Sorry about that, I  seem to be too deep in lurkdom to actually post something myself these days. 

I'm sitting here looking out at the greyest of grey November days. I'll be heading outside in a while. I seem to live forever in Goretex these days...

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows (or Harry Potter och dödsrelikerna)was released in Swedish yesterday. The review was posted today in Dagens Nyheter and it came with instructions. RIP OUT THE EPILOGUE for your sanity's sake. Also, the reviewer expressed her sadness of it still being so much of a children's book. Seeming as the Harry Potter young readers have grown up with the books and with Harry and gang also growing up, the readership should/would be ready for more of a complex story with better charachterisations. I couldn't agree more. It read as bad fanfiction to me. I should know as I don't even try to fight my compulsion anymore. I've read much better at fanfiction net . And that is saying much. 

I hope you are well as can be. Me? a bit on the mopy side. Anyway, heading out. 


And now it's raining. A lot. .

Pan 

Like I said, my computer has been acting up a lot lately. It started with the sound disappearing. After many days (weeks?)of ranting and trying to fix things by way of links to links, I did the one thing I've promised myself never to do. F10 ´I tell you. Let's just say things went steadfastly worse from there.....

Anyway, I still have no sound, Norton refuses to reinstall and my pictures and funfiles are partly gone. I haven't been able to look at the damned thing for fear of actually doing some more damage. 

I have been having a quiet week all by myself in the house as husband (yes, still around and being nice about it) went to Dallas, Texas on business. He keeps calling me telling me about how cheap everything is now with the low dollar. I had requisited a trip to REI and some training gear and outdoorsy stuff. We'll see what he comes home with. I suspect it will be mostly techy stuff for himself though. 

I have been shamelessly watching all of my favourite dvds for a week now. A friend of mine is something of a trekkie and he has lent me the full Startrek Voyager disc set. I used to love that series, but didn't watch it from the beginning, nor did I finish it (why, tell me why do the tv programmers keep changing the shedule at random?) So it's been Janeway and Co  all over for me. I've tried to get my husband to watch it with me, but he is not a real fan. 

Strangely enough he remembers Seven of Nine. Should I be surprised?

Having been gone from live journal land for a year and a month (give or take), I felt it was time I went back on the horse again.  

So, in short, I am alive, still married (much better now, thank you very much), still wibbling about my career, still trying to figure out what I want in life. Still obsessing over stupid things and what they actually MEAN. Plus ca change and all that.

I have been lurking live journal every now and then, mostly in the Battlestar Galactice and Harry Potter fandoms of late. I still read too much fanfiction and fantasize about arrogant, stroppy bad boys/girls. (Many of them blond, am viking after all.....) 

I hope to be here more often from now on. (Not that difficult, seeing as I've been cold turkey for more than a year) 
So hallo to whoever still comes by, take care and I'll be seeing you.

pan

A long time dream come true. I (we, yes indeed!) am going to Iceland. The geysirs, glacieres, icelandic horse-back riding and the lobster awaits. I'll be back Sunday afternoon. With stories to tell....

Thanks for all your warm thoughts and greetings of late, I'll be toasting you with Black Death vodka come this evening. :)

Take good care you... off to REALLY find my inner Viking;)!

Tell you what. Life is good again. More to come soon...:)

Take care all!

Not quite dead yet. Still in the jungle though. And I'm running out of metaphors now if you don't mind... Soooo, on account of my personal life being not wonderful, I've decided to not go on about it just now. Much.

In other news, I have been watching a lot of TV (well, dvds mainly) lately and I have found myself crying my eyes out at the wonderful season one Spooks finale. I have decided to watch the whole Spooks series from the beginning. I LOVE it with the burning love I reserve for the kind of quality drama BBC excels at. Can you tell I am a BBC-freak?  Long live public service television! Which brings me to my humble question, I have been desperately trying to acquire Spooks season Four now but the torrents are not cooperating. Is there perhaps some kind soul out there who has it? Pretty please?

