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Doodling a b-day card

July 31st, 2009

My uncle has his b-day party on Sunday and as I’m mighty bored today I figured that I would try to make a b-day card of my own for him. He likes golf a lot, hence the golfer. Gonna finish the design up later, need to write something on it too :-P haha.

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Tools of trade:
Staedtler Mars Lumograph HB
Staedtler rasoplast eraser
Staedtler pencil sharpener
Stabilo fine point pen, black
Colored pencils from my 120 set from Prismacolors, love them!

(P.S. When it comes to free hand drawing I suck, when I got a pic to o after, that’s another story…)

NeroAnima Pictures

Söderåsen National Park and IKEA

July 30th, 2009

It’s been a while. But hey, I’m back with some updates :-)

Last update was Monday after we went to the Skånes Djurpark so I’ll just start where I ended.
Tuesday was a day when we didn’t do that much, we just went out to some store that sells military supplies. Lev bought himself a jacket (really nice one, the style I like) and a gas mask. Very slow day compared to my days this past week or so.

Yesterday we wanted to go out and do a little shopping so we went to IKEA outside of Helsingborg. We mostly just looked around at IKEA and the only thing we got was a new shower curtain and a box for me to keep my nail polish in (34 different ones right now, I need more :-P ) We also went in to the mall and Lev bought some pens for his white board and more incense. We had dinner at the taco place there, enchiladas for Lev and quesadillas for me. Our last stop before going home was ICA MAXI in Hyllinge where Lev bought some bake up pizza that he likes, with tomato sauce in the crust. I got all happy over this stop cause I found 2 new nail polishes and two lip glosses from IsaDora for a good price that I bought.
When we came home Lev cleaned up a little bit in his den while I pretended that I was a plumber (just like Mario) and cleaned the drain the shower that’s been giving us issues lately. And yes, I’m a girl and I clean the drain, but in all fairness, as it’s my long hair that’s clogging it up, I should also be the one cleaning it.

Today I woke up from the alarm on Lev’s iphone, he didn’t tho :-P Haha. After he also was up and I had taken my shower and gotten ready (read: clothes and makeup) we drove to the Söderåsen National Park for a stroll. I haven’t been there in ages, neither has Lev so it was really nice to go there. It’s really beautiful nature with tons of photography opportunities. They have 3 marked routes and we took the yellow one (shortest) that was 3.9 kilometers (2.423 miles) and it was a very nice walk, even tho we had to climb tons of stairs in the beginning to get up to the top.
We already plan on going there again in a couple of weeks, that time we might take one of the other routes that are about twice as long as the one we walked today.

After the walking we went home, picked up a falafel plate each and then ate while watching CNN (not too fond of that crap but better than like mtv and whatnot.)

I’m gonna get off and relax for a bit, I’m tired after a night of bad sleep and walking around. Later.

NeroAnima Life goes on

Lev’s new camera and Skånes Djurpark

July 27th, 2009

Let’s see here, I think I’m supposed to recap the past two days, correct right?

Anyways, yesterday, Sunday… Oh yes, Lev finally got an idea of what he wanted for his (belated) b-day so we went out and got it, a new digital camera (which I did mention before his b-day…) He choose a Sony CyberShot DSC-W210 and I paid 60% of the price while he paid the rest.
When we got home we charged the batteries, Lev for his camera and I for mine, and once they were charged we headed out. We went to the small park area with to small lakes that’s pretty close by and snapped a bunch of pics of everything we saw, including a Grey Heron. After the walk we drove to the store and bought food, for dinner we made homemade subs.

Today I was all bored and restless in the morning but once was Lev was up and about we decided to go to Skånes Djurpark . This was our second visit this year, we got free tickets from my parents and we can go how many times we want this year so it’s a nice thing to do that doesn’t cost us tons of money either. We usually stroll around, take tons of pics and just enjoy the nature and the animals.
Today we got to pet some bunnies and cows in the petting zoo, that was cool.

We barely came home before Lev wanted to take a stroll around the area to take some more pics. His new camera is good, he’s easier to persuade when it comes to going outside with me ;-) Haha.

