I was at a concert in Stockholm yesterday, since it's my brother's birthday this week and we wanted us all to celebrate with him. Thus I saw Timbuktu & Damn playing before something like 3500 people, who all seemed to be as thoroughly charmed as I always am by these guys ( Read more... )

On Facebook, my sister just linked to a YouTube clip of the Polar Prize gala, where rapper Timbuktu and my brother's band perform "You Can Call Me Al" in front of Paul Simon (and the royal family and riffraff like that *g ( Read more... )

My brother is an awesome choir leader.

That's all.

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I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, even if it seems that way. I've just had a lot to write about combined with little time to write it in. Oh, and I also took a trip to Istanbul a couple of weeks ago.

I might as well start with that. :-)

As some of you remember, I went on a similar Istanbul trip three years ago, during which I busted my ( Read more... )

Just waved goodbye to my sister and her family, who have been here for a few days.

Yesterday the kids wanted to watch a movie, which caused some problem, since they're 7, 5, and 2½, respectively. The youngest wanted The Lion King. (Which I think is pretty scary for his age, but he'd already seen it, so I figured it was okay.) The middle one wanted ( Read more... )

My sister's family are coming to visit in a few weeks, and I don't have enough bedclothes and stuff like that, so obviously I had to go out to buy... toys. Because clearly that's all kids need ( Read more... )

My mom just called to tell me that my brother and his gf got married today. :-) I've always thought that I didn't care one way or another, but I still squeed and cried upon hearing the news. Though it does make me miss my family. Maybe I can go hug them at Easter or something ( Read more... )

Since I forgot to be nepotistic in the list itself, let me somewhat belatedly point out that the title sequence of Vintergatan is fairly awesome too. :-)

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It occurred to me that I never did post images of the Batgirl plushie I made for the niece. So here it is! The seams don't line up completely, but you can see who it's supposed to be and it's soft and squishy, and that's the important bits.

( Batgirl to the rescue )

My five-year-old nephew and his friend just made their very first Star Wars lego film, Fajt vid gräsbranden.

As I told my brother in email, "Nerd auntie is SO PROUD!"

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