good news everyone...

disaster has been averted - fry (billy west), leela (katey sagal), bender (john dimaggio) and co will return for the new futurama episodes that are currently being filmmm... drawn!!!

a nasty rumour (well a bit more than just a rumour I guess) was circulating a couple of weeks ago that fry and co would be voiced by other actors as the production company and the actors were in disagreement over pay (money...it always comes down to money).

I've been like, totally like heart-broken by the bad news that, like the original cast would be replaced by some weird fry/leela/bender etc fakeos yea! ya get me?! so the news that the old actors have come back delights me no end...! :)

I first heard about the bad news from the robster and then read about the good news in a swedish tabloid a few days ago. checked it out on the can't get enough futurama website and they're also claiming that the entire cast are indeed back! I just hope and pray (ok, maybe lose the praying bit as I'm not exactly religious...but had I been, sweet baby jesus...) that the good news is indeed true!!!

postman pinche-fjun pt 3 - the return of pinche-fjun

finished my stint as postlady pinche-fjun on friday...but my unemployment was not to last for more than 48 or so hours as they called me from posten this morning wondering if I'd be able to work today through monday next week! :)

suits me just fine as I have my eyes on some billy bookcases at ikea and I'm in desperate need of some funds to cover the cost for a more permanent home for my beloved books (they live in book "skyscrapers"on my bedroom floor at the moment).

be gone yucky yellow and rusty red...

me, my mum and my dad have been painting the living room today...in an antique-white-sort-of-colour. it looks really nice and fresh! a vast improvment from the horrible pastel yellow and deep terracotta red!!!

we're going to paint the kitchen next, then the bedroom and finally the hallway. all in the same white colour.

I'm off to bed now to read the cox/forshaw book!

laters...

thanking you mr mojo!!!

I haven't even started reading it yet...but I know I'm going to LOVE this book!!! it was a present from mojo and it arrived today.

mojo and I were skyping the other night and he told me he had heard something about this "thing" on the radio and immediately thought of me. he then started dropping hints and telling me he's ordered something for me and that I would never, ever be able to guess what it was... he was right!

the book in question is why does E=mc²? (and why should we care?) and is written by (one of my all time favorite physicists) professor brian cox and jeff foreshaw.

think I'm going to...

1. have a well deserved shower (being a postie-lady is haaaard work)

2. make some pancakes

3. eat pancakes (with sliced banana and vanilla ice cream)

4. curl up into my big, cosy armchair and start reading my new book!!!

mmm, life is pretty sweet right now! :)

the pinche-fjun awards 2009

and the award for "the bestest parents in all the known and unknown universes got to"...

drum roll...

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drum roll...

Jan and Siv!!!!!

postman pinche-fjun pt 2

here it is, me in my three (3) sizes too big posten uniform, as per request (moster janet)!!! the colours are a bit weird in this pic, probably because I took this against a light background. so just for the record: my face really is NOT that red , and my hair is not that light in real life.

...and this is my mode of transport at work!!! it's an electric bike and I LOVE IT!!! it makes life that little bit easier when you've got 90lbs+ of mail on your bike to deliver...

really enjoying my job as a postal worker. it's a job that suits me VERY well as I'm completely self-reliant! if I f**k up I f**k up, but at least no-one else will have to take the blame for it and vice versa. it's quite a solitary job a lot of the time...again, I like very much! plus, I get loads of exercise AND I get paid for it!!!

this is my day as a postal worker:

5.15am: wake up and have a shower

6am: leave for work

6am-6.20am: cycling to work at företagscenter at berga

6.30am: I start work

6.30-8.30/9.00am: sorting mail for approx 500-600 companies' postal boxes

9.00am: cycle to posten norr

9.00-ready to go out and deliver mail: sort mail into households + some paperwork

whenever I'm ready to go out and deliver mail-I'm finshed: deliver mail to approx 520-540 households in the dalhem area of helsingborg

when everyone in my area has got their mail: home time! (usualy between 12.00-2.30pm)

I was training with my colleague Klas this week and the latest we finished was at 12.30pm (finished at 12.00 yesterday)!!! life is sweet...! I'm on my own next week as Klas is on holiday, so I know I won't finish quite so early, but I'm aiming for 2.00-3.00pm, which is still not bad. I get paid by the hour, so it's a win/win situation either way.

