I'm outta here!

[Lovepotion69]

And off to Ft. Lauderdale and New York for the next 10 days! Yaaay!

Haven't been to a far trip in quite some time and going with my folks. Haven't done that since I went to Uni. Will be nice. Read it's 27 degrees Celsius in Miami. Mmmm.... No more cold and darkness (for a few days at least).

/LP
P.S. Oh yeah, and no more 10y/o or work deadlines.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

You scared me! I thought you were leaving Lit for good! That would be a loss.

Have fun in Florida!

(Och tänk på oss frysande stackars Norrlänningar medan du är där...)

 

[Quasimodem]

Are you going to swim with the dolphins while you're in Fart Lauderdale?

 

[Guest]

You scared me! I thought you were leaving Lit for good!

Yep, scared me too (first Cookie, then...)

Have a lovely holiday, LP (and the other stuff Svenska said in her long typo sentence ).

hasta la vista, Perdita

 

[OldnotDead]

Personally, I would take ALL the time in Florida and nix the NY time. 'sposed to be in the 20's the rest of the week at night. And that is NOT Celsius.

 

[Lovepotion69]

Perdita, you live in northern Sweden and being cold?

Svenska, I'd never leave Lit for good. I might en up not coming around as frequently when I finally get a live (i.e. work), but never leave for good!

OldnotDead, we're only being in NY for a night on the way down, and one night + one day on the way back. Will meet my cousin and her 1y/o daughter too! Awwww.

Off to shower and sleep. Done with packing. APS and digital camera are both in the suitcase. So is CD player, Stephen King book, pen and paper. I'm all set. Now, if I could just smuggle a cute lifeguard into the room without my folks noticing....

 

[A7inchPhildo]

Lovepotion69

Comming to visit ey? Off to the beach I am folks! Good chance of catching a pretty Gal just went up!

Have fun see you when you get back!

 

[gauchecritic]

Are you going to swim with the dolphins while you're in Fart Lauderdale?

Much better than sleeping with the fishes.

Have a nice daaaaaaaaay, LP, missing you already.

Gauche

 

[Quasimodem]

Actually, instead of mentioning swimming with the dolphins – which costs rather a lot of fish, and is rather distant . . .


I should have asked, if Lovepotion69 planned to flap with the flutterbys while in Fart Lauderdale, which is under $20. and only 10 miles away

Unfortunately, the latter sounds positively alliterate.

 

[pop_54]

Yo girl

Have a nice trip dear, don't soak up too much sun and fun, you might not want to come back and we'd miss you

Enjoy: See ya later

pops

 

[Seattle Zack]

Actually, instead of mentioning swimming with the dolphins – which costs rather a lot of fish, and is rather distant . . .

Careful about swimming with dolphins ... apparently most of them want to have sex with you.

"In the considerations of safety, you should NEVER let a male dolphin attempt anal sex with you. The Bottle-nose dolphin member is around 12 inches, very muscular, and the thrusting and the force of ejaculation (A male can come as far as 14 feet) would cause serious internal injuries, resulting in peritonitus and possible death."

 

[Quasimodem]

Careful about swimming with dolphins ... you should NEVER ... attempt anal sex with ... dolphin member is around 12 inches ... can come as far as 14 feet ... resulting in ... possible death."

All things considered, in spite of the author's recommendations, I would choose to conduct matings in an aquarium. While not a exhibitionist, I would otherwise fear the dolphin, with its greater lung capacity, might sound taking me down with her.

This of course, is the same problem that sailors originally encountered in their supposed interactions with mermaids. Just a coincidence?

Finally, am I displaying unnecessary paranoia when I inquire whether MathGirl is the author of this article

 

[Lovepotion69]

I'm back!

Ok, back in Sweden.

Ft Lauderdale was nice. The weather was perfect, not too hot, clear blue sky and nice breeze. My folks and I took it easy. Walked a lot, did some shopping, swimming and went to see crocodiles in the Everglades.

Was also reminded how awfully large food portions in the US are. Gosh, I think I gained 1-2kgs in just a week!

Got some decent pics (actually tooke heaps of pics, unusual!). My two close friends in Texas and Minnesota called me too. Met my cousing and her daughter of 1 year in NY on the way back. Awww.

Now back in rainy depressing Sweden.

Oh, and I'm dying to submit somehting for the winter contest, but doubt my imagination will get something together in this short time! Will be reading AH submissions tonight though!

Missed ya all!
/LP

 

[Guest]

Great to see you back, LovePotion. And, wonderful to see you enjoyed your holiday.

Lou

P.S. I'm hoping to make it to the States myself one day soon (April to me more precise: The World Horror Convention 2004, in Phoenix).

 

[Guest]

Poción del amor,

Welcome back, good to see your lovely face.

Perdita

 

[gauchecritic]

Poción del amor,

Welcome back, good to see your lovely face.

Perdita

Speaking of which. I often wonder (with the pic being B&W) are you native to Sweden? Generationally? You look quite Icelandic to me.

from the song Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay.

Gauche

 

[Lovepotion69]

gauchecritic,
Wow, I've NEVER had anyone tell me I look Icelandic! Mainly people guess I'm from around the Phillipines.

I'm half Swedish and half Thai. Thai on mom's side and Swedish on dad's. Born and bread in Sweden, hardly any connections to the Thai side. See myself as Swedish, but do perhaps not always fit in with the way Swedes think. Still, I'm awfully Swedish. LOL So much my friends keep forgetting I'm "Asian". A Nigerian friend once told me he kept thinking of me as Caucasian because of the way I spoke and acted...

Cultures, eh?

 

[A7inchPhildo]

Well, it is nice you are home and safe. I am glad to see you had typical florida weather and all was good.

