all you want for christmas is me

Forget that question about what you want for Christmas, me coming home will have to be enough. I'll wrap myself in some free Metro's if to make it a bit more exciting for you. As my lovely, lovely recruitment agency decided to wait until yesterday with calling the revenue office to set me up as an employee I'm still on emergency tax and will be broke for another five weeks. Nice, thanks for that. Couldn't have made a bit more effort with Christmas coming up? No? 

My decision to stay home for two weeks feels like a good plan.

Had some plans on taking it easy this weekend as well but Tea signed me up for Krystal's 5-year anniversary so didn't have a choice. Really. And it's stupid to say no to free entrance and free drinks even though the last thing didn't exist. Anyway, a nice evening.

On Saturday I hung out in my bed most of the day but in the afternoon I got restless legs and met up with Josef and Olle in the city. Love Grafton Street in December, except for all the people... After some window shopping and a Guinness we went to Larissa's place for tacos. The others were going to a party but I was tired (and stuffed from all the food) and went home early, good decision.

  

   

Sunday was sunny so met up with Tea and Ruth for another photo session before taking the Dart to Monkstown and the Swedish Christmas market.

They sold out of the "Julmust" in 15 minutes but at least they had some chocolate left when we got there! And waffles, mm...

Lucia. Best was the little girl who started wailing on "Midnatt råder", haha.

On Thursday Lucas, Frida and Johanna are arriving from Sweden, followed by Lasse and Chrille from Malta on Friday. Anything can happen. Whoop!

 

the lonely blogger

But I would never let my laptop take the right side of the bed.

achtung, freitag!

I am what I myself call "everyday lazy", it's like when you're going to the kitchen but still don't bring that plate that's been sitting on your living room table for a week or so. I'm getting better at it, especially when I'm only living in one room, and especially when I found out I have a hungry roomie. But when it comes to bringing stuff from the kitchen I always have to challenge myself/destiny/whatever. Yesterday I was balancing a bowl full of yogurt, a plate with cottage cheese sandwiches and a glass of water and was just about to put it down when I dropped the sandwiches, upside down, on my laptop keyboard. In an attempt to save my dinner in the middle of the air I also spilled half of the water over the laptop.

Put it upside down, dried it with my hairdryer and hit the keyboard in case that would help (violence solves everything, right?). But no, the mouse pad refused to work and it freaked out a bit every time I restarted it. Was so pissed off I went to bed at 9 last night. Tried to read for a while but I was too angry and it was so cold in my room I couldn't hold my book without getting frost bite in my fingers. Tried the nice approach to my computer and put it upside down under my duvet so it wouldn't turn into an ice cube over night. And voilà! This morning it worked! Ah, can celebrate Friday now.

Didn't get tickets to Florence + the Machine though, despite my supporting t-shirt. Apparently 14,000 tickets sold out in 5 minutes because greedy people bought 8 of them and put them on E-bay straight away. Pooooop! We're hoping for an extra date instead.

Tonight - party at Assan's and 5-year anniversary at Krystal, whoop!

fast week, slow day

Not much to do today, spending my time thinking about reason walking by the desk where we have free chocolate/thinking about reasons why I should not walk by the desk where we have free chocolates. First world problem? Think so.

Just found myself playing with a plastic cap on my desk, that's how bored I am.

Reading about the news anchor at Fox who, regarding to the students that were pepper sprayed, said it wasn't so bad because "It's a food product, essentially". One of your five a day maybe? The link's in Swedish but scroll down to see other stupid things she may or may not have said.

Tomorrow the tickets for Florence + the Machine at the O2 in March will be released, Josef has the mission to get us two, there will be a fight! If I don't get one I'll be a very sad panda. I think I'm gonna wear my Florence t-shirt tomorrow for good luck, should work.

Today it's one month until Christmas (Swedish Christmas) and I'm starting to get stressed about presents. I haven't bought Christmas gifts for three years, how does it work? What should I buy? What do you all want? Ok, not all of  you but family? Please send me a list, I am clueless. Is it enough with me coming home? I can bring some Irish delicacies such as... eh, never mind.

Very random post. I dedicate it to Ruth that is bored at work as well. You are welcome, Ruth!

wednesday evening

Half week over, yes! Thursday is almost weekend, right?

Milan-Barcelona with Arabic commentators on Josef's computer, Swedish live update on mine and Olle in the background, complaining over his disgusting soup. They came over to steal my Internet so they could order their own, now I'm forever alone.

