Monday, January 5, 2004

Prepare yourselves for a loooong post.....
I can take having weird dreams, or even nightmares.
But what I cannot stand are the dreams in which you dream you wake up.

You go to bed – fall asleep – dream you wake up – then you actually wake up – go back to sleep – dream you wake up again – wake up for real … Again.

But there was some fun stuff going on in between the "waking up" and waking up. So I'm not really complaining >___>

The one that stands out the most, is a dream where James was sending a video over the internet.
He was in Gothenburg for some reason and felt like sharing his experience with the rest of us (I'm guessing he meant the OB'ers).
There was a beautiful park behind him and the sun was shining. Which made me sick for Spring *lol*
But anyway, he walked around and talked about stuff.
And that's about it.

Doesn't sound like much, but it's difficult to translate dreams. I guess it had a very subtle air of quirky fun-ness.

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Before I forget:

PEX ! for some reason I'm having difficulties accessing your MyO.
Don't know why, but that's the reason for my lack of commenting.
Although today it worked just fine…
Just so you know >___>

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Moving on…

Ok, I wanted to share the little IKEA anecdote. Some of you have already been told the story, but there might be some that hasn't. So here goes:

In order to fully understand the hilarious situation, you need to have seen "Cable Guy" with Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick… Or not, since I'll write down the scene that I'm referring to ~_^

In one of the scenes, Jim Carrey's character is visiting Matthew Broderick in prison.
They're talking to each other on the phone, with a window separating the visitor's area from the prisoners area.

Suddenly Jim Carrey tears his shirt in half and presses his chest against the glass and moans "OH BILLY !", causing Mr Broderick much embarrassment.

Cut back to IKEA…
We were walking up to the entrance and I went through the glassed corridor that the people coming out of IKEA were taking. (my sense of direction is… slightly dented)
My sister went on the outside.

As I was walking down the corridor, images of the above mentioned scene played through my head ^_^
It took a lot of will power to not re-enact that scene ~_^

The visit itself went pretty smoothly.
I felt pretty daunted at the sight of all the cars as we first pulled up at the parking lot. There I was, thinking that there wouldn't be that many people visiting…

But the funny thing was, even though the parking lot was pretty much filed, there wasn't that many people roaming inside IKEA… maybe they went to the other mall-like stores neighbouring ? Anywhooo…

I got the blind I so desperately needed, since my room is flooded with light from the ufo-building/street lights/neighbours. Hopefully it'll be easier to fall asleep now ~_^
And I also bought two storage boxes for smaller items (photographs, manuals etc).

We basically had nothing to do and went to IKEA *lol*

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I found the article with the Swedish Fish and went through great pain translating it… ~_^ *cough*
It's not the best translation (the grammar probably stinks), but I doubt anyone is too concerned about that >____>


"The Swedish Fish craze"
Vodka and Volvo are two Swedish phenomenon that are greatly appreciated in USA.
It might be less known that a certain jelly candy holds the third place, in the American list over favourite Swedish things.
The candy known as "Swedish Fish" has become a growing concern to the American teeth, these past few years.

The Swedish fish actually has a nearly 50 year old history in USA.
The candy was brought to the country in the mid 1950's by a cunning businessman from the Malaco factory in Malmö (<--- Swedish town in the south)
He named the red candy "Swedish Fish" and sold it in the Chicago area, as sweets (dunno what it's actually called when you pick up the candy you want and bag it yourself)

Back in those days, the candy was made completely by hand. It was boiled and stirred without the aid of any machines, the dough got poured into moulds and then the readymade fish was shipped from Malmö over to USA.

And so it was done for decade after decade.
But in the 1990's it was decided that the Fish should be marketed more properly and similar to a certain Swedish vodka brand, it turned out that a smart (?) package was what it took to spell success in America.

Swedish Fish bags gross about 100 million dollars/year in North America and is now available in 3 additional flavours: pineapple (green), lemon (yellow) and orange (orange).

- "We have about 30 varieties of Swedish Fish in America now.
But a selected few are only sold at certain holidays, like Halloween and such", says Patrick Axzell - the international pr-representative of Malaco Leafs.

There's so much Swedish Fish being sold, that 4 years ago Malaco Leaf gave a couple of factory's in Canada a license to make the candy.

It's best known in the Chicago area, and in the eastern towns (Boston, New York and Philadelphia), but the fish eating it spreading to other parts of the country now.

- "Apparently there are Swedish Fish-contest in a school in California, involving eating as many fishes as you can within a certain time-limit", says Patrick Axzell.
"And a bus shaped like a Swedish Fish is advertising the candy on the American roads."

There's even a rock song praising the Swedish candy:
"The greens are the best, I love my Swedish Fish", the American group Versus Salt sings in the chorus to their song "Swedish Fish".

Quite impressive – although more known is actually "Swedish Pastry", a jazz piece that has been recorded by celebrities such as Count Basie, Bill Evans and Benny Goodman.
It is a tribute to the Swedish pastry/candy/sweets.

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MilleniumChaos has a couple of awesome "Angsty Sam" pictures at her place.
You should all run there and look at 'em. >____>

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Has anyone seen a commercial for the game "The Sims – breaking out" (or something like that) ?
I don't know why, but that guy reminds me of PT….. please don't tell me it's all in my head ~_^

Another thing that sparked the thought of PT today, was watching "The Marx brothers - A day at the Opera ".
Oh, The Innuendos *grins*

They'll be showing "A day at the Races" (?) tomorrow, further fuelling my hormonally weakened body >____>

- Mimmi

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