Things I love about Stockholm

I went to see Saralunden yesterday, she gave me her new cd for my birthday and I'm hooked. Steven and Nandor have started playing back up for her

It was quite a cozy familiar feeling and I think everyone there actually knew each other.

Even my "cousin" Petter was there, Steven's playing on his cd that'll be released in January. It was so good to see him and we had a really nice deep talk.

Steven at the drums, not singing this time...

My auntie and my role model, Kerstin. All children should have aunties like us! ;-P
I went to her farm to get a little bit of that christmas feeling we're all supposed to be feeling. Oh yeah, it snowed for an hour yesterday!!!!!

My real cousin, and Petter's real cousin, Daniel. I used to push his baby carriage around, now he's 20 and way more mature than me!

Anyways, I won't make a list of things that I love and hate about Stockholm or anything else considering that I'm angry about just about everything lately (especially about my decision to quit smoking). But here are some things that have made me happy lately.

Taking Eliot to the Museum of Natural History. We spent the whole day there learning about dinosaurs, the environment, the human body etc etc. Best of all was the Cosmonova all surround screen and having the feeling of flying.

Seing Steven just about everywhere, doing lots of stuff, doing nothing, sleeping over at each others place and still not to have to feel guilty if you happen to not call for two weeks...

Drinking tea at fancy tea shops with Nicklas, getting updated on all the new underground and alternative artists that I've had the bad taste of not keeping updated on this past year. Clinging on Nicklas and Roger, watching the young ones at their place until Nicklas passes out. And shocking Roger with my vulgarities (can I actually still shock my audience?!).

Gaging about anything improper with Mika and Patricia sitting in the kitchen at a party remembering all the crazy things we did or would have done at parties a couple of years ago. Making a fool out of yourself gets sort of glorified when you no longer dare to do it.

Watching tv and crashing over at Simon's. Combining simplicity and complexity is underrated. And seeing his mom! She's so coooool!

Running around town with Boaz talking about all the superficial things in the world one minute and the next digging right down to the bottom of things. He's gonna be my pilates instructor... man is he ever gonna whip me into shape!

Being able to follow Maria C's afterwork plans, dim sums, parties and just simply being neighbors with her and Jesper again.

Hanging on the playground with Malin, Tove, Steven and Eliot. Most of the time sitting on those bizarre metal dogs that are heated and keep your bottom nice and sizzling.

Building a kitchen at Ikea in less than 2 hours, although it was less fun to find out I'd been running around with my zipper open! Oh, this is how you know you're in Sweden, the signs on the highway show you the way to Ikea! But they didn't warn for the dying deer laying on the road :-(

And seeing family, of course. All these aunties and cousins and uncles and fathers and cousins kids and....

I miss Miya who's moved to Portugal, I miss Maria D who's moved to Copenhagen, I miss Sara who's moved to Uppsala (which is way better than Huddiksvall, but still haven't seen her), I miss Anna of course, who still lives way the hell up north in a little village outside of Umeå. I miss Lars, but he's been down from Umeå once already and he'll be coming back down on friday.

Yeah and I love running into all my lovely ones down town, people that fit in my heart but not in my phone book.