Work, work, work
So, the Media Markt store I work in celebrate 2 years. Too bad first day of celebration was day before the paycheck arrives. Yesterday was beyond dull. But we kept busy. Putting up new stuff in the shelves, fixing and cleaning and things like that.
Yesterday was the first of seven straight workdays. Taking it one day at the time, trying not to overthink it. However, I guess blogging about it counts as thinking about it. Ah well.
I am really enjoying work right now however, even when its alot of it. Most of the people are nice and.. well, thats all you can expect isn't it? At a workplace that big you can't love everyone. Only problem with a work place that big, people keep chatting to you in the lunch room even when you try to read. Poor me. Luxuary problems.
Time to get dressed and things like that. Prepare lunch box (I got my lunch box and I'm armed real well).
Over and out
Yesterday was the first of seven straight workdays. Taking it one day at the time, trying not to overthink it. However, I guess blogging about it counts as thinking about it. Ah well.
I am really enjoying work right now however, even when its alot of it. Most of the people are nice and.. well, thats all you can expect isn't it? At a workplace that big you can't love everyone. Only problem with a work place that big, people keep chatting to you in the lunch room even when you try to read. Poor me. Luxuary problems.
Time to get dressed and things like that. Prepare lunch box (I got my lunch box and I'm armed real well).
Over and out
Another movie night!
Last night me and Thomas thought we would watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. That was not a good idea. We did manage to watch around five minutes, then we both looked at eachother and then turned it off. Some movies should never have been made. I have seen (or tried to) worse movies however. The awful movie called D-Wars for example. They keep showing it at the TV section at work, it really does suck. The plot did sound good, but the actual movie? Oh dearie me. It was among the worst acting I have ever seen, the CGI was laughable and the story seemed to have been cut with a hedge saw. I think we managed around 30-45 minutes of that one.
Then we have the amazing crap like 30 Days of Night. Again, the idea sounded good. Of course a place where the sun wont come up for 30 days must be a paradise for vampires. But again they ruined it. It was laughable "it is dark so no one can reach us". Oh yes, cause planes never take off in night, right? 15 minutes, then we turned off that crap.
Last night we watched the new Star Trek movie instead. I am not a trekkie, never have been. I did watch a few episodes of Deep Space Nine and liked it but thats about it. I really did enjoy this new movie however. More than I thought I would. Maybe because I have not seen the series before? I don't know. But I did like it.
Sometimes I do fall for the "guy" movies. Like G.I. Joe, it was a kick ass movie! Big explosions and cool car chases! And cool weapons. Don't forget about the cool weapons!
Some day I will learn to shoot!
Over and out
Then we have the amazing crap like 30 Days of Night. Again, the idea sounded good. Of course a place where the sun wont come up for 30 days must be a paradise for vampires. But again they ruined it. It was laughable "it is dark so no one can reach us". Oh yes, cause planes never take off in night, right? 15 minutes, then we turned off that crap.
Last night we watched the new Star Trek movie instead. I am not a trekkie, never have been. I did watch a few episodes of Deep Space Nine and liked it but thats about it. I really did enjoy this new movie however. More than I thought I would. Maybe because I have not seen the series before? I don't know. But I did like it.
Sometimes I do fall for the "guy" movies. Like G.I. Joe, it was a kick ass movie! Big explosions and cool car chases! And cool weapons. Don't forget about the cool weapons!
Some day I will learn to shoot!
Over and out
Romance!
Last night me and Thomas cuddled up on the sofa with a bowl of candy and had a movie night. The theme for the night must surely have been every mans nightmare. Romantic comedies! I am blessed with a husband that can actually enjoy the brainless romantic movies where you know exactly how everything will end. Sometimes those kind of movies are just what you need.
We started the evening off with The Proposal and boy did that remind me why I never been fond of Sandra Bullock. When you see a romantic comedy and go "why on earth with anyone fall in love with her?" they have failed. Why her character would fall in love with Ryan Reynolds character was understandable, but not the other way around. So, we were off to a slow start.
Second movie was The Ugly Truth with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. I have never been into Grey's Anatomy but Heigl I do like in romantic comedies. And Gerard Butler... well, him I just like! This movie was what a romantic comedy should be, predictable, sweet, funny and you did see why the characters would fall in love. Brainless, of course but it left you with a smile on your face.
