Beginning again.

It turns out that Cara can't read or more precisely Cara can read but then can't write about what she's read. Is it lazy-ness? Is it lack of time? Is it procrastination? Is it that all the books were so bad that they're not worth writing about? It's certainly not the latter but it could be procrastination. Blog procrastination.

When I started this blog I had many good intentions and I even used it to procrastinate from doing other things such as finding a job, searching for apartments, studying Swedish. Now it's the opposite. I make the excuse that my life hasn't been exciting enough to tell you about but I think I'm missing the point. Most people don't blog about amazingly fantastic things that have happened, they blog about everyday things. So from this day forward I'm not going to make any ill-advised guarantees that I will post regularly, that it will have a consistent theme or that I will make my own mini online book club. Oh how silly I was. Maybe I'll surprise myself by blogging more if I have no expectations to blog at all. One can only hope!

Now that I've cleared the air, I can start to blog about random stuff.

Here's a short list I compiled a couple of months ago. It's called "Top things about Sweden". It should probably be called "Random things about Sweden" since I went a bit off topic.

1. You don't have to check your gumboots for spiders.
2. You can (sometimes) just ring the doctor for a prescription renewal without a visit. This happens to normal people, not just the elderly. You have to see the doctor eventually but for a simple repeat it is often granted. 
3. The buses actually go where they say they will and run on time. Canberra could learn from this. 
4. Although the buses run on time or sometimes early (which is almost as bad as late) there is a high proportion of crazy bus drivers who can't quite get the hang of the gears and/or the brake. 
5. The most dangerous animal is the European wasp (this is not based on fact, it's just something I heard).
6. Leg warmers are not just an 80's fashion reference, they are a vital piece of normal clothing. 
7. Most Swedish men (under 40) look like they've been styled professionally and have better fashion sense than the women.
8.  Ice cream shops open in March when it's still below 10 degrees and people actually go to them. 
9. They call a spade, a spade!

Tune in next time for something completely random, it might be about me and what I've been up to or the lost art of using a semi-colon (which I can't do to save my life), or how ones English skills go down the drain when learning a second language. Whatever it is, it will be random.

Catchya round like a rissole.