swedish life day 4

still haven't got used to the time difference, which btw sucks, today i got up at 5.30.. this is however an improvment from my other mornings here in sweden land.
not sure what i'm doing today.. or yes i have to go and get contact lenses which should be a bit of an adventure, or at least some excitment since it includes me getting out of the house and Älta. first iäm going out with my dear dog though.. the sun is actually shining today so it should be good.. i think they said thet it was gonna get up to 22 C today! let's take out our swimming suits! woooooppaaa!

well it's been pretty good so far .. been seeing two of my best freinds celina and anna.. haven't seen them in ages so it was fun to se their pretty little faces again. we went around in the city, i bought some stuff at HM (including a flamingo t-shirt!!).. we got some sun and coffee. so all good. I wont be seeing them again until after midsummer though since we're all going away but we got our crayfish party ahead of us and many more little get-togethers so it should be sweeeeet.

i'm not really in a blogging mood so this post is a bit unnecessary but at least you get to enjoy my little silly thoughts, I do know that you silly australians/swedeish people in Sydney miss me lots and lots so i''m gonna make this post long and full of louise so you don't have to cry yourself to sleep every night.. 15 JULY, keep that in mind.

My favorite thing in my room is my green chair. it's quite an amazing chair. it's green. it's beautiful. and you can sit on it. i'll show you a picture of it sometime in the future. I*m planning to take it out in our little garden and take some photos of it, make it feel special and cared for.
another little creature I like in my swedish room is this little guy!


i'm gonna leave you with that, but i will see and talk to you soon, hopefully.

puss puss

meatballs for dinner

and we thought we were gonna have our last sleep in neutral bay yesterday but nope, we won't be moving out until tomorrow early - up with the birds, matt's coming over at 7am to help us drive the truck to darlinghurst. today we got up early, went to edgecliff to meet our overly serious real estate agent and sign papers, receive keys and get completely freaked out over how ridiculously careful we need to be with our new house. well we're pretty neat and tidy...usually...so we'll do our best.

then jo went to billy blue for yet another date with him, lou and myself skipped over to forbes and burton for breakfast and oliver, then i went to work after an hour, worked til 5 and then lou oliver and matt came to pick me up with the moving truck they'd rented and off we went to ikea. had meatballs for dinner, bought clothesracks, hangers and i bought a mirror for my new room. i also bought knäckebröd and we all shared some singoalla and marabou chocolate. yum. i tend to eat nonstop these days, soon ill turn into a meatball..mehehe well i decided to start running over the holidays. and a girl at work has a 4,5 months old puppy, maxie, and ill get to babysit him :) they live on castlereagh street so its just near us, just the other side of hyde park so its really really close for me to get to them. yay

then we went back to the city, drop little oliver off and lou matt and myself packed the truck full with our stuff from the apartment. now i just had a hot shower, will go to sleep and up early with the birds once again tomorrow since we decided to start moving at 7am...

now its time to sleep. x

start packing

and my god how tedious it is. what we thought would be well, maybe not fun, but exciting soon proved to be suuuuch a bore. and my god how much stuff (read: shit) we have...well, i guess you do gather up a nice little collection of stuff over a year. we certainly have.

today we had our final presentation + 3 hand ins for this week. now awaits flash. we have a little flash date with michael and garth tomorrow, theyre soo nice for helping us with it. we would most definitely fail if they didnt come to our aid. at least its not due until next thursday so we do have some time for it.

then we're moving on friday/saturday - soooo excited

got to finish what we started over here now.

two down two to go

week from hell update

monday we had our packaging presentations - went okay - we're both kind of struggling with fever and coughs. but all in all good effort. one down.

today we handed in Outfit - our redesign a space publication. went well well well - hd in the making. two down.

tomorrow we're having our big one - the major project presentation - for lissa, nathan and daniel dittmar (whom im secretely in love with)- we're also handing in our research sheets, process books and a2 posters - so tomorrow we have one presentation and three hand-ins.

then this week is over and flash-from-hell week commences. that thing is due next thursday.

THEN SEMESTER 3 IS OVER AND HOLIDAYS ARE HERE.

BUT what's super exciting is that on friday we're meeting the real estater and signing the papers, getting the keys and paying the HUGE amount of money they want to charge us. so on friday/saturday we're moving in on Yurong Street. The actual adress is (if anyone wants to send us packages)

51 Yurong Street
Darlinghurst 2010
NSW Australia

Marcus leaves for la Suéde on saturday and Louise leaves next thursday the little traitor. Well, Josefin and myself are gonna have soo much fun! midsummers eve's party amongst others. But when the little one gets back we're having our housewarming - very exciting. I believe the theme will be mexican - moustaches, sombreros and tequila.

So Matt's helping us with driving the moving truck on friday/saturday - thank god, without him we would probably carry our belongings across harbour bridge.

well, now its time to get back to the presentation for tomorrow, I'm to exhausted to be stressed out and we're spraying Dr Bachs rescue remedy  to calm us down. flower essences are very good.

well well, bye for now.

n

sweden day

while sitting in school being good students we realized that it is Sweden day today... so happy sweden day sweden!




since it is sweden day.. here's something else with the essence of sweden.



no wonder that we're a bit weird, i like it. i like it alot.


xx

the palace on yurong street

we're moving :) we just got the phone call and we got the house. so on the 12th of june we will live on 51 Yurong Street in darlinghurst. It's perfect! absolutely perfect.

