Insnöad!
Jag är officellt insnöad på landet! Jag ler enormt stort när jag skriver detta, för jag tycker på ngt plan att det är hysteriskt roligt!
Trodde väl aldrig att det skulle hända, men bor man på landet och har en buss att förlita sig på om det inte går att cykla till den andra hållplatsen, vilket idag inte har ngn betydelse eftersom alla bussar i hela norrort är inställda pga av halka!
Varför är det så varje år att SJ och SL blir extremt förvånade att det blev Vinter och snö i år IGEN!
Jaja bara x antal veckor till jag förhoppningsvis får köra bil ensam, vilket ska bli väldigt skönt. Med min tur är det säkert snöstorm på uppkörningsdagen.
Snart e det jul och jag längtar enormt. Det är inte julklapparna men att hela familjen samlas och äta god mat och kolla på Kalle. Får vi en vit jul i år så skulle det vara fantastiskt! Tror inte jag vart med om en vit jul sen jag var liten.
Sen jag kom tillbaks till Sverige har jag spenderat mkt tid med min systerdotter och det är otroligt att man kan älska ngn som är så liten och som jag vet kommer antagligen göra mitt liv lite surt kommande år, för min egen del blir jag återigen förvånad över mina egna egenskaper som moster. Att jag klarar att ta hand om henne, få henne att äta, sova mm för vissa kankse det verkar självklart men jag blir ofta imponerad av mig själv att jag faktiskt klarar det!
Alltid bra att veta när tiden väl kommer för mig att skaffa barn.
Jo förresten: jag var ute och åkt längdskidor tidigare idag, länge sedan jag också gjorde det men på landet finns det ju snö att åka i!!! Ska oxå ut och skotta nu.....inte lika kul.
Snöiga hälsningar
Cajsa
Dags att se framåt.....
Jag är nu tillbaks i Sverige efter ca 7 underbara månader i Edinburgh.
Vart hemma i snart 2 månader och försöker anpassa mig till livet här hemma. Nu när jag IGEN måste bo hos mamma och pappa ute i skogen.
Min största priotering är körkortet. Drog igång hela den karusellen så fort jag kom hem och hade målet att i år skulle vara året då jag klarade det, men fanns inga uppkörningstider kvar i år, så 2010 är året.
Jag ville verkligen klara av det 2009.....det har hänt så mkt detta år och jag ville verkligen att det skulle vara grädden på moset.
Försöker se framåt; körkort, jobb, pengar och förhoppningsvis leder det till ngt eget.
När jag lämnade Skottland hade jag jobb men inget lönsamt boende. Att bo på vandrarhem var inte det jag ville och det lönade sig inte i längden.
Jag tog beslutet; Packade ihop, skeppade hem mina grejer, satte mig på planet och återvände hem..... dit jag inte riktigt känner att jag hör hemma. Men eftersom jag insåg ganska tidigt att jag inte kommer kunna återvända till skottland som jag tänkt, måste jag vänja mig vid att bo här i Sverige ett tag. Söka skolor, plugga och börja jobba.
Ta mig dit jag en gång har varit.
Vi får se hur det ter sig
xxx
Cajsa
Rainy Edinburgh
Was some time since i wrote....
Been working and the weather here in Edinburgh is getting worse, lots of rain. Have to buy some wellies when i got cash again.
Finally got gymcard again so now im getting into my routine finally! I know i´ll need it when it comes to depressing weather. Im not living as close to the gym as before. Now i have to walk for 10-15 minutes but that should do me good.
Ok i´ve been off 2 days now after working 4 days over the weekend and its tireing when people wanna go out during friday and saturday and ur working the next day. And of course I do wanna go out and met my friends. And im always working weekends so im kinda getting used to it now after 2 months. Well working in an other country is truly an experience. Its cultural clashes and language barriers. Its going up and down, some days it feels like im actually doing stuff right and the other days it feels like they´re going to fire me the next day.
So all this is abit stressing, not knowing if im gonna be able to stay here or not. I dont mind but i still wanna do something with my life, start or figure out what i wanna do. I mean i thought i finally actually did know what i wanted to do but those plans crashed and im almost back on square one. I hate this, the not knowing state of my life. Why cant i just figure out over a night what i wanna do all over again.
