Happy new year!

The days between christmas and here have been full of parties and cozy hangouts with friends! Today I'm having the annual dinner at my home, I'm cocking for 11 ppl this year 14 last year ;) The pictures are from yesterday when we went shopping for the event.
Alma woke me up early, good since there was a party the day before ;)

At the store Petra went crazy... She is ridiculously competitive and since we did all our shopping in half an hour last year despite all the holiday shoppers she got it in to her head that we should beat that. She categorized the shoppinglist and divided us into teams, we got it done in 20 min including standing in line. Awesome! Even if everyone else at the store thought we had escaped from some kind of institution... ;)
When we came home we prepared both the apartment and the food!

Such teamwork! I love my Family/Friends!

Hope your new years is great!

Namaste

coffee, dress and Alanis

Morningcoffee with mom and afternooncoffee with Dirt, Jo, Petra, Marcus, Alan and Linn. In between Dirt and Jo made me buy a dress for newyears. Quoting my fb-status, yes I know what you are thinking, me???? dress??? yeah I know.... Well they told me it looked amazing so, we'll just have to wait and see ;) Tomorrow we're going to Karlskrona for some more piercings ;) Now cleaning, food and Alanis Morisette. And yes I'm singing loud enough for the neighbors to want to move ;)

Looks like me singing Alanis ;)

Namaste

Tired Monday

After partying Saturday and Sunday, not sleeping Friday I'm kind of spent. Been lounging on the couch all day except for a quick visit to the store. Now ricecookies, dip and mineral-water on the couch in front of Charmed

Hope your evening is good!

Namaste

Christmas part 2

With family Nr:2, who seemed to have some kind of competition last night "who can make the craziest face" or something... I dont know....  ;)

If you wonder why Jo is looking like that it's because Dirt just said Santa doesn't exist....

I'm soooo happy I got this one, look at Vonkii!!! It's not even posed :)

This is the posed one :)

Jo managed a normal one ;)

So did Dirt!
And for the last observation for the evening, this is how polish ppl transport their alcohol, or just Vonkii.... I mean this is the same person who texted me today just to tell me that one could tell my apartment had belonged to an alone old man since the thing holding the toiletpaper is so high up on the wall... she had forgotten to say it yesterday ;) Well thank you Vonkii for that illuminating message! ;) Anyway, back to the alcoholtransportation! "normal" ppl use bottles...

A typical polish thing I guess ;)

Hope your evenings was nice!

Namaste

Christmas

To tired to write much, instead I'm giving you pictures!
Christams with family Nr:1

Mom, Dad and Casper

Casper, the most adorable gingerbreadman in all of the lands!

Casper, Elias and Julia (my sisters kids)

Robin (my sisters eldest)

Mom and Julia

Georgios, mom and sister (mah sistah from anotha mistah!) ;)

My gifts, or some of them ;)

Namaste

X-mas recap!

And again alot has happened! ;) As I told you, me and Marcus went on the epic christmas-tree-quest! This Monday it was finally time to bring the tree home! What we didn't expect was that the tree was going to be bigger than the car... Christmas-tree-quest part two:

I just couldn't stop laughing... Marcus solved the problem by turning up the volume on the car-stereo ;)
Tuesday I went to Växjö to see my teacher, while I was waiting for him I found a hilarious timer :),

We had some coffee and then I met Anahi, in her home on sun-mountain, for some chocolate and "revolution"-music, I know... another thing that would take too much time to explain ;) I ended up attending her BodyBalance class, dude, I'm out of shape ;)

I was seriously afraid I wouldn't be able to get of the bus when I got home... Working out really hard for the first time in six months and then sitting on a bus for two hours directly afterwards.... no......
Lucky me, I got home! ;) But the days following was not a hit for me... I ached in places I didn't know existed!
Wednesday I spent writing the rest on my essays so that I could have a real christmas vacation, feels amazing being done already! Go team me!
Thursday I had a visit from Victoria. She is home for the holidays, a very nice afternoon with alot of tea. She watched while I decorated the tree.
Christmas-tree-quest part three, getting the tree inside:

Christmas-tree-quest part four: (almost done)

And finally done!!!

In the evening I met Dirt, Mathilda and mom for coffee and a walk around the towns christmas fair.

Today was, as it is every year, spent at Olas place! It's the best tradition of the year! (I didn't even photograph half of what we ate and drank... sooooo much stuff!)

Yes, it's real candles in the tree!

I hope your holiday is as nice as mine and that you are among family and/or loved ones!
If your not, you are in my prayers!

Namaste!

