Annie's Blog

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!

2011-12-21T22:48:00.000+01:00

Merry Christmas, people! I wish you all a nice Christmas and a really Happy New Year.

I'm gonna spend my holiday in Spain this Christmas season. It's going to be really nice.

So once again; Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year!

Gothenburg by night

2011-12-07T22:23:00.003+01:00

I took this picture in the city earlier today, after leaving work.
It was so pretty by the canal that I had to take a snapshot of it's brilliance.

It's a very busy time for me right now. It's soon Christmas and work is up to a speed of 120-130 procent of work. I'm trying not to stress, but it's a lot going on all the time. And in between Christmas planning, shopping and working I try to make time for some social life as well. It's hard but sometimes I actually manage to have one. Like last weekend when I went to two friends birthday parties and this weekend I'm gonna met with my old frien I. It's gonna be nice. Been a while since I met her last time.

But it's seriously loads to do. And on top of that I also search for jobs feverishly. My current job contract ends this semester and then I will be unemployed if I don't find a job. I have my second job interview next week and went to another interview two weeks ago. Wish me luck! I'm hoping to find something soon, that would be awesome..it would sure make my Christmas holiday waaay better if I did. And more secure.

Well, that's all for now. Sorry for the lack of blogging lately..I know..I'm BAAAD..to the bones. ;)

Sickness is a party and Halloween it's hangover.

2011-10-21T23:45:00.010+02:00

Look how hideous the cold made me look, I almost look like a pumpkin, dammit! Lol ;)

I've been off from work almost a week from sinititus (or however you spell it). Got it from a lingering cold I've had on and off for a longer period.
This is the down side with working with small kids (ages 6 year and up).

But having so much free time, as I did this week, was great. I have been very unproductive on purpose, being all lazy, watching shows, movies whilst lying in my bed, being lazy. Simply awesome. I needed that, cause I never have that free time now-a-days..just lots of work and stress.

Now I've been on sick leave and been on penicillin for roughly 5 days soon. And I'm starting to feel so much better now. Well enough to go to the city and shop, like I did yesterday. And tomorrow is gonna be an awesome day.

Tomorrow I'm first gonna head to my dear friend I's birthday party and after 5 or so hours I'm gonna head back into my city and go to a Halloween party (Yes, I know..it's a week early). I have chosen a cool costume for this years also. But I'm not gonna reveal what I'm gonna dress as yet. I'm hoping this party is gonna be fun. Oh, and I bought the best birthday gift for my friend too. She's probably gonna love it!

And when these days of antibiotics are over I'm gonna be able to drink my red wine and other alcoholic beverages that I had to abstain from lately. Being on antibiotics can be sorta dull. But at least I'm soon completely healthy again.

Hope you guys have a good weekend too and a Happy Halloween (in a week or so).

Best wishes /Annie :)

Two hearts...

2011-09-25T00:35:00.004+02:00

beats as one. ;)

Vintage Bono and U2. Love this song.

Oh, and by the way, I'm pretty busy (using this word lightly here) at the moment with my work..but I have to say, in the end of the day, I do really love my work. And really like most of my co-workers. :)

I bought a couple of really nice Autumn/Winter shoes today by the way. From Ecco.

Here they are:

What do you guys think?
I felt that I could splurge a little knowing I get my salary soon. :)

Now I'm gonna continue watching my awesome Dr Who. See ya guys!

All I need is...The Doctor.

2011-09-13T21:47:00.005+02:00

The Dr Who, I mean. Love that show, it's the greatest show I've seen in ages.

Working full time I have not got much spare time. I don't have the time to spend time with friends, no matter how much I want to. I only have time for this on weekends, so instead I have this doctor as a substitute. Lol.

When I'm not using the time I have on planning my work for tomorrow and other important stuff, I relax in front of my doctor. My Doctor Who (David Tennant in the pic above).

Fun facts: The show has been on television since the late 1970s, so it's been 11 doctors so far. And counting. David Tennant above is the 10th doctor. He entered the show 2006. :)

New job - new life?

2011-08-18T21:04:00.003+02:00

Got a new job just recently. And I started working this Tuesday and I have been keeping busy since.

I work approx. 8,5-9 hours a day and it really takes up almost all my energy.
New workplace, new people, new collegues and new parents to the kids. It's in general just a lot of new faces and a lot of new places (rhyme intended). :P

I'm really tired now, cause work is really keeping me busy and since everything is new and I have to learn so much information during each and every day, one get a bit exhausted and overwhelmed by impressions.

I guess it will be a bit better and less stressful (and what-have-ya') later on when I've gotten used to the work place.

But so far I really like my work place.

The Beauty of Malta

2011-08-09T23:35:00.001+02:00

I have recently returned from my vacation on the beautiful island called Malta. It’s just beneath Sicily, Italia and in the middle of the mediterranean.

I really liked it in Malta. There were a lot of historic buildings and statues, a lot of nice beaches, nice stores, good food and great weather.

Here’s some pictures from my trip to Malta.

Valetta

A nice Jesus statue in the middle of Valetta.

A view over Valetta, head capital of Malta.

Sliema

Me and my brother.

M’dina

Me in the old head capital (of Malta) called M’dina.

The island of Gozo

The Blue Lagoon

Me, heading to the Blue Lagoon on the island Camino.

The Blue Lagoon. Nice water huh?

Tell me what you think of the pictures, you guys?

Best regards/ Annie

Stockholm and Roxette

2011-07-26T23:18:00.016+02:00

I have been pretty busy lately, hanging with friends and traveling a little. A week ago I traveled to Stockholm to meet my good friend C. It was a short trip but we had a lot of fun.

I even went to a famous animal park called "Skansen" for the first time. I got to met a lot of new people and also saw a bit of Stockholm cause we were constant traveling around with

the subway in different places. I really like Stockholm.

Me and my friend C on my weekend trip to Stockholm.

Skansen (The Zoo)

My absolute favourite picture. So cute. :)

A really cool looking female moose.

Me standing outside the sheep pen.

The day before yesterday (this Sunday) I went to a concert with Roxette. One of Swedens most famous band, next to Abba. The concert was great and they sung their greatest hits and some new songs from their latest album too. The concert was 2 hours long.

Roxette - playing at Slottskogsvallen.

I've been a bit off the bloghosphere lately, I guess it is because Twitter is so much easier to get to. Or maybe I just don't have the will to put my life down to words too often and in a longer extent. I usually like blogging, but sometimes when I'm too busy, I just let life flow and I forget to write about it on my blog.

Tonight I went out with friends and had dinner in the city. We ended the evening playing minigolf. It was really nice. And on Thursday this week I'm gonna travel for a weeks vacation in Malta. I've never been there before, it's going to be nice experience. :)

4th of July celebration and more...

2011-07-10T18:59:00.007+02:00

The whole gang of 4th of July celebrators.

This monday evening me and a lot of people from different countries, and a few Americans, celebrated The 4th of July. We had a big get-together BBQ and alchohol were consumed.

I even played my first game of Beer pong. It was a really nice celebration and in good company. I met a lot of cool and funny people and even added some of them on facebook, to keep in touch. Good times. Earlier on this monday I also met my dear friend L, it was nice to see her again.

Later next week I will visit my good friend in Stockholm, we're gonna have so much fun. All depending on the weather. Either way it's gonna be fun to met her again, because I haven't seen C since february this year. Jaay! I'm leaving on thursday and will stay for the weekend.

I must apologize that I haven't blogged very effectively lately, I've been rather lazy with my blog. Sorry, you guys. I guess it's also because I am on my holiday and have taken holiday from most things..lol. But I will try to blog more frequently.

Hope you guys have a great summer. :)

The reason why Katy Perry rocks

2011-06-15T01:03:00.005+02:00

This is one of many reasons. Such a nerdy cutie she is..haha. XD

Last Friday night - Katy Perry

Peace out, people! ;)

Summer breeze

2011-06-02T02:34:00.008+02:00

...makes me feel fine. ;)

This is one of my new sundresses. Tell me what you think. Do you guys like it? :)

Today was my graduation day at the University, thus the sundress. Now I'm officially a teacher and a graduate student. Jaay me! :D

Simply magic

2011-05-27T23:55:00.002+02:00

Ave Maria - Beyoncé

Beyoncé says it all. Enough said.... ;)

Fireworks!

2011-05-25T17:21:00.004+02:00

This song is so good and it actually describes how I feel..I feel like I have fireworks in me and they're set free.

I just feel so..liberated. Love this feeling. And love Katy Perry's album "Teenage dream". Love it! If you like this song, you guys should really check out the song called Extra Terrestial (E.T) with Katy P. Highly recommended. :)

Bad luck

2011-05-16T19:31:00.004+02:00

I've just gotten a massive cold. I was feeling well almost the whole weekend and then on Sunday I suddenly felt weird. And today I was totally sick. My life goes in slo-mo right now and I can't stop my nose from running. I'm heading over to a local store to buy some fruit soon, but I don't know if I even have the strenght to go outdoors even yet. But I need some healthy fruit with c-vitamins at the moment, cause my work week just got started and I need to be healthy soon so I can work.

I hate being sick..I feel so totally weird in my head. It's just a common cold but it's still sooooo annoying. :/

Eurovision Song Contest 2011

2011-05-15T01:13:00.005+02:00

Tonight was the annual Eurovision Song Contest on television. It's a big music contest in Europe which almost everyone in Europe watch.
Sweden came in third right after Italy and Azebadjan. But third place is still pretty good, and I'm proud of the singer for getting us there.

Here he is; Eric Saade with the song Popular:

Bad hangover

2011-05-07T21:04:00.002+02:00

After yesterdays party I once again heard myself repeating never again..never again silently in my head..but I realized that those words never ring true..cause it's highly likely that I will drink myself silly again and get just another hangover pretty soon. Cause the truth is, I never learn. And I didn't really fancy myself to be a real beer-drinker, but still somehow I like it. And today I woke up with regrets. Like: Oh, no..did I do/say that yesterday. Lol..yeah, I never learn.

Happy Easter!

2011-04-24T04:11:00.002+02:00

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you guys have a good holiday. I will soon eat up this cute little chocolate bunny. That's the way I celebrate the Easter holiday.

After the funeral

2011-04-10T18:10:00.002+02:00

Things feels a bit better now. The sun is a bit brighter and I've started socializing again after a long hiatus. Quite simply, it gets better with time and the sun is shining through the clouds now.

A Tribute

2011-03-21T13:39:00.007+01:00

This is a tribute to my dear grandpa who passed away a few weeks ago. It was hard and I got sad, but dying is a part of life. And I know that he'll have a better life up in heaven.
I'll be missing you, dear grandpa. Love you.

There were still so many things I wanted to tell you. But you still knew that I love you and you'll always be in my heart. :'(

True grit

2011-03-06T03:16:00.009+01:00

Saw the movie "True Grit" in the cinema earlier today. What an awesome movie, a through and through western movie that's actually any good. Most western movies that are made nowadays aren't very good..they're mostly about shooting up stuff and bandits. This one had a good story. And the fun part is that it also is a new rendition of an old John Wayne movie. My new favourite actor must be Jeff Bridges (but on the other hand I always fancied him to be a good actor anyways). He was simply excellent in the co-starring lead role as Rooster Cogburn. I must say I really fell in love with the character. He was drunk through most of the movie, he probably smelled a bit, he mumbled when he spoke, he wore an eyepatch (yes, ladies, you heard me) he swore and shot people as often as he could and he had a terrible manner when drunk and otherwise..lol. But he was very manly in his way, very very manly. Oh, and he has a bear..oh la la. :P What a character. I just love this guy! He is so anti to everything one would look for in a guy and that makes him attractive, well, sorta.

