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Trying on the dress
27 Tuesday Dec 2011
Pictures from long ago, and pictures from today
25 Sunday Dec 2011
I got bath towels and bed sheets from my parents..looks like yellow, but they're light "beige".. the Swedish color ;)
..looks like yellow, but they're light "beige".. the Swedish color ;)
A pair of pyjamas pants and a pair of slippers from Erik :)
We lit a fire, all the wrapping paper disappeared in the flames..:D
Grimeton radio station
Marcus gave me some coffee/tea cups
A gigantic root beet my mom found in the garden today :)
My grandma
A lake not so far away from my patents' house
The house my parents live in (40 years ago)Isn't this just a lovely picture?
Karin and Anna, my grandma's friends, we used to visit them when I was younger..
My grandma, my aunt and some other people..
I got two books, one from my sister and one from my grandma
Isn't this just a lovely picture? My grandma is somewhere among the children..
I found a bunch of really old pictures today that my grandma had in her room (she’s living in an old people’s home). I also took some pictures of the presents I got yesterday.. becuase that’s kind of a blogging-thing to do, and because I don’t want to upload my whole life on Facebook..
Christmas in pictures
24 Saturday Dec 2011
Pictures from Julafton
24 Saturday Dec 2011
No I’m not angry! I’m not annoyed, I’m just impatient!
10 Thursday Nov 2011
Posted in Blah blah, Okategoriserade, Pictures
I think I have come to a conclusion!
But first.. Isn’t this just clever? I’m writing on this thesis, and honesltly I’m writing pretty much every day, BUT sometimes is the motivation quite low.. so what do I do? I open my closet and I pull out all the cloths and make a pile of clothes in the middle of the room. Then I sort out everything I don’t “need” and I come to the colclusion that I don’t need like half of the clothes I own. Then I think.. oh I NEED (note that I write need, not want) to buy new clothes NOW! Then I think, but I need to write on the thesis..This is what I call a dilemma!
Anyway! I’m so glad we don’t have so many lectures now because it’s tiring. I think I’m that kind of person who needs some space and extra time for thinking because it’s good for me. If I don’t get that time I get in a quite bad mood. This bad mood is something I have had time for thinking about today.
I often say that I’m angry, but after all I”m not. I’m not an angry person, or the angry aggressive type.. I think you understand what I mean. Maybe I’m annoyed when I say I’m angry, but most of all I just think I’m impatient! When I say I’m angry it feels like nothing is happening, and I want something to happen NOW! Then I get kind of p*ssed off! But only because of myself, because I can’t take it easy, relax and just let things happen. Maybe because I’m a control freak sometimes. Not that I want everything under control, but I want like “a this is what might happen in the future plan”, like a first sketch of how things will turn out (everything is included in that plan, school, work..ha ha! everything).
This is my last semester at the university, and I need to find a job soon. I know I have to, and I will. Its just that right now, I’m tired. Not emotionally tired, but I have headache pretty often, my stomach make strange EXTREMELY EMBARRASING noises like nine hours/day. WHY? Coffee makes me feels sick, but I just had a cup anyway because I hadn’t had one for (I think) one week.
This is pretty much what is going on. I can fill my closet with new things, and I saved the clothes I like. I know it didn’t have to do with the fact that I’m 25 now, which I wasn’t yesterday, but sometimes you have to give yourself a kick in a new direction. Sometimes things need to happen, and you have to do something about it. So now I’ve started to move.. forward ;) and I’m happy about that. Only good things can come from this, and I’m just happy that things are so good right now.
Look at the flowers I got from Erik yesterday! I got a necklace too, and I liked it! Then we had cake, and I decided what to have for dinner LOL and since I’m kind of stupid or something I chose bagles and “Pucko” (that’s a kind chocolate milk, we had never tried it before so we had to). We filled the bagles with guacamole and some other things like tomatoes and cucumber..
I think I have been thinking too much for a couple of days, lol! Yesterday I was acting like a zombie, and today I forgot if I had used shampoo or not when I washed my hair so I had to wash it twice haha!
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Look so many magazines I got!
