Da weekend..
We went to some bar where they were playing house music, but since me and Monique weren't 21 we couldn't drink and got bored pretty fast. So the guys had some shots and then we went home to jerrys place. We had some drinks and just hung out. It was nice, they'renice guys. Though Antonio who btw is from New York was a pretty strange guy! And when I say pretty strange I mean really WIERD!:p Even hard to explain, have to be experienced to be understood. Me and Moniques only excuse and explanation is that he most be trying to get off drugs or something :P Who knows..he was okay, just took a while to figure him out :P
Anyways, we went home saturday and both me and Monique worked and then went to bed pretty early. Today we headed out to our dear friends in fairfax to watch the eurocup finals, Germany vs Spain. It was me, 6 germans and 4 americans so it was pretty obvious that germany was the team to cheer for. They lost though and everyone were dissapointed. wasn't really an exciting game, could have been better. After that everyone left and so did Helge, the male au-pair from Germany that we came to say goodbye to (he's leaving to go back to germany after two years in the states this tuesday). So we didn't get to say goodbye to him :/ Pretty sad, probably never gonna see him again! he's such a great guy, the parties won't be the same without him and his comments :) Gonna be sad times now, everyone I know is gonna leave this summer :( But that's life and there's nothing to do about it..
Tonight me and Monique had a little movie date :) We went to see WALL-E. It was a really cute movie. Love that little Robot :) Remember when Martin first showed me the trailer and like "Oh this is a sofhie-movie" and it was :D Adorable. Anyways time to sleep. My hostdad is having his surgery tomorrow and they're leaving early so it's my job to get all three girls ready and drop them off at camp. Patience is an au-pair best friend ;D haha..
Kissies and huggies everyone!
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough" Albert Einstein
You're on my heart just like a tattoo
I'm right now in full progress of planning the New York trip the 22nd of july. Martin and Alex are coming down and it's hard. I don't want them to feel like I'm coming and destroying the plans they already had. I just think it would be fun to see them, show them new york and the US way of living. We'll have to see how the plan works out for that, but you know me, I'm a planner ;D
So for this weekend the plans are:
Friday night: Baltimore with Monique to visit her friend Jerry(?) and his cousin.
Saturday night: Working as always :/
Sunday: Euro-cup finals with the folks in Fairfax. Germany vs ?
No matter what you say about life
I learn every time I bleed
That truth is a stranger
Soul is in danger, I gotta let my spirit be free
Katy Perry - I kissed a girl
Daughtry - What about now
Goo Goo Dolls - Sympathy
The fray - How to save a life
Jordin sparks - tattoo
"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. "Edna St. Vincent Millay
Back in DC again!
Anyways, we got back and they went to the hospital i DC where they made it clear that he needed a surgery to fix it. So surgery is the next step and then no car driving or exhausting activity at all for 3 MONTHS! Dunno how Brian the work-a-holic is gonna handle that :p We'll see.
After driving Allie to her dive lesson I was off and relaxed a while before Schabbath dinner. Then I walked to friendship heights to jump on the bus and go down to Linda-Marie in Georgetown. We had a few drinks and then went briefly to a bar in Adams morgan before heading down to Ultrabar (as usual). It was a fun night. Missed Monique though :/ She's down in Philadelphia this weekend, haven't seen her in a week! TORTURE!:) I don't know how I'm gonna survive when she's leaving me here..only 9 weekes left now :( I'm gonna miss her soo much!!!
Anyways time for me to go upstairs and see if I'm gonna work or not toinght. Otherwise I'll probably rent a movie and watch it all alone :/ I'm such an outsider ;) I wish YOU were here...
Todays song: Wish you were here - Red nex
Work like you don't need the money
Dance like nobody's watching
Love like you've never been hurt
First day at the beach..
Sitting here on the balcony of the beachhouse looking out over the sea. It's really nice to hear the sounds of the waves, though I also here the sound of thunder and rain :p
We got here today and are probably staying until saturday. It's a nice beachhouse not even a minute to the beach and three pools right outside. the bad thing is that I have no reception on my phone in the house or at the balcony so had to walk all the way down to the beach before to make some calls. It's a nice little beach with a little neighbourhood just 10 minutes away (bethany beach it's called). I think I'll enjoy the week here. I'm not on a vacation but it doesn't really feel like working either since Raine and Mickie is with me and the kids most of the time. Sometimes life's just wonderful!:)
Anyways..it's only 10.11 but I'm SOOO tired so I think I'm gonna go to bed. Aunt Raine and Mickie just went to bed too.
