Ticktock

It's Christmas soon. That is just crazy. I've already worked 4 whole months at the university. That my friends.. is even crazier. This is going to be my last Christmas as "me". Next year I'll have a new name and a new chapter will have started in my life. Our life. Crazy.

I was talking about marriage with some people. How some people get married without even knowing each others (which could work, there is proof). Peter and I have been together now for over 3 years. It's not a long time really. However it is long enough. I know the person I'm with. We know our flaws, we are way past the butterfly phase. No, marriage (at least this one) is about companionship, trust, and completing one another. Love is just the glue that sticks those things together. Peter and I laugh at the same (inappropriate) jokes, share the same values and lastly - we are like night and day.

Food

Good food is very important to me. All my friends and family know that if I don't get food, I get cranky. No worse, I get hangry. Hungry+angry. This is why I always try to keep a constant blood sugar level. Nobody wants to deal with a hangry bitch. 

However, lately I have been reflecting over how much meat we eat every day. I was quite shocked as I realized just how much it was. Not good for the environment and definitely not good for all the cows I've been putting in my mouth. Then we started to eat vegetarian once a week, then twice. After reflecting over how easy it was to make vegetarian food we.. Well I decided that we could easily turn the ratio around and eat meat twice a week and vegetarian food 5 times. I still like my steaks every once in a while, but now we can make sure that we buy good quality meat (eco, from our region). Not bad! 

I am quite the food-magician 

Shopaholic

It feels like I always start with "I haven't had time to write in a while, because I've had so much to do". Which is very true. Like last wednesday I went shopping. Due to that I spent the rest of the week looking at the balance on my bank account and crying. Then I drank some w(h)ine so I could cry some more.

Like I said. Busy.

A good friend of ours (I guess you could say a family friend - Elsa's boyfriend's mom) turned 32 last saturday, so of course we had to celebrate her birthday! We has dinner at Köpmannens kök together with the b-day girl Sofia, her husband Erik and Sofia's entire family, and we had a blast. I loved it, not just for the food and the company, but also because I had a good "excuse" to wear some of my new clothes. It made me feel so much better, and less like a shopaholic. 

As you can see in this picture, the money was well spent. 

Lovely new things.

The daily AWWWW

Party animals

Career planning

Tomorrow I'll be talking to a bunch of students about LTU Karriär and career in general. Career is an interesting topic to talk about. I've met people who are 60 years old and still have no clue of what they want to do when they "grow up". So why would I be any wiser at 25? I don't think we should know what we want to do when we grow up. What we should think about is where we want to go next. I mean if you have decided on a career path and really know where you should be heading, good for you! Don't get me wrong, of course there are people who, at the age of 5, are certain they know what they will do with their lives. I wanted to be a pony. That didn't work out too well for me - for obvious reasons.

What I mean is that dreams change and evolve. What I know now is that I love my current job and I'm planning my next step within my current job. I have no idea from which job I'll retire when I'm 65 and I don't really care. I can only hope it will be my dream job, even though I have no clue what my dream job will be when I'm that age. Maybe I wish to be a pony - again. And who knows about the technology in 40 years time.. Who knows, I might become a pony after all!

Networking - that is what I've been up to this week

It has been a busy week I have to say. On wednesday we arranged LTU@Work, which is a matchmaking event for students and companies. It went well, but boy was I tired afterwards. Thank god I have great colleagues and work partners (ExjobbLuleå). It was a blast!

Yesterday was Internetbay Partnering Event, which meant tons of networking and interesting and inspiring presentations. One of the best presentations was Mikael Genberg as he described his life mission: to get a red cottage/house on the moon. Let's hope he succeeds!

Today we are going to Finland to plan the wedding with mom, my best friend and my sister. 

Geneva, Switzerland

Paris, France

Here are a few pictures from out trip to Paris last june

Whose wedding is it anyway?

My mother and I don't always see eye to eye on things concerning this wedding. MY wedding I might add. I am my mother's daughter, but unfortunately my mother has much more experience in being a jackass than me. After all, she has been doing this 19 years longer than me ;)

So, we have went from a small ceremony at the City hall to mom booking the Oulu Cathedral for the wedding. It is a beautiful and HUGE cathedral, so I'm not really complaining.

(Oulunseurakunnat.fi)

Isn't it beautiful?

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Diamonds are forever

So now the church is booked, as well as food and the venue. The guest list is aaaalmost done, but thankfully there is still time ;) I have to say that I love my engagement ring. I didn't think I'd want diamonds, but after some consideration.. well maybe they could be my best friends after all. I have to admit.. I looove seeing them shine! When Peter and I get married, I want the biggest diamond they have! Well maybe not.. 

Every girls needs a little bling

Raw food

My baby Elsa has always been a picky eater. We've had to deal with food allergies and all kinds of problems with her - and she has been very, very thin. We always figured she just didn't like food that much. Oh boy, we were so wrong. It isn't that she doesn't like food.. She just didn't like the food we were feeding her. And who could blame the little thing, would you like to eat dry kibbles every day?

After discussing Elsa's problems on several doxie sites and FB groups, we decided to try raw food. At first I was not really sure about it: would it really be as good as everyone kept telling me? And it has to be really hard, right?! WRONG! 

After doing some research we found Mush. We are talking ready-to-eat meatballs that you just take out of the freezer the night before/in the morning and a few hours later just serve. And guess what my picky eater said about the meatballs? Well, let me show you a picture of her and her very full tummy.

So again, who would like to eat kibbles when you can get THIS:

Back!

I'm BACK! 

But now I figured I'd have a different focus here.. So now I'm done with my studies, but LTU didn't get rid of me that easily! Now I'm WORKING there! Anyway, the focus of this blog will be school, doxies, rock 'n'roll AND the upcoming wedding! I've bought some stuff to help me with my year-long project.

Wish me luck!

Midsummer

In little over a week I'll be having my first vacation ever. I mean PAID vacation. Not bad at all.. The midsummer festivities will take place in Finland with my family, Peter and best friends. Even though I'll be traveling to Paris and Geneva, midsummer is the highlight of my vacation. :D

I'm living a very exciting life right now. We are trying to find a place to live and a new job among some other new things. Not complaining! I'm trying not to stress about all that, but it's pretty damn hard when you're me. I guess it's too much to ask to make everything happen over one night. But at least I have midsummer for sure :)

Islossningen

It's not that strange that I haven't had time to update the blog. I've been busy with the thesis and work, but at the same time I'm so happy this is all soon over. Well happy and sad. The past weekend was great: my parents were here for Islossningen - the graduation party arranged at the university. It feels quite unreal. 5 years at this university and now suddenly it is all over.. 

My parents took the girls with them, so no doxies here right now. I know they are having the best time, but WE find it difficult not to have them here :D Oh well, I guess we should enjoy this kid-free time ;)

Here is a picture of me and my parents at the party :)

Happiness looks something like this

Aada looks very cool on her new bike we got her :)