This will make you crack if you...

...like EastEnders legend Jim and Nelly Futado! My God! Col and I laughed so much we almost wet our pants!!!!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfqDz-uY7Lg

Tomorrow!!!

I'LL HAVE TO GET UP AT 7AM!!!!!! AND WORK ALL DAY!!! AND THEN THE SAME FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK!!! I'M IN SHOCK HERE....!!!

 

What I need is something sent thorugh the post, like choccies, turkisk peppar, and lots of time!!! Can I please have some time back?!?! And I have to work until 5.30!!!! OMG!!!!! This is gonna get interesting! Will let you know tomorrow if I survived!

 

Wish me luck!!

Just wondering..

.. what's David Tennant up to at the moment?

It’s time for me to do the Happy Dance as well ‘cos….

I’ve got a job for next week! Wohooo! I’ve had my eye on this job for a while and am really pleased! It’s that Debbie who’s pulled through yet again : ) I’m gonna be working for a children’s charity near Green Park all week, and maybe longer! I’ve also chatted to some different people today about various jobs, so, finally – the draught is over!! I hope! And for Col too as you might know – he’s landed himself a brilliant job (with the money he earns I hardly need to work!!) in a place called Colindale – cool eh?! So pleased! Don’t know when he’ll start, but will hopefully be next week J We’ll soon be able to go places and treat ourselves!!!

Bought myself a nice new coat after my interview on Tuesday. It was in the sale in Debenhams, got it for £25 instead of £80! Oh, I like a bargain! It’s very 60ish and looks pretty cute. Just needed something smart for work and stuff. The interview the other day went really well by the way. The company is rather weird though – they’re all analysts and consultants for gas and liquid natural gas matters… Soooo… It’ll be like selling my little green soul to the devil in a way if I worked there… But they do give you 16% bonus once a year (off your  salary.. not bad, oh, and 25 days holiday! Oh! See, the devil is tempting me…)

Went to see Rocky Balboa on Thursday night with Matty. Now, Matty is a Rocky freak, and Col dragged me along too for the occasion – and to tell you the truth I really enjoyed myself! I laughed my head off most of the time! Even the people in the cinema were funny! Screaming and cheering away! Hahaha! I got a little carried away too  J It reminded me of cinema in Asia, people care about what they’re watching!

Had Sez around for a little while today too, always so nice to hang out. Makes us feel a bit more in touch with the world!

Best news left ‘til last – KARRO HAS A BRAND NEW CAR!!!! It’s a proper girlie girlie coooool car!!! It’s called something like.. mmm… will find out…! It’s dark grey and the roof comes down J Van’t wait to borrow it!!! Hehehe!

Oh, and let me not forget – WE HAVE HAD SNOW!!!! For one day at least, well, a couple of hours! And it was soooo pretty!!!! Could never live anywhere where you don’t have snow once in a while…

Week gone by

Not been into blogging for a while, but here’s the low down on last week:

Tuesday night: Sez came round, had a really cool night chatting away

Wednesday: Um, don’t remember… Watched BB, now that Jade is a nasty bully… Poor Shilpa, she’s being bullied for being pretty and sophisticated, hm. Jade= council estate slag, Shilpa= Bollywood beauty

Thursday: Stormy or what!?! Worst storm in 17 years or something! We did pop out for a little while and almost for a tree branch on us!!! Crossing the road was hard, thought we might lift off any time!!! So, yeah, a bit windy then : ) Matty come around in the evening, we played Cluedo and drank tea.

Friday: Col was knackered. Had Sharon and Trev come up and headed to Camden for a spot of dinner at Wagamama. Yum!!! Oh, I love that place!! Oyster is great btw, only cost us £2 return! Cool! I think it’s after 7.30pm or so though… Went back to Great Ashby with the in laws.

Saturday: Watched BB in bed, yeay, Jade got kicked out – she got to see footage from Indian television, Gordon Brown defending the British… Her racist remarks have caused outrage here as well as in India…

Went shopping for a little while, I bought some cooking stuff and a top for work (hehe). Bargain of the day was a pair of knee high boots for £12.50!!! Cool! Finally I found something in the sale! They are looovely! Not really what I needed, but, hey, the things you don’t need are normally the best! Sharon took us to Van Hage as well, which is a garden centre. Wanted to get a fruit tree for Sandie, but it’s the wrong time of year really! Soooo, we ended up with a Camellia and it’s gorgeous!!!! So pleased! Went back to Sharon’s and got some lovely dinner.

