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But it will still happen. Guarantee. #sweden #switzerland #icehockey #worldcup #americans #usa #z

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No filter. Just beautiful. #hastings #z

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Sweet potato. Butternut squash. And a piece of great Finnish crisp bread. If I only was hungry too. #z

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A wall in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. #fb #z

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I miss the Swedish blueberries. I don't even get a blue tongue. #z

firsts

Lot of firsts today. First barbecue of the season in London. With good food, beer, new friends, sunshine, and 20 degrees.

But then, on the way home, the first penalty fine. I didn't realize I was in zone three which my card doesn't apply to. If I would have touched in with my card anyway it would have taken the cash instead.

Shit, shit, shit.
Forty pounds poorer.

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Corner of London. Neil's Yard. #fb #z

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Instead of taking a photo off the rainbow I should have taken a photo off all the people taking a photo off the rainbow to post on facebook #fb #z

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london street art

happy first advent

For the first time in many years I actually feel the Christmas spirit ahead of Christmas Eve.

I've usually never really felt any Christmas spirit when I lived somewhere else than where I grew up.

So it has kind of taken me by surprise this year. This morning I lit up the first candle in my newly acquired Advent candlestick. Had some breakfast with 'rågrut' and Swedish cheese. After that some mulled wine, ginger snaps, and a saffron bun.

Can it get more Swedish?

crowded

It's always exhausting to venture out on Oxford Street. So many people. One wonders if there is ever a time when a store on Oxford Street is not crowded.

At least all the Christmas lights make it better.

new favorite store

I guess you can guess what kind of store I went to today. Sure, if you're Swedish it gives you an edge. As all the products are things you can find in a normal grocery store in Sweden.

This is all from the store Totally Swedish in London, luckily not far away from where I live at all, I think it took me about 15 min to get there. Very convenient indeed.

You know how it is. You start missing everything so much more when you don't have easy access to it. I do miss my 'filmjölk' in the mornings with the cereal. And the 'knäckebröd' with some butter and cheese. And for first advent on Sunday I've got two lovely saffron buns that I can eat with my 'glögg'.

How Swedish am I. I almost feel more Swedish now than I do at home in Sweden. Of course it becomes more evident when you move abroad.

how i missed you

There are no words to described how much you have been missed.

And I've only been in London two months... Not sure if that bodes well.

some tribal manicure

I enjoy doing some freehand nail art once in while, even though I wish I did it more often. This time it ended up with a tribal or aztec or what to call it, manicure. Love those patterns. The left hand more than the right, the left hand still needs some practice.

the search for the hair dresser

I'm at the hair dresser. Second time in one week actually. I went last week to get a hair cut. It was a disaster. I'm the one who has to go home and get a feeling for it and look at it from different angels. I really tried to explain how I wanted it, I thought I did. Maybe I didn't, or she interpreted it in the total opposite way. I never seen myself as fussy, but now I guess I know exactly how I want it. Sure, nobody else could even tell I got a haircut, but that doesn't matter. Cause I would be annoyed every
I was thinking to call back and ask for a new cut and give her a second chance. But at the same time, do you really want to go back?
I went for no. I had even thought about trying another place as well. That's where I'm at now. At least it really looks like my kind of place, interior wise.

swamped

Well, not really swamped at work at all. Have bits and pieces to do but not really busy. And my manager is quite busy and we haven't even gone through everything I'm supposed to do yet. I think it's the plan to do it in December and I'll start dealing with those things in January. So I guess I still have it a bit chilled for the rest of the year.

What swamped was actually referring to is my gorgeous nail polish I'm wearing at the moment. It's the indie polish from Happy Hands called The Swamp. Got quite many comments for this one.

go sweden, go

Did some arts and crafts this morning when I arrived at the office. A very interesting soccer game last night between Sweden and England which of course resulted in a win for us. 4-2 to Sweden with a brilliant last goal from Zlatan.
Wanted a flag to wave at my coworkers and my friend came up with the brilliant idea to just print one. So that's what I did and now have a Swedish flag waving at my desk.
Well, not so much waving perhaps since it's made out of paper. But still nice.
Unfortunately the office is basically empty since all is gone for sales conferences, so there's not many British here to tease... Dammit...

what a beautiful morning

That's the song I started humming this morning when I looked out the window and saw a little bit of sunshine.

Now I'm at work and it's gray, gray, gray as far as the eye can see...

stomp

Sometimes all these networks we're part of truly are great in connecting people. This time it was LinkedIn that made me connect with an acquaintance from Copenhagen that now lives in London as well. We met up on Saturday and another friend of hers. Went for a stroll to Tower of London and then along the water and London Bridge. It was a really nice evening that we ended with watching the show Stomp.

I really love Stomp. I actually watched it about 10-12 years ago in Stockholm. Just as great this time. After that you just feel like being the long lost member of Stomp and hitting anything and everything. In my mind it would sound great and musical, but if I actually tried making music out of drumming on things it would probably just come out as weird noises.

STOMP in London

So one show and many more to go. I want to go through them all! Well, at least try to. At least all the musicals. Me love musicals.

my wig

Picked up my new passport today. I never manage to look good on the photo, I always turn out looking like a freak. Especially now when you are not allowed to smile.
But the new photo is just horrible, it looks like I am wearing a really bad wig.
And I had to part my bangs a bit to show some brows, which I think is quite stupid, because I could have had painted on brows different from my own.
That I am daring to show it here still surprises me...