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Just another manic monday...

I was just thinking of the day and that song popped in my head.

Anyway, I have decided against posting a blog about New York. It was so long ago and it feels almost pointless. Unless there is someone who DEMANDS to see a post about it, I'm tossing it in the trash.

I also apologize for the layout. It's a little bright and I keep tweaking it but it is not making me happy. I will eventually figure out a good layout, but for now, please bear with me!

I do have a blog post coming up in the next couple of days about Shopping Night last Thursday. I am not 100% sure if I should post it in Swedish or English. I will not post it in both, so I have to make a decision, but I am excited to share the post with you all!

That's all the "major news" I guess.

Today was pretty alright, even though I only slept 2 hours last night. I got up, went to a meeting with my "handläggare" (not really sure what that term is in English, if we even have one!) and talked a lot about my future in working. It was quite a positive meeting, so I am pleased.

After that, I went to a couple of food stores. I was planning to just go to one, but knowing I was walking past another one that usually has some interesting food in it, I had to stop in. I could have spent all my money in that store, truthfully, but I only came out with 4 things. I am so proud. I found super inexpensive processed peanut butter, which is hard to find here, and with my mild peanut allergy, it's all I can have. Then I found shake and pour pancake mix! I was quite thrilled, and it was only 8kr/$1 so I could not resist. I usually just make pancakes from scratch but I figured I wanted to test the brand and sometimes I am too lazy to mix ingredients, so it was a good thing to have in the house. OH! And then I found these:

There were a few kinds, but I picked up this one and a jasmine rice bag. Both were 10kr a piece (Just over $1) so once again, a steal! I used to attack microwaveable rice in the US like this all the time, so I only hope they taste good!

After that, I went to the other store and I found:

SRIRACHA! I have seriously never seen it here before, so that was exciting. That said, I left the store without it. It was a huge bottle and I don't eat sriracha on everything like most people so I wasn't sure it was worth it. But it's awesome to know we have it here!

The only other cool stuff I found today was new ice cream:

Cookie Dough and:

Kladdkaka! (Directly translated, sticky cake haha. It's basically undercooked brownie :p)

Akira and I are so excited to try them! I am not a huge chocolate fan but I hope that the kladdkaka ice cream is really delicious!

The rest of my night shouldn't be too exciting. Cleaning, cooking dinner and Netflix, which is basically a normal day for me :)

It's been awhile!

Wow, I have not updated my blog since before we travelled to the USA last summer! :O I think it's about time that I start updating around here again.

Let me do a mini-update of what has happened since I last wrote:

We went to New York and had an amazing 3 weeks with my family. I bought a lot of stuff and I never shared that here, so hopefully I will post that up before the weekend!

I came back and tried out to be an instructor at my gym. My nerves got the best of me and they didn't accept me but I am willing to give it another shot next time they hold an audition!

Back in November, I started an education class in the hospitality branch of work. My classes end on Friday! I did a paid internship for 6 weeks at a bakery here in town. It was the first place I have worked at that I was truly upset about leaving. I know I have definitely found my calling....I just need to find a job in that branch now!

A couple weeks ago I took my first trip to Stockholm, even though I have lived here for 4 years. We originally went to see the Game of Thrones Exhibition, but waiting on a line to "maybe" get in for 7 hours was not worth it, so Akira, his mom, his sister and I walked around Stockholm instead. I think we made the right decision!

I actually have no idea what else "important" has happened since then haha. I spend most of my time at the gym or at home with Netflix and/or TiVo :X

I need to make a new layout for this blog as well. I want it to look really clean and pretty and eyecatching. Right now, the background is just....bleh.

But this is just a quick journal to say I am coming back and hopefully posting a lot more now!

Clock is ticking...

I was sitting on the couch a little while ago and my countdown app decided to alert me to this:

ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT. OH MY GOD.

When I first started that countdown, there were well over 100+ days...and now I'm under 14. This is CRAZY....which, in turn, is making me crazy. I have made 5 phone calls today, I am waiting for a few to call back, I have more to make tomorrow....AGH.

At least I have started with packing though. Little bits and pieces, but it's started! I even found some of the things I wanted to take with me that I thought I lost in the apartment, like my travel first aid kit, my travel tea pouch and my tic tac container with my bobbypins stored in it. Things are really shaping up well for the short time. I just hope I will have everything done!

