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They say that the week before your wedding is meant to be one of the happiest times of your life.. Waiting for the excitment and celebrations to come.. In my opinion it is the complete opposite - stress, stress and more stress! Which explains why I haven't been blogging so much! (Sorry readers :p)
There is so much to do and so many people to please that you kind of lose track of enjoying it and embrasing your last week as a 'single'.  Having my family so far away hasn't been helping :( Are they dissapointed in me, are they truly happy for me  (even though im in Sweden and they're all the way in Australia)?? Sometimes it seems hard to tell.... I think this week is the most i've ever missed them..... Oh well, I will just have to wait until next year!

One of my brothers - Gordon, came on Sunday evening to spend the next two weeks with Eric and I.  Its so much fun having him here and hanging out with him like we used to.. Not sure how Saturday will go for him (everything's in swedish)..
Yesterday Johanna and I got our 'make-up trial done by Emma, we're going to look gorgeous haha... she did a great job! I was trying to imagine myself in my dress, with my hair done up too... Mixed emotions there, but i cant wait for saturday; will be interestingn to see how eric reacts when i walk in the church!

Today i was in Västerås and got my Perminant Residence Visa - no more worrying if i will be able to stay in Sweden or not.. I can now be here as long as i like :)
Tommorrow will be another busy busy day, first I have to work till 13.00, then Straight out to the church and meet with the priest and practise everything for saturday!! Then maybe afterwork if anyones interested???

Thats all for now, im exhausted and hungry - time for dinner! Caio

Yes this weekend has been full of surprises! What I thought i had planned and what actually happened were two totally different things!
I had planned to hang out with my friend Kat for the day - not doing anything special, just being with her.. So we started at my place having fika, then at around 11ish in the morning, the door bell rang.   And what do I find when open the door? 13 girls dressed in Pink! 13 girls eager to throw me a bachellorette party!! I can safely say that I had NO IDEA what so ever that they were going to show up like they did and wisp me away with them..
Firstly i was given a pink t-shirt saying 'The Future Mrs. Besterman' that i wore all day, and a pink tiarra and a list of all the items i would need for the day : 


I had no idea what to think when i saw all those items, or my only thought was, what could i possibly need a cucumber for! haha.... Once my bag was packed we were then off - to Johanna's place for lunch and activities.. one of which included me finger painting a picture of Eric - haha!
Then we were off to a 'secret' location, which turned out to be Spakällan! so we had a a bubble pool and sauna all to ourselves there with champagne and snacks! Very relaxing :)
After we had finished there we were back at Johannas to get ready for the rest of the evening! PARTY!
Dinner at Åbryggan and VIP lounges at Harry's - with Champagne, fruit, strawberrys and cream and then Bicardi drinks for everyone!

This was one of the best surprises i have ever gotten... I couldnt have asked for anything more- hanging out and partying with my girlfriends all day long :)
I havent got any pictures to put up yet: soon hopefully!


So thank-you all so much for a super fun day and for sharing it with me :)
(Anna L and I at Harrry's!)

I have no finished my gruiling 8 days in a row of work! Have been free yesterday and shall work today and tomorrow - then im free all weekend :) yay!   Now its only 10 days till my brother Gordon comes to sweden.. am super excited, just hope that the weather stays nice ( and it better be perfect weather on the 18th!)
Lately our apartment has felt like a sauna because its so hot out! and we cant have the windows oppen otherwise the cats will jump out...What to do what to do....I wont complain about the weather though (unlike every other swede it feels lie) I am loving the hot 25+degree sunniness - its Lovely :)

Yesterday Eric and I went to after work with Anna and Christopher at Årbryggan and then to Nybron.  Was lots of fun and quite easy to get a little drunk since the after work drink prices are so cheap :p Later Anna, I and Emma went out to Harry's and drank some more :p There wasn't so many ppl out there, but i wont complain, i still had lots of fun :)  Luckily i don't start working till 15:00 today!!

Thats all the gossip from me, Nothing else exciting to tell today.. ByeBye


If only I were a cat.. i could lay around wherever i felt like it - like Elvis and Ebba!

