Last day coming up

Today is the day before the last day of this year. It's been a long and short year, days going terribly slow and being as heavy to bear as Kilimanjaro, and days being filled with something resembling happiness. Dad has been gone for the most part of these 365 days, and I've missed him every day and not really seen any fun in anything but mostly been "going along". At the same time I've had Daniel in my life, the best husband, friend, funny person (Farbror Freij!) and the love of my life! And I have mum, my brother, Daniels family, my friends, relatives and two BEAUTIFUL siberian cats - life can be good too! I do have my hopes high for next year, we've all been through MAJOR events this year and could really use some relaxed happiness, don't you agree?

This evening was spent in the company of good friends. We asked them over for dinner and served them grilled pork fillets with potato gratin with a green sallad on the side (with avocado, feta cheese, tomatoes and cucumber in it) and - this is the best part - CORN! I LOVE corn! I could eat just the meat with the green sallad and corn, which actually is exactly what I did ;-) Yummy! After having stuffed our faces with this delicious dinner we sat down in the sofa to see Awake, a supernatural crime thriller starring Jessica Alba. We all thought it was really good apart from the minor bug in the end... as in we-couldn't-see-the-ending-cos-the-stupid-movie-was-bugged! Sooo, we will have to downlo... *cough* BUY this movie again to get to see the ending (although I'm 99% sure I know what will happen anyways).

Time to get some sleep.

Happy New Year everyone!
Love, Lina

Investment

Back home after some hunting downtown... Not hunting for wildlife or anything equally nasty, noooo, wesa want the GOOD stuff... THE APPLE STUFF!

MacBook Air 11", a new addition to the Freij Family, and already a highly valued member and contributor to our happiness and awesomeness! ;-) The 13" MacBook Pro is now living with my brother instead, and I can finally pick up the blogging again - haven't been able to blog at all on the iPad! Welcome back to me! :-D

And finally, last but definitely not least; our darlings Diesel & Morris!

Merry Christmas!

Hey everyone, hope you are all well and that you've had a wonderful Christmas with yummy food, love and relaxing! Daniel and I celebrated a mini Christmas with my mum, little brother and his family on December 18, and then went to Arboga on December 23 to spend Christmas Eve with Daniels parents. Our day was calm and relaxing with good food, some Skyping with the Skantz family in the USA and the must-have one hour show (Donald Duck and his friends) on TV at 3 PM. My Christmas didn't start off too well though as I had trouble falling to sleep the night before as I was so sad, and then sat crying until lunch due to missing dad so much. Really had thought I felt a little better (I try rrrreally hard not to think about how he's gone) but that was an EPIC FAIL on this day.

Caught this picture at work on December 22, will have to check if it's still there when I get back on January 3... It's been below - 6 degrees Celcius for weeks now and doesn't look like it's getting warmer any time soon, which is a big LIKE for me - I love the snow!

It was so funny when we let the cats out on the balcony earlier; Diesel the Diva put his nose out and then turned and went back inside (no surprise here...). ADHD-Morris took one long step into the snow, sat down with the tail around his feet and just GREW - his fur got thicker in an instant and he turned his ears back so he wouldn't get snow in them - we were amazed hahaha!





This is another thing I "encountered" at work on December 22... Kahlúa Peppermint Mocha, unfortunately not available in stores here in Sweden so we have asked Daniels sister Mikaela in the USA to see if she can get a bottle that Daniels parents can bring back to us. Lena and Tord (Daniels parents) are currently in the air between Copenhagen and Chicago on their way to Pittsburgh for a two week stay at the Skantz residence in Wexford. Still a little nervous regarding their trip, they were supposed to leave for Pittsburgh yesterday morning but their flight got canceled due to a snow storm in NY so they had to go back home and wait for SAS to call them about replacement flights. They were told by a very nasty woman at the airport to just go home and call the airline - is that a way to treat customers?! - and that the first available flight would be on December 31... LUCKILY they got a flight today, just one day late, and should arrive tonight at midnight!

Daniel and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary on December 17! Can't believe it has been one year since we were in New York getting married, and talking to mum and dad on the phone, feels both shorter and longer since. We went to work as usual on this day and then went out for dinner at our all time favourite restaurant - Texas Longhorn at Hornstull ♥ Apparently we are brilliant because there was a "rockstar" there at the same time - Dregen. Dregen is a founding member and guitarist of Backyard Babies, he is also a co founding member of Hellacopters! Are we rockstars or what! :-D After this HUGE event we went to the cinema at Sickla to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and then back home!

Have a good evening everyone! ./MWAH!

Happiest DJ in the world!

Whole lot of fun...

Today has been the longest Wednesday of my life - I'm not joking!

Woke up, tired.
Got ready and went to work, tired.
Worked, tired and yawning.
Began surfing on my mobile to stay awake and not die from boredom, also tired.
Went shopping for food on the way home and could've easily fallen asleep on the subway.
Went straight to the sofa when I got home.
Made pancakes while yawning.
Fell asleep in the sofa.
Brushed my teeth and went to bed with the computer.

Geee, I'm a whole lot of fun :p


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