Beach :)

Toni came to visit me on Wednesday and stayed until Sunday. I had a great time with him, as I always do. Now that he's gone I feel so lonely, as I always do. But ofc we did have time to do stuff :)

On Thursday we took a trip to Malmö. We went by the Sci-Fi Bookstore and I got myself two new Abercrombie-books (Best Served Cold and Heroes), The Hunger Games and the first season of Sherlock on DVD. After that we had some time to kill so we took a walk down by the beach. I walked around in the water for some time, but Toni stayed on the beach :P After some time we walked back to the city to go to the cinema. We saw The Dark Knight Rises and it was just as awesome as everyone says. That's the third superhero movie we've seen together: The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises. Some pictures from the day:

On Friday I had to work so Toni stayed at home gaming all day and I spent the day wishing I could go home. When I got home I had pizza waiting for me, and cuddles ofc ;) Great end to an otherwise quite tough and boring day. My dad got the idea that we should try and sell madkaps this year. Yeah, right. Love and I had them on for some time and then gave up when people started walking around the stand and not making contact.

On Saturday we didn't really have anything planned. But we took a trip to the festival. It was 30 degrees outside and terribly sunny. After a walk through the festival, some nachos and some churros, we decided to go back to the beach we had been at on Thursday. None of us had thought of going there beforehand so ofc we didn't have any swimwear or towels. But we walked around in the water for some time, Toni too this time around :) And got to watch the sunset :D  Some pictures from the day:

On Sunday Toni dyed my hair. That was long overdue. I promise a picture on Sunday at the very latest :) Spent the rest of the day gaming. Toni tried the original Rayman on a GBA for my DS, while I tried out the expansion pack for The Sims Medieval that I just had discovered (yes, I'm slow with these things). I walked Toni to the station in the sweltering heat and left the station with that big empty hole that comes every time he leaves or I leave him. The rest of the evening I spent gaming.

Today I've been keeping myself somewhat busy. I got up relatively early, cleaned up a bit, rehearsed some Japanese and played the game for some hours. Well spent day according to me.

The First Law, work, Harry Potter and Alice Cooper

Alright, so I don't really know what to do with this post. But I bet it'll turn into something... Probably something random.

Finished reading "Before They Are Hanged" by Joe Abercrombie last week and continued with the third and last book in the series: "Last Argument of Kings". I have already read half of it. The series is great. There are a lot of things happening that you did not see coming in the beginning, but he starts giving hints just before it's about to happen and in that way I start guessing what's going to happen and I get really pleased with myself for guessing the right thing :P Probably exactly the way it was intended to. I'll definately buy more of his books. I think there are two stand-alone novels he's written too.

I've had two days off this past week and I'm so very tired. Feels like I'm working full-time during my summer vacation and it's way tougher than studying full-time... How will I survive employment after graduation? xD

I went crazy today btw and pre-ordered Harry Potter Wizard's Collection...

I'm kind of sad that I will miss the Alice Cooper concert in Gothenburg this Wednesday. I work Thursday morning and I was planning on taking the train to Gothenburg and arrive in the afternoon, see his show, then take a night train back home and still be in time for work. Well, guess what. Last train from Gothenburg leaves 8.40pm and the frist train in the morning departs 5.40am and arrives 20 minutes before my work starts. No way I'd make that in time. Why no night trains? Cause it's a friggin weekday. Thanks a lot. My dad got the idea that I'd check the flights too. But a flight return ticket arriving at an appropriate hour cost over 4 times the return train ticket. Awesome. I do love Cooper, but it's not worth it. I guess I just have to wait 'til next time. And hopefully there'll be a next time. Too many old rockers are dying these days. At least I've seen him once. 

I can't wait 'til it's October! I want to move into my new flat! I'm so excited about it!

About you

All this talking to you. I don't know what I'm to do. I don't know where you stand, what's inside your head. All this thinking of you. Is that what you're doing too? You're always on my mind. I talk about you all the time. Don't waste another day. Don't waste another minute. Can't wait to see your face, just to show you how much I'm in it. So open up your heart. Help me understand. Please tell me who you are so I can show you who I am. You're just standing by. You're just wasting time. Why don't you just tell me the truth about me and you? And as the time goes by I hope you realise, if you ask me to I just might be with you. 

Avril Lavigne - "Stop Standing There" 

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If I show you, get to know you. If I hold you just for today. I'm not gonna wanna let go. I'm not gonna wanna go home. Tell me you feel the same. Cause I'm for real. Are you for real? I can't help myself, it's the way I feel when you look me in the eyes like you did last night. I can't stand to hear you say goodbye, when it feels so right. Cause it feels so right just to have you standing by my side so don't let me go cause you have my soul. And I just wanted you to know. 

