Dad in good form

Yesterday I visited dad, hadn't seen him for a week and a half. It was so good to see him again and it was a happy dad that I got to see. Mam and I chatted away to him and I think he was glad that we kept him company, he seemed to be in good form. Well as good as it can get. When it was time to go he didn't want us to leave. Poor little dad..

Eric Saade

I was watching Eurovision on Saturday night with my cousins like many other people in Europe. After Eric Saade and Sweden had given Europe the Swedish votes, I get a text message from an Irish friend saying "Oh my god d swedish fella on d eurovision is a RIDE". I was laughing when I received that text. Today I read "Aftonbladet" and apparently a lot of people around Europe liked his appearance, lets see if he will release his song "Manboy" in Europe :)

Sunny Monday

This morning I had to get up at 5:30 to get ready and go to the dentist, I had booked an appointment for 8:00 and this time I wasn't gonna miss it ;) Everything looked fine and now I'm good for at least another year!

Working away today, have a lot of reports to create and need to catch up on all my emails since I've been away from the office a lot lately. This evening I'm meeting up with Monika (haven't seen her for ages) and we're heading to Mälarpaviljongen to get a bite to eat. Can't wait to sit out in the sun and to catch up on all her gossip :)

Mother's Day

Since today is Mother's Day I will definitely spend some time with my mam. I stayed over at my brother's place last night and just got up actually, must have been the wine that made me so sleepy ;) Gonna head over to Täby Centrum in a few minutes, we already have a pressie for mam but wanna have a look around anyway and planning to pay Panduro another visit.

My brother is away on something with his hockey team so he's not back until this afternoon. When he's back though, we're gonna visit dad first and then heading over to mam for dinner. It's been a while since I spent some time with the family so I'm looking forward to it. It was really nice to see my cousins last night again as well, we always have so much fun together!!

Lots to do

Woke up at 9:30 this morning, so nice to sleep until you wake up :) Got up and made myself a healthy smoothie with vanilla yoghurt, an apple, rasperries and a banana - yum! Have been sorting out my photos for a while this morning but it's taking soooo long but at least I'm making progress. Now it's time to go for a run and then I need to go into town. Tried on a gorgeous long dress in Zara yesterday when I was shopping with Jessica, didn't buy it then but haven't been able to stop thinking about since so I think I'm gonna go for it today. I also need to tidy up my apartment but don't know if I'll have time before it's time to head over to my brother in Täby. If not I will just have to do it when I come home later on tomorrow evening. Wish the weekends were longer, there's so much I wanna do!

Looking forward to this weekend

Finally Friday, woohoo! I've been so tired all of this week so I'm really glad it's the weekend, I'm definitely gonna try to catch up on my sleep tomorrow and on Sunday. Tonight I'm gonna take it quite easy, Jessica is heading into town to go shopping after work and she asked me if I wanted to join her. You know me when it comes to shopping, of course I couldn't say no to that but I don't know if it's such a good idea since I should try to keep my money this month...we'll see what happens later :S

Tomorrow my brother is having me, Kim & Lisa and Adam & Sofie over for dinner. I didn't know Adam and Sofie were joining us but was really happy when I learnt that :) Haven't seen them for such a long time so I'm sure we have a lot to catch up on tomorrow. Jens asked me to come over to him earlier in the afternoon to help him, but before I do that I want to go for a run.

On Sunday it is Mother's Day here in Sweden so we're having dinner with mam in Täby Kyrkby. Gonna try to go for a run or a long walk before that again and I want to visit my dad at the rehabilitation centre as well.

Happy Friday everyone! :)

Scrapbooking

Like I told you earlier in this blog, Emmeli is such an inspirational friend. She does a lot of scrapbooking and is so creative. I love all her layouts and after visiting her last weekend, I felt like trying it myself. I went to Panduro Hobby after work today and bought some stuff and now I've created my first layout :) It doesn't come close to her wonderful creations but I thought it wasn't too bad as a first try - or!?

Dad

Dad rang me today and we had a lovely chat, he seems to be in a good mood even though the situation is the way it is. He has now left the hospital and is in a rehabilitation centre in Gribbylund where he gets help when he needs to. Mam goes to see him almost every day and I definitely wanna go and see him this weekend when I'm going out to Täby anyway.

