this is the deal living in "stockholm"

I really... dislike... living in the countryside when a friend (that I got to know in Helsinki, who is Canadian and now lives in Switzerland) texts you at 9 p.m. saying he is in Stockholm and will have a drink with another Helsinki friend (another Swiss guy who now lives in Stockholm) and asks you to join.

Of course I want to join! However, I am sitting in the sofa right now in my sweats with greasy hair so I need to get ready first. Take a shower, pick out an outfit, put on makeup, fix the hair, the whole deal. I have to drive to the train station but since I had wine with dinner that is not really an option. In that case I need to get someone to drive me there, but since dad also had wine and no one else is home it will be tricky. So I will just take a cab for 300 SEK (or more?) to the train station. Then it will take me one hour to get into town. Then I have to take the last train home at 1-2 a.m. (or take the night bus home later, alone with all the drunks, which would take me about 1h40min until I reach home). Which would leave me around one to two hours in town. I will be there!

Let's see if he is sober enough for a lunch tomorrow.

(Notice to future friends visiting Stockholm: please let me know in advance and do not text me 9 p.m. asking me if I can come downtown for a drink tonight.)

my dinner

Tonight's dinner. A good salad containing chicken, ruccola, beans, bulgur, red onion, and pesto. I miss my salads, I used to eat them all the time as a student in Jönköping.

another cookie monster day

Baking another batch of the cookies. Although I am not as satisfied with this batch as I tried a new filling. I wanted to try making the Millie's Cookies variant with white chocolate and raspberries. Either I did the mistake of mixing in a bit too much flour or mixing the mix a bit too much. But then I made some changes to the mix and also had the cookies longer in the oven. So now they are quite delicious. Crisp but soft, just as I want them.

another no go

It is a no go for me and the Trade Council in Copenhagen. Unfortunately. Gave them a call today since I have not heard anything for a long time, hence I did not have that high hopes. She said that they had picked out two candidates that they were choosing from and she also explained what the candidates background. It was basically the same as me, they had a relevant degree and had worked and lived in Denmark. What they had that I did not was experience from previous work in the Trade Council.

Additionally she said they had received many applications, around 160 of them.

Better luck next time.

busy(?)

Apparently I took a break from my blog. Did not even think about it. You know, it has been so busy here... It has been so busy that I cannot even remember what I have been doing. Yesterday I actually tried doing some job searching, found a few that seems a bit interesting but not really connected to my major. I did find something that sounded very interesting and a good fit but they wanted people with a Ph.D., of course I am going to try anyway.

Otherwise? Well, I have been continuing my knitting. Bought some more yarn and have been trying to get that polo scarf just the way I want it, now I am on my fourth try and think it will be good this time. So I am still working on becoming grandma here. But it is fun to be knitting, and it keeps me busy. 

santa claus

I found the perfect job. My calling?

And I get an outfit!

practicing to become grandma

My Saturday? Did a little bit of shopping and now I have a nice pair of mittens for these cold days and also a nice pillow to rest my head on at night. My old pillow I have had as long as I can remember so I think it was time to switch it out.

My Saturday night? Was spent in front of the TV knitting. I have started knitting on polo-scarf thingy. It is actually quite fun to knit. Tomorrow I need to buy some more yarn.

friday's funniest #2

I cannot stop laughing! And I cannot stop looking either, I keep pressing the link for older entries. I think it is the strangest, most awkward, but funniest site I have seen in a long time. Don't you just love the Americans.

Awkward Family Photos

Check this link out (for me it took a while, do you see it?), and this, this one too, another one, last one. What are people thinking posing for these pictures? Several of them taken at photo studios, what was the idea with the pictures?

friday's funniest #1

This is what me and my sister are laughing at this Friday evening. (Kind of only works for Swedes.) Quality entertainment.

what we learned today

No one ever calls my cellphone. First of all, it is crappy connection out here so I cannot really talk on it. Second, not much is going on in my life at the moment and I do not really expect any calls when I am at home. Hence my cellphone is usually lying in my room or somewhere where I am usually not.

Just now, getting in to bed I checked my phone as I usually do to see if something have happened to it while I have been gone. A text or a missed call. Usually not, see point two above.

Too my surprise there was a missed call. If I do get a call it is usually from someone I have in the address book and know. Now there was an unknown number with the area code of Stockholm. Of course I had to look the number up at Eniro.se, and my first thought was that it belonged to some of these sales stuff since it was a general number.

It was not, it belonged to 7-Eleven and Pressbyrån in Stockholm. It hits me that I applied for a job there. A trainee program. No email or no message left.

What do we learn from this? I should keep my cellphone with me at all times.

(What I also should do is to change my outgoing message on my voice mail, since it still says that I no longer live in Sweden and I can be contacted on my Danish number. I should also check my Danish number for any messages.)