this is what it looks like 

x

alley cats

the party last saturday, brigitte's birthday party, had a theme. a most amazing theme - big cats. i dressed up as a leopard in the jumpsuit my sister sent, louise was a snowleopard, oliver and josefin matched very prettily in their tiger cardigans - jo brought on the full zoo theme though with a snoweleopard print dress underneath, asha and the birthday girl herself wore panther suits (all black with ears, asha had a tail too) and face paint. toby dressed up in ten rabbits.

x

histamatic

since lou and i both got iphones the other week we've been looking out for fun apps and we've found the most perfect one. it's called hipstamatic and makes the camera take photos like an analog camera, like a holga. most amazing feature.

see how pretty they come out.

procrastinating

Once again it's been a while since i posted anything, and once again the only time i write on this blog is when i need to think about something other than studying. we've got too much to do, it's ridiculous really, but only two more weeks to go. that's ridiculous as well - it felt like the semester just started. it's been a nice week, had lots to do as well, both of us working too. i love my job - my manager amanda is absolutely amazing, and so is everyone i work with and it's so much fun. it feels great. and i get paid really well..almost 23 dollars an hour and from 4 on saturdays and the whole sunday i get double pay - i get 45 dollar an hour! which is crazy - but crazy good!

this weekend's been lovely. I got my hair cut - finally - on friday. i chopped it all off, my hair's almost above the shoulders now which it hasn't been in ages - a decade probably. but i love it - its so convenient and it flopps prettily when i walk. and it's nice to touch too - win win. then while i was sitting in the stool at toni and guy - lou and jo went to have a look at a house - a house i do think we've got. they've accepted our deposit and applications - we're just waiting for the final call tomorrow. and if all is good - which it should - cause when we talked to the real estater he said that he just needed to check our references and that he was waiting for jo's one to return his call and then it'll be good to go. it says on their website "deposit and application taken" too (which it didn't when he first called) so I do hope and believe that it means that it's ours.

it's in darlinghurst, on 51 yurong st - absolutely perfect location. walk to town hall/train, 3 min from pocket, 5 from thomson st, 5.5 to forbes & burton, chingalings, oxford st, surry hils and everywhere we go. amazing. and just on street off of stanley st - which is darlinghursts restaurant strip. it's absolutely perfect. the four little swedes hwho are moving in will be jo, lou, marcus and myself. a big happy family. it's gonna be a big happy uncrowded house for the first month though since lou and marcus goes back to sweden :( so jo and i are gonna have a huge house to ourselves mehehe

yesterday was not one - but two - birthday parties. first and foremost - Brigitte had her party which was so much fun and absolutely amazing - we baked her cinnamon buns (which weren't absolutely amazing - until Oliver and I joined our master chef heads together once again and baked them in the oven with tim tams) and gave her a lace tote and kinder surprises. she was happy the darling girl. then it was chingalings birthday too - lots of fun. we invited cameron and chrissie to the housewarming we're having the weekend we're moving in, before lou leaves, unfortunately marcus leaves for sweden the day we can access the house :( but we'll throw him a welcome home bash soon as he gets back. i think we might invite frenchie too - mathieu i think his name is - one of the dj's - he's a lot of fun.

lou and i just got back a couple of hours ago, we spent the night at thompson st and i made them breakfast in the morning (it wasn't as appreciated from all people since i woke them up too early) but i couldn't sleep and then lou and i served them breakfast in bed instead which went down a bit better.

well, now i need to keep doing my poster pitch for my major project.

oh, happy mother's day mom's in sweden! x

yellow saturday with the kids

the kids being us, sitting in bed studying. the yellow being the sky outside. its about to start raining again. we've had quite the week, and not a very good one unfortunately, we've had hand ins every day of the week and the one on thursday didn't go to well either. we'd kind of misinterpreted what we had to do but its all good now, we've revised it and sent it off to Mark who thought the new stuff was great - so all good.

we almost got a house too, i say almost, because it was really close. it was only us and one other applicant and the real estater recommended us since Jos already is renting from them. so you'd thought we'd get it. but no, of course it so happens that the landlors is friends with the other applicants. what are the odds? well, no harm done, well find another one. in fact there's two quite promising ones coming up. both have red door. very pretty.

yesterday I worked in the afternoon and then met up with Lou, Oliver, Brigitte, Nadia and went to China Heights for an exhibition opening. We buy your kids amongst others had made screen printed posters, really nice. Toby bought 7 of them to FBA's new studio. I'm jealous, I want to have them too. but maybe we can, since we decided (well, Lou and I) that they're gonna sponsor us so we can stay here. Then we went back to Thomson St, had a ping pong competition cause the favourite siblings just got a free ping pong table - amazing! sweden won, Lou and I beat the hell out of Australia!! no one saw that one coming. First we took down Oliver and Toby, then Brigitte and Nadia, then Garth and Natasha. Then unfortunately Australia stepped up (while filling up our  wine for advantage purposes) in the means of Toby and Michael and won 3 to 2 I think. well, we rocked.

Then we went to Chingalings for a bit of fun. We got invitations to their birthday party on saturday, very exciting, its gonna be a really good night since it happens to be Brigittes birthday that day too. And she's having a party, a zoo-themed party we decided. Lou and I are going as leopards - I'm wearing the leopard jumpsuit my sister sent me and Lou's wearing my snowleopard tights and a black dress. Jos and Oliver are going as tigers with their matching 5-dollar tiger cardigans and Brigitte's gonna be a panther or a puma. I don't know about the others, I think I herad Garth was gonna be a horse. Should be interesting, especially if he does his dance.

Well, tonight Lou and I are watching movies and eating candy, we're gonna rent City of God. Haven't had myskväll since I was in Sweden. So it's time.

x