Rooster Cogburn - acted by Jeff Bridges

This movie is really good, well acted, not to forget the woman leading role by a 14 year old girl. Her acting was excellent as well. Matt Damon also did a god job in it.
This is the best western movie I've seen yet and I've seen a couple, most of them containing either Lee Marvin or Clint Eastwood. This is actually one of the best movies I've seen so far this year and year 2010. I totally understand why it got plenty of oscar nominations this year. See it! The character depiction of Rooster Cogburn himself makes it worthwhile.

Once again Joel and Ethan Coen has proven that they really know how to make an interesting, epic and brilliant movie. I loved their previous work: "No country for old men". And this one was even better.

Deliver us...

2011-02-20T21:20:00.004+01:00

...with really awesome music. Just listen to this song. It's, in my opinion, so powerful.

(Florence+ The Machine - Dog days are over).

Birthday

2011-02-12T23:03:00.005+01:00

Me and my good friend C at my birthday celebration.

My 26th birthday was yesterday so I celebrated it with my family. We went out to a resturant and I ate snails, for the very first time in my life. It actually tasted good. Who'd a thought? :P And for the main course I had a really good steak. It was really nice.

And today I celebrated it with friends. We made waffles and we had a really nice time together. I especially enjoyed that my dear friend C was there, cause she usually lives in Stockholm so I don't get to see her that much.

My days are filled with work and studies and will continue so for a while, but soon I will be free. I will be finished and I am so happy.

In general I feel really blessed and happy. I see this year as a year full of adventures and opportunities lying ahead of me. It will be fun! :)

Bullshit!

2011-02-10T21:32:00.003+01:00

I'm working my ass of with 9 hours each day and studies and no social life anymore..and what do I get for that?? This??! Eff the ones who wrote the article..cause I am not one of those lazy people they're talking about.

Snacka om att generalisera en stor grupp. Måhända att det stämmer in på några, men man kan inte dra alla över en kant. Idioter.

Aftonbladet.se - Artikel om 80-90 talister.

Note to readers: Article is in swedish.

RIP Per Oscarsson

2011-01-03T17:17:00.011+01:00

Allas vår Svenska film ikon - Per oscarsson (Jan 1927 - Jan 2010).

Younger version.

Nu är det konstaterat. En av Sveriges mest talangfulla skådespelare har dött. Må du vila i frid, Per Oscarsson och veta att du var uppskattad och älskad av många människor. Jag tycker att du var en väldigt duktig skådespelare och du kommer alltid bli ihågkommen för dina verk.

Det gör mig lite ledsen att du gick döden till mötes på ett sådant hemskt vis, ditt hus brann ned och du med det. Men jag kommer alltid komma ihåg dig som den snälla fabrorn i Kan du vissla Johanna, eller den smått elaka Borka i Ronja Rövardotter och många andra filmer jag har sett dig i, ja, du hann ju med hela 125 stycken under din livstid. Du blev iaf 83 år och fick leva ett långt liv med mycket händelser genom åren. Synd att du inte hann få dina memoarer publicerade, då de försvann i branden de med.

Från filmen: "Kan du vissla Johanna".

Du har på något vis varit en inspiration i mitt liv, ändå sedan jag såg dig i filmer som liten, någon som jag ser upp till. Sista rollen jag såg dig i var Millenium - film nr 1 (Män som hatar kvinnor) av Stieg Larsson och då tänkte jag; lever han än?

Men du kommer alltid finnas kvar i mitt minne. Du är saknad.
Mvh/Annelie - Ett fan.

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Lil' translation:

Per Oscarsson is a very talented famous Swedish actor and he recently (couple of days ago) died when his house burned to the ground. He died at 83 years of age, but his passing was a violent one, burned alive inside his house. It's sad that we've lost one of Swedens most talented actors.
May he rest in peace.

Snow - Exitlude: Christmas preparations

2010-12-23T15:50:00.007+01:00

Christmas preperations is a Go-Go! All the christmas packages has been bought and exchanged with friends. I exchanged my last Christmas gift with my dear friend L today. It was so nice meeting her again. We hung out for a couple of hours and it was fun. She gave me an over-sized t-shirt with a Big Bang Theory motive..love. I'm gonna wear it as a comfy shirt or a pyjamas. She also gave me the cutest pair of earrings, thanks darling. :D

Back to the preparations: Now what remains doing is cleaning the apartment, Christmas decorations, dressing the Christmas tree and the making of Christmas dinner and treats. I'm planning on making Gingerbread cookies today. Beneath this text is the promised pictures (from my new camera) I talked about uploading with Christmas motives, from my previous post. Well, at least with snow in them. I wanted to take pictures of snowy landscapes, but this has to do for now.

Fingerprints in the cold snow.

Snowflakes falling from the frosty skylines of this winter.

I'm finally free from work and it feels great..but the problem is, I'm probably not made for holiday or freetime..I like to keep myself occupied at all times..lol. Being an workoholic does that to ya'. :P

Now I've just have to get in the Christmas spirit, and as if yet, I haven't really gotten there. Dunno why not..maybe some Christmas music and decorating will help.

It's weird, I didn't even realize that it's Christmas tomorrow..what the phunk? So soon.

Oh, well..it's going to be nice.

Merry Christmas to you all, especially my good friend L.

Snow - Interlude

2010-12-09T20:32:00.006+01:00

We have so much snow in Sweden at the moment, crazy much..and I shouldn't mind, but somehow I do. I have to walk through this winter wonderland which is beautiful, but it's not easy to walk in this snow. The snow reaches up to my knees at some areas, the busses are constantly delayed and it's chilly some days. Today it was pretty decent, not that cold frankly.

I have been so busy lately, has it not been work it has been parties, if it's not parties I've hung out with friends..I really haven't had any time over for Christmas preparations and haven't finished my shopping yet..I feel totally stressed. I have this need to make gingerbread and other deserts that is fitting for Christmas. I want to start decorating and stuff..but somehow my time just dissappears. I have to ask, where does time go?

I spent yesterday evening by my friends house watching Big Bang Theory episodes..lol. It's become a thing with me and my friends now. Some day I wish to have a Himym marathon too (How I met your mother) and I know just the gal to have it with. Anyhow, yesterday was awesome. I haven't hung out with my friends M, A, M and P for a very long while, and we had such an amazing time yesterday. We truly had a blast.

On another note; I had a dreadful day at work today, some kids have some nerves and some times I have to ask myself, does the kids of today even know how to spell the word Respect? I highly doubt it. Well, tomorrow is another day and for that I'm thankful. Plus it's friday..jaay! :)

ps. Bought a new camera yesterday and when my next bloggin will appear, I will have taken picture of this winter wonderland for my new blog input called: "Snow - Exitlude. ;)

I apologize

2010-11-02T20:46:00.002+01:00

I have to shape up with my blogging and speaking of shaping up, I should really hit the gym someday..mostly for building muscles, not losing fat (that's definitiely not necessary for me).

I work all the time, and when I don't I hang out with friends and I keep myself occupied, but I should really try to blog more frequent..I just haven't had the time and strenght for it lately and then I got a bit blog-lazy..shame on me. I will do better soon..I just guess things in life can consume me sometimes and make me forget about blogging. It happens in episodes.

I can update you some; I work lots, and the darkness has really crept into Sweden now..and the rain. The terrible weather of the atumn. We mostly have rain nowadays. Today it rained for 6 hours straight or something and I spent some hours of it outside in the damn rain. Hate it! Tomorrow I will bring my new bought boots, I bet they're bit more appropriate for the awful weather we have at the moment.

On my working days I spend approx 8-9 hours at work and then I get home. Get maybe 30 min of relaxation, then I'll eat, watch some tv (often Biggest Loser - Love that show!) and then it's back to sleep and the next working day. And at occassions I spend my evening at a friends house or in the city straight after work..I get even more worn out on those days. I'm going for a shopping spree a day this week, gonna be fun. It's at a big retail store in Sweden many people travel to.

Well, that's all for now. I'm gonna watch some Desperate Housewives soon and then I'm probably off to bed. I have no life. :P
But I did however go to an awesome Halloween party this weekend..that was cool.

Stuff and business

2010-10-05T22:55:00.005+02:00

I've done lots lately but mostly I've been busy working. And so much work too, where has my life gone. Working full-time can actually make one really weary. I work for 8,5-9,5 hours every day, except for one day when I have a short shift. That's the favourite day of the week by the way, because that day I have time to actually live.

I have been out on a date, but he wasn't really my type, so I've moved on. And plus at the moment I really don't have time for a boyfriend really. I'm busy enough as it is and my friends want to hang out and I am almost constantly tired.

I'm invited for a bridalshower in two weeks from now (more or less) and it's not in my city. And then there's a halloween party, which I can say frankly; I really haven't even looked for a costume yet. Haven't had the time.

And then my friend C wants me to travel to Stockholm, so I'm gonna try to find a good weekend for that too. And all I do is work and watch the occassional episode of The Big Bang Theory and How I met your mother. I love both! Season 4 of BBT has just aired, awesomeness. And same goes for season 6 of Himym.

I'm gonna go up at 6 tomorrow, waaaay too early. So now I'm soon gonna grab a shower and then I'm off for bed. Tomorrow I will work for 8,5 hours. Gee, I'm already tired thinking about it.

And I'll end this blog for today with this awesome clip from How I met your mother. Gotta love that awesome Barney!

No more racism

2010-09-14T02:48:00.005+02:00

With love and respect comes a better world for all.

No more racism, please, I beg of you.

Where is all that love that Jesus spoke of?
Why are people so keen on hating on other people?
I want Love and Peace instead of Hate and War.

Why must society have sooo much hate?
I just don't get it. I just don't get it. :(

It just scares me to see what has become of us.
Are all people in my country just blind or quite simply dumb?

Cookie Monster and the Mystery Box

2010-09-11T21:22:00.001+02:00

I just looked around at youtube last night and found this funny video..lol. Gotta love the cookie monster. Enjoy! :)

Men

2010-09-01T23:21:00.006+02:00

Why do I have this odd feeling that men aren't really to be trusted. I'm so perplexed sometimes of these beings, yes, these beings calling themself "Men".
They say one thing but they act another. I'm just not sure I should get out there on the meat market again, because I feel that it's hard to trust their words.
One guy wanted to bring the conversation to email instead of the dating site I'm on after talking for a bit online and I said sure, because he claimed that he's barely on that page anyway, and now every time I log in on that dating site he's online of some odd reason, that seems often enough (?). What's that's suppose to mean then? I don't understand men, I need a dictionary over their language or better yet a translation book.

I can comprehend them, but I can't understand them. I don't know if this guy is for real, maybe he is chatting up anyone (girl) he meets anywhere, he can be a total player. He's cute and all, but I don't know him that well yet, time will tell I guess. I have encountered too many players on datingsites and such. And seriously, if you're a player DON'T bother, I'm so sick of that type. Quite frankly because I can be one myself I guess, sometimes. And there's nothing more boring than dating yourself, am I right? :P

There I said it, men and dating can be frustrating. I met this cute guy today at work btw, but it later turned out that he was only 20 years old, and that is like craddle robbery or something..lol. So, pass. Eyecandy for sure though. ;)

Education can be bad for a woman

2010-08-30T00:33:00.003+02:00

Women - know your limits.

