Day 08 – A moment

I wonder how many "moments" I've had in my life. I've lived 30 years on this earth so there must be a whole lot. Beacuse moments can really be anything. I wonder how many moments I've forgotten!

I could write about the moment I had about 15 minutes ago. I was going to buy some milk and I was feeling grumpy since my day hasn't been the best. I didn't get any sleep beacuse of bad stomach cramps which, well, let's not talk about what it resulted in. The thing is that I wasn't up to going out in the cold and walk to the store beacuse that would mean tensing up the whole body beacuse I didn't want to slip on any icy patches and you know how nice it is to strain your ab muscles (the tiny ones you've got) when you have a sore tummy. Anyway, I was walking along the side walk and I saw a young girl with two dogs. She was a few steps ahead of me but when her dogs saw me they got curious, especially the great dane puppy. He couldn't walk forward after that and jumped backwards just to see where I was. I caught up with them quickly so I let them sniff my hands since I could see they were too curious. The little moment cheered me up. Animals really have that good impact on me.

Day 07 – Your best friend

Now this was a hard entry to write. It's why it's taken so bloody long. I don't have many friends, I think if I said just how many friends I had, and how my social life worked, people would be horrified. Beacuse today, friends are a sort of statussymbol. You collect friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter- it beacomes a hunt for popularity. Don't get me wrong though, this is not criticism towards those who has twitter- or Facebookaccounts- beacuse I have both and I get happy each time I get a new follower or a friend request.
Ok, I might be a little picky- I just don't accept every friend request I get. But enough about that. The topic for today was "my best friend". However, I want to make a little twist to it since I don't like to write about other people on my blog.

Do you think that a pet can be your best friend? Well, in a sense I think so. Animals are sensitive, just like us and just like with other people there is chemistry between you. At least if you take the time to notice it. I know this beacuse I've experienced it over and over. I lost a close friend, you could call her a "best friend" earlier this year. I still miss her deeply. I've never experienced such affection from anyone earlier. Well, here's a parade of my best friend Sess. I still miss you my sweetheart.

Day 06 – Your day

My day, uptil now (5:30 PM)- all the times are approximate:
9:00- Woke up by the alarm. Realised that it was almost dark outside still.

9:30- Sat by the computer. Checked out mail, Facebook, twitter and the blog. Found an award from Sublim among the comments which made me happy. Good start of the day.

10:05 Walked to Ylva with the hopes to get a warm cup of coffee since it was snowing outside- a whole lot!

13:15 Got back home again. Felt a need to read some of the litterature from the unicourse.

14:30 Read about Pippi Longstockings and thought about Annika's role as a girl in the books.

15:45 Started to go through my wishlist with nailpolishes and link to different NOTDs.

16:30 Mind numb after all the NOTD search. Went back to reading.

17:00 Realised I'm to tired to read.

17:00 Hungry.... can't focus on either writing or reading anymore....

Day 05 – Your definition of love

I guess my definition of love isn't all that complicated. Although love is a complex thing. There is the love for one's partner, the love for one's family or the love for a hobby or way of life. Love is multifaceted, you discover new aspects of it the more you turn it or ponder about it.
To me, love is off course my boyfriend. We've been together for two years now and even if it sounds totally cheesy he has really shown me what real love is. Boys has always been an issue with me- I've been shy and have had a hard time trusting someone. But D and I have something special going on. Even if we life in different countries it still feels like we're walking next to each other every day. I've never experienced a feeling like that- complete closeness, the feeling of never being alone. Love is when you can feel your partner's warm hand in yours when you're sitting on the cold bus early in the morning. Love is when you try to explain something on msn by drawing a stupid picture and realise that your partner has sketch the exact same picture.

Day 04 – What you ate today

Oh Jeeeesus- what I ate? I must have the worst eating habits in the world even though I've gotten better in the last 5 years. Ok, that might have been a little exaggerated, I'm sure that there are people out there that have worse eating habits than I do. I've just always had troubles with food. The problem is when you say that people always takes that as I'm either bulimic or anorectic.But that't not the case, I've just always had a problem with eating beacuse I don't like the feeling of putting food in my mouth and chew on it. If I think about what I do when I chew I loose my apetite. So it's important for me to eat things I like and that's the other problem- I've always been extremely picky with my food. I don't like spicy food, I would never eat special meats or meat that is undercooked. Just thinking about a steak tartare makes my apetite go out the window. But enough about my strange ideas- what did I eat today? Well, let's make it yesterday since it's only 2:51 pm now and I haven't eaten that much today. I don't think two sandwiches and leftover tuna/rice salad from yesterday qualifies. So here's my list:
Breakfast- 2 cups of coffee (I hardly ever eat breakfast when I'm not going to the University, since my stomach doesn't wake up until about 3 hours after my brain- and my brain wakes up 1 hour after I get up from the bed)
Lunch- Tuna and rice salad; rice, tuna (tinned in water), lettuce, avocado and feta cheese- yummy, even though it should have been tomatoes in it as well.
Dinner- my homemade västerbottencheese pie (a lovely swedish cheese from the north of Sweden, really strong flavour)
Oh, I didn't include all the cups of coffee or the one or two fruits that I had during the day. I'm the biggest coffee-oholic there is. I love coffee- it's the best invention since sliced bread.

