Postcards to Stockhom: The importance of... opposable thumbs

Dear Sis,

Yay! for blog posts categorised under "Daily life catastrophes and other stories" yay!

Second weekend spent at my place and second catastrophe. I don't want to but can't help thinking that my own apartment hates me to pieces.

First weekend there cost me four days of physiotherapy. Second weekend almost cost me that distinctive human feature not valued enough: Opposable thumbs.

I sliced half my left thumb's phalanx and it was like being part of a Tarantino movie.

It was all going nice and smooth on Sunday morning and I was about to try my new toaster when it all happened. A false movement and I had enough blood on the counter to feed the whole cast of  Twilight.

I kept calm for enough time to get some ice on my finger, put my coat on and go straight to my mom's in my PJs. Once there... I cried, almost lost consciousness and let mom take care of me like a baby. Living within a five minute walk from your mom can save your life.

My thumb has been rendered useless for a while it seems... so now, completely normal and effortless actions become a trial and I require assistance for simple stuff like:

1 - Washing my hair.
2 - Opening a packet of M&Ms...
3 - Squeezing the toothpaste.
4 - Zipping my jeans.
5 - Collecting the parking ticket from the machine while driving (most painful so far).
6 - Adding sugar to my coffe.
7 - Combing my hair (is if had hair to be combed actually).
8 - Typing on my Bb.
9 - Snapping my fingers (don't really want to imagine that right now).
10 - Piloting the Tardis, the Millenuim Falcon and the Enteprise.

So here I am, dirty hair, dirty teeth, uncombed hair (not unzipped jeans, not that) loving all this complaining.

I am not uploading pictures this time for your own sake. No need to thank me.

Love,

M

Halloween. Fastart!

Date: October 14th.
Time of execution: 4 minutes.
Tools: MagicSketchpad - Charcoal on blackboard.
Location: Arlanda Airport. Stockholm

Is this a new blog section?

We'll see...

Such is Life!

In the mood for...

Christmas! In mid October, I know, I know what you are thinking, no need to say it.

Halloween is not here and I already feel all christmasy. Maybe the last order I made to one of my new online shops helps in this...

I have the cutest crafting project in mind. I'll let you know about it soon enough. In the meantime here's a pic of what is going to come.

Stockholm won't know what hit it on November 9th when the project is revealed!!!

Muahahahahaha (in a Halloweeny tone).

Such is Life

PS: YES, I went to Stockholm and NO, I have not posted about it yet. That goes to the to-do list.

Postcards to Stockholm: 3, 2, 1...

Dear Sis,

I am coming!! Three more days and you'll have me there, going absolutely crazy in each and every single design store we walk by. In the meantime, check my super lovely October calendar!

 You may already know, but I'll tell you again just in case you forgot, my neck is killing me, and oh how I suffer. I can't wait to see you and complain in person. In fact, just as this post is being published I am on my way to the physiotherapist to try and fix me in time to resist the Stockholm shopping madness that I plan to bring on your sorry self.

Start tidying up, clean the dirty dishes and get the couch ready because my next post won't be a Postcards to...  but a Postcards from...

Love,

M.

Postcards to Stockholm: 11 and counting

Dear Sis,

11 and counting (backwards).

 

Love,
M

P.S.: Yes, that is washi tape in our calendar.
P.S.2: October's pics are the best!

What about second breakfast? (The SiL archives vol. II)

What about second breakfast? Well, I'll tell you what happened to second breakfast. I was planning on a supercool post on the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and all this Tolkien awesomeness and work got on the way. Work and then Ikea (but that is another story *note to self, post about your weekend in Ikea*)...

I was soooo late for second breakfast that I don't even see the point of posting this but...

I am posting this as part of the SiL Archives:

September 21st, 2012: WHAT ABOUT SECOND BREAKFAST?

That's exactly what I thought yesterday at work...

What about second breakfast?

I suggested some of my friends to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Hobbit by having second breakfast at 11:00 am, and no one wanted to celebrate with me. How devastating that no one around me understands the magnificenticly amazing moment I lived yesterday at 11:00am.

75 years of the publication of the book that preceeded the Lord of the Rings...

And I celebrated by having a cup of vanilla tea while typing incessantly in front of my computer's gigantic screen. How celebratory... (*irony*).

You know what? that tea tasted special no matter what you say or how freak you think I am.

But tea seemed insufficient to celebrate, no matter how much intent I put to it. Soooooo I went online and discovered:

http://www.hobbitsecondbreakfast.com/ of course there had to be something special online, yay!!

And I found a lovely craft that decorated my parent's place all of last weekend (yes I have started calling it my parent's place cause mine now looks like a home and not a warehouse!).

I had to trick a coleague into  printing it, and then I was almost late for dinner on friday, cut, cut, cut, washi-tape, washi-tape, washi-tape, baker's twine, baker's twine and more baker's twine and it was done! Easiest craft ever... May it was not intended for adults which explains (a) how easy it was and (b) this note that appeared on the first page:






I promise I was extremely careful with the scissors.

And I am keeping it, of course. By September 21st next year it will be decorating my super huge grey wall, right on top of the humongous TV I intend to get as soon as I pay all my debts (that may be sometime by September 21st next year too...)

Have a nice week. Short and amusing, with enough work to keep you busy but no so much that you can't have your lunch break and get to the office one day and don't get out until the next. Those are the really good weeks (I miss them).

Such is Life.