Party in the evening, loads of people! Loads of fun too! Sam played with his band – damn he can drum! He’s really really good! I mean he’s not even 12 and has mastered a lot of tricky rhythms! He’s destined for greatness me thinks! Another Walkern band played in the evening too, and lots of different people joined in! Cool! Think we danced away most of the night! Left about 2ish, were gonna walk home, got as far as the end of the village and then called a cab! Too cold!!! Brrrrr!

Sunday: Up late, couldn’t sleep in the morning though. So tired. Had some brekkie about 2, then not up to much. Keith came around, Sharon and him sorted out some stuff on the puter, Trev was busy D.I.Y–ing, Col was on the puter too, I watched something about Leo’s new film ( the one set in Africa – looks really great!) and was a bit bored. Too tired to read, and just wanted to get home. When I’m tired I just wanna be home! Col was moaning at me on the train which maybe I deserved, not sure! Just had some dinner now, and cheese and crackers party! Mmm! Bed now… Must get energy for jobhunting tomorrow… Got phone bill today too…. £110 – yikes! Most of it for the dial up… We need broadband!!!

Might snow on Tuesday apparently! It’s really turned cold, but it should be like this – I mean it is January after all!

HAPPY 50TH SANDIE!

New Week....

So, I did a wee bit of work last week, not so much this week so far anyway! Well, I did cook and clean : ) like a good little housewife that I am. Gulp!! No, don't worry! We're not quite there yet!!

 

Had a really wicked weekend. It was the Russian New Year this weekend, with big celebrations in Trafalgar's Square, cool! Russian food and Russian popstars!!! Can't go wrong really!!! Hehehe! Got to see 'Red Ken' too, and he did sing on a Blur song once upon a time, so pretty cool really! And Russians! Everywhere!! Really really cool!!! My Russian came flying back, like "Spaziba" and all that kind of thing! Especially "A chom wvie gavaritje" (phonetical there!) Remember Ems??! Heheh! Did a little bit of shopping afterwards, well, tried anyhow... I need some shirts for work (when I get it), seem to have 2 in total... Have a feeling I might have a bag of clothes at Sharon's...!

 

Sunday was mostly spent in bed and then watching films. We did go for a lovely walk as the sun poked out for a while. So warm and gorgeous out! Oh! Blossom on the trees

 

Today has been jobhunting day again. Oh, we're loving it soooo much!! Got motivated and we're looking forward to going back to work! Well, who am I kidding??! I wanna head off and travel again but it's not possible right now! Ah! It's Sandie's 50th on Saturday (Col's stepmum) and just don't want people asking me what I'm doing, don't feel proud being unemployed! I reckon I'll just tell them I'm loaded and choose not to work? I'm a lady who "does lunch".... Yeah, that'll do!!! Heheh! Should be a pretty cool party though as there's like a band thing happening! Even little Sam is playing! Walkern is full of bands apparently and they all think they're the next best thing, not heard any of them so will be interesting to see if it's a Oasis thing (all talk and no action). One of the guys from Spandau Ballet lives in the village too, so maybe there'll be some true talent! Heheh! And little Sam is gonna play, never heard him actually play with anyone before so will be cooool!!!!

 

Sez is coming over tomorrow, will be cool to see her! Been too long yet again!

 

Gonna watch some shitty telly now, it's BB (bloody again) and just wanna see how much of an idiot Jade and the others can make of themselves... Or maybe we can watch an episode of This Life instead! Yeayyyyyy!

 

Oh, Matty is "Employee of the Month" - how cool is that?!?! Well done!

Friday - work - what?!?!

Well, well, well!!! Here's the surprise! I've actually been to work today!!! £11 an hour! Wohoo! Well, it was the most boring day I've had for about 10 years! What?! Not very inspiring! I thought today would ease me back into working life, more like turn the other way and run for your life!!! Why do we do it??! I need to find a niiiice job! Compared to my old job this was soooo boring! I was just in for today, just one guy was in for work... It's a property company and they're all absolutely loaded! Like disguistingly! I'd rather be back at the hotel and meet some nice people, even the hospital, rather than shuffle paper for rich b*stards! Well, now, they all seemed really sweet (spoke to most of them on the phone), but I need more people around me! TO sociable to be locked in an office! What will I do??! Any ideas people?!?!

