Frog

Ordered a frog ring the other day from Style by Tyra, I reckon Lena will be jealous ;)

Bromma Blocks

Went to Bromma Blocks today straight after work as I wanted to check out the new shopping centre near Bromma airport. They have quite a few shops open now and a lot of different cafés as well, I like it! I could easily walk there, I'd say it would take about 25-30 mins. I wasn't gonna buy anything but found a bed sheet in Åhlens that I have been looking for. I also bought a nail kit from a girl that almost jumped on me when I came downstairs, she sold all kinds of Premier Dead Sea products from a stand outside the shops. I tried on a few more products after I had bought the nail kit (that included a special buffing block which is supposed to be really good and using that protects your nails - my god they make it sound so good) and couldn't stop myself from buying a facial scrub as well, woops. I'm hopeless! ;)

These boots are made for walking

Thought I'd put up a picture of the boots that I've now decided to keep. I tend to like them better and better the more I try them on. But according to me these boots are not dark brown:

Photo books

Told you that I ordered two photo books a few weeks ago and I went to pick them up last week as soon as I had come back from Norway. I'm really happy with them :) Made a few mistakes with the first one but there are a lot of nice photos in that photo book anyway so it doesn't really matter.

Run on the threadmill

Good day in work today, got a lot done :) Had a lovely lunch with Christoffer, Robin and Jessica in the new pasta place. It's always nice to get out for a while during the day. Finished up at around 17:30 and went to the gym straight away for a run :)

Now it's relaxing time in the sofa, I'm gonna make a cup of tea in a few minutes. Reckon the tea season has just about started ;)

Last night I discovered something just before I went to bed and it made me really happy. Slept well after that! :)

Lovely evening at Östervägen, Solna

Today after work I went over to Lena's place in Solna. We had decided to go to the cinema together but changed our minds and stayed in instead. It was so nice to be able to catch up with her properly and we had a yummy pizza sitting on the couch in front of the telly with blankets over our legs :)

Bought pizzas from a place nearby, I think we had to walk the long distance of 100 metres ;) Both of us ordered fillet steak pizzas but got them without fillet steak, ha ha. They only seemed to have fillets of pork in the house but we were happy anyway. Back home again we talked a lot and watched "Idol" on TV4 before it was time for me to drive home.

I don't know why I still do it but I always go looking for parking slots on my street (as you do!!). The thing is that it's almost impossible to find a slot nowadays, even for a tiny little Corsa that would fit into most places. Had to go to a street further down where there's always parking, but I should have learnt by now to go there straight away. Good night people!

Brrr

Brrr it's getting much colder now, it was really windy when I left the choir practice this evening and I just wanted to get inside again. Have just had a nice warm shower and now I'm gonna jump into bed in a few minutes.

I've been supporting a little girl in Cape Verde called Djamila for a couple of years now and when I came home today I had a lovely letter from her waiting for me. I must send a letter back to her, might use my scrapbooking skills to create something nice to send over ;)

Monday nearly over

Have had a good day at work today, I have gone through my 300+ emails and I'm now down to 74. On top of that I have some sort of overview of things to do ;) Earlier on this morning, I got to see photos of Conn for the first time. Ciaran had put some up on FB and then he showed me a video of Conn in action. He's just the cutest little baby, I think I'm in love!

I'm soon gonna leave the office to go to Norra real for some singing again. I missed last week since I was in Norway so I'm really looking forward to it now. I'm gonna try to go to bed very early this evening so that I can get up earlier tomorrow morning. I have a meeting at 9:30 but need about 2 hours before that to do some analysis in the system. Hopefully I'll be able to do it in time so that I'm fully prepared. Tomorrow consists of two 2-hour meetings, would have been enough with one in the same day. Oh well!

My boots

On Friday I went to pick up my Björn Borg boots that I ordered a couple of weeks ago. I was so excited about it (sad, I know)! Collected them in Alvik and as soon as I came back to the car I opened the box to view my perfect boots, but when I saw them I was like "These are not the boots I ordered!!!" :(

Brought them home with me and I have tried them on several times this weekend. The thing is that the colour is nowhere near dark brown, I would rather call them light grey/brown. They fit my feet perfectly but the upper part of them are quite loose. They're different than any other boots I've had and I must say that after thinking about it for a couple of days, I quite like them anyway. My first thought was that I was gonna send them back but after some consideration, I've decided that I'm gonna keep them!

