...Little miss Sunshine...

2008-07-24T22:07:00.001+02:00

Gah.. I can't believe it..

I've done it again.. not writing :P

I'm still living at least and that's always a start.. from what I've heard.

It is vacation-time for me now, and I am enjoying every minute of it. Taking time to exercise, play the violin and piano, to draw and be with friends and family.

Some days ago I was sitting and drawing a tatto on my foot with a normal black pen (picture above =)) and remembered that I had some henna powder left from the trip to Marocco.

So I went out on the internet looking for the proper way to mix it, to get the paste, and not just mix it without actually knowing anything...

Found everything on a page (www.hennapage.com) which is really good =)

I mixed the paste, applied and waited..

... and got disappointed.

I hardly got any stain at all!

I couldn't understand why, cause even though I've had the henna for a long time, it had always given a good stain without even waiting for the dye release.. so what was the difference now?

I started to think of when I used it the last time. It must have been some years ago, but would that really matter?

It is a powder that you mix with lemon juice to make a paste... would it actually diminish even though it is in a plastic bag, dry and safe from sunshine inside my cupboard.

Sending a question to one of Canada's leading artist I got my answer on why it didn't work...

Henna is only fresh for 3 years stored that way..

not 11 years as I had had mine for =P

oh well.. I can have the paste as practice anyway =)

.....

Other my life is the same as usual.. working too much, not having much time for myself, not having time to do and learn all the things I want, etc etc... I guess that is what is called a working life right?

I've done some photographing, but I haven't uploaded much of the new photo's. The newest I put up is from May and can be seen on http://elithenia.deviantart.com

But you are most welcome to go in there and look through my gallery =)

....

How come you feel the most lonely when you wake up in the middle of the night?

I don't know.

Maybe it is some animal instinct; that because we do not see very well in the dark we would like to have someone there to share our fear or cling to to feel that we are not all alone in this big unfriendly world.

....

Why is this think called Love so difficult?

either you have a problem finding one guy... or you have them all after you,.. it is not like there is something in between...

What to do?

2008-06-06T16:57:00.001+02:00

A picture I did for my division on Club Bleach (CB).. it is a forum with a lot of great people :D

Hopefully it'll work here.. cause it hasn't been working on the other sites I have put it on. :S

2008-01-21T21:43:00.000+01:00

so... back to this blogg...

I'm sorry to say that I've totally forgotten to write anything here :(

Anyway: a short update. I've started working as a barista at a café. A barista is the person who does all the coffee and such ;)

The café I work at is a part of a much larger cooperation... it is like Swedens equivilant to Starbucks =P

During December I helped out at a window-cleaning firm. ha! cleaning windows in just a couple degrees over 0 (celsius) is not very fun. Especially not since we did not use gloves... *shivers*

Christmas was nice =) new year... well it was ok.. I had fever... :(

I've put up some new photo's on my deviantart site. feel free to check'em out.
Elithenia on deviantArt

wiee! tomorrow I'll go down to the driving school and register, again...., to take lessons.. :)
I might finally be able to get my driving licence... hopefully quite quick ;)
I soo want the licence =) Once I get it, I'll be able to get the military as well!!! And that I really want =)
To be able to drive and help out.. that's the best ;)

ooh... a friend of mine was nice to edit a pic of me, that I wasn't too fond of from the beginning.. but it turned out great once he was finnished with it..
What do you think?

Autumn feelings

2007-08-27T16:42:00.000+02:00

one year.....

it has almost been one year since I last wrote here. tsk tsk!

I knew that the school took up a lot of time, but not that much..

But now that part of life has ended.. I've graduated! finally :D

getting my diploma this saturday :)

anyway...

summer is nearly over, the autumn is soon taking my world in its hands... and I don't mind :)

the autumn with its beautiful colours has its own magic, even though some people thinks that the autumn is the most depressing and horrible of the seasons I find it interesting...

imagine spending time walking in the forest breathing in all the clear air that the autumn brings, hearing the wind blow in the evenings, sitting at the window with a large cup of hot chocolate and just watching the rain fall outside, or sitting near a fire, never minding that the dark is conquering all of the world outside, the only thing on your mind is the flames dance over the crackeled wood logs....

ahh..

but although I like the autumn I will never forget this summer!