This weekend I'm heading out to my brother for dinner. Kim, Lisa and little Benjamin are coming as well. God I miss Benjamin so much, can't wait to see him :)

Lovely hairstyle

Took a little power nap when I came home from work as I was soooo tired, hopefully I'll be able to stay up for a few hours now before I go to bed. I meant to go out for a walk as the weather is beautiful today but I'll just have to do it another day. Thinking about going out for a run tomorrow after work instead!

I'd love to be able to put my hair up in a nice way but I just don't know how to and I don't like the shape of my face, therefore I almost always wear my hair down. I saw a lovely pic of Frida Fahrman recently and her hair looks gorgeous, that is just the way I would like to be able to put it up. You can see the pic below:

Butterfly ring

I've just come home from a very nice dinner with the Nordic CS leadership team, our manager brought us to Stråket bistro in Solna where we enjoyed superb starters and main courses. We finished off with dessert and coffee at our manager's place which was only a few hundred metres away from the restaurant. Now I'm really tired and so it's time to hit the pillow.

Wore my new butterfly ring from H&M today, I'm in love with it :) I love butterflies! I also received my dress that I ordered some time ago, haven't tried it on yet but I hope it fits. If it does, I will wear it to work tomorrow. Haven't been to the office since Thursday last week so it will be nice to see all my colleagues again. Good night everyone!

Dinner tonight

Today is the last day of the first SAP course, I'm gonna come back for two more days next week again. Learning a lot so I really enjoy it :)

The sun is back and I'm loving it, sat out for lunch again and the heat from the sun was so enjoyable. Later on I'm going out for dinner with my work colleagues, don't know where we're heading but I'm looking forward to it. Had a light lunch to save myself for this evening ;)

Kyssjohanna

Kyssjohanna is a website from where you can order lovely jewellery, especially their bracelets are really nice :) It is great for presents as well, you can have a look at Kyssjohanna.

You can see below a bracelet that I've ordered from there:

Rainy day

Today is a very cold rainy day, I want the summer weather to be back here in Stockholm! Overslept this morning and woke up at 8:30, my course starts in Alvik at 9:00. I jumped out of bed to get ready and actually managed to be here in Alvik 9:03, not bad ;)

Last night myself and Maria booked hotels in Venice, Florence and Rimini and we also booked a wine tasting trip to the Chianti-region outside Florence - can't wait for that! We still need to book hotels for when we visit Lake Garda and perhaps some boat trip or a mountain trip for while we're there. I'm so looking forward to it.

Tonight I'm just gonna chill out and sort things out at home. Want to get photos developed and need to organise them into different maps, haven't done that for a very long time so now it is time.

Lunch break is now over so time to dig into SAP again :)

Thanks Emmeli

Thanks Emmeli for a brilliant weekend in Vrigstad! I always feel so inspired and energized after spending time with you, you are such a good friend and mean so much to me ♥ ♥ ♥

Not enough time

Have just come home from a run around "Lillsjön", ran about 5 kms today. I was really looking forward to heading out today and I'm feeling great now. After a shower and dinner I'm now gonna walk over to Maria's, haven't seen her for a while! We're gonna plan our Italy trip a bit more and book some hotels hopefully :) Wish there was more time in the evening, there are so many things that I need/want to do. Will see how late it will be tonight, but I definitely need to look into my finances and pay some bills before I go to bed tonight!

Lunch out in the sun

Just back from a lunch break with the other participants of the SAP course. We sat out in the sun today and I had a lovely sushi meal :) Feeling really tired today even though I didn't have to get up until 8:45 this morning but I think it is from the driving last night. Got home in 3 hrs & 45 mins which wasn't bad at all, but you do get tired. I'm not used to having 3 screaming kids around me for 2 days either, might be because of that ;)

Gonna upload a few pics from the weekend later but now it is time to do some exercises of configuration in SAP!

