Queen of Rambles

We’re sitting at the Internet Cafe in the airport in Stockholm! We had to get up at 5:30 this morning, but that was no problem since we went to bed at 8:30 pm. We’re pathetic, are ‘t we? I didn’t have any non-drowsy motion sickness pills so had to take the real kind and it knocks me on my ass pretty hard. I actually fell asleep at 5, but Mike woke me up for dinner. Good thing he did or I would be grouchy hungry.

Now we’ve traded in all our Swedish money and got some very fake looking American twenties in exchange. Are they the same size that they’ve always been? They look really long and skinny, but maybe that’s because Swedish money is so boxy (just like a Volvo). I’ve also loaded us up on batteries and a bag of Reisen. . . my downfall. Maybe I should buy another bag with our change, then I will never run out. Mwhahahahahahaha. Not that I should be eating such shit. It’s a new year and it’s time for me to get back on the wagon.

What else? Not a lot I suppose. It was sad to leave Annica and her family. I will probably never, ever see them again. We don’t have much call to visit Kiruna. Maybe when Mike visits his family I’ll just fly up to Kiruna and visit them. Sounds like a plan, doesn’t it? I’m a horrible in-law.

We had a good time on New Year’s Eve. Sophia, the little one, fell asleep really early but the six-year-old, Alva, was awake for quite a while. We played a lot of dance music and were all dancing. She was having the time of her life because we were all dancing with her and stuff. It was fun to see her having so much fun. She’s changed so much in the last two years. It’s kind of funny that I used to call her spawn of the Devil and stuff like that. Now she’s just a very sweet little girl, and very shy. I guess a lot of her bad behavior was because she was in constant pain. Now that they have her on meds for arthritis she does a lot better. I suppose that’s fair enough. I know I’m one grouchy woman when I don’t feel well.

It is really stinky in this little area. It smells like stale potato chips, farts and mold. I hope I don’t sneeze. I don’t have any good Kleenex. I will be so glad to get back to the land of lotion in the tissue. I don’t see why they don’t have such a thing here. It’s one of the best inventions of the modern age. It doesn’t seem so important, but when you have a cold you really start to understand the important things in life.

I guess I don’t have anything else to say. I am already feeling sick and we haven’t even left the ground. I think a lot of my motion sickness is in my head. I always feel sick when I know we are going anywhere. Do you think I can remove that part of my brain?

There’s a double decker plain outside the window. Have you ever been on one of those? I want to go on one of those. I bet they have cool stuff like a swimming pool on board. Wouldn’t that be cool? Can you imagine just floating around in a swimming pool for an 11 hour flight? Everyone would be a prune by the end of it and the turbulence would make for some intersting drowning moves, but it would be really relaxing over all I think. Maybe. Or maybe it would just be stupid.

I really need to go swimming. It’s been weeks! Actually, it’s been four days I guess. I used Bjorn’s cross-trainer one day and remember why I like water aerobics so much. I thought I was going to die of sweat. Can sweat kill you? I could only manage for 25 minutes before I got too irritated to go on. The stupid handles were hitting me in the boobies every single time they would move so I was expecting to have giant blue boobs, but that didn’t happen. Maybe they don’t bruise easily?

Now my back is realy starting to hurt from sitting in this stupid hard chair. See you all on the flip side. Just 24 hours till we are HOOOOOMMMEEEEE. . .. . . and homeless. . . and unemployed. . . and scared! Oj! Now my tummy is really hurting. I need a Reisen.

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