Oh my music god
I want to begin with saying a great, amazingly big Thank You to the person who invented portable music devices. And of course to all of you Rock Gods out there that are inventing the awesome music that the music devices are filled with. Today my wonderful father purchased this wonderful thing for me, and gave it to me as my very first christmas present this year. It's a long story, but basically I needed a new mp3-player and my dad and I made an agreement. Today, three months before christmas, this baby came into my life, and I'm so happy I don't really know how to describe it. Bu-bye to my 256 MB SanDisk player I have up until now been using since May. The SanDisk thing can hold about 47 songs was my very first one and came in handy when my second one decided to die on me (this iPod is my third one). Actually, I was the one who killed my second one, and that is also a long and kind of embarassing story for my part, so I'd rather not tell it but let's just say that I don't have any worries anymore when it comes to my music. I now have an iPod nano, silver colored with a memory of 8 GB. The happiness simply can't be described. Thanks again, dear father for the present!
I've decided to share the story about what happened to my last one anyway. It was a really great mp3-player, a Creative Zen: Vision that held 30 GB. I loved it very deeply but accidentally killed it. I was watching some bands one night, needed water, drank water from the water bottle I had with me and then put it back in my bag. The next time I looked in my bag, it was filled with water becasue I had apperantly not closed the water bottle entirely. And that's how my beloved Creative died. Sad story, still is, but the empty room in my heart is now filled, thanks to my new and wonderful iPod, who I just named Andy. Andy and I, I'm sure, are going to be very happy together. And yes, I am a bit crazy when it comes to mp3-players, but portable music is just the shiznit, isn't it? I'm simply in love with Andy at the moment...
/Madeleine
Crocodile cakes
Since today's the 24th of September that means that it's my half-birthday today! Congtrats to me! My birthday is, for those who didn't get that by reading the previous sentence, the 24th of March. That means I'm an Aries and that the next time that date will happen, I. am. turning. 18! Hell yeah. It'll be fun, I'm sure, can't wait... Gah, I'm getting old, I'm turning into a grown-up. Shit. I'm scared! [...] I'm not really that horrified, but I just thouhgt it'd be fun to elaborate that little part of me that is panicking, just a little bit). I'm sure everything will be great so I'm keeping it cool. Or something? Still, from now on I'll be closer to turning 18 than I am to my 17th birthday, and that's pretty... Wow in a way.
After the essay writing in enlish class today, me and Ariana went to our place that's close to our school. We felt like we had to since we lost all of our energy at the lesson (and to celebrate my half-birthday, of course). The place called Café Negro and serves the best chocolate cake I've ever tasted! I'm not kidding, it's sooo magnificent (see, me using a "fancy" word and several o's must mean that I'm telling the truth and that I'm right). I highly recommend this place, since the café is really cozy and awesome in every other aspect as well. I have a lot of good memories from there. 'Tis good times. Now I'm gonna try to study a bit and then reward/celebrate myself by watching a couple of One Tree Hill episodes that I've borrowed from my sweet Louise... Good night.
/Madeleine
After the essay writing in enlish class today, me and Ariana went to our place that's close to our school. We felt like we had to since we lost all of our energy at the lesson (and to celebrate my half-birthday, of course). The place called Café Negro and serves the best chocolate cake I've ever tasted! I'm not kidding, it's sooo magnificent (see, me using a "fancy" word and several o's must mean that I'm telling the truth and that I'm right). I highly recommend this place, since the café is really cozy and awesome in every other aspect as well. I have a lot of good memories from there. 'Tis good times. Now I'm gonna try to study a bit and then reward/celebrate myself by watching a couple of One Tree Hill episodes that I've borrowed from my sweet Louise... Good night.
/Madeleine
Learn enough
School's serious now, oh yeah baby, school work is apperantly what is supposed to equal all the free time you have outside of school as well. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating the tiniest bit, but second year sure is already a lot more to take than the first year. Today we had to write an in-class essay based on a subject regarding T.S Eliot's The Waste Land, or as some people like to call it; The Waste-of-F*cking-Time Land. For all of you who haven't read it I can only say that it's not like a nice 'walk in the park'. It is some pretty heavy lyrical english and sort of difficult to get a hold of. It went okay though I hope, we'll get it back and then we'll get a chance to rewrite it and hand in a better version (I'm very grateful for that), and that will be the one that will be graded. Now I only have french, psychology, history, math, swedish and social studies tests to worry about. But I shouldn't complain...