08 Tuesday Nov 2011
Look so many magazines I got! Today I got to attend sone kind of event at work. It was a publishing magazine that had invited people who talked about media and new trends. I also got this present from my mother today, I’ll open it tomorrow :). I hope you all are having a great week!
Today was a strange day..
21 Friday Oct 2011
Today when I went home from school I had the weirdest feeling in my body. It was just strange. My parents are in Dubai, Erik is not at home, neither my sister – means no phone calls or texts. Don’t interpret this as something bad. I woke up early this morning, went to school 3 hours later to study before the lecture. I had lunch, by my self. Took a walk in the city, by myself. After school I had a meeting with a teacher, and then I took the train and bus home. When I came to Malmö I thought “what the hell am I doing?” I caught myself in a strange feeling that I had the option to kind of do what I wanted and it felt so good. I needed to buy some things in the grocery store, but instead of doing it where I live I walked by Hemköp. Something was wrong with the thing that reads the code on the “products” the scanner? so I didn’t have to pay full price – the guy who worked there didn’t know how to change it so he just said “just because it’s you, you don’t have to pay”. LOL! It’s never that I feel lonely, and actually I like to be alone sometimes – but today it was different. I was alone, but it felt better than it has ever done before. I think you can say that it was longing for something but in a good way, to have the trust or something. Anyway it was good.
Pictures from this week
11 Sunday Sep 2011
I went to visit my parents this weekend, and look at the cute little kitten my sister just got. So sweet! They don’t know if it’s a boy or girl yet haha! The other day I got a guided tour in Malmö. First we went to that art exhibition I showed you pictures from the other day and then we took a walk in pildammsparken – a park in Malmö. Look at the huge trees!! Then we had Indian food, it was actually good (I don’t know why it wouldn’t haha! Or, you never know..;) ). Today I went shopping with my mother and bought stuff I didn’t need + some stuff I actually needed. It was funny because the parking lot was empty, usually it’s crowded. My mom and I kind of know when to go there :).
I like that’s so easy to write blog posts on my cell phone!!
A healthier lifestyle
09 Friday Sep 2011
Sometimes we (read I) need to STOP! and think about what we are doing. I guess that was what I did last week, or the week before. Something happened that made me think: is this really how I want things to be like? This is kind of a boring way to start a post, so now I’ll write about the fun stuff:
I have said “no” to some extra jobs I had before, so no more babysitting or working in an old people’s home. This means I’ll have more time over, which I honestly need to feel well. The last week has been kind of very good. I have had time to be at home, I have watched tv! I have had time for cooking, I have taken walks, slept a little bit longer (I still love waking up early ha ha!), I have taken time to think, and I have had time alone (sometimes I need that, or I think everyone needs that.. it’s somehow good to be alone sometimes). And I have spent time with people I like! I have learned new things, and I’ve had the opportunity to learn other people things too.
I had a blogg-post published on yourlife.nu (thanks to you who found it for me, because I had NO IDEA about it! ha ha! It kind of made my day!) (unfortunately it’s not viewable anymore).
Then I started blogging again, honestly it feels good. The last 9 months have been kind of dazing because I’ve reassessed many things, thanks for that (but I’m back now). The last months I have worked too much, but the only one I can blame for that is myself. I’ve learned my lesson, again. There is that balance you have to find between work and free-time and if you can’t find some kind of balance things don’t feel good. Things don’t smell as good, they don’t taste as good, and noting feels as good as it actually can do if you don’t find that balance. Awareness is always the first step towards a change, it also means responsibility, but I like to be responsible ha ha!
I feels like I have eaten a little too much unhealthy stuff during the last months too, too little fruit for example. Today I had a grapefruit :) I like grapefruits. Antioxidants and vitamins are good for you!
Hope you all will have a really good weekend! I’ve decided to have a really good Friday and tomorrow I’m going to see my family (it was at least 3 months since last time) I hope the trains will be on time ;)
Pinapple + Yogurt = Healthy Dessert
05 Sunday Jun 2011
A very simple recipe – tastes good, and it’s at least better than ice cream ;). If you have fresh pineapple, slice it and put it in the freezer until it’s almost frozen, otherwise use frozen pineapple (don’t use canned pineapple). Mix it with plain yogurt until smooth. Mango works even better, but pineapple was what I had at home.. serve in small glasses and decorate with some fresh fruit. Voila! I was surpirised that it was so delicious.