Having a lovely time

I'm so enjoying my stay here in Vrigstad, we're having a lovely time together. Yesterday was a really nice summer's day and we took a little walk over to Emmeli's parents. We sat out in the sun in their backgarden and were served ice cream and coffee :)

Last night we watched a dvd, "Step up", after having salmon and a bulgur salad for dinner and the most important thing of all - red wine! ;) The girls had fallen asleep in the afternoon so they were watching the film with us as they didn't wanna go to bed early, but after a while Allis fell asleep in Emmeli's lap and Antonia soon followed. We stayed up till 2 o'clock chatting away, it was such a relaxing and enjoyable day altogether.

We don't have any major plans for today but later on we're gonna go up to the house that Emmeli and Andreas are going to rent this summer. I'm really curious about it so it will be nice to have a look :)

Finally in Vrigstad :)

Left Stockholm yesterday afternoon after my SAP course in Alvik, the weather was really nice so I put on a pair of shorts and hopped in the car. Left about 4pm and was really happy I could leave early as I thought that my SAP course would not finish until 5pm but we finished at 3pm already. But then I realised that it was the weekend so a lot of people were gonna be on the road at that time. I was right, took me about an hour to get to Södertälje! Anyway after Södertälje I could start going at a normal pace so I was driving along nicely. Everything went well until I got to Jönköping. I had said to Emmeli that I was going to be in Vrigstad around 8pm and I would have been if it wasn't for the fact that I just kept going on and didn't realise that I was driving towards Gothenburg. I should have been driving towards Helsingborg of course - woops! Couldn't do anything else but turn around when I realised my mistake, think I lost about an hour due to that but finally I arrived in Vrigstad at 9pm.

Was greeted by a big hug and two shy little girls hiding behind Emmeli (Antonia and her cousin Allis) ;) When the girls had gone to sleep we had some prawns and rosé wine and had a long girlie talk, it's so nice to be here and spend time with Emmeli again!

Today the sun is shining again and Emmeli has just left to do a make up job. I'm in her apartment blogging but I'm gonna get ready now so I'm ready when she's back. It's so nice and relaxing down here, like it a lot :)

Sweet summer weather

I love the summer weather that we currently have in Sweden, over 20 degrees every day certainly makes you feel better :) I decided to put on my new sandals from Kappahl, they're cute huh!? I've had a workshop for the full day today as well but during our lunch break I sneaked out to the terrace again and sat out in the sun for about half an hour. When I came back in, my chest was a bit red so I think it is time to start putting on some sun cream to avoid any burning ;) Tried the new Solero ice cream while I sat our there and really like it!

Tomorrow I'm gonna attend a SAP course in Alvik, I'm really excited about it. I hope I'll be able to understand it all, we'll go through a lot of configuration within the SD module. Have to go to bed earlyish today so that I will be full of energy tomorrow, it's probably gonna be a long day!

When the course is finished for tomorrow, I'm gonna drive down to my lovely friend Emmeli in Vrigstad. Can't wait to see herself and her daughter Antonia, it has been quite a while since we saw each other. Looking forward to a girlie weekend with them and we can catch up on everything :)

My dad had his knee operation today and I think everything went well. Mam went to the hospital to see him in the afternoon so I'm hoping to hear more later on about how he's doing. Better let you go for now but see you soon!

Last stop Pisa

Today I booked flight tickets home from Italy as well, we're heading home from Pisa so Pisa will be our last stop on our trip. Heading home on Saturday 7th of August which will give us 10 lovely days in beautiful Italy. Getting so excited now! :)

Holiday in Italy

After a few really intense weeks in work, I can't help but dreaming about our holiday in Italy that we're planning for this summer. I booked flight tickets to Venice today as well, we're heading off on Wednesday the 28th of July and plan to stay in Italy for about 10 days. We've talked about visiting a few places while we're over there and we're thinking of Venice, Verona, lake Garda, Rimini perhaps or another resort along the coast to get a few relaxing days at the beach (also got a tip to visit San Marino while we're in Rimini) and after that we wanna go to Toscana and Florence perhaps.

Gonna meet up with Maria on Monday next week to book hotels and trips etc for the various places we're visiting. If anyone has any tips, please let me know :)

Lost

I feel lost without one of my Thomas Sabo rings! Had to go to Kista Centrum today after work and hand the ring back to the shop where I bought it since the stone of the ring is loose. They're probably gonna replace it but it'll take 2-3 weeks :(

Yay I did it

Finally I pushed myself out to the running tracks :) And I must say it feels really good! I had a really bad headache when I went out and throughout my first lap around "Lillsjön" but slowly it started to fade away and now it's nearly gone :D I have to do this more often!

