Sara Hammerzmith

For the first time in a very long time, here comes a The Sims update!

So basically, despite only playing for perhaps 12 hours in total, quite a bit has happened. First of all, I finished off her career as a criminal, in the Oracle “field” that is. I kept the job for a few days, until I moved on to Artist, paintings, that is. I finished that career as well, moving pretty fast here and I’ve just started her on her new career within the technician field.

However, something kind of caught my attention. My plan with Anna was to have her have ALL the careers – including both fields… but when looking at Criminal nowadays, I can only find the career for oracle. I need to do some investigation in this, because honestly, it’d suck if I couldn’t go back and do the other way with this particular sim. I really can’t be bothered to build up YET a new one just to have the other jobs… Sigh.

I guess we will see.

// Sara

After finishing up some work I’m supposed to take some time off, to have some fun. However, I’ve been working so much (literally every day) that I’ve forgotten what fun is. Gladly, I do have this precious evening off and I will continue it by playing The Sims 4 for the first time in forever.

But at least, things are looking very good right now. I was worried for a split second, that Australia wouldn’t happen, that it’d be ruined by the rest of the shows we have planned. But gladly it won’t, since I have money incoming from places I didn’t think of at first.

So yeah. I’m really starting to get excited now. It’s hard to think about the fact that in a couple of months from now, I’ll be in Australia. Or even New Zealand. We haven’t properly talked through what and how we will spend or Oceania visit, but regardless, it will be epic. It will be good weather (I hope), good friends and a really good time.

Sadly, there are so many things I’d like to be able to afford before going there, and I truly hope I can manage it.

I guess we will only see.

Now, The Sims 4. For the first time in a long time.

// Sara

So finally, after some time, I’ve gotten myself a new passport. It expired in September, and I had planned originally to get a new one first when I needed one, but then I all of a sudden planned a trip to Belgium and had to do it sooner rather than later. And then I forgot about it, and then I finally got to it and did it.

So, it feels weird in a way. Like the end of an era. I used the old passport the first time going to Finland in 2010 for Lordi’s releasegig for “Babez For Breakfast”. BABEZ! That is like three albums back from where we are now! I’ve seen so many places with this passport. This passport took me to Denmark, to the United Kingdom, to Spain, it has taken me to Germany, to Italy, to Belgium… And now we write a new chapter with the new passport.

The last ever trip I used my passport for was to the Noch Ein Bier fest in Germany. And the first trip with my new passport will be to Belgium and Wolfsnäschte tour + Delain’s tour.

So yeah, the end of an era and let’s start a new, five year era with lots of new countries, concerts and people.

// Sara

If we look away from all the boring things that is work and school and all the adultish must, I actually went up a little, LITTLE earlier than usual today in order to buy some very, very important thing.

SlipKnot tickets.

You see, being a Outside The 9 member, you get a pre-sale code (a code SlipKnot has a tendency to give out publicly on FB anyway later on) which you can use to get tickets before everyone else that hasn’t bothered to sign up for the maillist that is OT9. So, even if I got up early, it was quite casually. So casually I even forgot it for a while until a picture of the band popped up on my dash and I was like “Oh. Right.”.

Said and done, tickets are in box, and hotels are booked for literally every show we have left this year, even though we currently only hold tickets for Nightwish and Mötley Crüe, but now we don’t have to worry about hotels or buses or anything like that, we can for now focus only on Australia, which is quite a relief. I have a few more buses and such to book, but it’s a no biggie.

Talking about the rest of the year. I wonder why it is, the fact that you always get tickets to the show who are the furthers away in time. We don’t hold HammerFall tickets, which is technically the next coming show, but we sure as hell hold tickets to SlipKnot and Toto.

Why?

// Sara

If we look away from everything that is work, we had a, in my opinion, pretty good band rehearsals. We’re still working with Alice Cooper’s “I’m Eighteen”, and I’d say that we have done some major progress. Like, I know I miss out here and there, and that I screw up here and there in my playing, BUT, it feels smooth.

Like, I keep going, I don’t miss out on some of the fills, started to add some more fills slowly but surely, and it got pretty good. It finally feels good you know? That we are really getting somewhere. Slowly, but getting there.

And speaking of getting somewhere, I find it amusing, more amusing than anything, that we can’t ourselves set a date for when to come home from Australia, but after further inspection, I notice that the time period we have thought fits PERFECTLY between SlipKnot and Toto. It’s getting closer and closer to be confirmed now, that I’m actually getting a little scared. AUSTRALIA?! Haha.

So once again, thank you, Toto and SlipKnot, for making our decisions when we can’t.

// Sara

So, something I’ve been anticipating for some time, is SlipKnot’s return to Sweden. After they announced a few shows in Russia, I was more than certain they’d come along soon enough. And today, my friends, the dates were announced!

January 20th next year, city is Gothenburg and venue is the Scandinavium. 

As you can see, this makes somewhat of a clash with our original plans to go to Australia, as Lordi has their first show on January 23rd. So at first, we were superbummed, but figured we’d get tickets just in case rather than missing out and then missing out on Australia too, but then I took a closer look at the flights and I saw the light.

I saw that there was a possibility for us to do both SlipKnot and Australia. 

It will be tight as hell of course, but it’ll be such a rush. Running from place to place, once again. And thankfully, this has forced us to finally choose a date to when we will arrive in Australia. And, since Toto plays in February some time, so it kind of gives us a time frame to work with for Australia.

So, SlipKnot next year – I’ll be there, maybe I’ll see you there, and thanks to the Knot and Toto, we have finally started to get somewhere with our planning.

(Shot at Hovet, Stockholm in February 2015)

// Sara

So, apparently, I’ve been blogging at WordPress for eight years. And this means I’ve been blogging for eight years. Eight, long, years on the same blog.

It has changed. It was in Swedish, then English, then Swedish again and now back to English since I realized I wrote mostly for myself, but also for my close friends and 90% of my close friends are non-Swedish speakers, so here it goes.

And since I write a lot about non-Swedish bands, it makes only sense to write in English, in case people are interested, or the bands themselves at times.

But yes. Eight years so far, and here’s a toast for another eight years!

// Sara

This day has been spent in bed most of the time. Why?

Because I’m sick. Would you believe it. On my first day off in forever, I’m sick. Of course, after a 12 hour shift, when I will finally have some time off, I’m sick. Sick as hell.

So what have I been doing? Absolutely nothing. I watched three movies in a row, which is a lot for me, I’ve been sleeping more than usual and I’ve been lying in my bed and stared at the neon lights in the “roof” of the bed.

So now I’m just going to continue listening to Beatrice Eli and continue to complain about my non-existing misery. Next up; “What’s Love Got To Do With It”. I love that movie.

// Sara

So today was a bit of a killer. After spending all day and night at Nöjes last night, I had to get up at 2.30 to get to work, and when I got home I planned to sleep a few hours before starting my other jobs… which didn’t happen, because my third job acted up a lot.

They screwed up some deliveries, and despite explaining my situation, about my schedules and all, she had the nerve to tell me to “Work as hard as you can on Saturday!” No. Seriously, that won’t happen. I can’t write too much about it just now, I wanna settle it with the company first.

We settled it for the day, gladly, but I need to have a conversation with the manager on Monday about this. This job isn’t THAT well-paid that they can treat their employes just anyway they want it.

But, to make it a bit of a better day, I got my hands on these today;

Tickets for the Toto show in Stockholm next year! My sleepcycle got a little screwed up because of this, but so worth it. They were fantastic at Sweden Rock, so I look forward to seeing them again.

// Sara