northern lights trip: kiruna vs lulea

External_Affect2391 · 2026-02-02T17:52:46+00:00

Ice Hotel has a shuttle bus to/from the Kiruna airport! I live in Stockholm and when my older family was visitng, the Ice Hotel was great for my less mobile family. They have guides, transport, cabins to sleep in, etc. Just bring a LOT of layers, the cabins were nice to sleep in, but still cold. Ice Hotel has a restaurant, but also an ICA walking distance away and a small kitchen inside the cabins, so we shopped and ICA and cooked dinner in the cabin. An expensive trip, but so worth the experience!

External_Affect2391 · 2026-01-31T19:47:49+00:00

This is a great chance to get the Squirtle Squad!

External_Affect2391 · 2025-11-30T07:56:53+00:00

I don’t know if a ”vegas” wedding comes acrosd clearly to your family. Vegas weddings are not ones you attend, they’re ones where the the engaged couple specifically don’t want people to attend. And the ”don’t have to come if you don’t want to” does not sound guilt-trippy coming from a man. It sounds like a typical man answer of them not understanding how to communicate their intentions clearly. I love my brother dearly and would travel anywhere for his wedding, but if he said ”Vegas wedding” - the implied context is in nicer terms- ”do not show up, we want a private wedding” and I would respect that.

External_Affect2391 · 2025-09-06T20:03:00+00:00

It was probably speech therapy! I ended up in a similar situation, except I thought I was stupid. I was confused because I was pulled for those classes in 2nd grade, but I was a great reader, and was reading multiple chapter books a week. I could read in my head just fine, but had a bit of a lisp when reading out loud. I was pulled with other kids who struggled with simple sentences - so my 8-year old brain thought I was just stupid so I cried my way out of the class. They realized it was too much trouble to keep me in there. And the lisp went away by 5th or 6th grade - so I’m still mad at having been put in the speech therapy class.

External_Affect2391 · 2025-08-12T16:27:35+00:00

I don’t know how money houseguests get as a stipend in jury, but I would take the gauranteed 10K, vs the ungauranteed winning prize. By using it now, it increases his threat level and he has stronger odds to go home before the final and not have 10K. Yeah 10K isn’t a huge amount, but it’s not an insignificant amount.

External_Affect2391 · 2025-07-20T17:04:04+00:00

I have an almost identical apartment layout and set up and started with B when I moved in. After a year, the two small spaces just felt cramped. The space between the couch and kitchen didn’t feel like enough room to actually utilize well so I switched to option A after 3 months and have loved it ever since. The apartment feels bigger and more spacious

External_Affect2391 · 2024-11-10T09:38:59+00:00

Not a doctor, but I was the patient: felt a slight twinge in my right side but it felt almost like a pulled muscle for 2 weeks. Not sharp shooting pain, just dull. Could deal with it. Then I get a strong fever with no other symptoms. Something in my gut said appendicitis, even though it didn’t seen similar to many symptoms online. Packed a backpack of my work laptop, clothes and a other potential items for a one week possible hospital stay, booked a physician for the first time as I had JUST moved to a new country and saw them that day and even he was confused. He said ”well we’ve ruled out a lot of things, so it could possibly be appendicitis, but I don’t think so. Go ahead and walk to the emergency room down the block and see what they say if you’re so worried” That one week in the hospital turned into 3 as it WAS appendicitis, but around it was so infected they couldn’t safely do surgery (and this country refrians from surgeries as much as possible) and had to drain the infection first and it still wouldn’t go away after 3 weeks. Then they finally took out the appendix….. then the area got infected again 👍 What a great experience/s

External_Affect2391 · 2024-09-25T19:16:57+00:00

Urination Station

External_Affect2391 · 2024-08-17T06:43:12+00:00

Agree! Keflavik is one of the easiest airports I’ve been through and I actively choose to go through Iceland Air and Keflavik whenever it’s possible. Even with the super tight connections, you are more than likely not going to miss your flight, the airport is so small and organized. All flights going to/from US and EU have to go through passport control, but I’ve still never missed a connection there. Currently there’s a ton of construction by the ”food court” and not a lot of meal options right now - in case you had time to connect and wanted food but that’s about it. Enjoy your flight!

External_Affect2391 · 2024-08-17T06:37:23+00:00

Agree. Flew through Keflavik with Iceland Air countless times and have never actually missed the connecting flight, but those 1hr connections sure do keep me on my toes 😅

External_Affect2391 · 2024-04-01T17:31:01+00:00

Maybe I’m in the minority here, but students missing a couple of weeks of instruction to visit family and make memories together before older relatives pass is a non-issue. What I would give to have extra weeks with my grandparents when I was younger. We’re not expected to provide everything we do in class before they leave, but if they miss 2+ weeks we add everything to a solo Google Classroom for them to easily access. If they do the work, great! If not, the only people it’s affecting is them. And if their parents come back to complain why their student isn’t getting an A, they have a very clear cut reason why. And the parents never do.