Third and last movie was My Life in Ruins. This is the "older" kind of romantic comedy. Not as much about sex as many other movies. Once again, sweet and predictable. Quite charming. It also did me want to go to Greece very, very much. This girl likes old ruins and visiting churches and museums.
Romance on movies I do like. But in real life? I have told Thomas that if he ever calls the radio to dedicate a song to me, I will assume he wants a divorce. If he came home with flowers one day for no good reason, well, I would not think he is cheating on me. However, I would think "oh, so it was 50% off on flowers today eh?". Cynical? Me? Never!
Thomas does the cute things of course. "Welcome home sweetie, I bought you some chocolate". Sweet, no? Well, if you translate it to guy language it usually means "Hi, I bought some beer and/or candy for myself so I bought this for you so that you wont be upset". Not as sweet anymore now is it?
Well, my husband can be romantic, of course he can. Not so much the time he gave me a set of salt and pepper grinders for Valentine's Day but he can be. I prefer the "I have made dinner and here is a glass of wine" kind of romance over "I bought you 100 red flowers and lit candles all over the room" kind of romance. And now I feel myself I am just babbling so I will wrap it up for today.
By the way, I do love my husband. Even if he sometimes is as romantic as a rock.
Over and out
We started the evening off with The Proposal and boy did that remind me why I never been fond of Sandra Bullock. When you see a romantic comedy and go "why on earth with anyone fall in love with her?" they have failed. Why her character would fall in love with Ryan Reynolds character was understandable, but not the other way around. So, we were off to a slow start.
Second movie was The Ugly Truth with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. I have never been into Grey's Anatomy but Heigl I do like in romantic comedies. And Gerard Butler... well, him I just like! This movie was what a romantic comedy should be, predictable, sweet, funny and you did see why the characters would fall in love. Brainless, of course but it left you with a smile on your face.
Third and last movie was My Life in Ruins. This is the "older" kind of romantic comedy. Not as much about sex as many other movies. Once again, sweet and predictable. Quite charming. It also did me want to go to Greece very, very much. This girl likes old ruins and visiting churches and museums.
Romance on movies I do like. But in real life? I have told Thomas that if he ever calls the radio to dedicate a song to me, I will assume he wants a divorce. If he came home with flowers one day for no good reason, well, I would not think he is cheating on me. However, I would think "oh, so it was 50% off on flowers today eh?". Cynical? Me? Never!
Thomas does the cute things of course. "Welcome home sweetie, I bought you some chocolate". Sweet, no? Well, if you translate it to guy language it usually means "Hi, I bought some beer and/or candy for myself so I bought this for you so that you wont be upset". Not as sweet anymore now is it?
Well, my husband can be romantic, of course he can. Not so much the time he gave me a set of salt and pepper grinders for Valentine's Day but he can be. I prefer the "I have made dinner and here is a glass of wine" kind of romance over "I bought you 100 red flowers and lit candles all over the room" kind of romance. And now I feel myself I am just babbling so I will wrap it up for today.
By the way, I do love my husband. Even if he sometimes is as romantic as a rock.
Over and out
Two authors I love
Books are the love of my life. Here my husband will grumble a little but he knows how much books mean to me. So today I thought I would spend some time to give reading suggestions. I went to my book shelf to have a look and pondered what to tell people to read. I realised that I got a wide mix of books in it, but two authors do take up quite a bit of space in my book shelf.
Dean Koontz
I am still on a mission to get all his books, but he has written damn much over the years. "What does he write?" do you ask. Well, he mixes genres alot, its thriller, romance, horror and part science fiction. Looking at books like "Winter Moon", "Phantoms" and "Whispers" are really creepy while books such as "Life Expectancy" and the "Odd Thomas"-series are less on the creepy side and more on the thriller side. There are so many books I can go through them all but this is an author I do encourage people to read. (Hey, even Stephen King calls Koonz the best suspense author of our time.)
J K Rowling
Harry Potter. Of course. It took me a long time to actually read the first Harry Potter book but once I did I was hooked. I have read them, and re-read them. And listened to the audio books several times (English version, not silly american version) and of course watched all the movies. It is magic, what's not to like? I do not really see them as kids books either, because some of them are really dark and people usually don't die as much in kids books.
