Day 14 – My Fashion Past

(Warning for picture-heaviness!)
This is a post where I will show old pictures of how I used to look, from age 15-20.

15, in some kind of gross cross-over between punk, wapanese and kitty cat X____X

Wapanese but ALL pink, wooh!

 16 and blond, short-haired emo.
I had that short blond hair for so long, sometimes plain and sometimes with black bangs.

Oh, and with pink bangs!

Turned 17 and got into Scene and adored Audrey Kitching, but I still looked emo/skate.

Got rid of the black, started dressing more feminine.

I got into kind of a vintage styled and got inspired by Dita von Teese and how Christina Aguilera used to dress.

Dyed my hair dark brown, still into the vintage style.

 Dyed my hair back to blond around Christmas.

Started getting into scene again, but actually looked the part, at least not as emo as before. 

Turned 18, got black bangs again.

Got in to ganguro! Haha, no, not really, just a friend using my face as a canvas ;___; But my interest in gyaru started about here.

I guess these are probably my first attempts at gyaru

 Dyed my hair ginger and evolved my gyaru style, looks a lot better here I think. Oh, and I did that Point-thingy from egg on my outfit pics :)

WTF? Got in to ganguro/manba for real this time? :O Naaah, just dressing up for Halloween ^_^

Dyed my hair dark again.

I get sad seeing pictures from this time of my life, because they remind me of how deep down I was in the promised land of eating disorders and depression :( For months I wore nothing but baggy clothes because I felt so ashamed of my body.

Turned 19 (this is from the night I went out to celebrate), I'd just met Seb a couple of weeks before, btw :) But we weren't dating at the time.

 Got back to blonde hair again

Spring time started and I started feeling better and stopped my hiding ^_^

Me and Seb had just got together, and I dyed my hair turqouise.

Summer-time and white hair, I suppose I was kind of into gal at the time, but pretty clueless.

For a short time I got super-into the movie Fear & Loathing and wanted to be Raoul Duke, so I wore tea shades all the time, haha ^_^

I started to get into 16th century fashion and wanted to be Marie Antoinette... naah, just dressing up for a party ^_^

Last year in Cyprus, Sebastian was living here back then as well and I had summer vacation and went down to visit him for 7 weeks which was awesome. I'm kind of grossed out with how bad condition my hair was in at the time, and kind of jealous of how tan I was! 

I had gotten home to Sweden one month before Sebastian, and this was the day I was going to the airport to meet him up, so exciting!! 

I bought my extensions ^___^ I look so good in long hair like this, but I wasn't very good at putting in the extensions, looked so fake :/ My hair was a bit too short as well.

 Halloween last year, me and Seb dressed up as Mario and Princess Peach ^_^

Here you can see how badly my extensions looked >.< *embarrassed*

We'd just moved in to our apartment at this time, by the way.

Some outfits from last winter :)

Bought my first set of circle lenses

Some more outfits, turned 20.

Bought my second pair of circle lenses, brown ones.

 This was the first "warm" day, a Saturday, the snow started melting and we went out for a walk, a long with the rest of Stockholm ^_^ Beautiful day! It was warm enough for thin tights and leather jacket, yay!

 Dressed up fancy for going to the movies with my mom ^_^

Took my fabulous sailor dress out for a spin

6th of May, our anniversary ^_^ We went to central Stockholm and had picnic in the park with chicken, strawberries, cheese and chocolate.

Summer outfits, during this summer I kind of wanted to stop dressing gal at first, and I certainly didn't feel like doing my hair or using a lot of make-up in the heat, but when fall came I realized I CAN'T stop loving gal, even if I wanted to! So I made a promise to fully commit, and be gal for life ^_^

Fall outfit/looks until I started this blog (more recent coords you can find in my archive).

I personally think this is so fun, and I love the fact that blogging has made me take so many photographs, it'll be so much fun when I get older, and when I get kids! 

I'm excited to see what my Fashion Future holds :)

Day 13 - This Week

 (Oh, it's the thirteenth? Happy Lucia!!)