Oh, and I won another inflatable pool ring, haha.

I figure I am keeping my doughnut ring, but I will bring the second tube I have won to the USA with me and do something with it there. Not sure what yet, but I will figure it out.

Let's see, what else have I done...

OH! Yesterday, Akira and I went with his boss Fredrik and his girlfriend Bodil to a lake to go swimming....however, my irrational fear of nature cause me to just sit on a blanket and watch them swim in the lake while I tried to keep the bugs away from me....I am a city girl to the core, haha. 

I managed to get an inflatable travel pillow finally, and I plan to make a pillowcase for it, so when I reach the USA, or when I come back to Sweden, I can wash it and the pillow will be okay to reuse. I think I may go search for better buttons than what I have myself today, but if they are too expensive, I will use what I have. Now, I just need to figure out what blanket to take with me.

But now, time to get ready for yoga later :D

The Latest...

I have been slacking a little again, but I figured since I am currently procrastinating cleaning and waiting to go out a bit later, I could kill some time writing here.

I have decided that maybe I will make this blog primarily English, unless I absolutely MUST have posts in Swedish. It makes things easier for me, and the posts aren't crazy long.

I have been trying to get back into the freebie scene, but there isn't so much of a scene here in Sweden as there is in the US. I mean, back home, I used to be able to live off a lot of the things I got for free. That is not possible here in Sweden, sadly. However, I was watching a show over here called "Superspararna" - translated to "The Super Savers" - which is sort of like Extreme Cheapskates which is shown on TLC in the USA, and on the second episode, a woman named Petra was talking about how she gets things for free here in Sweden. Instantly, my obsession came back. So I have been googling my little heart out for new free things, as well as obsessively checking Petra's blog for new freebies she has found. As I get the items, I will post them on here, and as a matter of fact, I just got one of the free items :D

One of the gas stations here in Sweden called Statoil has a memory game you can play once a day all summer long and if you have a fast enough score, you can win one of their prizes of the day, which could be a free ice cream, soda, cinnamon bun, hot dog, coffee....etc. It's the first thing I do in the morning now, and yesterday I actually won!

I was actually so excited when I saw that I won! That said, I only wanted my prize if it was the donut, haha. So today, my boyfriend's sister Bodil took me to get my pool ring, and I got the donut! (Tack så hemskt mycket, Bodil!)

The ring is HEAVY though and a lot bigger than I thought, even though it did specifically say XL-pool tube, haha. That said, I have NO IDEA where I am going to use this thing. I don't have a pool haha. But it's a donut so I needed it :D

While we were at the gas station, I realized we didn't have food home so perhaps I should grab something to eat there for dinner....so I found this:

Triple Egg & Bacon Sandwich with Honey Mustard Dressing :3 Oh my good heavens, I need to make this for myself because it was SOOOOO good. Usually after I have dinner, I am hungry soon after, but I ate that sandwich 3 and a half hours ago, and I am STILL FULL :D

Otherwise, today is not too interesting. I am going out in a little while to a party and hopefully that will be fun :) Maybe I will have more to write about tomorrow...perhaps another prize from Statoil? ;D

I am a slacker D:

So, I have been slacking on making posts here. It's about time for a new post, and since it might be a long one, I am just going to stick to English this time :)

Well, at this point, we have under a month left until we go on vacation! I am so excited to see my family again after 3 and a half years. But I am as nervous as I am excited. I know that I have changed a lot in the past 3 and a half years and I just wonder if things back home will feel "wrong" to me somehow. I suppose we shall see!

I have been doing some freebie hunting online, and I have been quite lucky with stuff so far! :D When I get what I have ordered, I will make some posts about them :)

I have also been doing some sale shopping, since there have been a lot of sales here in Sweden lately. Here's some of the stuff I have acquired:

Camouflage bag (Only 30kr!), Black Currant-Acai Peel Off Face Mask (Not on sale, but 20kr is not bad and it was needed!), Nivea Pure Fresh Body Wash (Only 20kr and it smells like the beach!) and a red skirt (30kr...a steal!).

The highlighter green skirt is new :D I paid 50kr for this, and if I waited 2 weeks, it would have also been 30kr :( but still not bad. The red skirt I posted above looks the same on as this skirt, since they are the same skirt but different colors.