Avril Lavigne - "4 Real"

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You said "hey, what's your name?" It took one look and now we're not the same. Yeah, you said hey and since that day you stole my heart and you're the one to blame. And that's why I smile. It's been a while since every day and everything has felt this right. And now you turned it all around and suddenly you're all I need. The reason why I smile. 

Avril Lavigne - "Smile"

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I can be tough, I can be strong. But with you it's not like that at all. There's a girl that gives a shit behind this wall, you just walk through it. And I remember all those crazy things you said, you left them running through my head. You're always there, you're everywhere, but right now I wish you were here. All those crazy things we did, didn't think about it just went with it. You're always there, you're everywhere, but right now I wish you were here. 

Avril Lavigne - "Wish You Were Here"

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I like your smile. I like your vibe. I like your style. But that's not why I love you. And I like the way you're such a star, but that's not why I love you. Hey, do you feel, do you feel me? Do you feel what I feel too? Do you need, do you need me? Do you need me? You're so beautiful. But that's not why I love you. I'm not sure you know, that the reason I love you is you, being you, just you. Yeah the reason I love you is all that we've been through. And that's why I love you. 

Avril Lavigne - "I Love You"

Nerdiness of June

Harry Potter. Alice Cooper. Mad Men. Call the Midwife. The First Law. Lara Croft. The Sims 2. Tokyo. Grey's Anatomy. Heroes of Might and Magic V. Music. Pokémon. Firefly. Plants vs Zombies.

Harry Potter. There hasn't been much of it this month, really. Just that one quote and everyone getting nostalgic and sad over HP-related dates from the past at the community. It's 15 years ago the first book was released in the UK, it's 5 years since the last book was released, it's 2 years ago since the first trailer for DH part 2 was released, it's a year since the last movie was released... Everyone is grasping to hold on, seemingly; "My childhood, don't leave me!!!" Then that one quote:

"No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love do live in us forever and whether it'll come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home."

- JK Rowling

Alice Cooper. I may have ordered more merch (A). But come on, a magazine only about Cooper? A giant poster? I'm in! :D

Mad Men. Finally got around to seeing the end of season 5. It has been so incredibly boring. I hate how they criminalized Lane. I hate what happened to him - he was one of my favourite characters. I hate that Peggy's almost not in the series anymore. I hate how Pete's becoming more and more of an idiot, but it's quite pleasant to see that Roger is finally growing up a bit. Still hate Megan. There are only two reasons left for me to watch Mad Men and they're called Joan and Sally.

Call the Midwife. Saw a trailer for this show on TV and thought it looked interesting. So I decided to check it out. I saw the entire series in two days and I was so happy to find out that they're making a second season. Wonder if Chummy will still be in that series? I usually don't like Miranda Hart, but Chummy is the only character in the series that really grew on me. Jenny is just too ignorant and the other two... well one of them is too shy and innocent and the other one is the complete opposite. I guess I do like sister Bernadette as well. The young nun. She's kind of charming. 

The First Law. The fantasy series by Joe Abercrombie. I got sick of the final Eddings series and decided to continue with The First Law instead. I'm still completely in love with Glokta and I'm starting to really like Ferro as well. There are more things happening in the second book than the first. The first book was pretty much just a prologue. The second book seems to be a transportation for the group led by Bayaz, but things seem to be happening kind of quickly for Glokta, which is completely fine by me :P Mr. Abercrombie keeps blowing me off my feet. His writing is fantastic, although kind of rough I do love his language. I have started figuring out that I prefer fantasy with male main characters.

Lara Croft. Toni wanted us to play a game together on his Xbox 360. He started up Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and thrusted a controller into my hands :P We finished the game in two days and it was so much fun after I had figured out the controllers. 

The Sims 2. I'm in one of those phases again. I've started killing off my second generation. I just grew tired of them as I usually do with the elder sims. I'm slowly planning the future of my fourth generation that's coming along pretty nicely. This is the current family tree:

Tokyo. I had that dream about Tokyo. One of my friends from Tokyo said that she wanted to go back there, and when I said I wanted to too she mentioned summer school and now I can't get that idea out of my head. One summer. No work. In Tokyo. Seems absolutely wonderful tbh. 戻りたい。帰りたい。恋しいな東京。I even miss the big bugs...

Grey's Anatomy. We're slowly catching up on season 8. I've had the ending completely spoiled though - thank you TV trailers and Facebook. My favourite episode this far is the one with George's mother. I need to re-watch the first three seasons! 

