spring equinox frustrations, and gratitude

This will be yet another post without photos.

I still can’t upload any photos to Blogger. And as I basically do everything on my phone these days and changing the Google account settings on the phone obviously is not working, no matter how much I try to follow instructions.

At this stage even my frustration is getting frustrated.

This post, like others before, would be much more pleasing if accompanied by photos. But it is what it is.

The struggle is real, but one day I will have it sorted.

This day is not today. But here are a little compilation of little good things that have happened lately. 

I do not retract anything from the previous blog post. But sometimes small things can lift the overwhelming blah. And give you energy to continue to fight another day, week, possibly month…

I just wish life wasn’t so much a fight, for very basic things. 

Back to the good things list:

:: Sold a very pleasing amount of, mainly, clothes and shoes on Tradera and Vinted last week Which was a much welcome surprise (especially after the Danish woman who scammed me a few months back - didn’t loose money per se, but it was one of those occurances that chipped away on my trust. And left me wasting energy, time and lost potential sales. And whatever was her end goal?? There were zero things to gain by that behaviour. Zero. 🤦🏻‍♀️)

:: Returned the last library book I had at home. And plan to focus on finish at least five from my old book heap before I borrow any more again.

Never underestimate how accomplished such seemingly insignificant, trivial things can make you feel.

:: Treated myself to an oat latte (two months ago since) and a bakery levain last week. 

And bought a bunch of vegetables at reasonable prices, which was a long time since that was the case. Grocery prices are ridiculous here too, thank you so much for that Orange Idiot, Genocidal Terror State and East Invasion Dictator. 

So every opportunity to get grocery shopping done at a reasonable price must be seized. Who knows what will happen next.

:: Last week was all about the sun. And I decided to finally have a go at an outfit I’ve wanting to try ever since I got my Marimekko Unikko jacket last year. But weather confitions haven’t allowed me since now. 

A woolly sweater under a denim jacket, surely that would be perfect? As I haven’t had a decent denim jacket since my early 20ies, every basic combination feels like a revelation of flair and ingenuity. 

And yes it turned out great. Not too cold with the denim jacket and the woolly sweater added the perfect warmth without being to sticky on a sunny, early spring day.

However yesterday turned colder, and today it rained. Tomorrow there’ll be morersin and then there have even been rumours about snow again. 🥶

:: This past weekend was the last weekend of semlor (plur.) being sold at favourite Bageri Passion. As there had been zero semla in this residence this year, a visit to get 4 vegan semlor was practically a must.

We enjoyed a couple of them immediately upon returning home. They were perfection! Decided to put the remaining ones in the fridge and enjoy for Sunday breakfast.

Turned out to be a bad decision, the buns were dry and the whipped cream had kind of evaporated over night. Wish we had gulped them all down on Saturday. Well, at least one semla experience 2026 was perfect. And well deserved.

:: The other day I was approached by someone claiming to be an executive recruiter from a US company. For obvious reasons I’m very… hesitant to have anything to do with US companies these days.

And not to mention the recruitment fraudsters having become even more sophisticated with the rise of AI.

The job presented sounded amazing. Though the salary range was kind of obscene to be true. And does working in such a corporate setting really align with my values? And best use my skills, let me do good for change and shine in the right way. 

There is no time for business as usual. And apart from the unheard of salary range (for a Senior Communications Strategist position) there were other little warning signs that surely this was just too good to be true, that the set up was fake, so I decided not to waste my time and pursuit it.

We are living in even more precarious times than ever and my trust in people and opportunities have definitely been chipped away already over the years.

It is sad that dark forces, evil, greedy people, capitalism and violence and has caused so much harm to this world. When we all would grow and be happier, healthier decent human beings with more solidarity, equality, caring and compassion.

Stay safe, be kind.

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