Running or no running

I don't really know what is going on but for about 2 weeks now, I've hardly done any running at all and I haven't been to the gym either. The weather is so nice right now that I don't want to go to the gym, but for some reason I find it hard to motivate myself to go out running..

I've had a long day in work, sat in a workshop all day from 9-17 with hardly any breaks except for lunch. I've got a big headache so I reckon a shorter run is in order but here I am in the sofa trying to talk myself into this. I come up with all sorts of excuses even though I know how good I'll feel afterwards.

Spoke with dad and they're probably gonna operate his knee some time tomorrow, his knee is apparently crushed. I hope all goes well and that he won't be in too much pain, I think he's slowly realising now that his injuries aren't minor and that he won't be able to move around like he used to for a long time!

GB Glace Wedding

Had a lovely time in Gothenburg at the weekend with my colleagues and their families, unfortunately we left the sunny weather in Stockholm. The weekend included:

♥ a lot of laughter
♥ ice cream (that melted on the train)
♥ rehearsal dinner
♥ wine and (free) drinks ;)
♥ being served "Dagens" in beer glasses, must be the Gothenburg way??
♥ magic
♥ Clovve and Clovina
♥ a sneezing man at Burger King (he he)
♥ hotel breakfast - yum
♥ chatting with Erik Grönwall in the elevator
♥ running down the stairs from the 11th(!) floor after losing my key to the hotel room
♥ children everywhere
♥ THE WEDDING
♥ roller coasters (and a screaming Lena going on Ra-balder)
♥ an empty Nivå
♥ a crowded Lounge
♥ very little sleep!

Visit to the hospital

Just back from the hospital, went there straight after work to visit my dad who got an open elbow fracture and a broken leg/knee after a terrible fall from the roof of the summer house. My parents were there this weekend and had a great time until he climbed up on the roof to check on the chimney yesterday. When he was going back down, the ladder slipped and fell to the ground and so did my dad..

I was terrified when my brother rang me to tell me about it but luckily, he ONLY broke some bones and is doing fine under the circumstances. I don't want to think about what could have happened..

They operated the elbow last night and now he's waiting for a time slot when they can fix his leg/knee. Hopefully everything will be ok in the end but it will probably take a while before he's back to his normal self and I don't even know if they will give him crutches since it will be difficult to walk on them when he has one of his arms in plaster. My poor little dad!

To Gothenburg

I'm just packing my last things now and getting ready to go to Gothenburg for the wedding of the year ;) GB-gubben (the ice cream fella) is getting married! A train is taking us down to Gothenburg and tonight they're organising a rehearsal dinner. After that we're gonna hit the town!

Tomorrow the wedding is on and we're all gonna be there to support him in Liseberg. I really really hope it won't be raining but the weather forecast didn't look too promising :( It's gonna be a great event anyhow, I know it. Have a great weekend everyone!

Never Gonna Give Up - concert in Berwaldhallen

Found this clip on youtube, it's from our concert in Berwaldhallen :)

So nice to be off work

Just got up, woke up about an hour ago but wanted to stay in bed for a bit longer so that's what I did :) I think I needed to catch up on my sleep a little bit since Wednesday night.

Today, myself and Maria are going to try to plan our trip to Italy. We're heading over to Maria's sister for some tips and one of Maria's colleagues have also sent us an email with tips. We'll see where we end up but I think we will need to plan our trip quite well since we want to go around and see different places rather than just lying on the beach for a week.

Went out for a long walk yesterday with Camilla which was really nice. It was so much warmer yesterday but it started raining while we were walking. Luckily Camilla had brought an umbrella so we were fine.

Last night I went to Scandic Malmen at Medborgarplatsen for a couple of drinks, left at around 11 so it was not a very late night. Today I'm just gonna take it easy and start packing for the GB Glace wedding in Gothenburg. We're heading off tomorrow, can't wait. I really hope the weather will be nice, would be such a pity if it was raining!