Christmas!

Well, since we celebrate Christmas on Christmas eve and not Christmas day here in Sweden. A MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!

Our Christmas tree is decorated, the ham has been glazed, all presents has been put under the tree yesterday. And all Gingerbread cookies has been baked- and what a success they were this year! I really do have a talent with baking :D

Our Christmas tree, with presents under:


Outside it's WHITE. We are having a WHITE CHRISTMAS :D First time since 2001 we have a white Christmas in my home village! We went out on the countryside outside a nearby village yesterday and it was so beautiful with the snow and forest. Like a Christmas card!




A couple of days ago, while waiting at the train station for my husband to arrive, it was snowing heavily, so just to amuse myself a little while waiting for my husband's train to arrive, I took a picture of myself in the snow:



So with these pictures, I wish you all a Merry Christmas! May you celebrate today or tomorrow :)

Some days are just great!

There will be a Christmas after all! The project at work has been delayed again. I'm very happy about it because it will enable me to be with my family for longer than just the actual Christmas weekend, but at the same time feeling a little bit annoyed about it because the system currently in use is not the most stable on the planet. But I do think they made a good decision to wait with the new system until it's been fully tried out and everyone has had good time to learn how to use it.

Today has also been one of November's few sunny days! So all in all, a good day.

I'm going to be a Santa at work on Friday together with at least one of my workmates. We're going to surprise the morning team on Monday by doing Christmas decorations in our department on Friday afternoon when most people has started their weekend. One of the advantages with being on the afternoon team! So on Monday morning when people come to work, they'll be greeted by Santas and glitter! We might even overdo it a bit and put up some lights, but we'll have to buy some first then so I'll see if we put up lights or not.

I'm going to put up lights at home in the weekend anyways. Sunday is first of Advent! Wow, Christmas is coming fast!

Time to get my hair a bit dryer now, and transfer some Christmas music to my iPhone.

I really do sincerely dislike mondays!

The weekend has been totally great. My parents came down to Copenhagen to visit me and my husband. We went to Tivoli on saturday evening after enjoying a nice dinner at a Chinese restaurant outside Tivoli. Saturday was the best day this far in November when it comes to weather. It was sunny and not much wind at all, a perfect day to be outside a lot. Tivoli was very nice. So pretty with all the Christmas lights, I took some pictures with my phone, transfering pictures right now from phone to computer. Oh, and it might be a mobile phone camera, but I do have 8.1 megapixel camera (SonyEricsson C905) so the picture quality should be fair enough.

Some pictures I took.






I have some more, but they need to be edited first to be shown in the right direction.


Yesterday we did Malmö, and had lunch up in a tall building called Kronprisen. It was Christmas lunch and it was really delicious! But due to rain I didn't take much pictures yesterday, but here are some anyways.






Today it's monday again. And as you might see on the title of my blog today, I'm not a fan of mondays! And this monday was no exception. The system at work went down again for about 2 hours, and it was the third time in less than 2 weeks the system went down, so both me and my workmates are quite fed up with system errors! Luckily I bought Anti-stress pills yesterday (it's just some small candy with coffee flavour, but the package it comes in says "Anti Stress Pills") LOL
Now I'm just trying to get my hair dry, and re-charge myself to cope with the rest of the week. Feeling pretty tired today due to the busy weekend.

Going to relax some more now and sleep as soon as my hair is dry enough.

Wednesday

Halfway to the weekend. Today has been a great day! The train into town was on time for once, and a faster commuter train was in when I came down the escalator at the commuter train part of the central station. So I caught that commuter train, and then I arrived my work area earlier than usual, was expecting to having to wait for my bus for about 20 minutes but then a bus I'm never able to catch came, so I took that one today, and arrived work even before I would have gotten on my usual bus. Could just sit at work and relax with some coffee for nearly 1 hour before my shift started! Wish everyday was like this.
My workday was a little bit unusual too today, I helped a workmate moving some products and shelves today instead of doing my usual stuff. Was nice with a change and also nice to work with someone and just chat while working. Just did my usual task the last 1.5 hour today. Now I know why my forklift gets stuck too. The driving wheel on it must have the wrong dimension. I didn't drive my usual forklift today, but a workmate was driving it and managed to get stuck on a rubber carpet, and when I compared my usual forklift with the one I drove today which is the same model, I could see my usual one barely has any air space between the floor and the lowest part of the forklift, while the one I drove today had space. Of course the workmate got stuck in the slope today too, but we were prepared for it...

Now it's just about two weeks left until first of Advent if I'm not mistaken. I don't really keep track on it very well these days I must admit. Anyways. I'm going to put up some electric candles in the windows fairly soon. It's so cozy and gives extra light in this dark season.
I still haven't started christmas shopping. But I'll wait until the november salary comes. It will be plenty of time to shop until Christmas, and I'm not going to buy much anyways. Just a little something for my closest family and some friends, but nothing big.
Feels quite incredible it's just a little more than a month left until Christmas, this year has been so fast! Doesn't feel like nearly a year has gone since last Christmas. Interesting how the speed of time changes with your age. When I was younger the years felt very long, but since high school or so, the years has just gone by in the speed of light.
In April it was 5 years since I graduated from high school, but it feels like it was yesterday. My husband and I have been together for 4 years in December. Wow, time has just been flying!

But now I have a mission! And it has nothing to do with Christmas, working or how fast time is. I really have to deal with the Chinese issue! I have to learn it! It's been 4 years since I first started learning a little, but I'm still totally unable to communicate with my in-laws! That has to change, I have to spend more time with the books and remember what I read. Time to learn those spiderwebs (ehh, characters)! Next year when my husband and I visit his family in China, I want to speak with my Chinese family, maybe not a fluent conversation, but just be able to speak freely a little bit instead of using translating softwares and pre-made phrases. I have no clue about expressing myself in Chinese yet :/

Oh well, long blog post today. I've had too much coffee! (6 cups) LOL