Am ironically enough listening to the song 'Always Love' with Nada Surf, so I'm guessing I should boost my attitude a bit and become more positive. Or maybe I'll save that for later and move on to another song I'm drugging right now, which is 'Misery Loves its' Company' by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and they're one of my favourite bands. However, except for school and that kind of stuff, life is pretty good right now. Most things are under control and how I'd like them to be (see, the song is working for me already). Have hung out a lot with my sweet and awesome people the past week, like Ariana, Jenny, Louise and other cool people. What I love about them is that they don't ever judge me, for anything. I can be whoever I want to be when I'm around them and they still love me. It's really something, to have those kinds of people in your life... It's really something.
/Madeleine
Am ironically enough listening to the song 'Always Love' with Nada Surf, so I'm guessing I should boost my attitude a bit and become more positive. Or maybe I'll save that for later and move on to another song I'm drugging right now, which is 'Misery Loves its' Company' by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and they're one of my favourite bands. However, except for school and that kind of stuff, life is pretty good right now. Most things are under control and how I'd like them to be (see, the song is working for me already). Have hung out a lot with my sweet and awesome people the past week, like Ariana, Jenny, Louise and other cool people. What I love about them is that they don't ever judge me, for anything. I can be whoever I want to be when I'm around them and they still love me. It's really something, to have those kinds of people in your life... It's really something.
/Madeleine
Grey beauty
Just because I think the lyrics of this song, called 23 by Jimmy Eat World, are so very beautiful I thought I'd post the song here, together with a picture I took of some flowers at some flowershop this summer.
I felt for sure last night
That once we said goodbye
No one else will know these lonely dreams
No one else will know that part of me
I'm still driving away
And I'm sorry every day
I won't always love these selfish things
I won't always live...
Not stopping...
It was my turn to decide
I knew this was our time
No one else will have me like you do
No one else will have me, only you
You'll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I'm here I'm now I'm ready
Holding on tight
Don't give away the end
The one thing that stays mine
Amazing still it seems
I'll be 23
I won't always love what I'll never have
I won't always live in my regrets
You'll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I'm here I'm now I'm ready
Holding on tight
Don't give away the end
The one thing that stays mine...
Here is also a link to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0085_FUpics
/Madeleine
Kill the pain
After waking up with a soar throat and a major head ache this morning, I decided to stay in bed and not go to school. Felt sort of nice to just stay home, sleep, watch some One Tree Hill and just take it easy today. Been a while since I had the opportunity to do so, and it has also been a while since I had the apartment all to myself. It is a very nice feeling, actually. Plus then I can sit by the piano and sing as loud as I want to, without having anyone complain.
I also made a short visit to my dentist's office today, so it wasn't a complete waste of a monday (even though, most mondays are always sort of useless if you ask me, no matter what). I sat down by the water while talking to my friend Jenny on my way home, that was very nice. I love sitting by the water. You can tell that the fall is here, since I was freezing even though I was wearing my lovely leather jacket. Or maybe I'm coming down with a fever as well, or something?
Even I if I am, I know I'll be going to school tomorrow. I remeber once last term when I was sick with a fever and a terrible cold. After three days in bed, away from school and people outside of my family, the fever had past, bud the cold was still there. On the fourth day though, I decided to not care about that and I went to school anyway. I got the feeling that I needed to be with people. I just couldn't take staying home alone anymore.
One of the reasons to why I'm not that big a fan of being alone is that it gives me too much time to think. Not that I have that much sad stuff to think about, I just have a tendency to overthink everything and then get a bit sad because of that. That's why I like being around people, it gives me energy at the same time as it keeps me distracted and new, mostly nice converstaions and experiences to think about. I still need time to be by myself but I don't want/need it as much as I think I think I should. I just work like that I guess, that I feel the happiest and most calm when I'm around people and have the opportunity to communicate and be social. Social is one of the words that is used the most when people try to describe me and I think they make a good point.
Since I am a very talkative person I'm comfortable and feel the best when I have friends around me, so I can let it all out. Both the bad stuff, the fun memories and stories, or just my general outbursts of weirdness that can be found extemely entertaining by my equally excentric friends. To make a long text short, I am one of those people who is sort of afraid of both being alone and feeling alone, and that's why I, like every other person on this earth, just try to find ways to avoid that. So far, I think I'm mostly doing very good, just having people in the same area help a lot, especially when they know me well enough to see what I'm thinking just by looking at me. That's what I love about them. Now, thank you and good night.
