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"No bars that keep open late near *my building*" obviously. I don't keep a bar.

It sucks especially now not to be considered in your giveaways. There is no other bed I want as much as the Hästens, even though I already have a Dux. Sigh. Maybe I'll win the millions this weekend, who knows...

Not that often, but the New Concise Larousse Gastronomique is waiting to be read and re-read many times. In bed.

@Jeffrey Jason: There's a saying where I come from that poor people can't afford to buy cheap stuff. My parents have the same sofa that they saved up for over a longer time in the 70's and they've changed the fabrics and cushions twice. No spring thingies have gone out of place even though there were two kids behaving like kids a couple of decades ago. I could not agree more and have lived by this rule in my own home too. Alvar Aalto coffee table, A.A. kitchen table, Arne Jacobsen lamp, Dux beds. I've purchased these things during my studies and have made sound decisions that I'm never going to regret. All of these are almost like new still.

Oh dear. This is the new owl thing the same way as we need something new to replace the "Keep calm" posters. Poor giraffe.

Oh goodness. "Sleeping together" and sleeping together are two entirely different things. I could copy-paste Villages comment and only have to add that our beds are tied together by a metal thingy at the middle foot-end legs. Works like a charm and I get my sleep. Ear plugs help keep the *heavy* snoring out, but it would feel weird not to sleep in the same room. I get that snoring makes sleep such a luxury for some that they choose different rooms, though.

It's not overly clean to change sheets once a week. Like cremedela (sorry if I misspelt your name) said there are dust mites. Lots and lots of them. When you've changed sheets there's a little only. After a week 10 million. After two weeks 30 million. So I change them once weekly. Sorry if that offends someone. I also wash them in 60 degrees Celsius to kill the dust mites and other bacteria. Sorry if that offends someone too. I wouldn't want to sleep in your bed if you've changed your sheets once per month. Hope I'm not offending you in return.

Now *this* is a Theme. Excellent, if you at other parties would have to pretend to watch the decorations because your table company is dead boring, here you would have a real excuse. Silly me, you can't even see those in front of you...

I recently took up quilting and I love it! It makes me at peace to create something "new" with modern fabrics that go together in ways, which have been truly created by generations before me.

A fresh and beautiful take on quilts in a very contemporary way can be seen at Oh Fransson! by Elizabeth Hartmann, whose book I will purchase as soon as finances are a bit better. I definitely will make her Tokyo Subway Map at some point as it won me over the very first time I laid eyes on it (and I've developed a small obession since). http://www.ohfransson.com/

Some stores start selling Christmas decorations already in the end of October and it seems like the date is earlier each year. Soon the kitsch will be there in August, I fear... Makes me both a little mad and sad, as it then is only about the money.

Christmas nowadays is mainly about slowing down, eating great food and enjoying time with the family, but I do like some selected decorations here and there, including candles to light up the seemingly never-ending darkness. I've never had a tree myself, but the parents bring theirs in about a week or so before Christmas eve and take it down depending on when the needles start falling off, at the very latest on "tjugondag Knut" (Knut's name day, tjugo/twenty days after Christmas on 13 January). It's usually gone around the 5th or 6th though.