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Goodmorning from the kitchen of 30a Harriet street. Uuuuu!!! =S
HELP!

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For my few days in bed, the the wonderful dogs Snuff (teddy) and Snuffy (neighbour dog) have kept me company in my room. Highly appreciated!

And my diet has consisted of:

Plus almost all salty liqurice that Tina and Danne sent over for my birthday. Time to get better though. I cannot stand another day without training!

Went to a fun Korean restaurant where you barbied your own meat/veggies for us "vegetarians" and moved on to a cooktail bar before walking home barefoot in the rain. Very sofisticated and nice.
Next up, Lucas 1st:

Beautiful Lucas has reached the important age of 1 year. Cutest baby ever! Lots and lots of brazilian delicious snacks (as his parents are brazilian) and sunshine.

Happy birthday singing in english and portuguese.

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Afterwards, contributed with dots to a dot obsessed exhibition at GOMA in southbank (Yayoi Kusama) with my neighbour Omar.

And then went to a poesi team slam at the Jam Jar in west end where my other neighbour Alex was playing the guitar in the background for one of the slamers.

So. Pretty intense weekend although beach never happened due to massive rainfall and storm warning along the whole sunshine coast on saturday. Good times!

Facebook updates about life at UQ, AND, SvD headlines:

Very interesting day!

Friday again! Its scary how fast the time goes. I'm not complaining though, very happy and welcoming the weekend as I'm going to the beach for the first time in ages!
Just wanted to actually dedicate this update to my awesome friend Jade who will shave her hed in a few weeks time to raise money for the leukaemia foundation:

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Time for me to get in to work earlier than ever before to care for my rattis before further tutoring introduction.

Just to add some colors to the blog, this is my very beloved The tough spot gym where I spend many hours of the week doing crazy work outs that makes me wanna cry and laugh and love and hate at the same time:

I doubt my phone camera has 8mpx as it says, but there you go. PS. Don't tell Ross, I made it for his bday!
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Had about 4 hrs training to become a tutor today. Which means I will make some more money than the not very generous scholarship offer. So, now I will have to learn everything about heart sounds and blood pressure as I will be teaching a prac in that. Plus another prac in exercise which I feel more comfortable about. Great learning experience though. I'm very happy I got it!

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Also, thanks a million Tina & Danne for Kalles randiga, for topping up my swebar and salty licuorice storage and for the lovely letter that showed up in my letterbox today. Lots and lots of love!

Hard to believe that this little girl has grown up t be a quater of a century old. I guess I reached the age when I can say "it was better in the good old days".

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Birthday aussie time was on Friday. Work work and I successfully flushed an oviduct of a rat in only like 5 min. (I guess I haven't yet told you about my frustration when first learning the technique. Marie (a lady that is helping me with collecting the embryos) showed me how to disect out the uterus and the oviduct from the rat. Then, you have to put it under a stereomicroscope and magnify it like 40 times. So you are starring in front of you but working with your hands below you, using a miniature foreceps and a flushing needle. And Marie basically told me "find the opening of the oviduct, stick the needle inside and flush it). Worth mentioning, the oviduct of a rat looks like a ball of thread and this is to be done with super small instruments under a microscope. I spend 9hrs on Mon and Tues just looking for the damn opening but couldn't find it. So you can imagine my happiness on Friday when, after just 2 min it appeared to me what I was actually looking for!) Anyway. So. Big smile. And then my workmates (who knows me too well) celebrated me with a big fruit plate instead of a cake.

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And gran called from Sweden! Made my day. She was so amazed that she could actually dial the numbers and talk to me when I was on the other side of the wold, feet in the pool in southbank, 30 degrees and evening, while she had minus 10 and morning in sweden. I actually think she forgot to say "happy bday" due to that excitement. Too cute.

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Yday. Spend 4hrs in the morning making cinamon buns, chocolate balls, bread, pumpkin/pasta sallad, french potatosallad, hommus, punch, fruit and veggie plates etc for a bbq at mine. Was really great, excet the gas for the bbq ran out in 5 min and we ended up having to cook in a frying pan. But had abt 20 people at mine to celebrate so it was really a good 25th bday!

Guess I am the first Swedish occupying myself with Aboriginal art. Maybe Australian immigration will be nicer to be after this.
Now I understand how the aboriginal art can be so expensive as well. This picture (which is just about the size of a normal postcard) took me about 10hrs to finish. Huh!

Fun=)

Got a bit tired of my grey city and painted something more colourful last night.

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Anyway. Guess it's been a while since I wrote. I am keeping myself busy with rats, work, writing abstract for a conference in Newcastle in March, painting, yoga and TRX and kettlebell tabata classes. Pretty good. It takes my restless mind off things that I shouldn't been thinking of and it gives me something to do with all my spare time which is good. I hate spare time. Even 5 min is too much for my restless soul.

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AND. Do you think Australia let me sign up for the phone I wanted? Although I had, according to my friend, the strongest application for an international that he had ever seen. Ofcourse I wasn't allowed to! Australia, you suck! I had to buy my phone handset instead, HTC incredible S. Good thing though, I am not on a plan and I'm never gonna pay for Optus or Virgin again since they are so mean to international students. So I have now signes up for another company and I got a new number. It's not in use just yet but hopefully my sim card will arrive tomorrow!! Will keep my old number for a few weeks but will gradually stop using it. So take a note of my new one, that hopefully will be in use this weekend!