This summer has ment so much to me :D

Especially the time up in the north of Sweden, toghether with all the crazy people making IACE Sweden 2007 to the most funny, unforgettable, cozy, crazy and friend-making event of the summer!!!!

I miss you all guys!

Even though we all are spread over the world I hope we all can meet again. that would be so awsome!

Time flies when you're having fun, and I agree! These weeks we spent together seems to me just as a small amout of time..

to short, we still had a lot of crazy stuff to do =)

luv you loads!!

today the rain has set in... nothing much to do at home...

Too much of the summer rained away this year, but, as normal, I had very good weather on both my birthday and on my birthdayparty :)

but why is it so hard to get the guy that you like to like you? I mean.. more than just friends?
*sighs*

life is complicated!........ but if it weren't... would it be so fun to live it?

Has anyone read Harry Potter and the Deathly hollows?

gah!!! the ending irritates me!!!

and it is sad that the series end... but 7 books is quite much still :)

I'm currently starting on a book called "the historian" by Elizabeth Kostova... don't know much about either the book of the author.. but I hope it is good :)

*reading what I've written*

oohh... I sounds so serious!!!

wow...

didn't even know that I could do that (outside the military :P )

no. but anyway ;P

I'm off... to write.. :)

my fingers are itching to write (with pen and ink) :)

Chris, me, Arne and Robin outside the Castle in Stockholm...

*hugs*

We have to meet again!

ps... the blog has moved from magicalforest.blogspot.com to this new address... flyingsunshine.blogspot.com

for the swedish blog please go to flygandesolsken.blogspot.com

2006-11-30T10:06:00.000+01:00

hmm... a looooong time has gone by since I last wrote here.
:S
Guess I'll too busy at school... *sighs*

I finally have some time of my own, not bothering about doing all the assessments we're supposed to hand in preferrably yesterday.
...
Hm..... sleeeeeppp =)

2006-08-10T12:32:00.000+02:00

Canada, Canada, Canada.
How can I even begin telling you about this trip to Canada?
This was a trip of a lifetime!!! And I don't think that anyone of those who where with us on this trip would disagree...
International Air Cadet Exchange!
All were Air Cadets from their country and had been choosen 'cause of their knowledge, compability with others and their personality...

We had such fun together, swapping souvenirs and t-shirts, talking, playing ball in the hallways (corridors) etc.
We all got friends for life and I managed to get a weird accent (which the brittish lads had fun trying to sound like :P ) ;) And I learned some brittish slang as well ;)

All I can say too all people right now is that I miss you!
Good luck with all what you do!
And hopefully we'll see eachother soon! If you ever come to Sweden... give me a buzz! =)

and to Ben from Belgium... GOOD LUCK with the training to be a F16 PILOT!!!!!!!

Dave,... I think I had some more souvenirs that we should have swapped... *sigh*
next time then!

Had my econ exam yesterday, I hope it went ok.... I have no clue..
Why can't they just ask the questions where you know the answers?
The IB's evil! ;)

2006-08-07T23:35:00.000+02:00

IACE Canada 2006!

Well Guys.... what can I say? It has been a blast getting to know you!
Wouldn't trade that for the world!
Hopefully we can all meet someday, a reunion but that might be to much to hope for :S

We've done great things there..... I think we all were good ambassadors for our countries..
International relations, goodwill and all that. =)

We did white-water rafting, flewn in Griffin helicopters and such... =)
Miss you all!!!!

Will be posting more when I have the time!
Bye for now!

Canada..

2006-07-13T17:05:00.000+02:00

Well....
in two days time I'll be off to Uppsala to get my uniform and some info..
Then my friend and I will be going to Canada!!!!

More info will come =)
Now I'm off to the cinema :P
Pirates of the Caribbean 2... hmm.. wonder if it's good, at least I hope so =)

... The brave, the craven, those who do not care,

will all look back, in awe, and fail to see,

whether rich, or poor, or young, or old and frail,

what was, what is, and what yet to be.

There is a time, and it will come, years hence,

when one will find the scepters of the day,

those scepters more and less than what they seem,

with the might to bring life itself to bay.

In those ages, then, will rise a leader,

who would reclaim the glory of the past,

and more, as he would see it, in the sun,

to make sure the dual scepters will always last.