Lol, this is so sexist and is obviously a joke, but seriously...seriously. Oh, my..I laughed so hard because of the video message's incredibly stupidity. Thoughts? :P

I have this constant coldness...

2010-08-25T01:29:00.006+02:00

..around my feet. Gotta find my slippers..lol. This post was just for laughs, I think I'm in a silly mood tonight. And I'm actually cold around my feet and will go look for my comfy slippers as soon as I'm finished with this post. :P

And I'm bummed out that I can't eat cheese balls because of my lactose intolerance..dang it. You guys will hear from me later on and soon. I will make a real post then, just not tonight.

Newsflash: Atumn has now officially hit Sweden, time to put on my fancy atumn jacket and comfy warm clothes. And also burrow down into a comfy chair (e.i The Pythons sketch..lol) and read a good book. I am seriously jealous of my dear friend L right now. And I'm also thankful my previous birthday gift from a friend was a warm blanket, it will be useful hencefort.

Goodnight. :)

Seasons in the sun

2010-08-12T01:32:00.000+02:00

I don’t know if I have actually have made use of this summer and it’s weather as much as I would’ve liked. And now it’s August and the weather here in Sweden has severely changed..well, it’s only about 20 degrees nowadays and also more rain than usual. Pretty boring that it had to change so rapidly..*sigh*. In a way it feels like it’s autumn already..man, how I wish that I lived in Spain instead..lol.

During the summer I’ve have spent a lot of time with friends, but I haven’t got the chance to swim as much as I liked to, in Sweden anyway. I did have my vacation in Portugal, but the weather there wasn’t fine everyday either, but I swam everyday in the pool.

My friend L has traveled away to a faraway land now, the land called America. To a place called California (say what now? Never heard of it..hehe :P). I’m gonna miss her, I probably won’t get to see her until next year..man, that’s a long time without my good friend. Anyway, she was home in Sweden for approx. a month and we got to spend some time together at least. I even got the chance to celebrate her at her birthday party, t’was good times indeed. :)

Therefore I’ve decided to post some pictures of her and us together from this summer. I always have so much fun together with her, just wished we had some more time before she left.

L and me at her birthday bash. We now have the same age.

Nazdarovya! No, you caught me; I can’t spell russian words..I apologize.

This picture is so spot on from the birthday party. L looks so happy here and is in such a party mood..party down, girl! ;) (I hope she doesn’t mind me posting this pic).

And this is L and me when we had a Big Bang Theory Marathon…hehe. Cause we’re geeky like that and proud of it. Oh, and we both wear our glasses in this picture – Pulling them off. Big Bang theory is really awesome. I just love it!

Oh and here is a random picture from the end of July when me and two friends went to see Shrek 4 in the cinema – in 3D. And yes, we are wearing our 3D glasses in the picture. Looking cool, huh? :P

Today I went to the city, even though the weather was pretty dull and decided to go shopping for some things. I bought a new jacket, suitable for spring, summer and autumn. It was beautiful and just what I needed. Now I at least can look a little fashionable..lol. I have my own style, don’t really care so much for fashion usually. That’s the way I roll, and I’m fine with it.

Here’s the jacket I bought today, it’s just as nice looking in reality. I already love it and haven’t even worn it very much yet. What do you think?

I also bough a new mascara on sale, called “Volume Nanodefinition” and it kicks ass. Way better than my old one. I also bought a concealer from Nivea Beauté.

The aforementioned mascara from Nivea.

The concealer – also from Nivea.

Now, I will try not to splurge any more for a while..have to work a bit more first so I can afford it. And now they have a party in the city with lots of concerts and stuff, just want the weather to be better so we (me and my friends) can enjoy it a bit more. This weekend a friend of mine from Stockholm i coming to Gothenburg, so I’m gonna hang out with her and some other friends. She’s so awesome, so it’s gonna be fun.

Oh, yeah, and I’ve gotten lenses, but I have to go to my optician and buy some more now..still haven’t adjusted myself completely to them, but I probably will.

Finally after a long while I actually managed to blog a longer blog, instead of just a few words. I hope you like it. I guess with blogging I’m just lazy sometimes or most of the time just don’t really know what to write down, even though I’ve done lots of things. I seem to forget some things after an eventful day.

Oh, yeah and a heads up to L. This song is awesome and I’m so gonna download it from iTunes and it’s so suitable for you at the moment..you’re one of them girls now, hun. ;)

“California Gurls” with Katy Perry.

http://itunes.apple.com/se/album/california-gurls-feat-snoop/id371879313?i=371879331

Powerful

2010-08-10T18:31:00.004+02:00

This is both a powerful song and video from Eminem and Rihanna. It's called "Love the way you lie". It features both the actor Dominic Monaghan (from Lotr and Lost) and actress Megan Fox (Transformers). The song really makes an impact on you and it's a story about an abusive relationship. It's really worth the watch. Check it out!

Life is a Hassle

2010-07-27T00:07:00.005+02:00

I like how his hair has a life of it's own..lol.

Sitting and listening to a (for me) newfound Swedish singer called Erik Hassle. I'm currently listening to his new album on Spotify called Hassle. You can check it out here: http://open.spotify.com/album/3UpUG8U7wvKP2kFs2JvXtf

He has a song that I've heard on the radio lately called "Hurtful".

You should really check him out, he's a singer/songwriter, my favourite sort of artist.

The nice weather in Sweden had a minor intermission recently. Yesterday when I took a walk in the evening it was actually cold, like 13 degrees and it's still summer..wtf?!

But hopefully it will turn around soon, today it was warmer, and I want to go to the beach some more this summer. :)

Summertime

2010-07-11T00:15:00.000+02:00

Summer is here and it’s important to make the most out of it. On some days I’ve really put in an effort and some days not so much..lol.

I’ve been spending some time outside with friends canoeing and also gone out on a picnic this week.

And soon I will also swim in the ocean. I just hope it’s warm enough. Today it must’ve been up to 27 degrees outside, it was crazy hot when I was outside anyway.

Here are some pics of some of the activities I’ve done lately. Good times. Enjoy!

Canoeing

Friday last week: Me and three other friends rented canoes and went canoeing in a lake. It was really enjoyable and we ended the day playing miniature golf, I didn’t loose. :)

Okay, so this hat made me look a bit ridiculous, but in fact, it’s not my hat. I had borrowed it from a friend. :P

Some of my friends I hung out with that day (one took the picture). I canoed with the one on my right.

Picnic

Wednesday this week: Me and my friends climbed up in a tree after we had our massive picnic on the meadow by a forest all day. It was such a lovely day and awesome weather. We played Frisbee and ate hotdogs. Simply great.

Well, that’s some of the things I’ve been up to, besides the week I’ve spent in Portugal. Have a nice summer all! :D

Portugal in pictures

2010-06-30T02:00:00.011+02:00

Visit to Lisboa

No, this is not Golden Gate in San Fransisco, but very similar.

Albufeira, Portugal

Me at the balcony of the hotel we stayed at.

A beautiful glance out towards the beach and the ocean.

I'll might post more pictures from my holiday in Portugal further on, but at the moment this will have to do. Hope you enjoyed them.

My friend Josefina has arrived to Sweden again, I'm gonna meet her tomorrow. Jaay!

I have missed her a lot. :D

Yo voy a lá Portugal

2010-06-07T02:13:00.003+02:00

This picture above is where I'm going to tomorrow. It looks so nice. :D

Tomorrow, 7th of June, I'm going on vacation to Portugal. It's going to be very nice, and it seems to be pretty sunny down there. I've never been to Portugal before so I'm really excited. I've been packing my bag the entire day almost,it's like I'm trying to fit in my entire wardrobe..lol. :P

One day I will try to pack lighter, only what's necessary..but today I just haven't quite learned how to do that.

It's going to be a nice trip and I promise to wear sun block. With my fair skin it's necessary. My travel bag will contain the following in literature; 7th Harry Potter book (650 pages something), a tabloid and a crosswords magazine. And maybe I buy some other tabloid at the airport..not sure. I also have a phrase book on how to speak Spanish, even though I know it's not much use when they all speak Portuguese in Portugal..hehe. But there must be some words that sounds alike.

Here you can listen to some phrases in Portuguse if you like:
Click here to go to Portuguese Phrases

It's actually pretty different from Spanish, even though it has some similarities, so I'm going to stick to speaking Spanish instead. Learning Portuguese just now before the trip would be too hard.

Bye for now.

Hiking and canoing

2010-05-26T23:40:00.011+02:00

Last week we spent two days hiking in the woods. We got there by canoing, it was my first time ever for that, so it was interesting and fun. But one thing it sure wasn't - easy.

It was in my University class that we had this as an exam, which was very fun. Overall we had a good time, but the weather was disastrous..which was sad. It rained the entire two days almost..dang you, Sweden, for your not so trustworthy weather. So annoying. But it was an very enjoyable trip anyway.

We did have a great time after all. :) Here's some pics from the hike:

Canoing.

Our canoes in a pile.. :P

My classmates at breakfast, 7' a clock in the morning..*yikes*. My friends in the class sits just next to me in this picture on both sides. Hint; I'm the brunette in the middle of two blondes, and yes..my hair was a mess..forgot my hairbrush and it rained all the time...so..duh! :P

Not myself tonight...

2010-05-14T01:36:00.003+02:00

Christina Aguileras new song. I like this song, the mere start made me blush and I don't blush easily..lol. But on the other hand, have had some glasses of wine tonight, might be that too.

You can listen to the song right here if you have spotify:

Click here to listen to "Not myself tonight" - Christina Aguilera

It sounds very Britney Spears-y or vintage Christina (the Dirty Xtina). :P

If you don't have spotify you can probably google the song. I'm thinking of getting Spotify to my new phone too, that'd be pretty cool. And I also realised today that it's a perfect phone to watch movies in, because of it's big screen. I want to marry this phone..it's that perfect..hehe. If only. Lol.

I have some free days now. And so far I've done fun things. Yesterday I went to the cinema with a friend and watched Robin Hood and today I invited another friend over for dinner and a movie. We drank wine and had a nice conversation.
Watched the movie "Inglorious basterds" on top of that. That movie was good but quite violent and strange. Typical Tarantino maybe?

Good night peeps.

Independent women - I bought it...

2010-05-09T14:40:00.005+02:00

HTC Desire, the best phone on the market as if now, I bought it. It wasn't exactly cheap, but man, is it useful, not to forget, fancy and awesome. It's like a mini computer, it has got everything one can actually need in a computer combined with a mobile phone. I love it! This must be the best buy I've ever done. I couldn't help myself, I desired it..lol.

The coolest thing with it is the internet connection, which is flawless, and all the apps you can download to it. An app is a program, it can be anything. It can be an MSN program which you download (like I did), or a game. It's hard to explain it, but it's like a lot of different cool programs with different functions. Like example I downloaded a cute game called "Jewels" where you use the touch screen on the mobile to rearrange Jewels in pair of 3 or more and earn points by doing this.

I also have a cool weather app, where I can see a five day prognosis of the weather in my city with degrees, humidity, you name it. And of course I added a news page with news feeds from different magazines, like Aftonbladet and Expressen. Dang, I was dissapointed that I couldn't find a better Magazine like GP, but whatever. So I can read the news in my mobile, in big text, or small, you control the size yourself with your fingers. And I have spotify installed, but I have to buy premium to be able to use it. But still cool to have Spotify on my mobile.
It's simply just an awesome Smart Phone. And the camera is really nice to with it's 5 mega pixels. It does actually take pretty good pictures. And this mobile has a flash, which some older HTC models lacks and that's pretty cool. HTC is a brand from Google, so it is in general a Google phone.