Heroes of Might and Magic V. Yes, I think 5 is better than 3. Don't hit me. I've started playing it again every now and then. I grew tired of my Viking dwarves and so I've started playing the Necromancers again. I'm not even half as good with the Necromancers as I was with the Dwarves, but it's fun anyway :) And it's really been a while since I played with the Necromancers. They were the first ever class I played. 

Music. I've been wanting more and new music lately. So I got the idea to check out all of Toni's favourites xD It took three days. I've also fixed the discographies of Stone Sour, Twisted Sister and Crashdïet. 

Pokémon. I started a new game in Pokémon SoulSilver. Let's see if I can keep going to the Pokémon League this time.

Firefly. Showed the series to Toni who hadn't seen it. He loved it. And then I showed him the movie. I love River! "I swallowed a bug." That's probably the third time I've watched the series...

Plants vs Zombies. Toni bought it for me on his Xbox. I also played for a bit on Love's PS3... It's still an awesome game! :D

I want to go back...

I dreamed about Tokyo again tonight. Only this time it was different. I dreamt that I had gone there again and  been in class with Massimo, Julian and Sabrina again (the ones that were there when I left). After class we went to eat okonomiyaki. It was raining. Then we decided to go out, despite the rain.

The need to go back to Japan is still there, two years after I left. I still miss it constantly, although less fiercly. I still have my photos from that trip as my screensaver. I still read through my blog posts from that time every now and then. I can't believe it's already been two years, it seems like only yesterday I was taking the underground in the morning rush every day.

This calls for a picture bomb.

Metaltown 12

On Thursday morning I got up around 6 am to shower and finish packing before heading off to the train. It was sunny and warm already in the morning. 3 hours later I arrive in Gothenburg and it's so cold, cloudy and windy. After waiting around in the waiting hall for about 20-25 minutes the train from Stockholm arrived with Toni and his friends. We got going to Shock to change our tickets for wristbands and then went to have lunch. After lunch we stocked up on cider and beer before finally going to the place where the bus would pick us up and take us to the camping area. Already at the bus stop some of the guys put up their camping chairs and cracked open a can of beer and Toni got his block rocker playing. Arriving at the camping site we put our tents up and after a while even the marquee. But it was freezing cold that evening. I was sitting with sweater, jacket, fingerless gloves and blanket and was still freezing. As time went by more and more campers showed up and the party grew bigger. Around 1 am I was so very tired and Toni and I decided to go to sleep.
Pictures Thursday:

On Friday the festival really started and after getting water, having brunch and going up to the festival area to buy some merch the party started for real. Loud music, singing along, cheering, drinking and crazyness. We hung around there until it was time to head back up to the festival area and watch Jason Rouse around 6 pm. After that we had a look at Avatar. Before going to the stage where Within Temptation were going to play we had dinner. After WT we saw Lamb of God and then Marilyn Manson. It was crowded in front of the stage when Manson played. I was pretty much pressed against a guy who was half a head taller than me. Towards the end of the Manson concert it started raining, first just a bit and then quite heavily. Since we could see pretty much nothing cause the huge guys in front of us obscured our view of both the stage and then screen we decided to go back to the camping at that time and thus saw nothing of In Flames. I like In Flames but I haven't really listened to them since Come Clarity and I haven't been very interested since then. No big loss not having seen them really.
Pictures Friday:

Saturday was just crazy. Party crazy. For brunch we had BBQ with some awesome brochettes. One of them had kangaroo, crocodile and springbok on it xD After breakfast we went back to the camping and stayed there pretty much the whole day. There was no band playing on Saturday that neither I nor Toni was very interested in seeing. Although we got to see some of Mastodon when having nachos for dinner. The rest of the day was just party some of it cramped together under the marquee while wearing rain ponchos to get away from the rain, but still very cheerful.
Pictures Saturday:

Sunday we had to get up early since the camping closed at noon. We packed our stuff and got to drinking the last of the beer and cider and having some final party time before departing. Well back at the central station in Gothenburg we had brunch at NFC (some knock-off of KFC). That's where I met up with Zabini (from the Swedish Harry Potter community) and later also HIM (from the same site where I first met Toni). Around 4.30pm we all got on our respective trains and headed back home.
And that was all from Metaltown 12 :D
I'll treat you to a video too ;)

I love...

And that turned into a rant...

I consider it to be awfully hot already and there's still way more to go... I'm in preparation for Metaltown :) Today I went all over town buying things that will be necessary or that I simply just needed. What's left doing tonight is creating some kind of party music list for the nights at the camping and possibly start with the packing, but I doubt I'll do that in any serious fashion. My serious packing will probably start tomorrow evening and then I need to get on an early train on Thursday.