Its kinda funny cause sometimes like now i´ve these moments when i actually think in Swedish and not English and when that happens the words that do come out is usually swedish. Its comes and goes.
I was at work for a couple of days ago and i realised out of the blue that im a swedish girl living in Edinburgh and speaks english. I know it seems clear but it just hit me that im not english, haha. Sounds probably seriously weird but i just felt not swedish when i realised that i am!
So im coming up on 4 months here on monday. It goes fast indeed. But at the same time not. Feels like i´ve been here so much longer.
Well dont know what to write anymore.
Im checking pics of Nice and im longing back so much that it hurts!
Take care
Mystery healed computer!
From a blue sky it actually works as normal now! COME ON! Im happy about it but wouldnt be chocked if it brakes down again.
Ok so what else what else.....
On monday there was this big leaveing party for a guy; Shaun it was lots of fun, was working the day after but it wasnt too bad!
Im now off until saturday. I was hopeing i would have gotten the deposition from my old flat by now, so i could spend these days getting back to my gym routine, but no cash yet, wich equals no gym!
The tattoo is healing well and im really happy with it!
2day i have been doing the dishes, cleaning and washing! Aww im so wifey!
Ahhhhh i saw the movie; kiss kiss bang bang aswell! SEE IT its hilarious!
On friday me and Sabine is gonna paint the town red and on Saturday after work im going to a bbq.
I love Edinburgh in bloom, or is it me who´s blooming? ;)
Take care
loveya
Broke!
Another weekend have gone by me working and 2mrw monday when im off everyone is working or like 2nite when i really wanted to go out and get drunk. But as u can see from my headline im broke so im at home, drinking my sorrows in tea.
I also wanna go to the gym or run but i cant do neither can i? No money for gym and me knee cant handle running.
But right now i just DONT GIVE A FUCK!
Nite
Cajsa
IM BACK!!!!
I havent written in ages now! Probabaly not in 5 weeks or so, so lots have happend but im not gonna do 5 weeks now. Lets do a quick recap and then off to normal life here in Edinburgh.
Ok, i did go home to Sweden for a week, to have an interview at a school there. So me and my dad drove up and down on the same day ca 9 hours of driving. And half through the lady that was doing the interview asked me: do u have any injuries in your wrists?? Yes i have. I havnt thought about that before that an old sport injury would stop me now. She wanted a doctors approval of my hand. I thought about it, didnt go to the doctors. My hand cant cope with the work its gonna have to do. So now im back here in Edinburgh since 2 weeks, chatterd plans a new tatto and i´ve changed flats. So im now living with one of my best friends.
Thats what can happen in life i guess. Sucks, but i have to look forward. Dont know if im staying here in Scotland for the rest of the year ( I might) as long as i have a job and somewhere to sleep im gonna try to stay here.Figure out what else i wanted to study and become.
Well thats all for now, gonna have to head to work. I also heard the weather has been awesome in Sweden, well i just have to say: what is sun????????? scottish weather does not include such thing!
Over and out
All the best
Cajsa
Sunscreen anyone?
Its been really nice for a couple of days now, really warm but hardly no sun. But 2day OMG! Really really warm and blue sky.
This morning i went to work to do a health certificate thing (something i have to do) and after like 30 min the computer decides that it doesnt wanna work anymore so of i went back home again! I was not complaining but it would have been nice to have it done, i now have to do it some other day.
Well well home i got and went down town for a quick birthday shopping and then off to the gardens wich resulted in short, bra lines and crab red arms! Yeyyyyyyyyy or NOT!
My face hardly got any colour i had sun protection on that!
Haha so i look really funny and everyone is laughing at mine!
2mrw im working my longest shift so far. 10 - 18. After that its home to change clothes and then off to celebrate the birthday boy Jeremy at Amelies work.
A girl at work change shifts with me so im not working until 14.00 on sunday but i finish at 20.00. And on sunday after work im going home to change again and then off to a girls nite out with some girls from Ikea. That should be fun.
The group im working with is really tight as a group and friends so its a bit hard to get through, but hopefully time and a drunken night out will solve that. The saying: U dont know them until u have been out drinking with them. Or something like that!
Apparently 2mrws gonna be even better than 2day and im working all day. But with my skin i shouldnt be out in the sun right now anyway!