Well, I’m pretty tired now. Gotta get some rest and think about if I want dinner or just gonna settle for something small like a sandwich.

NeroAnima Life goes on

Purple flower

July 26th, 2009

Today I hung out with my dad

July 25th, 2009

9 am my dad called me this morning and asked me if I wanted to go to the annual fair in Röstånga and I was of course up for it! I was over at my parents place yesterday and we talked about the fair, they have a small animal section between 9 am and 12 am one day of the three day fair and it was always my favorite thing to go to in the summer as a kid. I got really happy today when my dad called me up and asked me if I wanted to go. 30 mins after we hung up he was outside our apartment with the car, no worries tho, I still had the time to shower, put makeup on and get dressed. Sometimes I can be very efficient.

The animal fair was nice, tons of poultry and bunnies with a goat, two horses and a few other animals. I didn’t buy any animals but it was fun to just walk around and look at all the cute bunnies. I love bunnies.

After we were done with the animal fair we crossed the road and visited the “regular” fair, walked around with my dad looking at people (and kinda laughing at them. Haha) didn’t buy anything tho, nothing that caught my interest that you can’t get in a normal store, kinda. It was still fun tho, we used to go to a few fairs every summer when I was a kid and I always thought that they were fun to visit.

Once we were done with the fair we got in the car and drove towards Kågeröd, where my parents live. We made a stop at my grandparents for a little chit chat. My granddad has little chickens that he hatched himself, they were so small and so cute. Next he’s gonna have a go at quail eggs.

On our way back from my grandparents I spotted something yellow at one of my parents “secret mushroom locations” and my dad hit the brakes, haha. We did however find a lot of chanterelle so it was all worth it. Me and dad got into one of those picking mushroom phases so we went to three other locations and actually found chanterelle in all of those places. One of the locations was like buried deep in the woods and we had to climbs rocks and sticks to get there, felt like a workout at the gym when we were done there, thankfully I was smart and I had rubber boots on me (the fair is on a field, it gets wicked muddy there, hence the boots)

I was all sweaty and exhausted from picking mushrooms in the woods :-P I hadn’t eaten since the morning and I was so thirsty. When we got home to my parents place we had sandwiches, and water before my dad drove me back home again.

I had such a fun day today :-)

NeroAnima Life goes on

Helsingborg x2

July 23rd, 2009

Both yesterday and today I hung out in Helsingborg.

Yesterday I was called in on an emergency as my sister got sick and had to go the hospital, I rushed there in the car and was with her until they let her out of there. As usual they didn’t find anything, didn’t listen to her properly and couldn’t do anything.
After the hospital we went to the nearest store and bought some food that we later prepared, made potatoes with meat balls (for my sister) and like gravy. Yummy! Spent the evening there and was home around 21:30 pm.

Today I woke up early. Why? The bunny of course. He had managed to get up on the big table on the balcony again and flipped some pot that made a noise and woke me up. He has now also managed to butcher the two strawberry plants we had there on the table and the cilantro as well.
Around 8:30 am we got in the car and headed for Helsingborg where Lev had a meeting. It was raining like crazy in Helsingborg and as we had 30 mins to kill I made a detour and spent like 25 USD on two umbrellas for us as I knew that there was no near parking to where we were going and I didn’t want Lev to get soaking wet (I at least had a jacket with me)
We parked the car and walked towards the place, we walked for about 15 mins, with umbrellas, and still got soaking wet. Both mine and Lev’s shoes were soaking, as well as our soaks and our pants was like wet up til the knees. My arm and back was pretty wet as well. Stupid rain.
After the meeting we called my sister up to see if she was awake, and as she was we headed over to her apartment with an old wireless router of ours that we had promised to hook up for her so she doesn’t have to be confided to her desk. The router, of course, gave us problems and we soon realized why we stopped using it, it sucks. Since I’m a nice big sis and felt bad cause it didn’t work I said that I would buy her a new router instead of giving her our old one, that didn’t work. So, me and Lev drove out to the big mall outside of Helsingborg and I spent 40 USD on a new router for her.
Once we got back we ran into problems as it didn’t seem to work, we tried everything and was close to bringing the router back when we tried to reboot her computer and then it finally worked. Windows… But yeah, everything works now, she got a wireless and protected network setup and she can surf the web from anywhere in her apartment now as opposed to before.

