i'm hungry. i will soon make me some breakfast.

good morning blog.

monday again, has been a good weekend here in Sydney. saturday was spent at work but also in a park celebrating Petra on her birthday. She had made two awesome cakes! later I went into the city to watch Whitley (and as a good surprise also Deep Sea Arcade and The Brunettes. they were all very good and I danced the night away. after an attempt to meet Josefin i went to the Terrace and fell asleep with a pyramid of stuff on me, thanks guys! woke up without knowing that i had a mayor lazy day in front of me including oportos, pizza and movies.

today i think i'm going to the beach. the weather isn't that good though (as always when you don't work) so we'll just have to see. maybe i'll go into the city and buy some new sheets for my bed. anyway... here are some photos from the weekend.

bajs.

Friday morning sum up

so, todays been a busy day, ive been running around the city and kungsbacka like a maniac. i started the day of with having billy blue change my mark for typography, theyd given me a pass...but now its all fixed and they changed it to the correct mark, thank you neil!

then i went to the city, tried to get hold of a pair of acne jeans/leggings, "Skins" are they called. but since im not living in stockholm anymore i guess i have to get used to that they get all the best ones, so in gothenburg they only exist in a dark color and not the one i want! but i do have a sister..and shes going up there on monday so making plans...

then i skipped over to monki and changed size on my pu (fake skin) leggings which now suits me perfect! i kind of love them, it sucks that theyll be too wamr to wear when i get back. but sydneys cold too sometimes, well most times these past months. then i went to the bookshop, bought the two last books in the twilight series, im not that thrilled over them, i dont think the writing, the language, is any good. but i read them anyway, i actually like the movies better and that has never happened to me before, (it might have to do with robert pattinson i dont know, but hes gorgeous), well ive ony seen one, but im having my sister watch it today so we can go to the movies on sunday and watch the new one. i also bought my first christmas present, to my grandma (mormor), shes getting i cooking book (original) but she loves the chef, hes on tv, and the book is called "från mormor till medelhavet" (from grandma to the Mediterranean) which i thought suited perfect. well she actually said out loud that she wants it so, there you go!

THEN, i went to kungsbacka and did some grocery shopping for the fam! kind kind kind daughter. on friday rush at that! well well, im taking on the role of housewife more than ever, dinners on the table every day when they comes home, i even make my sister special food, since shes a veggie.

well, thats my day so far! oh, ive tested all our outdoor christmas lights and they work, so now were all set for sunday when they go up! its first advent on sunday!! crazy

puss puss n

thursday, mistaken as wednesday.

so my first day at kikki k (today) went well. the register was super easy to learn and the people there are all very nice. :)

after work i met up with marcus aka mackan who is gonna be our new flatmate here in the palace. we went home to the palace and he had a look at the place and his room. everything is sweeeet and he's moving in the 1st. :) ... we went home to antonios place and made some dinner - hamburgers, very yummy. and for dessert - icecream cake.


btw i'm super excited about the beautiful girls! :D

and Whitley (the band that played before Paolo Nutini) which im seeing this saturday with Mia at the oxford art factory. yippi yay!


oh and since SOFIA wont read the blog without any pictures:


this is me drinking water btw.

the uneventful life of a swede

its been a while since i contributed to the blog, thats because my life her is utterly ordinary and not much is happening. like i explained earlier most of my friends lives abroad, like myself, so when i come home "off season" theres not much happening here. the weather doesnt really do much to encourage anything else than staying indoors - its cold, around 8 degrees, raining and its almost storm every day. i do go for two walks a day though, just to make sure i dont die inside. i look like a loser on my walks, im wearing my huge "mellanstadie jacka" which stays warm down to 40 below 0, leggings, walking shoes and trekking socks sticking up - so much for fashionable here!