Then too, the lamaial will rise, but once,

Where none yet will suspect, nor think to dare,

and his hidden strokes may kill aborning,

Dualty of promise bright and fair.

For which will live, and which will prosper?

Who will rule the lands, in faith and treason?

One called lamial or the one called hero,

for one would seek a triumph, the other reason.

- Excerpts fromTHE LEGACY OF THE DUARCY

The prelog to a series of books that I like by L.E. Modesitt Jr. "The Corean Chronicles" - "Scepters"

Nice guys...

2006-05-21T22:18:00.000+02:00

Nice guys do exist! Actually!
They're not just a fantasy :P

I've just got home from a guy who helped me with my physics.
I was there for 5 hours. We talked, a lot, he cooked food (chicken and rice), we listened to some music, talked and watched a film.
Mum sent me a text after half the film and told me I had to go home.
I asked if he knew when the busses left...
He drove me home!!! =) And that's over 6 swedish miles! each way!

He was so nice and funny. =)
I hope we are to meet again. ;P

Aunt...!

2006-05-21T22:16:00.000+02:00

I'm an aunt! ;)
My sister got a small boy this morning around 2 am. A strong healthy boy now named Max. =)
I can't believe that my little-big sister is a mother...!!

I'm just very glad!

Common sense?

2006-05-10T19:40:00.000+02:00

Isn't it common sense that guys are mentaly younger and more childish than the girls in the same age?
Today, waiting at the busstop, three guys passed me. I think they were the same age as I....
One of them were reaching down to his groin, inside his jeans, with a wide smile on his lips (finally figured out he got one? :P)
I didn't look that way much longer but I heard something like: "This game is harder..."

Guys... grow up! ;)

Thank god for guys a bit older! :D

Internal Assessment....

2006-04-26T19:41:00.000+02:00

First draft handed in.... :D

God, I soo totaly suck at Econ... I think I have to study the book very thoroughly before the Mini mocks.. *coughs*

TOK

2006-04-25T16:31:00.000+02:00

Thank God it's over!!!

But I screwed it up.... :S
We still got 18 points (of 20) but we'll do better next time =)

but it is over!!!!!

Just Internal in economics and mini mocks left :P

International School of Copenhagen

2006-04-25T15:48:00.000+02:00

Yeasterday's post!!! 10 p.m. 24th of April

phew!
At last at home!
Two of my friends and I got that brilliant idea to go to Copenhagen and an University fair... The idea was good.... but the directions given by our IB-coordinator was not :P
I think we've been wondering around all Copenhagen!
First we went to Huvudbanegården, from Malmö Central, and to the Information Center not far from the station, to find out where to school actually were.
(We had been given some directions like..." hmm.. the station after huvudbanegården... I think")
There we were sent to a place were a train and metro would take us.
Fallowing the nice woman's (the one in the info C) directions we ended up in Copenhagen Business school looking rather confused.

There we asked them if they new where International School of Copenhagen were.... and they never heard of it but sent us in a direction where they thought it would be =)

We didn't find it and asked a guy in a café. He didn't know any international school in the neighbourhood but one kilometer away... So we took the metro back to the station after huvudbanegården. *sighs* =)

There we found a girl in the information center that were actually going to that school and pointed us in the right directions. We thanked God... Finally we've found it and were 1 ½ hours late!
rrriiiiiiggght! At the school she sent us to no-one knew of any University fair. This started to crumble our hope of ever getting there BEFORE the fair was over..
We talked to a guy who didn't knew of the school, but then a girl overheard us and said sheknew where it was!
She searched on the net and showed us on the map... *happy*

Finally, after taking the metro to a new station then a regular train to Hellerup, we foud the school.
Then the britts that were having the fair had lunch and had ended the fair... *sighs once more*
One of the teachers/coordinators took pity on us, and ran around with us across the school just to find the britts.

We found them when they were on the way out to the flight, but they were nice enough to give us a few minutes in the tight scheme so that we could ask them some questions and get some pappers about the universities.

Then it was just to head back to Sweden and start practicing our ToK for tomorrow...
We were back at Tina's house around 4 p.m. and I just arrived back home... and the time is 9.58 p.m.

Hhmm... CSI: NY starts in a few minutes... I could use a small break! ;)

Lost time..