 

[OldnotDead]

. . .
OldnotDead, we're only being in NY for a night on the way down, and one night + one day on the way back. Will meet my cousin and her 1y/o daughter too! Awwww.
....

Glad you had a good trip and got to meet some a new relative.

And a polite 'Thank you' for sliding through New York on your way in and out. It would appear that you brought some milder Florida weather up north on your way out of town. Had a nice weekend here . . . well, it was nice until this skunk . . . but that's not for a vacation thread

 

[raphy]

gauchecritic,
Wow, I've NEVER had anyone tell me I look Icelandic! Mainly people guess I'm from around the Phillipines.

I'm half Swedish and half Thai. Thai on mom's side and Swedish on dad's. Born and bread in Sweden, hardly any connections to the Thai side. See myself as Swedish, but do perhaps not always fit in with the way Swedes think. Still, I'm awfully Swedish. LOL So much my friends keep forgetting I'm "Asian". A Nigerian friend once told me he kept thinking of me as Caucasian because of the way I spoke and acted...

Cultures, eh?

LP, I get exactly the same thing.

I'm half cambodian, and half something-else-unknown. Adopted by a british family and raised in a white-bread white middle-class family.

I'm as westernized as any caucasian. I don't have any far east culture in me, I don't speak any far east languages. Most of my friends forget that I'm not white, too.

I think that folks like us have a.. unique.. perspective on life, and a very different one to a lot of transplated nationalities. I don't know *any* of the asian community in my area, because I was brought up with the white middle-class folk. But then I have to remember that I'm not white, no matter how much my 'cultural upbringing' reinforces that I should be.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

LP, I get exactly the same thing.

I'm half cambodian, and half something-else-unknown. Adopted by a british family and raised in a white-bread white middle-class family.

And here I thought you were an American Indian.

 

[Lovepotion69]

Raphy,
You're half cambodian? Cool. Yeah, I know what you mean about being raised in a "white-bread white middle-class" surrounding. My folks never believed in saying I was anything but Swedish, and to this day I don't understand why some parents who adopt children in Sweden are so intent on "reminding the child of their culture". In my eyes if the child was adopted as a baby, grown up in Sweden and has never known any Chinese culture/language, then why the heck do some parents try to force upon them "you're Chinese"?? I just don't get it. My relatives are doing that to their adopted kids, and to me it just reinforces an "otherness" in the children that shouldn't need to be there at such a young age.

Personally all my friends in Sweden are caucasian. I knew of nothing else almost when growing up. At the same time, there was always a sense that sometimes I didn't fit in when it came to some things. Feelings and thoughts about family, independence, money etc at times clashed with my friends. I avoided certain topics as I felt my friends would only criticise my thoughts or actions within those areas. Then I came to London, met Asian people and suddenly it felt as if I finally found a few more pieces to the puzzle. The whole family thing came into place.

I'm curious to what you mean by "I have to remember that I'm not white, no matter how much my 'cultural upbringing' reinforces that I should be"?
I keep forgetting majority of times myself that I'm not white. It's not until the last couple of years that I've become more aware of looking different. Perhaps it's part of growing up and seeing the world for what it is, perhaps it's just turning realistic and cynic.
With more immigrants coming into Sweden and the debates about those things, and the bad publicity/connotations that are starting the past few years, I guess nowadays I'm more aware and worried that people might believe I'm "some uneducated immigrant who lives on welfare".


Svenska,
Oooh, as a kid I loved reading about the Wild West. I kept telling myself I would marry a native American! hehe I adored the cheekbones...

 

[raphy]

And here I thought you were an American Indian.

That might be the half-unknown bit, 'flicka.

I'm a product of the Vietnam war, so it's entirely within the realms of possibility that my father was an Native American soldier, or a soldier with some sort of native ancestry.

There aren't any records of my birth, so there's no way to tell.

 

[raphy]

I'm curious to what you mean by "I have to remember that I'm not white, no matter how much my 'cultural upbringing' reinforces that I should be"?

Well, all of my friends, culturally, are western, white, caucasian - Call it what you will.. Because that's what I am, culturally speaking. I can't hang out with those within the asian sub-culture in the UK, because I don't fit in. I don't speak their language(s), I don't have any of their religion, their culture. I don't know when the chinese new years is, for example.

So, my friends are western, because that's what I am - I wear leather pants and cowboy boots. I listen to rock 'n roll, country and bluesgrass. I was educated in an upperclass English public school.

And we'll be sitting around one night, getting drunk and listening to Monty Python songs.. And maybe their song 'I love chinese' will come on. Now I know it's all in fun, and I laugh as much as my friends do, but when you look at it, it's a pretty racist song.

And I have to remember - Hold up, I'm not white. I'm oriental. That song's about me.

Of course, my friends don't even think twice - One, because they're western in culture, and two, because they think of me as white.

And so do I... But every now and then, I have to remind myself that I'm not.

That's what I meant.. Sorry about the rambling.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I consider myself anything but racistic, but I still catch myself being surprised every time I see someone with black hair, brown skin, slanted eyes, whatever, and then hear them talk Swedish with the same dialect as me. I always assume that non-blond Swede=immigrant=Swedish with an accent.

I've got so many immigrant friends (and immigrant ex-lovers), I've learned never to judge a person's intelligence by the way he pronounces words or spell words. But I still get surprised when I meet someone who looks like he/she just stepped off the plane, and then hear them talk exactly like me - or with an even weirder dialect!

I'm striving never to let this seep out during the conversation, because I think it must be very annoying for someone who either has been adopted or moved here at a very youg age or were born in Sweden by immigrant parents, to constantly have people telling you "my, you speak perfect Swedish!"

I suppose it's a transition period. Slowly, slowly, we're getting used to the fact that Swedes come in all colors, not just blue-eyed blondes.