...and here's some I made earlier

your eyes are not deceiving you! I am indeed the cup cake-baking-genius behind the beautiful creations pictured right (these three cup cakes were especially happy to pose for a picture on top of my 1950s scales). and they don't just look good, they taste like little bursts of heaven too!!!

this is the recipe I've used (swedish only...see below for english translation).

chocolate cup cakes

• 4 decilitres plain flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 decilitres cacao
• 125g butter
• 2 1/2 decilitres sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 3/4 decilitres sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

icing

• 100g philadelphia cheese
• 350g icing sugar
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 4 tablespoons cacao
• approx 1 tablespoon water

(1 dl = 0.35 UK cup / 0.42 US cup / 0.4 metric cup...confusing!!!)

mix the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl

whisk butter and sugar

add one egg at a time and the sour cream to the butter/sugar mixture

add the dry ingredients

mix mix mix

pour into the paper cake cases (approx 10 large or 15 medium) and half-fill each case with the cake mixture

cook in the oven at 175c for 25-30 minutes

allow the cup cakes to cool before spreading the icing on top

I modified the recipe a little (as I always do...and not always successfully sadly) and added half a tin of hot choc milk chips to the mixture...and I also sort of forgot (oops) to add the salt and vanilla extract, but the cup cakes still tasted great so I guess it doesn't matter that much!

breaking news: witnesses claim five cup cakes were abducted and eaten in central helsingborg on sunday evening. the five cup cakes were reported missing at approximately 8.30pm. there has been no sign of the five since then and local police are currently investigating the crime scene and interviewing witnesses to the, what can only be described as, cup cake massacre. there has been no arrests as yet, but police are believed to have identified five suspects, four of whom are believed to be from the same family and one is the boyfriend of one of the women.

the disappearance of the five cup cakes have caused a lot of anxiety among the cup cake community and a further four cupcakes have reportedly called the police demanding police security as they believe their lives to be at risk. one cup cake has allegedly been taken to hospital to be treated for symptoms of shock.

(disclaimer: no cup cakes were harmed during the writing of this blog post)

it might get loud

I CAN'T WAIT to see this documentary!!! I'm sooo going to lobby my local cinema to show this!!! check out the official website and the it might get loud trailer.

that's all...just wanted to share that with you!

(nice poster too...it would look great in my front room)

oh, and by the way. got my posten uniform yesterday. all I'm going to say is this: it's a very efficient uniform in that there's a built in time-saving device made especially for small people. small people have the luxuary of not having to unbutton/unzip the shorts before taking them off after a long day's work delivering mail...lucky me! ;)

mommes pannkakor: the best pancakes in the world!

given my questionable record with all things food and cooking, you probably won't believe me when I write this...but the fact is, I make the second best pancakes in north-western skåne and at a stretch, swedenland! my gran makes the best pancakes in the universe! she is the grand-pancake-master of all time!

so I've decided to share my gran's not-so-well-kept-"secret" pancake recipe with you all. you have to promise to try this out though!!!

before we start, make sure you have the following...

tools:

a cast iron frying pan (see pics - I have tried many different types of frying pans, but cast iron ones are the best by far)

a spatula (I prefer a metal one, but whatever works for you is fine)

ingredients (approx 7-8 pancakes):

2 eggs

5 decilitres/approx 2 cups of milk (full fat)

2 1/2 decilitres/approx 1 cup of plain flour

1 tablespoon of sugar

unsalted butter (for frying only)

• mix the eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl and whisk for a couple of minutes
• add some of the milk and all of the flour
• whisk for a bit then add the rest of the milk to the batter
• whisk whisk whisk
• let it rest in the fridge for an hour
• fry until golden brown (again, see pics) in a cast iron frying pan with a little bit of butter...
• EAT and ENJOY!

pics top to bottom...

my gran's recipe in her own handwriting

my gran making pancakes, my granddad is in the background

the pancakes I made this evening (and my kettle nikki)

I know you english peeps like your pancakes with lemon and sugar, but why not try a swedish style pancake next time! may I suggest cloudberry jam,you can get it at IKEA - it's not cheap but it's sooo worth it. I haven't got any cloudberry jam at home at the moment so had vanilla ice cream and sliced banana with my pancakes instead this evening.

postman pinche-fjun pt 1

got a call from posten (the swedish equivalent of royal mail) today and they asked me if I was available to work starting next wedndesday! YAY, finally! it's only temporary, but so VERY much better than nothing at all.

camilla and my dad works there and have been bigging me up the past week...I hope I can live up to their expectations of me now...eek!

on a pretty unrelated note...we had a dog like the one on the stamp (a saluki, his name was sheik) when I was growing up. been wanting to use this image for a blog post for some time now, and finally found a befitting occasion to do so.

keep your fingers crossed for me next wednesday at 6.30 am...

c+d

YYY happy 1st anniversary camilla & daniel YYY

to review or not to review...

it's been a pretty uneventful week in pinche-fjunland...just a lot of grocery shopping, laundry laundry laundry, tidying the flat, vacuuming and mopping the floor, washing up and job hunting. but I felt it was about time I published a little blog article anyway, so I decided to write a mini review of a film I watched the other day.