Sunday evening

Right now I'm sitting in the couch after a long nice shower. I went to the bodypump class once again at 5pm but I didn't use as much weights as the last time because I don't want to end up not being able to walk again ;)

Gonna watch "Ensam mamma söker" now and the "Irene Huss" film later on. It's a nice ending to a busy week. Tomorrow it's Monday again and I have a lot to do in work.

My parents are travelling to Greece tomorrow, I'm not jealous at all :S I hope everything goes well and that they'll have a nice sunny week. Safe flight over, mam and dad!

Apoliva Body Soufflé

Would love to try the Apoliva body soufflé that they sell in the pharmacy. My skin is screaming for moisture right now and I love trying new body lotions/creams. The next time I'm buying something I'm gonna try this one out.

Broadband is working again

I'm so happy right now as my broadband is working again, Telia was right to say that the problem was the fact that I had such an old modem. The new modem is working very well and it has a built in wireless that I can use as well. Happy days, now I don't have to bring my work laptop home every day to be able to surf at home :)

Today I'm gonna take it easy but I'm also planning to go to the bodypump class at 17:00 again. I'm kind of dreading it but I think it is for the best to just go, hopefully my muscles won't be as sore as they were the last time... I wanna be able to walk! ;)

Haven't done any scrapbooking since last weekend so I think I'm gonna do that for a while today, but then I will have to bring it all out from my neat little boxes again and the table in the sitting room is going to look like a mess - oh well!

Lovely Saturday

Met up with Loppan at 12 o'clock today and we went straight to Mosebacke for a jazz brunch. I have never had the brunch up there but it was really nice and I enjoyed all the food ;) They had so much to choose from and it was nice and relaxing to hear a jazz band play while we were eating. Loppan and I were catching up propely since we haven't seen each other since the start of the summer. I always enjoy talking to Loppan :) Herself and Niklas got engaged this summer and I got to see her lovely ring as well. After a couple of hours at Mosebacke we decided to have a look in the shops so we went back to T-centralen and walked around for a while before she had to leave to go to work. I stayed in town for another while and bought a nice pair of Craft tights, they do really good functional sportswear. The inside has a "fleecy" feel to it so they are the warmer kind. Will be perfect for when I'm going skiing this winter ;) I also bought a fleece jacket in pink that is slightly tinner than the ones I have so it will also be perfect for a skiing trip.

Tonight I'm just chilling out with a glass of red wine. I'm gonna watch "Här är ditt liv" again and then I might put on a film before I go to bed. I'm gonna try to get my new modem from Telia working, fingers crossed and it will solve my famous broadband problem.

Conn

On Thursday Ciaran and Kathrina welcomed Conn into this world :) Everything went well and they're all fine. I hope I get to see him sooner rather than later. Lena wants us to go to Dublin for a weekend soon so perhaps we can pay the happy family a visit then. Congratulations, I'm delighted for you guys!

Brunch @ Mosebacke

The sun is shining this wonderful Saturday morning and I'm getting ready to head into town to meet up with Loppan. Haven't seen her since beginning of June when we went to the Kiss concert together at Stadion so it will be nice to catch up with her. We're meeting up at Slussen and our plan is to go to Mosebacke to have some brunch :) Yummy!

We will rock you

I'm just back from a lovely evening with my family. Wet met up at "Helene's krog" at St:Eriksplan after work today and enjoyed a fantastic dinner as always, you just can't get disappointed in this restaurant. They give you very big portions so mam and I decided to share a starter and a main course and that was a good idea because we got plenty to eat anyway :)



After the dinner we went to Cirkus, Stockholm, to watch the Queen musical "We will rock you" and I really enjoyed the show. It was a perfect way to spend Friday evening.

I'm really tired now so time to go to bed. Tomorrow I'm meeting up with Loppan for brunch, I think we're heading to Mosebacke!

Home

I'm now finally home safe and sound. Everything went smoothly this time and it feels great to be home again. Watching "Idol" on telly at the moment, I love just chilling out when you've been away for a while.

Before we left the office there was talks about us having to work this weekend, I really hope we won't have to. When you work as much as we do during the week, it's so important to be off at the weekend. Oh well, it doesn't happen often but hopefully they will solve the problem they're having now so that we can enjoy Saturday and Sunday without having to turn on the computer.

