Just a quick note to say that my mobilephone is gone after the trip. Either lost or stolen. We don’t know, but we think I might have dropped it on the flight over to the UK. I always check the seats though…

The saucer to a handmade cup given to me by my granny was broken upon arrival in the UK. I’m really sad about that.

On a more positive note! The huge polarbear that I was given by Ida got tons of attention on our way back to the UK. It was too big to put in any luggage, so we had to carry it all the way! It scared two ladies shitless in one of the security controls. o_o Tom put it down on the table and they screamed in surprise, probably thinking it was real. I tried not to laugh too loud :D Mr. Bear DOES look quite menacing though. Even for a plushie.

At a pub on Stansted airport, Mr Bear got his own seat and attracted lots of curious looks, both from children and adults. In fact, wherever we went with him, kids started stalking us, running away from their parents to chase the polarbear. It was hilarious :D

At the pub, one of the staff gasped and pointed at him, saying: “No animals allowed!” Another of the barstaff called me “the pretty one” which surprised me so much I burst out laughing. He was so flirtatious I thought he must be blind.
The busdriver asked for the ticket for Mr Bear, then patted him :D

It all just went on really! geez! I gotta bring plushies along on my trips more often!

Now I’m hungry. Bye!

Sketch from a started forum RP around WoW.

What else is going on? Well, we got home safely even though I felt like snotting my brains out. I’ve been very ill during my Sweden trip and I still am. New Years party here tomorrow. Never get a break nowadays! We don’t even have proper seating due to Matt moving out and taking all the furniture with him. Me and Tom went into town earlier today to buy some beanbags and pillows. Need to go to IKEA tomorrow though. Blrrrhrjghjerrrg…

Also have three projects to finish in less than a week. One of them needs to be accepted in order for me to continue the course. If I fail that project, I fail the course and bye bye Uni for me.

Pressure? Nooooo.

*cries*

Blegh!

Let me summarize what has happened so far.

Got picked up the 19th from Luleå Airport by my parents. Tom met them for the first time. He was a bit nervous before stepping out of the plane, but the moment they met you could see it was all fine. My parents happily chattered in the English they knew and Tom responded very well. I also realised how much I really had missed my family. It’s hard not seeing them for half a year or something. We went home, had something to eat and then collapsed in bed. (We had been awake for about 40 hours at that point)

20th (I hope I’m getting this stuff right now), we went into town and I showed Tom the centre. We had tea at Roasters, Pasta at Mat och Prat, and bought some christmas presents for various people. We were supposed to meet some of my friends, but in the end “only” Jin and Ida was able to show up, so we lolled about with them. Then we went home to their place and I was given a christmas present… O_O A HUGE PLUSHIE POLAR BEAR. “To remind you of home”. Ida also said with a wide smile on her face that she wanted to make it as hard as possible for me to get home to England :P We’ll see how I get this polar bear home! As long as the customs people don’t cut him up, searching for explosives. o_o

21st. Last day of Jamtis being home in Luleå, so I planned to take Tom to meet him and Aya, but of course the sickness struck like an atom bomb. The day before I had some coughing fits, but nothing else. This was the day my voice disappeared competely and I felt like a lump of poo. I can’t remember exactly what I did, but I do remember going to Jamtis quickly to drop off the gift before heading home to rest. That’s all I can remember from this day…. I have probably missed something very important.

22nd. Meatfest. I went into town with Tom to get some supplies, then we headed off to Henriks place to eat lotsa meat and see friends! Of course I was *still* sick at this point, but I was drugged up on paracetamol. Met lotsa people I haven’t seen in ages. Like Sune for example! Other people were: Henrik, Aya, Sean (Aya’s american bf), Li, Björn, Jin, Sami, Pål and Trekki. Did I forget to mention anyone? Hope not. Anyway! We ate food, chatted about gaming, gamed ICO and Project Zero 3(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). I was the only one really freaked out. :P Went home at about 10pm due to feeling like utter shit. Had a fever. Tom told his theory to Henrik about why I got sick like this. I get so excited about meeting my friends and making a good impression that I stress myself to bits and kill my immune system, thus always getting ill when something like this happens. Henrik thought that made sense.

