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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging

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Metope:
There are fruit flies everywhere! And yeah, most of the food has been... not that special. I don't understand why there can't be any restaurants where you just sit down, order, wait, eat, pay and leave, they have to invent all sorts of new ways to serve you food so that you feel stupid when you don't know how it works, or they get annoyed when you ask for things. It's kinda hipster central yeah, but then again I look like that too so I'm not gonna judge.

Loki:
Time flies like an arrow
fruit flies like a banana

Lines:
Have they not heard of fly traps? Because that sounds kinda gross and very annoying.

Aimless:
Dear blog thread,

It's time for an update. Many nice things have happened since the last one. I got some shit done and feel lighter than a feather now that I don't have as much hanging over me.

We've finished almost all the renovation and the apartment looks incredible. Had it appraised yesterday and the lowball estimate is in line with what we've seen, while the upper limit is very difficult to estimate because it's a pretty unique apartment for this area. We're probably moving soon, which is both exciting and terrifying :o I'm going to miss this apartment very very much, but it'll be nice to move to a larger better-planned and undervalued apartment that's almost as close to work and costs less than the one we have now. No mortgage, booyah :o

The weather her has been incredibly crappy but I've finally decided to abandon my dignity and now wear much warmer hats and gloves that make me look like a Scandinavian caricature. We did have a couple of wonderful days around Christmas, though, when there was a lot of snow. At the time we were house-sitting for my in-laws and I discovered the joy of living in a cosy house, living in a quiet place and running in the snow with a crazy dog. I've spent most of my life in cities and been kinda reluctant to embrace these things but this time it felt great. I also discovered that I like cars, esp. cars that keep your butt toasty warm :o I drove a car for the first time and went in circles both clockwise and counter-clockwise without hurting anyone. The car didn't start the next day but it turned out to be due to the cold.

Both the wife and I got a little sick of our silliness and decided to get more organised and active. It's gone fairly well so far. I'm almost on top of my paperwork and I've discovered the perfect digital to-do-list for me (Any.do, which we both now use). The list was incredibly long at first and refused to shrink but it's slowly been tamed over the past couple of weeks and now it seems manageable. It's also become a habit, which is nice because I've never been good at maintaining that sort of habit before :) all sorts of annoying but kinda important things that I'd been putting off have been cleared away. In addition to this increased productivity we've also become more active and pro-active, which is very pleasant. I have an almost limitless capacity for bumming around at home before the computer but the missus does not and she was not happy about our combined lack of drive.

I've had a great deal of time off these past couple of weeks, far more than I thought I would. I worked Christmas eve (during the day) and that was great. Discovered that I really do love working the day and also discovered that it's very nice to be able to determine the menu and eat everything with the Ginger, on the couch, while watching '80s/'90s action movies. I don't know if I'll ever want to do Christmas with either of our families again :o

After Christmas I had a week off and it felt like a MONTH, in the best possible way. Went to sthlm for the first time in AGES and it was incredible hanging out with my family. My sisters are SO BIG! I get shocked every single time. One of them is applying for some sort of artsy track in highschool and I think that it may actually be a good idea for her. I got along better with my dad than ever before. My mum went a little crazy with the whole packing thing but it worked out all right and she and my sis made it to my stupid home country safe and sound. They'll be attending a ridiculously large wedding that I'm honestly a little happy I'm missing.

In addition to this we hung out with some of my closest friends and, for the first time in years, I began to feel like I might want to move back to sthlm. I hope this desire dies soon :o

I'll be in charge of the ward for a couple of weeks in spring and that's kinda like (O.O) but I'll have a lot of support and it's a sign of confidence so that's kinda nice. Have some ideas for the clinical education of our students as well as for the education of our new colleagues and I hope they work out.

These past few weeks have been pretty good tech-wise as well. Switching to Lollipop cost me a ton of open tabs and other goodies, but it's a great OS. I've upgraded my old Touchpad and it's still frickin' fantastic, best purchase I ever made. I've figured out a good setup for the NAS. I've upgraded my mum's computer, replaced her gigantic CRT-TV with a flatscreen (and sprained my by back-muscles in the process of getting that hulk out of the apartment), gotten some stuff for the ginger, found a portable battery charger (that's when you know you have an addiction I guess :() and finally ordered a Google Cardboard kit. I'm just ridiculously excited about the last one, it's basically my favourite kind of invention and the possiblities are endless :D ordered a couple of ViewBoxes from kickstarter too.

I've just now stuffed myself with membrillo, cheese and crackers and been notified that a present is on the way:



And another:



Very happy. That'll do for now :)

Patrick:


--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 07 Jan 2015, 13:21 ---I'm so cool you can keep raw meat in me baby, yeah!

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Challenge accepted, bae.

Dear blag thared,

The holidays are over and I'm back to being bored as fuck all the time, but at least now I know I can regularly entertain myself with Netflix while saving money on not smoking or drinking at the bar.

I've got an appointment on Monday to get myself a new tattoo. It's gonna be of Serenity from Firefly, she's gonna be on my right boob. I'm really really excited about it, but just a bit bummed I can't show my family. They disapprove of tattoos. Y'all shoulda heard the earful my mom gave me about my Albanian eagle a couple years back, haha.

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