Beach 2010

Today I went to the gym for the first time in a looooong time. I have been doing some running lately which is great, but I haven't been doing any weights which I think is necessary to get a balance. I did 30 mins on the crosstraininer and then some leg exercises and feel great now. Tomorrow myself and Lena are going to the gym again to do some arm exercises. Beach 2010 - here we come! ;)

Since Midnattsloppet, the 10 km run in Stockholm, is only a couple of months away I also need to do more running than I'm doing right now. I need to run longer distances than 5 km's. Last year I had a time of 51:28 and I would love to beat that this year. My goal is to get a time under 50 mins but I'm not sure I can do it. Well of course I can do it but then I will have to do a lot of training this summer!

Second layout

Monday evening and nothing really happening apart from me watching TV, so decided to try to create a second layout. This is the result:

Kiss

Really thinking about going to see Kiss play at Stadion on Saturday, I reckon it will be a great show. Would have loved to have Lena come with me but she has other plans for the weekend. Loppan & Niklas and two of their friends are going though, so I think I'll just join them :)

Photos from Vårruset and our summer's party

The whole gang


Me and little L


Welcome drinks on the terrace


L & L


Happy campers


Lemon Bar

Go Söderling!

Following the tennis match between Söderling and Nadal right now. Go Söderling go! :)

Fantastic Saturday

Our trip into town yesterday turned out to be a fantastic one :) I wasn't really gonna shop, just have a look around in the shops and support Lena with her shopping but I can only say: Woops - I did buy a few things myself!

Bought two lovely little jackets, a flowery blouse from Zara, a knitted top from H&M and trousers and I'm very happy with all that stuff. We also had time for lunch out in the sun, ice cream in Kungsträdgården and watching the Marathon runners.

At 19:30 we met up with Louise and Maria at Grappa and had a lovely dinner together all 4 of us :) Had spaghetti with scampi in a lovely saffron sauce. Will show you some pics later, now it's time to do some sunbathing I reckon!

Stockholm Marathon

Today it's Saturday and the sun is shining :) I slept until 10:00 and didn't get up until 10:30, feel great now! Gonna head into town today and have some quality time with Lena, we never have the time to talk properly in work. Gonna have a look around in the shops, eat ice cream in Kungsträdgården and just chill out in the sun. We're also gonna support the Marathon runners later on. This evening myself, Lena, Louise and Maria are going out for dinner - I think this will be a great day altogether and I'm looking forward to it. I just need to get ready now and then it's time to head to Solna Centrum to meet up with darling L. Oh and did I tell you that we are planning to go on vacation together w. 26; we want the sun, the beach, drinks and happy faces and we'll be happy :) Can't wait, just hope my new manager will let me be off for a week!

Mando Diao

Finnished my course early today so I was home by 14:30, went to bed straight away to catch up on the sleep. My God I was tired! Still wrecked now though, but I've just had dinner so hopefully that should give me some energy for this evening. Myself and Jessica are going to Gröna Lund to see Mando Diao play :) The weather is quite nice today, even though it is a bit windy, so it should be a good night. Gonna try and upload some photos later on from Vårruset and the summer's party. Enjoy the weekend everyone!

Tired today

Yesterday we had our yearly summer's party at work and 150 people showed up, not bad :) Had a great night and the weather was so nice so we were on the terrace having drinks and chatting away. They had organised for a live band to play in the cafeteria so spent some time on the dance floor as well! Around 23:30 a few of us decided to move on so we took a taxi and went to Lemon Bar. Came home 3:30 this morning so I'm feeling a bit tired today. Oh well, it's Friday anyway! :D

Vårruset

I'm just home from the yearly 5 km run; Vårruset. The weather couldn't have been better and I'm happy with my time 25:10 too :) We were about 30 people from work that participated in the run and aftwards we had a lovely picnic on the grass. Lena decided to come with us even though she didn't run herself so her main task was to keep track of all our belongings while we were running and I must say she did a good job ;)

Tomorrow I'm back in Alvik to do another SAP course, we're gonna go through billing this time. I'll be there on Thursday and Friday. Tomorrow we have our summer's party in work though, so I have to leave a little bit earlier to go to the office and mingle with my colleagues. Really looking forward to that!

Canon EOS 1000D

Today I ordered a system camera, it's a Canon EOS 1000D. I've been wanting a proper camera for so long and finally my finances allowed me to buy it :) Can't wait to start taking photos, it will be great to have it for the summer and when we go to Italy. It will be a perfect camera for me I reckon, I didn't want to get anything too advanced since I'm a beginner and hopefully it won't make me disappointed!

I've just come home from a run, have to clean up the apartment now. It has been messy for so long so tonight it's time to tidy up. I've clothes everywhere and other bits and pieces all over the apartment. Feel stressed when it looks like that but I haven't had the energy to sort it out lately either. Gonna have a shower now so that there is enough time left of this evening for cleaning and preparing for tomorrow.

Wonderful layout

My friend Emmeli has created a wonderful layout with all the pics from the weekend when I was down in Vrigstad. It is so nice to see the photos grouped together with all the lovely details in the layout. She has posted it on Emscreativeside.

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!