1 year together

We drove to all the significant places of our wedding day: the church, our venue, the place where we had our photo shoot with Karin, and we even got 2 pieces of our wedding cake from the same bakery. A day saturated by the strong emotions we experienced on our wedding day.

I love you Andreas!

Corinne&Friends

I'm so happy! I can't wait to go to the hairdresser in a week. This might sound ridiculous to some but I haven't had a "proper" hair stylist cut my hair EVER! I've always gone for the cheaper options, just the edges, no "new" hairstyle no nice updo when the cutting was over. I booked Lina (who's also a red head)


So now I've booked an appointment with Corinne&Friends in Stockholm for Friday next week, and I am browsing the web like crazy for hairstyles I like.
So far it is mostly Sienna Miller and Rachel McAdams that have given me inspiration. Anyone out there has any more suggestions?




(I like the honey toned colour)

pheww

It is SOO warm in the office today. Our aircon is out and I feel like I'm breathing in air that someone else has already had in and out of their lungs a 100 times...
I need oxygen!

And just for cheesy sake of it:

Chinese for lunch

YUM! We ordered Chinese takeaway for lunch and it was so yummy. haven't had Chinese in probably a year at least, since Andreas doesn't eat meat we often end up with either Indian, Fish and Chips, or pizza when we order food.
I had a chicken sweet and sour with plain rice.



For some reason it made me want to go travelling again soon.
So now I've listed a couple of palces we have open invitations to, that I'd love to go as soon as possible:

1. Hawaii - IDA!!! (have to!)
2. India - Prakash (food)
3. South Africa - Martin (elephants and wine)
4. Road Trip in the US - Heather, Alise, Tatiana, Danielle, Brienna...we will pester you all
5. China - Jonna (The Great Wall and chopsticks)

So much fun to do, so many great friends, so little money, so little time...

tennis time

I need to move more and stop eating sugar! That will be my goal for the next 2 weeks, since we are going on holiday to Sweden soon and I have anything but a bikini body, not that I've ever had one, but one can at least try... :)

So now we are off to play a bit of tennis. Inspired by the events in Båstad.
We'll see how that goes!

Tunisia how I long for you

I'm sitting with my laptop and Misse in my knee and half researching for my project half dreaming about Tunisia and the day it will all be over.

Now I've emptied the dishwasher, refilled the dishwasher, folded the laundry, hung out the wet laundry, had supper and e-mailed and checked facebook... Why is there no world cup game on tonight? Andreas is off to floor ball. I think I'll go for a walk.

Pizza Express

Yesterday we made use of a voucher that gave us 1 main course for 45p at Pizza Express. Was nice to eat out and not have to cook or clean up afterwards.




Then we went home and watched the semifinal Holland-Uruguay. I'm super excited about the final on Sunday. Can't wait!

You can get your free voucher here.

New Church Leader

"I would argue that the present generation would like this movement to be known: not only by what we eat, but by whom we feed. We would be proud if this movement was known: not only by how we dress, but by whom we clothe. Perhaps this generation would be more committed if we were known: not only for being different, but for making a difference in the world around us. Known: not only for proclaiming the Gospel, but delivering good news to the oppressed."

I couldn't agree more with the comments by Sam Neves on Ted Wilson's first sermon. It is hard to read some of the pessimistic comments on our church but I hope that God will make his love and grace perpetuate our hearts and lead us to greater acceptance and understanding of our differences.

I can't believe it's already July

This week has passed so fast. Tuesday we went to IEKA and got a TV bench and 19 frames! I am making a picture wall in our bedroom with many photos form our wedding.
Wednesday gym and putting together the furniture we bought at IKEA and yesterday I got a friend over and we watched The Book of Eli which was ok but not that excellent. Dragged out too much in the beginning and never really turned into a great story. The next movie I want to watch is The Lovely Bones. I've been waiting for that one for 6 months now, since the first time I saw the trailer.

Pick your own

This evening we will pick our own strawberries at Gray's Farm in Wokingham. The strawberries are yummy now in England, and it is Midsommar after all so we do need fresh strawberries tonight :)



We are a few "Swedes" at work who'll be eating typical Swedish food for lunch today.
New potatoes and pickled herring, strawberries with cream, and some chocolate. Anything to try and catch a glimpse of the midsummer spirit that is in Sweden at the moment.

David Wong

Business: Success = Meeting the Right People

All of those successful people you see around town, with their convertibles and huge televisions? Approximately 100 percent of them got where they are because they had three things. All three are absolutely essential, but one of them is almost never mentioned. They are:

* Talent
* Hard Work
* Randomly Meeting the Right People and Not Pissing Them Off

The autobiographies of famous people will do everything they can to downplay that third part, because it has the element of sheer luck. People get offended when you mention it, because they think it somehow undermines the first two. But remember, we said you need all three.

For instance, let's take maybe the most successful movie actor of all time, Harrison Ford. He farted around Hollywood for nine years, taking bit parts without anything major ever coming his way. Clearly talented, very hard-working. Yet not once did anybody look at him and say, "This guy will sell several billion dollars' worth of tickets and action figures some day!" He was just another ambitious, pretty face, in a city full of them. He got so fed up, he quit acting and became a carpenter. There's a parallel world without this man as Han Solo, and I don't want to live there.

Then one day he got hired to install cabinets in the home of a guy named George Lucas. They became friends. That got him the role of Han Solo a few years later. That's a true story.

Decades earlier another Ford, Henry, was just one of many engineers screwing around with early car engine designs until he became friends with a wealthy businessman named Alexander Malcomson who forked over the money to get Ford Motor Company started. This also works for guys not named Ford; Justin Bieber was one of several hundred thousand teenagers singing on YouTube videos before a former record exec named Scooter Braun clicked on one of his videos by accident and got him a record deal.But everyone already knew he was an accident.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have guys like Edgar Allan Poe, whose legendary poem "The Raven" earned him... nine dollars. He burned so many bridges he wound up basically begging the public for money before dying at 40. At some point Poe probably met his George Lucas, but made such a horrible impression on him the guy wouldn't return his calls. "Oh, shit, honey, he's at the door! Pretend we're not home! Did he see me?"

Chapters include:

I. First Impressions are Really Important;
II. Subsequent Impressions Are Also Important;
III. No, You're Not Terrell Owens (aka Why Acting Like a Douchebag is a Bad Investment).

Midsommar

Nu skulle jag önska jag var i Sverige och åt svenska jordgubbar och grillade i trädgården... ljusa kväller och mysiga varma nätter. Sverige är så underbart på sommaren.



Translation: Sweden at this time of the year is amazing. Wish I was celebrating Midsummer with friends back home today.

Picture from the celebrations 3 years ago.

ticket for Sweden booked!

I'll be going to Sweden for a short period the first week in August to see little Isac and to celebrate Veronica's birthday. Can't wait to walk the streets of Stockholm in summer weather. Walk out to Djurgården and dip my feet in the ocean. I'm so excited.

so unfit!

Oh gosh, just got back from the gym. Did the Body Attack pass today and yesterday I did Body Step... goodness am I out of shape, but I just need to keep going, eventually I'll get back to normal again. Can't wait 'till that happens!