A Lot of Pictures
05 Sunday Jun 2011
Pictures from Last Weekend
19 Thursday May 2011
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My aunt and cousin came here last weekend, and it was actually fun. The stayed at a “B&B” not far from here. My aunt is really interested in everything that has to do with flowers, plants etc. so we were at pretty many places where they sell those kind on things, on Saturday we visited a “plant market”. They brought some stuff from my mom (my old stuff) and among the things was a box with erasers, WHY??? did I buy those when I was younger!?? On the train back here I was DYING for a cup of coffee, the others thought it was really amusing… hahahaha! Believe me I was kind of going crazy “cooooooffeeeee” hahahahaha!
In the Middle of Nowhere
04 Monday Apr 2011
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I went to my parents this weekend, I think I had forgotten a little bit how.. how.. dead it is where they live. Before this was not a problem for me, I thought: I can never live where it’s never quiet. Now (I don’t even live in a city) when I’m used to hearing cars 24/7, to see people when I look through the windows, everything is different. When I had been there for 30 minutes I was so freaking stressed, ha ha! The only thing you see there are trees, dirt and trees. I mean it’s very nice in the summer, and I guess it’s good for you, but now it feels very different. Today I feel like I could move to a bigger city. That’s funny in some way, because I guess it just about getting used to something. It doesn’t matter what it is. I remember when I was younger and we said, we’ll never need cell phones. I couldn’t live without my cell phone today.
We took a walk in the evening, and it felt like we were so far away from everything. When I drove to Ullared in the morning it was just weird, because it was only me, no other cars. That was like driving on the highway too late (after 2 AM) on a weekday, it’s only you. Scary, but at the same time that’s a really cool feeling.
Thoughts: Being the youngest. Being the Oldest. Being a Leader. Taking Care of a Sick Child.
28 Monday Feb 2011
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Thoughts:
- Taking care of a sick child: Today I’ve been taking care of a sick child. Ear ache and fever. A new experience, I hope it wasn’t contagious.
- Being a leader: In school we learn a lot about how to be a good leader. There are many approaches. We have been taught that in Japan and other countries stress is not a big problem. We have also been taught that in those countries people do everything to save each other’s faces – it’s all about the group. That makes me wonder if anyone would tell if the felt really stressed. The reason to why they don’t have this problem is (as we’ve been taught) because the social support that the group-thing brings prevents stress. This is just a cultural difference, I know. If this is the case, we don’t experience the same kind of stress and then I guess we (who don’t live in those countries) can’t measure it either? Gosh, everything is relative!
- Being the oldest: Being the oldest in a group of people, is an experience. Age doesn’t say everything. But it’s kind of both scary and funny to see people go through things that you went through yourself five or six years ago. I think that I still think ha ha! that when you turn 21 or around that age, some things happen in your brain, and you start to look at things in different ways than before.
- Being the youngest: That is a strange feeling, and it might sound easy to be the youngest one of a bunch of people because you’ll have people around you who are older and wiser than you. People who can help you understand all the things you haven’t learned yet. I have realized that’s not always the case. The difficult thing is that people who are older than you think they’re always right just because of their age (the older you are the more you know), and if you’re younger you can’t know if they’re right because you just can’t. Or sometimes you do, but then you have to work 10 times harder than the other ones, just to prove that you’re right. There is also a scary feeling when you talk and the people who are older than you actually listen and do what you tell them to, or agree with you, because you can almost be sure that in a day or two they are going to change their minds and be against you ha ha! Life is just complicated sometimes.
Other things:
- My neighbors are moving. I hope someone is going to rent their apartment and use it as an office, gosh, I’m so boring!
- Tomorrow I’ll get the new shower :). They texted me 6:27 this morning to tell me. EARLY!!!
- We have quite much to do in school, but not more than you handle it.
- My headache is starting to disappear – I hope I can go running on Wednesday.
