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I’ve been tagged by Sarah

The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.

Each player answers the questions about themselves.

At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people (Yeah, like I have that many friends…) and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

(Did this yesterday but managed to forget to post it)
a) What was I doing 10 years ago?

Teen years ago… um… how old am I? Crap, having a crises, I can’t be that old!? I was in school, meat eater back then and had ten more kilos to carry around, having a silly crush on a silly guy that looked like a lollypop. He was way out of my league and that was why I liked him so that nothing would ever happen.

Same old same old… in many ways my life hasn’t changed that much in teen years, that’s pretty sad.

b) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today:

· To write my four pages
· Have some stuff to do in the garden (defiantly more than five but there’s no way I’ll manage all of them today)
· Do some laundry (but there’s no rush really, I just added it so that I would look good)

c) Snacks I enjoy:

Too many! All I eat is snacks, chocolate (bars, ice cream, cake, cookies…), doughnuts (!), raspberries and blueberries (is that a snack?), candy!! Now I’m getting hungry, and there’s a big bag of candy upstairs, not good.

d) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

(Me and my friend talked about this yesterday) I would pay off mom and dad’s mortgage on the house, I would buy my entire neighborhood and throw all the idiots out. I would probably have a house made from scratch, a small cute one with a large garden and a HUGE green house. I would go shopping; buy lots of books and movies. I would travel and I would most defiantly give my brother a large sum of money, I probably owe him half a million already.

e) Places I have lived:

I lived in a grey tall building for my first six and a half years and then we moved here where we belonged. Same area and all but…

I'm tagging Aimeé

A week of writing

And it’s been going pretty well but now it’s the real test, trying to find the time to write during the football. I have had a little trouble writing the four pages and wanting to make it to three pages per day but so far I’ve managed to stick with it and I intend to continue. Feeling pretty good, I usually don’t stick with things. Even the days when I have been busy with something else I have been writing some even if it hasn’t been four pages.

I made a little list of events that is supposed to happen in the story so even if I don’t know what to write I know it’s supposed to be something creepy for example so I have a little guideline and that really helps.

Day six

Almost been a week now and I have been writing every day, not four pages when I have been away doing other things but I have been writing and that’s the important thing. Today I was given a task, I’m supposed to take my favorite book in the same genre that I’m writing and read it, se what I like and why and so on. But I don’t have a favorite. In fact, I haven’t read a book similar to the one I’m trying to write so I guess I should look for some and read them.

Know any good teen books with spooky mysteries in them?

Poppies in bloom

Finally, after a long wait (sort of my fault because I mistreated them) my sowed poppies are in bloom! Not that pleased with the orange/red color normally but now I don’t care, I love him, he’s such a cutie.

The smaller unknown poppies (update, it's Welsh poppy) are in bloom too, don’t like yellow flowers but… they are such easy plants. My plan for next year, or perhaps fall is to but ALL poppies I can find (at least the perennial ones), I want to have more of them. It’s very easy to start collect flowers.

(The yellow one is the one I have seeds of Aimèe (or anyone else) in case you want some. Need photoshop on this computer...)

Four pages is kind of a lot…

Especially when you don’t really know what to write… I don’t think I will be able to do four pages per day and then I will feel like I failed and get upset and not write at all, maybe two pages is better? It’s better to write a little than not writing at all.

Day three (a day at the beach)

I think I have decided which story I should write and I’ll bring a pen and paper with me to the beach today when I’m off with “Elizabeth”, her baby and her mom. Then there’s something for me to do since I’m too lazy to shave my legs and haven’t owned a swimsuit for ten years. I’ll try and make a list of events for the story, sort of like a schedule so I know what to write later. (sounds like good idea right now)

My Compis is here!

And he’s working! I thought I had to wait to get internet but my brother fixed it right away. I defiantly need a new chair; I think I’ll mess up my back with this one. Today I have to figure out when is the best time for me to write and, “Be realistic in the time you plan, and then live by it.” Sticking with things has never really been my strong side I have to admit.

Evenings or midmorning… tricky. It’s less chance of interruptions in the evening but then there’s the chance that I stay up too late (I sound so old). Maybe I should try midmornings… I’ll write now and then I do the midmorning thing… crap, got plans tomorrow… So I’ll try the midmorning thing on Wednesday instead. But that’s the thing if I’m busy I’m most likely to be busy during the day so evenings might be better. I just have to get some self-control and not stay up all night long.

Evenings, write for at least one hour, and at least four pages per day. Let see how it goes and if it’s realistic.

How many times have I tried this?

I think it’s only two but it could be three… but let’s try it one more time. With my Compis (computer) arriving tomorrow (hopefully) I might get some peace and quiet to be able to do this. My main problem is just, which of all my stories should I work on? I wonder how many I have now; let’s do a quick count… at least 25, probably more.

This is day one and I have to make a commitment to write every day, to do my very best to finish this once and for all. But what story to work on…? That’s really tricky and I don’t know, maybe I should read what I have so far and see which one I feel for the most right now and stick to that one? I can work a little on the others as well but have one as my main priority.

