One full month since the last post, eh? Feels like I’ve fallen off the face of the Internet…

But it is for a good reason! I now have a job
Previously I’ve been pending between freelance work, temporary jobs and unemployment – but since the end of February I actually have a normal 8-5 job. It’s at the same advertising agency I’ve done so much freelance work for so it’s not a huge difference. I already know everyone there and such. It’s just that now I actually have to be there

It feels great to have somewhere to go in the morning, when you’re working from home (or not working at all) all routines go out the window. Especially for me. I turn into Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances in no time… Now I’m actually forced to get out of bed, take a shower and put on some nice clothes rather than loafing around with greasy hair and dirty sweatpants all day.
I’m just not used to getting up so freaking early, I was walking around like a zombie the first two weeks *yawn*

And what’s really great is that I can bring Zaphod with me He doesn’t care about people coming and going and never barks so it’s no problem having him here. He sleeps in a basket under my desk and during the lunch hour we go for a walk along the river.

This is the view from the window. Not a very good view at the moment though… There’s a snowstorm raging. The spring equinox is on Saturday, but it doesn’t feel very spring-y at all…

Anyway, I’m not dead
It’s just that I try to be good and leave the computer at work (really, 8 hours/day should be enough) so I don’t get to do much personal online stuff. And when I get home I’m usually to tired to do anything constructive.
But I will try to make some stuff for the new Qbee activities! The club has been updated in several ways and is now having a “house swarming party” I’ll show up with some cupcakes later, ok?

Mirrored from Rockwitch.net.

I don't think anyone has missed that Mother Nature has been unusually destructive lately.
With Haiti pretty much evened with the ground and now Chile. Thankfully the tsunami didn't get as bad as they feared, but the cathastrophe is still a fact. And up here we have had the coldest winter in 50 years - and also the snowiest. If it's not -30°C cold it's snowing like crazy. Someone's not happy right now...

And then this song got stuck on my mind. Fitting, huh?

"Violate the law of the wild, see her lose her temper
Drink the wine from her stream
Have a time, she's there for thee

You are still the number one
Wilderness, my soul
We may have or lose it all
Respect the wilderness, Respect the life
Save the nature for your unborn child"

Mood anxious Tags: musicmonday, nature

This weeks questions from Friday5.org :)

1. What’s something you do more quickly than most people?

Brush my teeth. I tend to brush really hard and really fast.

2. What’s something you do more carelessly than most people?

Clean :P I'm not very good at keeping things clean and tidy. And cleaning is so boooooring!

3. What’s something you do more slowly than most people?

Eat. I chew everything like 50 times before I swallow so every meal takes forever :P I've always had difficulties swallowing big things (I hate taking pills, if at all possible I always choose the liquid version of medicines) and I have a slight phobia of choking so... I chew. A lot.

4. What’s something you do more carefully than most people?

Carefully? Hm, I don't know. I'm more careful then most when walking down stairs, does that count? I just don't have a very good sense of balance and my right knee is kinda wonky since I dislocated the knee cap a few years ago. So I tend to fall far behind when walking in stairs.

5. In what contexts are you more patient than most people?

In a lot of ways actually. I'm not a stressed person, I don't mind queues at stores and I don't freak out if the bus is 5min late etc.

Mood hungry Tags: friday5

I just noticed that today is my 3 year anniversary with last.fm. For 3 years exactly I've let it track my music and I've never once reset it.

Now, of course I've listened to music on CD's and on other computers etc, but I think around 95% of the times I listen to music I do it on my own computer. I don't like ear phones, I get a head ache from having sound blasting straight into my ears. Even if I turn down the volume almost to the bottom. So I've never used Mp3-players or iPods or the like.
And even if my computer occasionally gets hijacked by friends during parties it's still only minor to my "own" music that I listen to myself.

So I think last.fm is pretty accurate when it comes to my music taste :) Let's see what the statistics say...

The not-so-popular ones

All the way back on page 23 of my artist library, I found these artists.
Honestly, I have no idea who most of these people are. Must come from those times I've listened to the radio.

• David Cook (1 play)
• Tomas Blank
• Alice
• Suzzie Tapper
• Robin Beck
• Men at Work
• Kevin Borg
• Scarling.
• Huey Lewis & the News
• Nocturnal Rites

Mood nerdy Tags: music

This weeks questions from Friday5.org :)

1. Be honest: what are some rules you have for yourself that don’t really make much sense?

I think it's more of an OCD-thing than a real rule, but I need everything to be in even numbers. If I'm going to... I don't now, arrange a flower bouquet, I need the number of flowers to be 6, 8, 10 etc. I can't have a bouquet with 9 flowers, that won't do. Yeah, I'm crazy like that.

2. What rules of questionable sense did your parents have for you when you were young?

I can't really remember.... to be honest we didn't have many rules and most of them were more common sense than actual rules.

3. What’s a rule most people (if not all people) seem never to obey?

Clean the filters in the tumbler in the washhouse :P And jaywalking, nobody waits for the red man to turn green...

4. There are no rules governing the giving and receiving of Valentine’s Day gifts, but what rules should there be?

That you don't have to give anyone anything? I don't celebrate V-day myself so I've never really thought about it.

5. If the Golden Rule says you should do unto others as you’d have others do unto you, what would the Silver and Bronze rules say?

Silver would be to treat yourself as you want others to treat you. We are often so much harder on ourself than on other people, but you can't get love or respect if you don't love and respect yourself.

Bronze would be to..... I don't know. Respect nature possibly?

Mood chipper Tags: friday5