A day off..
Puuh..finally I get to relax and breath! haven't been able to write here in a while, have been working like crazy since Mickie went on yet another trip!! Only saturday-wednsday but still..more work for me :p she probably felt bad though cause she got me the whole dy yesterday and today off, only had to get up in the morning and help for an hour and then I was off. feels nice, though no one else is off so can't really do that much. Gonna go for a run in about an our andthen maybe walk up to starbucks with a book and just relax and get out for a while. It's soooo hot outside and way too humid and sticky! i kinda like it though :D unless you have to go somewhere and wanna look good cause the makeup melts as soon as you go outside and your hair's a total mess after 10 mintes ;p
otherwise there's not much going on. In exactly a week I'm finally going on my august trips to Colorado and Arizona. Looking forward to it. Gonna be nice to get away from it all and get a little vacation.
And I finally have all the study problems solved. I'm going back home to Sweden to study, that's the decision I have made. I dunno wht I was thinking, I couldn't be away from friends and family for another 3 or 4 years, it's too hard! So the 6th of November I go back home to Sweden yall!:D Can't wait..exactly 3 months and 5 days left, I hope thoose days pass by quickly cause I miss yall at home SOOOO much :) I for sure know one person that will cry a whole lot of tears!:)
Gonna try to get my Sims 2 package to work now before my run. Downloaded it and all the expasion packs but now I can't get it to work..help anyone!?:)
Flobots - Handlebar
Weezer - Pork and beens
Smashing pumpkins - Today
James Ingram - I don't have the heart
Bruce Springstein - On fire
otherwise there's not much going on. In exactly a week I'm finally going on my august trips to Colorado and Arizona. Looking forward to it. Gonna be nice to get away from it all and get a little vacation.
And I finally have all the study problems solved. I'm going back home to Sweden to study, that's the decision I have made. I dunno wht I was thinking, I couldn't be away from friends and family for another 3 or 4 years, it's too hard! So the 6th of November I go back home to Sweden yall!:D Can't wait..exactly 3 months and 5 days left, I hope thoose days pass by quickly cause I miss yall at home SOOOO much :) I for sure know one person that will cry a whole lot of tears!:)
Gonna try to get my Sims 2 package to work now before my run. Downloaded it and all the expasion packs but now I can't get it to work..help anyone!?:)
Flobots - Handlebar
Weezer - Pork and beens
Smashing pumpkins - Today
James Ingram - I don't have the heart
Bruce Springstein - On fire
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." Oscar Wilde
One step at a time
Finally back in my basement again after two and a half week with the little one in her room. So now my basement's waterproof and as new. Felt so good to be back down in your own bed and to have the privacy back. Not mentioning how nice it's gonna be to sleep in this weekend (no 5 year old who wakes me up at 7am saturday morning to say "I know you're sleeping Ofhi but I just wanted to say I love you". Sure it's cute but NOT at 7am!;p
And tuesday I went to my first soccergame here in America. Me, Greg, Mark, Mike, Dominique and Brandon took a "guys night out" and went to see United play Atlante. Sadly Atlante won but it was a good game with such an american feeling about it..
What else is going on? Hmm..my trips for august are booked. Sadly though I'm not coming with my darling Monique up to Iowa as planned. The tickets were way too expensive when me and Mickie looked the other day. And Mickie and Brian are paying half of my 500$ tickets so that I can come join them in the colorado mountains. So that's how it's gonna work. A few days with my dear friend Anna, who I wen't to high school with in Sweden, she lives in Colorado. After that I join the family for a trip up to the mountains for a few days. Then it's time to head down to Joey in Arizona.
Last night our family and Henrys family from across the street had a BBQ at our house for Sydneys friend Naomi and her family. They're leaving to move to Vietnam for three years cause the dad, Dane, got a job there. It was a nice little BBQ but sooo sad to see Sydney and Naomi say goodbye to eachother knowing they're not gonna see there best friend until they're almost 9 years old! And I got more emotional than I thought I would when I had to say goodbye to Mishka (Naomis mom). We've gotten pretty close during my time here and she's such a loving and nice women. Probably won't ever see them again. But I guess I better get used to it since everyone I know down here is leaving me in a nearby future. Just got invited to Linda-Maries going away party this saturday..It's gonna be hard, but hey who said life was easy!?
Last but not least, the papers for applying to Santa Barbara City College are sent and ready to be viewed in Sweden. I really hope I can get a spot, get good enough results on the english test and get in!:)
Jordin sparks - A step at a time
Pussycat dolls - When I grow up
And tuesday I went to my first soccergame here in America. Me, Greg, Mark, Mike, Dominique and Brandon took a "guys night out" and went to see United play Atlante. Sadly Atlante won but it was a good game with such an american feeling about it..