Ah, it's nice. Gonna finish first season of An Idiot Abroad now, love Karl Pilkington!

important information

My mouse has eaten the cheese from two of the traps but is still not caught. Either the mouse is really smart or the traps are really bad. So basically I'm just feeding it now, maybe I can tame it after all? Or maybe I should get a cat instead, company and mouse killer in one, win!

Christmas in Sweden is booked! December 22nd - January 3rd, haven't had that much holidays since... Ok, this summer, wasn't so long ago after all. The plan was to go somewhere nice over New Years but I realised it'll be nicer (and cheaper) to just stay home. Might go to Ruth's place in Norrland over NYE instead, this doesn't look too bad, ey?

Snoooow, yay!

photo session sunday

Had a super nice, quiet weekend including movie night with Ruth, café session with Ruth and Tea, dinner at Corfu with Oskar, Marcus and Stefan, a few drinks and 'Picture this' with Olle and his sisters and finally a photo session Sunday with Ruth. The sun was shining when I woke up around 8 yesterday but (no surprise) it was gone when we finally got out. Took a walk to Docklands anyway where there's a lot of graffiti.

A little bit more professional than me.

All the sun we got.

El Hombre Jokes, good band!

After some lunch and a coffee Ruth wanted to find a dress but instead found a new jacket. She's just missing 101 dalmatians now.

Christmas in Jervis!

That's it.

my new friend

Me being alone didn't last for long, a mouse has moved into my apartment. 

When I moved in here I found a mouse trap under my bed but I couldn't see any signs of mice so threw it away (had to leave one in the kitchen though which the previous tenant had glued to the wall, smart!). But today I saw something moving on my bedside table and nearly got a heart attack. Luckily Olle was here at the moment and had to act as the man of the house as I had no idea what to do. He wanted to kill it with a shoe but I only gave him permission to catch it, after all it was really cute and I didn't want mouse blood on my floor. However, the mouse got away (ever tried to catch a mouse? Yeah, it's hard) and I had to go to the 2-euro shop to buy new mouse traps. I kinda want the mouse to come out, maybe I can tame it and it can be my pet and we can live happily ever after. At the same time I'd like it to get trapped so I don't have to worry about it pooing in my food or crawling into my bed at night. 

All I know is I'm happy it wasn't a spider, Canada size. Then I'd kept Olle here on spider watch until it was dead and gone, or maybe just moved out straight away. I've heard spiders are dangerous. 

visit weekend with jorre & co

I survived the gym session! Have a feeling I won't be able to move my arms tomorrow though. But now I'm home, sitting in my bed with headphones on, listening to Christmas music and singing in as loud as I can. An advantage of living alone. Sorry neighbors if you can hear me! Ah, just trying to spread some Christmas feeling here!

So, weekend.

 The tourists, Johan, Mattias and Josefin at the Temple Bar bar bar on Thursday. Standard.

 

The Gorgeous Colours at Grand Central on Friday, finally got to see them! Listen to them here. Do it!

Ended up in Coppers with Josef, Olle and Erik when the rest of the gang were too tired to carry on. I've been slagging my friend for going there (the place is also known as 'The Meatmarket') and ended up there twice this weekend myself. And had fun! Still, Coppers will always be Coppers...

 

 Sunny Saturday in St Stephen's Green and after that dinner at the Market Bar, yummy!

In the evening Ruth and Tea had their house warming (more parties girls, had a really good time!) and then Coppers again, although I'd promised Josefin a rock night. Did another try on Sunday night instead but only stayed out for a short while. Almost fell asleep at work on Monday anyway, haha.

This weekend will be a little quieter, not hard to be. Nice.

project detox

Josefine, Johan and Matte left after a five day visit and I'm alone again. Thanks for a great weekend, come back soon! But now I'm gonna detox until next visit in December when Lasse, Lucas, Chrille and Frida are coming. Pictures from the weekend will be up some other day as usual.

When they'd left yesterday I went to the cinema with Olle and Nicola and saw Tower Heist with Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, an ok comedy. A few laughs, easy watching, definitely worth it with Unlimited card :)Today I'm going to the gym for the first time since Malta. I'm scared. I just wanna go home, eat chocolate and hide under my duvet which I'd probably do if I didn't have a meeting with a PT for induction at 5.30. Ruth has promised to call around 8 to see if I'm still alive.