Nice nice. Love. <3

And other news besides the purchase of my new mobile phone;
been super busy with studies. Things are looking great in my life however, but the pace has been hectic this week. I actually felt sick at friday evening because of lack 0f sleep, too much things to do and stress. So now I feel that I have had the oppurtunity to wind down a bit this weekend, it was well needed. I have other things happening in life, but I'll might talk about them later.

:)

Conan - The conquer (Not Arnold)

2010-04-27T00:34:00.007+02:00

He's not dead. They killed his show, but his show did somehow survive, cause Conan O´brien was hellbent on staying alive and I am thankful for that.

I'm still very pissed at NBC and a little bit at Jay Leno for how they together schemed against Conan and fired him, having Jay replacing him instead. It was mean, foul and it was far from okay doing that to him.

But Conan and his humor still lives, just watch this clip from his new tour.

And I also found Conan O'briens own personal twitter account. Being a huge fan of Conanco ,I'm very happy about this fact. Here's Conan O'Briens Twitter:

http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien

Television and wine

2010-04-25T00:08:00.007+02:00

Televison and wine - That is the best description of my weekend. I really needed to relax and wind down after this hectical week. Been major busy this week and really have had a lack of sleep and free time.

I am offically a terrible blogger, it's because of this:
When I'm really busy and do a lot of things I forget to blog and sometimes when I really do try to put something down in my blog when I've done lots of fun things, I don't really know where to start or what to write. Don't know why that is, but it's not uncommon for me. I guess I just forget what I've done when I'm doing lots of stuff under a short time.

I just watched this kinda weird movie on television, called Watchmen. It was rather different, too violent for my taste (and trust me, I'm not squimish, or however you spell that word). But it was a movie about super heroes without super abilities. It lacked the action I was looking for in it, didn't turn out at all as the movie I had imagined. It was not really dull, but not really eventful either.
I rarely watch movies now a days though, don't have enough time for it. I rarely watch tv either. I guess I'm just keeping busy. :)

Oh, and I just pre-ordered Avatar on DVD and Bluray. Love that movie and considering it's still sells out in the cinema every day after 5 months time, I'm sure many people just longs to buy it on DVD now. If you guys haven't seen Avatar you really should. See it in 3D if you can, but I think it's just as magical in 2D, but not as awesome, maybe. At least now you have a lil' update from me.
Have an awesome weekend!

Death by spoon

2010-04-12T00:22:00.014+02:00

Sometimes in life laughter is needed, especially when all you do is study and work a lot. I laughed so hard when I watched this clip of this upcoming fake movie and thus I choose to share it with you guys. It's silly, ridiculus and has some Monty Python humor as well. Lol.. :P

My blog has a tendency to shrink the actual video screen.
Here's a link if you feel like watching the clip on youtube in bigger format:

Click here to watch on youtube!

And this weekend was truly great, spent the whole Friday and Saturday with friends. This Saturday I hung out with my friends and on top of that two American newfound friends that had traveled all the way from Alaska. Such great people. We went to a castle and then later we ate the biggest cinnamon bun there is..cool. And on Sunday (today) I went to church and met a lot of nice people in the congregation afterwards. I even made some new friends, very nice. Such an awesome weekend it has been and the weather is truly wonderful now. All sunny and cozy, you just can't stay inside in this beautiful weather. :D

Let's be friends

2010-04-07T23:40:00.006+02:00

What is the definition of a friend really?
A person that you can rely on?
Someone you can talk to?
someone that loves you no matter what?
Someone you can lean on?
An ex lover?

Sometimes I wonder, what is a friend and what is friendship. So abstract yet so complicated. Can guys and girls really just be friends? I have friends and I love them dearly. But I want to know where the definition starts and where it ends.

How do you know who really is your friend? In hard times the answer often appears obvious, because the ones that stands by your side in rain and hard times, that is a true friend. If you've ever been (figuretively) stabbed in the back by a friend, that person wasn't even a friend to begin with. It was a fake and I know that for sure. People that does that to their friends, surely aren't friendly, nor friends of mine anymore. She know's that it's her that I point out. Was I cold to her? Yes. Did she deserve it? Hell yes and tousand times more. Did she expect me to give her a gentle smile after what she did? Maybe she did, but you can't blame someone who is that stupid. A simply Hello doesn't make things go away or make them better. She's dead to me, yes, dead.

I'm not sure if he's a friend though, I don't know if we're capable of only being friends. That can make me puzzled some times, and that's when the thoughts pop up, what is a friend? :)

Oh, and I'm going on a date with a guy I like this weekend. I'm so psycked about it. Lol :D. Plus I'm also going to a dear friends birthday party. It's gonna be an awesome weekend.

Shoutout to a good friend of mine, Josefina. She is a true friend. Love you, friend. Good friends are precious. ;)

It had to be done...

2010-03-31T00:41:00.001+02:00

I introduce to you, because of mere nostalgic reasons for me; Thumb wars. Besides Mel Brooks movie "Space Balls" this one is a really good parody of Star Wars. Check it out and laugh, if you're a Star Wars fan that is. I find it absoutely silly and hilarious. :P

A matter of opinion

2010-03-30T00:40:00.002+02:00

I'm fully aware that I've been bad at blogging lately, but life has simply caught up with me. I've been superbusy and am henceforth until the summer, presumebly. Also I'm searching around for work during the summer as well, so if I get a summer job I'll probably be busy then too.

But this is what I've been doing lately:

Worked like crazy
Started a new class at the University
Barely slept for more than approx 4 hours or less the latest week
Went to Stockholm this weekend

So that sums it up pretty much. And I have to add, the trip to Stockholm was great. The only downside to it; crappy weather that kinda ruined the experience for me. But it was still an awesome weekend in good company. I could easily say that this has been the best weekend and time I had for a long while. We had so much fun and since it was a roadtrip back and forth to Stockholm we (especially the ones in our car) got really close. I even met a new awesome friend called Kristina. She had the same wicked sense of humour as I, sadly she lives in Stockholm. But we stayed with her for the entire week.

But I feel at the moment that I might have caught something in Stockholm, if not exhaustion from lack of sleep lately. But I feel really odd in the chest area, might be a cold or something. But since I have university for tomorrow and Wednesday I can't stay at home if I'm sick.

Well, now at least I did a pretty decent blogging for today.

You just keep me hanging on...

2010-03-22T23:45:00.002+01:00

One of my absolute favourite song from the musical tv-show Glee, which I love!
The song couldn't be more true in my life regarding a certain someone. It's actually a cover of an old Supreme song, but I really like this version of it. Plus the cheerleader called Quinn Fabray in the show, is so adorable and sings the songs so sweet.

Check it out below.

Glee - Keep me hanging on.

Oh, and I'm aware I haven't blogged in a loooong while, but life has been too busy lately. There just haven't been enough time. I work all the time and now I'll have to start combine my busy working schedual with my studies.

Snowy madness!

2010-02-22T16:00:00.006+01:00

In this pic above there's actually two cars, completely snowed in. You can barely tell.

It is freaking crazy much snow in Sweden now. It was worst during the weekend, leading to me having to cancel my party. It'll be on next weekend instead, depending on this crazy weather.

We have sooo much snow now, it's literally 1 metre out there at most places. Making it really hard to walk outside. Just look at this picture above (from Munkebäck, Gothenburg). It's freakin' nuts. And the tram and bus traffic has major issues and delays because of it. Crazy I tell ya'. :S

I'm pretty fed up with this snow now and coldness (yesterday it was -17 degrees celsius at 10 pm.) Cold. Just make it go away.

The pictures above are in fact real from my city. Picture copyright is: http://www.gp.se/

Party on!

2010-02-19T11:06:00.010+01:00

B and T. B is kinda cute, don't you think? :P

Sing it out loud, ladies.

No, he (B) is not sleeping..lol. He just timed his blinking weirdly. :P
P and her boyfriend R. They're my best partybuddies nowadays. But somehow I always get the worst hangovers from partying with them. Lol. :P
A, M and Me. M is my old classmate from grade 1-5. She's the nicest person ever. I would love to hang out with her more often. Good times.

My oldest and dearest friend, T. Love her like a sister.
J, A and M.

Had such an amazing birthday bash this weekend. Wow, it was loads of people, quite of loads to drink too. We also played Singstar the whole evening and it was so much fun. :D Initially it was suppose to be like 5 persons showing up to my party, but instead it was 9 people that showed up on my doorstep. It was fun, but surprising. I got some nice gifts to. From A i got a makeup bag with cute tiny makeup pieces. And my friend M got me two beautiful drinking glass from Kosta Boda (famous swedish glass factory). And on top of that I got a drinkbook. It's perfect for when I want to make some cool drink for myself or guest in the future.
I also got a drinking game (Fia med sup)..lol. It's called Drinking Ludo. I have to try it out sometime. Preferebly with my friend Josefina and a bottle of Vodka. Don't you think that's an excellent idea, L? ;)

I'm gonna post some of the pictures in this blog. It was a really good party and lots of familiar faces. The only setback with the evening was that my friend A (L know whom I referring to) did not like the party. She barely spoke to anyone and barely even smiled, so I could easily tell that she didn't like the party that much. I guess she's not much of a party animal like I am. Had I known this I would not invited her at all, I invited her cause she's a good friend. But it looked mostly like she was tormented during the evening, and that just didn't feel right on my behalf. I actually felt bad because of it.

And the party continued into the city. We went to the Gay dance place called Gretas and we had an awesome night. Such great music in that club and it was a giant crowd too. We danced and had soooo much fun. I even was hit on by a girl..tihi. It was the first time that happened, I think and I got really flattered. :)

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Today I realized for myself that there's surely nothing sexier than a man's hairy chest. I did realize this today when I lied there with my head on his chest. Who's chest you ask? That's a secret. ;)

2 Parties

2010-02-13T04:39:00.003+01:00

This was not something I planned, but now there's 2 birthday parties for me. One would be enough, if I should be frank, but now I'm starting to plan my second birthday party. It will be less wild than the one I will have tomorrow. But still, there is some planning to be made. It will be fun however, but I foremost need to focus on the birthday party I'll have tomorrow.

Gosh, two whole Saturdays already booked up and the second one wasn't really my choice..oh well. It can be a lot of fun anyway. I've went to a Valentine's dance today with my friends. There were soooo many people there, must had been like 200 if not more. I don't really like it when there's so many strangers at an event. It makes it more difficult to find your friends in that crowd, so it makes me a little uneasy. I don't have that problem at discoteques, it's different then.

Anyway I had a really nice time tonight. Danced with 8 of my guy friends and all of them are quite cute. Maybe I should consider myself a lucky girl. Now it's time to sleep, I arrived at home way to late. :P

25 and counting ;)

2010-02-11T01:35:00.007+01:00

Birthday cupcake, just what I wished for. How did ya' know? ;)

Today (or rather tomorrow) is my birthday. I will celebrate it with my family tomorrow. First I will go to Avatar 3D in the cinema with my brother and Lena. It will be the second time that I will be watching Avatar. I love that movie.

And later in the evening, because Avatar is almost 3 hours long, I will eat good food and cake with my relatives and my family. It's going to be really nice. But I decided turning 25 needed to be celebrated a bit more, so I'm gonna have a big party this Saturday with my closest friends. It's gonna be singstar, pre-party at my place and then we'll hit the town and find a good party place. It's gonna be lots of fun and alcohol. And maybe some chips.

