keep it simple

I love the simple meals. And now that I have vacation - and hence perhaps some energy to cook - and home alone I can create whatever I feel like.

Today I picked some of mom's romaine lettuce from the garden, together with some olive oil, balsamic vinegar and spices. Fried some chorizo, roasted sunflower seeds, and voilà.

Perfect on a summer day.

My delish chorizo salad with sunflower seeds.

home alone

So what do I do now? My three weeks home alone started a few hours ago. The parents are away on vacation and sister moved to her first very own place today. I have been home alone for only a few hours and I am already bored.

No sunshine so I cannot really lie outside enjoying the sun and sweating. Many people are away unable to entertain me, and people are also too far away. I always thought before that being in alone in an apartment is worse than being in a house, because in a house you have space and things to entertain you with. Now I am not so sure anymore. Although I have this pile of books just waiting to be read. Perhaps it is a good time to start with that now.

But until, something, I am watching Sex and the City.

hot day at home

It was a hot day today and way too hot for work. So I plainly decided to stay at home. Lovely with a job like that. If you even can call it a job. Especially now during these summer weeks when there is almost nobody at the office. Last week there were only two people in the office plus me. Not much work left then for me.

That is also why I am having the last two weeks of July off. There is no one at the office and barely anything to do for anyone. Especially for me since I do not really have any deeper knowledge of how they are working. So it is this week and then two weeks off.

Nice.

ode to the commuter trains in stockholm

Yesterday I ran out of the hot office to get home and relax and perhaps cool off a bit. I walked fast to catch the train only to discover that it was delayed five minutes. The train was already at the platform so I stepped on it. Only to be hit by lovely 30 to 35 degrees heat inside the train. Apparently the air conditioner was out of work on the train so we could enjoy the heat, sweating by doing nothing feels great. At least I had a minute to buy a cooling popsicle.

To add to that the train kept becoming delayed, first five minutes, then ten minutes, fifteen minutes, twenty minutes: more time to enjoy the humid heat on the train. Then another train came to bring us home. We were lucky to get one of the old trains that had been standing out in the sun and has no air conditioner. Lovely.

After two stations I jumped of the hot train and caught the next train only a minute behind. A new train with air conditioner.

no more work

I am melting away at the office. As said before, I do not mind the heat at all but perhaps with the exception at the office. With no air conditioner at the office my brain is just shuting down. And I have also gotten a bit of a headache. From the heat or something else I do not know. Been drinking water but perhaps not enough.

But now it is enouch. I am leaving.

Home is calling.

bikini day

Waking up to 33 degrees Celsius today. That cannot mean anything else than walking around in a bikini all day. Hot outside, hot inside. The only thing you can do is lie down. Anything else is just exhausting or makes you sticky.

How fabulous it is going to be at work tomorrow if this continues. We have no air conditioner.

But I am not complaining. I prefer 33 degrees of winter and snow any day.

I just hope it cools just a little bit now in the evening since I have to go to bed early for work tomorrow. 

the marathon continues

So after a day in the sun, tanning and stuff in the hot weather, I am lying here in my bed. Because it is just to hot to do something else. I wish I could open the window but I hate all the bugs and nightly creatures that comes in.

Lying in my bed, watching Sex and the City. I had a break but picked it up again and I am now on season five. Unfortunately, since that means only one season left. Need to pick out another show for rerun after that.

Now I am just avoiding to sweat. But I am not complaining.

#1000

This is post number 1 000 in this blog. It has become a few posts over the years. And still going strong. Well, perhaps not strong the last month but I am still here.

And of course it is well over a thousand posts counting in the previous two blogs.

Crazy.

pre-moving

Helped sweet sister pre-move today. It is one week until the actual moving date but we stuffed in all of her things in the basement. So soon it will only be me here. But hopefully I will get a job soon so I also can get my own place.

call back

I got a call back for a second interview. So yesterday I went to the company's office and met the boss and a HR girl. It went well, I got a presentation of the company as well as the job position. The interview was a little bit unstructured but I tried to present myself in the best way possible. But it felt good.

But then they said one of the things you do not want to hear in an interview, from my CV they questioned if I might be over qualified and asked me what I thought about that. I just that I would not mind, if it is a good company and also possibilities to develop I am still interested.

With that still in my head I headed to the train when the interview was over but stopped at Chokladfabriken (Chocolate factory) to by myself some pralines. I thought I deserved it.