Author: Kikki

A day planned since a while back finally arrived. My mom, sis and I went into town this morning to go and see the exhibition of the five royal wedding dresses between 1976 – 2015. It was quite a nice exhibition and we enjoyed a couple of hours in the castle before it was time to go. We then went to an Italian restaurant for lunch and afterwards we strolled around town looking in stores and window shopping. 12000 steps later it was time to sit down for a coffee and a treat before we started our journey back home again. A really nice Saturday!

First week after the holidays completed. Yeah. I have been quite busy off and on at work and time has gone by fairly quickly.

Today I met an old friend for lunch – we need to see each other more often. I really appreciate these friends whom have followed me most of my life. It is a completely different feeling to spend time with one of those friends than with a new friend. Both kinds are good – but in different ways.

Time to enjoy some “fredagsmys” – have a great evening!

The city is still fully decorated with lights. They switched off the lights in the big Xmas-tree on Stureplan today so I guess they are preparing to take it all down now. It is so very dark in Sweden at this time of year so I don’t mind keeping the lights a bit longer. We will probably tuck away Xmas this weekend too though. But leave the outdoor lights for another couple of weeks.

Long day at work and after a quick dinner we went grocery shopping. Haven’t done that since before Xmas. Just a few things here and there on a day-to-day basis. But tonight we filled the cart.. I had a 5% discount coupon – perfect to use when you shop this much!

A really early start today – our oldest tried to register for an exam on site but the line was too long. So he has to wait for the next time. Bummer. Oh well – he gave it an honest try.

I had to stay a bit after work today too but my lunch date had to cancel so I didn’t mind. I decided to treat myself to the lunch we were supposed to have anyway. The restaurant has just recently re-opened after a renovation due to a fire. And it turned out great!

Dinner is in the oven – cod with rise. Time to get it out!

The workers knocked on our door at 07.00 this morning and said that they would blow up the big rock they had to remove in order to continue and asked me to move our car in case they would run into problems such as accidentally destroy the main water pipe .. I moved the car and went to work with my fingers crossed everything would go ok. Got back home 12 hrs later and the house was still there, car was ok and we still had water in our pipes. Yeah.

Time to get back in the treadmill again. Alarm went off at 05.45 and then the day passed by like any other Monday. It’s above 0C again so the snow is melting away. Quickly. By the time I left the office water was running down the streets.. I don’t mind the winter – the snow is really pretty and it doesn’t feel so dark outside when everything is covered with white fluff. But I do mind when winter can’t decide. Just leave the snow on the ground and let it be cold for a month or two. And then melt it away and let spring arrive.

The holiday went by so fast – and now the family is back together again. These two alp-travelers arrived back home last night – the luggage is still on its way though. Might take another day or two before it arrives. There is always something…

Last day off this time. Now it’s time to get back to the every-day-life with work and school again before it’s time for the next adventure. My turn to visit the alps next month. But from the Italian side. Exciting! I both long and dread the trip. I am so very afraid of heights .. might be too much of a challenge for me.

It’s been snowing all night again. Another 10 inches of snow to showel. Puh. It’s not cold today – around 0C / 32F – which means that the snow is heavy again. Puh.

Our French-alps-travelers are coming back tonight with our car so I have to clear the driveway from snow. Good exercise, I guess. And I need to exercise.. So, it’s just to get out there and get it done. I have made a lasagna to treat our travelers for dinner when they get back home. I hope they won’t be too delayed. Going to be great to see them again and have the family gathered in one place again.

This morning it was absolutely freezing outside with -21C / -5,8F. But after a couple of hours it was less cold and quite sunny. 

Decided to make myself useful today and vacuumed downstairs. After a meatball / pasta lunch my sis picked us up and we all went to the movies and saw “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”. It was actually pretty good!

Afterwards we went to pick up some take away food and then had dinner together at our house. It was a lovely afternoon and evening – nice to spend some quality time together. Tomorrow our alp-travelers are returning back home. Can’t wait!

So much snow – powder this time which is much easier to sweep. But it’s a lot of snow to take care of and with the grand-canyon-looking hole in our street it is quite a challenge. It’s been -10C all week too. Brrr.

Had to run some errands today and since our car is parked out by the airport I had to go by bus. First to Skärholmen and I actually found what I was looking for and with a big discount too. Yeah. Then to Fruängen to pick up the medicine that had arrived. Also bought dinner for today and tomorrow. Then bus back home. Made it in about 2 hrs so not too bad.

We lost the semi finals – bummer. But, facing Canada in Canada is always a challenge. So, bronze game tonight. Towards Russia. Exciting!