 

My lovely boyfriend has made me dinner, so best be off! Will continue my rant later!

Wednesday

OK, another midweek...! Been almost busy this week! Monday was shopping day. We only had a few crackers left in the house, and decided we need more to live! Took the bus to Southgate for some shopping, bloody heavy to carry home I say! But bliss, we can cook again, and eat!

 

Yesterday was rather full on, I had two interviews:

 

First one was for an agency around the corner from Oxford Circus. I'm applying for a job as a Sec/Admin for a property company in Bond Street. Had to do loads of tests again. This time typing, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and spelling. Oh joy! Did pretty well on all of them though, think Excel was the hardest with about 75% . My typing seems a bit slow though, only 40wpm, thought I was quicker than that.I thought I was like a speed demon! Ah! Need to write more I suppose... Had a long chat with the lady there as well, she's really nice. She said she needs people for a children's charity as well, that would probably suit me better than a property company, but I just have to go for everything and anything at the moment!

 

Did sort out an interview for myself at Breakthrough Breastcancer though and my second interview was with them. I was a bit knackered after my two hour testing session, and maybe not completely prepared for the stupid questions you're asked in a formal interview...like... what would you do if the phone rang and you were doing something else....that kind of thing.... Don't really know how I did... Might have come on a bit strong about being a recycling, cycling, vegetarian health freak power girl... Or something like that! Will find out on Thursday! The ladies who interviewed me were lovely, and the office seemed pretty cool (the girl I'm replacing is called Jess, so I mean, that makes things so much easier for people doesn't it??! Must be to my advantage?!!) - best part being they get 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 3 days between Christmas and NY! Woohooooo! Now that's what I call a perk!

 

Applied for a few more jobs today, went out for a little while - Col had his hair cut! Looks lovely! Not short, just shorter! Hasn't been cut since our summer in Sweden so about time! Got a before and after picture, might try to stick them on here! Whilst he was having it cut, the girl blow dried it a little and he was the splitting image of Tim Burton! Heheh! Mad! If only I'd had my camera! Very funny!! Col might have been a little traumatized! Got a bargain too, half price as I "introduced" him to the salon. Also means I'll get £10 discount next time! Better than a poke in the eye :)

 

Gonna do some reading now - have actually forced myself to read The God of Small Things again, and it's not too bad. Just hard work the first 75 pages or so... Will let you know how it goes...

 

Trying to plan what to do for my birthday this year (you only turn 24 once) - was thinking Moscow but it's so expensive to get there! Maybe St Petersburgh, Iceland, Berlin, Munich... New York.... Or drive the van to the Lake District, that would work too : ) Just depends on what we can afford... Plan B, stay in bed with duvet over my head! Col had better be there too : )

 

Sunday

Had a lovely day today. Stayed around Col's Dad's for the evening - Col was sorting out Sam's World of Warcraft. Wohoo!

Stayed the night around Col's Mum's, and today we have had lots of food! Yum!!! Think this is the last day of indulgence from Christmas! That half a stone has gone up now I think!

 

Ems, I'm not weird, check out Dr Who and you'll see what I mean!!! Heheheh!

 

Off home in a minute, and I think we might be getting a lift, wohooo!!

 

oh, ps, hm, col's got a new graphics card, wohoo!

One more...

Friday night and Saturday

Got some food sorted from Waitrose. We just have nothing in the house! Need to get to a shop sometime soon. Just a case of having to walk to one and grab the bus back... Need to get our van back on the road...

 

Watched something called Friday Night Project or something and it had David Tennant as the host... I must admit I have a bit of a soft spot for him... So thought I'd put a little picture up..... Mmm, nice isn't he? Does anyone know if he's gay or not?!?

 

We're over at Col's Dad's right now, just had some lovely pumpkin soup and homemade banana cake, mmm! Gonna watch some kind of film now I think....

 

Got problem with my kidney again, the other one this time... Hurts like hell... It's one thing after another with me isn't it...

Job hunting

Been a very busy day today. Went to an agency and signed up. Chatted to them yesterday and they seem ok.

