Finally I figured it out... I've been moaning and complaining over the lack of insulation and that we now have 15 degrees inside if we are lucky.

Well today on my way to work I figured it out... why it's good.

You see in Sweden we always have a nice and cozy 22 degrees inside or even when its -10 outside... Now thats all great... until... you are going outside.
You brace yourself best you can and then you open the door and step out and you can never quite prepere you for how freezing cold it is.
Instantly your skin feels like it's been in ice for a couple of days, your eyes just want to remain closed and you can feel .... or maybe I should say not feel your toes anymore...
Well thats Sweden.

Now warp over to New Zealand with its 15 degrees inside, so cold that it is almost impossible to get out of bed - the only warm place indoors - in the morning.
Once you really dont have any choice any more... you already rationalized away breakfast, shower and any other extra activity you get up cursing how cold it is.
You are still cold when you reach the door out... and thats when it happens... you brace yourself for a temperature that is atleast 20 degrees colder than what it is indoors... you open the door and what happens?? Well it's like one degree colder.
You feel the very same as you did before opening the door.

This has happened to me every single day the last couple of weeks and yet it was only today that I had enough unfrozen brainpower to forumulate this long blabbering about it :-)

Now with that said and done I dont really have much new to tell. Tonight it looks like some more party, possibly some sauna before :-)
Tomorrow looks like even more party until the Sweden-Germany game starts at 3am.
Sunday will most likely be to recouperate from the two days before... so i'll be back on monday with a whole full week of nagging and moaning.


On a final note I should say that ski season is closing in, a big sports chain has a sale on today so after work I might zip over there, buy gloves, beanie and ski pants.
Once that is completed I can hardly wait to go skiing some :-)

As you might or might not know we are going to be skiing on a kinda active volcano which will be a new experince for me.
But thats not all after talking some to Andrey and getting some tips from Chris at work (he goes there every weekend during winter) we decided that we are going to climb up to the top of the crater and have a magnificent view down into the lake that never freezes over.
Might be a rough ride down since it's about 45 degrees and completely unmaintained... oh well..

Chris told me that it is quite possible to go down into the crater aswell but he has never done so since he couldnt be bothered walking back up.
Even if you could start on the high side of the crater and kind of skid across to the low side at the same time as going down, thus making it a way smaller climb.

Im not going down tho... mostly for three reasons....
reson number one... First there is a little drop down into the "slope" inside the crater which is fine... (all acording to chris) but then further down there is another small drop (in itself nothing) but if you go over it you will end up in the lake... and as chris put it - then you are fucked... just the risk of that is... hmm nah.
Second reason is... even if I stay on a safe distance from the second little edge a oh so small (and otherwise harmless) snow slide could be enough to push you over (after all it is unmaintained).
Thirdly... it is an active volcano and sure it is silly and wont really do any difference... but if it would errupt then atleast I would feel better being on the outside of the crater so I atleast can try to outrun it :-)