In time I will suggest more authors, more books but this is it for today. If you don't like books.. just move along. I will not take discussions about the books I love. I am way too protective of them. Silly but true!
Over and out
Dean Koontz
I am still on a mission to get all his books, but he has written damn much over the years. "What does he write?" do you ask. Well, he mixes genres alot, its thriller, romance, horror and part science fiction. Looking at books like "Winter Moon", "Phantoms" and "Whispers" are really creepy while books such as "Life Expectancy" and the "Odd Thomas"-series are less on the creepy side and more on the thriller side. There are so many books I can go through them all but this is an author I do encourage people to read. (Hey, even Stephen King calls Koonz the best suspense author of our time.)
J K Rowling
Harry Potter. Of course. It took me a long time to actually read the first Harry Potter book but once I did I was hooked. I have read them, and re-read them. And listened to the audio books several times (English version, not silly american version) and of course watched all the movies. It is magic, what's not to like? I do not really see them as kids books either, because some of them are really dark and people usually don't die as much in kids books.
In time I will suggest more authors, more books but this is it for today. If you don't like books.. just move along. I will not take discussions about the books I love. I am way too protective of them. Silly but true!
Over and out
Things you find at 5 am
Nothing is as fun as it being 4am (well, 4.30 now) and not being able to sleep. At least my neighbours seem to have quiet down some, they were discussing very loudly and I have no idea why they do that at this time of day. Even more so when it didn't seem to be fighting or anything. Who discusses company stuff loudly at 4am? Really? Me wonders how drunk they are.
What do you do when it is 5 (yes, this post took awhile) and you can not sleep? Well, for me I started going through pictures and screenshots. And lookie, I found this old screenshot from WoW! Slashet himself quit playing ages ago, so I will post this for people to see. This is what happens when people log on drunk. Or in Slash's case... extremely drunk.
This is cut together, cause he did babble for quite some time. Surely, this is mostly funny to gamers. And the "bird" part, would be Slashet transformed into a bat during that years halloween event. I still find it funny. I am a nerd though so that might be why. And btw Flaurence, I got a screenie from when you were drunk aswell!
Neighbours seem to have fallen asleep, or passed out. Same same but different.
Over and out
What do you do when it is 5 (yes, this post took awhile) and you can not sleep? Well, for me I started going through pictures and screenshots. And lookie, I found this old screenshot from WoW! Slashet himself quit playing ages ago, so I will post this for people to see. This is what happens when people log on drunk. Or in Slash's case... extremely drunk.
This is cut together, cause he did babble for quite some time. Surely, this is mostly funny to gamers. And the "bird" part, would be Slashet transformed into a bat during that years halloween event. I still find it funny. I am a nerd though so that might be why. And btw Flaurence, I got a screenie from when you were drunk aswell!
Neighbours seem to have fallen asleep, or passed out. Same same but different.
Over and out
Froggy love
It all started when I played EverQuest all those years ago. I played a froglok, in other words a pink frog that could walk on two legs. She was amazingly cute and of course got put through alot of teasing. Frog legs joke get boring after awhile, just so you know! I posted a picture on her on the first Gaming post if anyone is curious.
That is where my love of frogs started. I kept defending her against evil french frog eaters for so long I grew fond of both her and the wonderful animal she was based on. And so it started, I started collecting frogs. I do not have that many, even though I would love more it is hard to find really pretty frogs. Here is a post of a part of my frogs, lacking a few candles and cards and things like that. (Winnie the Pooh is there becaue he got a frog on his head)
As you see it is not easy to take picture at my place, Emeriss was way too nosy about the frog chime that I got from Jonna and Sven (loooove it).
At the front of the first picture you see the specially made frog couple that sat on our wedding cake. It is handmade, both frogs with glasses just like me and Thomas and her roses to match the few roses I had. I am happy to have a husband wonderful enough to let his wife-to-be crown their wedding cake with frogs!
So, if you find cute frogs of any kind, send them my way!
Over and out
That is where my love of frogs started. I kept defending her against evil french frog eaters for so long I grew fond of both her and the wonderful animal she was based on. And so it started, I started collecting frogs. I do not have that many, even though I would love more it is hard to find really pretty frogs. Here is a post of a part of my frogs, lacking a few candles and cards and things like that. (Winnie the Pooh is there becaue he got a frog on his head)
As you see it is not easy to take picture at my place, Emeriss was way too nosy about the frog chime that I got from Jonna and Sven (loooove it).