Had to fill out about a million pages, do spelling tests and understanding of words, typing test and interview. I was there for 2 hours!!! Poor Col, I told him I'd only be 30mins-1 hour!

 

Afterwards we went to Borders and had biiig cooffes, yum! And cake too, I mean, come on! Then we did a little bit of shopping. I got a pair of work trousers and a pair of jeans from Bershka (in the sale!). Also, Col managed to get a pair of jeans too! He hasn't got a single pair without holes! Not bad!

 

Gonna watch something cool now, not sure what though!

 

Oh, be prepare - MIDSUMMER IS GONNA BE THE BESTEST EVER!!! Everyone's invited - Johan and Lisa's house I hope! 22 of June, put it in your diary!!!! So happy, Remke and Marloes are coming!!!!!

Jul Jul!

Lowdown on the Christmas break in Sweden:

Saturday 23^rd

Happy Birthday Sharon!

Up at 3am, no sleep for me… Cab arrived at 4am. Still foggy as anything… Luckily Stansted wasn’t as affected as the other airports… … Got to Stansted by 4.45am. Arrived in Copenhagen 20 minutes late… Veeery close to missing our train to Kalmar… Too close for comfort but we made it! Got picked up by Karro, Ems and Daniel, headed straight for Kullzenska café. (Ankis missed her train from Stockholm so couldn’t make it).Yummy coffee and cakes! Mmm! On the way there Col lost just about all the wheels on the suitcase. So funny, had this guy running behind us saying “your wheels! Excuse me!!!” (first time in Swedish and when the next wheel fell he swapped to English and laughed a lot! So did we! Madness!) Bumped into my old classmate Mattias too, haven’t seen him for yonks! This is what I love about being at home for Christmas! Then home for food and Lussekatter (baking baking!). Slept all three in Karro’s bed! Luckily it’s big enough!

Christmas Eve

No snow!!! So sad! Not that Christmasy… Decorated the tree. Dad had bought a dodgy one so we had to do our best!It turned out pretty good in the end! Went to church, sang some songs, then home for cooking. Joakim popped by, nice to see him. Watched Kalle Anka och hans Vanner firar Jul (Col might understand us Swedes a wee bit more now..) Mum and Stig arrived at 5, had lovely meal (almost forgot the ham!heheh!). Got so stuffed, mmmm! Johan was Santa this year, got lots of lovely pressies, biggest surprise was Trolltyg I tomteskogen from Emsen, how she manages to get hold of these unobtainable films I do not know! Lisa arrived in the evening, everyone seemed tired by then!

Thanks for all my lovely presents people!

Christmas Day

No pressies today for Colly, poor thing! Luckily there were loads of leftovers to distract him J Went for a lovely walk down to the sea, the weather was gorgeous, cold but sooo sunny! Beautiful! In the afternoon we went to see Johan and Lisa’s new house with Dad. Wow! It’s a cool house! Massive! Lots of work to be done, but that’s part of the process isn’t it?! Waited to go to a party in the evening, but Emsen was soooo poorly so we skipped it.

Boxing Day

Shopping all day with Karro! Bought lots of sweets and ate them all! Pick and mix Sweden style is the best!

Wednesday 27^th

Fika with Emsen and Ankis (before she took off to London). Really nice time, nice to hang out with the lassies. Wandered the town with Emsen, then got take away from Ming, headed to Ems house, watched the last episode of Firefly, then Serenity the film, followed by Rocky Horror Picture show! Coooool!!! Daniel joined us too. Headed to Karro’s afterwards with some food, she’s ill and doesn’t make herself food at the best of times! Icy on the roads when we drove home.

Thursday 28^th

Freezing!!! Frosty everywhere! Pretty! Met up with Karro and went to Ikea for some coffee (and shopping for Karro) and moooore cakes!

