Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Show & Tell: Jewellery

Better late than never... I haven't had a chance to take photos of my own, actual jewellery, but fortunately there is the Internet. The photos are a bit small but they will have to do.

I have lots of different necklaces and earrings from different designers (Swedish Snö, Danish Pilgrim and some in similar design to Snö and Pilgrim that friends of friends have made) but most of the time I wear the following:

Camé (cameo) ring and a necklace with a cameo as well. Both in gold. I'm really a gold person even though I will wear earrings and a necklace in silver once in a while. My cameos don't look exactly like the one in the photo but you get the picture I hope :)

This image turned out really small but it's supposed to be a Bismarck ring.


I also wear a Bismarck necklace, together with the cameo one.

And last but not least, I was given a Bismarck bracelet when I was christened that I still wear to this day (well, I started wearing it as a teenager when I finally fit me and at the moment I cant wear it because I need to get the lock fixed).

8 -Track

I've been challenged by my cousin's wife to provide a few personal details.

Rules
1. Publicise the rules on your blog
2. Answer the six 8-lists
3. Notify those you want to challenge on their blogs

8 Favourite Shows
1. House
2. How I Met Your Mother
3. Scrubs
4. Two and a Half Men
5. ER
6. Heroes
7. Design Simon & Tomas (home decoration show)
8. Äntligen hemma (home decoration show)

8 Things I Did Yesterday
1. Went to work
2. Spent half-an-hour on hold with the doctor's office (specialist; my regular doctor answered right away)
3. Drank too many coffees at work as usual
4. Met with my Jusek (union) sponsored mentor and the other four "mentees"
5. Bought a dress and a skirt at H&M
6. Had tacos for dinner
7. Watched "House"
8. Went to bed early for a change (which means 2230)

8 Things I Look Forward To
1. Visiting Malin on Friday-Saturday
2. Doing show & dinner with my parents on Saturday
3. Putting up the Advent lights and candles on Sunday
4. Céline and Diego's visit from Barcelona next weekend
5. Spending Christmas with my family, especially since we were abroad last year
6. Spending New Year's in Paris
7. In the long term, getting married
8. In the longer term, having children

8 Favourite Restaurants (in Stockholm, no particular order)
1. Kungsholmen
2. Beirut Café
3. Elverket (for brunch)
4. Babajan, Etnografiska (for lunch)
5. Texas steakhouse
6. Restaurangentm
7. Abbios (for the pecorino sandwiches)
8. Ljunggren

8 Things on My Wish List (in no particular order)
1. A bigger flat in the city centre or a house in Enskede
2. A new job, either in the Swedish government offices or at an EU institution
3. Marriage (and a wedding too)
4. Children
5. Travelling to the continents where I haven't been yet, i.e. South America and Oceania
6. Losing a few kilos and become fit
7. Making or winning lots of money so I never had to worry about that
8. Long, happy and healthy lives for my family and friends (and myself)

8 Persons I Challenge
1. My cousin Emma
2. My cousin's fiancée Marit
3. Skolfröken
4. Lullun
5. Marianne
6. Petra
7. Britgirl
8. Fröken Johanna

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Have You Met Ahmed?

What's In a Name

I went to the doctor the other day and it was a different doctor than my regular one. Her name was Sicking! Doctor Sicking. How appropriate is that! Or not!

Monday, November 17, 2008

Show & Tell: Windows

This month it's Marianne in Kairo who has come up with the Friday themes. You can see them in the column on the left. I missed the first theme of the month, sweets, and I'm already three days late with the second theme, windows. But better late than never, right!

I thought I'd illustrate the windows theme with some photos from my recent trip to Oslo, Norway.

We met up with my cousin Emma who is 21, loves cars and driving. She calls her car Diesel Doris and the text on the back window says "Real girls smell like diesel" :)

Not really a window in the true sense but this gate in the Vigeland Park was so beautiful I just had to include it.

If we continue with the creative interpretation this is a window of sorts. This is also from the Vigeland Park with the famous statues.

View from the hotel bar (through the window)

View from our hotel room the next morning

Peter posing in front of Oslo's new Opera House - almost all windows!

Oslo views through the lens of an opera house

The sea

A cute window on Akers Hus, the fort/old castle in Oslo

Loopholes are also windows!

When it comes to sweets, I love them! But I'm pretty good; I mostly just eat them on Saturdays. A Saturday without sweets feels weird. The childhood tradition of only sweets on Saturday really stuck on me! I planned to write more about sweets but...some other time!

Thursday, November 13, 2008

For Lack of Something Else...

A list while I wait for some inspiration.

YOUR FIRST:
operation: on my eye when I was very little and can't remember (I had some sort of fat tissue on my eye lid), otherwise appendicitis when I was 20
piercing: ears, when I was 10 or 12. Added one to each ear when I was 19-20 and a third one a year or two later but today I wish I had only the first original piercing. But even if I last wore earrings in the 2nd and 3rd holes 7-8 years back they never seem to close up!
sport: football, played from age 9 to 16
pet: budgies but they were really more my parents' pets. My first very own (sort of) pet was the cat Kitty Tigera when I was 13
vacation: probably the island of Öland off the east coast of Stockholm where my parents rented a cottage the summer I was 1 year old
concert: no idea but the first big one I remember was New Kids on the Block when I was 14
love: Basse when I was 10-12 years old and then Johnny all through 7-9th grade :)

RIGHT NOW you're:
eating: nothing, but just had a cup of green tea
drinking: the last few drops of the green tea
going to: do some work (since I'm actually at work)
listening to: colleagues typing away or chatting on the phone in their rooms
waiting for: the work day to end and the ladies' film night to begin
looking at: the computer screenwearing: jeans, black top and turcoise-green cardigan

YOUR FUTURE:
children: yes, please, I'd love to have at least two, maybe three
marriage: hope so
career: promising, enjoy my current job but is at the same time looking ahead

WHAT YOU PREFER:
hugs or kisses: don't want to choose, although if I really had to I think hugs because it would be difficult to live without them for the rest of one's life. Sometimes you just need someone to hold you.
shorter or longer: que??
fine-looking stomach or fine-looking arms: arms, since I show them more
mischievous or obedient: mischievous; it's more creative

HAVE YOU EVER:
kissed a stranger: not kiss-kissed (it depends how one defines stranger...) but kissed as a greeting like it's done in Spain or Belgium
lost glasses or contact lenses: no, partly because I don't need them
broken a leg: no
run away from home: yeah, usually to my grandparents
X-rayed: yes, but probably only at the dentist
broken someone's heart: think so
turned someone down (who had feelings for you): yes, mainly while I was still at school and when I gave Internet dating a go
cried when someone died: yes

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
love at first sight: not really, I think it's something that grows
God: sometimes
miracles: maybe
aliens: not little green men but there is probably some life form out there in a galaxy far away
magic: no, only mojo
a heaven: hope so
Santa: of course (with less than 7 weeks to Christmas...)
angels: if there is a heaven there are probably angels
transformers: Darwin evolution, yes

MIXED:
are you in love with someone? yes, in Peter, very much
do you wish you lived somewhere else? in a nice and cosy house in Enskede, or perhaps a penthouse flat in New York!
do other people find you attractive? think so
do you drink? don't we all? I drink everything in moderation
do you use drugs? no, unless my migraine medicine counts
what shampoo do you use? Herbal Essence
what perfume do you like? at the moment mostly Ralph Lauren, Y.S.L. Elle and Oui Lancôme
what are you afraid of? dying before having accomplished what I want, realised my dreams
do you like doing the washing? yes

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Yes!!!!!

Image from dn.se
I'm off to London for a few days and will be back here next week!