My second new love is Battlestar Galactica. It's dark, heroic and with that sense of impending doom that I for some reason seem to pick up on lately ;).  Add to that interesting grey characters, GOOD acting AND eyecandy. Starbuck anyone? I love the fact that it is space opera while still managing to be low tech and about people. There is that timeless feel and it feels gritty and real. The music, the UST, the Pretty. And it's on tonight. Hmm what's a girl to do? Off to find fanfic...

I'm back, obviously. Hope you've all been well, eating a ton of food and spending time with friends and tolerable family. The holidays are great, but I can't stop myself from sighing happily when they are finally over again. Sigh.

I haven't seen a computer for about a fortnight now and therefore I know very little of what you've been up to as of lately. My Christmas was fine and it was great having my parents here. Hate the lingering feeling of uncertainty though. There is still struggle in my marriage, and a lot of pain, but I'll try to work something out of it, eventually. I want good things for this new year, I want truth and I want happiness. I'll be sure to spread them around. Don't mean to sound cryptic, think of it as my resolutions.

Fannish things WILL return I'm sure.

Take care of yourselves.

So sorry, I've been insanely busy over the last few weeks. I WILL make up for this and get back to a more regular schedule sometime after the 27th, when my dear parents will go home again. (Yes we do the big HOOPLA this year and we have my parents staying as well).

This is just to wish you all a HAPPY CHRISTMAS in case I don't make it to a computer for a couple of days.

If you find the time, head over to the_grynne 's  journal and read her very beautiful Irina short fic. Thank you so much Diana; what  a lovely present..:)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/the_grynne/tag/fic-alias

See you soon ...

My, oh my have I been a busy bee lately. Live journal, hello, where are you?

We've been on the go for weeks now. Last weekend (and part of the last week) it was the summer house in Dalarna. Lovely open fires, glistening snow, ice on the lake. This weekend we're flying down to dear old Skåne to celebrate my father's birthday. I haven't seen my parents since early August, so it'll be great. I just hope he likes his present, he's hopeless to buy things for. Sadly it is a very short family themed weekend, otherwise I would've loved to meet up meko00 .

When I come back from this I will tell you more about such interesting and high-brow things as my visit to see the Dutch Masters' Exhibition (http://www.nationalmuseum.se/NMTemplates/NMSingleExhibition____3769.aspx) and about Brecht's Baal, which we saw yesterday evening.

If this is not to your liking I will also rave a bit about me, finally getting to see Firefly and Battlestar Galactica. I WILL go to see Serenity one of these days... 

I may even get the time to sneek in time to finally e-mail you rivier about those so very lovely Fishes ...

Have a great third of Advent all!

So what do you do when you are trying to mend things these days? Some people might go for flowers and fluffy pressies. Not us.

We went to the Stockholm Old Town to have some Indian (which was scrumptious) and then go for a Ghost and Murder walk, not knowing that we are currently commemorating the 500 year anniversary of the Bloodbath of Stockholm, when the Danish king Christian II had the greater majority of the Swedish nobility beheaded. Three days of killings, the streets of the Old Town aflowing with blood -- you get the picture.

So, we show up and apparently there has been some sort of re-enactment thing going on at the grand square (Stortorget) in Gamla Stan. The theme of the walk was changed for the day, now relying heavily on this event and the guide kept going on about Christian the Tyrant, as he is known to the Swedes. Being from the old Danish provinces, we have always called him Christian the Good. He committed an atrocious act, but it is not as though the Swedes treated the newly made-Swedish areas any better. Yep, we Scanians know how to hold a grudge all right ...

The Old Town is a complete medieval city core and usually a haunt for the various goth and live playing set and we had seen an inordinate amount of black during the afternoon, but this was just ridiculous. They had all taken part in the re-enactment of course. Anyway, it was a nice warm (10 degrees Celcius)night and the Old Town is very different at night, in the side streets, away from the somewhat gaudy touristy shops. We don't regularly do this kind of thing here in our home town, but I almost always attend one of the various city walks when visiting other places. All in all a Saturday evening well spent.