So remember that time I went to Sweden and said that I’d resume blogging come the end of January? And how now is February? You have now learnt an important lesson about how I am FULL OF LIES.
But yes, Sweden! It was super awesome. I trundled around in the snow and wore woolen bobble hats and ate many, many buns. Oh, Sweden is so very good at sweet buns. You are familiar already with my love of semlor (THE CREAM! SO MUCH CREAM! AHHHHHHHHYUM), but I was not prepared for the delicious bun explosion that was kanelbulle – basically a cinnamon danish THAT EXPLODED MY WEE MOUTH WITH SWEETNESS AND JOY, and I consumed about three a day and returned to Australian shores very roly-poly, but with a kanelbulle recipe, oh yes, there will be Swedish baking times.
I mostly hung around in Stockholm, but also got to go up to Kiruna, which is up north, within the Artic Circle no less! Having long been obsessed with articness it was something of a dream fulfilled. Zoe and I braved the icy winds and went northern lights spotting (a failure, sad to say), and also went on the night time dog sled ride, which was, just quietly, THE BEST THING EVER!
It really was something to stand out there on the edge of town, staring out across the snow towards the mountains that you knew would end up snarling all the way up to Norway, up to the Artic Sea; to look up and see more stars that you thought could possibly be contained in the one sky. It’s all just so cold and bleak and stark and in the face of it, well… your little problems seem very, very insignificant.
I left a lot of my little problems out there in the white.
Anyway, anyway, now I am returned, and things are looking a lot brighter than they were at the end of last year. I am going to uni again come March! I have a new boy to occupy my time with! I’m challenging myself to do more arts and write more and actually get all these stories and projects out of my head and into real, concrete form. Oh hey there, 2010, I am taking you ON!
Addendum: Remember my Golden Globes post? OH MY LORD HOW FUCKED WERE THOSE AWARDS?! SO FUCKED. Apart from Jimmy Cameron’s Pocahontas in Space running off with Best Picture Gong, who the hell decided that this is the year for Sandra Bullock to be winning best acting awards? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL????!!!
Bring on the Oscars, it’s going to be horrendous!