I think it was about 13:45 pm or something when we headed back from Helsingborg, we did however made a detour to my parents place to hook up their water heater so they had warm water when they got back from their vacation later today. We also picked up Lev’s b-day gift from my sister, a set of Simpson’s plates.

The rest of the day I’ve spent laying down basically, I felt like I was drained from energy and that doing anything was just so exhausting. I guess that was happens when you forget to eat and feel a bit stressed in the head.
It did get better tho after the dinner Lev made, I refilled my energy depots and now I’m just tired after two days out with a lot of going back and forth.

NeroAnima Life goes on

Bunny mischief

July 21st, 2009

Sometimes I think that Little Lev has nothing but mischief in his cute little head… Today when we woke up and greeted the bunny on the balcony he was all happy, running around and doing a few binkies. I soon realized why, he was happy cause we didn’t “yell” at him for the mischief he had been up to during the night… Haha.
I wonder sometimes if we didn’t get a hold of some sort of a mountain goat instead of a bunny cause this little fur ball climbs everything, last night he managed to get on top of the table on our balcony, before that I have found him sitting in our open window into the bedroom, on shelfs and whatnot.

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Well, at least he left us the strawberries…

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This box didn’t have bite marks from bunny teeth last time I checked. And there was no matches scattered all around the table either.

Well, even tho he’s always up to something we still love him like crazy and would never trade him for any other bunny in the world.

NeroAnima Little Lev

Long time since we had a pic here

July 20th, 2009

Yay or Nay: week 29

July 19th, 2009

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  • Skype: One of the best programs around, the other week me and Lev had a video chat with Patty and Rachael across the globe, and it was all free. Awesome!
  • Dreams: You gotta have dreams to strive for. Mine consist of a long life together with Lev.
  • BBQ’s: Good even for a vegetarian like me ;-) I love grilled veggies and qourn fillets. Too bad we’re stuck in an apartment on third floor and are not allowed to BBQ on the balcony.
  • Little Lev: Even tho he’s not a little boy anymore (he turned 1 last Sunday) he still binkies around and acts like my little guy. I love to see our bunny being so happy all the time, it mean we’re doing something right and that he enjoys living with us ;-)
  • ALF: We’ve been watching ALF again and I like it, one of the coolest aliens around.
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  • Sunburns: I know, it was my own fault and everything but I still don’t need to like them.
  • Subway closing down: Yesterday we found out that Subway closed their business where we live, no more subs for us :-(
  • People that totally lack any form of innovation: Yeah, you gotta feel proud of your work when all you do is to rip off other people ideas cause you’re too stupid to come up with your own… *yawn*
  • Msn not working on my desktop: Been bugging me for a few days and I don’t know what’s up, if this is on Pidgin’s end or on Microsoft’s (wouldn’t be surprised if it was the last alternative…)
  • Mischief at dawn: I think I’ve been woken up at dawn at least 4 nights this past week as our bunny loves to be up to mischief early in the morning. I prefer sleep so I’m not so keen on it.
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    It’s raining… water

    July 18th, 2009

    Oh my, it sure is pouring down over here right now, I don’t mind it tho, on the contrary, it’s good for all the plants and whatnot that has been enduring this past weeks heat.

    The past two days was spent with my sister, Thursday we went to out parents place and barbecued hot dogs (and a horse fly bit me) and then yesterday we headed out for shopping. After the shopping we bought some food and went to the beach for a picnic.
    Most people know that I’m pale, very pale, and I therefor burn easily. I, of all people, should know this but somehow I suppressed that and got sunburned on my back :-( I think it was because it was like cloudy and hot so I probably didn’t realize that the sun would still burn me as much as on a clear day. Well, done is done, as my mom says: if the head is stupid the body gotta suffer :-P

    Other than that it’s been good days, Lev is working very hard every day and things are looking bright for SikoSoft and I try to help out when I can.

    Now: Theme Park on my DS.

    NeroAnima Life goes on

    Männiksohamn by John Ajvide Lindqvist