anyway, so all ive been doing for the past couple of weeks is being in the city, shopping a bit, celebrating two birthdays and hanging out with the family. weve also managed to book everything for our trip, so ill be back on jan 1, the fam arrives on the 5th, then were staying in sydney til the 12 when were going to melbourne, were driving the great ocean road and then were staying in melbourne til the 17th (shopping here we come), then back to darling sydney until they leave for a wintery sweden on the 21st.

well, i tend to live through louise these days. its happening a bit more in her life as it is now haha, but im kind of happy as it is. i needed a break from everything, so break - here i am!

see you soon sydney family - i miss you to death!!

x N

cute

I almost forgot to tell you! sophie the little sweetheart gave me a very cute little birthday present when we went to watsons bay! :) - a "cute diary" from kikki k. it's very cute,



and it starts the 14th dec so i can soon start to use it :) i've already put a sticker on my birthday and filled in when the beautiful girls plays at coogee bay - which i just purchased a ticket for! :D only 30 dollars. i've been wanting to see them for ages, so if anyone wants to go with me - feel free, cause i prefer not to go alone..

well i'm off to work soon, just gonna make me some lunch. i'm thinking - eggs with "kalles kaviar"

<3

maybe the longest post in the history of the blog.

it's been a couple of nice days her ein sydney. yesterday it was so hot..! 41 degrees. so sophie and i decided to do some tourist stuff. went to manly and took the ferry over to circular quay, took the ferry to watsons bay. arrived at watsons bay - walked passed this seafood restaurant just by the water, gaaah! so much people and so much good food, at least it looked like good food - but what do I know?... wandered to the beach, which is really small and nice, no waves and a little kiosk and some pretty nice beach houses. nicole what do you say - watsons bay beach house?

since it was ridiculously hot we spent a lot of time in the water. went up to a look out with a lighthouse, walked passed a nudity beach and a rehab centre thingy - or at least we think it is - it had a massive fence thing around it, and watsons bay is really nice an relaxing so what else could it be but a rehab.

had a lemon sorbet. ooh and we made awesome sandwiches.


went back to manly and to sophies place where we made an superb spaghetti carbonara. took a shower and went to wharf bar and later shoreclub. good day. good night.

so today has been almost as event full. or yes it has been equally e.f. i think. since i missed the last bus yesterday by like half a minute i slept at sophies so i went home after eating a very good breakfast on her balcony overlooking a very exciting part of manly.

got home, made me some scrambled eggs. Oh btw. thought I was working today but when i called to dubble check i wasn't so i had a whole day to waste - decided to walk the coogee to bondi walk (been wanting to do that since i was here the last time, so it was about time i did something about it). it was really nice. def worth it.

went to visit antonio. made perfect hamburgers, ate them, went to the emergency room again with antonio since is foot was really swollen and blue. sat there for about 4 -5 hours to find out that he had a blood clot somewhere in his leg/knee/foot. he got some stuff for that and are going back there tomorrow.

sooo i walked home from his place and here i am. sitting in my bed writing this post. and now i'm gonna upload some pictures from my small adventures. there not very exciting but since some people are requesting some photos here they are:

waiting.

it's gonna be a nice day here in sydney. 34 degrees. good for the people not working, not so fun for the people who are - me. so i'm sitting here waiting for Cj to transfer the rent money so i can pay rent!. and then i'm off to work. I usually walk home from work but since it's gonna get hot hot hot today i'm thinking - no. but we'll see. the way home is nice half the way, you walk over the bridge which is niiiiiiice, its after the brdige hell breaks out. the hill that comes after it. MY GOD! well i guess it's good for the health... not for your soul though.

well Cj just transfered the money so i'm gonna be a good girl and pay rent now.


smell yaaaaa

louise aka the rent payer.

while eating a carrot.

today has been a slow day at the palace. been watching movies all day.. except for 2 hours when i took a short break in the park and at Woolworths.. but that shall soon be changed, i'm going to Kikki K for a training thing at 6. after that sarah is coming over here for a sleep over. :) nice nice nice.

