It was still bitterly cold when I left on Thursday evening, but no longer actually snowing and the journey wasn't disrupted at all by either weather or "security". I woke up as late as I dared on Friday morning, which wasn't very late, and got dragged off to the supermarket with Mum and Granny before I'd woken up enough or drunk enough tea to protest. Spent the afternoon chez
Saturday morning we went to synagogue, where they wished Mum happy birthday, and called me up to read from the Torah to mark the 15th (!) anniversary of my bat mitzvah, and the wardens were sensible enough about forward planning to make it possible for Screwy to attend too with minimum fuss. There were some minor issues with Screwy's carer getting lost, but it didn't really matter as I was in no hurry and was happy to hang around chatting to friends from the community.
Granny decided she was going to dress me up for the party, which was rather fun. I ended up wearing my exceedingly velvety turquoise culotte skirt, with her gold knitted top and her hairdo, and a tiger eye necklace I had lying around as she insisted I couldn't possibly think of attending a party without beads. I probably wouldn't have come up with the outfit by myself, even if I'd been intending to dress up, but it worked pretty well. And it turned out that there were plenty of highly decorative people at the party, so yay prettiness.
I travelled down with
There was plenty of conversation, and a fair bit of silliness, and pool and giant jenga, both of which are games I'd like to play enough to get the hang of properly. And no deafening music or smoking; they even snuffed out the incense when requested. And Duchesse de Bourgogne beer which pleases me greatly by being sour instead of bitter. Two bottles was rather more than I really wanted to drink, which I should probably remember another time. I am slightly peeved that the barmaid lied to me by telling me there was no cider at all, meaning that I was thwarted in my attempt to buy a drink for
Sleep happened at least to some extent, and
The remainder of the weekend I spent helping Mum set up her new computer to be more usable for what she wants. This included giving her a link to this journal, so if you're reading, hi Mum! The other happy thing was that I came back to Stockholm to find we have a temporary reprieve from winter; it is warm and sunny again here.