The only reason im up this late its 23.45 its because im waiting for a wash to finish. After that im off to bed!
Only 2 weeks until im coming home for a couple of days, im trying to plan how to manage with just a handluggage. Me Cajsa who never can have just something light. So we will see how that one goes.
Ok gonna go to bed now
Talk to ya soon again I´ll probably write on monday again when im off work. Then i can tell u about the weekens escapades!
XOXO
Quick update!
So everything is starting to roll on with ikea and all.
Lots to take in but fun as well. Great people im working with, lots of girls and they are all very chatty so there is not a moment silence really! Awesome! I fit right in!
The girls in my section are having a nite out next week and a great opportunity for me to get to know people abit better!
So 2mrw its the toga party everyone has been longing for! Me and Amelie gonna meet up before for food and drinks at one of our new favourite places before were going to TOGA!
Next week is going to be busy aswell. Party with sabine on tuesday and on saturday its the chef at Amelies works birthday, a big deal! And on sunday the ikea girls nite out. Working both saturday and sunday wich sucks but im not gonna start by changing shifts, just because of a close friends birthday.
2day did not go as i planned. When i got home from work i planned to just have a quick nap, go to the gym and then of to see some friends. Well at 21.00 i realise its late and i havnt done anything! Just beenH sleeping.
So now im all awake but still tired so hopefully i will be able to go back to sleep really soon.
My toga shopping hasnt gone the way i wanted. Just checked for a couple of minutes ago if all my golden ribbons would be enough. Apperently not, so 2mrw i have to do some last minute shopping for more ribbons and hope for the best. Working saturday at 14.00 so not to bad.
Have a great weekend. Lots of love
Cajsa
Im now an IKEA girl!
Hey everyone!
Its been ages, it feels like at least!
I´ve been busy! I got the job at ikea and im working 4 days a week. Still probably gonna apply for other jobs to see if i can get a part time job as well!
Everything is floating along, the toga party is on friday and everyones excitement just gets bigger for every day! its gonna be great fun!
So 2mrw i got a interview to get my National insurance number wich i need to be able to work and get paid, but its funny cause u cant get one if u dont have a job, so abit hard!
And apparently they ae going to ask really hard questions like when EXACTLY i came to the UK for the first time. Like date and year! And really tricky ones like that, hopefully im gonna succed. Cause i have to show them i actually got a job and address aswell!
And i went to the bank 2day as well to get an bank account so i can get paid.
Working thursday morning 09.00 to 15.00 and saturday (the day after the toga party!) At 14.00 to 19.30. So we will see how that goes.
On thursday its a red day here as well and it probably gonna be more people at Ikea then, and the same on saturday!
But i like having stuff 2do! I mean im really proud of myself! I got a job by myself in a big company in an different country thats not my birth place! And i fixed apartment and everything by myself!
Im suppose to work at the postoffice this summer like always and i do get more money from there but i do wanna try to work somewhere else. The money is not always everything!
Im sitting at Amelies work. I like the atmosphere here, new people all the time and they are all so friendly! They are usually kinda keen to talk as well!
Im just talking to some girls from Florida. I like talk to people like this! They like tell me if i go to Florida i should go here and there. Thats just awesome!
I was suppose to go to the Whisky experience 2day but that didnt happen. Went out toga shopping but i still dont have everything! The whisky experience is a place where u get to know about whisky and get to try some aswell. Im trying to do all the things i didnt do all the other times i´ve been here! Like some of the free museums and such.
Haha one funny thing! So i´ve been up since 05.20 this morning and i went to bed at 02.30! That is because a friend of my called a really drunken call and totally woke me up. I went on a walk for like an half hour and then to the gym and i finished all the things i had planned to do before noon! NICE! I like getting up early when u do get up but the problem is to really get up! Im getting really tired now, the lack of sleep are getting to me now. Crap. Probably gonna have a nap 2mrw so im not knackered on thursday when im suppose to go up early to work. Adam one of the chiefs are having a party 2mrw nite aswell, hmmmm busy busy!
Well well guys
i guess im gonna go home to sleep some!
Take care
love ya loads
xxx
Finally getting somewhere!
So its been a while as always!
