Richard!

Hope lovely surprises are coming your way,
to make your birthday a wonderful day.

Happy birthday, dear Richard!

Tuesdays with Morrie

Good evening! Had LOTS to do lately so not had time to write, shame on me! To be honest I've missed it quite a bit, having a blog really is great fun :-)

Been a good week so far, had Micha, Yorda and little Linnou visiting yesterday for some thai take away dinner and cappucino afterwards - always fun meeting them! They didn't stay for too long though as little Linnou grew tired with us all and wanted to go home ;-) Practically had to drag Micha out of the livingroom, he and Daniel had found the Fifa game hehe.

Sometime during the day yesterday Malin and Johan sent me a text asking if we could meet Wednesday as they were in Stockholm for a mini holiday. Johan is my three year younger cousin and Malin is his very nice girlfriend. Of course we said yes, and so they came to visit today around 6PM! We got off work at 5PM and, believe it or not, in that time we did not ONLY have time for dinner; we made THE famous gooey chocolate cake! Yumster :-D They left shortly after 8PM as their bus was scheduled to leave for Sandviken at 9PM. Been a good night!

Also, another thing, Mia has gotten a job in Pittsburgh which is GREAT! She will be working as a professional organizer and I can't say I have NOT considered asking her for help some time in the future as I'm sure I could learn a lot (feng shui if not!) :-D Mia, we SOOOOOO hope you will get to work with that family you met when you were shadowing Jill! A huge congratulations from us!

At the moment Daniel is in the livingroom playing Xbox, I have sent Malin and Johan an e-mail to show them some Pixar short film highlights...

Two favourites, enjoy:

Been cold all day so will start moving into the shower and later on to bed, I've got Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom waiting for me by the bed! Oh, and another thing...

My new watch!

Gaah!

Open display tomorrow! Anxious!

Off to Taxinge Slott meanwhile, along with Stefan and Mimmi :-)

Love!

Intermission.

Pausing a little tonight.. We've been sooo good cleaning and fixing at home! Saturday was spent indoors, sorting out what can be thrown out and what can not, after that we went to Sickla Köpcentrum (a shopping mall close by) as we both needed to get some fresh air ;-) However, it soon appeared the rest of Swedens whole population had felt the same need to get out, which caused a slight shortage in parking spaces.. Only spot we could find was for 30 minutes parking, meant we had to rule out the latte we thought we had so well deserved, but had to focus on the shopping only. Can't say we're inefficient in ANY WAY when it comes to shopping - we're FAST! Fast and efficient ;-)

Sunday evening we went to the movies with Stefan and Mimmi to se Up! - it was great! Brought a tear to my eye at times, which I definitely didn't expect, hehe, it's supposed to be a fun movie! Don't get me wrong though, it sure was fun and I definitely recommend it :-)

According to our to do-list we still have to clean the windows and do another round of vaccuum cleaning/tidying, then we should be all set for the open house display on Sunday at 1PM and Tuesday at 6PM next week! Not as anxious anymore, although I'm sure we will both be freaked out Sunday morning and Tuesday evening ;-)

Had a pretty good week at work so far, no huge or unexpected events! Daniel is off to meet with his new employer tomorrow morning which is great! Looking forward to having dinner at Texas Longhorn in the evening to celebrate :-D Richard, Texas Longhorn is indeed a place where you eat meat! Best dish in my opinion is the bacon wrapped tenderloin with fries and guaccamole, of course without the bacon.. ;-)

Time to try out Overlord on the Xbox 360! Toodles!

Exhausted

Evening! Not done a lot this evening hehe... Got home from work, went to the thai restaurant around the corner to fetch our dinner, went back home and have hardly moved since ;-) Daniel has been playing Brothers in Arms [Road to Hell] on the Xbox 360 and I've been taking care of all the animals and crops on Farmville on Facebook. Takes a loooot of energy to rearrange that place!

Not feeling too good again; soar throat and aching sinuses/head = BOOOOOO! Had a cup of tea and some pills, hoping a good nights sleep will make me feel better :-)

As you can see our apartment has been put up for sale as of this afternoon! Anxiously been waiting for it to happen and now that it's done it feels incredibly weird seeing it on the internet! Hardly any personal stuff showing which makes one wonder if we really do live here hahaha! Crossing our fingers :-)

Very glad it's Friday tomorrow, can't believe how fast this week has passed by! Wont complain though, would be nice with some sort of sleep in... *ZZzzZZZzz*

While on the subject, best get some sleep... Talk to you soon!

./MWAH!

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A place called home.

So sorry for not being here for a while, we've both been terribly busy!

