Yesterday Frej and I went on a walk in Kortedala, the weather was wonderful and a bit closer to spring than before.

By Beväringsgatan. It says Have you forgotten that you are a human being?

We ended up visiting the squatted house in Kviberg. Sadly I hardly took any pictures, just forgot. It’s in an old institution house so the feeling was really creepy in some rooms, but with beautiful light everywhere.
I got a wonderful black knitted hat with little rhinestones and a pink 60s lace dress in their free-shop! Lovely!

Met up with Linnea on the tram, she had just gotten her lip pierced. She has moved to Uppsala to study & we miss her a lot in the collective! First time back in Göteborg this weekend.

Brought her home and fed her with chips & crackers.

Linnea & Suss and our kitchen which for the first time in what seems like forever is lit up by actual daylight!

Here I had changed to the hat & dress I got in the free shop! That dress is my new favourite!! Going to take pictures of it when I get energy! Right now I’m really watching the Brown Bunny but I keep getting too bored and do other things like cleaning my room and writing blog posts…

This friday was Johanna’s 26th bithday & she threw a birthday party at her place, with cupcakes & balloons & 90s music.

Pretty Johanna with her birthday cat she got from Mattias!

Anton & the cat, mkt svåra.

There was cheese but no crackers. Chocolate crackers were tried out and appreciated. I didn’t try since I don’t eat that stuff but I found it pretty miraculous anyway.

Elina

Bit of Åsa, Mattias with cheese & the chocolate crackers, Maria & Sanny.

Frej

Åsa and in the background the cake she had baked that I really should have taken pictures of because it was awesome!

Olof, Johanna and I

Lovely party with lots of talk about body parts, hair, and illnesses of different kinds!! Then the others went out & Frej and I went home since I was sick and still am, boohoo.

I put all my clothes on, got ready and then I didn’t get out of the apartment in time for school, lost track of time. Stupid! Now I’m not going at all because I’ve already missed the first hour by the time I get there. Oh well, sometimes I guess you do need a break & also I am developing a cold thanks to either my classmates or my flatmates (everyone are sick these days) so I will stay here and take pictures of myself and surroundings instead.

Tonight I slept with my window open & instead had lots of blankets and sheets. Maybe not good for the cold but it was very nice anyway.

I am going to go by my human ecology class’ after work at andra lång today though I’m sick & sober aswell, then celebrate my little Johanna’s 26th birthday! It’s pretty nice to not drink and go out anyway. Next week, if everything goes as planned (that is, if nothing that you have to be your normal self for) Frej and I will fast, starting Monday. So this is like my cleansing and very healthy month!

/Karin

Some pictures I couldn’t upload when my connection was too slow. Josefin came over to visit me & eat spring rolls. She’s leaving Göteborg to go on a tour as a human sized moomin troll in all of Norway! Sad to see her leave but I think that is one of the best jobs I have ever had a friend have… or whatever I should call it. She is a professional wearer of different outfits such as Moomin troll, Pingu or Nicke Nyfiken.

Evelyn came over aswell, and quickly qualified into my List of People With the Best Teeth Ever! If you’ve known me for a while you will know that I am pretty obsessed with strange/fantastical teeth. Like Lisis‘ ones for example! But I have known Evelyn for a year and she had never given any signs of having these awesome teeth! They have been hidden from me until now! I was totally thrilled when she showed me!!! So great, total troll teeth!

Close up!

Then we went to Hisingen to look for henna and BANANDA. And herbal tooth paste and vinyls.

Where you can still get four different ones, though they will never be as good as in the old automats! By the way it is so snowy here in Sweden now, the roof at the station caved in the other day, from the weight of it. Along with heaps of other roofs apparantly.

I’ve been struggling for an hour almost, to upload the pictures from this weekend but my internet connection is too crappy for that to work. I got three up finally! A tiny bit of Frej in his hooded cambodian (?) outfit that he wore to prom once upon a time… <3

I started using a red eyebrow pencil (or really it’s actually a lip liner but I don’t care…) instead of a brown one and I like it way better!

Week one of exams is over! Now I have a one week home exam in my last course, because I didn’t take the exam in december because I was in Copenhagen instead.
This weekend I was at a pub with my class to celebrate the  exam being over. The day after that I was at Frejs place while he was out on a little field trip to try and survive in the wilderness… it was snow chaos day and all of Göteborg was snowed in, buses cancelled etc so I pitied him quite a bit but he seemed pleased when he got back in the evening anyway.

Went to a Nöjesguiden party with Johanna, Mattias and Pim on friday! Have a few pictures but it’s impossible to upload them. Met Evelyn and Lotta and my old flatmate Kristina and lots of other lovely people. Got a bit too drunk though and have now decided for a white month. Also Frej and I will try and do at least one week of fasting starting March 8th. Hopefully even two. Frej has managed to pull through with that before and will guide me. Will probably be terrible since I love eating more than most other things in life but I want to have tried it for real at least once.

The day after that Frej and I hung out at his place pretty snowed in again, and watched a cute little documentary on dumpster diving which you can watch online here (It’s in English) and some other interesting documentaries about things such as lobotomies & landgrabbing which are also streamable on the magnificent SVT site, though those are both in Swedish.

And now I’m going to make more useful things to justify me staying home from school. So far I have: structured up my home exam, done one round of laundry, checked my bank for new customer payments & payed my bills. I will write one more page of my exam today, make sushi & vacuum the living room and kitchen of the collective, read six chapters of my litterature and clean my room!

/Karin

Some pictures from the burlesque club Tip the Velvet which we were at yesterday night for their Very Valentine evening! A few of the pictures are taken by Bettan & edited by me. Some are from my camera, some from Carins… Had a very nice night out! Stopped by Åsas party first, she had baked insanely tasty cakes (I had to eat some) and gave us punch & nice company with a lot of people I hadn’t seen in ages! Sadly we couldnt stay as long as I would have wanted!

We arrived at Tip the Velvet and found Bettan! I borrowed the lashes from Frej & made the little hat thingie with a brooch and some hat netting.

I was going to wear this pink ballgown first but Carin begged me to be wear less clothes so that she wouldn’t feel as naked herself so I obliged!

Crazies!

Carin, Bettan and I.

Carin & Jacob

Frej and I

Frej chews on my cheek. He built the chain thingie with faux earrings & chain

Pretty people!

Bettan and I again

Performances, we missed most of them because it was a bit too crowded to try to get to where us short people can actually see anything. This  is Bettans picture, I only saw the top of their heads…

More peoplez

Evelyn on a chair she had when she was performing. And Bettan…

Charming!

We all went back to my place and slept there. Today has been the hungover day here,… with a lot of pizza and falafel. (Sometimes I really love living 5 meters from a pizzeria even though the pizza is not available for me anymore since they put egg in the dough, sad sad!)  Then Bettan and I went out and found in the trash outside or place: a little shelf for the collective’s hallway, a fantastic crying child painting that Bettan brought with her home and a lot of fabric!