"Only I can change my life, no one can do it for me!"
Just saw the movie "P.S. I love you". If u wanna cry, watch that movie. been crying like a maniac for the last two hours. Good movie though!
Same mistake - James blunt
Answer - Sarah Mclachlan
Here with me - Dido
Friday morning..
Last night the family left to go to the beach for a long weekend so Miss Sofhie gets to enjoy three whole days all by herself! Sofhie likes!:)
I thought I was gonna be able to sleep in a little bit today but no no. At 9 Monique started calling me like a maniac (u know Monique doesn't call one time, she calls until u pick up) followed by thoose stupid telemarketers again. When I talked to the manager the other day she said they were gonna take me out of their register and never bother me again, WOW that took two days. But this time I told her I wasn't interested and that I wanted them to never call me again. And it worked! I feel bad now though :/ Why aren't I able to turn people down without feeling bad?:p
Anyways just made some nice yummy waffles for breakfast. Waiting for Monique to come so I can share them with her. Then we're going to our pool. Hopefully she can come in as a guest of mine. Then hopefully I can talk her into some sushi with me :D
I miss you all at home soo much! Can't wait until November!! And Ellie, jag skriver pa engelska pa denna bloggen sa att mina amerikanska/internationella kompisar har nagot att lasa, inte for att jag inte gillar svenska. Feel free att lasa min resdagbok om du vill lasa pa svenska :p
See ya later aligator! (me and my sister always said that when we were kids)
Just a regular wednesday in D.C.
Otherwise life's going smooth (sipping on a blueberry, strawberry and pineapple smoothie now so thought that word was appropriate ;p). Can't wait til the end of July when Martin and Alex comes to NY, gonna be fun to see you guys! But even more, can't wait til August!! Iowa, Colorado and Arizona! (That's if I can save up all the money of course :/)
And tomorrow the kids get out of school and start their summerbreak. More work for me, yeah!! :/ But then tomorrow night the family is leaving to go to the beach over the weekend. It's gonna be nice to have friday, saturday and sunday off.. Nothing fun happening so far though?:S And gosh, I need to start my further progress on the whole college thing, why is there never enough time?:p
Hahaha..This one always make me laugh like crazy!:D
Too much thinking and planning..
Puh..have been looking around at all the college stuff for a few hours now. Exhausting :p But I've gotten down the number of colleges I'm interested in to three now at least. Santa Monica college, Santa barbara city college and Long beach city gollege. So many questions, wonderings and hopes. I really hope this plan will work out, I would get so dissapointed if it didn't. When I get an idea like this I just have to get it my way. It was kinda the same before I went to the US. I decided I wanted to become an au-pair, sent all the papers in and just did it. This is more complicated though, it's not in my hands. I have to be accepted for my plan to work, it sucks! I want it to be November now so that I can go home, visit everyone at home, get a letter that says I got in and go back down to Cali in January..would be soo perfect! But everytime I get my hopes up I get dissapointed, so I don't wanna get to worked up about it. I sent an e-mail with all my questions to the swedish study abroad program, hopefully they can answer my questions :)
Otherwise...I had a fun night last night. We went down to ultrabar, danced and had fun.
It's crazy how many people you know. Makes you feel like home when you walk the street down and actually know people :p In 7 months I've gotten to know a crazy amount of people..me like :) Ended up just being me and Linda-Marie who went down to Ultrabar though. Monique and Grace went to pick Moniques friends from Chicago up at the airport but their flight was delayed so they were back here in DC way too late. Would have been fun to take them out with us but I'll get to see them all tonight. I work til 11 or so and then I'm going to Chris house where everyone decided we're gonna hang out tonight. Could be fun, they're all nice people :)
Now I'm gonna do some scrapbooking, haven't done anything since december :p have to update it ;D haha..
Kisses and hugs
Finally friday again!
