Category: Every-day-life

What a lovely morning – a perfect day – yet again. I do hope and pray there will be some of those days left when my vacation starts. The weather prognosis promises rain though.. but, it will get better after a day or two.

Quite busy first part of the day but then it got all quiet so I left a little bit early. Now some me-time before it is time to go over to a friend’s house for dinner to celebrate her birthday. I haven’t seen her in a while so I am really looking forward to this evening.

Packing packing packing.. not my favorite part but it is a small price to pay for the reward of going to my paradise.

How to make it more fun to check your weight… buy a fun scale in an awesome color.. lol 

No – I wanted a scale for our paradise.. to not let myself go completely down there. Still have another 3kg to get rid of.

Last night Germany practically ran over Brazil.. Let’s hope Holland is able to do the same with Argentina tonight.

(Nope – congrats Argentina 4-2 after full time and penalty kicks)

This week would have been nice to be in paradise.. but it is quite nice to be in a well air conditioned office too..

I am really happy for the members of my family who are down there though.

Working progress with my curtains – I am no expert and I asked the lady in the store to help me cut them since it is quite tricky to get it straight. While putting the curtains together I realize that she was no expert either.. Oh well.

Tonight it is the first semi final in the world cup. Go Germany! And tomorrow my vote goes to Holland. Only European teams in the final would be great.

(PS – Germany beat Brazil 7-1…  an historical victory and complete humiliation for the host country)

Puh.. How come one is never satisfied? We have longed for the warm sunny weather for ages and now when it finally arrives everyone is miserable because it is so warm (86F/30C).

I am glad it is finally summer though. My children went down to our summerhouse today with their grandparents and my sister and her girls. This means that they will enjoy sunsets, morning swims and great time together starting NOW. We will have to wait a few more days before we will join them.

I have bought material today and started to sow new curtains for our livingroom in paradise. I am no expert in sowing curtains but I hope they will look ok once I have finished working on them.

Tomorrow is a big day in our family – our youngest and his cousin are being confirmed. So, lots of preparations needed to be done today – grocery shopping, baking, tidying, preparing for 30 guests to sit outside..

Me and my sister and our mother worked together to prepare the “smörgåstårta” for lunch while the guys built the tent and put up all the furnitures outside.

I think we have done all we can – now we are just praying that the weather-Gods are with us too and give us a great day with clear blue sky and no wind.

It has been a real summer day today and we are all a bit taken by the warm weather which we are not used to at all. It’s been almost 80F today and very sunny. Lovely!

Fredagsmys.. And summer is here! Dinner outside. Perfect way to end a very busy week.

Many years ago my sister and her family gave me this rose and every year it gets amazing flowers in bright orange and yellow. It is called a “tivoli” rose and has a lovely scent.

I was given a summer present – to go and chose a pocket book / paperback from a store in town. This year my choice fell on the latest book of Khaled Hosseini – And The Mountain Echoed. I really liked his previous books – The Kite Runner – and – A Thousand Splendid Suns. I am looking forward to reading this latest one.

Some fun world cup games to enjoy tonight with the quarter finals just starting. My money goes to Germany (vs. France) and Brazil (vs. Colombia).

 

When I have a minute left I love to play games on my cell phone or Ipad. A way for me to clear my mind .

Wordfeud has been a favorite for a while and I have some really good battles with a few dear friends.

When I need a distraction that doesn’t demand any sort of brain activity or quick decisions, I love to play Bakery Story or Candy Crush – even though the latter one occasionally makes my heart raise a bit.. lol

It is raining again today – but it started out pretty good. Short day at work due to a doctors appointment – nothing serious – just a checkup for one of the kids. Now a coffee in my corner while the laundry machine is working and before it is time to fry the pork chops  for dinner.

Decided to contribute to a good cause today so I bought one of these bracelets that an organization called “Ung Cancer” sell to raise money. They work to create meeting points, inform and educate us all to improve the living conditions for young people who have been diagnozed with cancer.

Today it was thundering a lot for a while and after a heavy rainfall which even included hail the sun came back out again.  Lovely summer we have this year. . Let’s hope the good weather is saving itself for my vacation!

Started the day with a walk. A bit chilly but nice. We celebrated a birthday girl at work today – the cake covered with white chocolate flakes on a sponge cake,  filled with raspberries and whipped cream was delicious.

Now the sun went somewhere else and it is raining so hard I don’t even want to go outdoors.  Feel sorry for the confirmation group who has a field trip today and will spend the evening at an outdoor concert. I hope they don’t get too wet and cold so they get sick..

Today I did really good – walk wise. First I walked to the subway this morning – the bus left me behind so it was an easy choice. Then I have been running around the office all day – busy busy busy.

After some well earned me-time (which I choose to spend getting a treatment from my naprapath) I decided to be a good girl and walk back too. 14000 steps and still hours left of the day. Yeah!

Since I didn’t have time for lunch I was really hungry when I got back home – so a quick lunch/dinner combo was necessary.. but, food from a can is actually pretty good when you are really really hungry. And yes – I did heat it up before I ate it. Not that desperate. Now I will cook some more qualitative food for my boys.