Christmas Plans

Memo is a spoiled man.
He will arrive in Sweden on the 18th of December.
On the 20th we head over the Baltic sea to Helsinki, coming back on the 22nd.

On the 23d we're going up north-ish... to Säfsen, to spend Christmas there.
It's supposed to be white, and quite nice.
Not bad huh...

I am still feeling pretty iffy, which explains the absence here in the blog. I will try to improve.

Puss

Bipolar

The weather this October is acting up worse than Sophia teething.

This morning when we woke up it was snowing - quite a lot as a matter a fact.
I went to give Sophia 'Välling' and when we came back out it was raining - and hasn't stopped since.
Fun times.

Luckily my sister came for a visit at night.

Sophia and I are both down with quite harsh colds.

Luckily we can sit and think back at the weekend we had - amazing!!!!

ice

Sophia in front of (a super small amount of) snow

Enjoying my night with Sixten the cat

Snow and party

The entire day was spent with my sister.
We went to the mall where I got her a gift - a dress she chose - and we had lunch - IKEA!

I was then left at her house alone where during the next hour I baked two cakes and cleaned up the worst mess.

The cakes turned out great, people lived them and, although the day was amazing - seeing people I know and meeting new people, I am exhausted now.

Good night

The Surprise

Yes, you guess right. 

We are going on a 40h cruise to Helsinki, which happens to be the Design Capital 2012.

Since Memo is a designer, and always talks about Alvar Aalto it seemed just about perfect, AND he gets to go to Finland - my second country - being half Finnish and all.

Fun times to look forward to

Snow!

Snow is here!
I love snow, and I will make sure Sophia loves it too!

Imagine how exciting snow is, especially for children.

We've had a busy day, as will tomorrow be.
On Saturday I will start a weeks house watching in a friends house, Sophia and I will enjoy some alone time!

More about my surprise for memo tomorrow!

Frost

I looked out the window this morning and there was 'frost' everywhere! Yay... Winter is coming.
I love winter.
My favourite holiday Christmas is during winter, my second favourite day st lucia day is on the 13th of December.
And this year we have two more things to look forward to - memo is coming and the surprise trip. I accidentally told him about it, so it is no longer a surprise - bummer. Will tell you guys tomorrow.

Surprises

I am planning a surprise for Memo for Christmas.

We will be heading out on adventure for a few days. As far as I know he doesn't read this blog, but I think I will keep it to myself anyways, you never know if he would get some urge to open it one day... I wouldn't want it to be ruined - the surprise that is.

Tomorrow my sister turns 26, she's going old.h

Now this little lady needs attention

Wow this post was written two days ago, but wasn't published - weird

Picture Perfect

From the weekend

Out and about

Tired after yet another teething period

Teething = itching

Look - NO HANDS!

Tittut

Drinking from her mini glass

Good News

Super good news today
I did not get a job - yet - but the government finally decided I deserve my maternity leave money!

Yay

Finally! I don't need to live off my mom anymore.
Feels great.

Life is good to me right now.

And Now?

It's Friday.
Sophia is sleeping.
I cleaned a bit.

What now?

Either Grey's Anatomy with some chips, or random thing on TV with some chips. The former means staying in bed, the latter couch.

We will see, the decision is quite a challenge.

Have a great weekend, we will.

How Exciting

As I was saying yesterday I have been applying for jobs - but with no feedback, either good or bad.

So this morning I happily noticed I had an email from a recruiter, saying they would contact me soon for the next step of the process.

Of course this doesn't mean I will get the job, which is ok because in do t want one before the summer, but it means I did something right, which was the reason I started sending applications now - to see if I am attractive on the Swedish labour market.

It's only one, but it is one out of the two I sent yesterday. HR assistant.

I am currently waiting for the bath tub to arrive. Sophia is sleeping next to me, Vincent is on his way - I am babysitting him today = chaos!!

I am playing it safe and going to the playground - as long as it doesn't start raining.

So.... Maybe I upload a few pictures later. These old ones will have to do now

Ashamed

I supposed the Germans feel ashamed after what we pulled off yesterday



Just sayin'...

Job applications

Even though I know it's a bit early to start applying for jobs now, I have sent away quite a few applications the past few weeks.
Today I sent two.
No answer - as I expected. Since I am applying to jobs I would like to have, not the ones I will be hired for.

Isn't it sad, that after 3 years of good education, at a good school the jobs that I find that fits me requires many years of experience. And if I check the ones that do not, they don't even require education!
Anywho, so right now I am applying for the ones that require years of experience, because experience I have, just not within business.
So we will see.

I have a few contacts I will talk to when I will start the actual search in January. People who I think work for companies that offers positions I could have.

The list of contacts is short at the moment, but I hope that it will grow soon.
It is important I find a job, so that by the time Memo gets here I have everything set up.

Time to go pee...

Vincent, Sophia, Anna-Karin & Victor

Contrast

While the previous post was quite disgusting, here's a picture update of what we were up to so far today.

The weather was amazing. Around 6c, and sunny - so we went to the play ground

On the potty in the morning

Worm

You see the picture below?

The other week I found that in my bed in vomit.
One of the cats had that in their belly and threw up in my bed. Disgusting... Beyond what words can describe the feeling to see it move in the bed.

Anywho, the other night my mon woke up and was going to turn around in bed, felt something. Thought it was vomit only to realise it was a dead mouse without a its head.

Yay for cats!

Throat

The weekend has been calm.
My throat is hurting a lot and every night I cough my lungs out - to the point that it tasted like blood in the morning.

Sophia is going crazy on the walking and loves walking around with her little cart, she's never still.
She even let go of me today when she was standing and stood by herself for 10 seconds - huge for her.

I am tired and feel really sick. Yay

Good start of the week

Victory

Sophia slept well
I slept well
I fell asleep before midnight (a quarter to) and she wanted to wake up at 7.30

If the weather allows us we will take a nice walk today.

I have heard rumours today was the first morning it was below zero. Fun days ahead, my winter coat is out today!