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Great Day !!!
The kids and I moved the furniture around in the living room after I asked Milla how she would like it. The result is actually what I had in mind myself (photos tomorrow). Linda wasn’t really into it right away. She is the kind of person who sees areas that need improvement right away. So we will see how long it will last. At least Linda is talking about moving the lamps around so they hang over the table. And the kids…. well they’ve found their favorite spots in the sofa already … to get the best angle to watch their kids programmes, you know.
Oh.. and Skavlan on TV was great again. Invite someone with Tourette syndrome ??!!! Excellent TV that is.
Sick Sick Sick
I know it’s a boring theme but it has been a constant here for the last weeks. Actually since Christmas eve. The week after that the kids got sick and since then we maybe have had 2, max 3 weeks with everybody healthy. The last kind that had us all tied to the blankets is a strange one: first a week with severe headache and fever. The second week your headache is gone, but now you’ll have a running nose and a throat like sandpaper.
The only comfort one has is that we are not the only ones out there with this. Everybody we know with kids is stuck in this vortex. Buckle up, sit tight and sit it out is the only option…
Gibberish
Jesus, I have to start writing a bit more clearly. I just went over my last post and realised I write just half of what I have in my mind. The other bit is stuck in here and makes the part you read like … Un-understandable. Not good. And on the other hand, it wouldn’t be bad to just write sometimes. 90% of what I post here are photos anyway. A bit of diversion wouldn’t hurt anybody.
That was not a weekend
I was getting sick on Thursday, Friday there somewhere. Decided to ignore it and got a full load of “sick as a dog” on Saturday. Today is a bit better, but still home tomorrow since Zeb got it as well. And Linda…. she’s sleeping already with a fever….
Summertime!!!
We are longing for the summer here. Winter is not really coming, it’s just your typical swedish west coast cold autumn here. Windy and rainy, dark and grey. Nothing is gonna change that any day soon.
So we fired up the fireplace for the first time this winter. Slowly burning, no strong fire, just slow and steady. It got from nice and comfy to a this-is-getting-really-hot now. So around 18:00 we decided to measure the temp in the livingroom. And guess what….. 29°C. Hey, if summer is not coming we have to make it ourselves.
Sorry
A nice quote I read the other day:
No, don’t tell me you’re sorry. Tell me you’re going to fix it.
Which is usually a problem. Both at work and in one’s personal life. And yes, I make that mistake as well… We are all human after all.
2012
Happy New Year I would say. But that was for yesterday. We had a day off. No hangover recuperation. Just lay low and enjoy life.
Now let’s see what 2012 will bring us.
Instas
Not a lot happening here due to overload of stuff to do. Both at home and at work. And that means I barely touch the camera. It’s collecting dust for the moment. Have to take care of that.
The big thing that is happening at home is that we are swapping room with the kids. They get ours, we get theirs. More room to play for them. And… that means no more closets in their new room, but a long wooden play bench (which I am working on at the moment).
On the other hand I have been taking more and more shots with the iPhone. So here are some Instagrams:
Night Biking
Maybe doesn’t sound as sexy as night swimming, but it was fun as hell !!!! I felt like a little boy again, out playing and having a lot of fun. We jumped on our bikes around 19:00 and head off into the woods. During the first 45 minutes it was still light enough to bike without the lights. But then it started getting dark. And once it starts getting dark, it goes pretty fast here.
See what I mean? Dark and bright lights. The only thing that buggered me was the fact that the lights on my handle bar didn’t sit tight enough. Happens with a conical bar. So we have to fix that one before next week. Can’t wait to go out again…
Aperture Revealed
For those of you don’t know how it works, here is a video.
High speed video of Canon 18-55 aperture blades in action. High bandwidth version.