The shorts are mint green, but the picture doesn't show that off. Only 50kr! That was such a good deal! I bought the two sports bras today for 49kr a piece, and I plan to use them as bikini tops, since bikini tops in Sweden aren't really made for my chest size, and if they are, they are extremely expensive. But these work just fine! The bikini bottoms were only 20kr (!!!) and fit so perfectly that I just needed to buy them. Then I bought both iridescent makeup bags because I go through makeup bags like I go through underwear. I'm super excited to use them already.

These are basically what they say: Stick on flower gems. I'm going to be fixing something soon with these, so keep an eye out on my blog for that ;)

These two are quite possibly the best makeup items I have ever bought. Maybelline SuperStay Better Skin foundation and Isa Dora Color Correcting Concealer....my face has honestly never looked so flawless after using makeup before!

That's it as far as beauty and fashion shopping goes. However, I have found some new food things I have enjoyed:

This was actually not good. For those who don't know, Daim is a thin layer of almond brittle covered in chocolate. So, I expected Daim mint to be some sort of mint chocolate brittle with the chocolate on the outside....but nope! The almond brittle was still inside, but the outside was mint chocolate. It was not a happy mixture to me, and I would never eat this again.

This sparkling water is by far THE BEST flavor I have ever tried. It's supposed to be like a Mojito. It has lime, mint and tea flavoring and you get each flavor one by one and it just blends so beautifully. I only wish they would sell this in 1.5 liter bottles because I would buy a ton of them and stock up!

Other than that, not too much else exciting that has happened. I am still going to the gym multiple times a week. I'm still job hunting, but hopefully not for much longer. Weather is extremely hot and humid and I am dreading coming back to NY because I know it will be worse there. 

Oh! I went and saw The Fault in Our Stars with my boyfriend's sister Bodil and her boyfriend Jesper. This is how I prepared:

Popcorn, Coca-cola and Kleenex tissues....and that was only package 1 of 5 that I took with me, knowing what a tearjerker it would be :p

But that's about it. I am going to try and make more posts on here, and hopefully my life will be a bit more interesting soon!

Loppi Sommar Blog Bag!

Nu har jag testat alla produkterna som Loppi har skickat till mig, så här kommer mina recensioner :)

Här är vad som fanns i Loppi's Sommar Blog Bag:

*Neutral Duschgel för känslig hud
*Ullmax Vattenflaska
*Ullmax Träningsstrumpor
*Ingefära mot åksjuka från Acrilex
*Yves Rocher Sheer Botanical läppstift i Litchi
*Friggs Naturdiet Low Sugar High Protein Bar med smak av Björnbär
*X-travital Kvinna för kvinnlig lust och välbefinnande
*Apoliva Brun-Utan-Sol Mousse för kroppen
*Yves Rocher Vita-Zest
*Walking With Dinosaurs The Movie DVD

Jag börjar med Neutral Duschgel:

Den här var inte så speciell. Neutral har ingen parabener, färger eller parfymer, och det är bra, men för mig som älskar att lukta som blommor eller frukt, var det lite svårt att älska dusch gelen....det var bara inte för mig. Men det finns ingenting fel med den! För de människor som gillar inte att lukta "tjejig", eller för ni som har allergi mot några parfymer, jag kan rekommendera den här :) Min sambo tyckte att den var helt okej också :)

Ullmax Vattenflaska:

Jag har inte så mycket att säga om den här vattenflaskan. Jag tog den med mig till gymmet i torsdags och det var helt okej. Men om det är en cardio dag så skulle jag inte ta den med mig. Och det är bara för att det är svårt för mig att träna på crosstrainern  samtidigt som jag ska andas och dricka ur en flaska där vattnet inte rinner ut av sig själv utan man måste suga vattnet ur flaskan. Jag bara föredrar att ha en vattenflaska var vatten bara rinner ner i halsen.

Ullmax Träningsstrumpor:

De här strumporna....fan vad bra dom är! När jag tränar så svettas jag som fan och mina strumporna ser ut som de har precis kommit ut ur tvättmaskinen...det är lite äckligt. men när jag testade de här strumporna i torsdags, jag grät nästan. Strumporna och fötterna var nästan helt torr! Strumporna är också riktigt mjuk för att de är gjorda med bambu. Jag ska aldrig använda andra strumpor när jag tränar....och jag tror att jag ska köpa mer av dem från Ullmax vääääääääääääääldigt snart!

