Sweden tomorrow

Yey, finally some time off work. These past weeks have been dreadful for some weird reason. I've just been really tired and down. But I got half a day off today and I'm off for the rest of the week. After work today, I met up with Bo in the city and we went to have sushi, yum yum. Then I've just been packing and fixing stuff at home. Tomorrow it's time to go to the airport and head off to Sweden to see the family, including my newly born niece. Can't wait. She looks so cute and soft in the pictures that I've seen. Hope you'll all have a very nice Easter!

Bad.

Hi all,
Now I've been bad with updating the blog again. I've been really bored and tired this week so I don't really feel like there was anything good to write about. Anyway...
Yesterday I was at Malins place eating some food, drinking some wine and just chatting. Exactly what I like to do on a Saturday night. After that we went out for a while but I actually went home quite early. Today I'm just gonna relax.
I also got a little niece this week. So now I'm an aunt. I'm gonna go see her next week when we go home for Easter. I'm very excited.
I'm really looking forward going to Sweden next week. I think it'll be a good trip.

Visit, birthday and champagne

It's been a good weekend. On Friday I picked up my brother at the airport and that evening we we're just at home drinking some beer and hanging out. Yesterday started off exactly the way I would want my birthday to start out; some champagne and a good breakfast. People who know me well would know that champagne is my favourite drink and I absolutely love it. After the wonderful breakfast we went for a little stroll around town. Unfortunately is was raining a bit so it wasn't that much fun to just walk around. Therefore we ended up going to the Heineken Brewery which turned out to be quite alright. You get 2½ beers for the entrance fee that you pay which is always nice. In the evening we went to a restaurant and had some dinner and after that we went to a pub and just had some beers and relaxed. Today has been a good day as well. It's been really nice weather so we went to Dam Square and had some lunch and beer in the sun. It was indeed lovely. The conclusion is that this weekend has been great!
Here are some photos as well.

Champagne and pancakes for breakfast


Heineken brewery


Serious vs. silly siblings


Beer-drinking at Leidseplein

Airport

Hi,
right now I'm at the airport waiting for my brother. It's been a crazy week and I'm glad that it's over. Now I'm gonna enjoy the weekend and hopefully celebrate my birthday really good.
I really love airports. So many different people to look at.

Tuesday

Today I went to the gym again. I can really feel that I'm making progress which makes it so much more fun to go there. I didn't do as well as last time but I still did 6,1 km even though I walked quite a fair bit of that. When I came home my baby had made me chicken soup. Yum.

So now I'm all ready for a foot bath, some popcorn and Desperate Housewives.

Nike and pubcrawl

I haven’t written that much this weekend because I’ve actually been quite busy. On Saturday I first I went to Nike with Anna and Maria to buy some training clothes. Anna works there so we got to use her employee discount which is always nice. I came home with two training tops, one bag and socks for Bowen. I could only be bothered to photograph the bag though.

Packed and ready for the gym

On Saturday evening we went out to one of Bowen’s colleague’s farewell party. We got in to some kind of pub crawl which ended up with us taking a few jäger shots in order to celebrate my birthday which is on Saturday this week. The pub crawl was actually quite fun, there were lots of backpackers and other tourists but it was alright…and you got a t-shirt. Anyway, we had loads of fun but unfortunately Sunday was not as fun. For once I actually felt that it was worth it though. I am usually one of those people who on Sunday say “Never again” but this time I was happy with my night and it was worth feeling shit. So on Sunday I didn’t really do that much. I walked around like a zombie the first part of the day and at around 4 o’clock we decided to go buy bikes. Unfortunately the bike that I wanted was sold out so I have to wait for two weeks. We did end up getting some dumbbells so now we can work out at home as well.

Cosy Friday

I'm having a very calm Friday with some scones and tea. I'm feeling very English.

Cosy

Favourite song this week

Enjoy!

Thursday

Today was a pretty boring day. Barely anything to do at work and even if I had to do I was still bored. I hate those days. Those are the days when I eat a lot of junk because I don't have anything better to do. Bad habit, very bad habit.

Anyway, after work it got a bit better. On my way to the hairdresser I walked pass H&M because I wanted a long cardigan. That store is dangerous for me, so many nice things. I did find a long cardigan, they actually had a lot of them. They also have 10 euro discount on all blazers and jackets at the moment and since I love blazers, I bought a beige one for 20 euros. Not bad. Now I only need warmer weather so that I can use it as well. I also found light blue jeans leggings. I stopped myself from buying those though but I really want them.

