Sun and Barbecue

Awesome day today; for starters, I'm feeling sooo much better! Had a nice day lying in the sun, reading and looking at boats. Tonight Emily, Anders, Lisa, Peter, two of Lisa's friends and Martin came over for a barbecue, and they just left. Oh, and Peter brought a dog that he was babysitting as well, such a nice dog! It was a Rottweiler named Atlas, and he was the most wellbehaved dog I've met, and soooo cute! 

Only slightly bad part about tonight is that I twisted my (bad) knee, so now it really hurts! Hopefully it will heal rather fast this time, so I can at least bike to work without too much pain.

Now it's time for a shower, and then bed.

//Let

Rain and fever

I hate being sick! Been home from work today, sleeping all day. Also it's pouring down outside, and the apartment smells like paint! Not one of the better days I've had in general...

Tomorrow should be better tho, at the very least weatherwise. Apparently the summer's about to get started for real here, 26 degrees on Sunday! W00t w00t!

We've also managed to fix a couple of SNAFU's with the tickets today, I love the feeling of crossing stuff off my lists! Feels like we're about to leave really soon now. 

//Let

Healthy vs unhealthy

Today has (so far) been a healthy day; a run/walk this morning, followed by a tuna sallad for lunch, and a bike ride to work. My legs hurt a little now... In an hour I'll get less healthy, when the last pub for the season (last one ever for me?) at Ellen is on, with ridicolously low prices and some friends I might not see again for quite some time. //Let

Towel day

One of my favorite holidays today; in honor of Douglas Adams, me and other crazy people will carry a towel with us wherever we go today.

To quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hehehe... wonder what people at work will think of this? I'm currently working as a receptionist at a logistics company, so I probably ought to get a discreet towel.

It's nice and sunny outside, so right now I'm trying to figure out if we have any good picnic-type food at home for lunch. And then it's of to work.

//Let

Here we go!

On a request from Sussi, I've gotten myself a blog. Both for those Swedes that wanna know what's happening in sunny Australia, and hopefully also a way for all my new Aussie friends to know what it really is I do all day.

I don't promise to write often, but I will do my best to keep you updated on at least the big goings-on.

Right now I'm still sitting in old Stocky, first day this year that I wore shorts outside, is that something to celebrate or what? Otherwise I'm mostly futzing, a bit of packing here, a bit of sorting there, with a little bit of Friends and cheesy books in the middle.

I probably ought to go back to trying to get a nice layout of this blog tho, before this language mix drives me insane.

//Let