This week is our last week in Cyprus (for this year, we'll come back again right after New Year's) and I'm SO SO SO excited to go back home, I miss my parents so much! Living her is absolute pain at the moment, I postponed showering for so long this morning just because I didn't want to leave my cozy place (chair, slippers, PJ-pants, hoodie, socks, blanket over my legs like a sick old lady :(). This week is just one that I want to PASS so that Monday will come sooner. If I could I'd stay in bed and be warm for the whole week, stupid work being in the way of my plans (of course, if work wasn't in the way I could leave this hell hole and move back in to our apartment back home).

So, what have we learned from this, kids? Never underestimate the luxury of a hot shower!

Which work-out game to choose?

I've been lusting over the Wii Fit for a while, I've heard good things about it, especially about the yoga-game which is great because I love yoga! Seb says that we should buy the Kinect instead, since we're updating our Xbox to an Xbox Slim any how, and also he thinks Kinect is the future. I kind of feel that you need a lot of space for the Kinect, and also I don't trust it. And also I don't like Xbox because it's a Microsoft product. 

Can any of you recommend either of these games? I think about getting both any how, but I should get the Wii Fit first because it's been around longer, yes?

Day 12 – In my iPod

 I'm the type of person who likes all kinds of different music, I like everything from cute j-pop to punk music. I'm not too keen on hard rock or metal, and I don't like any Swedish music (except for Håkan Hellström, but only during summer!). I hate house and most electronic music, and I don't like instrumental music.

These are my self-made playlist in my iPod/iTunes:
Awesome music atm
This is a playlist that I made when I've just gotten my MacBook, I made a playlist with all the music that I've missed while I've been away from my computer, things like Atmosphere, Beatles, Bloodhound Gang, Bob Dylan, the Doors, Frank Sinatra, Kate Nash, Lady GaGa, Lily Allen, Misfits, Nirvana, No Doubt, NOFX, Placebo, Regina Spektor, Sage Francis.

Grrl Punx
All-girl punk bands or punk/rock bands with female vocalist, such as Babes in Toyland, the Distillers, Hole, Lunachicks, No Doubt, Runaways.

I wanna Dance!
Music I like to dance to, like Lady GaGa, Beyoncé, Christina Aguilera, '80s-'90s music, Destiny's Child.

Musicals
Soundtracks to Chicago and Grease, and also Scrubs the musical and the Nightmare Before Christmas.

Oh, the horror!

 I can't with words describe how much I want to go home, I hate it here, it's sooo cold! I know Sweden is waaay colder, but at least we know how to properly isolate our houses, and we still have hot water during winter. I hate it because the fact that people live here permanently and just puts up with life being shitty three months every year scares me, it scares the hell out of me.

I hate how uncozy our apartment here is, it's just so sterile and white and easy to clean (and still it's constantly dirty for some reason). I hate having to walk everywhere because you can't take the bus. I hate having nothing but summer clothes that I'll have to layer to not freeze to death.

The weather has been SO horrible this entire weekend, it's super-windy and rains all the time, and when it rains it pours.

I guess one thing I've learned during this trip is that I don't want to live in any other country. I always thought I would want to move to a bigger city in a warmer country, but I don't. I love Sweden! I love Stockholm, I love my suburb and I love grocery shopping at Coop Forum. Big cities are fun but I've realized that vacating in other countries is enough for me.

Snack-time

 Haha, I had a whole box of Toffifee for lunch/snack ^___^ I love Toffifee! And now I miss it :(

I've retrieved the Starbucks-cup!! I have to come up with a plan so that no one else drinks from it, it's MINE!!!!! >.<

Day 11 – My Siblings

I have one sibling, a little brother who's 3 years younger than I am (17). We really hated each other back when I lived at home, we fought like ALL the time (haha, sounds like I'm impossible to live with). We're friends now though, and I think it's really fun to see how grown-up he's now.

