Day 26 – My fears

There's nothing I'm more afraid of than snakes, I'm a total ophiodophobic! 

Day 25 – Things you may or may not know about me

• I like to eat salmon skin (and apparently that's totally disgusting, that's why I only do it in front of my boyfriend).
• I cringe when I hear the sound that half-empty ketchup bottles make.
• I had cosmetic surgery on my ears when I was 12
• I love penguins more than life itself.
• I love to read and I read fast!
• I'm responsible and I dislike "young people", because of their lack of responsibility.
• Regardless of my hair colour, and the fact that I'm a natural brunette, I consider myself as a blond.

Christmas Day Coord

 I took my new Nordic print dress and fuggs out for a spin ^_^ I love this dress, it's super-warm and cozy!

Rundown:

Scarf: Zara

Coat: Red Label

Gloves: Åhléns 

Dress: Melba.se

Fuggs: Melba.se

Pigtails ^_^

My Christmas

Sorry for no blogging, I've been away during the Christmas weekend.

 Lots and lots of snow ^_^'''

On Friday we went to our friends house to celebrate Christmas with them, it was so much fun to celebrate with friends instead of your family! It was never boring, you get tired of grown-ups after a while ^_^ We exchanged gifts, watched Disney's Christmas Special, ate (a lot) of food and candy, and played board games. Later at night we ended up on the couch with computers in our laps, the guys ordering more Christmas presents for their girlfriends. I'm expecting to get mail later this week, hopefully it'll arrive before New Year's ...

Back in Stockholm again, we passed this cute little bakery that looked like a ginger bread house!

The morning after (on Christmas Day) we went home early in the day, showered and got dressed before leaving Stockholm and went to Uppland to visit Sebastian's mom. We ate lots of food, opened presents, drank toddy by the outdoors-fire and watched Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix.
I had very little sleep last night, and when we woke up this morning it had been snowing like hell, I was worried we wouldn't get away, but we arrived safely in Stockholm around 2 a clock today.

Feet-pampering-kit ♥

As soon as we'd gotten home I took a long bath bomb-bath and pampered my feet with my new feet-pampering-kit from the Body Shop, and after that it was of to Sebastian's dad to eat lots of food and open more gifts, we got home just now. I'm really tired today so I'll probably go to bed soon, tomorrow I'm waking up early to go in to town and SHOP! :D


Hope you all had a nice Christmas with lots of yummy food and wonderful gifts!

Christmas Coord

 I wanted to do something different and fun with my hair, but I just ended up doing my usual curls *boring*. Anyways, showing of my new jewelries as well as my new-done nails in Chanel's "Rouge Noir".

And this is my outfit! 

Rundown:

Earmuffs: Accessorize

Scarf: Zara

Dress: Topshop

Fur Coat: H&M

Gloves: Åhléns

Ankle Boots: Topshop

Christmas Gets!

So, I hold on to my no-blogging-at-Christmas-thingy for what, an hour? That must be some kind of record! I'm just waiting for the shower to be free, so I thought I'd post what I got for Christmas right away. Feels kind of like cheating opening your gifts now, don't it? Most people in the world open theirs tomorrow morning, and usually I would open mine after the Disney Christmas Special this afternoon, but we're going away soon so we thought we'd open ours before that.

 I got this cute, star-print dress for everyday use, love it! Feels like just the kind of clothing I am in need of.

 And this long sweater/dress with hood and pom-poms. The perfect Nordic print one piece for this season, don't you think? ^_^

 And a pair of super-cozy fake ugg-boots. This is great because I needed a pair of comfy-but-still-stylish shoes :)

 And a sequin heart hairband.

I also got Just Dance2 and the Apple Care Protection Plan. I kind of look a little bit forward going back to Cyprus now, JUST so I can play my new game hi hi ^_^ I'm gonna get fit!

 I got bath bombs from my little brother, looking forward to taking baths while I'm here since I can't do that when we get back :( You really need it in this cold, too.

