Jussi for Christmas

Jussi Björling (5th February 1911 - 9th September 1960), the greatest Swedish tenor ever recorded, is required to jump start me into the necessary Christmas mood.

Here Jussi sings the Swedish version of "O Holy Night".

I wish you all a safe and joyous Christmas weekend. Be jolly, be kind, drive soberly and safely and don't hit anyone or get hurt, promise me that!

P.S. Haha I am a creature of habit! As I was tagging this post I noticed that I had tagged Jussi previously, and guess what? That post was from December 24th 2010 and he is singing the same song.

I am pathetic and unimaginative, even if I have to say so myself, but please, please, treat me kindly anyway.

Happy Holidays 2011

I thought I had better get this in before you all start leaving for where ever you are going for the holidays!

This year I made two picks and could not decide which I preferred, so I sent out both but only one per person. Here you can see the one you did not get. Now isn't that a good present?

Have a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa all of you and hopefully a great new amazing, fantastic, dazzling New Year also. Come back to SecondLife with a fresh new and relaxed view on us and our world!

I am going to spend Christmas Eve at my parents home together with my older sister and her husband but without any of the grandchildren or great grandchildren. I am looking forward to a nice, noise free and relaxed evening with lots of good food and drink followed by a nice walk home to sober up - if I don´t decide on a cab and can get one.

Hugs and kisses all around! And remember, be careful out there, first live is known to be dangerous.

Secret Project

My boys, Janttu Winkler and Guyke Lundquist, during the project

Well friends, when I resigned as generalissimo for the Swedish Lucia pageant I really thought I could start taking it easy again in SecondLife. Let me tell you that did not happen!

The big upcoming holidays always drove my Ars into a frenzy of decorating the sim, the house, himself and even me. He loved getting ready for Christmas as a very young boy would. He also loved going out shopping on his own to bring back home the perfect presents, the perfect trees, plants and flowers, the perfect ... well in short everything.

To tell you the truth it drove me crazy and I thought everything got just a little over the top. I tried to talk with Ars about this once, but I soon noticed he got sad at my rebuke, so I quickly dropped it and started encouraging him instead. It was only for a few weeks anyway, I thought as I resigned myself to the Christmas cheer in overabundance. During our years together I really grew to love it in the end, not to the point that I took part in it but just seeing the beauty that Ars created around me.

This year I haven´t done a single thing to show Christmas is coming, except perhaps I have started the wall of Christmas greetings as they began dropping in.

I do not want to do the Christmas decorating at home because it´s my Ars job! Yes I know that´s a totally irrational feeling as Ars is no longer with me, but that what I feel and I am going with it (even if some Scandinavian may write a post about me with the title "Sob, sob, sob"). I do not feel sorry for myself, I am just sharing my thoughts and feelings, and if that´s how it is interpreted go ahead.

Well today I started my only Christmas project (a bit late I admit but anyway), and it has nothing to do with decorating my sim or building gifts. (I started building gifts awhile but stopped because I had no inspiration.)

The project I started will be something everyone on my friends list will notice in due time and some that are not on it also I am hoping. The picture in this post is a clue.