Day 10 – My favourite foods

I love fish! I'm super-predictable in restaurant because I ALWAYS choose the salmon if available, haha. I'm trying to change things up though, but salmon is always such a safe card. I love sushi as well, but I'm not a big fan of sashimi, and I really like vegetarian sushi (tofu!!). I don't eat red meat for various reasons, I think it's gross and unhealthy, and also very unfeminine. I do eat chicken, however. I think chicken is kind of gross as well, but I feel that it's too much of a healthy protein source to cut out completely. I like to think that I eat pretty healthy food-wise, but I've got a terrible sweet tooth, so I still think I eat to much candy to consider myself to be a healthy person. My favourite food-continent is Asia, but I also like mediterranean cooking, like Italian and Greek food. I'm not into fast food, but I love Chinese food and especially everything that's deep fried ^___^ 

9th of December

I woke up early today and studied hard all morning (except for a short break for breakfast + Sex and the City), so now I'm done with half of this assignment, Seb will have to come in and work tomorrow, so I'll have some privacy to finish. 

At the Siesta we went down to the grocery store and I bought hair dye, I used L'oreal Casting Créme in the shade "Satin Blond", but it doesn't look very blond to me? Oh well, it was just toner so I didn't expect too much of a change, I just wanted it to be a little lighter and get rid of the gray colour in my roots.

When we were done with all our errands we went home and had lunch, I had yoghurt with honey, weird? Tonight we're going over to a couple of guys' from work to have dinner, nice end to this week :)

Day 09 - My beliefs

I guess I would have to call myself an atheist, I don't believe in any God or that we are re-born or whatever. I do, however, kind of believe in karma. I don't know, I guess it's my own version of karma, or maybe I don't really believe in it, it's just something I tell myself so that things will feel better. I just feel that good things will happen to good people, and bad deeds will be punished. I try to be somewhat of a good person, and hopefully people will be nice towards me in return. If you're mean it will come around and bite you in the ass. Either you'll get a "real" punishment, or your punishment will be that you'll hate yourself for being mean.

If Jesus existed, I think he'd be a cool guy to hang out with, but I wouldn't want to have anything to do with his father, he seems super-mean. I also think that hell seems a lot sweeter than heaven.

Today's Body Shop Gets

I really like that all my recent gets has been from the Body Shop, I guess it's inevitable when that's the only store worth visiting around here, but I like to think of myself as a "Body Shop-girl".

I was out doing the last of my Christmas shopping (have done most of it online though), and I thought I should treat myself to a little something as well. While I was checking out my first buy, I noticed they had a "Buy 2 get 1 free"-offer, so I picked up a Body Polisher and Shower Gel from the strawberry-series, as well as the Japanese cherry blossom Body Butter. I haven't been really into the cherry blossom-series before, but just a week ago or so, I started to really like it. It has a very fresh and girly scent, it kind of reminds me of "ladies locker room". Haha, okay, I guess locker room-smell isn't a particularly nice smell for most people, but to me it's something that smells clean and fresh! The strawberry-series got me nostalgic because it was the first Body Shop product I ever had.

I'm also happy to inform you that I've found my peace, and actually fallen in love, with the Christmas spicy vanilla-series! They had some really nice gift packages with it, so I was hinting Seb pretty hard with how much I liked it, hihi *fingers crossed*.

 

Day 08 - A moment

Last summer (-09) me and Sebastian went to a festival called Peace & Love in Borlänge. We had been dating for a couple of months, only he was living in Cyprus at that time and our relationship had been of the long-distance nature. Needless to say it felt more like we were dating than that he was my boyfriend, it was all just really new and exciting.

I think it was the second day of the festival, or maybe the third? I had gone to bed really early the night before, and Seb stayed up partying without me. When I woke up the next day he still hadn't come back to our camp, so I started asking around if any of the people we met earlier had seen him, but no one had. I was bored and wandered around town for the entire day. When I got back to the camp again I finally saw him and he told me of how he'd woken up in the festival hospital and noticed that is wristband-pass was gone. We had to talk to the guards, and go down to the police station to report it and stuff.