At the front of the first picture you see the specially made frog couple that sat on our wedding cake. It is handmade, both frogs with glasses just like me and Thomas and her roses to match the few roses I had. I am happy to have a husband wonderful enough to let his wife-to-be crown their wedding cake with frogs!
So, if you find cute frogs of any kind, send them my way!
Over and out
Day of the cinnamon bun
We swedes got strange days. Today it is the day of the cinnamon bun. I love baking, so I saw that as an excuse to bake! Thomas prefer vanilla buns and as the wonderful wife I am I let him do them even tho it isn't their day today!
Sven came over with Figaro (mr dog) and after some oven pancake we got down to the baking. My lovely little machine did most of the work with the dough and we sat slacking watching WoW movies while we waited for the dough to rise (The Brothers Tauren is still a very fun movie). Once the dough was ready we got down to the real work. However, Thomas was a slacker and let me and Sven do most of the work. He just sprinkled some vanilla sugar on his and that was about it.
It was great fun, baking with company is always nicer than doing it all alone. And the buns turned out wonderful (mine looked best, of course) and tasted perfect!
Here is the finished result of our effort:
Now I wonder, when is "Day of the pizza"?
Over and out
Sven came over with Figaro (mr dog) and after some oven pancake we got down to the baking. My lovely little machine did most of the work with the dough and we sat slacking watching WoW movies while we waited for the dough to rise (The Brothers Tauren is still a very fun movie). Once the dough was ready we got down to the real work. However, Thomas was a slacker and let me and Sven do most of the work. He just sprinkled some vanilla sugar on his and that was about it.
It was great fun, baking with company is always nicer than doing it all alone. And the buns turned out wonderful (mine looked best, of course) and tasted perfect!
Here is the finished result of our effort:
Now I wonder, when is "Day of the pizza"?
Over and out
I am back again!
So I haven't been writing here for ages but me thinks it is time to start again. First off, I am a good girl! I finally started using the gym again and I feel alot better with myself for it.
More news, well. I been working at Media Markt for two years now but only very little. Enough to get by but not much more than that. Now I got 75% for awhile at least. Not sure how long it will last but it will be wonderful for as long as I have it.
As you already noticed, this is a "catching up" post. So moving on to the ingame world. I left my beloved Gatekeepers. It felt really strange doing it to be honest but since I did not raid with them anyway I did not feel that I belonged anymore. I don't think that a hardcore raiding guild is where you should be if you are casual. I left an evening with like 20 people online, one of them said anything to me. It did make me realise I had absolutely made the right choice.
Returning to Protectorate (much love for them for wanting/letting me back) was like entering a different world. Those guys sure can make you feel appreciated. And since I returned I have had the best time! I have started pvping on my deathknight Gryning and I must say... I really suck at it. It is loads of fun however, me and Thomas play with Sven daily.
I also re-connected with someone I haven't spoken to since december so that feels wonderful. I had not realised how much I had missed him.
This is it for now. I will try to start writing here again, not that I think you have missed me. But still.
Over and out
More news, well. I been working at Media Markt for two years now but only very little. Enough to get by but not much more than that. Now I got 75% for awhile at least. Not sure how long it will last but it will be wonderful for as long as I have it.
As you already noticed, this is a "catching up" post. So moving on to the ingame world. I left my beloved Gatekeepers. It felt really strange doing it to be honest but since I did not raid with them anyway I did not feel that I belonged anymore. I don't think that a hardcore raiding guild is where you should be if you are casual. I left an evening with like 20 people online, one of them said anything to me. It did make me realise I had absolutely made the right choice.
Returning to Protectorate (much love for them for wanting/letting me back) was like entering a different world. Those guys sure can make you feel appreciated. And since I returned I have had the best time! I have started pvping on my deathknight Gryning and I must say... I really suck at it. It is loads of fun however, me and Thomas play with Sven daily.
I also re-connected with someone I haven't spoken to since december so that feels wonderful. I had not realised how much I had missed him.
This is it for now. I will try to start writing here again, not that I think you have missed me. But still.
Over and out
