News Update

Yeah. A fair bit of news. First and most important, the foal is here. Yep, my horse was expecting a foal and on thursday she gave birth to the most beautiful (ok, I might be slightly biased here) mare in the world. The name is most likly going to be Frigg. I personally like Brynja, but it is too close to Brynjar. And yeah both mother and child are great, they are currently outside eating. The foal's legs are almost as long as it's mother's, so it has to stand like a giraffe to reach the ground. The foal is extremely cute and the entire family is in love with it. The only one who is not happy is Mars, one of the cats, because suddenly he doesn't get all the attention anymore.

Nightwish has a new singer. Go check out www.nightwish.com . I personally quite like her, she is beautiful, even more than Tarja. And while her voice is not as strong (it is hard to beat an opera trained voice after all) it has character and she has not changed the bands sound, which is something I was really afraid of.

I saw Pirates 3 yesterday. There is one reason for seing it, Depp as Jack Sparrow. Ok, I'll give you that Orlando when he gets more piraty is quite a bit of eyecandy, and also the character of Will doesn't get on my nerves as much as he used to. I still dislike whats-her-face greatly, and her character is so bloody boring. And where the fuck did Elizabeth learn to fight like that? She's a English lady for christ shake, while she might now something fancy like fencing, she should not know how to fight the pirate way. And why the fuck was she become the *chough*? I wanna punch her. Anyway, Sparrow is great. Sparrow Senior played by Mr. Richards and Jack have some wonderful lines. And personally I even thought they looked similar. Jack the Monkey gets to play a lot more as well, and is really cute. And the first sequence with Jack Sparrow is just amazingly great. And yeah the opening...Just wow... That is when you realise that being a pirate was not always rum and women. The little kid singing chilled my bones. And I think I have managed not to spoil anything. Yay, go me.

I am learning how to play guitar, after years of believing that I can't, that I simply have no musical talent, I have decided to change that. My brother, who is a fairly good guitar player, is teaching me, though it is mostly just me training on my own. So far, 4 days in (and I didn't practise yesterday), I can do the opening of Nothing Else Matters. Not like a professional, but it's not bad. The reason why is that for my entire life I have been told, mainly by my mother, that I have no musical talent, and somehow now, with listening to R+, something clicked in my brain and I went "Fuck that, I'll show them". I might still not really have a musical talent, but that just means that I have to practise more to get it right. And for this I am willing to do so. I love music after all, and it has been bugging me for as far as I can remember that I can't sing or play anything. I have for fun been practising to play blind, at least the opening on Nothing else matters, because that part is very easy, and now I can instantly hear if I do something wrong. And for someone who (still) believes she is tonedeaf, at least impaired, that is big. Made me happy when I realised. I don't plan on becomming amazing, I don't think I have that in me, but I might get to average or maybe even good, if I practise enough.