Ok people, this is me trying to get a bit more organized. +++ is a category for everything that I like or that is great or interesting but that I kind of usually neglect to post here because I don’t like making a post with just a sentence and a link to a site that I think is good or whatever… I’ll try to summarize it all in one post every week instead. Hope you like!

+++ Best thing of this week is definitely that I’m going to Adina in Stockholm on Thursday! <3 We haven’t seen eachother in like six months, maybe more. But now I have time and money to get to stay from Thursday to Sunday & we’re going to cook and eat lots of food! Yay! Eating rules, Adina rules, both together = awesome!! And Lisis & Naomi and her flatmate are throwing a party aswell! Looking forward to this weekend a lot!

+++ I cleaned the flat yesterday and this morning and am now plotting how to decorate the hallway further since it’s kinda sad looking with no place to hang your jackets and coat. Am also fantasizing about amazing wallpapers or painting a mural in the living room!

+++ Started watching old episodes of Criminal Minds here. Great distraction from life & I can iron things while I’m watching. I’ve gotten a little obsessed with ironing since I got my board back, and think I will sew more now aswell!

+++ Saw Johanna today after class and walked around town with her, went to the lovely Lotta of vintage shop Drömma, had sushi, I got litterature for my new course in global development studies & now I’m at Frejs place drinking tea and am supposed to read a Hettne book & mend my coat. All in all a very good day!

+++ I like this little short film about the Impossible Hamster!

“We wanted to confront people with the meaning and logical conclusion of the promise of endless economic growth. We used a hamster to illustrate what would happen if there were no limits to growth because they double in size each week before reaching maturity at around 6 weeks. But if a hamster grew at the same rate until its first birthday, wed be looking at a nine billion tonne hamster, which ate more than a years worth of world maize production every day. There are reasons in nature, why things dont grow indefinitely. As things are in nature, sooner or later, so they must be in the economy. As economic growth rises, we are pushing the planet ever closer to, and beyond some very real environmental limits. With every doubling in the global economy we use the equivalent in resources of all of the previous doublings combined.”

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+++ Resan till Melonia (the Journey to Melonia) is one of the sweetest films I’ve seen in a long time. I have seen it when I was a child aswell but only once I think, because I only remembered small details. Now Becka, Miranda and I re-watched it this weekend and it’s such a beautiful movie with animations by Per Åhlin & the voices of some of my favourite people including Hans Alfredson and Allan Edwall. (and Robyn!)

Plot from Wikipedia:

“The beautiful paradise island Melonia is inhabited by the sorcerer Prospero with his daughter Miranda, the albatross Ariel, the good-natured vegetable-faced gardener Caliban and William the dog-nosed poet. They live a generally peaceful life, except for Caliban who has to work hard with the garden. A few miles away lies the dark island Plutonia, where the greedy industrialists Slug and Slagg rule. Once as green and flourishing as Melonia, Plutonia is now percieved as hell on earth, where children are forced to, under slave conditions, build weapons and tools of war, which Slug and Slagg believe is the way of the future. With Plutonia’s resources nearly exhausted, Slug and Slagg turn their gaze on the unexploited Melonia, scheming to take it over with a gigantic drill…”

Gotta love environmentalist, anti capitalist movies for kids!
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+++ Oh and you can win a free copy of Naomi Nowaks beautiful book Graylight here!