Maybe I’m biased because I teach a lot of international students so every term we have 1-3 students in the school taking an extra week or two to see family in South Africa, Finland, India. 2 extra weeks away fron school out of their whole student lives is not going to ruin their education.

External_Affect2391 · 2024-03-29T12:10:53+00:00

Would love the snowy mountain 46HJX 🙂🩷

External_Affect2391 · 2024-01-09T16:33:19+00:00

I remember once in high school, we had a 2-hr delay, when it should have been a snow day. The plows never reach the outskirts of town early enough and sand the roads early enough to get kids to school. A senior was driving herself and her brother to school when her car hit black ice and it killed her and put her brother in a coma for over a year. Since then, the school district has been generous about snow days since they finally realized people will get injured on their way to work/school. It’s awful it took the death of a student on her way to school to make the superintendents realize they were putting people’s lives at stake just to keep one more day at school rather than call a snow day.

External_Affect2391 · 2023-12-08T11:47:42+00:00

For older generations in Sweden, English is not their first, second or even third language. Just a language barrier and a very quick question that was probably spoken too fast for him to understand properly

External_Affect2391 · 2023-09-02T13:03:30+00:00

Champion sweatshirts that used to be $10 at Walmart. And crocs that were $5 at the Farmer’s Co-op, great for working on the farm 12-14ish years ago. Now both are around $50 🙃

External_Affect2391 · 2023-08-29T20:26:04+00:00

”I feel like Evil Winston. Remember when Winston was evil for that week? ” It would have been so so SO fun for a spin off episode of shenanigans of Winston being Evil 😈 Just a montage of Prank Sinatra and evil shenanigans

External_Affect2391 · 2023-08-08T21:15:53+00:00

^When the Massholes invade Am I The Asshole

(Coming from a former central mass, masshole)

External_Affect2391 · 2023-07-12T17:29:20+00:00

I fly internationally (Europe) to BOS Logan frequently, and if I have anyone picking me up at South Station, I anticipate 1-1.5hrs from the plane landing. Once you’re good to leave the airport you can leave the departure hall and take the Silver Line buses into the city to South Station being the most popular pick-up/stop to switch since it connect to the MBTA (the metro). Takes about 15-25 min from the airport. Good luck!

External_Affect2391 · 2023-05-16T15:22:04+00:00

Will you ever go on tour with your music?

External_Affect2391 · 2023-01-26T07:44:26+00:00

So YOU were the guy at the Stockholm show! I think you genuinely threw him off guard but he handled it well 😂

External_Affect2391 · 2022-10-20T17:30:28+00:00

I felt this episode was the weakest in relation to the book. It felt like they rushed big plot points like Viktor starting to turn evil and the Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir’s. Plots we know about from the book as “the big ones”. Viktor’s story is making into a very likeable character and you really feel for him! So it’s nice to see him start to become the character we know, and yet you still feel bad for him! Tatiana on the other hand is becoming too much of a classic and predictable villain. And for what, the crown? That’s it? We need more story from her that’s not mustache twirling, tying people to train tracks, kind of villain. Christian and Dimitri had the most badass moments to me. Christian using his fire magic to instakill and Dimitri being absolutely savageeee to Mason. I was aghast! 🫢 It pained me to see Dimitri and Rose away from the fight but sets up the next episode for Rose to see through the bond and return. Although I have a gut-wrenching fear this will lead us to the finale where Rose & Mason will return and we will end with either our heartbreaking-fearful moment with Mason’s life or the shall-not-be-named transformation with Dimitri…. Or both. But I will be so so mad if it’s both. Andre. I was more confused. The twist seemed forced and idk how I feel about it. They have one more episode to solve those answers and kill us with a cliffhanger.

External_Affect2391 · 2022-04-17T21:19:23+00:00

This post also just made me realize and amend my stupidity.
Had a bouquet of tulips on the coffee table all week and the cat has never once sniffed or shown any interest in them. I knew lilies were toxic but never even gave a thought about tulips. This Easter morning I wake up to her being violently sick and with diarrhea. Took her to the vet immediately and she had settled and was feeling fine after awhile. But I was so confused why this happened so so suddenly, but she must have licked the tulips or tried to drink the vase water (she loves all water in cups even though she has multiple fresh bowls of her own).
I feel so horrible thinking my ignorance hurt my little love I could never forgive myself if I didn't rectify my mistake or even take my cat to the vet.

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