Swedish vocabulary lesson no2: "Gilla läget"

I saw my first local ENT specialist today. He was a very nice man and he confirmed my symptoms. I did not, however have any cyst in my sinus, it has just collapsed, hence the feeling that someone sitting on my face. And the pain in my teeth is very correctly "something lying on top of them".

So now, the verdict is to try steriods for 5weeks and if unsuccessful it's surgery again, but after leaving the ENT surgery, I realized that I've read that steriods raise the cortisol levels in the body and that, I already have to much of, so I am not sure how well that's going to go down with the endocrinologist. The prospect of sinus surgery is, *how shall I put it*, challenging my outlook on life at present.

So, the Swedish expression of today, which I am going to teach you is "gilla läget" pronounced "yiller leget" *with a silent british r and the first e of leget pronounced like "level or everest". It means, that how booring or bad a situation is, you just have to adjust, you have to find a way to like it or to see it in a positive light. Gilla means "to like". *I am not adjusting very well at the moment, but I aim to..*

Yesterday we decided to kill some waiting time by going to..guess.. IKEA. O has been playing the hulk the past couple of days switching our bedroom into office and vice versa. This meant moving 6 double IKEA wardrobes and similar amount of chester drawers full of things, but the result is very nice and spacious (we now have a bedroom of ca 40sq meters). This all thanks to our partying neighbor above our former bedroom, who have started a habit of partying until ca 5am a couple of nights a week (he started in October and we just had enough around Christmas time.

We just HAD to have a picture to match our new room, so when going to IKEA we decided to buy the picture above.

Just before getting to the checkout O had a feeling he should double check the picture, which was rolled up in a box. I am very glad that he did, because he realized that we had the wrong picture in our box..fancy coming home, hoping to put that chic touch to your new bedroom and this is what you've bought, a 2m*1.40m sized world map..:

Swedish vocabulary lesson no 1: *Punka*

I am going to teach you a word in Swedish today:

Punka, or actually it's a slang word for a flat tyre.

Without having to mention the tyre in Swedish, you can easily express how I feel today: I have got "punka", I am feeling flat as a tyre, no energy left for anything really and all I want to do is pull the duvet over my head and hide.

Well am I not a Friday-mood spoiler.

So instead of moaning about all the bad things I can come to think of (they are a few!) I am going to pep myself and anyone else who need a bit of cheering up. All you have to do is to think of 5 things that make you feel good and hopefully that will sway your mind into a better gear. Never mind how small a things it is as long as they make you feel better.

*ok, being in Ior-mood, I had to think hard here, but here it goes:*

*Sleepless in Seattle - I know for some of you it's an ancient movie, but it has always made me feel very good, the first time I watched this I was at a very good place in my life (or maybe I took the step into this great place just afterwards I am not really sure..) *making note of watching it this weekend*

*Watching the sea - I've hardly been outside for the past 2 weeks, having had a cold and juggling both work and children (while O has been wining and dining in the big capital, staying at a hotel *yes, I am allowed to view his get-up-at-4am-fly-to-capital-sleep-at-2star-hotel-trips like that, this is my list and when you haven't been allowed to go to the bathroom on your own for a couple of days, this is how you reason!* So we have to go to the beach this weekend, no matter how much work there is to be done.

*Give myself a pat on the back, I have actually managed to clear some goods through customs and looking at it a week ago, it didn't seem doable in 1week's time, but I did it! *sending many annoying emails can get you far, in the end people grow so tired of you they simply do their job to get rid of you!*

*Watch the children, 2year old J is so funny nowadays, she is talking quite a lot and if I just let go of all the "I must-stuff" she really gives me a toddlers perspective on life.

*Listen to music that is not "I am a duck, quack, quack", which has been playing all week since we installed Cs little stereo in his room. This track always gets me in a good mood (it was a soundtrack to You've Got Mail (do you see the Meg Ryan-thread here?), another feel-good movie for me. The clip is actually from her movie Kate and Leopold, but just imaging yourself walking though a crisp autumn city with this song playing.

Have a great Friday evening, *enjoy, I feel better already..*