last vacation day

Friday already. Oh my. This week has passed way too quickly. Especially when I realize I have not done anything useful. I have been at home. In the rain. Doing basically nothing.

Remember the first alone day at home? I thought I would go crazy here in this big house all by myself. Looking back I have spent many days here alone. Doing nothing. And now I kind of like it. I enjoy being by myself once in a while. It just take a day or two before you remember how it was being by yourself and not constantly surrounded by other people.

I still have one more week though. But on Monday I start working again. So my last weekend. Then I have two more weeks of work. Crazy, three months have almost passed since that first day at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Then I am without a job again.

white collar

Been incredibly lazy today. But hey, it is vacation.

So I have been catching up on some TV series. True Blood for example, the third season finally started some weeks ago and now I cannot wait until next episode.

But I also discovered a new show right up my alley, White Collar. A little bit like the movie Catch me if you can but in a TV series format. The good thing is also that it is already on its second season so I do not have to be disappointed that it is cancelled after only one season. Like a few other favorite TV series, do not like when that happens.

few hours of sun

Actually got to see a little bit of sunshine today in the afternoon. That might be the only sunshine I get to see on my last week of vacation. It has been amazing weather in Sweden this summer. Then why does it turn into crap the two only weeks I have vacation?

done with the phone interview

The first interview that I ever got nervous about. I was just looking at the watching with butterflies in my stomach. Perhaps it was because it was a phone interview and it is more difficult to make an impression then. Or perhaps since I am really interested in this company and this job position.

I got really embarrassed after being asked what the capital of Switzerland is after having said that my geography knowledge is quite good. I died. I stumbled on the words as I was thinking and the only city that came into my head was Zürich and I had a feeling it was not it. I did not reply that either. Then he said it was Bern and I felt like sinking through the floor. Having an interview for a travel coordinator position in Switzerland and not knowing the capital of that country. Great... (Now I will never ever forget that Bern is the capital of Switzerland and Zürich is the largest city).

Even though I have no background in that business at least I was called to a phone interview. I will know in the end of the week if I get invited to a second interview in Switzerland. I also fear that they might see me as someone who is overqualified (again) or searching for a more exiting job, since he specified that it is a back-office job in front of the computer and not so exciting. I am hopeful but not, at the same time. I know I do not have the best suitable experience but I think I have the characteristics they require.

I want it. Pretty please.

Now I wait. I hate waiting.

phone interview

Yeay!

Got a phone interview with EF Education First today! Exciting since I did not really expect a call back but I did. Happy times here in the house. This is a job that, at least according to the job ad, seems really interesting and the company even more.

Cross your fingers please.

sleepless in stockholm

Partying and staying out late has side effects. Like that I have to wake up somewhere else than at home since I cannot get home late at night (but otherwise I have to stay at home and that is not really an option). Like I feel the urge for a fatty, disgusting pizza (and other unhealthy stuff) the day after. Like hangover. Like not getting enough sleep and waking up after only 5-6 hours of sleep. Like being so tired the day after and falling asleep in the middle of the day. Like changes in the daily rhythm caused by the changed sleeping pattern. That side effect has evidently become more longterm. Since I am still awke.

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a pizza a day...

A little bit of pizza for dinner. And I just realized I had pizza yesterday as well, but then it was a fatty, hangover pizza. Today it was a home made one. Love those pizza kits where you get the ready made pizza dough together with a jar of tomato sauce. Then just add the toppings you want.

Today I went for one half with pepperoni (although I cannot find any good ones in the store, they are not spicy and tasty enough) and the other half with chopped romantica tomatoes, plenty of fresh basil, and some pesto. Of course topped with plenty of mozzarella, the only cheese I want on a pizza.

debaser

Had a great night out on Friday. Met up some friends for some tapas and wine at a friend's place. Nice evening and then we continued to Debaser for a night out. A great night and really crowded. They had a club this Friday with really good music and we danced the night away. It was quite a long time since I last was out so it was fun to shake it off a bit.

It was as much people outside as inside, really crowded. It was a bit different when I was there last time which was several years ago. The thing I remember from last time was that I was given a large shot of whiskey. Not a fan of whiskey. But this time I only had a beer and a cider.

no resistance

I am just here, home alone, enjoying a movie and a sweet piece of blueberry crumble. I had promised myself to stay away from sweets but had some problem with the thing called discipline. So the other day I ended up in the kitchen making a blueberry crumble. I love my crumbles.

taste of summer

Yeah, perhaps a cheesy headline but true. Made another delicious salad for dinner today. A garden salad in its true meaning. Well, at least when it comes to the salad and the herbs. I had forgotten all about the herbs in the previous salads and always remembered it after when I went out to water them.

Lovely fresh herbs from the garden: parsley, oregano, and lemon thyme.

Ingredients: bacon fried crisply, pomegranate, fresh herbs, tomato, fresh red onion, pepper. And then of course some salad also from the garden, and roasted sunflower seeds.

And here it is. Yummy.