When we got back from the police station we had to wait for a guard to help us get in again and fix our problem. We had been buying beers and stuff and just had to sit down at the lawn in front of the entrance. It was awfully warm this summer, like 25°-30°C and not a cloud in sight. Sitting there, I knew that I normally would've just hated this, I was exhausted and hungry from being on my feet all day, and having to wait for a "verdict" on whether we'd get in again or not was just nerve-wrecking. At the time I didn't feel it was too bad, though.

I didn't mind waiting, because realized that I loved him, and when you're with someone that you love boring things doesn't seem so boring any more.

Recipe: Lemon Curd Cheese Cake

 This is what you'll need:

Crust:

♥ 12 Digestive crackers

♥ 75 grams of butter

 Filling:

♥ 250 grams of cream cheese

♥ 1 dl of dark muscovado sugar (I used light sugar and it worked fine, dark raw sugar will do as well)

♥ 1 tsp of vanilla sugar

♥ 1 tsp of lemon zest

♥ 2 dl of whipping cream

Lemon curd:  

♥ 2 small lemons

♥ 2 eggs

♥ 4 dl of icing sugar

♥ 75 grams of butter

Start by making the crust, you can do this by hand or with a blending machine. I don't have a machine so I do this by hand, and the funnest way to do it is to put all the crackers in a plastic bag and then bang the bag with a hard object or your fist (I used a garlic press). When all the crackers are smashed to crumbs you pour them in to a bowl and mix them with the butter. I kind of screwed up the crust this time, it didn't mix too well with the butter and got "crumby". This may have been because I used whole grain crackers, so maybe that's not a good idea. 

When the crackers and butter has mixed nicely you should put them in the form, press it down a bit so that it forms a good crust, and then put it in the fridge.

Now it's time to make the lemon curd, start by grating the lemons to get the zest (i.e lemon peel), you want to be a bit careful when you do this, and only get the outer layer of the peel. When you're done grating both lemons, put all the ingredients, except for the butter, in a pot and warm it on low heat. Stir it until the texture is thick, and then you add the butter and take it away from the heat. Put the lemon curd away to cool, but don't put it in the fridge while it's still hot! You can take some of the lemon curd and smear it on the crust.

To make the filling, start by whipping together cream and muscovado sugar. You can use an electric whip or a manual one, but be careful not to whip it too hard. Stop when it's no longer liquid and add the rest of the ingredients, you will need to whip it a bit more when you've added the cream cheese, but make sure no to whip it too hard, just make it so that the texture is smooth.

Add the filling to the form with the crust and let it harden in the freezer and add the lemon curd later on, when the cake has harden, then put it in the freezer again. Before you serve it you should put it in the fridge for about 15-20 minutes. 

I like to cred Cheesecake.nu, from whom I stole this recipe and translated it into English.

Supporter of Madness

Seb got sick yesterday, and had to stayed home from work today, it's like a big deal because I don't think he have ever been sick before, at least not sick enough to stay at home. I hope it's not the flu or something like that, I have been feeling sick-ish lately as well, but I think that's just linked to me eating too much.

Since he was home I got distracted from studying (bad Mika!!), but not distracted enough not to bake cheesecake (I'll post the recipe tomorrow in case your interested, or in case you aren't. I'm still posting, so deal with it!). After my cheesecake-baking we watched an endless stream of Entourage-episodes, and ordered Domino's pizza (worse Mika!!). 

On the upside I got back my latest assignment today, scored a VG as usual ^_^ I'm still shocked about the fact that I'm not a total moron.

Day 07 – My Best Friend

This is kind of embarrassing, but my boyfriend is my best friend, he's the only one I can call a friend, really. In my defense, he's a very good friend! And one with benefits at that, can you imagine? He's kind, and funny and he always puts a smile on my face when I'm feeling down. I've never felt as loved or as cared for as I do by him. I ow him for life for helping me, and saving me from my self-induced destruction.