2006-04-23T17:05:00.000+02:00

How can time escape us so fast?
I know, I have not written for a while, i've have had too many thing in my mind and then my mum's birthday were coming up... ;)
She's now a year older =)

What have happened since i wrote last? hm..
One of my friends abondoned us and movet to Chicago of all places....

Chen and his Chenistry Here you can find him and his new science!

I've broken up with my boyfriend, but that was just after the sportsbreak, so it's been a long time I've been single :/
I'm trying to trying to live my old boring life... it's better for the school :P

hmm... Mini mocks coming up soon.
English and Swedish is ok I think, and math too... (hopefully)
Then Economics... should not even talk about that! It's a catastroph! I don't think I'll pass the mocks, I don't unerstand it..... *sighs*
I fall asleep trying to read the book, I'm soooo confused... :S

anyway, I will soon be out on the road! hehe... mum have promised me that we'll very soon, just a matter of minutes, will go out and learn how to drive her car... haha =)

Oh, by the way! (how could I forget?)
I was finally elected to go to Canada, representing Sweden, the Air Force and the Swedish defence for three weeks! And I don't have to pay a thing and we (A guy and me) will be doing white water rafting, flying, visit niagara etc...
I was one of 16 (!) Swedish youth that were elected!
We're being sent of in couples, one guy and one girl, to each country! =)

Who's the best???? :D

2006-03-14T14:51:00.000+01:00

2006-03-14T14:01:00.000+01:00

Flygvapnet

2006-02-27T13:50:00.000+01:00

Jag e´tillbaka!!! *ler brett*
Har varit en vecka i de kalla snöiga svenska fjällen runt Åre tillsammans med försvarsmakten =)
Hade grymt kul tillsammans med 27 andra ungdommar som också fastnat i Leos nät ( militären ;) )

Det var runt 30 grader kallt de första dagarna och vi frös som få i början. Sen en dag trodde vi det hade blivit plusgrader men fick världens chock när det visade sig att det var - 17! =)

Åkte skidor, försvarets vita blixten, körde både bandvagn och skoter, tolkade efter banvagn (uppe i 25km/tim *ler*), åkte snowboard inne i åre och hade det allmänt trevligt tillsammans med de andra.

Vi sov ute en natt... lite synd att det bara var en natt, hade varit trevligt med fler men jag tror inte att de i vår grupp (grupp 2 äger på tolkning efter bandvagn!) skulle klara av det. Hade några som inte kunde ta order....ppff...

Tydligen så var bastning något som man ägnade sig åt :P
Vi bastade varje kväll några timmar, sedan att killarna var så smarta så de sprang ut och rullade sig i snön var en annan femma..... det var nämligen skare på snön ibland... ;S

Detta läger var bland det bästa jag har gjort!
Saknar er så himla mycket!
Kunde inte haft bättre vänner däruppe och inte bättre befäl! (ett stort tack till alla befäl som gjorde detta till en minnesvärd upplevelse! ;) Leo, Henrik, Bengt, Erik, Maria, Monica och Wirén)

Johanna M, Filip "Gruppis" , Johan, Frida, Gabriel "Knorris", Kenneth "Chips", Johanna O, Tomas, Linus, Anton, Robin N, Johan, Ignatio "Igge", Johanna A "Gruppis"...... kommer saknar er så mycket!
Vi måste ha en återträff snart!

Snart ska man skicka in intresseanmälan till Leo om IACE oxå... man hittar ju inte de där himla blanketterna! *blir knäpp....... are än vanligt*

Blev så glad när Leo så att de "uppskattade mig jävligt högt" och om jag skickade in en intresseanmälan så skulle de sätta mig "jävligt högt upp" *ler*

Ska bli Gruppbefäl nästa år på vinterkursen ;)
Kan bli kul *ler sadistiskt* :P

Till alla er vinterkursare där ute från Ånn 2006 glöm aldrig att ett "Manamana" (mupparna) alltid går att vakna till :P

2006-02-05T23:03:00.000+01:00

I know, I know.
I don't have time to write, therefore the bloggs will be scarce, but they will be here =)

I am soooo tired right now but I figured that I had to write something so you don't think I have forgotten you!

So, what's happening in my life right now?
During the break (week 8) I will be up north in Sweden and fight... No just kidding, but I will be in the military that week ;)
High up north where the snow never melts.
I heard from the ones that were there last year... They only had +/- 0 C. But the year before that they had -30 C *smiles*
Funny funny funny!