high fidelity (2000)

directed by: stephen frears

starring: john cusack, jack black, iben hjejle, todd louiso, joan cusack, tim robbins etc

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...can't actually be bothered to write a proper review...I have a feeling you peeps have already seen this film and know what it's about anyway, hence me spending valuable time writing a review would be utterly pointless...!!! ;)

but I can reveal that had I actually reviewed it I would have given it **** out of a possible *****. is that too generous or too stingy? discuss.

watched a documentary on heavy metal last week and I urge you to watch it if you get the opportunity!!! it's called metal: a headbanger's journey (2005) and is by the canadian anthropologist and metal fan sam dunn. this is worth a viewing even if you're not a metal fan...the interviews with the norwegian black metal bands in particular are, eh...interesting!

I'm off to bed now! it would be really interesting to hear (read) your views on the above film and documentary! don't forget you can publish comments relating to the blogs I write (hint hint). a special thank you to dave for the nice comment you left on no hollywood for pinche-fjun... it really cheered me up! :)

the saturday night adventures of cam von p & veggi von peas

forced my sister to invite me along to her friend maris's fancy dress party last saturday. I'm a sucker for fancy dress. lack of money was they only thing that stood between me and a really great costume, so it was diy all the way for lil moi (unlike everyone else at the party...see my sister's blog)!

I wore a 50s style black skirt, my 50s style red t-bar heels and the cherry blouse (see pics). I'm still not sure what I went as...it started off with rockabilly-chick-meets-dita von teese-at-a-red-carpet-event (not crazy burlesque, champagne routine dvt...just so you know)! I guess I looked sort of like a lady from the 50s with a twist...?!? hmm, not sure, but I had a great time what ever it is you want to pigeonhole my look as.

my sister went as too-cool-for-school kat von d (or cam von p as we called her)!!! I think she looked great! easily the best looking lady that night! I think the stars and the lightning bolt on her face were particularly successful...wonder who drew those on her, hehehe...!

for more fancy dress pics, check out camilla's blog: http://themillan.blogg.se/

laters ppl... :)

no hollywood for pinche-fjun...

...not yet anyway! ;)

needless to say, I didn't get the acting job!!! it would have been a lot of fun (and a lot of money), but I can't say that I'm in the least dissapointed. I do have an overwhelming sense of pride though...of the fact that I went through with it all and went and auditioned for the part. it might not be a big deal to some people, but to me...how can I describe it accuratly...! auditioning is almost scarrier than jumping out of a plane without a working parashute (ok, so I'm exagerating just a tad...but only a tad!!!). enough about that...I'm sure plenty more opportunities will come along shortly! :)

I've FINALLY got around to publishing some pics of the flat!!!

top to bottom...

kitchen 1: my very 70s kitchen table and chairs AND my new babushka curtains that my mum and I made today!!! my parents found the 50s kitchen scales at an auction earlier this year, and the bucket belonged to my great grandmother.

kitchen 2: my new fridge/freezer and cooker. the eclaire gave me the red wesco kettle as a leaving-london-present. people have a habit of buying me cook books, hence the small library on the art of cooking between the f/f and cooker.

living room 1: my super-cosy-mega-armchair that was a present from my aunt. my first ever cuddly toy, otto (he's the yellow/green cutie in the chair - he's been with me since I was a couple of week's old). HIF nallen also deserves a mention...he's only been with me since 2007, but is equally cute. my science mag collection in the yellow crates to the left of the chair and some of my beloved books on the right (I need a bookshelf soooo badly)!!!

living room 2: my records, my cds and my stereos!!! + my mini drum kit (I played the drums when I was younger a have wanted a drum kit for quite a while...so my sister and her boyfriend got me this little sweetie for christmas last year).

hallway: my "fry" corner. fry is the name of my mac - named after mr stephen fry and philip j. fry. also in this pic...my dream car, a miniature 55 chevrolet bel air (oh, how I wish it was the real deal)!!!

PS: the yucky yellow and terrifying terracotta is to be no more in a few week's time...I've decided to paint all the rooms in a nice "warm" white colour, then fill the walls with posters, paintings and pictures. I'm going to paint the kitchen table/chairs in a black vinyl colour too...not too keen on the brown wash (I know, it's hard to believe). more pics to come when it's all done, promise!!!!!

PS 2: just noticed there are a bunch of spelling mistakes in the above text! apologies, me very tired and very bad proof reader today!

glad midsommar!!!

PS: the audition went pretty well...I'll find out monday if I get the job or not...! :)

hollywood next???

I've probably already jinxed myself by telling most of my friends in swedenland the "good news" anyway, so I may as well tell the rest of you peepsters as well!