Day 24 – What Christmas means to me

Christmas is my no.1 favourite holiday, and to have a perfect Christmas is very important to me. I feel that tradition is important, and now when I'm all grown up I get to make my own traditions which is awesome because I can get rid of the ones I didn't like! 

This Christmas I've been like a child again, just been so excited and waiting until this day. I'm really looking forward to having kids of my own who will appreciate my efforts with making the apartment/house into Christmas Wonderland!

I probably won't write any more today, so I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas!

More Christmas Prep...

Today me and Seb borrowed my dad's car and went Christmas-grocery shopping with our friends whom we are celebrating Christmas with tomorrow. We bought such insane amounts of food! Like 20 kilos of meat, ha ha! I felt sad about that cart filled with carcasses :( But it was a fun day, I love shopping, even when it's just groceries, it's still lots of fun! We had lunner at the Bromma Blocks mall as well, I had lobster pasta.

When we came home we wrapped up the last gifts and then I made some more Christmas candy. To me the candy is far more interesting than the food.

 Marzipan dipped in melted chocolate. Sebastian was surprisingly good at this, much better than I really (not that I'm a candy making master, but I bake a lot more than he does). I grew tired of it after a while and just made marzipan balls, it was just falling apart all the time!

 Taffy, basically the same as brittle but softer. LOVE THIS!

 I made rocky road this year, something I have never done before, very excited to see how it turned out! It's chocolate with toffe, marshmallows and nuts, sounds so delicious! I love the rocky road ice cream as well.

I bought macaroons at Bromma Blocks, my breakfast tomorrow! They had two new, Christmas flavours; saffron and gingerbread, excited to see what they're like.

Day 23 – This makes me feel better

When I feel depressed* I have it really hard trying to feel better again. Sometimes I can catch myself before I get sad, think happy thoughts and smile at nothing, and sometimes it works. When I'm all ready feeling down I don't want to do anything to make me feel better, so I just sit around and mope, sadly. My boyfriend is quite good at cheering me up, though!

After being sad for what I consider too long, I try to focus on the reason behind my depression, fix it and be happy again!




(*I use the term depression in a non-clinical sense. Just think it sounds better, I'm not diagnosed with depression. I hope no one is offended by me using that word.)

Gal meet photos

Here are some pictures from our last gal meet, as you can see it was really small. We actually had one more gal with us, but she left kind of early, and we weren't too good at taking pictures so we actually snapped these right before everybody went home ^_^'' Props to Erika for at least taking some pics, make sure to visit her awesome blog!

Day 22 – This upsets me

I'm a person that gets upset REALLY easily, but here are a few things that upsets me:

• People who makes nasty sounds when they eat, like chewing too loudly. I'm sensitive about food, so when people can't behave when they're eating it just reminds me of how food is dirty and disgusting (yah, I'm weird like that ^_^). I also get upset if people have food around their mouth, even if that person happens to be a baby.
• People who are different from me, especially if they're questioning my life choices. I know it sounds pretty horrible, I just don't get people when they're too different from me, and that kind of freaks me out.
• Poop.
• When people are mean, especially cruelty against animals, children or women. 
• Stupid people, and believe me, there's a hell lot of them out there >.<
• And last but not least, sports! I fucking hate sports SOOOO much, it's the world's worst inventions. AAAAARRRRRGHHHH!!!!!!!!! >:@

Christmas Prep!

Mum bought the cutest, tiniest little Christmas tree, love it! Doesn't feel like Christmas without one.

 We baked ginger biscuits and I made a Hello Kitty one hihi ^_^ I should have used red gel for the ribbon though, and something yellow for the nose but I didn't know what, I think she turned out pretty okay considering I freestyled it.

 Or gingerbread house this year, I'm actually pretty pleased with it, usually I think it's hard to get it right.

I made brittle as well, my favourite candy! I wait all year to finally have this ^_^

Oh, and mum bought me these cute, Nordic print gloves when we were out today, I love them, so cozy!

Yesterday + Gets

So, I went in to town at 2 and met up with my fellow Swedish gals. It was a really small meet, and we didn't really do anything in particular, just browsed some stores and ate sushi. I didn't take any pictures, but Erika did, so maybe I'll steal her pictures ones she's posted them.

