The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten

Here are a few things you may or may not have known about me.
Four jobs I have held in my life:

theater usher
pizza restaurant waitress
vitamin and herbal supplement salesperson
swimware seamstress

Four places I have lived:

Rancho Cucamonga, California
Yachats, Oregon
Sakura, Japan
Uddevalla, Sweden

Four shows I like to watch:

House, MD
Penn & Teller’s Bullshit
Animal Cops
Mythbusters

Four places I have been on vacation:

Rosarito Beach, [...]

This was my first attempt at making Swedish-style cinnamon buns or kanelbullar. These look absolutely gorgeous:

Not all of them are that beautiful, though. This one came out rather weird, although I’m sure it will taste just as good as the others:

However, they aren’t as good as the ones from the bakery. I used a bread [...]

When I went to turn on my computer this morning the power came on for about one second and then it promptly shut off. Repeated pressings of the power button yielded no results. After checking to make sure it was plugged in (it was), unplugging and replugging the power cord, and trying a different power [...]

The fact that Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman in the recent Virginia Tech school shooting, recorded himself reading his “manifesto” in between the two shooting incidents, and then sent it to NBC, says to me that this young man was extremely disturbed but not necessarily crazy. This shows a calculating and deliberate (if irrational) mind at [...]

I find myself disgusted and saddened by the news of this latest school shooting, the worst in US history. Even though I’m in Sweden thousands of miles from the US, I’m sitting here next to my PC listening to live video stream coverage of the shooting. So far the death toll is up to 31, [...]

Sweden is notorious for its high taxes. Ask any native Swede or any new arrival about the things they really don’t like about Sweden and he or she will invariably mention the taxes and the long dark winters (in that order). As in the US, the more money you make, the more you are expected [...]

I actually wasn’t planning on doing everything all on the same day, but once we got started our momentum kept us going until everything on the list was crossed off. We got it all done so quickly that I feel like I need to think of some other things for us to do.
What the Swede [...]

After being sick for a whole week I am almost totally recovered and have a renewed sense of energy and motivation. It’s time for spring cleaning!! I got into an argument on Friday with the Swede about the importance of going through one’s old clothes and things and getting rid of disliked and unused items. [...]

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, which makes today Easter Eve, or Påskafton as it’s called here in Sweden. This is not something we celebrate in the US. Easter Eve, I mean. But Swedes are fond of celebrating their three major holidays: Christmas, Easter, and Midsummer, the day before the actual day. I have asked the Swede [...]

I guess I should be happy that I came down with this now instead of next week, which is my Spring Break. The stomach virus that I contracted from the sick Swede last week has metamorphosed into a bad head cold. My sinuses are killing me. However, there’s no possibility of calling in sick this [...]