I guess there are certain problems when the only person you have in your life is your boyfriend, and I know I have to be prepared for a life without him, even though I don't even want to think about it. I just feel more secure with a boyfriend than with people who are just your friends. You can't be sure whether your friends actually like you or not, or at least I can't, and I never could. You can be sure that your boyfriend likes you though, you have an agreement, if he didn't like you you would've broken up.

Still, not having friends is something that I'm very sad about, and I feel like going here is kind of an escape, because until today I haven't thought about my friendlessness. Even if I had them back home, there's not much I can do when I'm not even in the country, and I don't really have the feeling of it being my fault when I'm here, because how can I socialize when I'm not even in the country?

Day 06 - My Day

I got to bed late last night, me and Seb stayed up watching too many episodes of Entourage. Mark my surprise when I woke up at 10 this morning! The first thing I did (after body buttering up my skin) was taking care of last nights dishes. When I was done I had worked up a bit of an apatite, so I made some oat meal and ate it in front of an episode of Sex and the City (2nd season). After breakfast I studied for a bit, right now I'm reading about Nordic authors, mainly Swedish of course. 

At about 1 it was time to go to meet up with Sebastian, I went a little earlier than usual because I wanted to take a longer walk there since I'd been inside all morning. Me and Seb went down to the grocery store and bought lots of food. I was buying ingredients for something I'm baking tomorrow, and as always I got stuck by the organic/health foods-section, I bought some nuts and organic rice cakes.

When we got home I took a shower and then we watched Entourage and had lunch, I ate pasta with pesto and Seb had something very disgusting resembling English breakfast. We watched Entourage until 5 and then it was time to get to work, and now... I'm at work!

Saturday Coord

 Finally weekend and I can enjoy wearing circle lenses, I wish I had a job where I didn't sit in front of a computer all night, that way I could wear them daily. Sometimes I get annoyed with my life because I never get out, it's like, what's the point in caring for your looks when you're just home or at work? I NEVER party. But it still worth it to me, because I feel better when I look pretty.

I wore my long white dress, with a long black dress under it + tights, still cold though. Of course, sandals may have been a bad choice if you want to stay warm...

Day 05 - What is love?

Love takes human form in Sebastian Wänkkö ♥

What is love? It's of course different for different people, so please don't take my word as any absolute truth. Love is sacrifice without it feeling like sacrifice. Love is accepting each others flaws, and loving these flaws because they are what makes this person the person that they are.

Update: What I ate yesterday

 A friend called while I was at Starbucks yesterday, so we went to have lunch at this sushi place, I had unagi rolls, yum!

 Later that night we went to a restaurant called "Goose fat & garlic", it's located far away from Paphos town, so the cab fair was almost as much as dinner :⎪

Anyway, we had a lovely meal. I had honey glazed duck breast with delicious cherry sauce for main course.

(Sorry for the bad picture quality, lighting wasn't the best and I don't feel comfortable changing settings and stuff while at a restaurant, I embarrass Seb enough with my picture-taking.)

 For dessert I had a mulled wine panna cotta, SO GOOD! I love panna cotta, and this one had kind of a "Christmas-y" taste, like maybe it was cinnamon in it or something, lovely!

Seb had a delicious rhubarb & custard cheesecake.

Day 04 - What I ate today?

Oh, this is a tricky one, I just woke up so I haven't eaten yet (well, my full-fat full-sugar mocha praline is sort of my brunch today), and I probably wont log onto the computer later tonight. We are going out for dinner tonight at a super-nice restaurant though, I've really been looking forward to going there! How about I show you what I ate yesterday instead?

 I had apple pie with custard for breakfast ^_

 For lunch we went down to the Penguino café and I had a smoked salmon ciabatta. This is like my new favourite, the salmon is just so lovely paired with the sweet pickle and onions, I love parmesan, too.

 We bought crazy-expensive nuts and dried fruit at this small shop down in the harbour, we bought roasted macademias, dried strawberries and banana chips. On the way home we stopped by this wine shop and bought a some-what expensive wine. Actually it was only like 9 €, but that's expensive for wine down here.

