Old passport, meet new passport

Picked up the new passport yesterday morning.

Had forgotten that you have the option to keep the old one. The rest of my old passports are back in Manila. I think it's fun to look at how both the passports and I have changed over the years.

The day that I have longed for has arrived!

I'm finally out of Disney plasters, so I can start using the Mumin ones.

Why is a grown woman using children's bandages, you ask...well, I didn't get a lot of wounds as a child and I don't remember Mumsy ever stocking kiddie plasters and certainly never Mumin ones.

My first sighting of a big name politician!

Feminist initiative co-founder Gudrun Schyman speaking at the corner of Klarabergsgatan and Drottninggatan as part of the EU election campaign.

Incidentally, just discovered today that I can zoom in on a specific part of a photo taken with the phone camera and then send that magnified part to the blog. Have wanted to do that a number of times, but never knew that I actually could. This is the second indication that someone should have bothered to read the manual.

Odds and ends that came with my magazine

Coupon for McDonald's Salad Shaker
I heart their ad agency (check out their Svenglish Happy Meal ad). The words in the ads for this product are shaken/jumbled which makes me think of the e-mail forward about how we'll be able to read a jumbled word as long as the first and last letters are correct. The salad costs 35 which works out quite nicely, since the mag also costs 35.

Panty liner samples
Apparently "1 out of 4 women experience urine leakage at some point in their lives." Is that the original purpose of panty liners?

The Wedding Guide
Stockholm yellow/pink pages for wedding-related services
Was amused when this fell out of the magazine along with the urine leakage thing. Childish, I know.

Sample of day cream with collagen re-plumper from L'Oreal

Farewell old passport!

Did a doubletake when I saw that I'd received an SMS from "The Police" on Monday. Turns out my passport was ready.

That was quick! It was supposed to take about a week and I only applied late last Thursday.

Anyway, I'm off to pick up the new passport.