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Today it’s the world book day, which I celebrated by going to the library twice this day. And the second time I notice that it was the world book day. So I felt that I had to write a post about it, or more about my reading.

When I grow up I didn’t like to read books, I was a slow reader and it felt more like a punishment then a pleasure. Then something happen when I was twelve or something like that. I started to read more, I went to the library, and I talked to friends about what they were reading. And slowly but surely I felt a need for reading. I read a lot of books for young teenager and after a while I started to read fantasy and especially David Eddings book, I can say one thing, it’s many long month that I have waited on books by Eddings to be translated into Swedish. I didn’t like to read in English then, and don’t do it so much now either. But I can if I have to; there are a lot of books that never translates into Swedish. And after I finished my fantasy period I started to read more novels.

I think that one thing that helped me start read was that I liked a good story and that my parents always read books for me and my sister when we were growing up and couldn’t read.

I’m glad that I started to read and never have stopped. A life becomes so much richer if you read I think! Someone has once said something like “When you read you are never alone” and that I also finds true! I have many friends that love to read, Hanna is one of them. We always talks about books in some way when we see each other. And my friend Anna love books too, she even work with books… so we also talks about reading!

I hope you have read something in a book today! I have!

Yesterday some CDs arrived in the mail because I made an order Sunday. One of my favourite artists has released a new record. These friends of mine by Rosie Thomas, I have not even listen to the whole CD yet, I have it in the player now and listen as I write this.

One thing strikes me when I see the CD and that is that a cover can be like an art piece itself. Many records have some kind of photo or photo collage on the cover, which also are a kind of art. But some of the records I have by Rosie Thomas are painted or sketched things. I really like the paper plan and the dress. The one that looks like an oil painting I don’t like that much, it’s something with the face and the green colour that I don’t really appreciate as much as the others. The pink photo collage is just great. And the new CD that made me start think I also finds really nice.

I have been to quiet many concerts, smaller once and bigger once, I once saw Robbie Williams at Stadion in Stockholm it was like 27000 people or something. But I think that one of the greatest concerts I have been to was the one with Rosie Thomas. She and Damien Jurado played at a really small place here in town. I guess that it was about 200 persons there. It’s a tiny place. When I saw the wall chart that Rosie was coming to town I thought that I saw a vision, because I had just found here music and loved it from the start. So it became unreal that she was coming to Sweden, she’s from the US, and to my hometown which isn’t the biggest town.

Its four years or something like that since I went on that concert now. But I still think of it when I listen to the records. How happy I became when I saw the wall chart and that Rosie talked a lot about a bathtub on here hotel room and Damien Jurado talked about the Swedish post office. Yes, the Swedish post office is big joke; I don’t really know what has happened to it. But he said something fun, what I have forgotten now.

Anyhow, I think I have lost my thought a bit, covers and art was what I started to think of, and it ended up in a concert in September 2003… I could only have written this: I love Rosie Thomas music, I love the covers on here CDs, I love going to concerts. And all off that is art.

I love art!

My Easter holiday is soon over, I only have two more days, then I’m back to work again. Two of the past days this week I together with my brother-in-law placed in new floors at my parents’ home. It wasn’t hard to do, it only took time. But we finished three floors in two days, so it went well. Now my parents only have to wait on the painter that will put up the new wallpapers. After that they have to nail up the new white baseboards and then they have three new rooms! I’m looking forward to see the new result! Because one of the rooms had a really ugly carpet from 1970 something. So when the walls get new fresh wallpapers it will be like a whole new home!

I have start too sew some of the striped tricot I bought earlier this year. It will become a vest if I only take the time to sew the last seams. Have to do that before Sunday I think.

I have order some stuff that I will use sometime, thought they could be good to find. Some badges, one old car and two crowns. And some pearls. Like I didn’t have enough stuff already.

It has been some long days at work this week, but I only work tomorrow evening and then I have Easter holiday! Hurray! Maybe I finally can feel some inspiration to create. I have been so tired after work these past weeks.

It’s soon Easter, but I will not create anything Easter-ish. I can say that I almost hate all decorations that associates with a holiday. I leave that to someone that likes it instead.

Having a holiday is the greatest! I plan to read some books, because I have carried home a pile of books. Hopefully I can see my old friend Anna too; she’s coming home over the holiday. And if everything goes as planed I will help my parents to put in some new floors.

And when its daylight outside I will take some photos and show how it goes with the shawl, my embroidery and some other unfinished projects that I have. I normally finish my projects quiet fast. But now I don’t really know what has happened. I hope that I will get some inspiration back now when spring is here.