Take the first sentence of the first post of each month of the year and post it. Here's my year:

January: Only four days into the new year, and already we've got what will most probably be THE event for birdwatchers in Sweden: a Yellow-browed bunting (gulbrynad sparv) that appeared just outside of Stockholm.

February: Went to see a Peregrine two days ago.

March: My color is Blue.

April: One thing that amazes me constantly is how many completely incompetent drivers there are on our roads.

May: Finally got into Star Wars again, after a long time when I've been a bit... meh.

June: IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 28 things about you.

July: Just went for a little ride on my bike, to Stabby Backe... meant to just walk around a bit and see if I could find any nice birds, but, ah, I got distracted.

August: Been a bit busy lately, and it's only going to get worse what with uni starting soon... gah!

September: Been a hectic few weeks with uni starting and everything... but this weekend I get to take it easy!

October: Comp has broken down again.

November: Comp still at repair shop.

December: Just stressed and tired.

Hmm, what a depressing end.... oh well. Now I'm going to make fudge and truffles. Fun! (No knäck though. Never again.)

Spent the morning at BMC, at a public lecture by this year's Nobel laureates in medicine. Very interesting, although I'm not sure I understood everything...

Bit tired, yesterday mom had her birthday party with about 30 guests, and I was responsible for the food. Stressful but lots of fun as well, especially since everyone enjoyed the food. Nice.

Now I need to study some chemistry. And make gingerbread dough.

I simply LOVE this. Brilliant.

Apparently nothing made for kids in Japan is complete without outrageous transformations, and preferably mergings à la Power Rangers.

Note the crying Shredder in the end. Hilarious.

Instead of studying I'm listening to a lot of 80's music. Lots of fun! *humming along to I Eat Cannibals*

Christmas is coming up... too fast! I'm not ready!

A really really rare bird has been spotted outside Stockholm. Wondering if I have time to go see it tomorrow morning and still be back in time for the (mandatory) laboration at uni...

Tired. At least comp is back in my tender care, with a new hard drive. Hope it won't break down again.

Just stressed and tired.

Thought you might want to know.

Comp still at repair shop.
My newly bought jeans have acquired a hole in a certain region where you don't want a hole.
This comp at uni has a bad screen which makes my eyes hurt.

On the good side, I got a 5 on my exam. Go me!

This is just sick. What is wrong with this world??

Comp has broken down again. Is now in the tender care of the people who know how to deal with stuff like that. Hope it isn't something really serious...

Went to Öland over the weekend. Really nice. Lots of birds, including stuff like Hoopoe, Red-flanked Bluetail (my second this year! Unbelievable...), Red-breasted Goose, Little Bunting, Steppe Eagle and Yellow-browed Warbler. All in all a great trip.

Exam tomorrow. Not as nice. Oh well.

Well, found a pic of me as a fox. Unfortunately you can't see the tail, but whatever. I had the best makeup at least (although the pic doesn't do it justice), and it's not often I get to say that! ;)

It's raining. It shouldn't be raining when I'm out biking. I'm wet. Gah.

Magnus' wedding party this Saturday was great. Everyone was decked out in outrageous animal costumes (well, pretty much everyone at least), we ate some really lovely wedding cake and sang along to such classic songs as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (Which, of course, me, Magnus and most of his friends know by heart...).

I want to post a pic of me in my costume, but I haven't got one... I left my camera at home, so I have to wait until someone else (ie my brother) sends me his pics. I'm VERY proud of my costume so I want to show you all!

Now I'm gonna eat crisps and watch a rerun of Project Runway... if I can find the tv remote. Hmm.

Been a bit busy lately, and it's only going to get worse what with uni starting soon... gah!

Went to Magnus' stag party. Great fun, Linnéa, Björn and Terje had prepared a "rebusrally" all around Uppsala, and we played lasergame and went bowling and then had a lovely barbecue at the twins' place. Wonderful fun, and I can't really believe Magnus is getting married this weekend. Crazy. Am working on my costume for the wedding, the theme is "animal costume" so I'm going as a fox. Just need to finish the trousers and the tail... and figure out the makeup.

Also went to Öland for a few days, sunny and nice, almost too much (I got burnt... as usual.) Saw some nice birds, ate great food, almost got attacked by a ginormous bull, spotted my first ever weasel (so cuuute!) and did I mention I got burnt? Sometimes it doesn't pay to be fairskinned...

Visited my brother and his girlfriend in Örebro yesterday, went out looking at art and then some birds and got to see the not-so-nice side of nature as I spotted a White-tailed eagle sitting on a goose, plucking it while the poor goose tried to escape... which went on for about 20 minutes. Poor goose.

Well, tomorrow I think I'll visit the coast, and on Saturday is Magnus' wedding, and then on Sunday... uh... I think I have plans for Sunday too although I can't remember them, and then on Monday studying starts. Hooray! Oh, and I must make sure I can meet up with Malin as well. More nerdy conversations for me. Right girl? A few days ago when I was standing in the bird tower in Hjälstaviken there was this little boy there, and all of a sudden he started singing the Transformers theme. Cue happy nerdy me.

On nerdy topics, isn't it amazing how you can sit on a bus or a train or whatever and tune out all the conversations around you, and then someone mentions "Star Wars" (or something else you like) and you hear just those words? Happens to me all the time.

Got wet as hell because Johanna had to go to a lunch and it rained. Took refuge inside a church, beautiful.

