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Yesterday I did some online shopping at jotex.se. Here’s the result.
5 m x 140 cm of this fabric which I’ll sew curtains of.
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Time flies. Summer came, stayed for a while and is now about to leave again. I’ve been busy living, doing the usual things but in the warmth of the green and blue season. I think I’m back to blogging now that summer is over but don’t take my word for it. After all I’ve made such promises for months now without getting more than a maximum of six posts up every month. Anyway, we’ll see what happens. Moving on! 
I turned 27 the 29th of July and I promised I’d show you photos of what I got so here we go. Besides these things I also got money.
Rug which fit my kitchen perfectly.
Movies: Bridget Jones Diary, Push and Chicago.
Books: Drömmarnas flod (River of Dreams) by Gay Courter and Alltid Amber (Forever Amber) by Kathleen Winsor.
I wanted a cake with strawberries so my family made me one. Strawberries is a must when your birthday is in the summer.
Another lovely thing that happened this summer was the trip to Stockholm I did and the cruise I went on. The 4th of August I took the train up to Stockholm to visit my friend Milla and on the 6th I met up with my family for a one night cruise to Finland. You can look at the photos here.
As you can see the Happenings gallery is up and running again. It’s my photo blog where photos of the things I do will end up. That means everything from parties to walks in the nature. Photos of the latest stuff I bought and such will still be shown here in the blog.
Other than that today is a big day because it’s my first day of school this term. This fall I’ll study 3D modelling, Graphic design for the web, Information Technology and Swedish working class history. The first three classes are more or less related to web design but the last one is purely for fun. Contrary to most people I find politics very interesting so I’m really looking forward to this class. Studying graphics will be great as well since I’m ok at the coding part of web design but suck when it comes to creating graphics.
Anyway, that’s all for now. I want to finish this with thanking those who stick with me and my blog even though I so rarely update it nowadays. Lots of love to you.
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Today is my birthday and I’m now twenty-seven years old. I like the sound of that. Twenty-seven. It sounds rather grown up don’t you think? Good thing it does because I don’t look grown up and quite often I don’t act like I am either. 
It’s 1 AM and I’m at my parents house. They’re coming home today after spending eighteen days in the northern Sweden visiting relatives. I’ve been spending a lot of time here while they’ve been gone, watching their 90 channel cable TV, downloading stuff with their fast internet, enjoying berries straight from their garden, eating their food and ice cream. 
I’m not sure whether we’ll celebrate me today or tomorrow. Depends on what time they’re home and how tired they are I guess. The fridge is rather empty and unless they pick up a cake on the way home there’s nothing suitable for a birthday celebration in the house.
I’ll be back with a blog post once I’ve got my presents. It’ll be another “look at my new stuff”-post which I’ve been so fond of lately.
Plugs: Sam, Angie, Rachel-Rebecka, Nadia, adastra, Ashley, Deanna, Olivia H., Malin, Veronica, Marina, Grace, Tin, Becca, Sean, Trina, Lady, tiff k, Rachel, Erica, kitty, Wayne John, Justin, Ashley, Arwen, Fatima, Shaina, Alyssa, Ria, Karin, Nikkole, Pim, Isa, Afef, Melle
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Some of you might remember that Whirlwind used to have a art gallery. I took it down last year after major remodelling of my site and haven’t had the motivation to re-code it to fit the new code until now. For several hours this morning I’ve worked on putting together a new art gallery. It’s the same old art but I’ve also added a couple of photographies. I’m no photographer but when you take thousands of photos every year of anything and everything you’re bound to snap a few that actually looks good. Going through my photo folders I found seven… That is a pitiful number considering the total number of digital photos I have but mind you I haven’t gone through all of them and mind you again most of my pictures are taken at drunken parties and aren’t really suitable for a serious art gallery. But don’t you worry if you really wanted to see me and my friends making arses out of ourselves. My next project is to get the Photo Blog gallery up and running again. That’s where stuff like that will end up.
Anyway, have a look at the new creativity gallery which holds my art, furniture design, sewing and photography.
Plugs: Olivia H.
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Last week I was feeling bored so I decided to go to Kalmar for some shopping. You probably see where this is going. Yes, this is in fact another “look what I bought” post. 
Picture frames.
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It’s 2 PM and I’m at my parent house. For the first time in days I’ve woken up at a somewhat decent time. By decent time I mean 1 PM compared to the regular 4 PM. This whole having nothing to do during the entire summer sure has changed my sleeping pattern. When I don’t need to go to bed before 12 AM I simply don’t and yesterday for example I stayed up until approximately 7 AM. It’s a very bad habit that’ll have to change in about a month when school starts.
Oh yeah, I didn’t tell you. I got into several uni classes this fall so I’ll continue my studies. I’ve accepted four 7,5 point (full time studies is 30 points) courses but I’m still a back-up to a couple more which I hope I’ll get into after the second acceptance answer. Since you can apply to a maximum of twenty courses people are bound to get into more courses than they need and therefore give up their spot in some to backups like me. Even though I was stupid and forgot to apply in time and therefore only could get in at all as a backup I still got into more courses than I needed and had to turn two down. So, I’m at least hoping for the one I’m backup number two on which happen to be what I most want to study of all the twenty I applied to. Surely two people who got in will turn it down.
I’m ending this with photos of some early birthday gifts I got from my friend Milla. My birthday isn’t until the 29th but I got the gifts when Milla was in town which doesn’t happen that often since she lives some 30 (european) miles away.
Skull antislip stickers.
Plugs: Anna, Shaina, Kristen, ash, Ashley, Mallory, Sean, Honeul, Sam, Malin
Posted in Yada Yada | Tags: Summer, The Hultsfred festival | Archive | 5 Comments »
Hello there!