 We had sushi dinner at neko sushi, I had a small "appetizer sushi" and miso soup. The portion sizes kind of bug me, because a small sushi is not 8-9 pieces in my book, but 4 pieces is too few. 6 is perfect, why can't most sushi places realize that?!

 When I got home I spent the night with my parents, eating candy and reading Swedish girly magazines. I deserved a treat, because my feet were really killing me after walking around all day in extremely uncomfortable heels! They still hurt today :(

 We also had ginger biscuits with gorgonzola cheese and drank glögg ^_

 I bought these shorts at H&M, they were on sale and really cheap.

I also bought some silver jewelry at H&M as well, figured I needed some new bling for Christmas ;)

Day 21 – What I wore today?

First day home and I went into town for a small gal meet-up, this is how I looked:

Face and hair, just wore my "regular" make-up with circle lenses and fake lashes (Mac no. 7!), and curled hair. I think I should try out new ways to curl it, but I'm not sure how haha ^_^ There's always a bunch of hair styling guides in magazines but I think they're kind of hard to follow when they only include 3-4 steps. Also, I always felt that my short hair restricted the kind of hair styles I could do, but that's not really the case anymore :)

Ooops, my stupid scarf is covering most of it >.< Anyways, this is what I wore:

Earmuffs: Accessorize

Scarf: Zara

Leopard faux fur: H&M

Bag: Topshop

Dress: Barbie

Boots: Melba.se

Funny, I think this is the first time that I've worn an outfit where every singe item is from a different store! Usually it's like "H&M, H&M, H&M, Topshop, H&M" Haha ^___^''

I bought the no.7 Mac-lashes on the airport in Cyprus, and really, they're so worth it! Not only do they look good, but they're just extremely easy to apply, and they blend in so nicely with your own lashes! I'm definitely stocking up on a couple more cases before I head back, but sadly I'll have to buy some cheaper ones as well :/

Day 20 – This Month

This month is the jolliest month of the entire year! I love Christmas and I love it when they put up Christmas decorations, and I love it when you get Christmas-discounts and special gifts when shopping. I'm really not too keen on winter, but December is just awesome.

HomeHomeHomeHome!!!!

Aaaaweee ^____^ So so so happy to be home, I'm even happy about the cold and the snow haha

 In the cab this morning, the cab driver was smoking in the car!! O___O

 When we got to the airport I had sushi lunch, yummy! I haven't had good sushi in a long time.

 We bought Duty Free booze for a value of 100€ which meant that I got a free plushie, a penguin!! ^____^

 Seb bought me expensive Godiva Chocolates ♥

We landed in Vienna and I had a gingerbread latte at Starbucks.

Bye Bye Cyprus ^_________________________________^

Ooooh, tomorrow I'm flying home to Sweden! I've been looking forward to it all week so it feels like it has passed so slowly, but now it's finally 'til an end! Sadly I have to return here right after New Years', DO NOT WANT >.< But after that it's just two cold months left, and then it'll start getting warmer again in Mars, I'll be going home for good in the beginning of April, by the spring will have started back home, and just like that I'll have survived another winter ;)

I'm really looking forward for tomorrow, because I actually love flying. It's a bit tedious when you spend your entire day traveling, but I still kind of like it.

Food

 We went out to dinner on Thursday with the guys from work, I was really excited about it since we haven't eaten out for so long, but it was just disappointing. The service was horrible, we had to wait for our food for SO long! Sebastian had to ask for the sauces to his steak, and when the waitress finally came out with them it turned out to be store bought sauce, wtf?! Also I didn't like the fact that I had to peel my prawns myself, it felt really gross playing around with your food like that. AND my food was cold, if it's one thing I hate it's food of the wrong temperature!

 The weather was nice on Saturday and we went out for a long walk, me and Seb had ice cream/frozen yogurt down by the harbour, yum yum ^____^

When we got home we watched Solsidan and ordered a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, haha ^_^ I had such a food-day yesterday, I looked like Santa Claus by the end of the night ^_~