Something else I have done today that I can't help but feeling immensly proud over is that I've repaired my pants, which means I've been sewing. For the first time in, what, 5 years? Nothing complicated just making a new seem where the old one had split and made a hole, but I'm still proud. So I've done some needlework, by hand. Sewing machines and I are old enemies. 

I'm having this great urge to play The Sims 2 again. I want to get going with my families again. I want to continue with my Teague family and I want to really get things going with my Takahashi family. Do you remember my Teague family? This is what the family tree looks like as of now and I haven't really been playing for months. 

Just a few days ago I got this urge to build more houses and get a move-on with my sims. I don't have pictures of all the houses I've built, but I have pictures of these five:

When I build houses I don't really think about what I'm doing... I just add the base and then some random walls and out of that there may be towers, balconys, porches, saunas, green houses, gardens and garages. My personal favourite is the house with many towers. My vampire sim (Ai) lives there with her daughter :) In the first house, which was my first ever house for the Teague family, lives a werewolf couple (Evelyn & Aiden) and in the house next to that (the one that looks like a two-storey cottage) lives a sim-robot couple (Fenrir & Byron) with their soon-to-be-born Alien baby. The bottom image is what the neighbourhood currently looks like.

Alright, fine, I just felt like I had to make a rant about it.

So now I'll try to go and make that playlist...

Nerdiness of May

I really should be blogging more often... Maybe I should start mobile blogging?

Anyways...

Harry Potter. Skyrim. ANTM. Mad Men. Writing. Alice Cooper. Tim Burton. The Avengers.

Harry Potter. I don't know how it happened. But suddenly I started hanging out a lot at FanFiction.net reading Dramione and Drarry, there has been one Ginny/Neville too and a really weird one involving Snape/Draco... Can't say that I want to stop reading them with a straight face. The most fun ones to read are the ones rated Mature. Yes, I'm dirty, it's not like I'm trying to hide it. Okay, I was lying. I know how it happened. I got into my head that I should just check out the FanFiction section of the forum at that Swedish community... I read some and then it got advanced... This is nothing new. I used to read fanfics all the time at hogwarts.nu. Either I was simply younger at the time or they were better writers at hoggy... I got bored with the fanfics at the forum and decided to go pro :P

Skyrim. I haven't really played that much, but I decided to go somewhere else for a while and try to get past that troll later. So I've been clearing out some bandit nests ever since. Now it seems like I'm in over my head again as I stumbled upon a camp of mage apprentices. You can't use my own weapon against me?! So not fair! *pout* ;) But I had a lot of fun when I was working on defeating that Necromancer as a way of helping a guy...  I failed the optional directive of protecting the guy so he died in the process... But I did defeat the Necromancer and got to kick some dead guys' asses too :P

ANTM. Saw the finals today. You remember me saying that my favourites were Azmarie and Sophie? Well, Azmarie was kicked out pretty early because of her "too cool for school"-attitude and then I could focus solely on Sophie who just kept winning me over every time. I was so happy for her success when she became the face of "Rude is Nude" and when she booked all her go-sees. But I was seriously doubting that she would win since she's a Brit. But the ANTM judges proved me wrong and she won! Sophie won! Yay! :D

Mad Men. Sad to say but Mad Men is getting boring. Last season was awesome and now it's just blah. What happened?! I keep watching the show just for the sake of it, but honestly... I guess the fact that Peggy quit is the only really big thing that will happen in this season?

Writing. Yes, I did start looking at my writing again. I have whole scenarios in my head for my main story I just need to get them into print and I also need to get to those scenarios story-wise. It's going very slowly...

Alice Cooper. I am not kidding when I say that I really really wanted one of these and that I was so very happy when my boyfriend actually bought me one. I also finally came around to buying five of my favourite Alice Cooper albums: Constrictor, Brutal Planet, Dragontown, Dirty Diamonds and Welcome 2 My Nightmare. I already had Trash, Hey Stoopid and Along Came a Spider before and now this lands my grand total of Alice Cooper albums on 8 :) I'm getting there ;)

Tim Burton. Toni showed me a movie by Tim Burton that I hadn't even heard of before. It was called 9 and it was super-cute, kind of steampunky and really good. My favourite characters being 7 (ofc) and then 3 and 4 :P Then ofc we went to the premiere of Dark Shadows. It wasn't awesome, it clearly wasn't one of the best movies he's done, but it wasn't bad and complete crap either. All on all I liked it and the ending promises a sequel :D And pointing back at my recent Alice Cooper hype... I had no idea Alice Cooper was going to be in Dark Shadows. When the ingress was rolling and it ended with "with Alice Cooper" I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. "Did you know about this?" "No! *huge smile*"

The Avengers. We went to see The Avengers on the premiere as well. I haven't laughed so hard at the cinema in ages. It was so hilarious. The crowd was so geeky and we applauded and laughed so many times. I could see it again at the cinema. So worth it. Also some of the scenes were hilarious like this one. And I still can't stop laughing to "Puny god". "Your brother just killed 80 people in 4 days." "*shrug* He's adopted."