I need a hero

and I got one! For months now I've had anxiety over not being able to finish an assignment for school due to me not having the right programs on my pc. Today my friend Marcus fixed all the programs on his pc, made me dinner and helped me so I could finish it! Thank you soooooooooooooooooo much Massan! I feel soooooo much better now!
I also got alot done in school today AND I had time to visit Anahi which always is a treat! She lives on "Sun mountain" yes, it's really called that :) Not that there was much sun there today, quite the opposite ;)

Massan, the hero:

 Get yourself one for christmas! Or wait.... no you can't!!! ;)
But I hope you all have a Marcus of your own!

Namaste

An old friend came from Argentina to visit!

And that's always nice! I see him every three years or so since he lives so far away. As usual he came, we tried to catch up as much as possible, we got food, talked some more, went to another friend of mine for a movie, went home and talked until sleeping time. He always needs to leave the next day if he's going to have time for everyone he wants to visit.

John

But that doesn't matter since it's always good to see old friends, no matter how long they stay!

Namaste

The Star Wars - Marathon

Today was a day of education. Education for the few of our friends that hadn't seen Star Wars ;) First of me and Dirt went to buy christmasgifts. We also had a nice loooooooong coffee-break. After that it was of to Marcus place for the Star Wars Marathon. When I was getting close to his apartment I started noticing signs... First I didn't understand them but when I got to his door and one was posted there to I understood and had a good half-hour laugh! These were the signs:

Now, ten hours and alot of laughing and plan-making later I am home! Time for bed! I leave you with this, in true spirit of the evening:

Namaste

Eldur

Yesterday with Anahi in Växjö was a hit as usual :) I havn't laughed that much in ages. We discovered new things about submarine-captains, Barcelona and an Icelandic vodka aptly named Eldur since "eld" means fire in Swedish... It would take too long to explain it all... ;)

Anahi-time

So it is finally time for me and Anahi to spend some quality-time! Yay! We have been waiting on this for a long time since she is the most busy person on the planet and we live in different cities. Right now I'm cleaning my home, packing my things and writing on one of my essays. Would be nice if I had time to eat also before the bus leaves... I will do my best! And then it's of to Växjö (an hour and a half north of here) to see her!
We call her "Hemulen" and I don't know if you have Tove Jansson stories in the states but in case you don't this is what a hemul looks like:

This is what Anahi looks like:

Not really that much of a difference is there? ;)
Anyway!
Tomorrow mom is going to have me over for dinner after school (this means between 6 and 8 pm because of the distance) and aparently I promised (in a weak moment) that we could watch the Idol final... Ah well, food and moms company is nice!

On saturday we are having an epic-oldfashioned-StarWars-marathon! I will tell you more about that later because now I'm in a hurry! ;)

Namaste

They're here....

I wish I had someone to say this to....

I will go wherever you lead me on rivers of roses or rain
I will follow the signs that you leave me, the mysteries of joy and of pain
I will search for light in the darkness though I stumble through shadow and shade
Oh, if you are with me, Of whom shall I be afraid?
You have lifted me up when I've fallen and driven the ghosts from my door
You have comforted me in my sorrow, wiped my brow when I've been sick and sore
You have shared in all of my triumphs and blessed the crops that we laid
Oh, if you are with me of whom shall I be afraid?

But since I don't I wish that you do

Namaste

The Christmas-tree quest!

Today mom woke me up by ringing my doorbell. It's a VERY angry doorbell... And since my head (and the rest of my body) was kind of sore from yesterdays party with Jo and Madde it wasn't the most ultimate waking-up-situation I've ever been in. She explained herself with "no phones are working" and just then my phone rang... nice ;) anyway, we went out on the christmas-fair in the old parts of town as tradition bids. The weather was everything but good, hard wind and rain... Next on the list was me and Marcus driving up to Hallabro in search of christmas-trees!

Somewhere around here we started to realize what a bad idéa it was for us to search for them in this kind of weather ;)
None of us wanted to leave the car, just look at our faces :)

But we had to, for the quest we were on was both important and almost holy!

we searched everywhere but not a fitting tree in sight!

we got rained on....

...and rained on....

...and rained on some more.... We almost gave up, we even drove to a second location. We got a bit lost, and while Marcus was trying to get a signal to his phone, I turned "christmas-tree-warrior" and struck out on my own! And, as if that was what I were meant to do all along, all of a sudden, There it was!!!!!!!

and it was the prettiest tree in all of the lands!!! Songs will be sung about this tree, me and my quest to find it, trust me! I hope your saturdays are good!

Namaste