EverQuest II

I have the best guild ever on EverQuest. Today I got to do a little bit of acting for a video two of our guild members are doing. Awesome, it was really fun...and i got the part! lol

I haven't really had time to play lately, with all that packing and ordinary parent stuff that take up my day. So it was nice that they thought of little me. It will be great to see it when they are finished. I'm sure it will be great just like the last video. /thumbs up for you guys! If there was one i would do a /flirtwiththedirectors! ;+)

Move'em on, head'em out Rawhide

Packing.... again. We have moved around so much i start to wonder if we should not qualify ourselves as Gypsy! It will be good to get out of this place though. There is so much fun in decorating and furniture a new place. Another fresh start with a lot of brain storming!

It never stops to amaze me though - how much junk we have - where does it all come from? It's not deliberate, we don't store too much stuff around still there are so many small things that just accumulate. My rule is, if i haven't used something for 3 years and am not likely to use it the following year - i chuck it. Ok.... some things i just save for an occasional fancy party, but that is not much... I mean how often will i need my cucumber or pine apple suit?? Then again who knows? Maybe i should save the jeans from the 80's and the dungaries, lets not forget the tea pot, the cowboy boots, snow board oh... and the spare roll of wallpaper from the 70's is a must.... well you never know, right?

Sugar....oh honey honey

This week i went for a routine check up to the health care with the little man. In the waiting room there is a display cabinet where there are some normal products that we all eat now and then. The interesting thing is that they have put out sugar cubes next to the product to illustrate how much sugar it actually contains. Very alarming in deed. When a friend came and visited us last year she said that all the food here is so sweet and that she couldn't eat much of it. NO WONDER! Who would have thought that the traditional Swedish sour milk contains 14 cubes of sugar!!! If you add sweet cereal on top of that - talk about sugar rush! Mmmm brekki! It is well known by now and it's all over the news that people get more fat. We move around less. Silly daily things like opening the door... why push it open when you can press a button and the door opens!? Why take the stair to the first floor when there is an elevator and why on earth walk half an hour to work if there is only three bus stops away?? Which brings me to our children. No wonder there is a problem with obesity and kids that are hyperactive, if they only eat sugar all day long. God i don't even want to think of how their teeth look like! Dentists probably would make a fortune on kids if the dental care wasn't free the first 18 years!! Maybe nature have already thought of sugar craving humans during the 19th century and that's why we all get milk teeth before the permanent ones. Evolution is ahead of us! A chance second chance for healthy teeth if we screw up as kids! I wish!! It is also a fact that many families are so stressed that they don't have the time to cook meals from scratch but use products that are already half done. Stick it in the oven and its ready after 15 mins. Sad but true as Metallica sang. The half done products make me think of another issue, if no one cooks in the family... who teaches the children of our future to cook food? Is it a skill meant to vanish? Are we raising a pizza society? Will the home made pasta and cooked meat become but a memory?

Earthquake

So the other day i was just minding my own business. Looking after Sam and just doing ordinary stuff around the house, when suddenly out of no where this huge bang...RUUUMBLEEEE!!!KAAAABOOOOM!!! The ground started to shake...instinctively i ran to the living room spotting Max in the middle of the floor with a petrified expression written all over his face. In a split of a second i thought EARTHQUAKE! HERE? WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE WORLD?? Where is...nearest door? ...closest exit? ....balcony or window? ....should i grab little man and throw myself through the window!? Doh so stupid a window would never break, i think i watch too many films. Then came the shock wave and everything went silent besides a long beeping sound. I stopped... earthquake here? Impossible... there are no such things so high up north, no tectonic plates meeting... still it is plausible. Do earthquake have shock waves??? It must have been a superficial blast...Oooohhhh....DOH! So stupid, they said they are starting to build in the area very soon. It just must have started. I felt suddenly stupid....The rest of the day i turned down the radio and TV so i actually heard the warning signal where i just ran towards Sam making the biggest silly fool a mother can out of myself as a distraction.... KAAAAAABOOM! BAAANG! RUUUUUUMBLEEEEE! Beeeeeeeep! Phew! It lasted for the best part of the week i never got use to it though. Its really strange when the most solid thing we know suddenly starts to move under our feet. A couple days later i passed the building ground... they where building parking places... and had not removed much rock at all. It wasn't a big parking like outside a mall, just a couple of car spots.... So much hassle for so little. :0)