I got mum into town yesterday. We had some fun shopping but my feet are sooooo sore after. It was hardly I wanted to stand today in church (had some songs to sing in the days service).
But I got myself a new backpack! One that actually feels good. And that is an approvement! ;)
I bought a new CD too. Found a VERY old gift from a friend. 200 Skr at "Folk och Rock" ( A Music store in town). Bought the new Il Divo cd. "Ancora".

I think I actually found what I want to do now. It took some time, and it will take som more. (of that I am sure)
For some time now I have been totally confused about my future, what do I want to be etc. You know how it feels sometimes.
And when I was thinking I found out that I think I want to become a singer. (more than I am today)
I want to find MY voice. ;)
And I want to become good at it, no Great! :P
Have you heard a girl named Hayley Wastenra? She sings wonderful!
And that's where I'm heading!

Maybe I should try to get in to the RSAMD in Scottland?
Or do Trinity College have something? ;)

Christmas time

2005-12-13T10:54:00.000+01:00

I hope you all had av very nice Christmas and I hope you'll get a wonderful new year too =)

We have got snow now!!! happy happy... *runs around and throw snowballs on my nephews*
And I've takesn some time to write on my story. I needed it. I have re-written nearly all of it.
Of course it is in Swedish or else Tina would have a very busy job correcting all of my misstakes and I can assure you, they are not few :P
Thank you Tina for your help with my poor english =)

I am writing about a girl named Mylian, she's 19 and in the begining of the story a messenger.
I'm praying that I can finish this story before I turn grayhaired... =) (though it seems like I don't have the time for it during school *sighs*)

I wish you all a very happy new year and see you next year!

Berlin

2005-12-12T20:44:00.000+01:00

Ohh.... lovely!
I spent one weekend in Berlin together with my choir. It was wonderful!
We sang together with Berliner Mädchenchor, and had a Lucia concert just before we went home again.
Hanna and I stayed at the family Gronaü's place. They were just lovely! They were so nice and kind to us and I hope that we'll meet again soon!

Toni, Pia, Mereike.... what can I say? I had so much fun with you when we met... actually better than with my own choir. :S
Thank you for bein' such funny and helpful people!

Music makes the world

2005-12-11T17:10:00.000+01:00

What would life be without music?

At least my life would be empty.
Music makes me drift away to some magical world far far away.
Savage Garden takes me to a field, where the wheat is almost ready for reaping, to one side is a luminous green forest and to the other side is a bewildered sea. inte the background are mountains.
But not all music has that magical touch... not at all... Not for me at least.

I was re-organising all of my family's sheet music today and I began thinking of what my life would have been like without music.
I think I would have been too stressed, too tired to do anything that makes me as happy as singing and playing instruments have made me.
But I don't know, because I have the music in my life...

I haven't lived in such a world and I personally wouldn't give up this world (or the others) without at least a fight! ;)

Winter. A white land of snow....

2005-12-11T10:56:00.000+01:00

Aahhh.... Winter. A white land of snow....
White snowcastles and snowfights with friends.
Sitting in a big dark snowcave with a small candle as the only source of light...

yeeeah. You wish ;)
Here in Sweden, the "cold land of the north where polarbears walk the streets", we have NO white, snowy patches. It is not winter, or at least not the winter I'm hoping for. The sun is coming back, it's much brighter in the mornings now, and even the bluebird thinks it is spring time. But it is before Christmas!
This year has been a strange year if you look at the seasons (same spring, pretty long summer very long autumn and merly no winter at all).

One would want to sit in a window with a big cup of either hot tea or chocolate, (whichever you prefer) and just watch the snow hurling outside, making you stay at home instead of going to school....
But as it looks, that image is nothin' but a dream...
In my imagination I'm sitting in a very big window with a big blanket tossed around my shoulders. I am holding a large black mug of hot chocolate, warming my hands on it.
Across the room there is an open fire, blazing the interiour with cozy light and warmth.

You know what?
It is in our imagination that our dreams can roam freely and we find peace in our hearts.
So: go and find your imagination, there is too great a lack of imagination in the world... Take a seat near a window, an open fire och whatever makes you dream and discover new worlds.