oh btw. last night when I was getting ready to go to bed I discovered a HUGE cockroach in the bathroom cabinet. luckily I bought some spray 2 weeks ago so I could defend myself.. went a bit crazy with the spray though.. but the little sucker wouldn't die!.. might have to buy a new toothbrush. all is well now.. he's dead and Cj tossed him out the window. : louise/cj - 1, Cockroach - 0. mohahahahaha


oh btw 2: I got a little package today! :D nicole the little angel sent me some Swedish candy! and seriously the most awesome mix! thank you chocolate, highly appreciated!! I have almost managed to eat it all.. I was bored and I didn't have the energy to make something for lunch AND i was watching movies. I took a picture of it before i ate it .. will put it up here on the blog later so you'll see how creative nicole aka the best live-apart-for-a-few-months-roommate-in-the-world was.

fred ut.

lollilou

hectic

what a day! my god! started off pretty good (for me) woke up my normal early time, facebooked for a while, fell back to sleep till antonio called and woke me up telling me that he's at the hospital - because he got hit by a car. I think : fine can't be that bad.. at last he's talking.. he said something about a broken collarbone. so i went to the hospital bought a sandwich and some cookies for him. i explained to the woman in the emergency room that my friend was there, said his name: antonio guerra. she smiled as she knew who i was talking about and let me in..

when i first saw him i was a bit chocked.. his face was a bit swollen and he had a terrible wound on his neck a long with other scratch wounds on his face.. he looked so depressed! poor guy!. he just started his new job yesterday and wont be able to work for at least 2 weeks ..will prob heal in like 6 - 8!! they stitched his neck up, we talked to a social worker and the police and then we could leave at 6 pm!. bought him some painkillers and ice cream.he was really lucky that it was just the collarbone and not anything else.. who knows what could have happened..the car was driving pretty fast .. around 45 km/h! weeeell well now i'm home.. long day, let's hope that tomorrow is only good news.

love love
/louise

a day in the life. swedish version

woke up at 1. still in bed. well, i guess its allowed when youre sick. dont think i have any fever today though, maybe a little but not much. its more my throat that hurts and the all too familiar pain in my sinus, so i might get sinusitis, which i always get. well well, just deal with it. its the best way i guess.

so julian casablancas, the gorgeous singer from the strokes, is doing really well as a solo artist i must say. listen to him on spotify. very good. Phrazes for the young its called.and i just adore his voice, takes me back to junior high school when i was in love with the strokes and especially the drummer, fabrizio moretti, just the name makes your knees wobble. anyway, i think he was together with drew barrymore, hope they still are. i like her too.

so, today my family is babysitting a dog. his name is Putte. a Welsh Springer Spaniel, just like our dog Matilda was. i think hes pretty, havent seen him yet since ive been knocked out in my bed. my heavenly soft bed i might add, lou im bringing it. our two rocks for beds have to go. or we have to buy huge, soft mattresses to go on top and then maybe they are fine to sleep on.

today at 10 the Jimmy Choo for H&M was released. im sure theres nothing left, the mens collection was much better than the one for women so i dont really care anyway. but soo many good shoes for boys, a really really good pair of boots and then just really nice other ones.





now, im getting up. x x x n

a day in the life

woke up got out of bed at 7.. yes, you heard me. I just can't sleep in this crappy bed, could also be that the room is super light since we don't have any blinds. well, i don't mind waking up early if i'm not tired and today i'm not.. so hurray! been doing quite a lot this morning with more to come! i've been cleaning the room, it was a mess. i'm about to move on the the rest of the apartment.. might do the bathroom. and CJ if you're reading this (which i don't think you are...) you have to clean the kitchen.. which i will tell you when you get home. hihihi.. well the bathroom is disgusting.. so it's not really a fair trade ..for me.. but i can't stand it anymore so i'm gonna do the good and nice thing and just clean it.. bravo louise. :)

after the little cleaning session I will go to the beach. not sure which beach yet though... since it's cheaper to go to manly (just 2 bus tickets) than bondi (4 bus tickets) manly might win. well we'll just have to see how rich i feel later on.