Looking forward to tomorrow when myself, my brother and my parents are going to see "We will rock you" at Cirkus :)

Sweets

Yay, Gabi just brought two bowls of sweets to us. It is needed while we're doing all the testing :)

We're gonna leave in 1 1/2 hours to take the airport express train to the airport. I'm looking forward to going home now, hope there won't be any delays this evening. We were delayed the last time we went home and also when we were going to Oslo on Monday. Fingers crossed and we'll get home on time!

Hard Rock Cafe

Have had a great dinner at Hard Rock Cafe this evening, we were a gang of around 20 people that enjoyed the food and the atmosphere in this place. Sat beside little L and we had a laugh, also spoke a lot to the Norway boss and he wants us to come over soon again so that we can go hiking together in the mountains :)

Today was a better day in work, thank God. Progressed a bit anyway but I'm still dealing with issues that seem to be never ending. Oh well, lets see what happens tomorrow.

Tomorrow evening we're going back to Stockholm again after 4 brilliant days in Oslo!

Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna

Still sore

Today the pain was even worse and I woke up several times last night whenever I turned around in my bed. When I got up this morning I was so stiff that every single move was a challenge and this has been going on throughout the day. I can't believe that you can get so sore from training - it's dangerous ;) My colleagues have slagged me all day, they say things like "tant Katja", "granny Katja" or "Hey guys - wait for the old lady who is walking down the stairs holding on to the sidebar"! They're mean, it's not funny! :(

Pizza

Had a terrible day in work today, nothing I tested worked and it felt like I was taking several steps backwards rather than going forward :( Hopefully tomorrow will be better and I can close some of the issues.

Went to Aker Brygge after work and had dinner in a lovely little Italian restaurant by the water, it was so nice and cosy in there. Ordered the nicest pizza ever with parma ham, pine nuts and rocket salad - yum yum :) The only thing that wasn't so good about it was that it cost 179 NOK - that is one expensive pizza!

Sitting in my hotel room now, eating sweets :) The room was so cold that I complained about it in the reception earlier on and when we came back from the dinner they had put in a heater for me, hopefully it'll get warmer in a few minutes.

Ford Fiesta

Ok I'm not gonna buy a new car but if I was buying a new car, I would probably buy the new Ford Fiesta in the colour below. Love it ;)

Fun day at work

It has been a brilliant day at work with a lot of laughter :) The passport incident, the guy who is talking to himself (very angrily as well), Peter answering the phone by saying "Tjingeling", Maria getting lost at "andre etasje" and so much more ;) Lying in my bed now after having the most relaxing shower. We'll see if I can get out of bed tomorrow morning, otherwise Lena will have to come in and help me ;)

Sore

Oh my God, my body is so sore from the bodypump class last night that I can hardly walk. It is so painful to get up or to sit down and it hurts every time I move at all :S I hope it will go away but I reckon I will have to live with this for a few days now.

Got up at 5:30 this morning since the taxi was collecting me at 06:15. Picked up Maria and Lena on the way and then we met up with Christoffer at the airport. Have to tell you something funny; we queued up to the security check and there you obviously have to show your boarding pass. When Christoffer was going to show his boarding pass he looked at his passport and realised that he had brought his girlfriend´s passport instead of his own (LOL)! I won't forget the look on his face ;) I said to him, don't worry an ID will do and he walked through. We got on the plane all of us, well that is what we thought, but when we turned around we saw that Christoffer wasn't with us. Maria rang him and he told us that they wouldn't let him on the plane as his ID had expired 2 months ago. Poor guy!!!

He rang the travel agency and re-booked his flight so now he has finally arrived in Oslo and we're meeting up with him at the hotel later. It is now 17:20 and I'm getting really tired. We have decided we're going out to Ya ya for dinner which is a Thai restaurant that is very similiar to Koh Phangang in Stockholm, looking forward to it!

Nail varnish

I love the nail varnish that I bought when Maria and I were in Florence this summer, it's from Kiko - make up milano. I bought one in a gold/brown colour and also this one which is more of a rusty red/brown colour. I've used it a lot in the past few weeks and it goes with most of my clothes :)

Bodypump

Shit, my body is going to be soooo sore tomorrow! The bodypump class was a good one, but it made me realise that I don't have much muscles ;) It was tough, but feels great afterwards. I'm definitely going again!