Ok, so i had an interview at Ikea the other day, it went ok. So, 2mrw im having a like a tryout day, to see if i can cope the stress and all i guess. So im in the bistro, the swedish shop. Me being swedish they thought its a win win situation cause i know alot of things about the products. Im nervous!!! Ahhhhh i mean its saturday so its gonna be lots of people and probably there gonna come someone with an accent i cant understand or that i do something horribly wrong! But hopefully either way, if its goes bad or good that i will have a fun and educational day! I mean i do wanna learn new stuff!
And for everyone who doesnt know yet, im going home for a quick visit the 14 - 19th of june, before im going back here again!
So the week has been mostly sunny but 2day it was pouring down and me and Amelie was out shopping stuff for our Toga themed party next week! Everyone is really looking forward to it and alot of people is really going in for it! Im so gonna take lots of pics that night, cant wait! White and gold things!
The staff at Belushis (Amelies work) is being different gods and such, me im just going as some hot toga girl! (Hopefully!)
Almost a week with my new hair now and im so happy that its so much more manageable. Not so long and damaged, its not flying all over the place!
Ok, gonna go sleep now so im ready for 2mrw! Im excited and nervous at the same time! Will tell you how its goes!
Nite nite
xoxo
Cajsa
Sunshine! Sunshine!
And for you people who doesnt check facebook i cut my hair the other day. So now its short and a wearable fringe again.
Im loving it so far, i love the respons im getting so thats always something.
Its Monday and i know there are places i can go. Amelie and her crew is celebrateing that they finished their last exam 2day. But i just dont wanna spend money on alcohol right now... And lets face it i know if i go i will probabaly drink something. Even if its juice or something its still money i could spend on food. An average price for a glas of cranberry jucie is around (ca 25 kr) and for that you can get 2 litre or more in the stores.
I love living so close to everything but of course its a down side cause you do spend more money.
So on thursday i have an interview at Ikea again, so we will see how that goes. I do have to take the bus every morning if i get it but hopefully thats worth it. I can probably buy a bike but its scary cause you have to ride along and with the cars all the way. And walking there probably takes over the hour, even more. Its a 15-20 min bus ride.
So all my swedish friends; i will be coming home to sweden in about a month (around the 13-16 of june) to go to the school interview in Orsa. And i will be home for maximum a week, just so you know!
So the meeting i had with my "personal" trainer went good. We added more cardio and arm exercises. 2mrw morning its aquafit, an other reason to not stay out late drinking. Its at 9!
People here just dont seem to get that i rather dont drink so much because of i wanna go to the gym next morning and still feel like i havnt wasted anything. If i get the ikea job gym during the mornings will be hard. The gym opens at six tho, the problem is to get up that early and still be in time for work.
Ok thats all for now.
Love ya loads, but hate u for the summer in Sweden.
xxx cajsa
A nice Highland tour!
So yesterdays highland tour was great. Beautiful views, hateful Scottish weather, good company! What more can you ask for?
I have been to these tours before but this was an other company and there was only one place we stopped at where i´ve been before. So that was great.
I went with a friend of mine; Jeremy and he still have the camera and the pics.
I was tired last nite and went to bed around 23.00. And like always i put my clock at 07.35 so i would be at the gym around 8. Well i can tell you that didnt happen. I started to snooze and then i reset the time. So it ended up with going out of bed at 13.00. The hole day just passed.
And i cant decide if im gonna go to the gym now or 2mrw wich i have to cause i got a time wih my "personal trainer". So 2mrw i will go but am i going 2day??????
I dont really want to but all the crap i ate yesterday when we were on the tour, have to get out as soon as possible. im just gonna keep the weight i have if i can stay off the cheap bad food over here. The problem is not when i go grocery shopping or cooking for that matter. Its later on....And evey day seems so long that if i had some candy yesterday it feels like i could have been last week cause i just dont remember what day it was. And its so cheap ahhhhhhh i hate it. Please give me some strenght!!
And some news for you all:
The school i applied for at home in Sweden im going there for an interview in june. So we will see how that goes.
I got mixed feelings abou it. I do wanna stay here but right now i just wanna go home, no job, the money is on the downhill and everything. But the other side of me wants to stay and have a good time, although with a job....
Have a good weekend
lots of love
Cajsa
The pigeons strike back again!