I need to save all the money I can now though.. since mia is having a birthday dinner at 'In the mood for thai' in surry hills and a birthday night out later on. it shall be a lot of fun! i'm very excited, both about the thai and the night out. the food in the palace has not been very good lately.. or yesterday I made a delicious little thai number which was very good! but i've been living on sandwiches and porridge for the past week so some real food is highly appreciated for the little princess on young st.

okey.. i'm out i got some cleaning to do.
peace

L to the O <3

Bondi Beach

I went to the beach today. Bondi beach. It was nice.

slask

so in contrast to louises happy, summery post i thought i should tell you how i spent my day in the 2,5 degrees, rainy place called särö, i live in. i woke up, the first night ive actually slept well and didn't wake up until 9.43. so nice. god, i love my bed. then i got up, ate egg for breakfast and then i hung out with my sick sister. we planned the trip. the whole familys coming to sydney january 5-21 so we planned that. kims 25th birthday is on jan 11, so anyone of you who are in sydney are going to celebrate with us. since we all love ching a lings i thought this would be a perfect opportunity to introduce it to my darling sister.

after a couple of hours dying of boredom we decided to defy kims sickness and go to kungsbacka which is a small small small city/village about 15-20 mins from us. kungsbacka is a hidden fashion gem and you can never leave that place without having a couple of bags with you. today i brought home a great pair of boots, lou youre gonna love them, but they wont fit since my feet are huge and yours are not. and i also bought a very well needed jacket. from, lo and behold, lindex. however, the collection from which is from is made by a former acne designer so its very very pretty and i love it. i also found a great pair of suede wedge heeled boots, which im gonna buy sooner or later. jeez they were perfect! i want them i want them i want them!

oh, i also bought a little something for the best roomie in the world. sorry cj, this time its not you. but LOUISE ODELBERG, you have a little thing coming your way..nothing special. but always appreciated. i hope.

now i just got in from powerwalking in the rain. nice. at least theres no mount everest you have to climb here as it is around young st. its nice and flat, windy though and fucking freezing. 2,5 degrees is not healthy for anyone. i wore my "mellanstadie jacka" so i wasnt very cold and since im walking in the speed of light im never cold! just my ears. poor things.

xx n

beach louise

it's summer weather in sydney. or at least i think it is since i haven't really been outside yet, but from what i can see from my bedroom window it looks like summer. so we're going to the beach - manly. try to get a tan, or something that can reduce the transparent ghost look that i got going on at the moment. not very pretty if you ask me. so... we (antonio, matt and I) are going to manly.

nothing special has been happening in the palace lately. i've been watching all the movies on my hard-drive, or at least the once that work. tonight i will do another attempt on watching 'year one' and the last episodes of entourage season 6! it will hopefully work this time since antonio did something to them last night.


work has been fine. easy to learn. and soon i will start working at Kikki K aka 'ordning och reda australia'. they're gonna call sometime this week and hopefully will not be asking me to work the same day as my other job. I think i might have to tell them about my two jobs.. .but they're both casual so i need two jobs to get the hours that i need. so nothing to do about it.

ooh yesterday i had the best sandwiches. i felt a bit rich so i bought pesto wchih resulted in egg and pesto sandwich and avocado and pesto s. lovely. i think i need to eat the rest of that bread today, i discovered a tiny dot of mold on one bread thingies, which i brushed of - as good as new. however might be a good idea to eat them all today! sandwich party at the palace! woop woop!