Acrilex Ingefara mot Åksjuka:

Jag testade de här innan jag var på gymmet också. Varför? Jag blir faktiskt väldig illamående när jag gör några övningar på gymmet. Jag kommer inte att ha chansen att testa tabletterna i en bil för ens nästa månad, så gymmet var det näst bästa jag kunde göra. Men tyvärr, hjälpte de inte så mycket. Jag blev lite mindre illamående, men jag mådde fortfarande illa :( De första 2 tabletterna smakade okej, men jag skulle ha svårt att äta 3 till :( Jag ska testa dem i bilen nästa månad...kanske de hjälper bättre där :) Jag återkommer med resultat senare :)

Yves Rocher Sheer Botanical Läppstift i Litchi:

Jag tror att det här är min favorit produkt som jag har fått i Loppi's Sommar BlogBag! Det är en lätt, naturligt läppstift med en lätt nyans av färg. Jag har aldrig testat en produkt från Yves Rocher men jag kan säga nu att jag tror att jag ska köpa lite säker från dem i framtiden! Om du har råd kan jag rekommendera läppstiften STARKT!

Friggs Naturdiet Low Sugar High Protein Bar med smak av Björnbär:

Jag var lite nervös att testa den här, för att jag gillar inte björnbär alls....men jag blev mycket förvånad när den försvann inom några minuter! Jag var lite ledsen när den var slut, hihi :p Jag tänkte spara lite till min sambo....men nej, han måste köpa en själv om han vill testa den :p Men för en protein bar med inte så mycket socker i den smakade den som godis! Jag vet att jag ska köpa mer av den här så om jag blir sugen på någonting söt jag kan äta den här istället för en Marabou chokladkaka :)

X-travital Kvinna för kvinnlig lust och välbefinnande

Jag vet inte vad jag kan säga om det här....jag provade bara en tablett. De luktade så hemskt...som hundmat och trädgårdskompost och lönnsirap.....inte bra alls. De var stora tabletter också! I USA, vi kallar dem "horse pills"....men vet inte om det finns en liknande fras för dem här i Sverige. X-travital har tiggarnöt, soja, linfrö, kalcium och vitamin D i dem, så jag tror att det är väldigt bra för kroppen....men jag kan inte vänja mig vid lukten...usch! I vilket fall som helst, jag gillar inte dem här...och jag behöver inte dem heller...min lust är skitbra ;)

Apoliva Brun-utan-Sol Mousse för Kroppen:

Jag har aldrig varit en beundrare av brun-utan-sol kräm...men jag ÄLSKAR den här. Det är en skum formel och när jag använde den blev jag inte orange som en morot! Det är en naturligt färg. Tror du inte mig?

Jag tycker att det ser naturligt ut! Bara ena föten har moussen på den....vet du vilken? :) Moussen är parfymerad och det luktar såååå gott....lite blommig och inte super starkt....väldigt somrigt! Jag rekommenderar den här starkt också :D GÅ OCH KÖPA DEN NUUUUUU! :D

Yves Rocher Vita-Zest

Jag var så spänd på att testa vitamingodis! Men de var en besvikelse. Det skulle smaka som apelsin och lime men....väl, det gjorde det inte. De smakar mer som vitaminer och mindre som godis. Jag har ätit bara en och det var nog för mig. Min sambo provade en och han spottade ut det, hihi. Vi ska inte köpa dem och jag är glad att jag fick dem gratis. Jag skulle bli jätteledsen om jag köpte de här :(

Walking With Dinosaurs The Movie DVD:

Vilken söt film den var! Det var lite som Ice Age med dinosaurier. Berättelsen var söt och rolig. jag var nervös när jag fick den och tänkte "kanske den här är bättre för ett barn....inte för mig, som är 25 år!"....men jag var förvånad och det gör mig glad. Det är en bra film för hela familjen och om du kan, hyr filmen eller köp den. Jag vet att jag ska titta på den här igen...men kanske med barn nästa gång, så jag har en ursäkt ;)

Jag hoppas att jag kan testa mer produkterna i framtiden. Den här var så rolig och jag hoppas att några av er kommer köpa några av denna produkter!