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Dec. 28th, 2004 12:47 pmI wanted to write an entry about my new cool The Nightmare Before Christmas tea mug, about my lovely necklace and earrings and books that I got for gifts, and about my geeking at The Return of the King extended version....but all this turned to nothing when I just received news of a friends of mine's sister dying in the earthquake/tidal wave catastrophe in Eastern Asia.
She is one of the thousand unfortunate Swedish tourists in Thailand - at a popular tourist spot that even such reluctant travelers as my parents visited a couple of years ago. And those tourist numbers are of course just a small part among all the deaths of the people living in those areas...already poor people getting even poorer, homeless or dead.
I feel so bad about it all...but of course the impact is so much more real when it affects someone you know.
In spite of all this I want to pause and thank![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madralaoi, Morten, Pauline, Sofia and Hansen for the wonderful Christmas package I got from Sweden the other day. The Swedish booze mystery is solved, it was just a two-part package, and the other part contained the card, more booze, many spices (including saffron! I'll make more delicious saffron bread, something the Geeks family have become quite fond of!), and some Swedish magazines. You guys...this was such a lovely and thoughtful gift for an exile-Swede, and I became quite misty eyed and touched!
Take care and may the New year bring some good to all of you, in whichever part of the world you are!
She is one of the thousand unfortunate Swedish tourists in Thailand - at a popular tourist spot that even such reluctant travelers as my parents visited a couple of years ago. And those tourist numbers are of course just a small part among all the deaths of the people living in those areas...already poor people getting even poorer, homeless or dead.
I feel so bad about it all...but of course the impact is so much more real when it affects someone you know.
In spite of all this I want to pause and thank
madralaoi, Morten, Pauline, Sofia and Hansen for the wonderful Christmas package I got from Sweden the other day. The Swedish booze mystery is solved, it was just a two-part package, and the other part contained the card, more booze, many spices (including saffron! I'll make more delicious saffron bread, something the Geeks family have become quite fond of!), and some Swedish magazines. You guys...this was such a lovely and thoughtful gift for an exile-Swede, and I became quite misty eyed and touched!Take care and may the New year bring some good to all of you, in whichever part of the world you are!
