Farväl Falkenberg

We saw the movie Farväl Falkenberg at the Swedish Museum yesterday. It is a really deep and emotional movie and I am not sure if I loved it or hated it. I know for sure that left me with lots of emotions and questions which I think is something most movies don't so that is good, right? One of my childhood friends now live in Falkenberg area. This movie wasn't really a good ad for Falkenberg, but we are still going to go visit her and it will be interesting to see it with ones own eyes now after seeing the movie. I am really happy it is Friday today. This weekend is going to be full of "girls nights". I am going home to my friend Jodie tonight for girls night with all my American friends and then tomorrow I am going home to Elisa's for girls night with all the Swedish girls. Now I can compare if there are cultural differences to girls night.. stay tuned!

Work Retreat

So we had a work retreat yesterday. I know what you are thinking we went to a spa or something. The word retreat means to 'take time to reflect or meditate'. Our work retreat was held on the top floor on our building and it was an all day presentation of the various groups in our department. It should have been called a day 'full of long presentations' instead. I feel a bit cheated. At least we got a free lunch.

Iowa State wins!

Matt and I went back to Ames, Iowa, to tailgate, go to a football game and hang out with our friend Tracy and Greg. It was cold tailgate with lots of hot chocolate (and peppermint snaps), a great game and fun seeing the campus. I did however feel like an old person, since we went home from the bars around 11 pm. All the college kids look so young too..

Halloween party

We went to a Halloween party Saturday night. It was a really scary (but lots of fun) bash. I decided to be original och crafty and wanted to be something Swedish and decided to dress up as a Swedish Maypole (midsommar stang). It kind of more turned out to look like a dressed up bush with flowers... plus it was really hard to keep my arms out all night. I got tired. And I did smell like the forest. So the Maypole idea was original but not that practical. Matt went as "Office Legoman". He built the whole costume and it was pretty impressive. Sunday we were hung over tired and hungover so we were mainly just watching TV, being lazy all day. Today I was going to have my last physical theraphy but I wasn't ready to "graduate" so they extended it for another 4 weeks. Which is actually fine with me because I enjoy it, it is kind of like having your own personal trainer, but a lot cheaper.

Getting ready for Halloween

This week went by really fast. Last weekend we showed your apartment and got told we were going to get an offer. This made me really happy because we have been trying to sell for a very long time, unfortunatly the deal did not fall through. Well, at least now we don't have to move which sounds like a lot of work. Thursday my brother, Niclas and his wife Autumn came to Chicago. We went out to eat and hung out at bars with them. It was great seeing them again. Now Matt and I are working on our Halloween costumes. Matt decided to be a Lego man. He has been building the head from styrophome and I really did not have much faith in his project but it is starting to look really great. I decided to be a Swedish Maypole (midsommarstang). I am worried that I might just look like a walking tree/bush instead. We still have a couple of hours until we need to leave so hopefully it will turn out ok. We have 2 parties tonight, but luckily the parties are on the same block. Yes, when does that ever happen. So now we can pick and choose and jump from one party to the other. Happy Halloween!!

Bend it like Beckham

Our friend Kristi got us tickets to the Chicago Fire vs. La Galaxy game today. That means that we got to see David Beckham play. The weather was awesome today. Sunny and warm, does not at all feel like in the middle of October. It was 75 F (25 C) today. So we drove to the southern suburbs and watched the soccer game. It was such a good atmosphere at the game and Chicago Fire was definitely dominating the game. David Beckham did not start the game but they put him in after about 60 min so we got to see him play. He did a great job, too bad that the rest of the LA galaxy team is not that good. Chicago Fire ended up scoring in the last minute and won the game. Fireworks and crazy celebrations!!


The guy on the left is David Beckham... he is pretty.

End of the weekend

So now it is Sunday and I have not blogged this whole week. Don't have any good excuses actually more than, I was lazy. This week went by fast. It was hard to get back to work after all the traveling and vacation I had. You could tell too because on Monday I was close to 2 hours late to work. The power had gone out so the alarm clock never went off.. anyway I pretty much got used to it by Friday since by then I was finally getting into work on time. I had to do major cleaning on Friday because we had a condo showing. It was the first showing we had had since July. We had both given up on selling the condo so it was good that someone came by. They seemed really interested and so did their realtor so please cross your fingers for us. Saturday night Matt and I went to the Swedish Charity Ball. Matt had done the program for the evening so we got to go for free. It was fun to be at a fancy event.