Saturday and Sunday: Tidying at home, packing books into boxes for storage until further notice to be able to put away some of the booze into the cupboard, else people will think we're alcoholics. Which we are not, these two evenings of champagne doesn't mean anything!

Monday: Stressful day at work, short lunch, then Daniel rushed home directly after swallowing the last bite to meet with the estate agent and the photographer. This took about 15 minutes, we will be getting the photographs Wednesday evening or Thursday morning as we will put our apartment up for sale Thursday afternoon. Yes, I will link it to here (will be in swedish though) ;-) When we finally came home we both collapsed in the couch doing absolutely nothing the rest of the evening!

Tuesday: Another b u s y day at work! Daniel went to the bank for a meeting and we got a GO for the loan, so Daniel called the estate agent whom we met with in the evening to sign the contract! Such a weeeeeird dude by the way...

We are now proud owners of Skidskyttevägen 4! :-D

Due to the very special moment we bought a bottle of champagne and celebrated when back home, wohooo! We've been living together for a year now, can you imagine?! :-)

Today after work we went to Muffinsfabriken on our street (the best bakery in town) as mum and dad are visiting tonight :-) I hope you will all have a great evening, I'm positive we will!

With loooooooove!

Almost Friday!

Hey all, I hope you are well! I'm very glad it's Friday tomorrow :-) Will have another weekend of working but it's all worth it, and frankly, it is quite fun once you're at it.

Did you know we heard from the estate manager the other day? We spoke to him last Friday to make an offer on the apartment, and he was going to call the owners and call us back in the beginning of this week. This he didn't, so Daniel phoned him yesterday to ask how things went.

- Well, you know, I... I have been at my summer house this weekend and was going to call them when I was on a break, and I've been tidying and fixing in the garden and so, you know, and noooo, I haven't had the chance to call them yet...

We were like

Really?! Who IS this loser HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So he promised us he'd give the owner a phonecall today, and not too long after he called us back to say they've agreed to sell (we offered them a lower bid than what they had first said) at a price we could both be happy with. Soooo, that means WE GOT IT! The apartment we fell in love with! Now we just have to come to terms with OUR estate manager, wohoo!

This, in addition to Daniel getting good news from his accountant, called for a celebration of some sort so off we went to Texas Longhorn for a nice meal and then home to drink CHAMPAGNE! Awesome evening :)

We're done!

68 days to go! Our trip to Pittsburgh is getting closer and closer :-D

I trust you've all had a good weekend? Been quite like autumn hehe, very windy and raining, did get a couple of hours of sunshine though :-) And, you all know I love the autumn so I'm not complaining!

Friday we worked at home a lot, then Saturday morning at 10 AM Daniels mum and dad arrived. Apparently it was "Cinammon buns Day" on Sunday, so they had brought a pack of buns for the morning coffee - yum! Lena and I went out to make Kungens Kurva insecure (an enormous spread out mall just five minutes from where we live), there's a huge building with several home decorating stores. Which all turned out to be quite disappointing, I would never have guessed they've actually been there for quite some time now - they all looked like they had just moved in!

Our job was to find a red shower curtain for the bathroom... We found this brown and white one and really liked it! This way we can definitely keep the brown bathroom mat we got from Lena and Tord that they had bought for us when in the USA visiting Mia, Jan, Melvin and Alfred. Aaaand the soft towels we bought from the factory outlet in Skultuna ;-) Probably a better match anyway with the kind of pinkish colored walls... (terribly sorry about the coloring of the walls on the picture, they really aren't this pink!) Oh, how do you like our new bathroom sink by the way? :-)

In the evening we went to Texas Longhorn on Flemminggatan 27 for a well deserved (late) dinner - tremendously fumy from the cooking but OH MY GOD the food rocks! And I quite liked their beer aswell hihi! This is the third Texas Longhorn I've been to, and by far the best!

Sunday morning has passed, and we've not done a lot today... Went upstairs to do the washing which was done at 2PM, other than that we've been laying veeery low as we're both quite tired. Sort of looking forward to tomorrow, despite it being yet another working week, as we're waiting for the estate manager to call us back - we put down an offer for the apartment we want! :-D

Poor Daniel is off to the dentist tomorrow, wish him luck!

Love L

Happiness

Good morning! Guess what day it is? Friiiidayyyy! *does the happy dance* We were so happy we decided to help the plants to happiness aswell ;-) This is how we do it at work!

Will have a busy evening; get off work at 4.30 PM (I've swapped with Viktoria since she's off early to get a tattoo) then rush around to get stuff for the bathroom renovation, get food for dinner/breakfast/lunch and prepare everything for Saturday morning when Lena and Tord are coming. Aww how I look forward to it being all done :-D