For several years I have been planning to leave the church since I don’t believe in any religion, I’m not taking part of their activities and I never go to the church. However if you are a member of the church in this country, you have to pay ~$450 (that is like half my monthly rent) each year in taxes to them (if you have an income). Imagine how much cash that will be after 60 years. Even if you pay that much money, you still have to pay your own funeral (yes, when you are dead) which is really expensive.

To me, this is way too much. It would be another thing if I went to church and participated in their activities. Then I understand that this type of community can’t survive without money. But this is not the case for me. To me this church believes in a book filled with fiction. No offense, I truly respect everyone no matter what they believe, and I expect the same in return. But I don’t believe a damn word in that book.

So I sent in the paper on Monday last week and got the confirmation letter on Friday that I’ve seceded the Swedish Church.

This was apart of my 101 things in 1001 days list and it feels good that I’ve finally have done it. 100 things to go!

RSS readers: Visit the post damnit!

I’m writing this post to spread more information about the cruelty that is done to animals, maybe you have already seen the terror, but let’s help each other to spread the message about it to the rest of the world!

Perhaps you can’t afford to donate money, but you can still help out a lot just by informing people! Do the animals a favor and share this post with the people around you. It doesn’t take much time or effort to do this! If you don’t (or if you buy fur), you are one of the bad guys!

They are skinned alive
This isn’t anything new in the animal cruelty world, but it doesn’t matter, it is still happening. Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International, took their camera with them to Chinese fur farms and discovered that many animals are still alive when the workers hang them up by their legs or tails to take their skin off. Visitors are banned to see the slaughter and there are no regulations governing fur farms in China, which means that they can do whatever they want with the animals.

The shocking truth
The following video is more scary than all horror movies I’ve seen together. If you don’t feel anything after seeing this video, you have a heart of stone. A little warning though, if you are sensitive, you should skip seeing it and just pass it on to others.

Trent Reznor - China Dog and Cat Fur Farm Investigation
Not only does he do great music and goes against the music industry, he also stands up for a good cause. This video isn’t as scary as the one above. Listen to what he has to say:

Help out!
Would you still want to wear fur? I hope not. Don’t wear fur, leather or feathers. Choose faux and pleather instead! I would really appreciate if you passed this along to everyone you know. Stumble, Propeller, Sk-rt, Mixx and the rest!
Like I said, it doesn’t take much time or effort from your side!

If you want to do more you can visit furisdead.com to get more information. This is the second post in my animal cruelty series, you can also read: Why you shouldn’t get some types of dogs and cats.

That’s right! I made some more creations from patterns I found online. Like I said in my previous post about the beads “Hama beads - Super Mario inspired“, it is great to get lost in something so simple. I feel like a child again!
Super Mario got a little melt down (click the image to see it in a bigger version) since I held the iron on him for too long, but he looks pretty good anyway! Then he felt a little lonely so I made a mini mushroom for him. Then all of a sudden I made a Pacman creature and last but not least, even though I don’t really like Hello Kitty, I made a Hello Kitty face
I also noticed one thing. I have a huge bucket with different colors, why on earth didn’t they make more black and white beads? Most of the time I search around for black ones. Argh!

I just recently read Tyler Cruz post “Stop Reading… Start Doing!” and it really hit me that I’m just like that. I read far too many RSS feeds when I instead should write posts on my own blogs. Some days I end up just reading other peoples feeds instead of taking care of and maintain what I already have. And the fact that I read about the same thing on several blogs doesn’t make it easier! It is actually a waste of time and it feels horrible.

I usually tidy up my RSS reader once in a month, but I still have far too many. It’s the feeling that I might miss something great if I unsubscribe. Silly. I use Bloglines new beta version where you can view them in a “Quick View”, which means that you only see the titles of the posts, I thought that this would help me, and sure it has, but still, several days can go by without putting any effort on my own blogs! Not to forget, most of the time I have no imagination, not enough to create a blog post myself.

