A happy cat
02 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Right where he shouldn’t be… And I don’t have the heart to shoo him off.
A milestone in my career
02 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
I got this handwritten letter when I arrived at work today. A VLT reader named Bert raged against my use of ‘adult’ rather than ‘youth’ in a text that I wrote about a 19-year-old…(and Bert is a frequent letter writer to the VLT staff – hence the milestone. I finally got a letter!)
Let me try to translate it:
Read todays (friday) VLT where you write about someone who got damages for being wrongfully detained. You call him a man. What a fucking lie. He’s a fucking young kid. Hence you should have for fuck sake have written that. How old are you? A 25-year old lady who thought it would look nice to write man, even though that does not correspond with reality.
And another picture to illustrate
02 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Just how c.o.l.d it is. I’m a light a fire, pronto!
Torturing the vlt car
02 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Well we made it here! First time I drive this car…had to take the chance when I got it.
A cowhorse in the forest
01 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
He’s funny that way … something scares him and he spooks, then he wants to follow it.
High life!
01 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: cowhorse, garre, ride out, tinker
Garre was never the slow one… But he used to do things, like trotting, more in a more like “fine, ok we’ll trott” kind of way. These past two day’s he’s been starting to trott quite a few times on his own accord. I can feel a change. He’s still the superkind happy horse he’s always been but now he’s also showing a bit of a spark, energy. That he wants to run. And I like it. Of course we have to take it easy, build him up nice and slow… But a little trott wont hurt him, it’s good that he gets to stretch his legs a bit. I’m already looking forward to saturdays ride!
Youtube starring: the cowhorse
31 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: horse, ride out, tinker
Back in the saddle
31 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
At long last… I think Garre was just as happy as me. A nice hour-long ride out in the biting cold. Mostly walk but a wee bit of trott added to the mix. Garre was full of energy and happy to be out on adventures. He’s such a nice, sweet giant of a horse.
Driving
30 Jan 2012 1 Comment
Today I keept on driving. Because it felt good and they were playing a nice song on the radio. It’s the first time that I drive because I felt like it… And it was awesome. As was the setting sun…
Horsies at long last
30 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
It’s been way to long without these lovely creatures. After paying Clabbe a visit I went on to the next stable. I hadn’t seen Garre since 19/12 and it felt like it was about time I did. Now he’s not a 4-year old just saddle broked! Happy, belated, 5th year b-day Garre! You’re a big boy now.
As you can see … he hasn’t forgotten me. Haha.
I climbed a rock to take a picture from above… and Garre, the mountain goat, climbed up after me.
Tomorrow we’re gonna go for a ride!
World’s greatest Clabbe
30 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
Fingers crossed for Clabbe on friday… It’s time for the vets to x-ray his legs and see if treatment and rest helped his tendons… As always, hoping for the best but expecting the worst. It’s so hard with injured animals. I popped by to visit Clabbe today and he was obnoxious, no doubt bored out of his mind having to stay in that little sickpen of his.
He might look cute and cuddly but in reality all that he was after was the horse treats in my pocket … I hope I managed to entertain him for at least a little bit. He did seem happy to see me, in a horsie kinda way.
It’s been a bit to long in between the visits … going to have to try to change that.
Clabbe is after all the greatest Clabbe of them all ♥ and he deserves all the cuddles and treats he can get. And he will get better, damn it.
More work!
30 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Life, Nerdyness, Work Tags: evenings, journalists, promedia, vlt
January passed me by in a blur. I’ve done two 7-day straight work weeks, evenings, early mornings, evenings again. And I’ve had fun because I do something that I want to do, something I studied for and something that I like doing. I don’t really mind the long shifts or the long weeks or the commuting/staying in an overnight room. It beats being unemployed, it beats doing nothing. And I like what I’m doing.
The last two days of this month I’m off from work. Last night at 23.00 I got off a 10 hour shift and a 7 day long work week. This is my weekend. And I just got an additional day off.
My working schedule for february, so far, looks like this: 2-3/2 8.00-17.00, 6-10/2 8.00-17.00, 13-17 8.00-17.00
And 27/2-2/3 8.30-17.30.
So I might be getting a week off, late february. Unless of course work needs me for one reason or the other. The more work the better! In the meanwhile the hunt for a more permanent job goes on. The job market for journalists today is not exactly hopping. Especially not what with last weeks bomb from Promedia (which is the company that owns VLT) that they are going to be cutting back on staff by the end of this year… Of course that affects my coworkers but it also affects me, in the bigger picture.
I fix!
30 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
My dashboard light died (again) last night. So I fixed the problem.tonight. Of course the dashboard light worked all the way from Västerås to Örebro, no problem. Go figure.
Breakfast in bed
27 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Books, Life, Nerdyness, Work
With Zlatan. A nice start of the day and the weekend – allthough I don’t get much of a weekend seeing as I work. Sunday 23.00 my weekend begins.
For the rest of you – happy weekend!