A Summary of the Weekend
20 Sunday Feb 2011
This weekend I went home to my parents and my sister. She has graduated from school and we went out for lunch on Saturday, it was me, my sister, our parents, Marcus, his parents, his grandma, our grandma, and my aunt, and cousin Magdalena. It was nice, the sun was shining and it was nice to talk to them. I’ve been at home today, and after lunch I got the worst migraine ever. Maybe it was stupid, but I didn’t have anything to eat at home, so I went to the grocery store, when I came home again i got even worse and I saw weird light spots. My gosh I have never had such headache before. Painkillers didn’t help. Now almost 4 hours later it’s a tiny bit better, thank god! I look terrible haha! I regret I took a look in the mirror lol! Anyways, we took some pictures check them out!
Picture Update
18 Friday Feb 2011
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I went home to my parents today.. it was something wrong with the train that was shorter than normal, which meant that there were not seats for everyone so I had to stand for 2 hours, not very funny. It’s freaking cold here. Tomorrow we are going to have lunch at a restaurant in Varberg, my grandma and my aunts, cousin, Marcus’s parents and grandma is coming there too. (My sister has graduated from school). I’m watching “Let’s Dance” right now, but 90% is commercial breaks ha ha!
I Had the Weirdest Dream Last Night. Don’t Miss the Train..
15 Tuesday Feb 2011
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This is how it begun. I was at a train station and I was about to buy a ticket in a ticket machine when a girl comes up and starts to make a fuzz. Then there comes another girl too and they starts to fight, I try to buy the ticket, but the machine says: The train will leave in 1 min so it’s too late. Then I see my sister. I realize that there’s a train in 3 minutes so I’m starting to run (I don’t buy the ticket). My sister grabs my feet and I try to get her off, she is completely wild and I’m about to push her down on the railway track. I feel really bad and run to cath the train.
On the train I realize I forgot my coat and my bike, but I know someone put the things on the train. I start to look for them and find then in the front of the train in a seat where a woman sleeps. My sister is there too. Then the conductor comes, but I don’t have a ticket. I just walk away and I feel like a really manipulative person. Then my sister and I eat some chocolate cookies. And I walk to the back of the train. Then we hear a strange sound, and someone tells us someone is shooting at the train. It starts to reverse and we can hear people scream, and actually see the men hiding in the grass shooting. I get really worried because my sister might have been hit. Then I meet her ex-friends and they are drunk, before I see she is ok. Then I woke up.
It had this kind of weird feeling over it because it was like my sister and I was going home to our parents, but it was a competition: who is the first one there. It was not a good feeling I had in my body. After this I had a second dream about a guy I knew before, he texted me three times, and told me I had to work out LOL! I just didn’t care.
Maybe this is because I haven’t seen my parents since Christmas. My sister has graduated from school so we are having dinner on Saturday, that is at least what I think. I think I’m going to buy a present today, I saw a really cute charm from Thomas Sabo. I’ll take a picture if I buy it.
My gosh something weird must have happened in my brain. It feels like I need a hug. That’s just an odd feeling haha! Enough! LOL! I aslo got this weird thought yesterday ha ha! I realized that all my friends have always been onlder than me, that’s just strange. Now when all the people in my class is almost five years younger, it feels very odd. That was the thought of the day. Let it come, let it go. I’m learning ;).
The Small Houses Are Called Hoddor
05 Saturday Feb 2011
I bet the view is pretty nice from there..
I know some of you asked about these houses. Therefor I asked the woman at the tourist office. I said: who uses the small houses. She replied: SMALL HOUSES! We call them bad hoddor. She had that kind of accent people in this area have, so it sounded like hååådddårrr. But this is how it works: people in this area are allowed to buy one. If you don’t live here you can’t because you’re not allowed to “live” in them. Families with children store toys and things in them, or chairs etc. because then they don’t have to carry everything with them. I wonder how much they cost, I bet a fortune, the houses in this area are pretty expensive.
This Is How Sun Maid Raisins Have Influenced My Life. Ha Ha!
