January.....and it's still cold!

February already, and it seems my January news didn't even make it onto the blog. This was supposed to be the Germany post, however I am having some technical difficulties with the photos but hopefully I can post them soon.

January started off with recovering from New Year's and sleeping for a week after returning from Germany. Since then, we have been back to school/work and trying to think of new year's resolutions. For the last few years I have tried to pick resolutions that are actually achievable such as:

2008 - Learn to bake bread!
I achieved this, however I was stuck eating very dense bread for a year.

2009 - Eat more fish!
I achieved this also, but it meant I had to get over my fear of fish shops. So I found a fish shop where all the fish with pleading dead eyes were at one end and all the nice properly dead fillets of fish were at the other end. All I had to do was not turn left!

2010 - Get off your arse and move overseas!
Big tick for me. This was one of those resolutions that is like that yummy plate of left overs in the fridge. It tasted yummy the first time and you can't wait to go back and eat the rest but then it starts to go off. You think you'll eventually get around to eating it but you forget about it and slowly it grows legs and the giant furry greeny-browny-white fuzzy thing takes over your entire fridge and decides "Fuck this, if you're not going, I will!" So it packs you in it's sandwich bag and takes you to see the big wide world.

So after such a big change, traveling around with a fuzzy smelly green thing (although luckily not the original Green Thing), I decided to go back to something achievable........

2011 - Floss teeth more!
I'll let you know if I achieve this next year. Ummm, maybe I should have started with restocking my floss supplies.

We had a small science excursion to Borås which is about 60km east of Göteborg to test some fancy lights on bumblebees. The experiments were a success and we had some very happy biologists in the car. If you check out the photos you will see the frozen sea near Varberg (I think). It was another first for me, actually standing on the sea instead of in it and holding chunks of sea in my hands, weird and awesome!

My beloved Sambo (which is the Swedish way of saying "partner") has recently had a birthday. It is with lots of love I wish him a happy birthday and hope he has a wonderful year. We had a party with the coolest of cool friends, there was cake, there was dancing, there was beer, there was a Darth Vader Piñata, what more could a boy want? Lego! There was also lego.

We also spent part of January making and then waiting eagerly for home brew beer! All we need now is for the bubbles to appear inside the bottle.

Check out the photos, they are mostly silly party photos, comment if you feel like it and stay warm!