I promised I wouldn’t complain on Facebook for a whole day, so now I have to use my blog instead. I need to complain about my new light bulb. It seems Denmark has switched to energy saving light bulbs. And that’s all good and nice and I want to save the planet as much as the next guy. But the light is not good. It’s really not. I had read forum posts about how they don’t reproduce colours properly. Or something. Now that I have tried them I have to say they just don’t give enough light. For me. How am I going to save energy if I need to turn on multiple lamps instead of one? I guess for people with normal eyesight the energy saving bulbs are okay, but I really need the light to be able to see better.

You can’t even buy the old ones anymore, as far as I know. My dad is going to see if he can find something stronger than the one I have now in my living room. Today I got on my exercise bike for the first time since I changed the light bulb. And I couldn’t read the display. At all. There just wasn’t enough light. In the summertime I like to turn off the lights while I bike. The sunlight is usually enough for me to be able to read the display. During the winter I have to turn on the lights. And now with the energy saving bulb I can’t at all. I’m going to have to have a flashlight with me if I want to read the display.

It’s going to hurt me when I attempt to read letters and such too. Right now I’m trying to write a letter for my friend’s baby scrapbook and it’s just harder. And harder. The same thing with all the websites I use. They do updates and every time it makes things harder and harder for me. It’s just frustrating. I have to deal with this eyesight condition and I’m doing that. But when you feel like everything around you is making things harder and there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s frustrating. Especially because they insist that they’re making things better. And they don’t want to listen to the minority that don’t like it. I know I can’t expect the world to be designed for my needs. I just wish they wouldn’t make things worse in the search for change for change’s sake.

Other than that there is snow outside and everything is fine and I will not let the little things get me down.. Can’t wait for Windows 8!

I do not like the look of that weather forecast.

Looks like the temperatures will be below zero for the foreseeable future. We have had a really mild winter so far. I have enjoyed that. I will not enjoy freezing temperatures.

Thank goodness for the scarf I got for christmas from Traci. It really helped keep me warm when I went up to see the goats. And it even survived without getting chewn to bits. Mio did have a sniff and a little nibble, but that was all. Everyone survived.

Speaking of the goats, I think we’ll have a new visitor soon. Alice mentioned a new buck stopping by. We’ll have 4½ big goats, at least temporarily. That’ll be something. And just imagine if all three ladies had triplets. Can you imagine 9 little goat kids running around? That would be a little bit of heaven. Although it would also be a lot of kids to have to say goodbye to again. But that’s a ways off yet anyway. For now I will just enjoy the company of the good goats I have. I am still very happy that we got to keep Bob. I’m having a lot of fun with him. I can still manage to grab him and have him sit in my lap. He’s not always too pleased with it, but if I give him really good neck scratches then he’ll sit back and enjoy it. Won’t be long before he’s too big for it though. I already have a sore toe from when Magnethe decided to stand on it. I don’t think goats know how heavy they really are.

Tippy toes.

Back to the clementines.

I had a pretty good day yesterday. I went up and spent some time with the goats. Always fun.

Little video: youtube.com/watch?v=-qeIRt627-4

I was trying to teach Bob to put his hoof on my hand and the propel himself up in the air. He sort of did it spontaneously a couple of times so I tried to get him to do it again and give him raisins for it. He didn’t quite get it, but he did get even more enthusiastic about jumping up on me, which you can see a bit of in the video.

I had such a lovely time that I almost forgot to be cold. Of course as soon as I left the playground the cold started creeping in. I always like to just wash my hands at the outdoor tap when I leave, to get the worst goat hair and dirt off me. Makes for cold, cold fingers though.

When I got back home I warmed up a pot of mama’s leftover soup from Sunday. Mmm mm. That’s the stuff. Warms the body and the soul. I should bring a thermos bottle of it out with me in the cold. I bet that would be even better than thermal underwear.

In other news, DOWN WITH SOPA. Yeah. Boo. To protest SOPA I’m probably not going to be blogging again for oh several days. Oh me oh my. That should send a message.

2012 finally got goaty. I got to see the goats again, and it made me happy. As it always does. I’m always a little worried, though, when I’ve been away for more than a few days. And especially with the new year’s fireworks and all. I get paranoid that they won’t all be there to greet me. That someone will be gone. But no worries this time, four furry goaties were there to say hello. And it snowed. It didn’t last long, just a couple of hours. But I got to walk around in the falling snow and things got white briefly. So that was really nice. I liked that. Even though it was cold.

Mostly of course I liked the goats. As here seen: youtube.com/watch?v=vZzzFd8bzJI. Nothing exciting. But goats. I’m glad they’re all still doing well. And they will continue to provide me with happiness and a reason to get out of the apartment. Even when it’s cold.

They really do need to pick a name for the new girl, though.

Other than that there’s nowt much going on. I helped my dad make stamps. He is quite into the stamp collecting. And he found out that you can make your own stamps. So I helped him out with that. We made them on the Norwegian postal service’s website. Fancy Norwegian stamps. They proper work and all. Quite extraordinary. I almost feel like making some myself now. With goats. Although to be fair I don’t send much snail mail these days. In fact pretty much none. I just want goat stamps. But it was nice that I could help my dad with it. I took pictures of him. And photoshopped text. I get kind of frustrated with these things now, because it’s a lot more difficult for me to do because of my eyesight. Five years ago I could have whipped something nice up in a matter of minutes. Now I end up worrying about it all because it takes longer and I can’t tell if what I’m doing is good enough or not. But dad seems to like the stamps. We made some a week ago or so, without text. And they turned out good he said. Hopefully the ones with text will too.

And on Sunday it’s soup time. Bam!

Almost a week gone of the new year. Clearly one of my resolutions hasn’t been to blog more often or better. Fraid not.

I have never done resolutions, and this year my only resolution was to not start now. But there are things I hope to do better this year. When it starts getting warm again I want to really hit the exercising hard. That’s my hope anyway. I’m still going with it, I just find it a lot harder and less rewarding when it’s cold. Even with the heat turned up to max it’s still not the same. But we’ll see how that all goes. Spring can’t spring too soon for me. At least we haven’t really had any snow yet. I guess a winter completely without snow would be too much to ask. And part of me also misses the pretty, fuzzy whiteness. But for mobility I really could do with a mild winter.

Other than that the new year has not brought anything new with it. Time passes, slowly. Dad is doing better and better. There are still tests to be done, though. But it seems to be going okay right now. I’m happy about that.

Haven’t seen the goats this year yet. Been much too long. I will probably go see them on Monday. Hopefully they got through the new years alrite. I am missing them something fierce.

Hope you all have gotten into the new year well as well, swell. Here’s to a good year.