Party down! Jaay! :D

It's complicated...

2010-01-31T02:50:00.006+01:00

...What an awesome catchphrase and it totally describes my own emotional life, it's quite complicated. I have emotions and lots of them, for lots of people (those people being men). It's simply complicated and thus making it ideal for me to watch the new comedy with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin called "It's complicated". It's in the cinema and I am aiming at going to the cinema and watching this movie, alone.

It would be the first time ever in my entire life that I will watch a movie in an cinema solo. It's exciting. I'm even thinking of seeing it tomorrow already. It would be fun and if this movie was indeed a song, it would be the soundtrack of my emotions at the moment. Old habits die hard, they say, and oh, it's so true.

Enough said anyway.

I know that my life hencefort is full of work, it has been for 3 weeks straight lately since I got back from the christmas holiday and I don't see any signs of it slowing down (the pace, I mean).

So I live for the weekends, cause I work during the week. Yesterday I visited an old friend of mine (this friend is an important ingredient in my complicated life, if not making it more so). And today I've spent 6 hours straight with my good friends. They're all guys, I was the only girl there, it was a lot of fun. Guys are fun in one way and girls are fun in an different sort of way. And earlier today I ate some sushi. Life is sweet the days I don't work, the days I do is mostly about work..it consumes me and wears me out. You wouldn't think that 8,5 hours a day would be so straining, but it is. Especially if you work with kids all day. :S

Anyhow, I will resume work next week, so I have to make this last day (Sunday) of freedom count.

Have a nice Sunday tomorrow. Annie has now officially left the building. ;)

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Update: I saw the movie that week and it was actually really funny and quite good too. It wasn't really memorable, but it was entertaining none the less. Plus Steve Martin had a role in it too and he's always funny. One might even call him a comedic genius. Just check out his older movies and you'll understand my point of view.

My to do to list ;)

2010-01-24T01:16:00.005+01:00

This is my real to do-list at the present. If I had the chance I totally would take it. I think L gets what I'm getting at. ;)

The sexy music teacher from the tv-show Glee; Matthew Morrison, 30 yrs. Just his mere curls make me swoon. :P

The sexiness that is this scotsman, actor, called Gerald Butler. Bit older, 40 yrs, but men are like a good wine sometimes. ;) You might recognize him from the movies "300", "ps.I love you" and "The Ugly truth".

And lastly the sexy FBI (BAU) - agent Derek Morgan from the tv-show "Criminal Minds", played by actor Shemar Moore, 39.

Good looking guys. Maybe I should have named this blog poster "my birthday wish list" instead. Cause it's coming up pretty soon. Lol. A girl can only dream. :P

Working sleeping working and so on

2010-01-13T23:29:00.001+01:00

My winter holiday is at end since Monday this week. It’s like this work consumes me, the only free time I have to look forward is this weekend, I will work non-stop till then, but maybe one should not complain. Working is fun, although hard, but it also gives you a salary. And plus I love working with kids (the good ones). Lol.

Just recently I got the video streaming program Voddler and with that and the music streaming program Spotify, I’m all set for free media streaming. But I still think Voddler could offer better movies, but hey, it’s free! :)

So I will be working lots from now on and gosh, I’m quite tired already after a mere 3 work days. Tomorrow I have the early shift, I start at 7 in the morning. That time would be illegal to start working at..hehe. I’m gonna make a proposition about this to the government and I’m expecting an: nay. :P

The only thing that makes me more than tired is this darn coldness, it’s really eating at me and we’re outside with the kids a lot in –14 degrees. Such torment for my poor body.. :(

I hope it will be warmer in Sweden soon, because frankly I’m freezing to death every day. No more snow and no more cold, please.

Good night people.

Year 2010

2010-01-01T14:08:00.005+01:00

It's just the beginning of the year and I don't know what to expect. Will there be lots of adventures this year? Lots of goodtimes with friends? Lots of parties? A lot of work? Lots of studies? It's all so new and fresh and this does somehow intimidate me. I don't know what to expect from the new year that lies ahead of me.

There were some alcohol yesterday, yet I do not have an hangover. I am thankful for that. Last time I hung out with L (just a couple days ago) I got a hungover during the actual hangingout part. Hmm..I should be able to handle red wine better than that. Lol. And that evening was truly great. I wish we could hang out like that more often, my friend. It's always good times with you. :)

I'm looking at 2010 and I hope this will be a much better year than 2009, cause honestly, 2009 wasn't a very good year at all.

Russian Roulette

2009-12-28T01:51:00.003+01:00

Rihanna - Russian Roulette

I posted this because it's one of the, in my opinion, coolest music videos out there currently and also cause it's a good song.

And this is the last song that Michael Jackson ever did; "This is it".

Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-23T16:22:00.002+01:00

This is my last blogging before Christmas. I wish all of my dear friends and blog readers a very Merry Christmas and for those others; Happy Hannuka and Happy Kwanzaa.

Love/Annie :D

2 days left before Christmas

2009-12-22T09:53:00.000+01:00

Snow!

Wow, time moves so quickly. It’s hard to believe that it only remains 2 days before Christmas eve'. I have been cheating though, have already opened 4 gifts already from friends..naughty me. :P

And I have so much things left to do before Christmas..I want to make figurines out of marzipan for once. I’m thinking like: tiny santas, Christmas pigs and such. Maybe I can do that today. Besides planning on baking these goods I also have to decorate, get a Christmas tree and fix the apartment in general, making it prepared for the big day.

I have had such lovely days lately, hanging out with loads of friends, including my dearest friend L. It’s always so much fun to hang out with her. It’s good to know that we have each others backs in good and bad. That if anything defines a very good friend.

Have so many cool pictures to put up to from my fun days. But I dunno where to start really. But I am gonna share some nice pictures from yesterday (Monday) and Friday. And the snow has finally arrived in my city, and it’s all white, pretty and oh, so cold. But I am not one to complain about it, because I might be looking forward to a white Christmas this year. That if anything get’s me in a Christmas spirit.

Friday: Party!

Me and Linnéa at the party Friday

A nice guy from out partying it up.

L also bumped into nice guys..we were both very popular out there at the bars/clubs. What a loss this must've been for the guy she had before..he never knew what he had´until it was gone *shakes head looking disappointed*

My partying outfit. This top (which incidentally matched L's top too. Lol. )in combination with slim fitted jeans, .

Monday: Brunch, friends..good times.

Brunch in the morning, yesterday (Monday). Here sitting with my friends Gabe, M, another girl called L too. Awesome food was eaten at this American inspired little café. I love it.

L and my dear friend M. We’re like best buds, except the Russian Linnéa that is even closer to my heart. Sorry, M. ;)

Gabe and me.

So I hang out with my friends for brunch in the morning and we hung out till 12.30 something, then I had to take a quick stop by my house before returning to the city once again to meet up with my other friends.

Two pretty girls. Me and L in the matching hats...jaay! Obviously we shop in the same department store or something..lol. Showing what's hot in the coldness that is Sweden right now.

For all you fashion-lovers out there: Winter outfit for 2009. Copy and repeat. ;)

Me, strutting the right stuff..lol. And the Ica bag (displayed in the picture) is a given accessory if you live in Sweden. Simply put; a must have.

As you can tell, by the pics, I have had an awesome couple of days lately. I did not display my whole weekend in pictures though, at saturday I barely took one pic, but I still hang out with friends at the evening after finishing the essay exam for the University. The last exam for this year.

Now I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :)

It’s cold outside and the moon is bright

2009-12-20T03:06:00.001+01:00

It’s cold outside and it’s chills

along my spine

it feels

so cold so white

and walking home in the night

doesn’t really give me a fright

just coldness upon my skin

upon my heart

I have warmth but it doesn’t suffice

it’s so cold outside

and the darkness reign

it’s so pale, so grey

like the world has gone astray

but what do I see in the distance

but a light that flashes by

a light from above

that will keep us all warm

that has come to save us all

it’s not so much cold anymore

at least not

in my

soul

Walking home from my friend’s house in the middle of the night just now gave me inspiration to this little poem. It was so cold outside, it was rather silly. Now I’m finished with all my University chores, finished my last exam today. Jaay! But suddenly I’m feeling a bit unsure, like what to do next. But I do have loads I want to do before Christmas. It’s going to be fun to finally have some free time and have time to enjoy life and this holiday season. Spend it well with family and friends. Nice. :)

It’s so on!

2009-12-16T22:24:00.003+01:00

Soon I have freedom. Just a couple of days of studies remaining before my holiday. I’m both stressed and psyched about it. Now I just have to make sure that I finish this five pages essay due Saturday. And on friday me and best bud L is gonna party it up. We’re both single now and it equals good times and (hopefully) cute boys. It’s going to be so much fun!

So looking forward to it, cause I’m getting tired of only studying all the time and now I feel like having fun instead. It’s about freakin’ time.

We will dress up awesomely and dance our shoes/boots off..lol.

And it’s so soon Christmas, it’s crazy. I still haven’t finished all my Christmas shopping, cause I don’t know what to buy my family members. My friend (and my brothers girlfriend) Lena is my least worry, because I already know what to get her and what she likes. My big problems is my dad and brother, frankly haven’t got a clue what to get them for Christmas. Why is it so harder to buy Christmas gifts to men? :P

Attila stands for loser...

2009-12-11T21:44:00.007+01:00

This is a breakdown of his name:

A for ass (donkey)

T for terrible

T for toothless

I for idiot

L for loser

A for ape

What did he lose then, you ask? He lost the wonderful love that is from his former girlfriend L.

Oh yes, this is a burn big time. It’s not cool how you treated my friend L, after how loving and nice she’s been to you and this is me, putting my foot down. When you hurt my friend, you indirectly hurt me too. So this is what you get when you hurt my dear friend L.

Coldness is in his heart
frankness when he depart
idiot is her first thought
when after his name she sought
Lying is in his game
also being stupid, that's such a shame
Now Attila it's you who lose
and you will forever be a douche.
Copyright©Annelie Holm

This is for you, hun. Shoutout to you, L. Love ya', darling! :)

And a message for A: Burn, zombie, burn. You will sincerly find out that in the end you lost the most of all. And she will move on and find a better man.

Birthday party and Christmas fun

2009-12-09T22:28:00.001+01:00

This Saturday I joined my friends to celebrate my friend Johanna’s birthday.

Birthday party for my friend Johanna (the girl in the middle), and me to the left.

I was at a birthday party this Saturday and celebrated my friend Johanna’s birthday. It was loads of fun and many of my friends were there to celebrate her. It’s one of the best parties I’ve been to this year actually. We had a lot of fun social games and we ended the evening with baking cakes of cream in cool shapes and Johanna opening up her presents.

This is the cake me and three other people created. We made it in a shape of a flower and it was so cute. And delicious too.

Here’s all the cakes we made that evening. The pink one shaped like a heart won the contest of “Best looking cake”, but our flower cake won the prize of “Best tasting cake”. It did taste really good, I was so proud of our creation and somewhat smog. Lol :P

And on Sunday I joined my very good friend Linnéa and we had “det goda samtalet (the good conversation) at our favourite café. It was really nice and after chatting with her for a couple of hours we decided to tag along to a Christmas party.

