
I apologize for my absence from the blog during the summer but to be honest I just couldn’t find the inspiration to write something cheerful or even remotely poetic, I felt completely drained. I wanted this blog to be a happy place, well… sort of anyway maybe hopeful is a more suitable word.
Beautiful Mini by Boontje

For months I’ve been working on a borrowed HP lap top since my old LG broke down. I really liked everything about my LG and tried to find a similar but new model. Turned out it was impossible.
Nestbeschmutzer

Nestbeschmutzer is a German word. We don’t really have any similar to it in Swedish and I don’t believe there is one in English either. I found it when I was reading about Thomas Bernhard on Wikipedia. I’ve been talking about this for years but I never found the right word for it until now.
The ultimate fortune cookie
Today I got the ultimate fortune cookie with my thai – In dreams and in life, nothing is impossible. I really needed this encouragement because it wasn’t as great as I imagined it to be when I finished my first manuscript.
I’m out of the skin flap!

I’m out of the skin flap! Such a relief. The right hand is still a bit bundled up though. The first thing I did yesterday was to take down all the Christmas decorations.
Happy New Year 2010!

2009 ended somewhat gloomy on my part. Killer bacteria started attacking my finger after a simple cut by a kitchen knife so I ended up in the hospital for two weeks with…
