Thursday Thirteen IRL Cruiser
1. Thursday aren’t just about this T13 things, Thursdays is also Mom’s day for me and Mr Lifecruiser. We always visit her (Lifelessions) at the elderly home and some other days too, but Thursday is a regular. Mr Lifecruiser plays the piano and we’re singing together with some others of the elderly living there. It’s really heartwarming (and sometimes heartbreaking) to see how much it means to the others that don’t get visits. One lady there is from Gotland and we’re thinking of visiting her home area this summer too see if we can bring her something back from there to remind her of it. Even a guy there who is having severe hearing loss and have been a little out of the fellowship, seems to relax and enjoy it now too. We kind of build a bridge between them and make them begin to talk to each other. It feels really good to do some good :-)
2. We live in a small but cosy 50 square meter apartment in a very nice and quiet suburb of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. It’s hard to believe that we are so close to the city when there is so many animals and lush verdure around the house. We’ve choosen to live this compact living because we’ve planned to be travelling as often as we can. And of course so that we can avoid the cleaning business as much as possible… Even if we’re spicing it up with housekeeping method #2.
3. I repeat this since not many seems to believe us when we say it: we’re both sleeping in a bed that is 90 cm (35 inches) width and we’re doing it well too. When we’re sleeping. *lol* Don’t ask me how we’re doing it, I wouldn’t believe it myself if anyone had told me before this… Sometimes in the summer when we’re on the island Fårö, we even sleep in a smaller bed than that (80 cm), but that is a little bit too small I have to admit. Somehow we seem to fit in to each other like puzzle pieces and obviously does the right turns at the right moments. It’s magic I guess ;-) We love the closeness we get and I use Mr Lifecruiser as a radiator. He is the warmth in my life.
4. Both of us is cooking the food in this house, even if I have to admit that I might be a tiny monsterbit better at eating the food than cooking compared to Mr Lifecruiser…. The most amazing with our cooking is that despite the fact that our kitchen is very small, we’re never in the way of each other and we’re doing exact the right things the other one doesn’t have begin with. So it’s full of harmony, but it’s still speed cooking. It never stops amazing both of us. Very often we cook with some nice music on and have candle lights. Food is one of our lifes great joys. Even if we just eat something simple, it’s almost always homecooked. You can see our kitchen here. (Oh, boy, now I’m getting really hungry and have to have a short break for a kitchen raid…)
5. We have a livingroom that is very nice and comfy, but we hardly ever spend any time there. The TV is in there too, but we hardly ever use that either, we’re kind of free from TV. Only if Mr Lifecruiser is feeling sick or something and don’t manage to do anything else or if it is a poker program. I’ve switched the TV against the computer and blogging, he plays netpoker. Even then we sit side by side at our computers, in the bedroom. So it seems that we spend a lot of time in the bedroom hah? For the wrong reason? Well, who says we’re doing what in what room? *blink*
6. What we do to make a living? We live on Love ;-) Seriously, my last title were Consultant and Project Manager (IT), working with Systems Management and developments for TCP/IP Networks and IT helpdesks, but I’m on sick leave since 2001 (!) because of my back. During my sick leave they cut down the staff, so I had to go, which left me in quite a bad position. Even if I get well enough to begin to work - who want’s to hire someone with a bad back like mine? The only thing they offered were a fusion of the disks, but they didn’t give much hope and weren’t surprised when I said no… I’ve heard about too many bad outcomes to be willing to risk it and when not even the specialist give me hope, how can I agree to one? I’m just waiting now for another back investigation in the end of this year to see how things are evolving. Mr Lifecruiser has his own little business which he manage from home, educated as a marketing economist, but helping companys with safety data sheets for chemicals among other things. Nah, that sounded so boring, urrrk. Lets say: Lifecruisers, Enjoy’ers, Lovers.
7. We both love to travel as you’ve noticed, I’m sure. It has been quite an effort for me to manage the trips with my back and I’m totally devestated afterwards, but it’s soooo worth it. Heck, I’m always in pain so what if there is some extra :-). Since our last trip to South America that ended in the middle of December, we’ve been at home for once. It’s mainly because of my lack of iron with the going bald thing. It has been a lot of things to take care of around that, to take care of me. Trying to get in shape for next trip which is to Ireland the 16th of June. After that it’s celebrating the Swedish Midsummer and then off to Fårö, the island outside Swedens eastcoast the 3rd of July.
8. We don’t have any children living at home. Mr Lifecruiser has one growned up daughter and I never got any children for several reasons; not in the right relationship, not the economy or surroundings to support a child in. You have to have something good to offer children, not only being selfish. Many times people thinks that I don’t like children. I may give that impression, because I tend to keep a distance to them. The truth is that I’m highly susceptible to illnesses and always seem to get some illnessess from them sadly enough. They seem to have extra strong germs.
9. We only have strange unreal pets (read more under category pets), even though both of us really love animals. It would be nice to have them, but they demand to be taken care of and we don’t have that time or possibilty right now. Health issues and travels put an end to that - for the moment. When we’re getting old and grey we’ll probably get some pet friends :-)
10. My best friend and Assistant Field Reporter on this blog, Miss Ass. Lifecruiser and I speak to each other almost every day. She has been in Sweden since January now, involuntary stuck here due to healt issues. It’s about 30 Swedish miles (about 187 miles) between us and both ill, so it’s hard for us to visit each other. I don’t know what it is, but she always get the most unusual problems or illnessess. She is followed by such a bad luck. As an example: if other people get appendicitis she get an appendicitis that bursts and actually were dead for a short while, followed by other severe complications. Now she has been in and out on the hospital the last months trying to convince the doctors that they had to let her stay there and investigate why her blood pressure went up like a skyrocket (and I really mean a skyrocket!) all the time. It couldn’t only be the infection she had earlier and never seems get rid off. They tried to claim that she got a virus after that infection. Finally they took her serious and is now waiting for blood test answers which includes hormones. They saw on the x-rays that one of her adrenal glands is enlarged, a very unsual illness. They may have to do a surgery to remove it. We’ll see what they say when they know for sure.
11. Our interests: Love, travel, photographing, music, cooking, architecture, animals (Mr Lifecruiser is one, I’m just a hungry monster ;-), nature, dancing, good movies, educating reading, poker and golf for Mr Lifecruiser, blogging and horses is mine, even though I can’t go horseback riding like I used to… Let’s just say: anything in life - it’s much easier *lol*. We find almost everything interesting or educating, we’re rather openminded.
12. Please send us some warmth and sunny weather… It’s cold over here, not even near to be called summer yet. We’re freezing. Despite our method to contribute to the global warming effect. Anyone have anything else to offer to give us some warmth?
13. We try to really live, enjoy, love life today - you’ll never know if it’s too late tomorrow…
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