ANTONIA

She might be known as Johanna or Jo to you, but her whole name is actually

Anna Johanna Ingeborg Sofie.

Our parents gave us all four names each. Johanna was unfortunate enough to get Ingeborg in her assortment… (for those of you who aren't familiar with the name, it's pretty much the lamest thing you can name your daughter). It might be the reason she occasionally called herself Johan, insisting on being a boy. I have to admit, from looking at the photos she did almost pull it off. See for yourself.

Johanna is extremely impulsive; she will get really excited and worked up about something only to completely change her mind and give up within a short time span (it will be interesting to see how long this blog lasts). I remember once, probably about 12 years ago, Henrik had been skateboarding for a while and finally bought his own skateboard. Johanna thought it seemed soo cool and could of course not stand being left out of the coolness, so she also bought one, dressed in baggy jeans and attempted a few embarrassingly bad “tricks” (like keeping her balance). Then I think she fell off and I have never seen her on a skateboard ever since.

I could tell you a hundred stories of things we’ve done together, but it would take too long so I will give you a brief summary.

This might all sound a little kooky, and Johanna IS kooky. I am pretty kooky too and together we become mental, If the circumstances are right and we are in the mood. A few years ago (I don’t remember. ***drunk***), none of us could sleep, and so we decided (12 at night in the middle of the winter) to go down to the farm to cut some wood (???) we brought a flask of coffee (haha such losers). The cutting machine never started (it was probably too cold), but it didn’t really matter (we only did it for the sake of something unusual to do, we are both quite restless) so there we sat next to the dysfunctional wood cutter, looking at the stars and drinking coffee in the freezing cold. It made sense at the time. All of the things we get up to do (well maybe not the incident with the toilet brush, but I’ll leave that one out).

Last time Johanna was in Sweden, we had promised to help mum sort out her wardrobe. After about ten minutes we were bored out of our minds and had lost the will to live. Until we got to her 80’s fashion section! We started dressing up in the most horrendous 80-clothes. We had so much fun, while everyone else felt slightly uncomfortable when we ran around on the farm, with jeans up to our armpits and lipstick all over our faces, laughing like two psychopaths.

Nowadays when we don’t see each other very often, we communicate via Facebook. 50% of the time I am really bored and in 90% of those times, Johanna will encourage me to drink the vodka she has in her room, to get in the mood and make everything seem a little funnier than it actually is (which I have done a little now).

Lastly I thought I would tell you about our future plans (hope they will come true this summer). There are TWO things we want to accomplish in our lives.

1. We want to go to the tomato festival in Spain (this is basically just an excuse to slap tomatoes in random peoples faces)
2. We are going on a caravan camping trip. We are planning on borrowing an old shabby trailer, travelling to the lamest places in Sweden, wearing matching tracksuits and sandals, listening to tasteless music and speak loudly about uncomfortable things, basically just put on a massive trailer trash-show (I will inform you when tickets are on sale).

When we have done these two things we can die happy.

I LOVE YOU TWISTED SISTER!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Antonia