When did everything get so hard? Why does life have to be so difficult all the time?
Sometimes being an adult sucks... paying bills, working and having responsibilities sucks..
It feels like i work my ass off and have nothing to show for it! What happen to the idea of being young and carefree?
Think that went out the window..... What to do about it though? Just work through it as my wisy mummy says...
I just wish for once I could feel carefree and relaxed about everything thats happening, instead of stressed and worried.
How can you let go of these feelings, if you have no control of the outcomes, or over how everything is happening?

On a brighter note: in exactly 1 week I can get my PERMINANT RESIDENCE VISA!! yay :)

And a note to everyone else - on the 4th of July its Girls Night at my place! Everyone that wants to come let me know :)

Until later ... Caio

Busy Busy Busy .... This past week has gone so fast! Its saturday evening.. and for me it could just as easily be Tuesday or wednesday!
Working full time takes up all of your time and energy.  At the end of each day feels like i dont want to do anything except be home and relax! (Hense the lack of 'blogging' this past week!)  However, i have finally managed to buy shoes for the wedding! yay... Took me for ever to find the perfect pair... Thank you Brandos.se!

We also went to talk to the preist on Thursday - now everything is in place and we know in what order everything is going to go! Wednesday the 15th will be our final run though... scary! 28 days.. In that time we have to organize activities, talk to the performers and finalize what they're singing etc, write our vows, do a sample of the menue, practise dancing, finalize the seating chart and programs... and the list goes on................... a never ending story it feels like! But but.. thats the fun of getting married :) I only hope that its nice hot sunny weather on the 18th of July; not like yesterday - what a JOKE!

Its already the middle of summer and we have had like maybe 2-3 days of acutall hot weather..I understand that during the summer months it is meant to rain a bit, but here in sweden (where its only warm like 4months of the year) i think it shouldnt rain at all during summer..It should be sunny and warm, re- generating us for the winter months!

Even though it rained pretty much all day yesterday, it didnt stop our mid-summer party.. we still managed to bbq, have a 5-kamp and have lots and lots of fun! No dissapointments there :p So thanks to everyone for coming :)

Oh and i want some opinions - im trying to pick a song to walk down the aisle to: i've narrowed it down to three choices. Lifehouse - You and me, Lifehouse- Everything, or Ronan Keating - When you say nothing at all! What do you think? or are there better songs? (keeping in mind that it will be played acoustic)

anyway.. think i might go and watch 'Knowing' now.. Caio

It feels as though time is just running away from me! Another week has passed.. What do I have to say for it? Nothing special really – which feels like such a waste! I wake up and go to school all day, or I wake up and work all day long, then home to a lonely apartment (Eric is in Poland until Saturday) and get ready for the next day… What has happened to the spontaneity of my life? I guess this is all part of being an ‘adult’ in the real world.  So I probably shouldn’t complain!

I am finally finished with school for the summer – YES! Although I still have an assignment to finish for September; no classes, which means no more trips by train to Västerås.  Very nice feeling indeed!

Update on Wedding plans : Eric and I made a list the other day of everything we still need to get done or ready for the 18/7… and let me say it was VERY LONG… but that’s all part of the fun J and we have lots of friends willing to help! Oh and I am still on a hunt for a pair of shoes – it would seem that every pair I try on aren’t in the store in the colour I would want or size – ideas anyone??

I am free for the rest of the week, (lucky is such great weather out! :p) my only real consistent free time until week 32.. fun fun fun!

Well time for a walk now I think......

P.s    If anyone is up for partying this weekend let me know! I want to go out and let loose! Haha….

Bye Bye for now

Where has the hot sunny weather gone from yesterday? My only free day this week and its rainy, cold and blowing at 100km/hr out side! So much for looking forward to a little tanning or relaxation in the sun....
Yesterday my thesis group found out that we have to present our work AFTER the summer... Which is the suckiest thing.. now we have to work on it during the summer ( which by the way means no free time for me!) and present in September.  What was the teacher thinking? All our hard work put on hold because its easier for him??? what is up with that!

Today has been a busy day; filled with looking at the church and fest lokal, meeting the priest that will marry us, school work, cleaning and playing with Elvis! Now i need to squeeze in some time for wedding planning....
I have made myself a very long list of everything that needs doing before the 18th of July.. and its sad to say - but its VERY long :( its starting to stress me out that there is still so much to and so little time it feels like (1 month and 27days!)... but what to do? i will just have to call on some help i think!  However, the important things are checked off - my dress, Erics tux, hair, make-up, food and ofcouse alcohol!