01 Tuesday Feb 2011
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This is a funny story. This hasn’t got to do with eating raisins, unfortunately. When I was little my grandma (my mother’s mother) was looking after me a lot – this meant my mother drove me there (to my grandma’s place) in the morning, and picked me up in the evening after work. This happened during a regular basis from that I was just a couple of months old, until I was 12 or something like that. The scary thing is that I suddenly remember this so clearly.
My mom and dad are optimists when it comes to time, or maybe they aren’t. I don’t know but it doesn’t matter. My mom usually finished work at 17:00, which meant she came to pick me up at 17:20. But my dad likes (and liked) to have long chats after work, and that’s why they never get anything done. My grandma always told me, she’ll be here at 18:00, but I always started to count down the time at like 16:00. My gosh, I was waiting a lot. And this is where the raisins come in the picture.
My grandma had a cupboard in the kitchen where she stored flour, sugar and other staples. In there she had raisins, Sun Maid Raisins. When I was little I remember I looked at the packet of raisins, at the picture of the girl. And I must have been 6 or 7 years old, because I knew how to read. And I remember the word California. I didn’t know what California was until I was 12, at least, or 13, or maybe 14. I was very little interested in school ha ha! A least when it came to geography.
Anyways, that’s the funny thing, because I remember I was thinking about California even though I didn’t have a clue about what it was, isn’t that funny. I was looking at that quite ugly picture. And I thought: I want to go there. Isn’t that just stupid LOL! My parent’s biggest fear have always been that I would move abroad. And I never thought about it until lately, but I think that if that wasn’t the case, I wouldn’t live in Sweden now, but somewhere else. That’s just weird hahaha! If I get the opportunity to move abroad I would absolutely catch it! Directly!
Maybe I should add: I liked raisins a lot. But my dentist forbade me to eat anything sweet because I had a lot of caries. This meant I couldn’t eat, anything sweet like corn flakes, jam, candy, cookies, juice..or stuff like crackers, biscuits, cake, sweet fruit.. NOTHING! As if that would make sense (maybe it would, but kind of a stupid idea), I don’t think so. I guess that’s why I don’t like dentists because he pulled out two of my teeth, and then when I was 16 they pulled out 4 more teeth. I’m never going to forget that. Ha ha! That was the story. :)
To end this: Sun Maid raisins made me want something more. To do something I had never done so I [can] could get something I never [have]had gotten. That was not grammatically correct haha!
It Was Not Better Back Then. But We Had Fun!
22 Saturday Jan 2011
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Sometimes it’s fun to look through old pictures, haha! In some way it feels good, because it was not better back then lol! So thank god that things are changing :) I don’t have a picture of it, but god I remember the ugly overalls we were wearing, not to talk about the ugly fleece jackets AND hats! – Multi-colored! I thank god that I never used those horrible metal ring things that people put on their arms over the shirt sleeves, then you should like put it on your upper arm so the sleeve became like fluffy.. ahhh! Horrible!
I have many cousins, the oldest one is 47 ( if I remember it correctly, he had his birthday the other day. My aunt gave all her kids names that starts with M, very creative :). My other aunt did the same thing, it was just she chose “dubbel-namn” like Ann-Sofie.. Anyways once or twice a year one of my aunts came to us with a big plastic bag with clothes that my cousins had grown out of, it was like Christmas.. I so wanted to be like them, and I loved the smell that came out of that bag because my aunt always used (use) Ariel washing powder (still today, she is always buying the same). The only problem was that my cousin was so much thinner than me lol! In one of the pictures I’m wearing my cousins clothes, and shoes. Now I wish I didn’t haha!
From first class through third class, we learned a lot about Jesus. I have to admit that I never liked it, we always had to say prayers and I always thought about something else when we did, because I was so angry we HAD to do it.. What is so funny with that is, if I’m in a similar situation today, I do the same thing. That is so childish! Every morning we sat in a circle on the floor and sung psalms, my gosh it feels like the 1800′s. I think that was forbidden, or at least today it is.. I think.. if it’s not a Christian school. The teacher always told me, Do NOT abuse your god’s name (translated word by word). Every Friday we had a competition because they wanted us to be able to read fast, we were alone with one of the teacher, his name was Ulf, and we got a piece of paper with words written in columns, then he said start, and you should read as fast as you could. I thought it was boring so I never cared. Then when we were done he took a drop or two from the bottle he had in his chest pocket, I MEAN HOW HOW HOW!! could that man work there!???!! LOL! AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT?? When I cleaned out my apartment in July I found the text books we used, and they were written DURING THE 70′S, I found a book from 1974.. it’s not weird that I didn’t know the same things as the other children.. haha!
