everyday life

tulips

tulips, originally uploaded by catsfalk.

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My favorite flower is the Tulip and the tulip season has begun. I bought my first bouqet of tulips today. I am enjoying it here at work. A picture will come. The mosaic above are past years tulips! Lovely, right?

a sunny sunday

366.013 - a morning with knitting, originally uploaded by catsfalk.

What a lovely morning we have here. The sun is shining from a prefect blue sky! I need to go out! I had a nice moning with a long breakfast, got up dated on this weeks episode of ER and did some knitting on my pink scarf.

But now I need to soak up the sun... See you later!

totally london

Between reading novels I have been reading gudie books about a big western European city. I have some books about this city and I also bought a new one the other day. I haven't been in this city since I was a teenager, so it was not last year

Next trip will go to London - it will be so fun.

I have the tickets and I have a bed to sleep in and I have lots of ideas what to see and what to do. It will be a nice long weekend spent with the Londoners!

I was at the British tourist board yesterday and picked up some folders about  this lovely city, so I have some great readings ahead of me.

So what would you want to see or do in this city? Or what did you do or saw on your latest trip to this city? Most of you, my readers, want to try on the London knitting scene, I'm keen to do that too, but London and it's surroundings has so much to offer. Shopping, museum walking, city walking and so on.  I have about three weeks to take off.

gloomy days

366.009 - working while listening to some good music at last.fm, originally uploaded by catsfalk.

The past days has really been gloomy. All the snow is gone. It has been raining, raining and raining for days now. Not fun at all. But you have focus on the good things, right?

* Those of my co-workers, who had to leave their employments before Christmas, will be back. New money has found the way to our wallet! Huzzah!

* The new born baby girl, has a name. She will be called Iris and it's a family name - one of Doc's grandmothers was named Iris. And I really like it. I haven't meet her yet, but I have send her some goodies in a package .

* When I have to work at my desk, I almost always listen to music. My offiice is an open landscape office (whitch I hate) and to close out phono calls, chats and so on, I listen to music. The past days I have gone back to the 90s and I have been listen to my grunge cd collection with Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots and Temple of the Dog. But I have also been listening on Last.fm. The photo is showing me just after lunch today. Can you listen to music while working?

the winter is here

Sitting in my sofa after a quite calm work week, drinking tea and watching the 9 o'clock news. It's Friday - and I'm just relaxing. I have been taking a bath, eaten tomtoe soup. Outside it's really windy.. It's really nice to sit here cuddled up in a warm and cozy apartment.

So far this year, we have a whiteworld. Really nice. The forecast this weekend is more snow.

Here is a snap shot from yesterday, I was out on a work related errant around 9.30 am.

The Winter has arrived to my home town! Finally!

The sky is dark and it came lots of snow yesterday. It has not been much of the white stuff this season. But the winter is long! Hoping for the best!!

1, 2, 3

First, I have a new tiny friend. January 1st, Doc and her hubby Mr T became proud parents and Georg became a big brother, to a healthy baby girl. She was born around 2 am, she was 49 centimeters long and her weight was 3500 grams. The new born is yet unnamed, but the parents has a couple of choice's to choose from. Doc is still at the hospital though, she's got an infection after the c-section, but is now feeling much better than 24 hours ago. I spoke to her on the phone earlier today and she was happy but tired! Congrats! Can't wait to meet the little one and the rest of the family!!

Second, I can tell you that my poor neighbour is released from the hospital, she came home Tuesday evening. But she is staying at her mothers for a while for some TLC.

Third, my December reading list are as follows:

* The Lincoln Lawyer  by Michael Connelly. This is not a Harry Borsch crime story and it's not good as a Harry Borsch story, but it's ain't bad, not just Harry Borsch.

* Sommarbarn by Katerina Janouch. Miss Janouch was born in Prag, and the family fled from Czechoslovakia to Sweden early 70s and this is the story about this journey. But the story could not capture me. Sorry, I didn't like it.

* Livets aviga och räta (The Friday Night Knitting Club) by Kate Jacobs. A book of a group of women in New York and a yarn store. Love, broken hearts, lovely written. I liked this one very much! If you haven't read it, do so!

* Madame Terror by Jan Guillou. This is a story set in a russian made submarine, now a Palestinian sub. The book featuring fictional spy Carl Hamilton. It is a thriller novel about the relations between the US and the Arab world. But unlike other thriller novelists such as Tom Clancy, this novel is written from the Arabs' point of view, specifically the Palestinians. Bush, Rumsfeld  and Cheney gets bashed in this book. I must admit I loved this book.

Between 1986-1996 Guillou wrote a series about featuring fictional spy Carl Hamilton, a Swedish James Bond. And I lovedthis series.. And it was nice to yet again, read a book with Carl Hamilton in it. He is not the main story in this book, but the makes things happen. I haven't read these books in ages, but after Madame Terror I started to re-read the first book again - Coq Rouge.

I can tell you I have 5 book going on at the moment - maybe I can end them this month. How many book can you read at the same time?

new years day

So how are you feeling today? I am mostly tired after about 2 hours sleep tonight.

I live in an apartment building with thin walls. Most of the time I have no problems hearing my neighbours life. I live in a very calm neighbourhood, and my neighbours are very nice, well behaved and has seldom parties. Yesterday was New Years Eve and there where a small party in the apartment above me. Not a big deal. Everybody had fun.

I went to bed around 2 am, and woke up at 4 am due to a woman screaming. A frantic, horrible scream, a scream that gave me the chills. My first thought was that someone was raped outside in the park. She kept screaming "No, stop" several time. Than I heard a door slam and the woman was scream in the hallway. She had been thrown out of the apartment. She kept screaming and banging on the door. "Let me in. I will call the cops. Please..." I realise it was the woman living in the top flat in my building, she lives alone, and as far as I know, she has no boyfriend, but she had company this night and he was not treating her nice.

What to do? The couple living above me, where dead silence, they must have been woken up too, of her scream. I opened the door as the same time as my closest neighbour opened her door, miss IK whispered to me she call the police and they arrived shortly after. And they brought the guy down, the young woman was driven to the hospital and miss IK and I gave our statement on what we knew of the thing. After this I couldn't sleep. I was still a bit jumpy.

I hope you had a better start of the new year! Rest of my day has been spent in front of the TV, eaten leftovers . I took a walk in the snowfall around lunch to get some fresh air and clear the head. It was really nice to walk in the snowfall. It has actually snowed all day.

At the moment I have trouble of keeping my eyes open, but it's to early to go to bed. I have to be back at work tomorrow , so I will try to stay awake 4-5 hours more. (I look tired on the photo.. taken today around lunch time.)

December reading list will come in a few days or so.