0466694411

Painted for about 5 hrs this sunday morning without notice the fact that 5hrs actually past. Good investment of me to visit west end art shop yesterday and buy a whole lot of acrylic paint and canvases!

And already looking forward to Monday mornings yoga class. I guess the West end life style have had some sort of impact on me. Remind me to move on to a new environment the day I start to think about dreadlocks!

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Hurray! 
Package from Sweden, ginger bread protein bars, Kalles and Läkerol. What more can you wish for on a Friday evening!
Thanks a million parents! (Guess the tull let Kalles slip through, good to know=))

Keeping myself updated on the Swedish news at least a few times a week when drinking my morning coffee. Typical Swedish behaviour that needs to be emphasized in Swedish media.

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Later the same day, my housemate B continues to be a horrible person and complain about everything me and Ian do or don't do. Complaining about "his fridge etc" to an extent that made me wanna buy my own fridge. So I go online on gumtree (Australian blocket) to search for Fridges for sale and this very peculiar ad comes up as the first hit:

Like I said....peculiar...

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It's now 6.15, in an hour, me and my neighbour Alex are going to trial a TRX crazy gym class at the tough spot. I am siked!

...As a matter of fact. Sunday brought the rain indeed. but on Saturday night, I planned on doing my first long run in a long time on Sunday morning. And plans are not made to be changed. So out I went. 13 km along a flooded coronation drive and in pissing rain. Gotta love it! The best way to start a Sunday morning.

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Also found a very good way to start a Monday morning as I found out about passport2fitness which is an amazing website that hookes you up to a number of different gyms for a very good price. Me and my neighbour Alex decided to take a 5 day trial and first out was yoga. Holy! Im sold! Always used to hate yoga, because I never felt enough exhausted or relaxed enough to do it. But I am so ready for it now! I decided to try a new thing every half a year I'll be living here and yoga is first out. It got me! Even went to buy a nice pair of yoga pants later today when waiting for Nick to submit my applications for a new phone at the phone company. Crossing fingers Australia will approve me for a phone plan as the prepaid service the offer otherwise is a rip off. If so. I might be owner of a.......I don't even want to say it.....................hm......smartphone (NOTE: NOT an iphone!!! though) very soon. Will let you know!

Rest of the day is off. Most public aussie day celebrations have been cancelled due to the weather. Two years ago, Aussie day looked like this:

I'm arfaid it will be a bit more of an indoor-activity this year. Time to get the day started!

Brisbane weather forecast. Rain times 8. (have abt 10cm more rain on my driveway now then this pic shows). Heavy rain the last 24 hrs have created a mini flood in areas of brisbane where up to 160mm rain has fallen only during the last few hours. Another 50mm is predicted tonight and many roads and parking houses are closed already.

I thought that working in Ireland, riding horses 6hrs daily in pissing rain would have made me tough enough to ride my bike to work today. Which I did. And ended up soaking wet 3 times in one day since I had to go to the supermarket after I got home to buy corn flour for my rats. So my clothes and bags are def flooded and the rain doesnt seem to stop at all. Might be time for this man to prepare for floods again if trusting the news.

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Also. Since I refused to go and watch the american version of "the girl with the dragon tattoo", in order not to be one in the statistics that went to see it, I downloaded it yday. And really?? Wasn't that a bit of waste of money? And did they try to make fun of the Swedish accent? Hmmm. Not worth seeing for anyone who has been thinking abt it. Swedish version is waaay better!

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Ok. Time to go in and shake the bottles!

Springbrook nationalpark with Ross and Xenia. Weather conditions couldn't have been worse. We were lucky enough to make it back to the car before the heavy rain started though. But. On the highway on the way back, it was so rainy and foggy so you couldn't actually see the car in front of you. Good for the café buissness along the highway.

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Monday morning. Still pissing down. Going to get wet on my way to work. BUT. I am happy today so it doesn't matter! Remember Sophia?

She has just returned from her exchange in Canada and will arrive to my place tonight!! Very excited. Have missed this lady so much=))

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Anyway. Last Monday, my first 10 ladies arrived to lab. Went in with them yday for the first time to record their body weight. OMG! They are crazy! Def need som TLC before they are gonna accept that I weigh them once daily. These rats are only for me to trail the diet on, so I can make sure they are all eating the same amount of kcal etc, altough one group will have alcohol in their diet. It is insane how hard it is and how much planning that is required. You have to monitor estrous cycle, food intake, weight etc, and calculate which days you have to mate them for the rats to be a specific age a speciic weekday etc. Assuming they are in estrous that specific day as well...  Really confusing. I guess I will get used to it...

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Third. My computer seems to have reach the end of its life time. It kept dying on me but listen to this! Miss technical here might have saved it! Downloaded an antivirus program and scanned everything by myself (proud). Although, I had no idea what was going on and which folders my little laptop deleated, it seems to run pretty smoothly again. A bit worried though as it said it deleated 1.62Gb of commonly used data and folders. However, most of my stuff should be backed up though but still... Is this normal?