 For dinner we had chicken, potato wedges and ratatouille. It was sooo good, I make the most amazing (non-deep fried) potato wedges in the world, and the marinade for the chicken was amazing as well (thyme, olive oil, soy sauce, salt and two garlic wedges). Seb has starting to make that ratatouille all the time and it's just lovely, you can eat it with everything!

Later at night Seb went out to the bar and I stayed home and studied/watched Sex and the City, I ate some of dried fruits and nuts as a snack. And with 'some' I mean A LOT!

Starbucks

Seb and the other people from work are out playing paintball, and there's no way in hell I'm joining in on such a life-threatening activity. Instead I'm hanging out at Starbucks, writing publicly on my laptop and being douchy. I just finished and sent in my fourth school assignment which felt great! I'm sure I'll finish the course in time so that I'll be able to enjoy Christmas to the fullest.

Day 03 - My Parents

My parents are the loveliest people in the world, but I haven't always been of this opinion. Me and my mum have always been good friends, but back when I lived at home I was in a constant war with my dad. I've always been kind of your typical teenager, who wont listen to whatever rules your parents set up for you, and my dad was always the one who were more strict with rules than my mum, so naturally we got into arguments a lot. But as soon as I moved out, I started to appreciate both my parents a lot, and nowadays I have nothing but good things to say about them!

My mum is very nice and kind, I've always felt that she cares a lot for me. I feel like I have a "friend-relationship" with her, and I love having girly days where we go into town to have lunch and see a movie. When I lived at home she always cheered me up with Ben & Jerry's-dinners when I was feeling down, and she's always been kind of spoiling me.

My dad and I are kind of a like personality-wise, we share the same sense of humour and sometimes the same taste in music as well. Growing up I spent most time with my dad, since my mum was the one who's been working more, so my dad is the one who's always been there during my childhood. I start to notice now how my dad has really shaped me as a person, his lectures finally made an impact, and even though 15-year-old me wouldn't have liked it, I really liked the personally traits I've inherited.

Being away from home, I really miss my parents, and I can't wait going home for Christmas to see them again!

Food Post

 I had a very small dinner last night, Seb made this delicious veggie-thingy. It's just chopped tomatoes and veggies such as mushrooms, squash, aubergine, onion, garlic etc. It kinda tasted like a vegetarian pasta sauce, I think I'm going to eat it with pasta for dinner tonight ^_^ I didn't eat so much because I was saving place for ...

 ... apple pie! Yum ^______^

 I just wanted to take a picture of my milk, it's so cute with the little Christmas cow, don't you think?

We have so much food in our fridge! I think it's a pretty uncommon thing for young people, but I guess it's like that when you're a couple living together ^_^

I had weird lunch today; fruit cocktail with homemade chocolate mousse, it was really good, though ^_^

Day 02 - My favourite animal

There's a lot of cute animals that I like. I like kittens, puppies, panda bears, monkeys, dolphins, seals, polar bears, brown bears, pooh bears, bunnies, koala bears and kangaroos. There's however one animal that holds a special place in my heart - the penguin!

I honestly feel like penguins are a big part of my life. I love collecting cute penguin merchandise, I love watching the Pingu-movies, I love watching cute penguin movies on YouTube and I love Badtz Maru! My heart sinks whenever I hear about a penguin in trouble, it sinks lower than any other tragedy will ever make it sink. If there's ever a charity I will donate money to, it'll have to be the penguin foundation.

Chocolate every day ^____^

Me and Seb bought chocolate Christmas calendars yesterday. They were quite expensive but it's okay since they have pictures of penguins on them hihi ^___^ The chocolate is actually pretty good, even though I'm not a fan of milk chocolate. Next year I'm so buying a crazy-expensive calendar from Anton Bergh with luxury chocolates!

Today's Coords

 This is what I wore today, of course I didn't use my slippers outside, it looked kind of funny with the big, knitted scarf paired with leopard ballerina flats, haha ^_^ I love that scarf though, it's a perfect size and sooo cozy!