Friday 29^th

Went to see Johan and Lisa for a while at the house, we brought coffee and cakes which was much appreciated. Headed on to Jenny’s after that. Got to meet little Isaak this time too! Must be the most smiley baby I’ve ever seen! He just smiled and smiled and smiled! And poked his tongue out! Ebba was so cute too! Little shy but so grown up! Lovely to see Jenny and Fredrik too of course! They’ve finished the main bathroom now – woooooow! So nice! I want one of those baths too! Had nice nosh and chats then time to head home again. Johan and Lisa paid us a visit in the evening, more chatting, think we’re loosing our voices! Matty arrived in Sweden in the evening, just to spend the night at the airport J

Saturday 30^th

Went into town around lunchtime, had coffee (& cake) with Virre and Jannica. Karro came too! Glad we got a chance to catch up with them as V is off to New Zealand at the end of next month! I’m so jealous! I wanna go toooooooo! Love that place! Had a quick walk around town too, I picked up some cups (good for Glogg and coffe) from Werner&Werner, bought some food too. Then it was time to collect Matty from the station! Headed off to Karro’s for some food, then home for fika with Dad. Took it easy in the evening as Matty was shattered from no sleep! I tried to make a pie for the New Year’s Eve Posh Dinner we had been invited to, but managed to drop it when it was almost done! Did I loose it or what! I was mad like hell! Poor Col and Matty! Played a bit of TP in Swedish too, the lads did well! Funny!

New Year’s Eve

Up early. We were gonna go for a walk but it was raining outside. Drove to Sandby, then down to the coast where we did get out and walked a little. Damn it was cold and windy! Matty got soaked whilst trying to wade through a small lake! He’s mad! Hahhah! We laughed a lot though! Dad made us some lunch, then we headed to Johan’s. He gave us a lift to town, where we met up with Karro, Virre, Jannica, Louise and Annelie and went down to the castle to watch the firework display! It was actually really great! I don’t normally like that kind of thing that much but it was cool! Drank a bit of Glogg supplied by the Hovenas’s, yum yum! Then home to get changed! I had to borrow clothes from Karro! Headed off to Louise’s, had loooovely food and drink! The menu was

Crayfish tail soup / Asparagus soup

File of Beef in Red wine sauce with Potato Gratin

Roccola/Sundried tomato and Cheese pie

Cheesecake with raspberries and blueberries (with Ginger snaps, yum!)

Trifle (bit of a letdown, will learn how to make this properly for next time!)

Finished off with a glass of Baileys

Mmmm! Got soooo stuffed!

Had lots of drinks then headed off to Karro’s for Sparkling wine at Midnight and some fireworks by Mikael. Had the best toasting session ever, think Col, Matty and myself toasted every living thing and all the foods of the world! (Especially Marmite I think!) Headed into town and Ernesto’s. Had a pretty cool time! Lots of dancing until my feet were so sore that we had to go home! Luckily Johan and Lisa were on their way too and picked us up from the library! Col and Matty had to carry me there though! Poor poor feet… Damn those shoes! But they’re pretty… Ohhh… Sat and chatted for a few hours then bed!

New Year’s Day

Oooohhhhh…. My poor head…. Up at 8, woke Karro up as we still had stuff at her place. Picked them up on the way to the station. Bless the Numo’s for taking us J Just made the train in time. Had a nice trip to Copenhagen, just chilled out. Had the best hangover cure at the airport – Danish pastries and tea! What a treat! Repacked the bags, turned out we had lots of alcohol in one bag that Karro gave us! Ooops! Managed to fit it all in. Got the flight alright, bit of a shaky start, were 20 minutes early in London. Took us 3 hours from Stansted and home…. Arrrggh! Soooo tired by then! When I rang home Dad and Karro said there had been a proper storm in southern Sweden and Denmark… We were lucky to make it home! Watched a bit of Monty Python, had some pasta, then collapsed in bed. Nice to sleep in our flat again!

Tuesday 2^nd

Chill out day! Did some food shopping, nothing much else! Watched This Life 10 years on… Wow!!! Sooo cool to see the old gang again! They were all the same, just a little older and a little more bitter! Bit weird! There was a short interview afterwards and they said the next one will be when they’re in their 70s!! Heheh!

I had a call about a job, have got an interview on Tuesday! Cool!

Wednesday 3^rd

Happy Birthday Ebba and Henni!

Lots of sorting out today, the house seem in a bit more of an order now! Oh, Pepe called!!! Great to chat to him! It’s been to long!!

Chatted to Emsen too, such a shame we didn’t get to hang out a bit more in Sweden, but she might be coming to London in the spring! Wooohooo!

 

2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

 

Hope you all had a cool night and a good start to the New Year! We sure did! Will give more of an account to everything we got up to in Sweden tomorrow, bit late now and a bit sleepy!

 

Ta ta for now!