Notice the fact that Diablo 3 isn't on this list. Why? Cause I just can't bother with linear MMO-RPGs that I'll suck at anyway.

This is me right now

I just wanna scream and lose control

Throw my hands up and let it go

Forget about everything and run away

I just wanna fall and lose myself

Laughing so hard it hurts like hell

Forget about everything and run away

Nerdiness of April

Harry Potter. Skyrim. The Sims 2. ScaryGirl. Plants vs Zombies. Rayman. Game of Thrones. Mad Men. ANTM. No Ordinary Family. Nightwish. Music.

Harry Potter. It will be a bigger thing when that name won't appear on my list of nerdiness... Although this month there hasn't been a lot. Sure I've been hanging out at that Swedish community as per usual. I've looped this video a few times. I showed this video to Toni and he can't seem to get it out of his head (hilarious). Oh and yes Pottermore opened for everyone. I got Love into making an account just to see which House he would get sorted into and he turned out a Slytherin. Well, he could fit into any House. Then Kajsa decided to make a new account because she was so displeased with ending up in Slytherin (she really doesn't fit in there) and redo the Sorting Hat test. She ended up in Hufflepuff exactly as she wanted to and was really happy about it xD I'm satisfied with being in Slytherin. Because of all the hype around Pottermore opening I ended up making a few potions again.

Skyrim. So I finally got my stuff together and tried out the game. I really like it :D Although now I'm stuck, which is somewhat good timing cause I need to write that dissertation anyway. But I'll probably have to do a few sidemissions before going back to the main one cause I can't seem to get past that troll that blows me to pieces in two hits.

The Sims 2. I've gotten a little tired of it. But I still play at times. My Japanese family recently had twins. Other than that I have nothing new to report.

ScaryGirl. I've played through the demo twice now and I really like the game. I'm actually considering to buy it, but I'm not sure. Why? Cause I find the demo somewhat difficult (I suck) and I think the full game would really be something I would just rage quit on. Somewhat like Alice Madness Returns...

Plants vs Zombies. Playing through the game on my DS. It's a little different feeling from being used to playing it on the PS3. However I still like the game, but I feel a little rusty. Gotta get more practice! Didn't have enough time last time, my DS died on me...

Rayman. I've completed about 20% of the game on my DS which is the furthest I've ever come. But I'm doubting that I'll get much further. As mentioned before I'm kind of sucky at games although I love playing.

Game of Thrones. This series is so goddamn awesome! Tyrion and Daenerys are my favourites. Can't wait til next episode. It bothers me a bit that each season is only 10 episodes long, but at least that's better than BBC's Sherlock which is only 3 episodes per season.

Mad Men. The new season doesn't have me starstruck like the other ones did. I hate Megan. I want to see more Sally. I watch with glee and malice how Betty struggles. And just the sight of Sterling bothers me. And is it only me or does Don seem a little boring in this season? And it needs more Joan!

ANTM. This season is getting interesting. Could it be that America's Next Top Model is a Brit? That would be so awesome. I was very disappointed when Azmarie was sent home but Sophie keeps getting more and more awesome. And I think I'm getting attached to Alisha as well.

No Ordinary Family. Finished the first and only season. A second season of this series would've been so awesome. The series really improved in the second half of the season and it could've gotten really great if it was only allowed to conitnue. Americans just don't know what good TV is, if they did all the good series wouldn't be discontinued. Yes, I'm looking at you Heroes and Firefly.

Nightwish. The concert three weeks ago was just amazing. I was really tired when writing the review and it turned out really crappy. But honestly, the Nightwish one felt so much more amazing than the Within Temptation one. I keep hoping that Nightwish will be one of the final names to be revealed for Metaltown. I want them there so bad.

Music. There has been so much music lately. I'm completely stuck at a bunch of groups now. My post The past hour shows this pretty well. Stone Sour, KoRn, Staind, Sixx:A.M., Alice Cooper, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, The Pretty Reckless, Avenged Sevenfold, Skid Row, Mr. Big, Mötley Crüe, Guns n' Roses, KISS, Nightwish, Within Temptation, Lordi... The list keeps on going and I just want more and more and more...