Linnéa and her favourite liquid to drink, Coffee. Served black, not stirred. ;)

Me and Linnéa goofing off at the Christmas party. Is Darth Vader having a laugh in the background? :P

Came home from the christmas party at 12 pm. So late, but it was a fun night. :D

And now I’m keeping busy with three exams coming up this week. Yikes. Gotta study. :)

Jingle bells for frosty the snowman

2009-12-03T19:01:00.000+01:00

So now it’s already December, where the heck has time gone? November just flew by like a wild bird. And since it’s December now it equals one thing the most – Christmas shopping and preparation. The Christmas shopping is my biggest fear and it is firstly because moneywise you get poor after finishing all the shopping. And secondly I have to figure out what to get everyone. So that’s the hardest part about it. I still have to figure out what to get most of my family members, and I have lots more to buy my friends. But as time goes along I seem to figure out one thing or two. I think I even figured out what to give to my friend L now. :)

And now the decorations remains. But I started a little today, I bought me an adorable USB-snowman. That’s right, an snowman that have to be plugged into some USB-slot to function and thus I connected it to my cute laptop. They’re like best buds now. Lol.

Here’s my decoration and and a picture of myself in my brand now comfy cardigan which I bought recently at Ullared (A giant mall in Sweden with great prices on everything).

This is one of my sweaters that I bought in Ullared. Looking good without makeup ey? ;)

My cute little color-changing USB-snowman. Isn’t it cute? I think it’s freakin’ adorable.

Is there any better way to celebrate Christmas then with the star that led the three wise men to Bethlehem and to Jesus? I think not.

Here I am in my new comfortable cardigan which I also bought in Ullared. I took this picture 30 minutes ago or something.

And lastly my favorite makeup which I bought the other day. It’s different lipgloss in great colors called “Nudie” from the brand “Viva La Diva”. I love it! This might not be a Christmas decoration in general, but I still wanted to display them.

Right now I’m just chilling by my laptop, listening to Taylor Swift on Spotify and sipping my instant coffee. (Yes, that’s right; I’m not such a big Cappuccino-fan any more, more of the black sort of coffee person nowadays. Soon I have to get going with my studies. Have some important things to finish up to this Saturday for my English class.

Tomorrow I’m gonna work for 8,5 hours. That’s all for now. :)

Poem to my friend Linnéa Josefina

2009-12-03T02:47:00.003+01:00

Things were like hell, when you weren't well
I feel apart and it hurted in my heart
trying to prepare, trying to beware
of the fearsome days and night ahead of me
Losing my dear friend would almost mean the end
I was so taken in fear, my dear
I took every chance to get a last glance
of my friend fading away
It was horrible
bloody awful
terrible
horrific and all that
I was breathless
I was anxious
I prayed and I prayed and I prayed.
Now she is well, it worked like a spell
I'm so relieved and thankful and all
I am so glad that she bounced back
My friend is well and I wait not to tell
Those piggies couldn't get to her
they tried to hurt her
but thankfully they
they didn't suceed
cause I was there by her side
she's like a sister of mine
Copyright©Annelie Holm

Love you, L. This might be the lamest poem/song I've ever written..but who cares. It's spontanious and from the heart. Nothing else matters than family and friends. :)

Next thing I have on my agenda: Buying an Taylor Swift album on iTunes. I'm thinking of the album "Fearless" from 2009, cause I've listened to it lots and lots on Spotify. Taylor Swift rocks!

And hencefort I will study some and then on friday work for 8,5 hour. And then I have to go to the University for my english class this Saturday and later that same Saturday I will go to a birthday party and lots of my friends will be there. It will be lots of fun as usual.

Oh, and my awesome friend L which I dedicated this (half lame) poem to is coming home to Sweden this weekend and will stay for a longer while. That is the best news ever! :D

This is a tribute worth mentioning :P

2009-11-27T15:30:00.004+01:00

Lol..this is hilarious and oh, so good. I think they sing even better than the real thing...Freddie doesn't stand a chance against the Muppets..kidding ;)

A little update: My friend Linnéa is feeling so much better now and she's almost rid of the terrible Swine flu. I'm so grateful. And I work all the time, spend too much time with friends, are busy 24/7 and yesterday I realized being busy 24/7 isn't healthy..not a bit.

Yesterday I did the following: Worked all day, after work; visited a friend at the hospital (he have had a surgery), then resturant, and finished off with a 80's concert including Johnny Logan. So I got home at 11.20 pm and had to go up today at 6 am..man, I'm tired.

Today I've just worked, and I'm going to take a nap now and have a lazy weekend, have to wind down A LOT!

Crazy pace, it's not good for ya'. Have a nice weekend all. :)

Fucking swine flu!!

2009-11-18T20:32:00.003+01:00

This swine flu has taken such a grip of my friend Linnéa. My most dearest friend and not a chance in hell I would let her surrender into that stupid disease. Especially not a disease named so stupidly. Why, my darling, didn't you get that vaccine shot when it was offered to you? :(

I know you hate syringes and so do I....HATE 'EM and hospitals on top of that. But I didn't flinch one second when I got into the chair the other day to take my syringe. I understood that this time it could be a serious disease and I did not want to risk it. And yes, I got side effects; I almost got the fever 37,3 yesterday when I woke up, tiredness through the whole day Monday and yesterday, had (and still have) a terrible pain in my arm after the shot. I also felt a bit sick, and walked in slow-mo all day yesterday. And an idiot as I am, I still got up and went to work. But I managed sort of. And the people at work were greatful that I showed up.

And today my condition was way better. The only thing remaining now is an ache in my arm and it being quite swollen. I just have to avoid walking into people on that certain side. I work non-stop now and I also have to have time to study some english, but I'm mostly worn out after the day. And I always have my thoughts wandering back to Linnéas condition, feeling worried each day, no matter how much I work.

Anyhow, back to Linnéa. Get well, darnit! You have to fight this disease. I love you so much, my friend and you have all the support in the world from your family and closest friends.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Stupid pigs..be gone.

Emotional chaos

2009-11-09T11:24:00.002+01:00

Things have been so messed up lately and I don't even know where to start. I can say this though, the events that has taken place lately in my life has left me feeling confused, sad, angry, frightened, forsaken..so many emotions has been going through me and that's has gotten me to act more strangely than usual. I have no order of my feelings and are trying my best not to get upset over the littlest thing, but most of the time I fail. I even (sort of) lashed out at one of my best friends Josefina and it was all uncalled for and I apologize. Hope you're reading this. I'm going to a psychologist today (for the first time in my life) to try to deal with the things that happened to me. It is so hard to deal with it on my own and that's why I think it's good to talk about it.

My nearest friends knows about what's happened and I'm not going into details about it on my blog. I couldn't bare it to bare it all here too.

So, to J, sorry for me overreacting and being over-emotional. That's usually not how I roll. At this moment i'm all over the place.

Without fear

2009-10-24T00:34:00.003+02:00

Without fear

Three people and me
how surreal could this be?
barely had imagine
and now
I know
how it feels to be
chased
kicked around
hurt
physically and mentally
so scared today
when I walked down the same path
people advanced in number three
ran the other way
no way I wanted to endure that
again
not ever do I want that
I might seem like a coward
but in real life
I'm brave
what I did was brave
and I'm strong
although frightened
I decided to fight
the fear
fight them who fought me
I will in the nearby future
no longer be
afraid

Copyright©Annelie Holm

Sickness and coldness

2009-10-18T22:27:00.002+02:00

I've been working loads, been studying too and also the latest couple of weeks I had a cold that brought me down for a while. And then I felt good for a few days and (lo and behold) got another cold..it's terrible. I was feeling so much better and now I'm back where I started again. So I'm not gonna work tomorrow, because I really have to beat this second cold and I'm sort of powerless. Feeling rather sick actually.

And yesterday I went to a party with friends although I had a runny nose, terrible cough and what not. I just don't understand why I don't get better now..I've been trying it all. Vitamines, honey, pills for cough, herbal medicine..you name it. The Pharmacy is currently my best friend, that's how co-dependent I am. But besides me feeling a bit ill yesterday, I still had a great day and party. We had loads of fun.

So I've been very busy and thus haven't had the time to blog..but at least I blog now.
If you have any good advice about how to cure a bad cold, I'd love to hear it. :)

Have a good evening all and for my friend L - sleep tight.

Someone new

2009-10-03T23:08:00.002+02:00

-Someone new-

I'm having withdrawal
and now you have someone new
someone who shines up your life
with love and spirits
the same way you made me feel
but did you ever feel the same?
It felt like you played a game
where my heart was the bait
And I got fooled
into these fantasies
about you and me
holding hands
walking on sandy beaches
in the moonlight
with stars falling from the sky
embracing us in the moonlight
Man, how it was a dream
I know now that it's all over
the dreams of you and me
Now it's just a fantasy
You found someone new
someone who shines up your life
with love and spirits
So I guess I just have to face it
Our part in the history ended
way too
soon
Copyright©Annelie Holm

Crappy

2009-10-01T18:29:00.002+02:00

I have a terrible cold at the moment and I feel really crappy..and still I have loads of work to get to and also studies...

Let's just say that I'm not in my best game at the moment. But listening to Madonnas new album "Celebration" eases my symptoms somewhat, or at least gives my cold a soundtrack. Lol :P

I might be pretty sick, but at least the cold hasn't affected my sense of humour, yet ;)

Soul searching

2009-09-22T23:37:00.003+02:00

That's what I've been up to lately, amongst studies and what not. I've been to a concert, gone to the ballet, and that was only this weekend. Spent time with friends when possible and it always makes me feel cheered up, not that I really need to be cheered up though. But I always feel better in company of friends.

Sometimes one come to a place in life where one start to ponder. Ponder about life in general maybe, or other things. I feel that my mind is in a really complex period now..it's hard to put words to my thoughts. I feel a bit confused. I just know one things, when you feel troubled in life you can always depend on three things: Your family, friends and music. Spotify is a blessing in the disguise. Lol. :P

I wish it wasn't so dark here in Sweden now, maybe it's the autumn that makes me feel so weird. Don't know. But what I do know is that I have way to much things to study and do right now and it causes me to lose sleep..I really have to deal with these stuff instead of listening to music and talking to friends on msn. Good night all. :)

Bless you, Spotify and Regina Spektor

2009-09-16T22:19:00.010+02:00

I love music and I love the music service called "Spotify". Don't know if it's an international service, but I think so. It's simply awesome and I have Spotify to thank for getting me to know the awesomeness that is Regina Spektor. She is really something different. She composes her own songs and play them eliquentely on the piano and I love the sound of her voice. And the fact that she was born in Russia makes her even cooler. My favourite song for the moment from her is one of her latest singles: "Laughing with" which is a song about god. It's very good.
If you have spotify you can listen to the song here:

http://open.spotify.com/track/7JPuCtaN1yiGh9Clb1PESb

I have the advertised (free) version of Spotify, but it still rocks. I also get the oppurtunity to hear rarities from Johnny Cash, David Bowie and also U2. And so much more, I haven't had time to explore it yet.

It freakin' rocks! :D

Got loads of studies to get to, so I better get started, problem is I don't have all the books I need yet. Only got 3 of 8 books. And I will be quite busy from now on, so it's gonna be stressful with all these studies, so I have to make up a plan or something so I can study more effectively.

Yesterday I spent the day with my very good male friend M. We ate sushi together and then went to the cinema and saw the very popular Sci-fi movie "District 9". It was a really special movie and it's very hard to define it's genré..hard to tell if it was a drama, comedy, pure sci-fi, documentary..it was all very strange and very very good..I think. When we left the cinema we had a real hard time talking about it, because it was very very different from any movie we've ever seen, and I've seen lots of movies. It was however worth seeing and had some really awesome effects.