<3 /lou lou

swine sister and art of the trench

i know i said i might keep you updated from sweden. well, since i dont have much to do here i will keep you more updated than ever before. great huh? and since lou has gone MIA, working working working, its on me to keep thepalaceonyoungst alive. i found this website that shows statistics on how many visitors we have here and actually theres quite a few. well not really but more than i thought anyway so i guess theres an interest in keeping it alive.

so today ive spent my day with my sick sister. shes got swineflu or something, she has all the symptoms. im sure ill get it too since she just got back from stockholm so i havent really "met" her baciller yet. now i have and im already getting a cold. thank you sister dear. anyway, we watched the hangover, again. ive seen it at least 10 times. then i went to my moms work and had a massage. its hard to be back.

now im watching my sick sister play wii. wii golf, the most boring of all wii games. and shes having huge problems. its pretty funny actually because she just sighs more and more and higher and higher. now shes angry with me.

anyway, for my daily visit to the sartorialist today i found a link to the art of the trench which is a collaboration between him, scott schuman, and burberry. hes been photographing 100 people all over the world wearing the burberry trench as a celebration to it. its really lovely and theres great photos, i think everyone should have a look at artofthetrench.com

xx n

insomnia

i can't sleep. i could yesterday but i sure can't today. i've waken up so many times tonight. now i've given up. it's almost 8am anyway. perfectly fine. today i'm helping out my mom in the garden and then we might be going to IKEA. don't know really what we're doing there but i need hangers, there's no left since my sister invaded all wardrobe space. my clothes are still in my suitcase, well some of it anyway, i found this thing to hang them on.

tonight kim comes home from stockholm too. i'm picking her up, and in the new car at that. my dad didn't let me drive it to the airport if i didn't have a driving lesson with him first. so i did yesterday, and i found a new feature that none of the others had found. after having owned the thing for more than 4 months. i gues my curiosity and love for pressing every button there is pays of sometimes hey.

today is fathers day too. don't forget that my swedes. kim got dad something from stockholm don't know what though. she's been staying in my apartment up there, with my ex-boyfriend marcus since he's still living there. funny, i called her yesterday and they were shopping for bedspreads at NK together haha well well that's an answer i thought i'd never get when asking her what she's doing. anyway, she went to a 25th birthday thing yesterday and was wearing a dress from whyred which i'm so going to steal. oh, and lou...her wardrobe would fit us perfectly, make some room for new things when i come down and i will try too steal as much as possible from her things. they're pretty good i have to say!

anyway, not much is happening here, as you might notice :) if there's anything you want me to bring back to you my darlings just let me know, i've already got some orders but keep 'em coming and i'll see what fits in my bag and what not. lou, should i take the Wii with me btw?

x n

oh, i have to say that i've never looked so good as at lou's bday celebration. and i love that i'm in almost every photo haha miss you family

birthday marathon

hey friends.

as you all know it was my birhday this thursday... i had a lot of fun. started on wednesday with a crazy little birthday party at matts house with flamingo dancing and pyramid building.
thursday day was spent in bed watching entourage aka the best series ever made. thursday evening was a great one. petra made swedish meatballs, they were aaaamazing. so good. i had made a chocolate cake which we enjoyed with cookies and cream ice cream.

and yesterday e had a little one day late birthday picnic in ruchcutters bay park. it was a lot of fun and we managed to do the stockholm boogie pyramid one more time. i think we're getting better. nicole was there too, in the shape of a ballon, or three balloons actually. oh btw. since the park doesnät have any bbqs i went on what i though was gonna be a trouble free mission - to find a disposable bbq. it's impossible. i even tried to find a real one and that was impossible too. so after running around town like a crazy person i decided fakk the bbq and hello picninc. lovely sandwiches instead of stupid meat.
so after sitting in the park for a while it started raining and we went to josefins place had some drinks and watched her fish. lovely little thing.
went to ching-a-lings and then oxford art factory. it was a good night.

well here are some photos from last night. nicole looks happy as always.

from that to this

am i crazy for leaving a hot sunny sydney for a cold, frosty sweden? not that we live in bondi though (thank god) but no, actually im up for winter.

x

thank god for floor heating

i can't sleep. its 6.56 and i'm wide awake. it's so boring, and i don't have the strength to get up and have breakfast with the family who's all getting ready for work. I could totally go with my sister today though, she's doing some photoshoot. could be a lot of fun. but then i wouldn't get home since she's leaving for stockholm (with half my wardrobe) straight after it.