I just found a book that I've been looking for since I read it when I was 10-11! There are two more books in the same series and I've always wanted to know how it ended but forgot what it was called and could never find it. Came to think about it when I listened to a radio programme and googled it in English this time and found it straight away. The feeling of finding it! Feels like a relief, haha. It's probably written for kids but I really have to read the ending now, project during my detox maybe? It's called The Giver anyway.

45 minutes left at work, 2,5 hours until gym session. Wish me luck!

november rain

I. Don't. Wanna. Go. Outside.

Did I bring my umbrella today?

No.

You all know what that means.

random things. and it's friday!

11:11 11/11/11 passed and I'm still here. Well, I know the world isn't ending until 2012 so I wasn't that worried. Forgot to make a wish though, was too occupied with making a screenshot of the time, which was a bit ruined by the date format on my computer. Oh, why do I even care?

Josefin, Matte and Johan arrived last night with Lingonbröd (Swedish bread), chocolate and taco spices, hallelujah! After a 'tour' of my apartment (Josefin was actually surprised I had a kitchen, ahw) we met up with Olle and his friend that arrived on the same flight as Jorre and co at The Temple Bar bar bar (the flight didn't land in Temple Bar, that's just where we went, ok?) where we had a few pints of Guinness. Tonight the plan is nacho platter, Fosters, Sweden - Denmark, Fosters, etc, etc. We all know where that will end.

I just approved something at work with the word "horse egg" in it. Haha. That got me thinking about when I was in training here and the word "supplies" was used a lot. I started laughing everytime I heard it 'cause I could only think about this:

Soon - lunch time! Wasn't that much exciting on the Friday menu but anything goes when hungry.



moe's mansion

My apartment (aka Moe's Mansion) is back to normal (or even better) and now I'm just waiting... Took the opportunity to take some pictures of it now that it's clean and my furniture is painted. Might paint the table and chairs as well, I need a rug and hopefully mum will fix new curtains for me, but it's still a big improvement from when I moved in in August. Not the best pictures, I'll have Ruth come over with her super camera and photo skills some day.

Went by Iveagh Fitness on my way home to check how much a membership cost. Of course they wouldn't tell me straight away, I had to fill in forms, discuss my goals and take a guided tour of the gym first. When all that was done she told me the monthly price and that the membership fee was €250 (!) but they have a special deal so if you sign up on your first visit you don't have to pay the fee. Sneaky bastards! I signed up. Beach 2015, here I come! (Much better to set realistic goals, right?)

How awesome is my key ring? Not the gym one, the other one. It's my mum, Ruth and I as leprechauns in Temple Bar on a tourist night out. Great night.

Not much waiting left now, yay!

jorre

As I said before, tonigh Jorre (Josefin) is coming to Dublin! I haven't seen her since we lived together in Canada, almost a year ago and that's way too long being apart from such an awesome chick as her. I hope she will come to her senses and move back to Dublin asap.

Jorre in Vancouver a year ago.

So in about 7 minutes I'm going home to continue the sanitation project of my apartment, haven't really cared about cleaning when they guys have been living there (they moved to their own apartment on Tuesday, almost felt a bit lonely when they were gone...). Going by the gym on my way home as well to see how much a membership costs in an attempt to get back to some kind of a healthy life. Haha. I'm funny sometimes.

Ciao!

weekend with ruthless

Had an awesome last weekend with Ruthilicious. Started with random photo-session-night-out on Friday:

After a couple of dance moves in a crowded Café En Seine we decided to head elsewhere for new adventures which included taking pictures with random people we met on the way. Animals were popular but as you can see, they had no idea how to look like an elephant or owling.

Started walking towards Krystal when a guy in a bike taxi asked if we were going to Coppers, in that case we could go with him. We lied and got a lift up the street before we abandoned him, hehe. The last thing I heard was the taxi driver asking the guy for 50 euros for the short trip as it was so heavy with three people.

On Saturday I met up with Ruth at Mannings for some brunch and gossip.

Walked around the Saturday Market on Meath Street for a while, bought food and candy and had a picnic in my bed with Jude Law, Jake Gyllenhaal and Johnny Depp. Unfortunately only on the computer, but you can always dream.

On Sunday I took a walk to the city trying to find a winter jacket as it was freezing. Didn't find one and half died when I walked to work on Monday and it was minus 2 degrees. Found one yesterday instead and of course it was 11 degrees this morning. It's like when you bring an umbrella it never rains and when you don't it pours.

Tomorrow Jorre is coming to town! Haven't seen her since Canada, it's gonna be so much fun! Please be Thursday night now.