Sara Hammerzmith

We got up fairly early today to leave for Gothenburg as early as possible with me having worked until 3 am, which worked… as it always works for us. I think we left the place around 11 or so, or even later since we stopped to pick up some breakfast. But the most important thing in the end is the fact we got rolling either way.

Finally we reached Gothenburg, and because of some random metal band being there having a gig that very night, it was close to impossible to find a parking spot. I swear to God, we probably looked around for about an hour (!!) before we found a hard to get, but good spot very close to Liseberg, and after that, we could FINALLY enter the park. And the first thing we did was of course to ride Kållerado.

Since it was a warm and nice summer day, the park was pretty crowded, so we spent most time in the gambling section during the day, doing a few rides here and there and waiting for it to thin out.

And as some of you may know, I’m pretty good with the claw. But seriously, what happened this day was beyond me.

So, they had all these Frozen containers with Frozen plushes, and I saw one Olaf plush that I thought could work, but I wasn’t convinced, but I’d give it a try. Rather give it a try than not at all you know? So basically, this is what goes down:

The claw grabs around Olafs butt. Then glides off the butt. MIRACULOUSLY GRABS ONTO ONE OF THE LEGS.

MANAGES TO HANG ON TO THIS LEG. I was so sure it would lose it when bouncing against the window

BUT IT DIDN’T.

And this is the story of how I got an unexpected Olaf. I mean, HOLY HELL. I’ve seen smaller plushes being beaten out of the claw for less than that, but for some reason, God only know why, I was supposed to get an Olaf that night.

When night had fallen upon us, and we headed for Kållerado, we did one stop at the Candy wheel, figured I’d take a shot at it just for the sake of it, and randomly chose some numbers… AND WOUND UP WINNING. After all these years, I have finally won a big bag of Gott&Blandat. Who would have thought.

We wrapped up the night with riding Kållerado twice in a heartbeat, having our own boat at the final act riding it with out eyes closed. I’m telling you, it did indeed enhance the ride! One last ride at Hanghai with the ride operator singing serenades to the waiting people (I love these kind of employees).

Oh. We also did a ride up the Liseberg-wheel where I unwrapped one more gift from Paula. On the way to Liseberg I had gotten a few gifts from Michelle – “Monsterman” DVD and a bowl and candy.

We left Liseberg right at closing hours and had a good ride home, in which, for a change, I slept the most.

It was a fantastic days with fantastic friends. Thank you both!

Birthday presents: Nightwish ticket, Bowl + Candy and Monsterman from Michelle, Gina Tricot giftcard from Paula

My many wins. Olaf, a pig, a Willy, a frog, a chicken, a rhino, Elsa and the candy. Good day!

// Sara

So, today was a day I had to start out pretty early to make my very messy room a little bit less messy, since I was getting royal visit. Like I told you, Paula arrived yesterday, to Arvika, and today was the day they’d come to me, to make thing easier for tomorrow journey to Liseberg and Gothenburg.

They came here around 6, and right after that we headed downtown for our reservation at Heaven & Hell, to have a bit of a late birthday dinner. It was pretty nice – I thought it was gonna be a lot of people, but we had the entire balcony to ourselves. Michelle had a burger and Paula and I had a shrimp sandwich each.

(Paula is photobombing)

It was also at this point I got my first birthdaygift from Paula, which was “Volume 3: Subliminal Verses” on vinyl. So fucking awesome! Thank you Paula!

After this, we headed over to the grocery store to pick up stuff for tomorrow, and then I got to work. Got home at 3am, and went straight to bed to prepare for tomorrow endeavors.

// Sara

So, it’s been a long day. Went up earlier than I usually do, and started it all out with having to get a fucking taxi. Because you see, in the summertime, Karlstad thinks it’s a great idea to have all, ALL their buses go on the same time rather than trying to divide them a bit. So of course, by the time I arrived, the next 20 minute bus would leave in 20 mins, meaning, I’d miss the train.

So I had to take a taxi. Fine enough, made it to the train, got on the train, walked to the center and had my interview. The interview was fine, I think. Michelle came and picked me up right afterwards and I got myself some security pins. So many festival bracelets has disappeared I’m stating to feel scared about them accidentally being thrown away. So now I’ll nail them with safety pins.

We picked up Paula at the trainstation, went and bought food and had dinner while watching my friends Idol audition and catching up on everything and nothing. Went out to the horses, got some candy and did some more catching up.