so i came home yesterday. after the smoothest 24h flight ever. i packed my things during the day on wednesday, sarah, antonio and matt came to see me of sweet things. then we went to the airport, i checked in (this is where the only bump on the road appeared) but i could only get my boardingpass for sydney-bangkok since that flight was with qantas and then bangkok-helsinki, helsinki-gothenburg was operated by finnair. anyway, i didn't think about it. we had coffee..actually, no sarah had coffee i had a bananabread since i realised i more or less hadn't eaten all day. anticipation i guess. and since there's no bananabread in sweden i had to have one.

well onboard i sat down, the plane was full, but i had an isle seat weehoo. good movies were playing, 500 days of summer - soo good, great soundtrack, the time travellers wife, valentino the last emperor, up, latest harry potter and many more. anyway, i had bought sleeping pills, watched 500 days of summer then took one and slept the whole flight through. i woke up when i was given a timtam though. then we came to bangkok, i had one hour until my transfer flight should leave and i didn't have my boardingpass. great, since the checkin counter closes like an hour before takeoff. so i ran around the airport, went through security twice. they all waved at me the second time and laughed at me when i got an electric shock for the second time.

anyway, when i finally found the finnair counter, there was another poor guy there looking for help. i solved the solution by being extremely annoying i guess, and we could finally go to the gate. the other guy seemed rather impressed with my skills since he'd been standing there for half an hour and nothing had happened, then i came and five minutes later we were on our way to the gate, boardingpasses for both coming flights and all.

i slept through the whole second flight as well, woke up for breakfast - so disguting i couldn't eat a thing (sausage, mashed potatoes, gravy and some other weird stuff). when we came to helsinki i was rather fed up with flying and i was desperate for some coffee. but no no, in finland there's no such thing as being lactose intolerant/sensitive or whatever, so i couldn't have any coffee since they didn't have any soymilk. rude. when i landed there was snow on the ground and freezing.

now im home, i can't sleep. at least its after 7 now, iv'e facebooked with some of the sydney family. today they're celebrating louise's birthday with a bbq in ruschcutters bay. i want to be there, apparently i will since louise is drawing my face on a balloon which she's gonna bring with her all night. great idea i must say.

now i have to find something else to keep me occupied for some time. ooh my mum just woke up. coffee time!!

x x x

lift off

today's the day. wednesday and i'm leaving a hot hot hot (well, yesterday) sydney for a cold, cold, cold sweden. yesterday was so hot, 38 degrees and air humidity 300%. and i didn't have time for the beach since i had to pack and meet friends since i'm leaving. lou, petra and robin went to the beach in manly though, looking nice and tan now. louise at least, i don't know about the others, haven't met them. but petra is coming over sometime before i leave to say bye bye.

in the evening we went to the terrace, matt, cranley and bens house and had mexican night. sarah was there too. the boys were all dressed up, although ben was the only one actually following the theme (matt was a pirate and cranley a sailor) but still. we didn't dress up. we don't have any props. sad. anyhow, we made chicken enchilladas and they were delicious and then matt had made a cake for louise since its her birthay tomorrow and i wont be here, and i brought the garnishing for it. very pretty. pink as it was for louise with strawberries and korean animals on it (sugar, sugar, sugar in the shape of animals). good night. we spent the last of it sitting on the balcony talking and listening to music while watching the view (romantic). the terrace has the best view, it overlooks the entire harbour, with the bridge, city, opera house and everything.

now i need to finish my packing. ive been pushing it far to long now. im gonna take a taxi around 3 and go straight to the check-in counter. last time i was leaving for sweden i almost, so close, missed the flight. im not gonna be in that position again!

x

starting

now ive done a little bit of packing. however, im having great troubles actually getting my suitcase out of the wardrobe. me and lou was so happy with how we managed to get them in there we actually never thought about how the hell we were gonna get them out again. thats my problem now.

