A favourite past time for Ruffles and Chester.

And a favourite past time of mine.

Just two random images before I’m off to London-land for 3 days. See ya folks!

Here is the link that explains the challenge: OC Challenge!

This is a challenge I do on the side when I need to relax from work. It is extremely fun and I urge other artists who create their own characters to try it out. It’s very mad. :D

Having read the latest news happening in my country, I find out (as a summary) that the government have passed a legislation which will allow them to read and listen to your phone, sms, mail etc. For security reasons they are now bugging the Swedish citizens and basically treat everyone as a suspect. Not only does this law completely eradicate any sort of privacy that we used to have, but it is also dangerous for people who give tips to journalists anonymously since their identity will be revealed.

From what I’ve read, this law was originally put forward to the labour government of Sweden (before they voted in conservatives), and our ‘prime minister’ at that point didn’t want anything to do with it, but as soon as the government switched over to conservatives after the last election, everything seems to have become worse for working class people like my family.

I am disgusted by this new law. I might not be in Sweden right now, but that will not stop me from acting against this in some way.

If you are Swedish and reading this, visit www.hejFRA.se

I had three cocktails, and I couldn’t focus on things properly. If that isn’t a cheap date, I don’t know what is.

It’s all down to my alcohol intolerance. If that would be the right words to describe it? All I know is that I only drink on very rare occasions and I only go to Iguanas for cocktails. I hadn’t had a drink in, probably, months before yesterday.

While I think that the state of being tipsy can be enjoyable as long as you are with people you know well and can trust, I just can’t understand what is so enjoyable about being drunk/wasted. Maybe that’s because I am a control freak and hate the thought of telling my body to go one way, and then watch with horror as it does the complete opposite.

As I was slightly above the mark of being tipsy yesterday, I found myself taking down notes in my head of how things felt, how the surroundings changed, how my brain reacted, how things felt to touch, smell, etc. For example, when we first got into the Brazilian cocktail bar, I saw nice orange uplighters on the wall opposite our table. When we sat down, I was sat facing these uplighters and soon began noticing changes in my vision. If I shook my head a little bit, it would take a few seconds longer to regain focus of the lamp and not just see it as a light blur.

All in the name of educating myself if I want to illustrate someone being drunk in the future and make it believable.

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And I still wonder why I thought a talking chewing-gum with two toothpicks attached to it (like legs) was the funniest thing since Flight of the Conchords sang Business Time (listening to that still makes me cry and snort and choke with laughter…)

Hrm. I’m going now.

I’ve never had trouble sleeping.

In fact I think I sleep too much (again). I can vaguely remember writing about this here before.

But yes, I am definitely sleeping too much right now. This entire week I have not been able to function at my usual energy level at all. I even need naps during the day and no amount of coffee will help me perk up. It’s incredibly frustrating as the house needs to be cleaned before the weekend and I have 5 jobs on, two of them secret from this blog.

I’ve been reading up on ’sleeping too much’ on Mr. Internet and he tells me I just need to regulate my sleeping patterns and I’ll be fine. Problem is, I can’t drag myself out of bed when I should normally get up. Before I would literally bounce out of bed and get started. I AM a morning person afterall! … Or used to be. :(

From tonight, I will go to bed a 11pm and get up at 7am sharp tomorrow morning. As long as I get that into my daily rhythm again I should probably be fine.

Example of music that makes me wind down and snuggle up:

‘Nightly Cares’ by mum.

Well, just came home from the GP with Thomas. Had my first vaccinations… well… ever. Except the ones you get as a baby as soon as you pop out of your mum.

It all went very smoothly and hardly hurt at all. I was impressed by the efficency, but less impressed with the list of all sideffects. The nurse told us not to worry about the list as they have to record every single possible side effect and you rarely get any of them. I couldn’t help but glance down at that paper and notice ‘hairloss’ though.

Please God of Vaccines, don’t let me lose my hair again. It took years to get it to the thickness it is now. :(

I guess I’m just a bit paranoid.

As promised, here are pictures of our new flat in clifton. Since taking these pictures, we’ve bought a lovely towel hanger thingey for the kitchen. I need to take a pic of that too. Mum and dad, just so you know, I won the battle for where it should go! It is now where I first wanted it and we’ve moved the bin! Whee :D The excitement of my life. Kitchen stuff. Sigh.

Anyway. I will show a few pictures and if you want to see them all, go here:

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Our lounge. Complete with fireplace!

Small gothic windows. One of the selling points for me. I love them to bits.

Skylight in the corridor.

Birdies and some of my materials, organised in boxes. I am starting to become extremely anal about that.

The garden outside. Not ours obviously, but its nice to look at. Noones ever there though. Just the gardener once a week. A shame. I would be out there daily, doing cartweels and hand stands. :(

My kitchen herbs. All of the stuff you see is edible. Also growing tomatoes now thanks to Ellen! They are shooting up fast!

Some of the kitchen space. Complete with gas hob which is wonderful to cook on. Even though I was a bit scared at first, with the sparks and all.

A reminder of why I’m here.

An old gift from a Canadian friend! Sadly the arm has come off. :(

And yes. If you want to see the rest, just click on the link on the top.

Soon I will do the same thing with the mum and dad in UK pictures.

For now, it’s back to work. Got GP tomorrow (vaccines!), friend cocktails on thursday (I don’t drink very often, but if I do, it’s at Iguanas. Lovely berry stuff), TIMMEH on Friday (the lovely lovely guide that we had in London when my parents visited), and the coming week I’m going to london to hang out with Ellen. This summer is very good.

A PENIS!

(a little taste of the pictures to come)

I am a sad sad person.

…But Mac’s Photobooth is SO HILARIOUS. I just giggle and snort to myself. The sad part is that I’m probably the only one who thinks it’s so funny. Sheesh!

Photobooth is basically a program where you can take pictures of yourself with various “effects”, some which make you look nice and some which make you look absolutely retarded.

I just happen to look retarded by default, so it wasn’t hard for the application to do it’s job.

This is the colour pencil effect! Oh my!

One of my favourite effects! X-Ray! It looks horrific!
“GIVE ME CAKE”

“Oh wait. What’s this? Huuuman…”

“Jen wants human insteeeaaaad.”

‘Comic Book Effect’. How poser.

This is what the camera looks when it’s normal. Pretty good quality for a built in one! Maybe it can be used to webcamera? So my mum would stop nagging about that. :D

Pop Art Effect! Zomg! Instant art!

FEED ME SEYMOOOUURR

Apparently I look like a troll, according to Aya :D

I wonder what poo tastes like?

I R MANGA!

No caek maek jen saddie :(

…. About a trillion where those came from. I should be working. Bad application!