There goes Christmas

I haven't been blogging in a while, I admit. But my activities the last weeks haven't been that thrilling at all actually. I've been celebrating Christmas, that's the main event I suppose. This year there was no snow, depressing. But still, quite nice anyway. My two sisters, Stina and Sofia came home and it's been a jolly week indeed of gluttony. Because yes, that's what we've been doing; eating and drinking alot. Herring (our version of sushi, raw herring in weird sauce), meat balls, ham, turkey, whiskey, hot chocolate with rum, julmust, port wine, fruit cake, red wine, white wine, Jansson's (potato gratin with fish in it), chocolate, toffee, some more chocolate, sausage, porridge and all those other things that make you gain like 623 kilos in one week. At lunch at Christmas eve we eat the traditional "Christmas table" which really contains only meat and potatoes. When the evening comes though, it's time for the rice porridge, eaten with milk and sirup. To compensate (which we failed at) for all this food we have been taking nice walks around the neighbourhood. It's been cold but refreshing. After a cold promenade, we usually feel that we are worthy a cup of nice coffee, and some more sweets. Yay... Well, otherwise it's fine here in Sweden. We have a very nice Christmas tree, two little kittens and also my sister Stina's cat Pellerin was here. He is a very large (fat, actually) cute cat who's quite friendly. He didn't like the kittens though, and they didn't like him either. They are growing bigger and bigger, and they are getting messier and messier. Soon they will tear down the house. My older brother didn't come home this year, since he and his wife are home with their child. I try to study some Japanese now while I'm having a lot of free time. But it's slow, and the stuff I have to learn for the work I am going to do this spring is mainly vocabulary that concern computer things. And I know nothing about that. I don't even know what the Swedish words mean. Shit. Well, my employer has read my CV and he didn't complain, so hopefully they're not assuming that I know too much about the subject already. I'm intending to go to Japan in the end of January, which feels like an eternity. I miss Tomoya bigtime and one month more will be hard...Now I'm going to watch some Monty Python with my sister.