It has been quite windy today. Makes the heat more bearable. Which is good for a big, furry bear like me.

Had another talk with Trine at TMU today. Some final follow up questions. Did I mention that she had given me a questionnaire type thing? Just a lot of stuff about my problems etc. Now she’ll go and put together my paperwork and send it to my social worker. She said that he had seemed “positive” about my retirement. So couple that with TMU’s 100% record and I should think chances are pretty good that it’ll go through. Now I just have to wait. TMU closes for the summer on the 20th. And I’ll be done by then, I don’t have to come back after the break. Except for that website stuff I have promised to help them with.

Paw from TMU is going to get in touch with the playground. And talk to them about the possibility of a skånejob. Of course if they say yes to that it still can’t happen before I actually get my retirement. Which will probably be end of the year, soonest. So the thought is that we’ll make a little formalized agreement until then, so I don’t have to wait for the retirement to go through. We’ll see how it all goes.

On Thursday or Friday we’re going to sit down and look at the housinge situation. Housinge. Now that it looks like I’ll get retirement I should have a bit more money. Actually, I’ll be getting twice as much as I get now. As far as I can see. So I can afford to look at some more expensive places. It’s not like I’ll be rich or anything. But the appartments I am on the waiting list for right now are the cheapest of the cheap. So I can broaden my search a little more and hopefully find something soonish.

Videooh: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gmPxNai3rfw. Geeselings in the water. And father goose flapping about. It looks wonderfully refreshing, the way he puts his head under water and the comes back up and lets the water fall all over himself. And then flapping around. Good stuff. You’ll notice a boy in the beginning of the video. He originally had a much bigger part to play. He wanted me to film him. Then he jumped around a bit. And turned his back to show me his schoolbag. It had a dinosaur on it. Then he turned to face the camera and put his fingers up and pretended to be a dinosaur. He was making quite a big production. When I got back home I found that none of it had been recorded, because my batteries had run out just as he started his song and dance. Darn. It was a lot of fun.

A kodak moment lost forever.

There’s also a little appearance by Alice, who says that they (the geeselings) are doing better now, they had just gotten too hot.

Tomorrow is my day off and I shall soak up the sun like a beaver in a dam full of candy cane trees. If you know what I mean. And I bet you do.

Ohhh yeah.

Oh to be that goose. Burying its head in the water, like an ostrich buries its head in the sand.

Splashing around without a worry in this world.

As you can see, I finally got to see the geesers in the water. It was actually a little dramatic at first. I was sitting with the goats and the geesers were just walking around outside. Then Kurt went to them. He had seen something. Apparently one of the geeselings got overheated. I’m not sure if it passed out or if it was just doing badly. But Kurt brought it to the little water pool so it could cool off. And the rest of the family followed. So that was my chance to see them dive in.

At first they were just swimming around slowly. But once they had cooled down and once father goose started splishing and splashing they all started speeding around and diving and having a good time. It was very sweet to see.

And oh how I envied them and wished that I could just have jumped in with them. So, so hot.

The lambs were back outside.

Dotty and Mini. They baahed a lot when they saw me. They are still missing their families I am sure. They had found a way to escape under a fence, so they had to be tied down for a while. The fence was fixed and they were soon set free again. Roaming around and eating grass. That suited them much better.

And of course, let’s not forget the goatsome threesome.

Mads. He was not too pleased that I went and sat down with the lambs when they were baahing for me. Naturally Mads should come first!

He ate my watch today. Or some of it at least. I was letting him chew and pull on it, because it looked so funny. But then he managed to practically pull it apart. That wasn’t part of the plan. I think he swallowed a little bit of it, just a tiny part. He was okay, luckily. Stupid Plume. Now I’ll have to get a new watch. Or maybe I’ll just keep it in my pocket, it was only the strap that broke.

Magnethe. Mmm wall. Nom nom nom.

Vanilje. She was clashing a bit with her sister again today. Teenage rebellion.

At TMU I had a little talk with Trine. She told me that she has told my social worker that they will be recommending retirement. So that is settled. Trine still has to make the paperwork, she told me she might not get it done before the summer holiday (10 days till holiday weet!). But if not then my case would be the first one she did after the summer break. And in any case there will be a fairly long wait once she has submitted the paper work to my social worker. But hopefully they will live up to their 100% record. So far all the cases where they have recommended something (be it retirement, flex job or something else) have been settled succesfully. So it’s looking good now I think. If I could get a skånejob at the playground and find and appartment before too long then the world is my oyster.

Actually, I don’t think I like oysters so that’s no good.

And now I’m going to go submerge myself in ice water. In my dreams.