So when I made lunch today it got really steamy so i opened the window and later on I had my lunch on my room. So after i had eaten it I went back to do the dishes.
And on my way in i can hear the bloody pigeons again and now theirs 2 of them IN the kitchen! Took a while to get them out and it just feels so dirty when you know that "the flying rats" have been where I cook my food, no fun at all.
So mondays birthday party was great, well what i remember of it!
We started at a restaurant called Buffalo Grill, i had jambalaya. It was really god.
After that we went to a pub before heading to another pub called Dropkicks where there is every monday barstaff night. But no one really checks so I had the same cheap prices as everyone else.
So we drank our way through the night and it was fun. The day after was not as fun, for me at least. Had abit too much to drink so I had a water party with myself as the only guest.
I also played bowling last night. I lost and is not happy about it so lets change subject!
So 2mrw im going on a highland tour! Yeyyyyy
Its gonna (hopefully) be so much fun!
The weather has been rainy and windy for a couple of days now so im guessing thats the weather forecast for 2mrw. But I had so much luck when i went to the highlands for 2 years ago. So i guess i can do with some rain on this tour.
Its gonna be some mountains, lochs (lake in gaelic or something) and whisky! Its a day tour so we leave around 8 2mrw morning and gets back again around 18.00.
Cant wait! =)
And right at this second im colouring my hair and just realised i have went over my minutes so i have to go rinse!
Tell more about the tour and such later on!
Lots of love
xxx
Cajsa
Yet again Sunday!
Alright what have happened since wednesday, the last time i wrote......
As always not much!
Just the that the "normal" day is getting more common wich means less exciting things to write and for u to read. But im trying my best!
Ok so this thursday i went to the evening aquafit class and when were done and off to the showers, there was this lady who I guess havnt shaved her "private" areas in years! Ahhhhhh I almost screamed, haha. She looked like these free spirit people or nudist. But, please shave!
An other thing. Hehe on our windows there are always sitting pigeons, and for like 2 weeks ago one of them almost got into my room. Like 8 in the morning i scream cause there is a fucking pigeon on the way in!
Well my point is that for like 2 days ago i was standing in the kitchen. It was really warm so we had the window open all day. I was just doing my dishes when i hear that special annoying pigeon noice and i look up and: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the bird is in our kitchen! Not cool! Scary, tried to get to fly out wich it did after a couple of minutes. But it was funny tho!
Hmmm anything else weird I can tell......
Well the weather was sunny 2day but windy so even tho you are in the sun is not that warm ( typical Scotland) so after been frezzeing my ass of outside i decided to go to Arthurs seat instead. Cause i had borrowed a camera from a friend of mine.
So off i go and if it was windy on the ground the power of the wind when i got up there it was really scary cause it felt like you could lift of any moment. But beautiful pictures tho and some bruises and a scratched up hand. Just cause i wanted to go the "exciting" way down! The borrowed camera got a bit scratched as well but no harm done.
So i have decieded to buy a new camera cause i cant keep on borrowing from other people. But i cant decide wich one. And then i realised that if i buy one here i have to buy a converter for the plug in. Cause its not the same (vägguttag) wall thingy here as at home.
And 2day it was the Great Edinburgh Run here. Its a 10 km race and i just got really jealous of everyone running, cause i want to do it as well. I love running those races. I hate my knee.....
Well i guess thats all for now. Gonna have a night in 2nite, cause 2mrw im going out to dinner, its Mickes birthday. There is alot of people who is getting older now! Åsa and my dad on thursday and apparently its Brandons birthday as well on thursday. Busy busy
Take care
Love you loads
xoxo
Times goes way to fast!
So the days just rushes by here and everything is almost normal, and with that i mean i got some kinda structure and thats the gym! Thats like my only thing i know im gonna do every day and it feels good. Problem is that i wouldnt mind going there every day but i try not to, cause thats gonna end in some injury or me have to stop it due to some swedish word i dont know what it is in english! haha
Well i got one piece of happy news. I had an group interview this monday and i just got a call that said im through to round 2! I dont know if i wanna say where it is but i guess i have to, its such a cliche! IKEA!
The problem is that if i get that job i would probably not mind staying here for abit longer.... But i will take it as it comes.