It was a fun night, ending with me having to pull out more money than necessary for the trainticket since the machine wouldn’t accept my Värmlandstrafikskort as payment despite having three times the needed money. Thank you, VTAB. Thank you.

Got home and I thought about getting to bed early but Trolljägarna was on, so late night was a thing. Fucking shit. I don’t wanna be up late.

// Sara

Hm. It’s been a Hanoi Rocks themed evening, which is why I chose the title I did, despite it not being very fitting considering it was an… eventful day, I guess you could say.

Basically, what we did today is that we signed the lease to our rehearsal room. Band is a thing, and it’s starting for real next week. It’s gonna be SO. MUCH. FUN. to finally start. To get at it. AT LAST.

After the meeting Michelle and I went in to celebrate with some cheap McDonalds ice-cream because we are now struggling musicians (just kidding) and talked about everything from bandnames to irritating Lordi fans. Pretty normal day, with other words.

Now I’m just mentally preparing for the weekend. Dinner with the most stupid people you can ever imagine meeting (Michelle and Paula) then one day at Liseberg with these people (how will I survive?) but it will be fantastic. I’m sure of it.

For now, I’m gonna fix my eyebrows. I need to.

// Sara

For the first time for this semester, and for the first time in forever as it feels, I’ve actually been to the stable. Had Donna, also known as the best horse in the world, and I guess it went ok. At least for what I expected it to be.

But what I really was going to tell you about, was the late birthday gifts. Like I told you, some of the gifts were delayed because CDON is being CDON sometimes, and sometimes, things get delayed. It’s not often this happens, but it happened this time.

So what was this delayed gift? It was a book!

More to be exact, this book:

“Girl in a Band” a memoir about Kim Gordon, singer and bassplayer of Sonic Youth. I really look forward to get into it, but I need to finish some school books first. Don’t you just love school.

// Sara

Spent most of the days at Jennie’s actually. We haven’t seen each other in like forever, even though the main reason I got here was to get opinions on new clothes and shoes and to see new cute kittens, but all in all, it’s actually very nice to just sit down, chillax and catch up on things. Because like I said, we haven’t seen each other in like FOREVER, so it’s all good.

I was unsure at first if I should really keep both pair of shoes, but I eventually decided I’d do so, because I have a job interview or two, so it should be all fine. But I also need to save up for Australia, in case THAT thing happens, and I need to save up for Ireland and for everything else. But clooothes. And shows. And trips. And what about that long list, in complete list, of CDs I wanna buy?

Welcome, to my head people. This is what it is inside of it. Jesus christ. I’m just gonna keep grilling marshmallows now and eat crisps and enjoy whatever music Jennie’s playing and Jonny’s phonecall.

// Sara

You know you have literally nothing to do when you start a movie whose main character is played by Paris Hilton (“Pledge This”, yes this is the kind of movies I have at home) and starts sorting out the returns on various orders and counting the cash you have AND fixing your iPods.

Two weeks of working with the newspapers has come to an end, so basically, I find myself doing nothing (I’m not unemployed, so don’t worry) which I guess gives more time to do even more nothing. Like planning gigs, festivals, listening to a lot of music. Which isn’t too bad, I guess.

I tried for the very first time to ride a bike downtown today, and to my surprise it wasn’t too long. Good thing, because our car broke down. Things are really going my way nowadays.

But ok, I’m finding myself looking away from the keyboard to look at the TV (and interestingly, not missing a single letter doing so) so I’m gonna pay attention to the movie about the blondies in pink. Huh, I had never seen before that a girl actually tips the other girl about clothingbrands. Interesting.

// Sara

The blues after a fulfilling festivalsummer and some concerts are really starting to hit in pretty deep, especially since it’s a good few weeks left until we get on the road again, but this time around it will be a bit more scattered and not as far away.

But you know, you need some time to take a break. And I’m not talking about resting or things like that, it’s financially you need to bounce back. So I guess it’s a good thing.

To cure these very, very depressing feelings I’ll put on a Toto vinyl and catch up on my favorite Phineas&Ferb fanfic. After not being updated for over a year, I’m now many many chapters behind.

But that, will happen tomorrow. I now need to go to bed, because I start work in three hours and I prefer to sleep a bit before I go to work (shocker!)

// Sara