Made deep-fried fishballs, tasty. Not so much fun cleaning up the oil afterwards.

Got a bit wasted on wine, Falu brännvin and vodka.

Danced around a vodka bottle out in the yard, singing.

Watched some 'Allo 'Allo. Aww Gruber.

Made brunch (bacon, scrambled eggs, mushrooms, potatoes and Coke. Healthy and nice.)

Got on the train and went home to normality.

Johanna, you MUST send me the lyrics to 1600-talet! I know where your mailbox lives!

Can't sleep.

Been trying to get sleepy by watching telly, reading, surfing the net... to no avail.

It's now 4:40am, and I really should be sleeping.

Since I can't, I do stupid stuff instead. Like checking the Villanous Plot Generator. Here's my villanous plot:

Your incredible plan: summon a demonic force, which allows you to sieze control of a warband of demons, easily allowing you to blackmail a congressperson for a huge sum, which sets the stage to build an assasin robot, so you can kidnap a beloved talk-show host for a huge ransom, which allows you to develop your latent superpowers, enabling you to assasinate and replace the leader of a major business, which sets the stage to force your minons to make an unbreachable fortress, which will slake your dark need for power!

Sounds pretty fun.

Borrowed Lean Mean Thirteen at the library. It's been far too long since I got some nice Ranger.

Want to sleep.

Went to the cinema last night with Niklas to see Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen.

So much complete nonsense and silliness, and a hell of a lot of fun.

I mean, come on... this is not a movie to take seriously in ANY way. The plot must have been written by people with a collective age of eleven (I could actually really do without some of the extremely childish humour, I don't find that stuff funny even when I'm drunk...), but the plot is mainly just there as a backdrop to big robots beating the crap out of each other.

So. Some random thoughts from me during the movie. Spoilers ahead in case you for some weird reason want to remain spoilerfree.

Jetfire. Best incarnation of this character ever. Old, cranky Yorkshireman? With a cane? And lines like "You know what my father was? A wheel! The first wheel! And you know what he transformed into? NOTHING! But he did so with honour! Dignity!" I might be easily amused, but I found this hilarious.

Big BUDDHA?? *dies from laughter* 

Optimus died. And returned. Wow. How surprising.

Nooo! Don't destroy pyramids! Also... they're by the pyramids of Giza, and also in Petra. (Which, by the way, seem to be pretty close by. Yeah...)  So... where are all the tourists?

There's even more destruction and explosions than in the first movie. Makes one wonder what they'll do in the next one. Blow up a planet? Wait, that was done back in '77. Blow up a sun? Wait, they tried that in this one. Hmm.

Goddess, I really like Sideswipe's car form. (And am somewhat proud that despite not having seen it before I saw the movie, I deduced that "I don't recognise that Corvette he is, it's somewhat reminiscent of an old Stingray... it must be a concept car. Maybe a new concept Stingray?" and then reading on the net that that's just what it is. I'm just that good.) Wish we'd seen more of him.

The Fallen (and the old Primes) are the ugliest things I've ever seen.

Simmons! Yay! (I've come to somewhat like this weird, obsessed guy for some weird reason.) Definite DMI moment with the underwear though.

Starscream. Yep. Behaving just the way he should, including getting beaten up by Megatron (with his own, dismembered arm, heh). Fun. Still looks like a hulking metal chicken though.

Well,two and half hours of fun. And for those of you who've seen the film... kittens!

Must be in a real dreaming phase or something...

This night me and Niklas were in Brussels, trying to buy tickets for the subway. The terminal was filled with lots of buttons and no instructions, and we couldn't find out how to buy a ticket. (The tickets by the way where the kind you can get in Stockholm, the "20-remsor" or whatever people call them. FYI tickets in Brussels look nothing like this.) Then my mom came over to help, and she pressed a few buttons and lo! The machine started spewing out tickets!

Only when we read the top of them they were only valid in Moscow.

Then I ran around a lot again, rode in police cars, sneaked after little girls in red jackets picking flowers and climbed a really steep hill. All because I needed to spy on some evil guys somewhere, who buy the way rode giant flying lizards.

Why are my dreams so much more interesting than my life?

Oh, and I had a dream last night!

This time me and this other girl was in a house, together with a bunch of other girls, including Caridee from Top Model (what is it with me dreaming of that show??). This other girl I was with was a little bit overweight, and so was feeling so jealous of the models. Who weren't really models, but a kind of angel, all dressed in white and singing God rest ye merry gentlemen.

Anyway, I said it was okay, because the models were flowers now but pretty soon they would wither and turn into fat, flabby fruits. Which they did.

They looked really funny when they started to swell and become all fruity.

Just went for a little ride on my bike, to Stabby Backe... meant to just walk around a bit and see if I could find any nice birds, but, ah, I got distracted. Got to the sheep pasture, walked in, and was almost immediately assaulted by the two cutest little sheep that followed me around! I sat down on a piece of rock and the sheep were all around me, wanting to be fed and scratched and tried to eat my handbag, shoelaces, pants, binoculars and pretty much everything they could reach.

I felt so happy sitting there in the wonderful pasture, the evening sun shining and burrowing my fingers deep in the lovely wool of the sheep. Too bad I didn't bring my camera so I could have taken a pic of those cute little critters...

If I saw any birds? Hey, I hardly even looked... in fact, I studied the flowers more! (Until my charming companions ate them...)

Think I'll be going back there, maybe tomorrow, to say hi to my new friends again.