/Madeleine
I also made a short visit to my dentist's office today, so it wasn't a complete waste of a monday (even though, most mondays are always sort of useless if you ask me, no matter what). I sat down by the water while talking to my friend Jenny on my way home, that was very nice. I love sitting by the water. You can tell that the fall is here, since I was freezing even though I was wearing my lovely leather jacket. Or maybe I'm coming down with a fever as well, or something?
Even I if I am, I know I'll be going to school tomorrow. I remeber once last term when I was sick with a fever and a terrible cold. After three days in bed, away from school and people outside of my family, the fever had past, bud the cold was still there. On the fourth day though, I decided to not care about that and I went to school anyway. I got the feeling that I needed to be with people. I just couldn't take staying home alone anymore.
One of the reasons to why I'm not that big a fan of being alone is that it gives me too much time to think. Not that I have that much sad stuff to think about, I just have a tendency to overthink everything and then get a bit sad because of that. That's why I like being around people, it gives me energy at the same time as it keeps me distracted and new, mostly nice converstaions and experiences to think about. I still need time to be by myself but I don't want/need it as much as I think I think I should. I just work like that I guess, that I feel the happiest and most calm when I'm around people and have the opportunity to communicate and be social. Social is one of the words that is used the most when people try to describe me and I think they make a good point.
Since I am a very talkative person I'm comfortable and feel the best when I have friends around me, so I can let it all out. Both the bad stuff, the fun memories and stories, or just my general outbursts of weirdness that can be found extemely entertaining by my equally excentric friends. To make a long text short, I am one of those people who is sort of afraid of both being alone and feeling alone, and that's why I, like every other person on this earth, just try to find ways to avoid that. So far, I think I'm mostly doing very good, just having people in the same area help a lot, especially when they know me well enough to see what I'm thinking just by looking at me. That's what I love about them. Now, thank you and good night.
/Madeleine
Sound of today #1
Rooftops by Lostprophets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbm97i3sOM4
Introduction
Every day when I feel like it, I will from now on I post a youtube-link to a special song here on my blog. This just to share which song it is I've been listening to non-stop the past week or if I just generally feel like the song's something you must hear. This is me trying to share a piece of my taste in music, just for the fun of it. Just to bring forward the great sounds.
/Madeleine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbm97i3sOM4
Introduction
Every day when I feel like it, I will from now on I post a youtube-link to a special song here on my blog. This just to share which song it is I've been listening to non-stop the past week or if I just generally feel like the song's something you must hear. This is me trying to share a piece of my taste in music, just for the fun of it. Just to bring forward the great sounds.
/Madeleine
Sugarcactus
I'm at my dear, sweet and lovely friend Louise's place atm. Just to behave differently from like we usually do we watched some One Tree Hill episodes and chlliaxed (very inventive word, isn't it?). Right now we're sort of just hanging and listening to kick ass music on her computer, and having a vely vely nice time. Just for the fun of it I thought I'd post a cute picture of the two of us. And here, at her computer, there are actually quite many to choose form. Mihi. We are so getting it on with the camera every time we hang out.
Louise and myself.
This person is truly like the sweetest person I know. We used to dance together. That's sort of a funny story about how we got to know each other. We were always the loudest people in class who somehow usually ended up lauging a lot, in the middle of everything. We're going shopping on tuesday as well. Just for the fun of it. And btw, to see her blog (and more pics of us) visit http://thorny.blogg.se. It is a really good blog written by a wonderful person.
/Madeleine
Louise and myself.
This person is truly like the sweetest person I know. We used to dance together. That's sort of a funny story about how we got to know each other. We were always the loudest people in class who somehow usually ended up lauging a lot, in the middle of everything. We're going shopping on tuesday as well. Just for the fun of it. And btw, to see her blog (and more pics of us) visit http://thorny.blogg.se. It is a really good blog written by a wonderful person.
/Madeleine
Swing life away
Yes, I shall continue writing in english here for bit, because I like it. Mihi. I also notice that I have a tendency to go slightly more weird, hyper and easily entertained when I speak english for some odd reason I don't really know. Which is something I find very hilarious. Anyhow, yesterday's at Ariana's new, lovely place was wonderful, except for the fact that I got a mild concussion. How I got it is a long story that makes me look sort of stupid, so I don't really want to post it here. Haha, yeah. Carrying on...
After a day of two classes me and Ariana went into town for a late lunch with Oskar. It was very nice, since it was sort of a long time since I met him. After that me and my wife went back to school for the AA-meeting. Pause for misinterpretation regarding AA. It is really the Association of Art, which Signe, Julia and Ariana created last term. I'm the accountant and the honoruble member so obviously I had to be there too. I didn't mind though. There were cookies and pie there, for crying out loud. We have gotten some new members as well, so we introduced the association and then drew a bit. Like the association is partly about.
