Missing Guadalajara

I've been back in Sweden for about 3 weeks now.
I miss Mexico. It is amazing being back with the family, don't get me wrong. But I miss my boyfriend.

The gang

He's amazing.

My time in Guadalajara was quite amazing.
We had a bit of a routine that I really fell in love with.
A "normal" day would look something like this:

We would wake up, drink some diet coke, cook breakfast, clean the apartment then head to Soriana, the grocery store.
Back home we would start thinking about what we would want for lunch and head up on the roof for some quality tanning time. We would tan for about two hours while talking about, to many people's surprise, pretty intelligent subjects. Then head down to decide on "the food problem" (Daniel, 2010).
We would either go for a Kelly's burger, a pizza or a kebab or cook something at home.
We would then go home, send emails, study or just watch some show. Afterwards, Memo would come over, we would hang out and start thinking about dinner.
A perfect day either Patrick or I would cook a nice family dinner and Memo and sometimes someone else would join us and dinner would honestly be amazing.
To finish of the night we would watch a movie, Memo would head off and Daniel, Patrick and I would watch "Cougar Town"; not only a show but also a class in how women work for the boys.

Anywho, today I've been trying to deal with my former shopping addiction which has resulted in a mountain of clothes in my mom's cellar. I've got a pile or two which my sister will go through and after that to a second hand store, and then the clothes I want to keep which are now in drawers.

puss

More snow

It snows a lot in Sweden. It's almost like it hasn't stopped since I came here almost 3 weeks ago, if not more.

Snow is nice, but if it snows you gotta take it away, and today that was my job.
I worked my muscles for a bit, now I am strong and fit.

Other than that life "back home" is pretty relaxed and calm, some rearrangement of furniture, a lot of phone calls from my sister, visits of my sister, my mom's birthday was today which of course we celebrated with a nice lunch and some fika.

This weekend it will be Jönköping bound. Back to university and exams.
Too bad for me I don't really have a place to stay yet, hopefully that will be fixed soon.

The semester will feel long and will be full of learning. I look forward to it, but mostly I look forward to the end of march when I will get a visit.

It will be awesome meeting up with the lost friends back down in Jönköping. It will be crazy!

Puss

New Year

Happy New Year readers!

I took it easy at home with Mom and on skype with Memo! We celebrated the new year with wine and some good food. I also talked with Maria, Bettina and my dad and skype for a while.

I hope you all enjoyed the new year celebrations as it should.
Before writing about the year that passed (tomorrow or something) I stole this list from another blog:



1. How old are you in 5 years?I will be 25... haha, just joking... I will be a majestic 31

2. Who was the last person you met? 
My mom... we spent new years together

3. How tall are you? 
171 cm according to my passport, 170 cm in real life! haha, I stood on my toes!

4. Which was the last movie you saw? 
Life as we know it. About to watch "black swan"

5. Who was the last person you called?Memo on skype, Helena on the cellphone

6. To whom was your last SMS and what did it say? 
actually a BBM and it was to Megan and said something like "yep, it is, it's about 6h until your right"

7. What are today's plan? 
Well, it's almost 2 am, so tomorrow the plan is to meet up with Helena, Emmy and Angelina

8. Do you prefer calling or messages? 
Messages, I don't like calling!

9. Are your parents together or divorced? 
Divorced
10. When did you last see your mom?30 min ago

11. What is your eye color?Blue, green, yellow
12. When did you wake up today? 
9.30 am

13. Did you ever find a cat? 
Define find?! I mean in Turkey and Mexico it was full of "free" cats... never took one home though

14. Which is your favourite place?
With the people I love

15. Which place do you hate? 
Administrative offices

16. Where are you in 10 years? 
With the person I love in a country where we are happy

17. What scared you as a child?
Someone breaking and entering my house, who then would kill me

18. Who made you laugh recently? Memo

19. Are you too young to own (big black) disc? 
I had some when I was younger.

20. Do you use a laptop? 
Only

21. Do you sleep with or without clothes? 
With, or I wake up with a soar throat

22. How many pillows do you have in bed? 
Two, but would want 3... big and fluffy ones... now flat and boring

23. How many countries have you lived in? 
5, Sweden, France, England, Turkey and Mexico

24. Did you ever puke when you were drunk? 
Once or maybe twice...

25. Do you prefer shoes, socks or bare feet? 
Flipflops


26. Are you social? 
Some people would say very, some people would say I am rude. I say I am the way I am... which according to me is very nice

27. Your favourite icecream? 
Ben and Jerry's Cookie dough

28. What would you do if you won a million dollars?Invest it!!!!! Boring but awesome!

29. Do you like Chinese food?I like french chinese food!

30. Do you like coffee?No... I have enough addictions as it is!

31. What do you drink for breakfast? 
Diet coke or O'boy.

32. Do you sleep in any particular position? 
Stomach, face down the pillow

33. Do you know how to play poker? 
The kids version, yes... but I cheat

34. Do you like to cuddle?Yes... a lot


35. Do you have an addictive personality? 
Very

36. Do you know anyone with the same birthday as you? 
2 people, at least

37. Do you want kids?Yep, 3... or maybe two... before I turn 30, so I better get started


38. So you speak any other languages than Swedish? 
English, French fluently. A bit of spanish and german. And of course I understand Norwegian and then yeah... the latin languages are understandable sometime