I've got an audition in malmö for a tv commercial this thursday afternoon!!!

there you have it! I've done it now! jinxed myself to places you can only dream of! not that I believe in the jinx effect any way - me not the least superstitious!

but yea...would you believe: me - audition - tv commercial!?!?! and the funny thing is, I haven't even applied for it! I was contacted by a production company yesterday, they had seen my profile on a website for extras. they basically emailed me to see if I would be interested in auditioning for the "lead" in a tv commercial they're shooting in copenhagen at the end of the month.

I haven't had to endure an audtion since the mid-ninties, when I was doing a bit of acting in a few theatre productions (both amateur and professional). was taken aback by it at first...I HATE AUDITIONS...in fact it's one of the things that I fear the most...not the actual audition, but all the thoughts and the nervousness leading up to it. it simply brings out the worst in me. was a bit relieved when the production company wrote back to me today saying the part requires no dialogue, all you have to do is look comfortable and act naturally in front of the camera. and I guess you have to be quite photogenic too...hmmm!

I'm still a bit nervous, but have decided to be brave and go through with it anyway. WHAT'S THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN!?!?! plus, I know I will regret it if I don't give it a go. It's just been such a loooooomg time since I did anything like this, I had almost forgotten what it feels like to be in pre-audition mode, hahaha!

keep your fingers crossed for me this thursday at 2pm sweden time / 1pm uk time!

ps: sorry about all the !!! I'm just in a very !!! sort of mood today!!!

crüe crüe crüe...

shoeses, shoeses...nothing but shoeses!

after three months in storage and a further month or so in boxes, I finally set my beloved shoeses free this evening!

all 75+ pairs live in my hallway now...no more dark-box-prison.

just wanted to share this "news" with you all. I know, I know, useless info...but hope you enjoyed it anyway!

ps: this is the first time I've managed to fit them all in one photo (and in one room too for that matter, without having to squash them into laundry bags etc)!

the return of pinche-fjun and the crüe...

I published 13 blog articles in may...so far I've published one in june (this will be my second posting). just for the record, I blame claire!!! ;)

As most (if not all?) of you know the ladyship herself came over to hbg to visit me for a week (she went back to la londres yesterday). We had an absolute brill time despite the weather being simply awful most of the time.

went to gothenburg on tuesday...for, hrm, coffee. I know, going to gothenburg simply to hang out in different cafes is a bit extravagant to say the least. I have NOTHING to say in our defence as we did almost no gbg research at all, hence very little action on the sightseeing front. we did manage to catch a photo exhibition at the hasselblad center though...in between coffee breaks!!! also managed to catch up with my friend sophie over a pizza in haga, a very pretty and picturesque part of gothenburg. it started raining on the way back to hbg...and it didn't stop until today (sat).

our wednesday copenhagen trip had been planned since the beginning of the year...as this was the

day crüe fest 2009 arrived in above mentioned city! I first got into the crüe as a young teenage

veg, so had been looking forward to this day for quite some time. this was my first crüe gig by the way...but hopefully not the last! the top pic was taken outside kb hallen before the gig. the rawk ladies in the pic are: (l-r)

camilla (my sister), camilla, carolin, claire, lina.

the crüe rules...and rocks like no-one else! they were mos def worth the wait! I know this type of music is not everyone's cup of tea...but I can honestly say that mötley crüe are known to put on one hell of a show and they didn't dissapoint, in fact they exceeded my (already high) expectations!!! ...it was a teenage dream come true!

for more crüe gig pics and crüe gig films visit my sister's blog: millan blogg

we also went to freetown christiania, which is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighbourhood in the borough of christianshavn in copenhagen. I have been to copenhagen counltess times over the years, but this was my first time at christiania. not really sure what to make of it. can't say I got any good vibes from the locals there, despite it being "advertised" (not sure advertise is the correct word to describe it, but it will have to do until I think of a better word) as a community for free spirits. got quite a few funny looks in there...and it's not just me being paranoid, claire and my sister felt it too (there is of course a slight possibility they are paranoid too, hmmm...).

this is it for now...i promise to be back again soon with more pinche-fjun news and stuff!

???

HELP...I need help...NOW!

I've been invited to a fancy dress party at the end of this month...what to wear, what to wear!?!?!?!

My sister is going as Kat Von D...great choice! But I just don't know what I want to go as...have completely run out of ideas. I'm thinking something feminine, not scary and cool...but WHAT???

SUGGESTIONS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME!!!

text me, email me or post a blog comment...anything as long as you give me suggestions!!!

I really like Alberto Vargas, but not sure I'm brave enough to go as a pin-up, hahaha! Maybe

going as some sort of comic book character would be cool...but who??? I've always wanted to go as Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas...but buying a wig is just far too expensive...AND it's more halloween than summer-fancy-dress!

KEEP THE SUGGESTIONS COMING...!!!

(there may even be a little prize for the best one...)