But I recommend that you see it, if you like sci-fi mocumentary (fake documentarys are referred to this name).

RIP Patrick Swayze - a good actor who died this Tuesday. He'll be dirty dancing it up to heaven.

Water

2009-09-13T17:35:00.005+02:00

Today they shut off the watersupply in my apartment. It recently came back and now it's gone again. I'm getting really annoyed now, because I haven't been able to take a shower yet because there isn't any water to do so. What the heck is going on?

There is problem with the water pipes further down the street and every time they fix it it seems to lead to bigger problems. So for ca an hour the water came back and I got happy to see it return and now the water is shut off again..I need water. I'm really angry now because this is the third time during one week.

For crying out loud... :(

Studies, friends and pies equal good times

2009-09-06T02:44:00.004+02:00

Today I went to the University, I study English in a course at an institute quite well known for my friend L. I really like the course, but not necessary how the course is configured. But it was indeed a very intresting day today, sadly I had to get up 8 am at a Saturday - not a big fan of that fact..lol. And I know for sure that there will be lots of English studies ahead of me, but I see it as a nice challenge, although I'm not looking forward to the exam in Phonetics in the end of the class. But still - a challenge.

So after spending 6 hours at the University I went home, took something to eat and rested for 30 minutes approx, because of lack of sleeping the night before. And after that "nap" I dashed away to a friends house for a game night. It was really fun and we all had a good time. We played a fun game where you learn more about yourself as a person, it was a bit hard at times to see observe yourself from someone else's perspective.

And plus my male friend K, who was the host for the Game night, baked us a pie (smulpaj) made out of apples. It was delicious to say at least, but I think I ate one pie piece too many.

I got home at 11.30 pm and now I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow I have to go up pretty early too cause I'm visiting my friend A brand new apartment and are gonna cuddle with her new kitty cat. It's going to be very intresting to see how the apartment looks. Good night people. :)

Is it getting better?

2009-09-03T18:36:00.003+02:00

(Quoting Bono in the U2 song "One").

Yes, things are looking better and I got to vent some of my emotions in a semi-mean but semi-truthful poem in my last blog. It was necessary. Maybe you guys didn't understand it, but I think you got the general idea of it. I wrote it in Spanish because of one reason and it's because the only way to write that poem and my emotions, in an understandable way, was spanish.
Some things in life I'm uneasy with putting on display via my blog. I am somewhat of a private person when needed, especially when it comes to my emotions and when feeling fragile. I don't like to write too much about stuff that belongs within that subject.

This Saturday I'm starting my English for teacher class, what a bummer that it's on a weekend. :(

But It will be intresting to learn University English and I'm sorta looking forward to it. I have however not bought any book to the class yet. But it's foremost cause I don't know which of the books that is most necessary for the class.

Tu esto perdido en mi vida

2009-09-01T01:58:00.008+02:00

Tu esto perdido en mi vida
Creo tu esta una influenca en mi vida de tiene no bien
No me gusta usted mas, tu esta el diablo de grande
porque el tienes muy malo
malo por me
tienes no bien
No queiro tu en mi vida, no mas
tu esta no mi amigo o mi novio
mi corazon esta todo no mas
tu esta nada por me, nada
solo un person de mucho malo y una imbecil

Es la verdad - the truth might hurt, but you hurted me.

(Note to spanish speakers; yo se mi espanol tiene no mucho de professionale, pero solo habla un poco de espanol and I didn't use an dictonary when I wrote this letter above).

What would my mama do

2009-08-30T02:23:00.002+02:00

Mama do - Pixie Lott

I just can't get this song outta my head, it's really good and catchy and the singer is really cute too. :)

Hello Spain!

2009-08-18T02:18:00.004+02:00

Going to Gran Canarias soon, an island that belongs to Spain. To be more exact I'm gonna leave for the airport in roughly 2 hours. I don't even get a shut eye. I mean for real, 1,5 hour or less, is it actually worth it?

Anyhow, it's going to be very nice. It's a family vacation, I went a month earlier, to Barcelona. But that was a friend vacation. It's not gonna be as much booze and partying this time around. But it will be in November when I return to Spain to visit a special someone. ;)

Today have been a very busy day. It's been arrends and shopping groceries for my grandparents. Helping my brother finding a new mp3-player, helping him installing music in this mp3 player, spending time with my very chatty neighbour, eating sushi, doing the dishes, and finishing packing my bag.

And now I'm gonna hit the shower, cause honestly there's no idea to go to sleep even yet.
So goodbye Sweden, Hello Spain. And more importantly; Hello sun! :D

Adios.

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A little sum up from the week when I was too busy to blog, sorry. ;)
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Spent two days with my friend Meela, had a movie night with my friends M and D and M slept over. And went to an Europe concert on thursday with my best bud Linnéa and her friend X. Shout out to you, my dear friend. :D

That was about it I guess.

Madonna, here I come!

2009-08-09T17:57:00.003+02:00

I'm going to a Madonna concert tonight. Finally I will see "The Material Girl" live on stage.
It will be so cool. I bet she won't beat the U2 concerts that I've already been to, but I'm hoping she will do a great show nevertheless. So tonight at 8 pm I will go to the arena. This is gonna be so awesome, cause I have really good seats to this concert too. Just as good as the second U2 concert.

Madonna is awesome!

My trip to Barcelona

2009-08-08T18:57:00.003+02:00

This is a very late blog about my trip to Barcelona, which was 2 and a half weeks ago. Lol. I’ve been very busy since then and didn’t know how to write a summary of the trip. But now I will try to write a little about it anyway. And also post some pictures as I promised. :)

So this is my good friend Alexandra that I stayed with in Barcelona, she is so cool, funny and awesome. And plus she let me and my friends stay at her apartment for free.

Second night in Barcelona, when Elena just had arrived to Alexandras apartment and we celebrated the evening with Rosé wine.

Barcelona is a crowded city with 8 times as much people as in Gothenburg where I live. So I did feel small with this big amount of population. This picture,I think, is taken at the area called Catalunya, one of my favourite spots in Barcelona. We took the Metro to get around in Barcelona. And yes, sometimes you did get lost. :P

One of the smaller shoppingstreets close to Liceu. We (me and my friends) spent a lot of time walking around in the smaller and wider streets looking for things to eat and cheap shoe and clothingstores. What I really liked about BCN is that everything was much cheaper than in Sweden, not to forget the liquor. Awesome!

I think this statue is located in the place called Placa Éspanya. I really liked it.

And here is a beautiful place with a big National art muséum at the top of this hill. Me and my friends went all the way up to the top. Thankfully there were escalators too and not only stairs.

See, a couple of escalators for us lazy persons. But we were lazy because of the heat of the Barcelona sun. It was really warm every day. Extremely warm most of the time. :)

Two (Russian) friends of mine which I traveled with. Alexandra and Elena. And in the background you can see “Museum de naciónal” (I think it was called something like that). And also a big ,at the day,inactive fountain. It was wonderful in the evening though, when they played music and the fountain changed colors and played with the music.

Elena, me and Alexandra. And there were parties everynight, lots of mojitos and so much fun. I also found me a boy in Barcelona and romance ensued. Lol. :P And also got to meet a lot of Spanish people and learn a lot about Barcelona. It was so much fun.

A nice view over Barcelona. Such a beautiful city.

Me at Barcelona beach.

Alexandra, our friend Pablo, Elena and me drinking Absintá (Absint) in a local pub somewhere. It was a very nice night. I hope this gave a little insight to my trip to Barcelona. It was so eventful that it was actually hard to describe in simple words. But I hope you guys enjoyed the pictures. And I can say this, I love Barcelona, such an amazing, beautiful city.

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And on another note, tomorrow I’m going to the Madonna concert.

It will be so cool. :D

U2 is coming tomorrow!

2009-07-30T22:47:00.002+02:00

Just to update the situation with the U2 concert, it was solved (magically) yesterday. Somehow the roadies working for U2 fixed the problem, maybe they worked harder, dunno. But the concert is still on, and it's gonna be awesome. The only downside, the weather. It's probably gonna rain on friday, from what I've read on the internet, and that's not so much fun. But nevertheless it's still gonna be an amazing experience to see U2 live.

Oh, and another thing, I sorta impulsively decided to buy another U2 ticket just now, but for the Saturday show. And on a much better seat, very close to the stage. And now I have, and I'm going solo on Saturday, it's gonna be awesome. And from now on I'm gonna save my money. No more splurging for Annelie hencefort. :P

But I only did this because of U2, I love U2. It's my favourite band ever!

There's a cloud in my sky

2009-07-29T02:13:00.003+02:00

The vacation to Barcelona was awesome, and I will try to blog about it soon, with some pics from the trip. But there's been a bit of an issue on my mind lately.
As it is right now, it's not sure that U2 is coming to the concert as planned. There has been protests in the city of Dublin since their 3 days concert. People were angry at the noise they made building the stage for the concert, the loud music during the concert and taking down the stage afterwards.

So 80 people decided to block and restrict the concert workers (roadies) paths, and this action deleyed the people working with the stage equipment so much that they actually missed their ferry to Gothenburg, and therefore they don't have all the audio and visual equipment that is needed for U2 to perform here in Sweden. I think in someway this was really mean of the people protesting, just that they blocked their way and might possibly destroy our U2 experience.

Read about it here: http://www.nme.com/news/u2/46356

For us Swedes their might not be any concert at all, and I really looked forward to this concert such a long time. Many many years to say at least. So I'm hoping they can make it work on time anyway, because I would feel so bummed out if they cancelled the whole concert with a minor refund. I don't care about the money spent, I just really want to see U2 live. It's been a dream of mine since forever almost.

But I can however feel sympathic to the people who were disturbed by the noise, but the ones who were blocking the way in pure malice, that was just mean. This action doesn't hurt the roadies much, it doesn't hurt U2 (except a little), but mostly it hurts the Swedish U2 fans who payed lots of money to see the concert and are so looking forward to it. I just feel bummed out right now.

:(

This is it

2009-07-12T21:10:00.007+02:00

This is it:

Tomorrow I'm leaving for Barcelona. For sunbathing, swimming in the ocean, hot latinoguys, partying, shopping and other fun stuff.

So I'm busy packing, trying not to forget anything of importance and avoiding overloading the bags amount of weight, the flight I'm going on has quite big limitations when it comes to the suitcases.

And I'm so nervous, I'm gonna find my way to my friends house in Barcelona all by myself tomorrow. It's gonna be a challange, but I think I can do it. Wish me luck!

Yo boy á la Barcelona manjana. Yeah!
It's gonna be awesome. :D

Gothenburg by night

2009-07-09T03:16:00.000+02:00

Picture taken by me yesterday night. I think it was so beautiful that I wanted to share this pic with you guys.

I’ve had an awesome and very busy week. Spent loads of times with friends and this is something I will do tomorrow. Been so busy I’ve haven’t had time to prepare for the trip yet. Maybe I might be able to do this tomorrow, cause I’m not meeting up with my friends until later in the evening tomorrow. I have to wash my clothes and pack, cause I need to have things with me to Barcelona. Preferably clean clothes. And I’m gonna pack a book, maybe “The devil wears Prada”.

I’m still counting the days, it’s just 4 days remaining before my trip, I’m so looking forward to it. And why, because it’s pooring down rain in Sweden now, so it’s a great time to travel to hopefully sunny Spain.