anyway im only bringing my favourite things, nothing extra or anything. i plan on filling my bags with new things from back home since ive discovered (although i was already pretty aware of this before) that swedish fashion beats the hell out of australian. so i need to fill my wardrobe with clean basic design. i cant wait. and anyway, i dont really need to bring summer clothes to sweden in november. seems a tad stupid if you ask me.

i want a new camera. a holga. toycamera :) all plastic fantastic and everything. it does take beautiful photos, letting light in and everything. oh i love it. i want a red one, or a black one. Josefin has a pink one, adorable, but not really me. she takes great photos too. and theyre cheap. yay! well theres always additional costs, like film and processing the film. but still, and the photos are absoutely wonderful!!!

so after second thought, id rather swap the ice hockey tickets for a holga. theyre almost priced the same. almost. maybe double but still..

puss

a change of plans

so...Im going home. home to sweden. home to winter. BUT im coming back. in fact ill be back on january 1st. im guessing ill be the only one on the plane over NYE but hey, maybe theyll upgrade me to business or first class and spoil me with champagne and strawberries all trip over here. i think they will. and im sure there will be some people there i can party with on the plane. AND im arriving back in sydney in the early morning, 6 am, so there's still plenty of time for me to meet up with my sydney family and celebrate 2010. if im not completely dead that is. but i wont be. i might look dead. dead pale that is, since im coming from the winter wonderland of sweden.

to be honest i kind of miss the cold, cuddling up in a blanket with a cup of tea and cosy socks. its weird really, since i havent had summer this year, almost, its about 30 degrees today, but still. i havent been to the beach properly yet. and i wont be going either, since im leaving on wednesday already.

yesterday was a good day. well actually, friday was so good. lou and myself went to see Paolo Nutini at Enmore Theatre, and my god how good he was. or him and his band. Ive never really listened to him, lou has, so i went along with her, but they were soo good live. and he was absolutely adorable, drunk and he had probably been smoking some too since he had a bit of a focusing problem but he was soo good, his voice is amazing. well, so back to yesterday. first we went to bondi for the markets, i bought lou a bday present since im missing out on her big day, 21st and all, on thursday. i bought us matching necklaces in silver, hers got a disc with and N on it and, surprise, mine is the same but with an L on it. very nice. i also bought a gold bracelet from the seventies. its really cool, i love it. its really slim and has "love" written on it. then we went with sarah and her family to the soccer. Sydney FC played against Wellington and they won. it was great fun, ive missed going to the games, although ice hockey is my favourite :)

thats another thing i just realised with me going back home and all. ill be home over hockey season yay!! and i just saw that theres a home game on thursday, dad want to take me?? please, pretty please :)

so today lou is at work. cheeky little thing got two jobs at once. both in the QVB, oh and btw theyve already put up the christmas tree in there..theyre a bit quick i think. its only november, crazy australians. but its as pretty as always :) and im in a christmas mood, as always :) im gonna do some packing today, and then i might go meet some friends. tomorrow im meeting max and fredrika in manly for a goodbye ice cream at cold rocks, theyve never been there. theyre in for a treat :) im gonna have the coconut icecream with bounty and raspberries i think. yum. then in the evening, im cooking dinner at matts house. were having mexican night, with sombreros and moustaches and everything. good fun. thatll be my bday dinner for lou as well so im gonna bake her a cake.

then my plane leaves on wednesday, not until 6 pm though, so i have heaps of time to do nothing. but i think i need to be there around 4 or so, maybe 3.30. so i need to leave here around 3.3,15 depending on me taking the train or a taxi. id love taking a taxi, since otherwise i have to drag my bags up the milelong hill to military rd, then bus to wynyard, train from wynyard to central, train from central to airport. what a hazzle. but could be fun. well see about that.

so, im just saying goodbye for now. ill be back soon though, and i might keep you updated from sweden. with some lovely wintery picks to keep you all entertained.

love n