Talked to my mom and sister on the phone today. Wonderful to hear your voices again. I miss you soo bad! And yes sis it IS only the second time we talk on the phone in 7 months. Really bad :/
So today was an active day, been busy and going since 8 this morning :p Started out walking to the kids school to give a T-shirt to Sydneys best friend (they were suppose to wear the special school t-shirt today and he forgot it). Ended up staying there for half an hour talking to the teachers and organising a game with them. After that I continued my walk down to the gym, worked out for an hour and went home. Got home, had lunch, talked on the phone again, went to CVS to buy some stuff and to give my white "party jeans" to the man in the store. The back pockets are coming off so he got the mission to sew them back before noon tomorrow :) After that I went home and thought I could relax for an hour before the kids got home. But no! Someone knocked on the door and when I get to the door I see they guys who build our basement/repair everything everytime something goes wrong in the house :P So I let them in and they looked and messured every part of the basement. One of them also gave me a tip where to get a fake ID ;p Haha, how did he know I wanted one? (A) Then I drove Allie and Claire to gymnastics and on the way back I went to the bank to talk to my dear friend Greg about a problem on my account. he was helpful as always :) And here I am now, all hyper and finally able to relax!:)
have to plan the evening though. As always I'm the one who's stuck in the middle of everything and has to organize and make all the plans..Sometimes it sucks to popular and awesome ;D haha..time to go take a shower and start calling people.
Kisses and hugs!
Hurricane..
Gaaaaaaahh!!!Spider crawling up my leg! can't even open a window in this house without spiders coming in! I HATE AMERICA!:p
Now the spiders dead and flushed down my toilet, good job Sofhie!:)
I'm in a really good mood today. Haven't been this energetic and happy in a LONG time. It's been a rough couple of months but hopefully the months ahead of me will be better! My good mood might have to do with the hourly long phone conversations I've been having with a certain cute guy, at least that's what he thinks ;) But he'll probably turn out to be just as big of an a-hole as all the others, they all seem nice and sweet in the beginning and then it turns around..so I'm not getting any hopes up this time :)
I miss you all back in Sweden! It's so hard to see pictures of all the fun you have and know I'm not able to be part of it :/ Talked to my dad, camilla and Lukas today on msn. They turned the webcam on and I got a few kisses and smiles from Lukas. he always know how to make my day, I love the little punk to death!
Anyways, time to go to bed. Tomorrow's friday and finally weekend again. Hopefully we can get a big group together and go out or do something fun.
Hasta la vista!
Determined!
Otherwise there's not much going on in D.C. I'm just waiting for the summer to come. And I got your letter the other day. Like you said, it wasn't without sharing a tear or two I read it. It's hard and complicated, that's for sure. And the smell of your perfume got my stomach to twist like crazy. It's wierd how a smell, a song or a simple thing as a special word, can bring back so many memories! (Forvanta dig ett e-mail inom en snar framtid)
Anyways, time to get the kids, weither I want to or not :p
Witness
Last night when me and Monique were talking a walk down Conneticut Avenue, we suddenly hear a LOUD bang. We turn around just in time to see a cab hitting a man crossing the street!! He flies up on the hood, rolls down and tumbles around on the street..We ran over to make sure he was okay, by now he was crawling towards us to get out of the way from all the cars coming down the street. He seemed to be okay but then he fell down flat on the ground. Another man came and put the mans head on his lap and placed him on his back. We called the ambulance and waited. But the worst part about the whole thing must have been the hysterical scream of the women and kid that was with him. They were clearly in shock so we had to make sure they were okay and sat down with them. Anyway, the ambulance, police and firedepartment came and we were the only witnesses so we left our number and told them what had happened. Hopefully they could clear it all out. The cab driver of course lied and said he was driving 20 mph. No one (especially the cab drivers) drive 20 down conneticut!
It really gives you a perspective of life. I mean we crossed at the exact same place as him a few minutes earlier! It's interesting though how the human body, even in a crisis, uses it reflexes to protect itself. When his body hit the ground he already had his hands covering his head and his body rolled up like a ball. All this his body figured out, in just a matter of a second, would protect him the best from the fall! It's scary..the sound of his body getting hit followed by that women screaming, it's defently gonna haunt both me and Monique for a long long time!!