What else is going on? Hmm..my trips for august are booked. Sadly though I'm not coming with my darling Monique up to Iowa as planned. The tickets were way too expensive when me and Mickie looked the other day. And Mickie and Brian are paying half of my 500$ tickets so that I can come join them in the colorado mountains. So that's how it's gonna work. A few days with my dear friend Anna, who I wen't to high school with in Sweden, she lives in Colorado. After that I join the family for a trip up to the mountains for a few days. Then it's time to head down to Joey in Arizona.
Last night our family and Henrys family from across the street had a BBQ at our house for Sydneys friend Naomi and her family. They're leaving to move to Vietnam for three years cause the dad, Dane, got a job there. It was a nice little BBQ but sooo sad to see Sydney and Naomi say goodbye to eachother knowing they're not gonna see there best friend until they're almost 9 years old! And I got more emotional than I thought I would when I had to say goodbye to Mishka (Naomis mom). We've gotten pretty close during my time here and she's such a loving and nice women. Probably won't ever see them again. But I guess I better get used to it since everyone I know down here is leaving me in a nearby future. Just got invited to Linda-Maries going away party this saturday..It's gonna be hard, but hey who said life was easy!?
Last but not least, the papers for applying to Santa Barbara City College are sent and ready to be viewed in Sweden. I really hope I can get a spot, get good enough results on the english test and get in!:)
Jordin sparks - A step at a time
Pussycat dolls - When I grow up
"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." Louisa May Alcott
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust
Proud of myself!
Today I went to the doctor to do a little checkup. When I was filling in the regular forms before going in it said something about bloodtest. I've never taken a bloodtest my whole life and freaked out! Almost started crying there in the waiting room. I signed the papers anyway and waited for my name to be called. They called me and I took Monique in me in the room. The girl/nurse, whatever she was, was like 23 or something, really young, forst time ever. But I liked her, felt like talking to a friend :) Anyways she said that the bloodtest wasn't a must and that I got to choose myself if I wanted to do it or not. After thinking for about 10 minutes I took a grip of myself and approved! Scared as hell but I did it! So proud of myself!!:D And I know that you all might think "what's the big deal it's just a bloodtest!" But yeah for me it IS! I'm terrified of shots and needles and anyone who doesn't believe me, ask Monique! ;p The whole thing went good, felt really dissy in the end (she took three whole tubes for christ sake!) and afterwords something weird happened..it wasn't really a faint (I've fainted before when shots has been involved) cause I could feel the whole process and everything was spinning... yeah whatever, let's skip that part and stick to the fact that I was brave and did an excellent job people!;)
I've had a busy week, therefor no update her for example. Mickie and her twinsister Shelly left for a trip to Arkansas tuesday morning. Leaving me with the three girls, their cousin Jack and Brian with a torn acilles heal in a cast! Thank god that aunt Raine has been helping me out!:p It's been busy busy but soo much fun actually. Jack really made it a whole lot easier, he's such a pleasant boy to have around and he spreads good energy. The moms got home now tonight and tomorrow they're leaving. But it's been a good week!
only four more months now and then I get to go back to see my beloved! Had a dream about me coming home the other day. Lukas were a baby mixed with a dog for some reason and we were all sitting in dads kitchen after my arrival. Lukas came up to me and said "You're finally home, we've missed you big sister" it really touched me, eventhough it was a dream. I miss you all so so much!! Can't wait!
Anyways, time to make a phonecall to the punk in Arizona and then get some sleep so I have some energy for the kids tomorrow. Hopefully I get the weekend off, though it wouldn't surprise me if they have me working saturday night as usual
Flobots - handlebar
Bruce Springstein - On fire
Across the universe soundtrack (It's just awesome! All the old beatles classic in a new and funky way..)
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of the shoe, the horse was lost. For want of the horse, the rider was lost. For want of the rider, the battle was lost. For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail!
I've had a busy week, therefor no update her for example. Mickie and her twinsister Shelly left for a trip to Arkansas tuesday morning. Leaving me with the three girls, their cousin Jack and Brian with a torn acilles heal in a cast! Thank god that aunt Raine has been helping me out!:p It's been busy busy but soo much fun actually. Jack really made it a whole lot easier, he's such a pleasant boy to have around and he spreads good energy. The moms got home now tonight and tomorrow they're leaving. But it's been a good week!
only four more months now and then I get to go back to see my beloved! Had a dream about me coming home the other day. Lukas were a baby mixed with a dog for some reason and we were all sitting in dads kitchen after my arrival. Lukas came up to me and said "You're finally home, we've missed you big sister" it really touched me, eventhough it was a dream. I miss you all so so much!! Can't wait!
