Within reach

Friday tomorrow. Another week of work is coming to an end. And a weekend that always feels to short begins.

A day filled with laughing fits with my dirty sense of humour at it's peak. Entertaining myself the most, but the guys too.

Next Thursday I'm picking up two of my beloved friends from Sweden. I can't wait to spend a whole weekend with them.

Dave's forbid me to refer to any Friends episode or Anchorman for three working days. It's not easy.

The gym tomorrow. Getting up at 04:55. True commitment.

It's oh so quiet...

...in the office when Paul isn't here. And he's off for at least a week and a half, cos his gonna be a father any day now.

No moaning, no death beating of his keyboard, no phone calls every 10 minutes, no mobile phone calls every 15 minutes.

Silence.

And he's the manager, so a bit of a more relaxed atmosphere.

Silence. Calm.

Enjoy the silence by Depeche Mode should be the theme song for the time he's off.

What does this sound like to non-British?

Still on the Swedish dansband theme. Arvingarna was the next song on the playlist. And I'm still fascinated by how the music sounds.

Arvingarna - Eloise

I used to hate this kind of music, but now I'm approaching it with curiosity, fascination, thinking it's not that bad to listen too when I'm bored. Or it's just an age thing. I'll let you know as soon as I find out the reason.

But at least music curiosity did not kill the cat.

Swedish tunes in the office

Feeling afternoon tired and frustrated at Dave still not being in the office, and by still not being here, forcing me to stay late tonight again. Felt bored of the music on my iPod, but decided to play the playlist with Swedish folk music (=dansband). It's cheesy and catchy and easy to listen to.



But the mix of listening to Swedish lyrics (and in general a music genre that's very Swedish) when I'm surrounded by British is a bit weird. And I almost expect them to speak Swedish to me, that it's just an English speaking visitor in the office, that's why everyone's speaking English.

Aaatchooo. Bless you. Thank you.

Feel good feelings

Thursday night out in London was a lot of fun. Hanging out with people I've only known for about three or four months. Laughing. Dancing. Talking. Drinking too much. Meeting new people. Both Swedish and British. Expanding my network. Trying to fill the voids my friends back in Sweden create.
I'm not entirely alone. What sucks is that they all live up in London. Sometimes Guildford seems thousand miles away. If only the trains didn't stop running already at midnight.
I long for the planning a trip to Copenhagen and the road trips in my car with Linnea and Jill.

It's all good

All giggles and butterflies

I'm feeling like a 14 year old girl today. All giggly and filled with excitement. It's Dans birthday party in London tonight and a special yummy someone is going to be there. I'm almost a bit nervous, wondering what it's going to be like to see him again.

The office is freezing as usual. It will have warmed up around lunch time.

Six hours till home time. Eight hours till party time. I'm game. Rock n roll

Weather forecast obsession

I will punch Mother Nature in the baby makers if she allows a heavy snow fall tonight.

Seriously I will. Because I don't need a thick layer of snow tomorrow. I'm flying to Frankfurt for the weekend tomorrow night. And I really want to go. And I really don't want my flight to be delayed or cancelled.

Because of this I've developed an obsession with checking the weather forecast on metoffice.co.uk. Even though it makes me nervous. I better start working on some positive thinking. Some pep talk. Convince Mother Nature to be a good girl.

I loved the 30 cm layer of snow that greeted us all on Monday morning. And after a few hours of "try-to-get-to-work-byt-failed" with the train I enjoyed it to the fullest. Building a snow man and having a snow ball fight and a snow day was heaven. I made a snow angel too. Next to my snowed-in car.

My sweet car that I bought on Saturday. Her name is Rose. But I couldn't drive to work till yesterday. And Englands infrastructure is still suffering and I'm begging you please, Mother Nature, don't let it snow tonight!

I'll do anything for you