I don’t know.

23rd. It’s morning now. I’m the only one awake. Drinking tea and planning to finish the paintings for my granny’s today. Of course my black ink went boom in my bag during travel, so I need to get a new bottle… Bleh. Day before Christmas. I don’t want to leave the house. I just want to get better for tomorrow. Henrik might come over. I want to roleplay.

I want to accomplish so many things that I fall over. :D 

G’morning blog.

 I’m ill. Isn’t that convenient? Yesterday I could hardly speak and had hard times eating and swallowing. Today my head feels like a big blob of snot. I don’t have the same throat pain as yesterday, so I guess I’m getting better? But why must I get sick now of all times? I think it’s the change of climate or something. From England to Sweden. I refuse to take a plane home if my nose is blocked. It hurts beyond imagination.

Now I have to go into town. Rawr!

*pant huff whew wheeze*

Trip has been LONG. Me and Tom went without sleep for about 40 hours in total. I would write more about the trip itself if I wasn’t so dead right now. I went up early to finish some stuff for my grandma’s, but my inkpen broke during travel and I forgot to bring my watercolours. In other words, I am so screwed.

Coming home was fantastic. The house looks completely different. I’ll take pictures later. Tom was so nervous before meeting my parents, but the moment they actually DID meet it was all fine. They speak English with eachother and whenever the English isn’t enough, I translate. Simple. Will write more about that too later on.

Right now, I’m just silently panicking over the fact that I have no finished gifts for my grandma’s…

Went to El’s place on Saturday and had a 12 hour comic thing. We got so screwed over we couldn’t finish it. I have 6 pages…. And only two of them painted. rest are sketches. o_o Will continue on them someday.

Had tons of fun though. Stayed up until 7am the next morning. Then I kind of collapsed in their guest bed.

Need to buy a rice cooker. El has showed me some really lazy chinese/japanese food. XD

Today, I’m going in to Uni to have tutorials. You bring everything you’ve done and they talk to you. Eeep.

It’s early morning and we’re getting ready to take a bus out to IKEA, where everyone pronounces Swedish words in a most butchering way!

We need so much stuff ever since Matt moved out.

Will post “after” pics when we’ve put the new furniture in place. Arr!

I’m gonna learn Kung Fu. Fujian White Crane.

It’s based right in the centre so it would be easy to get to and they are beginner friendly. go here for more info —-> Kung FOO!

I am so unfit at the moment it’s getting on my nerves. Really miss martial arts.

My first class will be on Wednesday. :O

Should I take the soft style or the hard style? Prolly gonna go for the hard style. … Or maybe both. … Dunno!

Going to have my Fine Art presentation today… Soon actually. Not really done yet or too confident with what I have, but I know that I’ve experimented like hell, so I can tell them that at least.

Matt has fetched almost all his stuff and will come over on Sunday to start fixing some dents and holes in various places. Me and Tom now have our own place and it’s huge. I have “before” pictures and will take “after” pics when we have moved all our stuff to their respective new rooms. Exciting!

Got so much going on atm not sure I can do everything at the same time. Oh well. Let’s see how this Fine Art thing goes, because I honestly have no idea.

I’ve made a project around rubbish. Literally. :P

O_O I thought everything went down the drain with me getting my sprained neck and shit, but turns out Andy just did a few alterations to the last page and its in the printer now! A 5 page comic drawn by me and written by Sam will be published in Dead by Dawn issue 3!!!

Personally (I know I’m gonna sound perfectionistic now), I think I could’ve done a lot better, but it was the first time I seriously inked just black and white and was very uncertain how to go about doing so. I’ve learned a lot drawing that comic and am *confident* that I could do a much better job now. But hey…

It’s my FIRST published comic!

YEEEEEEEEEES!