Monthly Archives: February 2012

Adam has left for London

I am now alone at home for one week, I never thought it would be this hard, but it is. I sit here, listen to music, drinking tea, watching movies, or try to at least, but it feels so empty. It is so quiet. I miss the sounds of Adam. His guitar playing, his endless organizing. Hearing him sing quietly for himself. He do know so many songs, and always have a song quote for whatever I say. I miss the laughter’s. I miss that he can make me laugh, even when I am angry on him, or sad, or full of misery. I miss his quiet little giggle, which is his way of laughing. The absence of sound is so cold, so empty. Meaningless.

I walk around in the apartment, looking out from the windows, try to clean, eat, sleep. The dogs are walking with me. Two human feet and 8 dog paws are walking in the apartment. Back and forward, forward and back. The baby in my womb is the calmness itself, only kicks once in a while. I wish I could be the same, calm as my baby. Instead I am walking here with my dogs. A walk without reason. Purpose. Or and end. But I do continue my walk, hopefully I can sleep soon. Restless.

Before I did met Adam, I never thought I could need a human, as much as I need him. He is just as important to me as air, as water to drink, as the sun that shines. He is my sun in the life, and I am his sunflower. But with the absence of sunshine, the little flower gets grey and dull. Flowers needs the sunshine. But instead it is just dark. Loneliness.

So many words on -ess. Meaningsless, Restless, Loneliness…I just can hope that the next word that will come up are happiness.

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The greatest gift

As I mentioned in my earlier post, last night was a really long one. The reason why is that me and Adam got extremely worried as the baby had not moved at all during the entire day, plus I got a small bleeding. At 11 in the evening we decided to call the hospital and ask them if it was normal, and they said that we should come to see them right away. I got devastated when I heard this, I thought that my little sprog had died long before it was even born. I cried and Adam tried to cheer me up all the way to the hospital, which I am thankful for. He sure was just as scared as I was, but he did not break together as I did.

At the hospital we got immediately shown to a room where they started to monitoring the baby’s heartbeat and my pulse. It was hard for them to get any sound from the baby, but after a while they could hear the baby’s heart on the machine. Oh that sound was probably the greatest gift I have ever got, the sound of my baby being alive. They also made an ultra sound to check that the baby looked okay, and everything was fine.  It was some though moments for me and Adam, but the joy we felt when the baby was fine really lifted a huge weight from our shoulders.

I know that pregnancy can go bad, also late in the pregnancy, so if you suspect that anything is wrong with your baby, call the hospital so you can go check the baby. It is better then walking around worrying, as I did for an entire day.

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After a long night, the best breakfast you can have is a big one!

Great last February on you all!!! Tomorrow it is officially spring time, my favorite part of the year and I did celebrate that with a big steady breakfast (it was also needed after last night). Raspberry tea and lime juice with yogurt and muesli is my standard breakfast, but I added fruit bread (wonderful, all sweet but does not contain any sugar) with liver paste and pickles to it, and a nice green apple as a dessert. Perfect on the last winter day.

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Norrköping is no place for having a nice hairdo!

How my hair looked after trying to save it multiple times. I wish I had taken some photos while it still looked nice!

Argh!!!! I love Norrköping but one of the most annoying things with this town is that you can have a nice hairdo…at all. Why? Because this town is always windy, with the wind coming from every direction and making everything colder and hair messier. Against my better knowledge I tried  to do a nice hairdo which I found out on one of the blogs I read. It looked nice as long as I was home, but after me and Adam went out to wave good bye to our dogsitter, it went all crazy. :(

So I got to say boo for windy little towns like Norrköping. They create real hair disasters!

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Home again!

Hello everyone!

Me in the cold winter weather. It was -7 but it did feel warmer then in Norrköping (because here it is always windy). 

Oh I had a well-needed break from everything. Me and Adam went to my mother’s place all the way far up in Lapland. It was great meeting everyone again and also getting one final doze of real winter before spring arrives. It was also Adam’s first time in Northern Sweden and he was amazed by all the reindeer’s and the snow piles which was taller then him. Only downside is that we both got a cold, but oh well, you can’t always have it perfect.