I bought some hayfever pills yesterday so hopefully thats gonna bring me back to life again. Cause im just way to sleepy and everything! I went to bed at 20.00 yesterday but i got up at 07.30 this morning to go to the gym! I cant believe me Cajsa Carlsson goes up before 8 to go to the gym and thats not an Aerobics lesson! But dont think im gonna come home all fit, cause i eat way to much food as always! Haha.
Every wednesday one of the Mobile operators- Orange got this deal. You go 2 for 1 every wednesday to the cinema. So thats what im doing 2nite with Sabine!
Have good one
loads of hugs
Cajsa
Sunday....
Been really tired these last couple of days. Im guessing its the hayfever coming at me. I´ve just been really of tracks. Im not really in any conversation, abit floating. And people constantly asks me if im ok.
I guess i have to go buy some pills for it. So i can start being normal again.
So the dinner at Sabines was really nice. GREAT food! And her flatmates are really nice aswell! And me and sabine made this fruitcake that was good, but it could probabaly have been better if i wouldnt have got involved! haha
Well we were at El barrio yesterday and i was wearing these shoes i asked my mum to send. (Thanks for that =)) Well they are a wee bit higher then my others and my feet were killing after like 30 min cause i walked in them almost the hole way from my place to El barrio! Thats a ca 25 min walk!
Ohhh i almost forgot to tell you!
Me and amelie spend the day for some days ago and we found this great new lunch place! Its a mexican place and we rolled out of there literally! Really nice food. Im not gonna say what the name of the place cause we got a friend whos a chef and knows way too much about some of the restuarants around here. We dont want him to take it away from us!
Is getting late here, i woke up at one and now its four and i feel i have to go out for a wee while! The sun just came out aswell.
Oh one last thing. Dont know if i said anything about this but I have an owen in my flat. And the problem is that i dont know if it works. Tried every button and so on, i forgot to ask my flatmates. But when i walked in to the kitchen for an hour ago the owen was working! Yeah yeayyyyyyyyyyyyyy happy happy now i can do my chicken wrapped in bacon and some potato wedges!
Take care, have a good week.
xxx
Cajsa
Shoes
My new shoes
Im back on track!
Its been a while since i wrote so i have to give you an update.
Except from small gatherings with friends nothing big has happend.
Well the biggest is in that case what i did this morning! Cajsa in the gym! Finally! I´ve been doing aquafit for 2 weeks now so thats always something but 2day I had an instruction. So he gave me some tips for my knee. So now i have a program to follow for 2 weeks and then i will met up with the guy again and see if everything is going good and add more exercises.
Everyone that knows me knows that im more off a aerobic, step up, bodypump and running kinda girl. But im actually really happy that i got a foot in to it. It´s just that i dont like when its to much people in a gym. I mean like cute guys and people that u know that you dont wanna talk to when ur all red and sweaty. But i guess i´ve to get over that threshold!
I mean there is a place where they have classes and stuff that i like but it takes me about 15-20 min walk and its easier to go to the gym thats like 3 min from my place.
So 2day its cloudy here and im gonna meet up with Amelie later. And 2mrw im invited to Sabines house. They are having a girly dinner. Wich should be fun!
Oh and i have to admit: I bought a pair off shoes i´ve been looking at since i got here. And its these so called wedges (kilklack) so they are high but flat so its a bit easier walk in them. And i just WANTED them! They had my name on them!
Take care!
Lots of love
Cajsa
Guided tour of Edinburgh
2day i´ve been to a free tour around Edinburgh. There is so many places i dont know anything about so that was great, so much fun.
Besides that nothing much have happend. The tour was 3 hours and out in the sun, so i now got a red nose. But happy =)
Trying to keep myself off the shopping streets, not the easiest tho!!
2nite its monday and I might go to the pub quiz or something.
Well one funny thing that happend the other day i just have to tell u guys about.
Im always trying to avoid Swedish people but this other day at the hostel there was this group of guys that just screamed SWEDISH!
So for once i did speak with them. The night after i saw them again and sat down to chat with them and after a wee while i get to know that most of them is from Ljusterö!!! And they did go to Röllingby! Hahaha the world is way to small and then the schock came. They have been best friends with a girl i did go to school with for 3 years! Hahaha you cant go anywhere with out meeting someone who knows someone u know!!!
Take care
xxx
Cajsa