Day 03 – Your parents

Instead of writing a long entry about my parents, I will share a little scene that happend just the other day. It was on Sunday (Father's day in Sweden to be exact).
Me, my mum and dad where out on a sunday quizz walk in the freezing rain.
Mum: "Now that looks really good!" Points to the overgrown sidewalk.
Dad: With hesitation: "Oh? For real?"
Mum: Sighs loudly. "Come on. Do you really think so?"
Dad: Messes with the umbrella. "But you said so?"
Mum: "It was a JOKE!"
Me: Laughing myself silly.

The small illustration is quite pointless to any other person. But in my family, irony a joking has always been an everyday thing although, as you can see, irony doesn't always work.

Day 02 – Your first love

Now this is a difficult subject. Who was my first love? Hmmm..... but it must have been when I was around 7 I think. I've always liked hanging around blokes just as much as girls. Maybe it's beacuse I have an older brother and I'm used to have guys around. But the one that can be considered to be my first love was a bloke that was in the other first grade (or was it when we where in the second grade?). We were both at the same recreation centre after school and I think that's where we found each other. I won't mention his name though beacuse that's not fair.
Unfortunatly we were never boyfriend and girlfriend, but we were good friends. It was one of those sweet and innocent friendships where I felt my heart beat extra whenever we were together. I wasn't jelous when he had girlfriends though beacuse it never affected our friendship. Our friendship lasted until I moved with my family when I was 11. The funny thing is, when I think back, is that his and my friendship was located to that recreation centre. We didn't hang out at home or anything like that. After him I must have had about a billion different loves but it wasn't until I was 17 I got my first actual boyfriend.

Day 01 – Introduce yourself

Wow, this is going to be harder than I first expected. How do you decide on what is relevant and what you really want to let complete strangers know. Although, some of you readers that has left several comments (and some of you with blogs of your own) doesn't feel like complete strangers to me. So let's start, shall we.

I think the photo (captured with my crappy webcam) represents me really well- in front of the computer, with headphones on and, off course, with a wide smile on my face. Like most of you know, my name is Veronica and I turned 30 earlier this year. I live in a flat with my two cats, Brutus and Bina (I'll show you pictures of them further down, it's only fair) and about 50 plants of different kinds. Yes, apart from beauty products, I just love plants. I grow everything and I love to tend them- that is pure therapy. The japanese sure did know what they we're doing when they started their zen gardens. I was employed as a consultant at a company that went bankruped about 1½ years ago now. I didn't work there for long though but it was my first job and I was proud of it. When I was let go I resumed my studies and now I'm a fulltime student at Karlstad University. I'm currently studying litterature (and it's history) but after this term I'll probably start studying english since I'm going to get qualifications to apply for the translation programme (or courses) at Stockholm university. So, that means a big move for me which is scary but also very exciting. And it's a year away from now so I have time to get used to the idea.

I've been part of a swedish site devoted entirely to the author J.R.R. Tolkien (Swedens biggest Tolkien site actually!!) where I wrote articles for our weekly online magazine. We had our big time when Peter Jackson's movies where released but afterwards the site sort of lost more and more visitors and interest from the general public. And with that most of the interest to publish anymore magazines stopped which meant that no more articles where written (at least by me).

I'm a complete nerd when it comes to things that interest me. I seem to memorize everything which is sometime frustrating. You see, I can memorize every silly detail about Twin Peaks (apart from the number of Agent Cooper's hotel room) but any kind of math seem to pass straight through my head without leaving any kind of impression.

I've always been a lover of horror movies and horror stories. I can't remember how or why this strange lovestory started but it must have been something I was born with. I read my first Stephen King book (Pet sematary) when I was 9 or 10 and after that I was hooked on his book. It's actually a love that's still strong. When he was hit by a car in 1999 I was truly devastated. It sounds silly but I was. Even though King has written a lot of horror classics (and a lot of them have been turned into crappy movies), the works I consider to be his masterpieces is his series about the Dark Tower. If you haven't read them (I think it's about 10 books or so) then you definatly should beacuse they are amazing, truly amazing. I'm going to write a longer piece about the Dark towers series another day though. But Stephen King isn't my absolute favourite even though he has been my "companion" for the absolute longest. The author that's highest on my personal favourite list is Clive Barker, the man who created Hellraiser. He hasn't written as much as King has but his works has a deep quality and they appeal to the horrorlover in me. A female author I also love is Mo Hayder, an english woman who isn't so famous here in Sweden. She doesn't write horror though, they are more thrillers or detective stories, but they have a sense of horror in them. Especially her new series on "the walking man".

Another thing that's really typical of me is that I have a tendency to drift from the subject once I get started. But I have a feeling that you already know, don't you?

Oh, apparently blogger has something up it's... behind right now so I can't include a photo of the cats. But I will include them somewhere just as soon as blogger decides to cooperate.

A 30 day challenge

To kickstart the new language change I've implemented on the blog, I thought I might do a list that I've seen on two other blogs recently (Karin's and Katta's). I know that it isn't beauty related but it's a nice way for you, my lovely readers, to get to know me just a little bit better. So, here's the list of what sort of post you'll be reading here (amongst others off course):
Day 01 – Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – What you ate today
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your day
Day 07 – Your best friend
Day 08 – A moment
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – What you wore today
Day 11 – Your siblings
Day 12 – What’s in your bag
Day 13 – This week
Day 14 – What you wore today
Day 15 – Your dreams
Day 16 – Your first kiss
Day 17 – Your favorite memory
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – This month
Day 21 – Another moment
Day 22 – Something that upsets you
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – A first
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your aspirations
Day 30 – One last moment