going?” kinda way.
But overall 2006 was a good year that will mostly be remembered as the year of Warcraft for me. I would never say I wasted my time on it since it was so much fun and I made so many friends. I’m actually going down to Italy to party with a few of them. But it does feel like 2006 went by way too quickly and I could’ve, should’ve, done more with that year than playing a computer game that much.
So what does 2007 have in store for me?
What’s so weird about Christmas is how much I, and alot of other people, hate the build-up but totally enjoy it from 24th to 31st! The build-up is ofc, having to go through all your family tree checking who wants what, then doing the actual shopping and try to squezze your way through the stores and everything, and all the christmas decorations and stuff and ofc all the preperations at work planning the holidays and making sure all lawyers have remote accessibility… it’s all a big hassle! But from 24th I just shut everything out, go home to my folks and enjoy a few days of calm and just relax all the way to the new year! I took out 4 days of vacation and managed to get 12 days off from work which means alot of time with my family and catching up on stuff.
Hope you have a very merry Christmas!!
Check this picture. Then, check this one. Notice the small changes… I’ve never felt so vain in my life, photoshopping a picture of myself. But if I can, why not? I trust you’ve all seen this awesome movie-clip?
And oh, I back-tracked why this girl thought I was after a more serious relationship than she was – I told her why the previous reltionship didn’t work, because we had only seen eachother 5 times in 2 months which was a bit less than I wanted. But that didn’t mean I was talking about living together, did it? Oh well, I guess I’d better practice saying what I really mean rather than say half the story and let people fill in the blanks… I dunno why I do that, I shouldn’t be assuming people get my jokes just because my best friends get me and my humor. Like the title of this update, how many are so retro they know Carly Simon’s lyrics?
I have a little hard time getting over this latest break-up. Her reason for breaking up, and she did take the initiative as always, was that she wasn’t at the moment after as a serious relationship as I was. I totally disagree with her on that point ’cause I wasn’t after a serious relationship that’d mean we’d see eachother every day or live together. But that’s not what’s bugging me…
What’s bugging me is my reasons for breaking it up. Even though it only was 6 years difference between us, it felt like it was more sometimes. She was on the wild and crazy side, spontaneous, partying, have to try everything, restless, “damn the consequences”-kind of person… And I’m not. The problem is, and this is a killer to realise… I used to be all those things and somewhere along the line I lost those qualities! When I was 25 those things would have described me so well! And this is why I liked her in the first place – she had so many qualities that made me go “I so get her!”. But somewhere along the line, probably as a result of my world tour or maybe it was me turning 30, but I grew up and lost those qualities. How tha hell do I get them back!!! I loved those things about me! All of a sudden I feel so very old and boring! Give it back!
It’s 5 days before Christmas. Every intelligent person knows the story, they’ve been here before. So I gotta ask this question this year again … how tha hell can the arrival of snow cause delays for the trains? I mean who did NOT consider the possibility of snow today? How can they be caught off guard – again? I get pissed everytime it happens. 20 minute delays because of some snow is just rediculous. Fortunately I wasn’t in a hurry to get home…
Speaking of being in a hurry – I bought a new electric toothbrush last week. It has a cool function – every 30 seconds it stops and starts again. This is to indicate it’s time to change side since you’re only suppose to brush 30 seconds on each side totally 2 minutes. Nice feature. And I’ve never been so stressed brushing my teeth ever as I am now.