Anyways, time to make a phonecall to the punk in Arizona and then get some sleep so I have some energy for the kids tomorrow. Hopefully I get the weekend off, though it wouldn't surprise me if they have me working saturday night as usual
Flobots - handlebar
Bruce Springstein - On fire
Across the universe soundtrack (It's just awesome! All the old beatles classic in a new and funky way..)
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of the shoe, the horse was lost. For want of the horse, the rider was lost. For want of the rider, the battle was lost. For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail!
Rise and shine!
Just got off the phone with Camilla (my dads wife). Thank's for calling, it's always appreciated! In some wierd way Camilla always make me feel better. She's always there when I need to talk and always gives good advise. I'm glad daddy met you :) And I actually got to talk a few words with Lukas this time :p he called me "pippi" (means bird in swedish) and pointed out to the little bouncy-mat we have in our garden and said he wanted me to come bounce with him..he thought about a picture we have where we're all sitting on the bouncy-mat before I went to america. Soo cute. It touched me to know that he actually remembers me! I miss you both so, so much!
And Martin and Alex are not coming to NY after all :( I was really looking forward to meet you guys and to show you NYC. Dissapointing! I still have august to look forward to though, so far.Wouldn't surprise me if something came up and destroyed those plans too!
It hurts to see you sad Joey. I wanna help you in every possible way, dunno what I can do though? There comes a time in life when you just have to let go of all the pointless drama & the people who create it. After all, life is to short to be anything but happy. If I was down there I would give you a 1000 hugs til it all felt better :)
It hurts to see you sad Joey. I wanna help you in every possible way, dunno what I can do though? There comes a time in life when you just have to let go of all the pointless drama & the people who create it. After all, life is to short to be anything but happy. If I was down there I would give you a 1000 hugs til it all felt better :)
Panic at the disco - nine in the afternoon
Chris brown - forever
Should you find yourself at a loss, wondering what life is all about and what your purpose is, be thankful.
There are those who didn't live long enough to get the opportunity to wonder.
Da weekend..
So friday started off with a trip to Baltimore with Monique, Jerry and Antonio. So after we picked Jerrys cousin, Antonio up at the train station we went to eat and after that we wanted to head to some club. Though not that many clubs had 18+ on fridays so we ended up driving around Baltimore, from one cab to another :p We found this club that was 18 and up and headed out there. But as we were walking towards it a cop who was sitting in his copcar called us over. He asked were we were going, how old we were and so on. When we said where we were going he told us that was a bad idea. That the club was full of gang members and everyone who entered got into a fight and stuff. He told us which neighbourhood to go to instead and told us to walk over a bridge behind us. He looked down and said "oh, the girls are wearing highheels. Hmm I feel nice tonight, jump in and I'll give you guys a ride". So we got a ride from the most awesome cop ever! That would never happen in sweden, such a cool guy! :D
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
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
From today and 4 days on the constructor guys are renovating my basement to make it flood-proof so that there will be no more leaking in. So yesterday I took my bathroom stuff, my pillow and my little teddybear and walked up to Sydneys room. We made a bed for her on the floor and I stole hers :) So now I'm sharing room with her til monday. Not the privacy I'm used to but it's okay..and the construction guys are cute (a) haha..
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
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!
Back in DC again after the week at Bethany Beach, Delaware. The plan was to stay util sunday but when my dear hostdad had his tennislesson thursday morning he made a jump for the ball and never landed..at least not on his feet like he was suppose to!! This lead to a Achilles' heel bursting. So Mickie took him to the hospital while I stayed on the beach with the kids, and they did an x-ray. They decided he needed something else (forgotten the name of it already ;p), which we had to head here to DC to do, so that's what we did. And since Mickie, me and the kids had driven her car down, Aunt raine hers and my hostdad his I got to drive his car back to DC. But I was happy about that. Three calm hours for myself. I LOVE driving that car, listening to music and just be...ALONE!:D
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
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
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.
I Love my friend Craig at the bank :) he always helps me out when I'm in need! This time someone took money out of my account 4 times. Two different companies. So he tracked downthe number to them and called them and confronted them :p I got three of the four fees refunded, thank you Craig! You're the best. He couldn't refund the 43$ overdraft fee from the bank though, so thoose 60$ I had put away didn't last long. But atleast I'm not on minus anymore! And I can promisse you one thing. I will never ever ever again be nice and polite when someone calls me on my phone and tries to sell me something. I always feel bad for them so I talk to them and act nice, not anymore! It cost me over 45$, and not even I am THAT nice ;p Didn't really help me now when I'm trying to save up money for the summer :( Donation anyone?;D
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
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
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!