Great view. The nature there was so wonderful.

We took long walks, enjoyed the nature there, bought stuff (a secret gift to Adam who is going to get 20 soon and something warm for the baby) and had nice tea on a place own by a person called Buddha. I am curious if that is his real name or just something he get called.
One of the cat’s that Adam got friends with right away. 

So after lots of hugging with brothers, cuddling with cats (for Adam’s behalf, me and cats normally don’t get along) and talk alot about everything I feel ready for a new week. Down here we may not have snow, but it is wonderful with all the sunshine and soon my favorite season will be here. Can’t wait.

Have a wonderful day everyone.

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Bodil Malmsten’s books

Bodil Malmsten I think is one of the best authors Sweden has in this modern time. Her writing is sometimes poetic, sometimes descriptive and that wonderful mix between fantasy and reality she writes about is something everyone should experience. When she writes about gardening chores, it sounds like an adventure to a foreign country, a bus trip in Wales becomes a fascinating story about the bus drivers and the passengers and the life itself. She has this ability of capturing a moment of daily life and finding a thought, a purpose about it.

The book I have recently read about her does not exist in English but the title translates roughly  ”There’s still no order among my papers”  . It’s a book of short stories from her own life. It is a bit of a mess in places, but the short glimpses does seem appealing after a while.  But so is life itself, chaotic, messy and just a bunch of stories in a book.

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Fat Tuesday

Here in Sweden, Fat Tuesday is being celebrated with a Semla. It is basically a wheat bun with whipped cream, almonds and lots of sugar and fat. One bun has around 250 calories I did read somewhere! As I been busy packing today, I did not have time to make my own Semla (which is sad), but I had a tasty one at one of the bakeries in town, kindly bought to me by my husband. I guess I have to make my own semlas next year instead.

I hope I will get some time to blog a little when I am out traveling in Sweden, but if you do not see so many posts it is because I am in Lapland, visiting my family. Have a great Fat Tuesday and a great week everyone! :)

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Stripes, stripes and more stripes

One of my favorite patterns is stripes, I think that around 60% of my closet is stripey in one way or another. I just find stripes so flattering and it is easy to combine it with other patterns. Mono coloured with stripes, or dotty with stripes, or as I did here, stripes with stripes. This white dress is also the most used item in my closet yet, but as it is quite neutral it is easy to combine it with other clothes. Soon though I am going to buy some more maternity clothes, to have something to alternate with.

I shall go to Lapland tomorrow and meet up with my family, it was such a long time I did see them! Plus, Lapland is one of the nicest parts of Sweden in my opinion, it is so beautiful. I am longing so!

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In the times of Cold

Here at home, and every where else it seems, the little disease known as the cold is ruling the house. I am coughing and sneezing from morning to evening and have used a mountain of tissues. Then it is good I have a freezer full of nice bread which I made myself earlier in the week. They are really simple to make also, you only need water (3 deciliters), 50 grams of butter, a half deciliter of syrup (just to make the bread juicy), 50 gram yeast, and flour I just add until the dough is not watery.  Let it rise to its double size, make small buns of it and put in the oven for 10 minutes at 175 degrees Celsius.

At the moment I am enjoying them warm with butter and a nice cup of lemon tea. Makes me feel better right away.

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People Aim for the Stars…

“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn’t be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.”

When I went to the library a few weeks ago I found this book, and browsing quickly through the pages this particular quote above made me borrow it and read it (two times already) and love it. I’m soon going to add this book to my own shelves. Which book am I talking about?

Well, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.  I’ve got to say that it is really a fascinating book to read for everyone like me who like books about books and philosophy. It is about Renée, the concierge in a luxury Parisian block of flats who hides her own personality and her interest in great literature, culture and other more cultivated interests. Instead she displays herself as a kind of dumb but reliable persona, which she thinks is what the society expects of her. It is also about twelve year old Paloma, a hyper intelligent child who has decided to kill herself on her 13th birthday, in order to prevent a (in her eyes) dreadful future decided by her family. These two get to know each other, when one of the people living in the house suddenly dies and a new neighbour moves in. I recommend you all to read it!

 

 

 

 

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