Remember...

that I ordered something a few weekes ago?

They have finally arrived, and I LOVE them:)

I ordered something else from the same website a week later so hopefully that will arrive next week.

Can't wait.

My time with my parents so far

We are having the most amazing time, and the weather has been great.

We have walked EVERYWHERE and done some powerwalking as well and then we've eaten LOADS, and we've sat and relaxed and enjoyed the sunshine inbetween...:)

We went to Fifteen on the first night

spot my mum in the mirror:)

And then, the next morning, we went for a power walk by the canal

And by the themes

And in the park

The Italian joined us later to go to Tate Modern and afterwards we went for a nice stroll in the sunshine

Oh how I LOVE that top and how I LOVE that skirt, but I do realise that it is a complete disaster together...

Anyway, the stroll eventually took us to St Pauls

And that is all I have time for now, but I will be back later with Thursday night, yesterday and today in pictures:)

Now I need to get in the shower so I can go and meet my parents for our last day together.

Have a lovely day:)

Animal Prints

I have never been to keen on Animal Prints, I always wear silver and never gold, I have liked the thought of a maxi dress but I know my body shape, and it just wouldn't go together.

But then I saw this ad in the June issue of Vouge and I just wanted to move into this whole outfit and never move out again.

I love the dress and the bangles and I could even live with the VERY gold earrings. And they're all part of FAA (fashion against aids) which makes it even more beautiful:)

I like having visitors:)

You get lots of lovely presents:)

Ok so maybe not all of it was healthy, these are my favourite Swedish sweets. And yes, I like to have a bowl with a big chip in it....

Have had a lovely day with some "fika" (Coffee and cakes, or sandwiches in swedish) in our flat.

All of us forgot to take photos though so you'll just have to take my word for it. I even baked a cake (well maybe not very succesfully, but I baked one)

And then my parents went to check into their hotel and I went for a run and now we are meeting up in a few minutes to go to Fifteen for dinner:)

My parents are coming today:)

Can't wait! I am only working half day (well 6 hours) and then I am going to go and meet them at Liverpool Street Station, and get three days with them. Yay!

Another Baby Joy

My lovely friend C gave birth to a healthy beautiful baby girl yesterday.

Can't wait to see her:)

Better Day:)

I am feeling better today than I did yesterday. It started in the morning with the fact that I felt like the worlds largest party pooper. 

And then it continued on at work with people being quite nasty to me in one way or another. So when I finished work and went to Sainsbury's to meet the Italian (not for a hot date or anything but simply to buy dinner etc, we don't have our dates in a food store, that's just silly) Anyway, while we were there the shop closed and the exit where I had my bike parked was locked,  and when the stupid security guy told me that I had to go all the way around the building to get my bike, I could feel the tears coming. I mean HELLO I had to walk for three minutes max to collect my bike and I felt like my whole world was crumbling. 

I sulked, off course, and snapped at the Italian who offered to come with me and get it. Cycled home without the helmet - just to tempt fate, I thought. No.no, I'm not 12 but I sure felt like it yesterday with all my childish tantrums.

And then, when the Italian got back he looked at me with concern and asked if I was ok and gave me a hug. The one thing that always sets me off when I am a bit down is when somebody is nice to me so I completely broke down.... Hmm not really sure what that was about but we decided that I probably wasn't great company at my friends birthday drinks so we went to the cinema instead.

And then when we got home we had some dinner and watched Cougar Town which cheered me up - silly girl...... Sometimes I don't know how he puts up with me. But I am very glad that he does.

Rock and Roll

Ran into the Italian in the doorway as he came home from the club and I was leaving for work.... On my way to work I see all these dressed up party people and feel, to say the least, very unglamourous...

I just hope that by the time I have a "normal" job, that gives me weekends off (or at least not a 7am start EVERY saturday and Sunday,) I don't already have one baby hanging from each tit and another one tugging at my leg for attention. 

HANG ON, I only ever just wanted two kids, where did that third child come from all of a sudden?? 

Anyway, my point is, that I feel like the most boring person on earth, always having to say no thank you to parties and socialising on weekends because I have to be up at 5am.

Ah well never mind, back to work.

My Evening

The rain never stopped, so I decided to stay in, and this is what kept me company, chic flick, candles and a couple of spoonfuls of Nutella.

And now the party princess lives on and I am watching Wallander until bed-time in about an hour, it's nice to listen to some Swedish even if it's all about murder;)

WTF??

It was lovely and sunny 10 minutes before I left work, and then, as I cycled, it got darker and darker and darker... All of sudden I am in the middle of a hail (!!) storm. On the 1st May?? Really?? I am absolutely soaked when I get home with bruises all over... The Italian opened the door and wondered who the drowned rat outside was. I had to strip off in the hall way and hope to god that my neighbours didn't decide to go out at that moment. The Italian brought me a towel and shoved all the clothes in the washing machine.

I was supposed to go to my lovely frined L's joined 30th - 50th b-day party that she is hosting with her mum.

But with me sneezing all day and then swimming home, I am thinking that it is not the greatest idea to get on the bike again and head off to North London.

The Italian just went off to a Stag Night with some friends, so I am sitting here contemplating which film to watch, and what to snack on instead...;)

Mr Darcy does it again

After my run and shower and lunch I was sure that I had to go to the post office, but then I realised that I can do it tomorrow, very excited I slipped into my pyjamas and decided to stay in for the rest of the day:)

Missed the Italian a lot so decided to cheer myself up with the second round of Mr Darcy and Bridget.