Packing my bag for Norway, have to get up quite early tomorrow since the flight is at 8:15 from Arlanda. Have had the time to do most of what I wanted to do today but there are some things that I still need to take care of when I get back from Oslo. Want to watch tv tonight to see who wins the election.

Hope all of you have had a good weekend, I've really enjoyed mine but tomorrow it's back to business again!

Benjamin layout

I had said that I wouldn't do any scrapbooking today but I just can't help myself. It's like a drug, I'm addicted. Created a layout with a photo of Benjamin that I absolutely looooove. I'm gonna start putting in my layouts in the photobook that Jessica gave me for my birthday and Benjamin is gonna be on the first page :)



Hope I get to see Benjamin soon, I miss him loads.x

Swedish election

Had a lovely evening last night at Maria's, we were watching two films together. Got home at around 00:30 and went to bed straight away as I was really tired. Woke up at around 9:30 this morning but stayed in bed for another hour :)

I never cleaned my apartment yesterday so that is definitely on the agenda for today. As well as that I'm gonna vote in the Swedish election. I hope that everybody out there takes their time to vote today!

Later on I'm gonna go to the gym again, this time Maria comes with me as well. There is a body pump class at 17:00 today and I'm really looking foward to it. Did a 5 km run on the threadmill yesterday as well but I will probably not be able to exercise until Friday next week since I'll be in Oslo Monday til Thursday.

Later on it's time to pack my travel bag again, I'm getting good at it so it shouldn't take such a long time. I will probably need to do some work as well so I'm prepared for our last intense week of UAT.

Time to head to the gym

If I don't head to the gym NOW, then I won't go at all today and I promised myself that I would. I'm looking forward to a run on the threadmill, I need it badly. I don't know why but I always find it difficult to just go, but once I'm there I really enjoy it. It's raining outside so I will have to run to the car as well since it's parked on Ekbacksvägen which is a few minutes walk from here. After my work out at the gym, I'm gonna head home and enjoy a loooooong warm shower and I'm gonna try out some new fabulous products that we have launched recently :)

Gotta love the weekend

Really enjoyed the film Inception last night and it was good to meet up with the girls :) The film was brilliant and so were the actors! Maria joined me on my way home so we picked up the car at Valhallavägen and drove home. When I got home I jumped into the couch and started watching "Här är ditt liv" with Kjell Bergqvist. I really like that programme. Finished watching it this morning and I shed a few tears when he shared some heartbreaking stories.

Gonna clean up today and hopefully I'll have time to go to the gym before I meet up with Maria tonight. We're gonna have a cosy dvd-night together, it was ages ago since the last time. Want to find time for some scrapping as well, but I'm actually running out of material to work with now :(

Cinema with the girls

Friday is finally here and I couldn't be happier. I'm so tired again after a week's work so I'm really looking forward to just chilling out this weekend. Tonight I'm heading to the cinema with the girls; Louise, Maria and Jessica. We're gonna see Inception and according to my brother, this is a very good film! It starts in about an hour and then myself and Jessica talked about going somewhere for dinner while we're in town!

Make you feel my love

When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love

When the evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one there to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love

I know you haven’t made your mind up yet
But I would never do you wrong
I’ve known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong

I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue
I’d go crawling down the avenue
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
To make you feel my love

The storms are raging on the rollin’ sea
And on the highway of regret
The winds of change are blowing wild and free
You ain’t seen nothing like me yet

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn’t do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love

Best one yet

Created another layout tonight of myself and Maria since I wasn't too happy with the one from last night. I liked the colours on it but it didn't turn out the way I wanted to. Decided to give it another try tonight and I think this is the best one I've made so far :) What do you think?

Happy

Yesterday a colleague of mine from Skåne started talking to me on the communicator in work and asked me if I had received my boots that I ordered last weekend yet. She said she likes to follow my blog and she had ordered the same pair of boots in grey :) It's so nice to hear that people like your blog, it makes it much more enjoyable to write.

Me, myself and I

The photos I ordered to be developed showed up yesterday :) When I received the photos I looked up the ones from the photo shoot at the Studio and decided to put them up on the wall in the hall. I've had other photos in that frame for a long time now so I thought it was time for a change :)

Had a good day in work today, but have a lot I need to do tomorrow since I've fallen behind. Before I go to bed tonight I wanna do a bit of scrapbooking again, went to Panduro after work and bought a few tools for my new hobby!