This is a translation of the Poem I wrote in second calss:
I like all kinds of cars,
Opel, golf, Volvo and Saab (Golf is not a brand stupid!)
I like them the best, more than a horse.
Horses are cute, but cars they are best. (I wonder how much the teacher laughed at me!!!)
I’ll now stop before I get way too nostalgic!
I Have Bought an Oven and a Vacuum Cleaner. It Feels Good.
17 Monday Jan 2011
In my apartment, there is no oven. Admit that it sucks. Anyways, it’s no idea to complain, so I bought one. First I went to Jula, but they had only one to choose from, and that oven was not good, besides most of the things they sell there are just crap. Now I was a bit more daring and bought one online, this means I have no idea how this products really looks like before I get it. The good thing is that it will be delivered to the local grocery store, what is less good is that it’s pretty far away since I have to walk, so I really hope it’s not too heavy. It’s this kind of table oven, not as good as a normal one, but I hope it works, I don’t like to eat store-bought bread. It was not very expensive, but absolutely not cheap.
The second thing I bought was a vacuum cleaner. What I don’t like with this is that I actually HAVE ONE, but my parents have it! Might sound strange, but this is how it is. When I moved to the “corridor” where I lived before, I had to leave all my things at my mom and dad’s place because I had no place for everything. They realized it was a good vacuum cleaner, WHY WOULDN’T it be! I like good stuff, haha! It was silent, blue, and amazingly good! So when I moved here I thought I would get it back, but no. I have my TV so I’m happy – I thought it’s less expensive to buy a vacuum cleaner than a TV.. Then I bought an Electrolux ergorapido, but it was lame! hahaha! This one, works, but gosh I’ll become death! Lucky me, my apartment is as big as a bathroom, lol! When I called my mom and said I bought one, she didn’t exactly become happy, but I like my carpet vacuumed! The question is: Why would I wait, when I could do something about it.. Just a note: I was so angry that I took the bus to buy it, I had to change buses and one of them was late – meant I had to wait outside for almost 30 minutes, in misty rainy weather + I had to carry that crazy heavy box with me.. Must have been a funny sight! Anyways, now I can’t wait until I get the oven! I hope it’s working properly otherwise I have to sell it to someone else LOL! AND I think I might call my cousin and ask if he can’t pick it up at the grocery store :) (that’s like 400m away haha!) THAT IS WHAT LA FAMILIA IS FOR :) That vacuum cleaner is just so ugly!
A Lesson Learned: What Life Has Taught Me So Far
15 Saturday Jan 2011
It might sound simple. Maybe it is. Suddenly I caught myself in an awkward moment. I realized something. Haha! And in all of that awkwardness was a funny relief, and fear, because I guess this is a process, and you’ll go through this more than once.
What was akward was that I think I for a long time thought I knew pretty much, but in the reality I don’t. That’s pretty simple. I’m blushing!
I think that you, when you are younger think the world revolves around you, but in the reality it revolves around the sun. Isn’t that funny? The funny thing with this is that I think that it’s completely impossible to understand it before you’re there.
What is the solution to all this? Maybe it’s humbleness. I can’t say that I’m the most stubborn person on earth, but thank god I don’t have much money haha! because that is absolutely something that has stopped many of my good ideas during the years haha!
Anyways I guess that it’s good to in some way know what you know, and be pretty sure about what you don’t know. If that’s the case you can keep your eyes open for new things to learn and be able to catch opportunities that can lead you forward.
I guess I have to learn from the baby-version of myself – keep your eyes open girl!
Day 17 – A photo of you and your family.
25 Monday Oct 2010
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