car problems, yummy lunch and some bookshelves

so far this week I've dropped one of my gloves twice and almost forgotten my cap on the bus. I've already lost two pairs of gloves, a headband and two umbrellas this fall/winter. any tips on how to overcome this problem?

the weekend was great! Great (and packed) services on sunday and inspiring teaching.

monday me and sara went to the jazz club Fasching and listened to some jazz/fusion. quite the turnaround from the music we normally see but it was really good. the singer is in my class at school and she is extremely talented.

most live music I've seen lately has been the typical new underground music in stockholm. like electropop with a crazy amount of effects on the vocals.

after my classes i went home and made lunch. my dad and my little brother were coming over for lunch and then i drove them to the airport. right now they're in the air on their way to Dubai.

only problem was that the car wouldn't start when i was leaving the airport. after several attempts and a parking ticket i was finally on my way home.

a few days ago i was looking online at some cool bookshelves. here are some cool ones i found:

Winter

the most beautiful kind of snowfall happened today. the one when the wind is almost still and the snowflakes fall in slow-motion in big flakes.

inspired and with quite a bit of time on my hands i therefor started making a slideshow with pictures from our wedding photoshoot. something I've been meaning to do for... well, i guess one year.

i have felt very connected to the world today and still i haven't left my one bedroom apartment. I've been listening to the radio, checked out chanel's website, been on Facebook and on the phone.

the morning started at 4am when freddy got up to go to work. i sat up and we had a glass of oboy together before he was off to catch the bus to work. he had a different shift today and worked as a senior courier instead of just a normal courier. its pretty cool how he has gone from working two days a week to have a full-time contract driving one of the busiest routes in central stockholm. and today he was the senior courier overseeing the routes around central. a bit of bragging, but its pretty cool since he has only lived in sweden for a year and a half and don't speak swedish fluently (yet).

soon I'm starting my "teaching practice" which will last for 5 weeks. i will basically be working at a school, following a teacher around to observe and learn. like an internship i guess. I've been assigned to be at Östra Real. their schoolhistory goes back over 300 years and they've had this particular building for about 100 years. its located in the upperclass area of downtown stockholm which scares me a bit. I've watched too much gossip girl i guess. a guy in my class told me about one of his classmates in high school who transferred to this school. he said that she transferred back after a while and said that no one liked her because she didn't have a gucci bag. haha. i don't have a gucci bag, should i be worried? I will keep you posted here...

last night i had my first rehearsal with the worship team. so much fun. I'm excited to get more involved in the worship team. so much is happening in church. we have so many people coming through the doors on a normal sunday. over the next few weeks we will be getting visits from other hillsong pastors: brian, joel a'bell and phil dooley. i have a feeling it'll make me miss Sydney a lot. just the other day when me and freddy were sitting at the movies we discussed which five food places we would go to if we had a day in Sydney.

my list: mad mex, eat at home chicken burger, sonoma (almond croissant & latte), the book kitchen (late breakfast topped off with a lemon tart from the bakery across the street) and a barbecue on the rooftop of flat 44.

i think I've rambled on long enough now, here's the slideshow:

http://vimeo.com/35029913

a weekend out and about.

its monday again. i have a short break between school and evening college and even though i only get to be home for like 40 min its still worth it.

2h on public transport today. its hard not to embrace the apathy that spreads through the bus/train when the doors close.

neither Facebook or instagram is working on my phone now. (freddys old phone). and you realize firstly that you don't really need it and secondly how much time you all of a sudden have on your hand. okay maybe not that much, but definitely a few minutes here and there. Add it up and i have now gained 40min of extra time today. what to do with it?

this weekend was great. early sat morning me and freddy got on the train to gothenburg. almost 4h later we got off and were completely bombarded by the rain and the wind. in the short walk from central station to the shopping centre i was soaked for the rest of the day.

i quickly came to the conclusion that people walk a lot slower here than in stockholm. they also keep their head up more and are not always walking alone.

we hung around in the city from 11.30 til 19.00. stores, food, stores, walking, coffee, stores, coffee, walking, coffee....you know. a day off with your husband.

we found da Matteo, the place that roasts and supplies the coffee beans to our favorite cafés in stockholm. it was a really cool place and then we went to all the vintage stores around it. i scored some amazing brown leather shoes.

eventually the time came around and we headed to sticky fingers, the place where Kadawatha was playing that night. i was the lighting operator so i checked out the gear. since it wasn't that much to work with i just helped out for a bit and then went for some more coffee.

i met elin milton, the wife to one of the guitarists in the band. one of the most amazing women I've known. we've been exchanging letters since summer and it was great to finally see each other again!

the gig went great. ill post a video they uploaded recently with footage from a festival-gig this summer.

