Sara Hammerzmith

So, like I said, today was Boda Borg day so around 9 in the morning we got in the car and hit off to Karlskoga for a day, a bit shorter, but still a day of questing.

We started out the whole day with FAME, before going upstairs to be done with “Rock It”, and from there, we just went all over the place.

Since last time we were there, they have opened a few new quests such as Rebus, MasterMind and Gold, Silver, Bronze. We managed to conquer Rebus, Mastermind and Bronze, but due to dysfunction on Bronze, we never made it to Gold. We did Silver once, but failed at first attempt and never made it back.

Other quests we didn’t finish was The Castle, although, this time we managed to get through half of the last room. So with other words, next time we will own it so hard. All Hand on Deck we never did either, but this was lack of time. We got access to the quests (meaning, no queues) only like ten minutes before they close and we had forgotten for a moment what you did in the last room. Shit happens.

And Time Hunt. Which pissed us off so much, because we didn’t do anything wrong, it just kep giving us red lights when we just proceeded with what we were supposed to do. Oh well.

For being three hour shorter than usual, I’m still glad we managed to do as many quests as we did, especially given we had a lot of completely new quests to finish, which always takes longer time since you have to figure them out.

// Sara

Really just the current song playing on my iPod, but it’s kinda what it feels like when you’ve just left two of your best friends.

We took the long drive, or well, not too long, roughly two hour drive to Gardemoen to drop off our third piece Nathan after him spending an amazing week with us here in Sweden. A lot of laughter, almost so hard we cried at times, but also sharing heart to heart stories.

Best ending of it all was of course Nathan messing up the time, so we got real nervous for a while before I got my hands on his boardingpass and noticed he was indeed leaving at nine, and not eight like he originally said.

It was hard to say good bye, but how do you even say good bye to one of your best friends? It’s tough.

Gladly, he is already planning his return. Good.

// Sara

Today I, again, spent half a day with Nathan and Michelle. He’s leaving tomorrow, so it’s kind of bittersweet, you know? We all ordered asian food and headed off to this pretty little stop-place for cars where we ate and laughed and played for a good hour or so, including Kocoum screams, Nathan throwing noodles as flies and me trying to do spins.

At one point we all jumped up on different stones and tried to summon Mr L with the help of my Bill Cipher necklace. Didn’t work. Shape before Boda Borg is good, too. We kept playing for a good hour before we decided to go back in order to get some candy, crisps and drinks and returned to the spot where we wrote filthy fanfics about Amen, OX, Mana and Nathan.

When the mosquitos became too much, we headed home and spent the last few hours talking shit about everything and nothing.

You know, it sure is something very very special when you meet those kind of people you have everything in common with, to the extent that you can do everything and nothing, saying anything and nothing and it all just fits, you know?

Gah, I sure don’t want him to leave.

// Sara

Spent the first half of the day cleaning and preparing for Antoine’s arrival, and the other half of the day with my other halves, Nathan and Michelle. We went and bought tacos and cooked and watched the full version of Mosterman while eating. It was a cry, laugh and screamfest deluxe.

For instance, we were about to show Nathan who Sophie was on the DVD, and ended up screaming like idiots because right infront of her, was Oscar Dronjak, you know, guitarist in HammerFall? Fucking insane.

And I also learned how afraid these two dorks are of spiders. I don’t mean to belittle anyone who is afraid, but it was ridiculous. I tried to take it out, but once I managed to catch it I accidentally set it free so… have fun with that!

The night continued on with a lot of talking and laughing, and eventually a car-ride home where I impersonated all the different personalities I can take on in different Lordi songs, leaving us all with sore stomachs and wide smiles.

I hate that he’s going home. Why is he going home?!

// Sara

So, like I told you all, Nathan arrived last night, but it wasn’t until today that I got a chance to actually meet him again after all this time. Said and done, Michelle and Nathan took the car here, we went and bought pizza and went up a hill with way too many bugs and snakes for our liking and had a nice dinner accompanied by Lexxi the CD player and some of our favorite records.

Started the evening off with “The Arockalypse” (was supposed to be .5, but I had forgotten the actual CD at home) and in the midst of the evening we had, quite the surprise for Nathan, to say the least.

I told him that we had planned to go see someone tomorrow, implying we would meet someone, and he asked us who, and I asked Michelle to take up her phone and show him who we would see.

And when he saw the picture, he LITERALLY dropped his jaw, stopped whatever he was doing and was completely speechless.

Who did we show him?

Just this little fella:

(Picture by me, no copying allowed due to lack of watermark)

You see, I wasn’t sure if I was gonna get time off from work, and once it was said and done that I’d be able to go, we decided to make it a surprise for Nathan instead of just telling him. It was the start of a great night, where we went up and down roads collecting bottles together and later going to bed preparing for the next days endeavors.

// Sara

Ok so, it feels like I’m doing nothing these days but working, playing, working and working and some more working, but what can you do? It’s what you have to do in order to keep up with the lifestyle that we have.

But, aside all the working, there are some sunshine – tomorrow is the day Nathan, the mindblowing amazing every so awesome Monstermaniac we met in Southampton and Brighton is coming here to Sweden for a week to hang out. Missed him SOOO much since the Lordi shows, and I’m so happy he’s coming. Can’t wait to see him again.

But before that, more working. Baah.

// Sara