Technical upgrades to my website mean that it is down for the moment. While the technical updates are being made, it’s just time for a brand new website.

I wanna sleep, but I have a ton of laundry to get done still…the progress is slow because the electrical safety switch keeps on shutting off the dryer. but hey, at least it dries.

Had Swedish class again tonight. After not being in class for 2 weeks, it is clear that I have to go to every class from now on and that I need to speak Swedish more frequently than I am doing now.

Oh yeah, and the Matrix is out in theatres now…I can’t wait to see it! 🙂

That is the beautiful sound of my washing machine, now repaired and functioning normally.

The positive: clean cothes
The negative: i’m planning on doing laundry until 4am

The other positive: i still have those new sheets. I never opened them because i slept on the couch last night — all 2 hours of sleep since I worked until 4am to get some progress made on my projects in the office.

Other positive: I am scheduled to begin working on the project I want to work on, in addition to the other project which is currently moving slowly. Now I will be very busy and under pressure. Just the way I like work. To party hard, I have to work hard.

hey LJ kids!

Point and plot yourself on this map. It seems like an interesting thing to do 🙂

So, after having a shitty morning yesterday in which the repair technician and the landlord failed to fix my dryer, I decided that I had to take matters into my own hands and buy some new bedding. It is quite nice actually. I call my bed “Cloud Nine” ™, because it is heavenly for both permanent occupant and visitor ;-). However, now that I have a navy blue and white motif going on, I am not sure what to call my bed. Something like “Stormy Seas” ™. I am not sure yet. If you have suggestions, let me know.

So after I bought new sheets and towels, and everything was going wrong, I decided to leave Stockholm for a day.

I was at the Forex Exchange to change some currency. I take my queue number and wait in line. When it is my turn in queue, I wait behind this couple, who is chatting with the customer service agent (never mind that the wait time was 20 minutes because there are so many people waiting). When the couple leaves and I get to the window, it turns out that the lady pressed the queue button again and skipped over me. But I went to her anyway because it was technically my turn. When I get to the window, this rude guy jumps in front of me and says “missed your turn, you need a new queue number.” I said “no I didn’t, she was talking and no matter what the machine says, I am next.” The lady takes his ticket and promises to serve me next if I just step back. So I take my queue ticket, and then in a moment of anger said “no, not today. you will serve me next, you will give this man back his queue ticket, (and turning to the man said) you sir, will wait your turn in silence and without further debate. today people is not the fucking day. do we all understand what is about to happen?”. I stared around and no one spoke. The guy took his queue ticket back and waited behind me, the lady processed my request, and I was on my way. I feel shitty when I have to be a bitch, but I will never be trampled over. If I really felt like I had missed my turn, I would said my apologies, taken a new ticket, and promised to pay closer attention next time. However, the point of failure was the lady pressing the button on the queue machine before she was finished with her previous customer. And seeing that I was in a hurry, I couldn’t afford to be as nice as usual.

So I looked on SAS for the cheapest place to go within 1100 SEK (my weekend budgets are 2000 SEK, inclusive of Thursday – Sunday). It turns out that was Helsinki. I had actually booked a ticket there a couple of weeks ago, but was unsure if I was really going to go, so I never formally purchased the ticket. So when I got the airport, the walk-up price was SEK 4000, but SAS decided to honor the 1100 SEK price, which was quite nice of them (the lady was really friendly, I almost gave her a hug because otherwise I would have stayed in Stockholm). When I got the gate, I chatted with the check-in agent for a bit (I had wanted an exit row seat, and after he helped me, I had told him “thanks so much for his help. It’s nice to see a friendly service-oriented face today. I hope you have a great day.” Well, after that, he called me back to the desk a few minutes later and informed that that he upgraded me to a business class seat. Which was nice of him. I get to Helsinki Airport and get on the Finnair Bus, and I got a free ride on the bus (normally €4.90). It get to the hotel, and I get a complimentary upgraded room in their “Club Ambassador” section of the hotel, a box of chocolates, and a voucher good for €17.00 of stuff from the mini-bar. It just felt so nice and it was appreciated. It was the type of wind down to the day I needed. Went to sauna for a bit, met up with a friend, had a great time overall.

The Helsinki experience has been everything I needed. I am now prepared to deal with all of the crap that will come my way tonight in Stockholm and Monday at the office.

Stockholm has annoyed me to no end. And the only helpful individuals are my friends Caroline and Malte.

So I am outta here. Out of Stockholm. There’s a 16.30 flight to Helsinki. I am on it. I need the day off from Stockholm. I’ll come back to Sweden tomorrow and see if I am ready to deal.

Grrrr………

Grrr…..my landlord still has not had the washing machine repaired. So I had no choice today but to send him the following letter. And I hate being bitchy, but come on, what I am supposed to do? Wallow in filth?!?

It certainly isn’t more convenient to have to go around the city and shop do all of this extra work. He ought to be glad I don’t additionally charge him for my time.

the letter

Hey people! What’s up?

It’s the weekend! I am not celebrating halloween, but I will go out and party tonight anyway. Dinner at this terrific restaurant called Kryp In (not a halloween restaurant) with Scott, Leslie, and Lotta. Maybe will see Rob, Caroline, and their friends out for drinks tonight. Not so sure about seeing Tomas and Markus, it just depends on how our calendars work out tonight.

Overall, life is interesting, frustrating, challenging, rewarding, happy, and sad at the same time.

Welcome to Rodney’s So-Called Life.

I will update everyone more I promise. Also, I am feeling generous, so if you are one of my friends who regularly visits my journal and wants a LJ code and promises to use LJ and not waste the code, let me know and I might give it to you. I’m only offering 1 or 2 of them, so act now 🙂

Peace and Love everyone! More details soon I promise!