It's wierd how happy you can be, just cause it's friday and the weekend's here!:)
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!
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..
Yepp yesterday was a totally crazy hurricane day, or yeah at least the americans call it hurricane.. I call it rain and thunder on a mediocre level ;p Anyways we got home from school with the kids and got the idea to bake a "thundercake" (a special cake they do during a thunder to have something to put their minds to). We messured the ingredients and were halfway through when, of course, all the power went out! :p So much for that cake. We waited and waited but no power. Didn't get it back until 10 this morning. It's crazy how much you depend on electricity! I couldn't watch TV, no computer, couldn't talk one the cell since my battery died and I couldn't charge it :P So I lit two candles, read my whole book, wrote a letter to Sweden and then I was bored again...so I went to bed, at 10.30!!! and now my floorcarpet is soaking wet since my basement always have to flood as soon as there's rain! What's up with american houses and not being able to handle any kind of weather!?:p If it's hot outside the aircondition brake, if it's too cold the heat doesn't work, if there's one little lightning the power goes out immediately..America sucks!:D
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!
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!
Determined? Oh yes I am!! I've been saying it for a long time without really doing anything about it. And for thoose who don't have a clue about what I'm talking about, it's all about me loosing a pound or 10 :p Or actually it's more about getting fit again and feel good about my body like I used to. Have this old pic below of my stomach from 2004 (I think), which is gonna be my goal :) And this time I've actually gotten to a good start. Haven't been eating that swedish candy from "karamellkungen" that's in my drawer, even though it's tempting me every minute of the day ;). Nope I'm gonna make this happen..and I have a goal. Before august I'm gonna be my fit self again :) And then you may wonder, what's happening in august? That my friend is a good question and there's only one person who know the answer to that question ;) And I AM gonna beat you down, that's for sure!!;D
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
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
It's crazy how fast your life can change!
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!!
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!!
Dissapointed..
On request from my american friends, I'm, from now on, gonna write in english. It's alot easier too, since I speak english all day, it's almost easier to express myself in english
So today dad and Camilla called. It was soo nice to hear their voices again and to talk to them. Even though it's really hard to talk in swedish :p Takes some effort, wierd but true. Though they told me my idea about going to visit in Sweden in august weren't gonna work out :/ I got really dissapointed cause it would have been soo fun. I could really need to just come home, see everyone again and get some new energy and motivation. But I understand, it is alot of money. 1000 dollar, 6500 swedish crowns. But I guess I just have to except the situation as it is. So now the plan is to go with my DAAAARLING Monique and visit her "uncle" in Iowa for 11 days instead.Gonna be fun too :)
Something else to look forward to is that Martin and Alex comes up to NYC in the end of July, so gonna go up and meet them one of the weekends. Gonna be fun and confusing to meet Martin. After knowing eachother for four years, but never really been "just friends", and now treat eachother as friends. Gonna be interesting. But I'm/we're gonna do our best, he is such a good friend, my best friend actually, so the effort is worth it!
Otherwise there's nothing except the usual going on down here at all. Mickie (my hostmum) left and went to Utah with her two sisters today so me an Brian (my hostdad) are alone with the kids until monday. Which means I work a little bit more this week, but it's fine. She's worth the trip.
Tomorrow I'm hoping for even sunnier weather so that me and Monique can go to the pool and keep on working on our flip-flop tan ;D haha anyways, time to go to bed. Tired, went to bed late last night, to much great thing's going on to have the time to sleep :D
XoX
So today dad and Camilla called. It was soo nice to hear their voices again and to talk to them. Even though it's really hard to talk in swedish :p Takes some effort, wierd but true. Though they told me my idea about going to visit in Sweden in august weren't gonna work out :/ I got really dissapointed cause it would have been soo fun. I could really need to just come home, see everyone again and get some new energy and motivation. But I understand, it is alot of money. 1000 dollar, 6500 swedish crowns. But I guess I just have to except the situation as it is. So now the plan is to go with my DAAAARLING Monique and visit her "uncle" in Iowa for 11 days instead.Gonna be fun too :)
Something else to look forward to is that Martin and Alex comes up to NYC in the end of July, so gonna go up and meet them one of the weekends. Gonna be fun and confusing to meet Martin. After knowing eachother for four years, but never really been "just friends", and now treat eachother as friends. Gonna be interesting. But I'm/we're gonna do our best, he is such a good friend, my best friend actually, so the effort is worth it!