I tried out a new hairstyle now, inspired by a photo of Romihi in egg. I have waaay to shot hair to do it, so it didn't turn out very well, but I still think it's pretty cute :)

Recipe: Apple Pie

So, yesterday I made apple pie, and I thought I'd share the recipe with you. This is very simple, fast and delicious to make, and who doesn't appreciate freshly baked apple pie? ^_^

This is what you'll need:
♥ 3 Apples (maybe less if they're bigger apples)
♥ 3 tbsp sugar
♥ cinnamon (optional)
♥ 100 g + 1 tbsp butter
♥ 1 dl oat flakes
♥ 1½ dl flour
♥ Custard (and lots of it!)

Start by buttering up a pie form. After that you'll chop up the apples in thin slices, without the core of course. Put the apples in the form as shown in the first picture. Sprinkle the apples with 2 tablespoons of sugar and lots of cinnamon.
Now it's time to make the dough. Mix together butter, flour, 1 tablespoon of sugar and oat flakes in a bowl. The texture should be kind of "crumby" if it's too sticky, add some more flour. When all the ingredients are nicely mixed together, and the dough has gotten the right texture, sprinkle it evenly over the apples. Put in the oven at 225°C for 20 minutes, done!


(In case you're interested, one slice of pie is 263 calories, given that you cut the pie into 8 pieces. One serving (70g) of full-fat custard is 134 calories, 70 g custard is a little less than one deciliter.)

Me Today

My outfit is boring as shit today (as it is everyday, because I don't have any warm clothes and it's really cold!), but I like my make-up and hair. I washed my hair today, and I really like the way it is naturally, so I almost didn't style it at all, I just sprayed it a bit and teased the roots. Personally I think this 'do would pass as gal-hair, what do you think?

Day 01 - About Me

My name is Michaela, I'm 20 years old and I'm currently living in a town called Paphos in Cyprus. Me and my boyfriend moved here with work and will be staying until the beginning of April. When things are normal we live in a small apartment in a suburb called Bromma, about 30 minutes from Stockholm city. I have a part-time job at a telemarketing firm in the evenings, and during the days I'm studying, I'm currently working on my grades from High School so that I'll be able to go to uni later on.

I'm very interested in Japanese culture, especially fashion, and I'm also interested in languages so I would like to learn Japanese. I would also like to learn French, just because I find it so beautiful, and it's always good to know at least one Latin language! When I'm not dreaming about my next pair of shoes, or making up coords in my head, I like to cook for my boyfriend or bake cupcakes. I like to draw as well, and play video games every now and then. I like typically "girly" games, like the Sims and Style Boutique, I'm also a huge Mario-fan! 

I like to surround myself with pretty and beautiful things, watching something or someone beautiful just fills my heart with joy. My dream is that every single thing I own will be pretty.

I only have room for dessert! (and pasta)

 Just the other day I had Greek yoghurt with honey for dinner. Seb had meat with bearnaise sauce that we had made our self, they don't have it here and Seb really likes it! It was quite fun to make, but damn for a high calorie food, lol! The original recipe suggested you'd use 1 kilo butter!! Since we only did half we used half a kilo, which felt weird as well. It was good though, and not as hard to make as we would've thought. 

 And yesterday I had fruit salad with whipped cream, yum! I used banana, plum, kiwi and fruit cocktail in my salad. Fruit cocktail seems so unhealthy, but it's actually just 66 calories/100 g, so that's not too bad, is it? I'm sorry if my calorie ranting is boring you, I'm just in such a calorie-counting phase at the moment, I actually think it's fun, it's the only math I'll ever enjoy (and of course the kind of math you do when you think you're earning money when shopping at sales ;)).

For lunch today I had tagiatelle pasta with pesto and parmesan, it really is the only food I want to eat at the moment. Maybe it's just best to listen to your body, but I still feel I should eat healthier snacks, like fruit instead of candy. Of course, I am having apple pie for dinner, haha ^_^