Later on, Ariana, Julia, Signe and myself decided to go out and have dinner. It ended up being one of those fantastic nights with so many laughs and so much room for conversations that I just love, with some of my closest friends. After three hours of girls' time, our/Julia's beloved Sven showed up. Since he wants to be one of the girls he enjoyed joinng us at the end of the night. Just fot the fun of it I thought I'd post a picture of these people I have mentioned. It is from this summer, unfortunately it was the only picture I could find with the four of them on it. I can't really describe it in any other way but random.
Sven, Julia, Ariana and Signe.
After a day of two classes me and Ariana went into town for a late lunch with Oskar. It was very nice, since it was sort of a long time since I met him. After that me and my wife went back to school for the AA-meeting. Pause for misinterpretation regarding AA. It is really the Association of Art, which Signe, Julia and Ariana created last term. I'm the accountant and the honoruble member so obviously I had to be there too. I didn't mind though. There were cookies and pie there, for crying out loud. We have gotten some new members as well, so we introduced the association and then drew a bit. Like the association is partly about.
Later on, Ariana, Julia, Signe and myself decided to go out and have dinner. It ended up being one of those fantastic nights with so many laughs and so much room for conversations that I just love, with some of my closest friends. After three hours of girls' time, our/Julia's beloved Sven showed up. Since he wants to be one of the girls he enjoyed joinng us at the end of the night. Just fot the fun of it I thought I'd post a picture of these people I have mentioned. It is from this summer, unfortunately it was the only picture I could find with the four of them on it. I can't really describe it in any other way but random.
Sven, Julia, Ariana and Signe.
Elsewhere in heaven
As I have mentioned before, I go to an international class which means that I study everything in english. Even though english is the language I prefer both speaking and writing, I've only written in swedish in this blog so far. Now though, I'm hanging out with one of my bestest friends Ariana and we speak english to each other, always. So here we go, since I'm in the mood of writing something in english, I thought I would make this post the first one in my favourite lanugage. I know I have been really bad at updating this page lately, so just to make a short summary, here we go;
School has started again I have tons of homework and tests. Have been hanging out a lot with my sweet friends and have created a couple of new habits and developed a couple of interesting addictions. I have discovered some new kick ass music that I will share later on, just because I love spreading a good sound.
Me and Ariana have eaten dinner out with her mother tonight and then we bought bunch of candy. We also got the new Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavour 'Half Baked', which is seriously the best ice cream ever. Then we watched some Sex and the City, like we always do. After watching two of our favourite episodes (the ones that contain most of our SatC inside jokes) we looked at plane tickets to London and then read some blog posts. That's when I realised that I wanted to write something here, and Ariana just threw a stuffed animal at me. Truthfully, sort of funny, has nothing to do with anything but I'm laughing very hard right now. Like I often do when I'm with her. Sidetracks are my friends.
Right now she is unpacking some boxes with CDs and I have convinced her to lend me a couple of albums with My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory and Breaking Benjamin. So I'm very happy right now. Like I always am when I'm with her. So now I'll finish this post up by writing that I've promised myself to update this page better and am also gonna upload pictures and stuff later on. Just for the fun of it. Cherrio's!
/Madeleine
School has started again I have tons of homework and tests. Have been hanging out a lot with my sweet friends and have created a couple of new habits and developed a couple of interesting addictions. I have discovered some new kick ass music that I will share later on, just because I love spreading a good sound.
Me and Ariana have eaten dinner out with her mother tonight and then we bought bunch of candy. We also got the new Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavour 'Half Baked', which is seriously the best ice cream ever. Then we watched some Sex and the City, like we always do. After watching two of our favourite episodes (the ones that contain most of our SatC inside jokes) we looked at plane tickets to London and then read some blog posts. That's when I realised that I wanted to write something here, and Ariana just threw a stuffed animal at me. Truthfully, sort of funny, has nothing to do with anything but I'm laughing very hard right now. Like I often do when I'm with her. Sidetracks are my friends.
Right now she is unpacking some boxes with CDs and I have convinced her to lend me a couple of albums with My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory and Breaking Benjamin. So I'm very happy right now. Like I always am when I'm with her. So now I'll finish this post up by writing that I've promised myself to update this page better and am also gonna upload pictures and stuff later on. Just for the fun of it. Cherrio's!
/Madeleine