Sara Hammerzmith

As some of you might now, I spent the weekend at Sofia’s house, and we had a blast to say the least! We took it very easily and simple, took walks around the town, stayed in bed talking about everything and nothing, watching television, talking about summerplans and what not.

It’s nice you know. Sofia and I don’t see each other that often unless it’s at a festival, only usually once a year, AND USUALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WINTER, so it was actually rather nice to see her in spring time, when we, you know, could be outside a bit and not just stare at a wall.

There isn’t much more to say about this, more than that I had an amazing weekend, and I can’t wait to see her again some time soon.

// Sara

So we woke up very late. As usual. I’m not even surprised anymore, you know? That we can’t get our shit together in time. So, after a bit of “bleh” we finally got up, got out and cleared out the entire storage, so my mum finally can put in the new floor, and once it’s done we can turn it into a… well, where we build things.

On our way home, we had quite a few interesting encounters. First of all, we got a craving for soda, and just as we thought of turning around, we saw signs for a store, and we just yelled STORE! STORE! STORE! So we took a little ride through Sunnemo to grab coke and ice cream before continuing home.

And the next thing we know, we meet 14. __14__ Military vehicles.  14! And longer down the road we saw some soldiers armed with guns. Needless to say, we got scared as hell.

Isn’t it fun, how here in Sweden we flinch a bit when we see a gun, when in America like everyone has one?

// Sara

Spent the whole day, more or less, at the cottage preparing for summer. We’ve managed to fill all the availible leaf bags gladly, as well as clear out a section of the storage. Finally some progress are being made!

However, there are still a lot to be made. Such as raking all the lawn. The rest of it, I mean. Take away a lot of the growth all over the place, and PERHAPS REMOVE ALL THE BOXES.

But hopefully, this will happen in a few weeks.

Woohoo!

One month from now I’ll be at Sweden Rock Festival. I’ll be at the worlds best place, with like-minded people, days filled of metal shopping, the finest fast food, sun (hopefully) and most importantly, a lot, A LOT of fantastic music from stages all over.

I can’t wait to get back there. Seriously, time is moving SO SLOWLY right now, because of this. God. I can’t wait to get back. I’ve already started to put together my playlist. Thursday and Friday are pretty much full by now, so I really only need spots to fill for Saturday, unless I do my mandatory CD shopping that day.

Because that’s what I love most about Sweden Rock, aside all the amazing bands. All, ALL the little tents with recordshops in them. I usually try to save a lot of money for shopping, and not to get drinks or necklaces or stuff (even though that’s nice too) but to get CD’s and albums. I prefer buying things in real life, and even better so with these stores, since they usually have the things you don’t find anywhere else.

I think I might have to write down my list of CDs-To-Buy before I go down, so I know what to focus on getting. Not that I actually ever get what I plan to get. I’ll probably end up going home with the Heroes special edition (if they have it) H.E.A.T’s live CD and a few bands I never heard of.

That’s also a thing I do. At least ONE of the CD’s I bring home from the festival has to be with a band that is completely unknown to me. Russian Roulette if you want, but I like it. Who knows what band it will be this time?

// Sara

It’s been a good day, albeit very long. I quit my job around three this morning, went to bed and got up about three hours later heading over to my job at the stables. It had been bad weather all week, raining and what not so I was really, REALLY worried we’d get bad weather today as well.

So, understand my surprise, and delight, when I arrive at the stables and the sun is shining and it’s all warm and nice and not a cloud in sight. Because of this, we might have had one of the best work days this semester. We even had our breakfast at the hay-attic or whatever you wanna call it. Sweet as hell, I tell you.

Even though it’s a lot of work, there is nothing I love more than working in the stable. It’s a physical job where you have to do a lot, move a lot but you don’t need to think too much. It all goes on routine. And you are outside a lot. I like that. And you are away from everything computers, everything music, everything else that stresses you. And that’s what I love so much about being in the stable.

It’s soothing.

This picture was taken a year ago when Emelie and I did the same thing while working.

// Sara

We woke up around noon to a decently heated living room. Of course, it had gone down quite the bit since we had to put out ALL the candles… but it was still warm! Since the weather was utter shit, we spent the morning playing Monoploy and eating roasted bread. And doing some additional planning.

I can’t wait until we can start making proper changes and plans to this house. It’s going to be pretty awesome, spending a week there this summer with all your loved ones (I assume?!).

But you know. Still a long way to go. We filled two bags of leaves, and still it didn’t look like we did any sort of progress. I guess we will see how it goes!

// Sara