Kitchen furnitures

I got some kitchen furnitures from my parents, which Matt and I painted and repolstered. I feel really proud about my home decorating skills and how awesome it turned out so I am bragging about it here and posting a photo of them for all to admire.. kind of.

Parents at the new pad

My parents came over to visit this weekend and it was fun showing off the new apartment. However, we really have not had much time to work on it and we will be getting new laminate floor (yuck), but it is at least new and for free and walls are getting painted. This is one of the great things about renting. You don't have to worry about things like this just have someone else come and fix it (no charge to you). As many of you might know, we are loosers when it comes to realestate since we still couldn't sell our condo in Chicago. That is, we have decided to stay away from buying any apartment or house until the market recovers in US and we can sell our condo. I might be renting an apartment in a retiree community by then, who know? The weird thing with apartments in Sweden is that they come without lamps (yep, no ceiling lamps and not even cords to hook them up) and wihtout appliances. I did take full advantage of my dad and his truck this weeekend so we went to pick up a dishwasher and lots of lamps and other electricity things needed. I rather buy a dishwasher than do the dishes. My dad said that he probably won't come over to our apartment again since we have him work so hard. A joke, I think. Well, it wasn't all hard work. We did go have a great lunch in Nyhavn and also walked around in the harbor of skanor. Very nice day trip. We were also showing of our support for the
cyclones in honor or the rivalry football game. Wish we could have been there and tailgated with our friends, I really miss this part of the culture. There is no tailgating in Sweden. However, we did have a drunken (not really on our part) phone call with them.

Boat parents

I have been so busy with work that I am not spending the proper amount of time on my blog anymore. I did however loose my concentration at my desk today and decided that I deserved to blog and decided to go through some of my old photos. I found a photo that I love of my parents when we were out with the boat on Saturday August 30th.

Bank problem

Så jag kunde inte bestamma mig om jag skulle blogga on det har eller inte. Men nu blir det sa ivilketfall. Sorry for writing in Swedish but since this pertains to Swedes I thought I better... Det ar minsan inte latt att flytta tillbaka till Sverige efter att varit utflyttad i flera ar. Det tar tid att fa iordning allt och vi hade verkligen forvantat oss det men anda sa blir man lite lack (sager man fortfarande lack..) pa bankerna. Va fasen har de sa mycket makt for? Jag och maken oppnade bankkonto och han gick ditt flera ganger och fragade efter bankkort och svenskt ID kort, som sagt fick hora olika ursakter varje gang: maste vanta tills pengar ar pa kontot, amerikanskt pass galls inte som identifikation du maste ha nagon svensk med dig, du maste varit kund i banken i 3 manader.. etc... bull shit med andra ord. Sa till slut sa gick jag dit och fragade och da blev jag nekad bankkort tills jag varit en 'god kund' i 3 - 6 man. Va fasen jag har ju varit kund i banken sen jag var 15 ar och mamma jobbat dar. Jag blev sa klart irriterad och skallde pa tanten och ville ta ut alla pengar och oppna konta nagon annanstans. Da bad hon mig ga till kassakon plus jag hade for mycket (!) pengar pa kontot sa jag kunde inte ta ut allt! Ahhh... va arg jag var, jag gick direkt over vagen till en annan bank dar jag kunde oppna konto men bankkort och alls. Nemas problemas alls dar. Vad trodde de, att det meningen att man ska ga omkring med massa kontanter i 3 - 6 manader. Jag klagade till mamsingen som var sa snall och ringde och klagade. Tydligen hade hon sadan makt att jag fick ett personligt telefonsamtal fran kontorschefen med en ursakt och lovade att fixa 'allt som du behover' om vi bara ville stanna kvar som kund. Ska det vara pa det har viset? Att folk kan bli diskrimenerade enligt vad bankerna kanner for. Ok, sa jag gick tillbaka till banken och har nu bankkort som en annan normal manniska for jag orkade inte strula med att skaffa en ny bank, men jag kunde atmindstonde skriva av mig har. hoppas ni far en bra bank dag.

Fun weekend

The last weekend of August we were invited to Leila's 30ths birthday party. I stole the photo from Paula since I forgot a camera myself. Thank you! It was a great time to meet up and see all the old friends. We got to see Leila's new house. Good times, the party even had musical chairs contest after a couple of drinks. I wasn't very good at it. Matt and I headed home early, the lamoes we are, well actually it was because we had not slept the last 2 nights more than 5 hrs because we had been moving into our own new apartment. Yes, we have a new great apartment with a spare bedroom so I am expecting some visitors!
On Sunday 31 August I ran i 'Tjejmilen'. It is a 10 km race through downtown Stockholm. It is such a great race because there are so many runners and spectators, plus you get a medal at the end. yep, you don't even have to win to get one. I finished but I am really having a hard time getting back into running after my surgeries last year. I just don't seem to find the motivation or the joy I use to find in running. My excuse right now is that I still have not settled into living in Sweden... excuses excuses