I just re-watched last Friday's episode of Greys Anatomy (downloaded).. cant believe how SAD it is :( and i cant talk to anyone about it because no one else really downloads it.........................................................what will happen next season???

Tommorrow we're leaving for Dalarna, to spend the long weekend up at a friends summer house (fingers crossed that the weather turns to hot and sunny for me!)... Anyway back to my thesis work now i think .... Bye Bye

Due to the fact that we no longer have Gustav, Ebba (our other cat) has been really depressed, lonely and not herself the past days... so yesterday we adopted ELVIS to keep her company!  He is about a quarter of the size of her and already thinks he rules the place!



This week is pretty much my last week of school! We have to perfect our Thesis by friday and then present a draft of it to our teachers, then if everything goes well we have a week after that to finalize our final presentation!!!! fingers crossed ..

Yesterday was one of the sadest days i have ever experienced.  For the past week one of our cats Gustav has been sick, and yesterday it got even worse! So we decided to take him into the vet to see what was wrong.  They took blood samples and gave him a drop to get his energy up (he had not eaten all week and had lost over 2kilos!) but that didnt seem to work.  They told us we should take him out to Strömholmen to their vet clinic to do further testing - but at a price of over 2500kr we were unfortunatly not able to.... so we were left with two choices 1. wait and see and hope that he got better, or 2. put him out of his missery. It wouldnt have been fair to him to keep him alive and hope that he would get better.. so we made the choice of 'putting him to sleep'.  It  may sound stupid, but it was one of the hardest dicisions i've had to make.. he's been in our little family for almost 4yrs now.. and we had to say goodbye to him just like that .. not a fun day at all.. but i guess it was for the best .......

Tonight the plans are to watch Emma play football, and then hang out with Moberg and Blomman! Tommorrow we're biking out to Erics parents place (which is only 17km out of town) to celebrate his sisters birthday and watch Eurovision Song Contest Final :) Fingers crossed for Norway - Fairytale ...........

Less then one month to go until my group is finished with our thesis work!! That will be a day to celebrate i think!
It seems to suck all the life out of me - when im in school im working on it and stressing about it, and when im not in school, im stressing about how much we have to do with it! Lose - Lose situation! Sometimes i just wish that i was already out in the real world working and making lots of money; but then i wouldnt get the occasional sleep in in the middle of the week :p

We were meant to go to Johanna and Blommans today to get some fish, but as usual Eric has had to work late.. so i guess we will take that another day!
Yesterday i ordered Agnes' 'flower girl' dress; baby pink in colour and soo cute! cant wait to see her in it :) Tonight i think i will be taking care of the Wedding programs, which might take me a while, since i've never been to a wedding before, i have no idea how everything is meant to be- will just have to make everything up as i go along!

Isnt it funny that in a way, our lives are wrapped up in our technology - in our computers and mobile phones.  What would we do without them? Yesterday afternoon Erics laptop decided to die!   When he tried to turn it on nothing happened - strange concidering that it had been working perfectly fine up till then.. we took it back to the store and they said that they could try to fix it, but if the hard drive was reuined then everything on there would be lost! Gone. Vanished into thin air.
Then i remembered that ALL of our photos were on his computer.  All of our pictures from Australia, and my family when we were there over xmas and new yrs! Now there is no way of getting them back... What makes me even more upset about this is that we're not going to see my family and my home there for another 18months :( I have no pictures that i can turn to to look through when im feeling home sick or down anymore.. they're just gone!
Which makes me feel guilty  for living so far away from them.. But i guess this is the price you pay for falling in love with a guy from another country - there is no easy solution to our situation.... Its not fair that we have to struggle to please everyone and to make our lives as normal as possible while still missing out on so many things..





















I was at Johannas place last night and we watched SATC.. I've come to the conclusion that the movie is nowhere near as good as the series was - they have tired to make the characters to dressed up in every sceen and lost what made the series so great.. 
I also got to see Johannas 'maid of honor' dress that we ordered a few weeks ago and its perfect! made it feel a little bit more real that we're actually getting married .. And only 2months and 8 days to go : the countdown is on!

Home from school now and soaking wet :(
Mission for the afternoon: cleaning the apartment and washing!