It’s like this is a common modern world problem. In the future we probably have to call the doctor: “Dear Docktor, I read too many RSS feeds, it is interfering with my normal life, what do I do?!“. Please, don’t tell me I’m the only one with this problem!

It has been several years since I listened to jrock and jpop everyday. I just recently discovered Zwei, a jrock band with two (quite hot) girls. I saw their music video for Dragon on YouTube and I fell in love right away! The song rocks! I still haven’t found any of their songs in MP3, so if you have any - please share!

You are quite welcome to give me tips of good jrock bands!

Edit: I found the songs!

Earlier this week I took the time to create my first hama beads creation in my adulthood. I remember those happy days as a kid when you could play with them without feeling childish, like I do now. But it took my mind off things for a while and it was nice.
I made a mushroom that can be seen in the Super Mario game. I’m not sure what to do next, I would like to do a Hello Kitty but what should I do with it? I don’t even like Hello Kitty!
By the way, I’m in the process of remaking my subpages around here and so far I’m finished with the about page. Take the opportunity to see me in my new blue wig!

I’m not sure how many of you know that I suffer from depression, or that I take medication for it, but it’s something that I rarely talk about these days (but feel free to ask questions though). Well to the point. I suffer from major anxiety when I’m in a relationship when I know that the partner might deal with my depressive periods in a severe way. That is why I’m afraid of getting in to a relationship again.

I just want to highlight how it is to live with a person that suffers from depression since it’s very rare that stories from the partner comes up in the light. But I recently discovered an old post from Jon Armstrong (yes, Heather Armstrong’s aka Dooce’s husband) called “How I do“, where he describes his feelings dealing with Heathers disease. I found it to be really interesting to read and I have forwarded it to my closest friends.

Also, if you are the partner, living with a person with this kind of illness, please tell me about your experiences and your feelings. I would love to read, and learn, about it. When I’m in a relationship and ask my partner about it, I hardly get any answers. That’s why I have started to investigate about it. I have one good advice for you all and that is:

Talk to each other!

Art by: dolphy

If you are a WordPress fan and want a little help when developing your themes, you should check out WPCandy’s WordPress Help Sheet (pdf).

The WordPress Help Sheet includes the following:

• Basic Template Files
• PHP Snippets for the Header
• PHP Snippets for the Templates
• And Extra Stuff for WordPress

Tonight I have spent my time translating it to Swedish. So if you understand Swedish and if you love WordPress, you should download it!

Download: The WordPress Help Sheet - Swedish Translation

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Did you know about that? I didn’t! I saw a tv show a couple of days ago showing two guys, with hidden cameras, going to the blood bank to give blood. They filled out the form and highly said things like “Can my boyfriend sit here and wait?” and such. When they were done with the forms a nurse took one of them in to a room and closed the door, there she said to the guy that gay guys aren’t allowed to donate blood because of their “lifestyle” but they are “welcome to take a sandwich and something to drink” before they leave.

I was like “What?!” When they got back to the studio the doctor said it was true. However, the nurse should have explained better WHY he couldn’t donate blood. The reason was because there are so many diseases going around the gay culture. But don’t they check every person’s blood before it’s used? I mean you don’t have to be gay to to get those kind of diseases.

So I don’t get it. If anyone can give me a better explanation, please share!

Edit: Ugly comments will be deleted. If you can’t accept that people are different, get over it!

A couple of months ago I decided to join PayU2Blog, everything went fine, I got an email saying that my blog was accepted and if I accept the requirements I should reply to it with name, blog url and etc. So I did. No reply. After a couple of weeks I sent an email again asking why I didn’t get my login information or an answer. No reply.

A couple of weeks ago I decided to try it again. The same procedure, I accepted the terms by replying to the email with my information. No reply. I even commented on their blog asking a few days ago asking why I wasn’t accepted or even contacted. I went by the same post today and I saw that it has been deleted. Lousy service and lack of respect as far as I see it. I suggest that you don’t join this paid to post program.

That’s the reason why they get my toilet award. Can you hear me flush twice? Good!

Image by: Kan-n