I'm back!

Dear readers

I have indeed been busy, with moving and also the recent trip to Visby (that I will tell you all about shortly). Thank you so much Emma darling for holding the fort. I know I can be a horrible blogbuddy at times, but hopefully you haven't gotten sick of me yet.

It was lovely to see you yesterday Emma, as it always is. Hopefully you will come and visit me in my new home too once I'm settled.

Tomorrow I will leave this house that has been my home since I was three years old for the last time in a long while. It feels strange, and I haven't quite grasped it yet. It's like it's not really happening or something like that. Now that I'm thinking about it it almost makes me want to cry, but really it's a good thing. Here is my chance to really find out if music is what I'm supposed to do, and I finally get to live with my girlfriend. We have been dreaming about that for ages!

By the way, have I anywhere mentioned that we got engaged? It's sort of semi-secret since we don't want our parents to get into a hissy-fit, but we bough ourselves a couple of beautiful necklaces (no, not rings, couldn't find nice ones in a price-class we could afford) and got engaged.

So, as I said, it's all good really, but big changes are always hard for me. Also, I have very strong ties to my family so it will be very difficult for me to be away from them.

Of course I will miss all my friends to, but parting from my family is still the most difficult part right now.

To write about a more cheerful subject, Pride this year was great fun. I went as a vampire again, but this time I was meant to symbolice Anne Rice vampires while Lotten was a Twilight vampire and another great friend who for now will be called K went as Spike from Buffy, just like she did last year.

We all had pretty signs and we had so much fun, though I was exhausted efterwards since I wore a long, black dress and boots with moderately high heels. It hurt. A lot.

Moving on to my first ever visit to Visby. In case we have some none-Swedish readers unfamiliar with the concept of the Medieval Week I will explain. A shitload of people (some of them in medieval clothing, or other types of costuming) go to Visby. There they can visit the market where a lot of beutiful stuff and a lot of yummy food is sold. There are loads of fun performances to see during the days and nights and you can take courses in for example medieval sowing or dancing. Oh, and there are tournaments.

Some people go mainly to get drunk a lot and meet with friends, since it is a huge social event. Being a near tee-totaler I wasn't particularly interested in that, but to each their own I say.

Me and Lotten (my girlfriend) were to tired to party much, even if she likes it a lot more than I do, because we were always running around doing things during the days.

One of the more spectacular performances was the "Fireshow", a free performance that the group TRiX does every year. It's a beloved Medieval Week tradition and literally thousands of people gather hours before it to get good places to sit. It was absolutely amazing. I looked around youtube for some footage, but there are only videos of last years show out there for now, and eventhough they are excellent considering the conditions they were filmed under, they still don't convey how extremely cool it is to be there anyway.

The same guys did an absolutely AWESOME show called Girl's night out. They are all very good looking young men so they have a huge following of girls (and boys) drooling over them, hence a show where they promised to be "A bit sexier, a bit more naked, and a bit more sensitive," but it was mostly a joke of course. They all showed up on stage in their underwear at times, which was apreciated by a huge part of the audience. One of them is very good at a form of acrobatics that involves a very large pole, so of course he performed an excellent striptease (Lotten gave him tip in his underwear after the show, which he thought was great fun) but when he made to take off his underwear all the other guys rushed in and carried him off the stage kicking and screaming. It was absolutely hilarious. The whole show was.

An honorary mentioning will also go to the choir Patriarkus for singing both beutiful and hilarious songs that was a delight to hear.

I saw a lot of cool/awesome/beautiful things, I really can't write about all of them, and I will probably return there next year to see more.

Unfortunately I got very sick the last couple of days so I lost an entire day to lying in bed an coughing. Lotten was sick too, but not as sick as me, so she was an absolute hero and went to fetch medicine and food for me.

Also, typing is a bit more difficult than it usually is, because on the boat back home I managed to spill extremely hot water all over my left hand. It's healing very quickly and I had ice on it for ages right after it happened so there aren't many blisters, but it still hurt like hell when it happened.

Anyway, that is pretty much all I can think of writing right now. I leave you with some footage of the TRiX boys, not from Medieval Week but it very much fits the mood of the place. The group playing is Patrask, a very talented medieval-styled band who also perfomed a lot in Visby.

Take care of yourselves!