I should clean my desk properly now, all the draws and everything so all I have to do tomorrow is to get the compy to work, that will probably take me all day. I hope my brother will be around to help me…

What language should you learn?

Fantastisk! You're laid back about learning a language - and about life in general.

Peaceful, beautiful Sweden is ideal for you... And you won't even have to speak perfect Swedish to get around!

What Language Should You Learn?

I already speak Swedish...

Some (crappy) pictures

Took these when I was out on a longer walk with my dog. They aren’t great but at least they’ll show what it looks like around here.

Ew!

I forget to check the lilies daily and yesterday I spotted this nasty little bug sitting on my Tiger Lily.

I don’t know…

I can understand why girls like it but I don’t. It was just too damn cute and that whole damsel in distress thing was too much for me. How many times did she use the sentence, “I love you”? Too many that’s how many… It started out okay, the first half was pretty good and I think it would have been a better book if the guy had been like a drug dealer or something instead of a vampire. It’s a very pretty cover for the sequel but I won’t read it, I do want that tulip though.

Couldn’t resist

So I bought a book and now I have to wait until it gets here. Hate waiting, waiting on my computer but it’s said to be here on Monday. Anyway, read the excerpt and it seemed pretty good so… I have no self-control when it comes to books, or plants for that matter. Oh my, I have 133 books on my wish list at Amazon

It's a bee! (or something)

My allium is in bloom and it seems like I’m not the only one that appreciates it. I have to remeber to get more of this...

Done, on to the next

Finished my book yesterday and I started reading a new one, “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer, not sure why but so far so good. Have a feeling it will start suck soon, I don’t know why I think that, I just do… This is not my kind of book but I like to read books that become popular and try to understand why so I guess that’s why I’m reading it. It’s very easy so far so even though it’s about 400 pages I don’t think it will take that long for me to finish it.

I got a crush

I love this tree! It’s called Jacaranda and if of course not hardy here in Sweden I think I might have to leave Sweden just to grow this tree.

Picture from Gulfcoastliving

Picture from Jene's Tropicals

SPRING TIME IN MY TINY BATTERED GARDEN

Vitsippa Anemone nemorosa
The lawn, covered with daisies
Some kind of allium
Bleeding heart (love the english name)

SPRING TIME IN MY TINY BATTERED GARDEN

TULIPS
For some reason the deer left some tulips this year, which I’m very pleased about. Haven’t seen them in awhile and I thought I didn’t like them, maybe to protect myself since they usually gets eaten? Anyway, I like tulips and I’m buying some more for next year and I hope the deer is continuing to be nice to me.

New book

“The Canterville ghost and other short stories” Different stories by Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain Theodor Storm, Robert Louise Stevenson. Good with a short book, or there is now way I’ll make it.

Promise

To write at least four pages a day. That doesn’t sound like a farfetched dream, it could be a reality. I do want my own computer though, peace and quiet without people bothering me. But if I was to have a computer in my bedroom, when would I go to bed at night? Have a feeling I would stay up way too long… I wonder what a computer costs?

But the idea of getting time to write sounds so much better if I had my own little place to go to, a place where I wouldn’t be bothered. People snooping around, reading over my shoulder, hate that! The dream would be to have my own little shed though...

(PS. Just Decided to get my own computer, the promise will start when it arrives; I think I’m worth it)

I’m reading way too slow

I finally managed to finish my book… There’s no way I’ll make 101 books in 1001 days, unless I start to read really short books… I should have finished that book a long time ago; I should be a few chapters in on a new one by now. It doesn’t look good for the whole 101 books thingy right now.

They are taking my plants!!

It’s hard to be a guerrilla gardener. I planted some violets and some Blue-eyed Mary (Omphalodes verna) and now they are gone! So is the cute little pansy that was growing there, I hadn’t planted it there. There’s no trace of my Silene coronaria either, someone is taking them! So far my daffodils are okay but that’s probably because they are not in bloom right now. I don’t want to plant more stuff is people are taking it…

Deadly Girlz new collection

I had been looking forward to Deadly Girlz new collection but I was a little worried and it looks like I had reasons to be. It’s pretty damn dull… The favorite one is this green one and that’s because it’s my favorite color at the moment.

Thank god for Deadly Ca$h

Who wants tea?

I have a few flavored black teas that I don’t like and will never drink so… Elderberry, apple and one called Himalaya, not really sure what’s in it but some kind of fruit.

Found the lovely lady at MAD POTS of Tea

Boxwood vs Lavender

Trying to make something out of the “backyard”, it’s a mess but I spent the entire day yesterday digging and pulling weeds and there is an improvement. I want a nursery/kitchen/herb garden with cold frames and everything, little stone paths so that there’s no grass that needs to be mowed.

I want to make little borders to the flowerbeds and I think I want boxwood but lavender is nice too, but boxwood is evergreen, but lavender smell nice and is easy to sow… What to do? Maybe I can have both or perhaps that will make the flowerbeds too wide? My heart says boxwood but it would be a lot easier with lavender. Tricky, tricky…

Boxwood, picture from Odla

Lavender, picture from Burgundy Experiance