Plants are overrated

I was visiting someone (yes, the "makes me smile" kind of someone :D) in Stockholm this weekend and I wanted to bring a "Thanks for having me" present. Usually this is a plant, flowers, bottle of wine, or chocolates. But given previous conversations with this particular person, I decided to go with something a bit more unconventional and a bit less grown-up. Lego :). And we had fun putting it together :). I think it is a bear on the sign, but I maintain that it is an aardvark. It looks like an aardvark!

Pimped my headphones

I saw this on Pinterest and one of my students had it. So I decided to try it. I made a happy rainbow one. Of course :). My fingers kinda hurt and I wish I'd remembered my jewelry tools earlier....but still, very satisfied with the result. 

All official like

Today was the open house for our school. It was a pretty good turn out. And the students did great showing people around. I was happy to fit in with all the grown ups with my official LFTG shirt. Although after careful consideration,  orange is not my most flattering color :).

Plastic Animal Massacre

I saw a really cool idea for magnets on Pinterest. You take plastic animals, saw them in half, then put in some magnets, and viola! Super cool magnets for fridge :). I finally found cheap animals at Biltema (along with bestest ice scraper ever!). So I brought animals back to work before our open house to be slaughtered. Markus thought I was crazy. I will admit to being a tad bit excited. But I'm certainly not crazy. Pfft. Anyway, after one test animal by Tamas, Erika and I slaughtered the whole zoo :). I will put up pictures when I get the magnets on :).

Suck it winter shoe shopping!

Well the time has come. It's too cold for my beloved Converse. My winter shoes died last year. As in the bottom fell off. I guess that happens after a few years. But I hate winter shoe shopping. They're all just so...ugly! I want my Converse dammit. But I went out anyway with a totally shitty attitude to get me some boots. Four stores later I had found two jackets, three skirts, five sweaters, and a pair of pink Converse that I wanted. I resisted it all, don't worry. But in the fifth store after trying on 13!!! pairs of boots I found them :). They are black boots....but are they really? If you look close you can there is a black on black pattern of skulls and roses and leaves :). And of course I added the rainbow shoelaces myself :). It is me after all!

Cool elevator buttons

We stayed at a friend of Tuffe and Rolf in Stockholm. He lives very close to where the banquet was so it was very nice of him to let us stay over. In the elevator there were numbers and pictures on the buttons so kids could easily get to the right floor. So very cute :).

Along for the ride

I found my little clown in a box and decided he was going with me to Stockholm. He was my favorite when I was young. Apparently he is a type of collectible from back then. It was kind of cool to find that out :).

I'm smarter than the car!

We wanted to have some music for our road trip to Stockholm so I put some on my phone. Then we had to figure out how to play it....The wires didn't work so I tried the Bluetooth and it worked!!! After a few tries...but still!!!

Banquet time!

I got to go to Stockholm this weekend for Forodrim's November Banquet. It was very fun, the first time I have been to that one. I got to see Tuffe and Rolf who also went to the banquet. It is also fun that I am getting to know more people now, so I don't have to worry about having people to talk to :).

Snow White :)

I got to be Snow White this year for Halloween :). We had Halloween at Angmar and hopefully everyone had fun. I was in charge of making it fun, so of course I hope it was a success! There were snacks and a trivia quiz and prizes. I love Halloween :).

Take that, printer!

I got a cheap printer so I could have one at home. I always seem to need to print things at home. Anyway, I told the guy at the store I wanted easy simple nothing fancy printer. But when I went to install it there was a small problem. It had a CD and my computer didn't have that. Well craps. So after panic call to Jens I downloaded all kinds of crap from the home page. And I made it work! I solved an actual computer problem! I was so proud I had to share :).