I'm back again

I've been having a lot of trouble with my Internet connection lately.

But it finally seems that it will get fixed - at some point this week - so I should be back in business.

It hasn't only messed with my blog posts.

It's also giving me problems with my schoolwork, so now that it's up and running (at least for now) I was trying to find some music to help me get in the mood for writing.

I did find some songs.

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody


Scott McKenzie - San Francisco


Hermes House Band - I Will Survive (Live)


ABBA - Mamma Mia


Rollo og King - I'll Never Ever Let You Go

I still prefer the Danish version.

But I didn't get much writing done... I was too busy singing :o)

Anyway.

Hope you have a great day :o)

Memory Monday:

Toys I used to play with as a kid.

Most of them were simple, didn't require any batteries or other source of power - only a great deal of imagination :o)

Like:

The Slinky

As I recall it only came in two versions.
The plain

And the rainbow

The Footbag or the Hacky Sack

The yo-yo

There were a lot of tricks to those.
We used hours and hours to perfect the tricks, and only by watching and learning from each other.
Today you can learn all the cool tricks by watching a video

The Frisbee

The Roller skates - quad skates, not inliners.

The Rubik’s cube

And the Rubik’s snake

And finally the Hula hoop

I never could swirl more than 3 at a time.

But some are much more talented.





Many of these seem to have had their revivals. Some more than once.

The only difference between now and then seems to be the layouts.

Sapphic Sunday:

I appreciate strong female characters in books/movies/series…..
And I especially like strong female detectives/cops/PI’s/investigators/reporters…erhm…whoever solves the crime…

Some books turn into great television series or movies. Others don’t and should probably just stay as books *cough* Camilla Läckberg *cough*.

Somehow when I read James Patterson’s books about Lindsay Boxer I could easily imagine Angie Harmon in the leading role.

I like the character of Lindsay Boxer, but I also like that the books (and the show) are about all the women in the Womens Murder Club.

I haven’t watched more than 3 episode of the first (and only) season, but so far I like it.












But this wasn’t the first time I adored Angie Harmon as a detective. I sure didn’t watch Baywatch Nights because of David Hasselhoff…





And finally: Here picture from Allure Magazine May 2008

Enjoy your Sunday :o)

Constitution Day and Father’s Day:

Today it’s both the Danish Constitution Day and it is Father’s Day.

The constituion was signed in 1849 (after we gave up on depotism) and was last modified in 1953 (among other things with the whole male-preference primogeniture thing...).

Denmark does not have a National Day – per se – but Constitution Day is pretty close.
Most people have half a day off, but it’s not something you are ‘entitled’ to - unless you have an agreement with your work place. The day is usually celebrated with political speeches (if celebrated) and many doesn’t think any difference between Constitution Day and May 1st - which is not a Danish holiday either but it’s celebrated by a lot more people anyway.




A thing we do celebrate June 5th is Father’s Day.

European Election and what else to vote for.

Between June 4th and 7th it’s time to vote for the new parliament of the European Union.
Ever since I was able to vote the first time (when I turned 18) I have voted at every election there has been. And I finally got the voter's cards (is that the term?) in the mail (I didn’t get it before this weekend and I was beginning to think they had forgotten all about me…) so I’m almost set.

This time however I’m having some trouble figuring out who to vote for. Mostly because there are 3 candidates there are suitable (IMO) in each their own way. But I guess I’m voting for whomever I least disagree with. Just have to sort out which candidate that is….

But that’s not all we are voting for in Denmark (on June 7th).

We also have to vote for whether or not to change our succession laws so it will institute absolute primogeniture.
It’s all part of the fun being a (constitutional) monarchy…

Now why this hasn’t been up for vote before, I don’t understand. Sure, our Queen was able to become the Queen due to a change to the succession laws in 1953 (which made it male-preference primogeniture) and she only had sons herself and our Crown Prince’s first child was a son, so it hasn’t exactly been an urgent matter, but it’s 2009…! Even within the monarchy one could hope for equal rights.

Apparently we don’t do fast, but at least we don’t do despotism anymore*…. so yay for progress however slow it may be…


* (…and haven’t since 1848…)

Two Short Films About Protecting "Traditional Marriage" in Response to Prop 8

The Defenders


The License

Memory Monday: Bedtime stories, fairytales and childhood books.

Yes. More books.

I don’t remember if we (my sister and I) were ever read that many bedtime stories. At least not on a regularly basis. Most of the time I think we read to ourselves. Comics to begin with – mostly Anders And (Donald Duck) - then books later on. But when we did get a bedtime story, it was either a fairytale or something by Astrid Lindgren.



The first book I ever was given as a present was Ronja the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren. The next I got was The Brothers Lionheart. And I loved them. I can’t even remember how often I read them during the first years I had them.
It’s the only books I ever practically wore out as a child. (Those - and my copy of The Children of the New Forest by F. Marryat.)





Besides Ronja the Robber’s Daughter and The Brothers Lionheart I read pretty much every book Astrid Lindgren ever wrote and/or I watched the movies/series made of the books. Like Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga and Madicken.





[Madicken often makes me think about Anne of Green Gables as well - but that’s probably because they both went up - and fell down from - a roof to prove a point…



Couldn’t find a picture but I found this clip where Anne falls down from the roof – and later she get’s Diane drunk ;o) ]


Now, where was I? Bedtime stories, childhood books and…oh yes…fairytales…

At school we read a lot of fairytales. Mostly by H.C. Andersen or the Brothers Grimm.





But when we had to tear the stories apart to find the deeper meaning/the theme/the lesson to be learned in the stories, they lost their magic. And I really hated that. I liked the stories but at the age of 10 that’s what I really cared about. The stories. And even though most of the fairytales were also written with grown-ups in mind, my 10 year old brain didn’t want to dissect them and discover the underlying story. I just wanted to be entertained. Although I didn’t find most of H.C. Andersen’s work that entertaining – actually I found it rather depressing.

(I’ve learned to appreciate both the writing of H.C. Andersen and the ‘necessity’ to dissect stories/fairytales since then, but I still like to be entertained when I read.)

But all in all I read a lot as a kid.

I still do.

Enjoy your day :o)