Posts published during september, 2009
In Frej’s studio before the premiere of Age of Stupid yesterday.
I borrowed Suss’ blue velvet opera coat.
Someone had put a Guerrilla Girls poster in the shared kitchen, made me happy!
We met a skeleton in the kroki room. (Or what is the english name for that? Sketching nude models.) Frej had dressed up for the premiere! He has joined the Cloud Appreciation Society and gotten a pin and a diploma. He is now reading like five different books on clouds and can’t stop talking about the clouds each day has provided.
The film was pretty much as I expected it to be and I think you should see it! It’s depressing of course but the situation is way more depressing and not doing anything about it shouldn’t be an option for anyone.
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Now I’m going to go buy more liba bread for my falafels. I’m in some kind of falafel addiction, a really serious one. A couple of days over the last week I’ve had falafel for breakfast, lunch and dinner and I don’t think there’s been a day that I haven’t had at least one. Frej said he has started to associate my name with falafel on his cell phone so that when he calls me his mouth waters from thinking about it, hahaha!! This pleases me!
My sweet darling mom sent me a wrist support thingie! It feels like it’s working fairly well though my arms still hurts constantly while I’m on the computer and I should be careful so I am keeping it shut off for the most time (or at least I’m trying to). I’ve only had a gel support for the keyboard before.
I’ve been up since 7 in the morning today, studying and organizing the kitchen, cleaning, doing laundry, making food & kombucha! Feeling very energetic!
You who wrote to me, that had moved to Gothenburg and wanted kombucha, I’ve neglected to write to you because we got mold on three out of four of our old ones and had to throw them out. Now, I think the last one of them survived the mold completely, I haven’t seen any traces and I’ve been brewing it for a while without drinking it and it seems to be all clear and normal. So if you still want a piece you can have it in about 10 days. Just let me know!
This is me studying. I’m reading Human Ecology by Marten for school right now and I think it’s really great for putting bits & pieces of different thoughts together into a bigger picture. I also hung the clock today, at last! The bubble thing in the window to the right is a vintage coffee brewer of some kind that my parents wanted to get rid of so I took it.
TODAYS PLANS: Mailing out orders, going to see the Age of Stupid at the cinema with Frej, read more.
TODAYS SONG: No particular one. Right now I’m listening to CocoRosie that I learned to appreciate quite recently. Sometimes I’m slow…
TODAYS MOOD: Wanting to get stuff done-mood.
TODAYS WANT: I never know what to answer to this question. (So I don’t know why I keep it in this little questionnaire, maybe I should replace it with something else but I can’t think of what that would be.) Nothing in particular.
Participated in the TckTckTck mainifestation to raise awareness for the top meeting in Copenhagen in December today. You can see a tiny bit of Frej’s head in this picture (the ultra blonde head by the right, just above the last letter on the sign.) But I’m too short to be seen! Anyway I found it on Avaaz photostream on Flickr, which you totally should check out; so many people did this today! I don’t want to take more of their pictures so go there instead, the pictures are so encouraging and good! Were any of you there, on Järntorget or out in the wide world?
Rowan Berry Marmalade (dvs rönnbär!)
1 litre of rowan berries
2 grapefruits (I used blood grape)
2 lemons
10 dl of water (though I used about 5-6 in the end I think)
14 dl of sugar (I used 13 dl of white sugar and 1 dl of brown ecological sugar, this was because we were all out of sugar, all stores were closed because it was Sunday. Bought a package at the candy store next to me for 26 kr in desperation. Otherwise my plan was to use way more natural brown sugar instead of the refined.)
Found the recipe here!
Pick rowan berries, rinse them in water and put in the freezer for some hours to a day. This is supposedly making them less sour.
Then take the berries, peel the the grapes and the lemon, cut what’s left in to pieces and put it in with the berries. Boil on low heat for about 45 minutes. Put the sugar in and boil hard for another 15-20 minutes. Remove the foam, put in jars, done!
I think it was great! I love that it’s not as sugary tasting as regular marmalade that I haven’t really ever been very fond of. Still, it does contain a lot of refined sugar but no chemicals which I always consider a big plus!
Some other things I learned with a quick search on the internet that you can do with rowan berries: dry them and put in bread, dry them or freeze and eat a couple a day to get vitamin c, make a juice to drink with your food, and plenty of forms of ancient magic.
A lot of people on forums and stuff also claim that they have not had as many colds since they have started eating 1-4 dried berries/day
A good little short film by Klara Swantesson. In Swedish only, sorry!
Also, while I’m at it I should give you a tip about the world premiere of the movie Age of Stupid! I got tickets for the premiere tomorrow at Bio Roy in Göteborg. Starts at 7 in the evening. For you who are not in European time zone, I guess it airs tonight then?
The Age of Stupid Global Premiere from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.
I forced a re-start of our sewing circle Reclaim Syjuntan after summer laziness. We meet every Sunday at different people’s houses and make things! This time we were at our collective.
Lisa was knitting a sweater.
Pierre & Lisa
Åsa
Mattias was sewing a tiny shirt in to a big patchworky one instead.
Johanna embroided…
Susanne, Johanna and Mattias
Pierre.
I made marmelade myself, not very sewing circle-esque but still… Then Pierre and I who both for some reason are still registred in the swedish church (laziness is my reason) went to vote in the church election so that the super right wing party SD wouldn’t get in.
28. Till Sanningens Lov – Torgny Lindgren
29. Hummelhonung – Torgny Lindgren
30. Sfär-fäderna – Maria-Pia Boëthius
If I keep this pace up I may be able to read one book/week this year. All of them were thrifted, Hummelhonung I got for 10 kr at Myrorna by Järntorget and the other two I got this weekend in Jönköping for 5 kr/each.
Ps. I know this might not be the most fun posts for you to read but I am not a good reviewer of books or movies or anything. I have a hard time describing what they make me feel and why I love certain things, and quick rating is impossible. I still do want to list them here though…
Suss and I went for a walk today, to collect rowan berries to make jam/marmelade with.
Scarf – found at my old place after a party, never found the owner.
Sweater – knitted by my grandmother some 25 years ago
Shorts - were pants my mom bought me when I was about 14 that I’ve had since and been cutting shorter and shorter
Stockings – hand-me-down from Johanna & Mattias
Boots – thrifted
Suss!
It took us about 10 minutes to pick enough to make a test batch. I read that the berries will be less sour if they have been frozen so since I don’t think it’s been that cold out yet I’ve now put them in the freezer and will make the marmelade tomorrow or when I have time. Hopefully that will be soon, cause I’m excited! I’ve never tasted this before, I just read about it on the internet. and felt I had to make an attempt.
Yesterday we had a walk with the school to look at different ways in which to grow food within the city.
I don’t know the english term for “kolonilotter” where you rent/own a tiny little cottage and a place to grow things.
I think one of them would be ideal to live in but it’s forbidden to do that in Sweden, you may only live in them in the summer time from what I can gather.
Tree house!
Susanne and a cat we met when we were going to pick up the cabinet (which was too wide, sadly, we only noticed when we had carried it all the way home. We had been given the wrong measurements… but Ulrika could use it in her room instead so no harm done except our hallway is still chaos!)
Another picture from the other day that I liked now that I looked through them again.