Otherwise there's nothing except the usual going on down here at all. Mickie (my hostmum) left and went to Utah with her two sisters today so me an Brian (my hostdad) are alone with the kids until monday. Which means I work a little bit more this week, but it's fine. She's worth the trip.
Tomorrow I'm hoping for even sunnier weather so that me and Monique can go to the pool and keep on working on our flip-flop tan ;D haha anyways, time to go to bed. Tired, went to bed late last night, to much great thing's going on to have the time to sleep :D
XoX
Min nya blogg, mitt "nya" liv!
Jaha, da har aven jag skaffat en blogg da. Har statt emot grupptrycket i typ tva ar nu men nehej nu har jag visst en :) Laser ju alla andras bloggar varje dag sa varfor inte ha en egen.. Just nu ar det mycket som hander i mitt liv. Det ar inte sa att sa jatte mycket hander egentligen, men i det stora hela och inombords hander mycket. Mycket tankar och funderingar.
Jag ar iaf glad att jag bestamt mig for att jag vill stanna i USA och plugga, for tankarna som slet mellan Sverige och USA var verkligen inget roliga att ga omkring med. Kande att jag svek alla dar hemma om jag stannade och att jag missar Lukas uppvaxt osv. Men jag insag att det har handlar om mig, MITT liv. Med risk for att lata sjalvisk ar det iaf sa det maste bli. Maste tanka pa mig sjalv. Var ju sa allt borjade, att jag bestamde mig for att lamna Martin och alla er andra dar hemma for att tanka pa mig sjalv och min framtid. Och det steget angrar jag inte alltfor ofta att jag tog!
Nu ar det ju dock dags for nasta komplicerade steg i processen, vart borjar man? Kan jag komma in likvardigt som alla andra som soker eller finns det bara ett fatal platser for oss internationella studenter? Kan jag soka till alla kurserna eller bara vissa? Om jag pluggar tre/fyra ar och far en "bachelor degree" raknas det i Sverige? Vem staller jag fragorna till? Ja usch, det ar jatte jobbigt! Men tror jag maste vanta lite med att ta tag i allt. Sista ansokningsdag ar ju 10 november, sa behover ju inte direkt kanna mig stressad. Men jag har insett en egenskap hos mig sjalv. Det kan ta mig ett tag att bestamma mig for en sak, jag velar fram och tillbaka for evigt, men nar jag val bestamt mig for det ena eller andra ar jag himla driven att fa det sa! Och helst vill jag att det ska ga min vag direkt, sa fort som mojligt. Men det har aret ar ju till for att lara mig mer om mig sjalv, utveckla mig sjalv osv. fragan ar bara, har jag utvecklats nagot/forandrats de har forsta 7 manaderna? har jag kommit nagot narmare i processen att hitta mitt ratta jag? Ibland tvekar jag.
Jag ar iaf glad att jag bestamt mig for att jag vill stanna i USA och plugga, for tankarna som slet mellan Sverige och USA var verkligen inget roliga att ga omkring med. Kande att jag svek alla dar hemma om jag stannade och att jag missar Lukas uppvaxt osv. Men jag insag att det har handlar om mig, MITT liv. Med risk for att lata sjalvisk ar det iaf sa det maste bli. Maste tanka pa mig sjalv. Var ju sa allt borjade, att jag bestamde mig for att lamna Martin och alla er andra dar hemma for att tanka pa mig sjalv och min framtid. Och det steget angrar jag inte alltfor ofta att jag tog!
Nu ar det ju dock dags for nasta komplicerade steg i processen, vart borjar man? Kan jag komma in likvardigt som alla andra som soker eller finns det bara ett fatal platser for oss internationella studenter? Kan jag soka till alla kurserna eller bara vissa? Om jag pluggar tre/fyra ar och far en "bachelor degree" raknas det i Sverige? Vem staller jag fragorna till? Ja usch, det ar jatte jobbigt! Men tror jag maste vanta lite med att ta tag i allt. Sista ansokningsdag ar ju 10 november, sa behover ju inte direkt kanna mig stressad. Men jag har insett en egenskap hos mig sjalv. Det kan ta mig ett tag att bestamma mig for en sak, jag velar fram och tillbaka for evigt, men nar jag val bestamt mig for det ena eller andra ar jag himla driven att fa det sa! Och helst vill jag att det ska ga min vag direkt, sa fort som mojligt. Men det har aret ar ju till for att lara mig mer om mig sjalv, utveckla mig sjalv osv. fragan ar bara, har jag utvecklats nagot/forandrats de har forsta 7 manaderna? har jag kommit nagot narmare i processen att hitta mitt ratta jag? Ibland tvekar jag.
