{"id":4963,"date":"2012-01-12T19:19:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2012-01-12T19:19:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:19:45","slug":"christmas-and-cohabitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/christmas-and-cohabitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas and cohabitation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays passed with little fanfare, I spent them in Stockholm with the closest family at hand and the rest at Skype distance. Mom isn&#8217;t her full self at the moment, and the dinners were slightly less elaborate than the five course meals we usually make. I rediscovered how much work goes into making the potatoe-dumplings, which I wolf down by the dozens. Christmas Day I and Tomasz joined in the public celebration of the birth of beer, and sat with Admas in a bar and discussed ambitions, and fashion, and then I think I had Calvados?<\/p>\n<p>On a recommendation from Miss Walker I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafekartan.se\/016054\/Tevere_Bageriet\/\" title=\"Cafekartan: Tevere Bageri\">Tevere<\/a>, a bakery which also carries vegan pizza. Rather on the expensive side, but the pizzas were awesome both times I ate there.<\/p>\n<p>New Years day was spent at the gym with Sara, where I nearly passed out. I can only assume that my body shut down out of fear that I would become <em>too<\/em> fit and muscular. In the evening a bunch of us gathered at Petters new place. We saw the fireworks over Hissingen skyline, although I saw most of it through the viewfinder, being concerned with capturing it. Next year I&#8217;d like to be somewhere where the explosions can actually be felt. It&#8217;s well know that arrhythmia heightens ones appreciation of sparkling things.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nyar_jones_zen.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nyar_jones_zen\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4970\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nyar_soffa_mobil.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nyar_soffa_mobil\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4969\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andreas visited for a short while, and then he left for New York \u2014 or as it&#8217;s henceforth known: N\u00e4vvan. I&#8217;m still working on the mixtape he&#8217;s getting for birthday. I&#8217;ll have to make up for it by making it really good, and perhaps actually sending him a magnetic tape. I have half a sack of those just waiting for coming to use\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of having a bunch of old stuff laying around, I&#8217;m trying to getting rid of as much of it as possible, as we&#8217;re moving in together. This is momentous and exciting, and a first for me. We&#8217;re already discussing wall colours and such, and my suggestions of stripes the colours of a 1920 ice-cream stand have met with tacit approval. Perhaps it&#8217;s not so much approval as acceptance and stoic suffering; &#8220;Enduring love&#8221; as it were. Or perhaps it&#8217;s just an understanding that I talk a lot and will likely have changed my mind before we move in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m moving out of my place as soon as possible and have hopefully already found a taker, and we&#8217;re moving into <em>our<\/em> new place beginning of March. This is going to be an exciting spring! I&#8217;m gonna Sawyer y&#8217;all into plastering and painting walls, so you might as well start digging out your coveralls. I&#8217;ll consider offering light snacks and coffee to sweeten the deal even further. But before we get to that, there&#8217;s the whole &#8220;moving&#8221; thing. You&#8217;ll be happy to know that you&#8217;re welcome for that as well, as there&#8217;s no end of the enjoyment my friendship offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays passed with little fanfare, I spent them in Stockholm with the closest family at hand and the rest at Skype distance. Mom isn&#8217;t her full self at the moment, and the dinners were slightly less elaborate than the five course meals we usually make. I rediscovered how much work goes into making the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/christmas-and-cohabitation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas and cohabitation.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,279],"tags":[482,467,483,1688,639,1687,1195],"class_list":["post-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-photography","tag-alcohol","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-fireworks","tag-moving","tag-new-years","tag-sara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}