Time flies and I’m surprised at how fast! It’s been three weeks since I last blogged but it doesn’t feel like it. I guess it’s because it’s summer and this time of the year time moves way too fast. It’s now it should move slowly, it’s now that you should be able to feel every moment, look at the time and think “Only one hour passed since I last looked, it feels like five!”. But of course the only time when that happens is when life is boring, in the middle of the winter when we’re stuck at work or doing something else equally boring. I can’t believe July is coming to an end. How on earth is that possible?! Summer will be over in about a month and I feel like it was May yesterday! This is such a horror to me since spring and summer is the only time of the year when I’m truly happy. Like I’ve told you before I can’t cope with the darkness of fall and winter. Seasonal affective disorder is a bitch and living in a country where fall and winter takes up half the year isn’t ideal. Because of this I’ll try to make the very best out of what’s left of summer. I’ll spend more time outside, take longer walks and pay closer attention to the beauty of nature – while it lasts. And I have bigger things than that to make something out of the remainder of summer since I’m going to Stockholm to see a friend and then on a cruise with my family in early August.
Since I last blogged the big thing that has happened was “Hultsfred-ändå-festivalen” (The Hultsfred anyway festival) as I call it. You might remember that I blogged about the fact that the Hultsfred festival was cancelled but that people were coming here anyway. Well they did. I’m not sure how many but at least 200 people came to Hultsfred, stayed at the camping (which is part of what used to be the festival area), partied and had fun as if the festival had never been cancelled. Of course there was a big difference. Instead of six stages with some of the biggest bands in the world there was a travel trailer with a sound system and local bands playing in the grass in front of it. Sure, the festival was smaller than it had ever been before but the energy was the same just as the attitude of the people. No, the attitude was even better. Here were people who came to Hultsfred without the big rock festival. Not many people except for German tourist do so because this is a really small and really boring town. But here they were anyway, determined to not let the festival go without a proper goodbye. I love them for that.
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Today I’m just going to show you some stuff I’ve bought lately.
New boots + a pair of socks I got for free with the boots.
Plugs: Cecilie, Ria, Rachel, Amanda, Maria, Veronica, Deanna, Ashley, Malin, Becky, kitty, Jess, Aly, Sean, Brandi, ash, Justin, Stepherz, Rachel-Rebecka, Karin
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Yesterday was a day of great sorrow in my home town and today isn’t much better. The Hultsfred festival that’s been arranged here for twenty-four years has been cancelled due to not enough tickets being sold this year. Three years ago this was the biggest rock festival in Sweden with more than 30 000 tickets sold but after two years of only around 20 000 tickets sold and this years only 5000 they cancel the festival. After loosing money for two years they found it impossible to arrange a festival that would mean loss of money for the third year in a row and yesterday declared their bankruptcy.
An era of music, fun and party in Hultsfred has come to a end. This is sad for everyone who visited the festival but especially for us who live here. Hultsfred is a small town with only 5000 inhabitants and the festival was pretty much the only thing going on here. This is what Hultsfred is known for. This was what was good about living in this town. This was the thing you looked forward to every year. But no more.
There’s a Facebook group called “Vi som åker till Hultsfred ändå!” (We who are going to Hultsfred anyway!) though. It’s a group for people who are planning to come here to camp and party anyway, even though there’s no festival. I’m obviously a member of the group and I’m looking forward to participating in some kind of party during this weekend and next week. Like I said, no festival is especially sad for us who live here so it’s wonderful that people are still coming here. It would have been horrible with a week of absolutely nothing going on when there was supposed to have been a big festival taking place. Of course this will be nothing like what the festival would have been but at least it’s something. A last hurrah.
To those who made the festival possible: Thank you for the five wonderful years of festival fun I was lucky to be a part of. I will miss it a lot.
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On the IMBD forums I’ve seen a lot of people in favour or American re-makes because they think they’re easier to follow than subtitled movies in the original for them foreign language. There’s also many countries (Most of central and southern Europe) that dub just about everything in another language than their native one. For me as a Swede I have a hard time understanding what they find so difficult about subtitles. Sure in some less developed countries where a large percentage of the population can’t read it’s one thing but when Americans prefer re-makes and French and Germans dubbed movies it’s just silly. Personally my reading skills were good enough to follow subtitles when I was seven and it’s been working well for me ever since.
I think it’s especially silly when people (Americans, it’s always Americans) complain about how it’s hard to follow a movie in a language they don’t understand with subtitles they do understand. Personally I think it’s harder to follow a movie in a language you do understand with subtitles in another language you also understand.
The things is no matter how good the subtitles are not everything can be accurately translated. Take humorous puns like this for example: “What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing – but it let out a little whine”. Translated to Swedish the words “whine” and “wine” have no similarity to each other which means that directly translated the joke no longer makes sense. The usual solution to this is replacing the joke with a similar one. It works but when you understand the spoken English and get the joke it’s a bit annoying reading a completely different joke in the Swedish subtitles. That is what you could call hard to follow. Hearing one thing in one language and reading another in another language. Yet here in Sweden where almost everyone understand English we don’t complain because we’re used to this.
What do I want to say with this? That people who think subtitles makes movies hard to follow should think about how we do it in Sweden and how we manage well despite the fact that most of us understand both the spoken language and the subtitled one. Dubbing makes movies look weird and re-makes… well isn’t that just extremely unnecessary? Just read the damn subtitles.
Plugs: Ashley, Becky, Cecilie, Karin, Rhea, alisha, Erin, Veronica, maria
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