Late greetings

I had planned this great post to celebrate my blogoversary: What my blog means to me, what blogland and everyone inhabiting it means to me and so on - and then I completely forgot all about it. I'd even planned on writing the post early this week and scheduling it because i KNEW I wouldn't have the time to post on the day, and what happened? The procrastinating ghost and the green-eyed stress monster ganged up on me and nothing got posted.

I'd like to thank Teena in Toronto for popping by and congratulating me anyway, thus reminding me what terrible monsters inhabit my territory here in blogland.

Instead of writing that perfect post which would bring lots of people by my blog for a party, I spent Monday making some small stuff for Barbies, Tuesday making two penny-pouches and Wednesday watching people getting blue/red/purple (depending on difficulty) in their faces trying to test their lung capacity - Wednesday evening our house seller came by, and we finally agreed on the price for the foundations and the preparations for our patio and parking space in front of the new house. Yay! A few drawings to be shipped off to the building council and the builders can actually get some work done on our land!

As of today, the only thing that has happened to our plot since this is that the local farmer has harvested his oatmeal and left 5 cms of the stems on the plot, and a sign has come up saying there's a house to be built there. Not much to see - I'll post a pic when they start digging.

Today I've been poking needles in people all day, and I am very happy to report that the nurses at my practice are now using gloves and are a lot more aware of the fact that they need to worry a bit more about the hygiene side of things. Seems my little pointer to their boss upon leaving (I had an inquiry form to fill out then, and I simply stated that it didn't look too good) the last time made them address the issue.
Tomorrow - I don't know. Probably some more needle-poking, vaccines, some wounds to clean, and it will be my last day at that health care center. I sure have learnt some, and I'm quite sad to think I will never be working with them again - they've been great. I fully intend on getting my own vaccine for the swine flu (A (H1N1)) before leaving, but that depends on wether they have any spare doses in the afternoon before we go home - once prepared, the bottle only keeps for 24 hours.

Until next time, lots of love

Vampires...

We're going to the premiere of New Moon here in Gothenburg!!! I can't wait...
I'll be going with my friend T, her brother, his girlfriend and a few others I have no idea who are, but T is my lifeline here - it will be great :)

They aired the last episode of True Blood Season 1 yesterday, so now Edward will be the next vampire I "see"... I don't know how I'll be able to wait until next fall for Season 2, but it will have to do. S really doesn't understand what all the fuzz is about, but then he's never been much into fantasy stuff. He went to see Harry Potter once, just to make me happy - since then he's bought me the DVD's instead, so he can read or something instead... I appreciate the fact that he tried it first! <3

Fabric give-away and exam results

This last exam has to be the quickest one yet: I was actually done after 15 minutes, but you're not allowed to leave the room until after 40 minutes, so I did the exam questions once more, checking everything at least twice before writing the answers on the reply form. And the results were in yesterday night (another record) - I passed. *happy dancing around the room* Now it's on to the serious stuff: respiratory diseases...

On another, more fun note, I entered a fab give-away at the Pumpkin Patch Primitives Quilt Shoppe Wish me lots of luck!

Yeah. so?

We've been getting really strange messages on how our house is coming along - all of a sudden we received a letter from the head office that our house would be ready for us Jan 29 - when we thought the latest 6 week delay would be enough... So, now it looks as if we'll be staying at a hotel for two months, as we said we didn't want the house we're renting longer than dec. 31st. The house seller says he's sorry, but he can't do anything, as the head office calls the shots here. Yeah, so? Do we care about that? NO, we want our house this year, as promised!!!

Needless to say, big S, who usually is the worry-wart in this household, is falling to pieces, I try to behave my best but still we get into these nonsense fights that basically happen because I think we can be a teensy bit diplomatic when we talk to the seller, because it's not his fault. And bring out the big guns when we talk to the head office. Big S thinks we should bring out the cannons from the closet, and perhaps a few bombs too, so the factory will build our house faster. Like that's helping...

At least we both acknowledge the fact that we're not really angry at eachother for this, even though I did break a plate yesterday because he wouldn't listen to me when I didn't say anything... Makes sense, no? Break a plate, get everyone's attention. It was the first time I tried that, actually, and the plate was not a favourite of mine, but then I had to clean the mess myself - so I know that's not something I'm going to do much in the future.

So, in Sweden we're a bit frustrated AND I have a serious calculus exam on monday - how to calculate medications; you know, pills, solutions, Oxygen, International Units to ml, that sort of thing. And on this exam you have to have a 100% score, or do it over and over until you understand and can be let loose on the actual patients of this world. Usually, only 20% of the nursing students get it on the first exam, so I'd be in good company if I mess up. Which I probably will, by going to fast and not reading the questions properly, and thus giving a completely different answer than intended. Wish me luck!

Finished bag!

Yeah yeah, I know, I'm procrastinating putting up pics here - even when I have promised that I will. When there's a lot going on, finding the camera cord is too much trouble for me, don't even ask how often I synchronize my mobile phone with the computer... Anyway, here it is - my version of the Beauty of a flower bag by Rosalie Quinlan. I finished it the day before going on WBP (=Workbased Practice), and I am very happy to say that I LOVE it! I think I might even try a spring/summer version later on, with an iron-on stabilizer instead of the batting I used. It says in the directions to use something called Pellon, which I have no idea what is, so I grabbed the thinnest batting they had in the fabric shop here. It's good for autumn, but for summer I'd like something not so warm... I omitted some of the applique because my rosy fabric was a bit busy, so I will definitely do them the next time! And I didn't even think about the fact that the squared fabric didn't meet up very well at the back, but hey - who sees that anyway? Well, here it goes:

QP from Sophia Davies, journaltag from Ellie Lash' Delicious kit.

Love,