Oh, and I went on an amazing date today. Didn’t come home until 1.30 am. Lol. Awesome.

Barcelona

2009-07-03T22:34:00.005+02:00

I'm going to Barcelona! The wonderful, very warm city, in upper Spain.

Barcelona by night.

I'm invited to stay at my friends house for a week in BC. It's gonna be awesome.

It's me, my friend Alexandra, Elena and her friend Alexandra. So it's gonna be four girls having a blast. Going to the beach by day and partying by night.

It's going to be so awesome.

Today it's exactly 10 days remaining before the trip to Barcelona. I prepeared my trip today by buying two brand new bikinis, both adorable. And then I'm also gonna buy some sun lotion and other necessities.

I am so looking forward to this trip, I've heard that the weather in Barcelona is quite warm. I think it's been around 30 degrees in Sweden recently, but in BC it's 38-40 degrees celsius. That's quite hot. And not to forget to mention the beaches, endless beaches all along the coastline of Barcelona.

Today I went swimming in a lake. It was great.
And now I'm all tired in my head because of too much sun exposure. Have a good night.

:)

Tribute to Michael Jackson

2009-06-28T01:47:00.010+02:00

It's totally unbelivable and so hard for me to deal with passing of Michael Jackson. It doesn't feel real and today as I watched one of my favourite songs and videos ever from Michael; "Earth song" my eyes started tearing up.

I suddenly realized that it was for real and still it hasn't sunk in. I guess I still have that teenage crush on him that I had as a little child, this is Michael Jackson, man! The icon, the legend, the musical genius and he is no more. Unreal. :(

Because of this I wanted to make a little tribute to the big legendary artist. This is a selection of my favourite videos with MJ, the songs I liked the very most throughout his career.

R.I.P Michael Jackson and hope your life will be better in the afterlife.

"Earth Song"

"Billy Jean"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9EAZa3aIQ - "You are not alone"

"Thriller"

ps. I also looove the song "Black and white", but I can't blog too many videos on my page. ds

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Update: Check out my homepage: http://www.annelieholm.com/ for an extra tribute thing for MJ.

RIP Michael Jackson

2009-06-26T01:34:00.004+02:00

I heard the official news a little earlier today that Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, has died. I am still shocked and sad about it. It's so unreal and I was his biggest fan when I was little. From ages 8-14 something. I love his music and it feels so weird to know that Michael Jackson is no more.
What do you guys think?

He was a legend in music and one of a kind. Michael Jackson became 50 years old.
Michael Jackson (1958-2009).

:(

The weather is fine...

2009-06-24T17:18:00.004+02:00

...but I'm bored out of my mind. I don't like being free from work during this summer, it's boring. I'm usually a workoholic, and not a couchpotato. So the sun is shining, but I still have no idea of what to do. And I don't have any strenght to arrange meetings with friends or anything.

But I have started to read the book "The devil wears prada", that might keep me occupied some. And I went to Liseberg this monday and that was awesome. Liseberg is a big amusement park in Sweden with a lot of cool rides.

The weather is awesome here by the way, it's 25 degrees celsius, a day like this is for swimming in the ocean or something like that.

Weird Al Yankovic's new single - Craigslist

2009-06-18T17:12:00.009+02:00

This is Weird Al Yankovic's new single and video for "Craigslist" that is available on iTunes right now. It was released this week. Click here to purchase it from iTunes right now:

Download song from iTunes

I have listened to the song twice, it hasn't really caught on yet, but at least now I know what the phenonemon "Craigslist" is all about. The homepage he's referring to is not something we have in Sweden really, so I did at first not understand the subject of the song. What do you guys think about it?

Oh, and regarding the dentist; No cavities. I beat them again, just like last year. No extra pay for the dentist this year either.

Midsummer's toothfairy

2009-06-17T23:08:00.007+02:00

Lol, I know it's a weird combination in the subject line above and that's the point. I'm going to the dentist tomorrow, thus the toothfairy. And gonna celebrate midsummer's eve with my family on friday and the weekend, thus the midsummers eve in the subject line as well. I'm not happy about going to the dentist, but it's just a routine checkup, and hopefully I don't have any cavities. But I must say, I have been eating lots of Turkish delight lately, just got hooked to that stuff again and it can't be good for my teeth..oh, well.

I'm gonna spend midsummers eve' with my family (minus my brother who is away on a little trip with a friend instead, ungreatful ***..kidding. :P) and I'm also gonna be joined by some of my relatives. But my cousins won't be there sadly, and I seldom get to meet them. And it's because they've moved to cities farther away, lazy as they are nowadays then don't like to travel places to meet up with their family and cousins.

Summer has recently reappeared in my city and Sweden overall, and that's nice. It's not steaming hot right now, but it's getting better. At least it's sunny and not rainy. I think it's about 17 degrees, but not now in the evening however. Hopefully it will peak on friday/saturday and during the weekend. Today I've payed some bills, watched some television and cleaned up at home. I need to do more of the latter. I actually watched "Paris Hilton's new BFF", that show was hilarious. Can't believe what people will go through to be friends with a famous person. But I still like Paris, I don't really know why, but I think she's fun.

Have a nice evening all of you. An extra shoutout to my BFF Josefina who managed to get straight A's on all the latest exams on her University. You're awesome, girl!

This is Annie - signing off for now. :)

The strangest things

2009-06-15T02:43:00.006+02:00

You guys must watch this video. It is quite different. Tell me what you think? I thought it was weird, little bit funny and mainly strange.

This must seriously be the weirdest music video I've seen ever. This one is really something different. The song is called "Dancing Cyprine" and is made by a group called "Omaha bitch song". You really must watch this video to understand how weird, odd, yet inventive it is. And it's also a bit demeaning against women. I'm not thrilled over that part, but I think the group made this video to be funny. It shouldn't be taken too seriously.

Potato Festival

2009-06-13T23:11:00.005+02:00

I've spent this weekend at a place near where I live called Alingsås. Me and one of my absolutely best friends Angel went to the Potato-festivale. It was actually really nice and there were stands everywhere with lots of intreating subjects to look at and buy. I did however not spend too much this weekend.

But I did buy a nice pair of earrings made out of Swaroski crystal and a beautiful neclace with a dragon embracing a red blood-colored small crystal ball. It looks awesome. And I also bought 14 pair of socks eith different cute motives for a mere (approx.) 12 dollar (100 swe kr). I just tend to loose or ruin my socks, so they're needed. I also bought a cute little cuddly toy with soft tentacles (or what you may call it), but it didn't look anything like a squid though. It's more of a round ball made out of rubber, with a nose, mouth and two eyes and it's squeezy and of course, Pink.

We watched Lasse Berghagen on stage on Friday, he's a quite famous folk-singer in Sweden and almost liked by all. He had (what we in Sweden call) Allsång with all the people in the town. It's translated into: "All singing", and it's called that because everyone sings with him. It's a Swedish tradition. And of course he sang Teddybjörnen (the teddybear) Fredriksson and Stockholm i mitt hjärta (in my heart).

And I also managed to watch two good movies which we rented. The first one was:

"Zach and Miri make a porno"

A funny movie with Seth Rogen. He's awesome.

I also watched: "Twilight" - A cool vampire movie.

I came home for approx. an hour ago and had a great weekend. The only downside to it was that it rained the whole freakin' weekend. It only cleared up an half hour before I traveled home again today. Ah, how I love Swedish summer (irony). Lol.

Theory test

2009-06-08T02:35:00.003+02:00

I have my big theory test tomorrow. Wish me luck! I'm pretty nervous about it and really hope I'll make it. :D

The drivingtest is on tuesday, along with the second date with the cute guy I'm currently seeing. But I have time to worry about that tomorrow.

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The date this wednesday went really well. We had lots to talk about and had the same sort of interests and taste in music and films. He was both cute and funny and we just might have something here. To be continued, and sorry for the delay about the details for the date; been working lots too. :)

Dating

2009-06-02T23:01:00.000+02:00

[Picture copyright: Anna Flores; “Take my heart”. www.easyart.se ].

Tomorrow I’m going on a date with this cute guy that I’ve talked to a while. That’s right, it’s over with my boyfriend since a while back and I’ve moved on. I’m so nervous and so excited. I hope it goes well and he seems like such a nice guy, but it’s still our first date. We txt each other like 100 times a day and he’s like so supersweet. I like him and he seems to like me too. It’s just gonna be so exciting to meet him tomorrow, I’m all over myself, jumping off the walls almost of excitement. Not literally, but my emotions does however.

I hope it’ll be a nice date. He’s 27 , so it’s a good match , cause I’m 24. And we have all the common interests and the same sort of humour. It would be simply magic if it would work.

Enough said. Wish me luck! :D

Btw, he just sent me another txt just now. :)

Friends party and summer weather

2009-05-31T17:48:00.007+02:00

Me and the birthday boy M

Yesterday I went to my friend M's birthday party cause he wanted to celebrate that he turned 30. He had many friends over and he arranged a BBQ out by a lake. It was great. Lots of good food, mainly hot dogs and marshmallows. I had a lot of fun.

And later in the evening, at 8, we retreated to his apartment and hung out and played Wii together. Yesterday was actually the first time I tried out Mario cart at Nintendo wii, I sucked at it..haha. Seriously, I was really lame at that game and ended up at last place all the time. But it was funny to play anyway, I just know now that I have to give up my dream being a racecar driver. Lol. :P

We were at most 17 people yesterday and that was far enough. And we all had a great time and met with both new and old friends.

Today I've been a bit lazy and slow. I've been out practicedriving and the weather outside is wonderful and very warm. It's finally summer here in Sweden and I love it!

I'm gonna study some theory later today, my test is coming up and I'm getting a bit nervous for sure.

Chaotic

2009-05-27T22:36:00.003+02:00

I'm sorry for not blogging in a long while, but things in my life has been so stressfull and much has happened. I've seriously have had no time whatsoever to do anything else than working and what not. It's been rather chaotic. When I get my life in order again and I actually have time to breathe I will blog better. I'm simply to busy at the moment and I seriously don't even know where to start.

I just chatted with Jim (John Krasinski) from The Office

2009-05-16T01:18:00.007+02:00

OMG!
I don't know what to do with myself right now. This is so cool. One of my absolutely favourite characters from one of my absolute favourite shows "The office" (US) had a private chat conversation with me 5 minutes ago. And I know, it's silly that I get so hyped over this. But it's Jim, he's the coolest guy in the office. Especially the way he always look into the camera at certain points and his mimics. It was so sweet of him to answer me when I wrote him, I just took a chance not expecting any response at all.

I'm not gonna reveal the source and how I got to talk to him because I don't want to flood him with crazy fans. That's up to him if he wants to have them flooding him, not me. It's enough that he had to talk to one crazy fan..me, lol. Just kidding. I'm not near crazy, just an ordinary fan. However I love that show.

But it was very very cool. And I had to tell someone about it. Had to vent this. And I just know that my best friend L can understand my silly emotions, she is a big Office fan too. Plus, this is very lame, I sorta had a crush on John Krasinski earlier and I still find him sooo cute. Most girls probably agree, unless Dwight is their eyecandy. Am I right,L? I know she's crazy about Dwight and his beets. ;)

Will come back later and update you guys with a longer blog, I've just been having a busy week and gonna sleep soon. Night, peeps.

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Update: This is too cool. Yoko Ono is following me on Twitter! :D
The real wife to the exbeatles-member John Lennon. Surreal.