Threw the Italians glasses on and pressed play. While I was watching the Italian phoned and I told him that I was busy with Mr Darcy so I couldn't talk.

Hang on, what did I just do, the reason I am watching this in the first place is because he is not here... So I paused Mr D and called the Italian back and told him that I miss him a lot.

It finished at 5.30pm and still no Italian at home, so all I wanted to do was bury my face in a big box of chocolate. Made dinner instead and now I am trying to decide which film to watch next.

Hang on, Friends just started on E4.

That's me sorted for the evening.

I did it

I went to the opticians this morning and they put some orange dye thing in my eyes and told me to wait an hour before putting in my contact lenses again. I decided to give my eyes a rest all day and won't be putting them in until tomorrow morning.

Going for a run was therefor a bit of a guessing game... How far away is that car? Oh my god is that a horse? Oh right, no, just a massive dog.
In all this confusion however, I did it, I over took a guy (!) a healthy looking, young guy, not over weight or old or anything..:)

I still didn't beat my time though so maybe we should just agree on the fact that the girl that over took me the other day was running faster than the guy that I over took today and I haven't actually improved at all...

Ah well, never mind, made me feel good though.

Got home in time for Loose Women which I watched (well listened to, since I can't see anything), and now I am going to make myself some lunch.

A crush

I am now sitting here with a big smile on my face and a bit of a crush on Mr Darcy...

And now time for Dr Mc Dreamy.

Precaution

I have already phoned the Italian and left a message to say that I am eating the last bit of the Italian cake. So surely he can't get upset with me now?

I tried to get in contact, right?

Photo Less Day

I went for a power walk this morning but you've seen that journey before and then I was going to go to the cinema but decided to cycle to Notting Hill instead and spend some time with the Italian when he had a few hours off, we sat in Caffe Nero and I had a chocolate muffin. I realised that it wasn't the full moon yesterday, I just don't really like muffins anymore.... So I didn't want to take a photo of that because I got upset and grumpy.

Cycled home and made myself some lovely dinner, sea bream with tomato and spinach cous cous. Got so excited about the result and thought - now, this is it, this is my photo opportunity, this is beautiful.

But just as I was taking the fish out of the oven, the Italian phoned and I lost my concentration and burnt my fingers, had to throw the whole tray on the floor. When I finally composed myself enough to pick it up from the floor and put the tray back in the oven I drop a fork on my toe...

So I am now sitting here with a bandage on my foot and my hand in an ice bucket (well maybe not quite, but almost). So as I am sure that you understand it was a bit hard to take a photo of it in the end. It tasted delicious though and I am now going to cheer myself up and watch Bridget Jones's diary while I am waiting for Grey's Anatomy to start.

Done, done and done

Had breakfast, watched the film and booked a table at fifteen:)

Heard that once again there are some flights that are being cancelled due to the ash, I really, really hope that won't happen next week. And if it is going to happen then please happen while they are here so they have to stay for a bit longer;)

Bonus Day Off

I was supposed to work today but got a second day off this week in the end:) I still woke up early and starving, I went for a run after dinner last night and then I didn't have anything else to eat. So I am now going to have some breakfast and watch the film that I never watched last night because I found Jamie Does.. Stockholm on TV. I recorded it for the Italian, he always asks me about typical Swedish dishes and I can never think of anything to tell him except meatballs, and if you tell an italian that meatballs is a Swedish dish you get into a LONG discussion about the Italian meatballs blah blah blah.

Anyway it made me think about maybe going to Fifteen next week when my parents come over. It is not far from us and I actually haven't been yet. I also want to take them to L'anima though, which is our favourite, but I am sure that we could have time for both...:)

No Doubt

Yep it's definately full moon. I fancied something sweet on my lunch break today so I bought a blueberry muffin from Starbucks. After I'd eaten about half of it I felt full (?!?) and didn't want any more so I threw rest of it away. That has NEVER happened to me before.

So I felt, yeah there's something in the air today, for sure.

Don't worry though I have made up for it since then by having some tea cakes at work and then some Italian cake when I got home, but I still scared myself a little.

Full Moon

I woke up last night after a weird dream, and I was so sure I had over slept and everything in my dream kept telling me that I was late for work.

I looked at the time and it was 1.30am, I know I get up early, just not quite that early.

Got to work on time in the end and people were telling me about their weird dreams, J was sure he didin't have to come to work today because of what he had done in his dream.

We thought it was a bit strange that we were all affected by this and then it hit us.... So we googled, and there it was, a big fat full moon on the full moon calender, well actually to be picky, the full moon is today and doesn't come into effect until about 6pm tonight, but I always think that I can feel it a few days either way..

I don't think I have ever noticed the full moon until I started at this job. However here I never fail to notice it, the strangest people come out at this time, they have no idea what's up or down.

I used to think that it was a myth how the full moon affects people, but not anymore.

I was going to go for a run tonight but I am not sure I am brave enough, might just stay on the sofa under the duvet and watch 500 days of summer that arrived in the post from love film today:)

Loving it vs Not so Much

I love that, when you go for a run in the park, other runners smile at you as if you have some sort of special running bond

However, I don't love so much that when I feel, wow I'm doing really great, running at a good pace and it feels good, some dude OVERTAKES YOU!!

What's that about, don't get me wrong, I overtake people as well, the only difference is that they're not running. They're standing still or perhaps walking....

And then at the end I'm so sure I've beaten my last time, so I keep watching the count down time thingy and in the end I have in fact beaten it - by three seconds... 

Ah well next time I'll be the one over taking everyone in the park. You'll see.