sunday was mine and freddy's 1 yr anniversary. its crazy its already been one year. and its weird that there's still no snow when there was so much last year.

frida's (brothers fiancé) had her bachelorette party this sunday and i was so glad i was able to be there. we had a nice time in a jacuzzi with food and snacks. unfortunately i had to cut out early to catch the train back to stockholm.

gotta go to evening college now. haven't been in a while now! Had the surgery three weeks ago, then i was resting from that two weeks ago and last week me and the sound guy were setting up and were wondering why no one came. haha, turned out it was cancelled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_bxoh3-EQ

the smell is all it takes

friday night. fredagsmys.me and freddy just finished watching the movie social network (about Facebook). haha, the blog just autocorrected me to spell
Facebook with capital F. thats how widespread it is.

freddy has now proceeded to cook us dinner. and it's the best

smell in the whole world. he is making greek beefs with potatoes and greek yoghurt. amazing.

i would take his homemade food over any restaurant.

a pretty good day today. its the middle of november and there is still no snow. i really like this icing kind of weather without the trouble that snow brings. but once it lands it'll still put a smile on my face.

tomorrow is our day off. i love

saturdays. i found some great secondhand stores on södermalm with sara yesterday and i can't wait to take freddy there. they had such cool furniture.

our house feels so much more like home since we got the new furniture.

today (during the most boring class about swedish folk music) i was browsing through what felt like a hundred websites trying to find the perfect vinyl player. i think I've found it. at first i was looking at crosley's selection, which is definitely alright. but they felt a bit too "i have a vintage vinyl player" and when i saw that they actually sell it (for a ridiculous amount of $) it confirmed my thought. so now I've looked into steepltone, who have a bit more of a new vintage feel to it. ill put both the crossly and the steeple tone up for you to decide:

i can hear the pan sizzling now and I'm a bit too excited about the food to stay put here.

the hospital, part 1

I'm sitting at huddinge hospital in the cafeteria. have just been doing some blood tests, EKG and talked to a doctor about my surgery. they were all very great in every way! i got a little drawing of my heart and some arrows pointing to what's wrong. i have an extra electrical signal that causes my heart to beat faster so they are going to go in and burn it.

its too bad that no talented chefs feel a calling to go into the hospital food business. as well as baristas. maybe one day.... they would seriously make the hospital stays 50% better. id forgotten that coffee could taste this bad.

my next thing is not until another 3 hours, so I'm gonna sit here in the cafeteria and play Theme Hospital. my favorite game from when i was a kid. its seriously so much fun. i bet its even more fun if you're sitting in a hospital while playing it. we'll see...

here's a link if you wanna download it to your mac: (its a PC game, so you'll need to download Boxer first to play it)

http://www.doobybrain.com/2009/11/22/theme-hospital-for-the-mac-using-boxer/

tågresa med i-landsproblem

sitter på tåget hem till lidköping.

det ska bli så skönt att vara hemma i några dagar. stockholm kan nog aldrig riktigt kännas hemma. det är så många andras hem på något sätt.

sen jag flyttade har jag upptäckt en ny (eller snarare uppdaterad och förstärkt) form av ilska. det är ilskan man känner när tunnelbanedörrarna går igen precis framför en. eller när man ser bussen åka förbi. som jag sa, visst har man känt den känslan förut. men av någon anledning så har den gått till nya dimensioner nu. plus att den också framkallas nästan varje dag.

man tror att man har bråttom på något sätt. men egentligen har man ju väldigt sällan så bråttom så att det bli världens grej. nästa tunnelbana kommer ju oftast inom 4 min.

ändå blir man lika arg varje gång. och nästan varje gång så blir jag lika förvånad över mig själv. sluta bli så arg.

idag konfronterades jag av två andra löjliga i-lands problem.

* den första är att man alltid måste torka av iPhone displayen när man har pratat för att det kommer smink på den. (inte har jag väl ens så mkt smink?)

* den andra var när jag klev på tåget och insåg, till min förtret, att det inte fanns något eluttag. hur var det tänkt att jag skulle kunna kolla på film på datorn då? som om det var deras problem att lösa... men återigen blev jag frustrerad. sen kollade jag batteriet på datorn. nåja, 50%. då kan jag se ett avsnitt av greys anatomy....

* åh nej! jag hade glömt dvd skivorna. ok. då får jag väl streama det då...

* varför är mitt mobila bredband långsamt? jag måste VÄNTA 1 min innan jag kan börja kolla.

kanske är det bara jag som är psycho och lever i en knäpp värld?

meeen...... kan ni inte känna igen er iaf lite?

det är sjukt att dessa knäpp problem får påverka vår vardag.

vad GJORDE man förr i tiden när man åkte häst och vagn i dagar i streck?

sunday