39. Did you ever ride in an ambulance?Yes, like 2 times

40. Do you prefer the ocean or the pool?A nice clean ocean is always nice

41. What do you prefer spending money on? 
Traveling, friends and family and clothes

42. Do you own precious jewlery? Some

43. What is the last you put in your mouth? A pill n some water

44. Who is the funniest person you know?After myself (haha)... everyone has their moments!

45. Chose a scar on your body? On my right wrist, a scar from getting stuck in a boy outside of Phi Phi Island in Thailand in -98
46. what is your ring tone? 
standard Blackberry

47. Do you still have clothes from when you were young? I think my mom gave it away

48. Do you flirt a lot?People mistake my trying to be nice for flirting, so no

49. Where was you profile picture of your blog taken? 
In Kelly's in Guadalajara, by Fercho
50. Do you know how to change the oil of a car?First of all, arent people paid to do that? Secondly, do I have a drivers license?
52. Which was the last book you read? 
I am reading some collected novels of Dostoijevski

53. Do you read the paper daily? 
Several times actually
55. Do you dance in the car? 
When it is necessary! haha!

56. Which was the last radio station you listened to?My mom wanted P1 so P1 it was

57. What is the last thing you wrote on a paper?One small taco plate

58. When were you in church last?Yesterday
Hope you enjoyed!

Puss

In between days

That's what these days are called in Swedish, "the in between days", not a bad name.

Got back from the mountain yesterday... we had a wonderful time. A lot of snow, a lot of good food, good company and baby Vincent; the main attraction of the week.

I went snowboarding twice, it was nice... although I didn't have my board, which made my life a tad more difficult.

Now, as I said, I am back in Västerås, and today we're going on an adventure to Märsta, Stockholm to visit Riitta my aunt.
The main event being Maria flying in from Paris.

Now you are probably wondering, why is Maria who lives in London, flying in from Paris. Well, Maria was supposed to arrive with my dad and Bettina last week, we were all spending Christmas the big family way.
But because of Heathrow's lack of knowledge and equipment in snow and it's removal, she was not able to join us up in Sweden. So she hopped on a bus to Paris, where Bettinita lives and spent Christmas there. Now she's coming up here because they are all going to Turkey, Ankara for new years....

now my arms hurt...

a plus!

Bisous

Suecia

So I am back in good old Sweden.
I arrived yesterday morning, and haven't done too much except for being exhausted!

Although, I few things have been done.

* Unpacking
* Packing
* Eaten swedish food
* Gone to IKEA
* Made Knäck (xmas candy)
* Hung out with Angelina, Helena n Emmy
* Spent time with Baby Vincent and his parents
* Enjoyed the company of the cats

Now I am enjoying some jetlag, it's amazing!
We will be leaving for Idre, the mountain, in the morning, so hopefully all will be good!

PUSS

Making Knäck

Mamma with her gift

A-k n baby Vincent

Me n Baby Vincent

The reunion

Emmy n I

SNOW

Last weekend

So my last weekend in Mexico is over in an hour... Sad!
But it was an amazing one, so I will not complain!

We just got back to Guadalajara after a 5h drive, and both of us were really tired, so as soon as I am done with this post I will head to bed.

Tomorrow packing will start, and later in the day I have an appointment. Probably we will head up and tan for a bit on the roof before starting with the daily chores (?).

Here are some pictures from the weekend...

PUSS

Jingle all the way...

The tree, the Adventsljusstake and Kylling
 looking up on the tree

which is what I will do all the way until Christmas!

For the past 16 days I've;
Watched an episode of Modern Family, had a romantic picnique on the roof with Memo, talked with my mom, talked with my sister and baby Vincent, talked with my dad, made multiple Christmas playlists on Youtube, realized that it's easier to download the music, so I did, watched the latest Cougar Town, tanned on the roof, watched the latest Modern Family, organized my hard drive, organized my desktop, cleaned the house, bought a Christmas tree, decorated the house while listening to one of the many Christmas playlists, tanned a bit more on the roof, been to talk to different people, been to Bach flower therapy, stole two Hershey bow's at Soriana for the Christmas tree, cleaned out the fridge, bought a book, started reading the book, had another romantic night on the roof with Memo, talked some more with Anna-Karin, called Helena, celebrated my birthday, changed my ticket back to Sweden for the 16th, been informed about the plans for Christmas; the mountains in Sweden with dad's part of the family, watched "The social network", been to the doctor with Daniel, listened to Christmas music, bought a plastic chicken with candy up his ass, said bye to Patrick, been to the immigrations office, slept, rested and enjoyed life!

Tomorrow it's Vallarta bound, last time before I leave... sad!
Very much looking forward to seeing the family and baby Vincent!
PUSS