I have stopped caring so much, in a very good way..... drinking wine while J (hot, long dark hair, sweet and wonderful) is making risotto. I would never say this IRL but he is essentially like a mentally stable Y. This past weekend I went ice skating with my skating friends and some of her friends who were really lovely, then sat in the sun and had fika. Thinking about buying new skates but damn they're expensive... (just spent like 2000 kr on sylvanians again heee xD I was o b s e s s e d at the beginning of the pandemic, and I wish I had journaled about all of that... the progression of how it was framed in the media here in Sweden (ah yes, they're already fucking lying about it. Swedes, as I have often said, are excellent and constant liars as they always lie to themselves first and then are stupid enough to believe it... but anyway. I found the bigger treehouse! new!! and finally ordered the cow family (my fav) and the huskies... there's a war on and the world is slowly ending so I may as well enjoy all the toys and small joys I can). I have been loving figure skating, and watching all the drama at the olympics... still working on my 3 turns and waltz jumps and imagining choreography to aurora and sigrid.
This past weekend I also went to lunch with E before she goes back to belgium for the next couple months. We went to the museum and sat and looked out at the beautiful city, the sun glistening off of the water, and talking in hushed voices about the invasion. like everyone else presumably. but damn, she and I just click- so fascinating to meet people like that. (why are they never the ones staying in sthlm long term). want to write more about her later, there have been so many conversations that I have lately that I just want to hold on to and remember so badly but they flit away you know...
anyway
thinking about preserving media (those LOTR casettes from the 70s? the DVD s?? how best to keep?), skating as much as possible, and getting my climbing back. I have been enjoying my studies lately and ideas are coalescing about how I can leverage this new field to still be involved in my interests.
(coalescing, fantastic word. had a convo with E and some others a few weeks ago after skating at a little french patisserie about favorite words, and I knew I had some but was hard pressed. came across an insta post about katabatic winds and I was like ah theres one of them.)
OH and I have been reading again these past years, books a week! I love love loved spinning silver, uprooted, the girl in the tower... and this year I finally read the "his fair assassin" series which I ADORED. historical fiction and fairy tale retellings are absolutely everything. time to read more fiction, and more classics as well <3