Jacket/blazer from H&M, but mine is beige.

The hairdresser was nice aswell. I went to Toni&Guy in Magna Plaza and when you're in Magna Plaza people treat you as you're very important. I went in to a Swarovski and got called 'Madam' which doesn't happen every day. My hair turned out good, not that much different but I'm happy. Will put a photo up when I've played with it a bit myself since I don't really lite the way she styled it. But I don't think you will see a difference.

Anyway, hope everyone's enjoying this Thursday evening as much as I am.

Nostalgia

Here is some Wednesday evening 90's nostalgia.



I actually love this song.

I did it

I went to the gym today and it was so good. I managed to run 6,3 km which is probably the longest that I've ever run. I'm so happy today partly because of the good workout and also because I found out about a bonus and salary raise that will come in March. Very, very nice.
Now, I'm gonna enjoy a cup of honey water and soon I'm gonna watch Desperate Housewives. It was a very big cliffhanger last episode so I'm looking forward to see the rest today.

Bad update

I haven't been very good at updating lately. I suppose not that much has been going on so that's probably why. The weekend was good. Didn't really do that much. Never got out to have drinks with the girls on Friday because I had some allergic reaction followed by a bad headache. Other than that the weekend pretty much consisted of exercising and trying to enjoy the good weather. I actually preferred enjoying it from inside though since it was windy and cold outside.
I hope I finally started to get in to the routine of exercising now. I went on Saturday and Sunday and I'm gonna try to go tomorrow as well. During the week is the most difficult time to go because I'm so tired and hungry straight after work. But I just have to do it anyway. I feel so much better when I exercise. I have way more energy.
I'm gonna watch America's Next Top Model soon which, apart from Desperate Housewives, is the only thing I actually sit down and watch on TV here.
Hope you're having a good evening!

Taco pasties

Ah, I'm finished with making my pasties with taco mince. They're in the oven right now and I hope they turn out good. I had to make them with spelt flour since I ran out of normal weat flour but I think they'll be fine anyway. Here is my recipe:

50 g fresh yeast (12 g dry yeast)
50 g butter or margarine
2 dl milk
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
9 dl weat flour
300 g minced meat
1 onion
½ capsicum
½ zucchini
taco seasoning
taco sauce

Put yeast in a bowl. Melt butter, add milk and warm the mix to 37 degrees. Pour it over the yeast and stir until it is dissolved. Add the salt and the beaten eggs, but save a little bit of egg to brush the pasties. Add the flour and knead together and let ferment under a towel for 30 minutes. Cook the mince meat and the veggies with the seasoning and the sauce and let it simmer for a few minutes.
Roll quite thin and make aproximately 10 cm circels. Add the filling and fold over. Make sure it's closed properly.
Bake in middle of oven at 225 degrees for about 10 minutes. Large pasties at 200 degrees 15-20 min. Serve with a nice salad.

Enjoy!

Cleaning Friday...again

Hi all,

I am sticking to my Friday routine and today I really went all out. I've been scrubbing the shower, mopping floors in the kitchen and both bathrooms and do you know what? It actually wasn't that bad since I've been cleaning a little bit every week. It really makes a difference. However, it is not that much fun and now I am completely exhausted. But the result is good which is really the only thing that matters.

I'm thinking about taking a little afternoon nap but I never really succeed with those as I can't sleep during the day. Anyway, I might just go to bed and read a magazine or something so I'm rested for a night with some wine and some talking. Really looking forward to it.

Quick week

The movie yesterday was actually almost exactly as I expected. I laughed a little bit and I cried a little bit. It had everything a chick-flick is suppose to have. So I walked out of the cinema being pretty satisfied. Today I've been really tired though. Usually I go to bed at 10 p.m. since I get up at six every morning. Last night I got home at 11 p.m. and couldn't sleep because our neighbours were rumbling around in the hallway. So i think it went to twelve before I actually fell asleep and then I woke up again at 4:30 with itching hands which is never fun. So today I'm going to bed as early as possible.

Valentine's day

I'm off soon to go watch the movie Valentine's day with some friends. I doubt that it will be extremely good but hopefully I get to laugh a little bit. Hope everyone is enjoying their evening.