So now that I have established the internet connection back at my flat, I also went ahead and got a wireless router and a wireless card for my laptop. For no real reason other than I wanted not be chained at the desk when I am working. It doesn’t make a huge amount of difference, but it is cool that I can now be sat in the living room or in the kitchen or out on my little balcony and can type away.

Haven’t been doing a whole lot during the last couple of days. Basically just working and taking it easy. I went out for dinner with Scott and Caroline last night, and that was good fun, even though I was a bit tired. We were supposed to go to Gondolen, which has a really really nice view of the city, but then the rain meant that we rescheduled it for another day. So we went to Lokal (a nice bar) for a drink and then we went to Primo (an Italian restaurant) for dinner. Quite nice overall.

I came home and tried to install the wireless router, and it wouldn’t work. So I gave the manufacturer and call and after 5 minutes, we both figured out what was wrong. I felt kinda stupid, like I am forgetting my technical education the more I progress into the business side of things. But at least I knew what he was talking about. And I even managed to sort out the VPN connectivity questions on my own and get it all sorted. So now I switch between work and hardnening the security of the wireless router (thinking multiple WEP 256-bit encryption keys for a start anyone? 🙂 Doesn’t mean I can’t be hacked into, but I’ll protect myself as much as possible.

Anyway, time to run…have loads of work to do today, and I still can’t make complete sense of the organisational announcement that occured at work, so I need to map it out a little more before it starts to make more sense to me.

So it just finished raining (complete with thunder and lightning) in Stockholm, and I was awake to see it since I went to bed early. And then I decided that I would watch the last episode of buffy. And now all of that combined has me feeling all sad and everything. I quite like Buffy…I am sad that it is off the air. However, they left open some pretty interesting arcs to pursue. And Sarah Michelle Gellar has so little body fat and looks so trim and georgous. I’m jealous as all hell.

So today promises to be another fun day. Went back out on Rob and Caroline’s boat on Sunday with some friends and had a great time doing so. My muscles hurt on Monday, but I decided to work out anyway. But at the end, I was all for just a nice and quiet night at home, which I had. Was in bed at 10pm, woke up around 4am, and then stirred until 5am.

Today at work will be very interesting as well, because there is a big announcement coming down from on high. Of course, I know about it already and it would not be cool to speak about, but things at work will get only more interesting, not less. However, I won’t be in the office, since now that I have my internet restored, I can work from home. However, I guess I just need to be sure that my friend is not going into the office. I suppose that I could get a lot more done in the office. I will just have to wait and see how I feel in an hour. Maybe what I’ll do is that if I feel like going into the office, I will go in during the afternoon, and just work from home in the morning. I like doing that a lot. Besides, I do need to price out some wireless LAN cards anyway.

Oh well, going to log off now to forrage for breakfast. I haven’t had breakfast in so long, I am not sure what it looks like. 🙂

So I cleaned the flat today. It only took two hours, but I cleaned everything from the windows down to polishing the floor. I forgot how difficult it is to clean. But hopefully, if I start tidying up every day or every other day, I will do a better job.

So finished cleaning at 2pm, took a shower, and then Tomas called. He has a wedding to go to, but he’s back at about 3am and will be in the mood to party. I guess we can then go to a club or two for a few hours before finding an after party to hang out at. And tonight, Mariselle comes back, so we should be able to meet up with her and Linda. It should be a fun night, and it just leaves me with not much to do until about 2am or so when I can wake up and shower and get ready to go out. Or maybe I’ll get in like 4 more hours of shut eye and head out to a few clubs and meet Tomas out instead of being home waiting for his call (I ain’t no Whitney Houston Waiting-to-Exhale wannabe ;). The only bad part is that Tomas, Mountain Boy, and I will be out on the boat tomorrow with Caroline and Rob. And I am not too sure I want to be on a plastic raft, hanging on for dear life, totally destroyed. But we’ll see. 🙂

Shortly after 3pm I passed out again. I kept on phasing in and out of consciousness. This is so strange. I have never been so tired like this before. But on the other hand, all I had for breakfast this morning was a yoghurt drink, some OJ, and a banana — and it is 30 degrees (about 90ish if you need farenheight conversion) outside. So it wouldn’t surprise if my body just shut down to converse on energy.

Well, it is so nice outside, I feel like I need to go take a walk outside and get some energy for tonight. I just have to figure out what to wear. This shouldn’t be too difficult – I did laundry today as well.

I guess I need to have proper dinner first. So far, after waking up 30 minutes ago, I had crackers and pate and some apple juice. Maybe I’ll make a grilled chicken ceasar salad and have some fresh baked bread and white wine call that dinner. Quick-n-easy (20 minutes to make), and then I can walk it off so that I don’t look fat. After all, they don’t make passes at the ones with fat asses! 😉

Ciao Journal!

Hello journal! 🙂

It’s Saturday morning and I was up ultra early, and then I realised that I have neglected to keep you updated on the goings-on in my life, so let’s start with Thursday.

Thursday
So after a shitty Wednesday, and a marginally better Thursday at work, it was time to go out into the archipelago. Caroline organised the night out and it included her main squeeze Rob, my friend Tomas, as well as friends Kevin, Annika, and Terease. Tomas and I caused us to be a bit late, but it was all good, because everyone was in good spirits and just wanted to have a good time.

So I brought “nibbles” (appetisers, for those of us who are not from the UK) and salad and bread. I was supposed to bring this for 10 people, but only seven ended up coming, so as you can imagine, there were lots of nibbles and salad and bread. I had brought so many nibbles, but that it could have qualified as a meal. But everyone dug in, and then we were BBQing, and singing music (Rob brought his guitar) and having a few drinks.

However, the highlight of the experience was when Caroline and Rob attached the inflatable raft behind the speedboat. Out on the archipelago, Kevin went first and did pretty well. Tomas went second and was amazing…we could not get him to wipe out at all. In the end, he wiped out due to exhaustion. Rob went third and gave it an admirable attempt. I went fourth and didn’t do too badly, although apparently the video tells another story. And then Caroline went, and after seeing her perform, I was convinced that she should be in the third Charlie’s Angels movie! 🙂

So we got back from eating, drinking, being out on the water (and I took a quick nap out in the archipelago) around 01.30. It was such a great time. I enjoyed it so much. It was such a nice break from work.

Friday
I was supposed to be in Oslo on Friday, but when I woke up at 05.30 to take my flight, the world felt like it was rocking back and forth and my stomach was queezy. So I decided against going to Oslo, since I wasn’t sure if I was actually sick with something, or if it was just the after-effects of me being on the boat. I tried to work from home, but my main internet is still out and the phone connection was shot, so I had to go into the office. What a wasted day that was. The one meeting I went into the office for was cancelled, and the call I could have taken from home (with our European division lead) so so stupid and pointless that it was better not to be on the call at all. So after some serious “positive contention”, I went home from the office with Caroline, who was also in. We decided on the way home to get some drinks at a local bar, and Rob decided to join us. We had some drinks and decided that going out on the boat again would be a great idea 🙂 After talking to Tomas, we selected Sunday as the day to go. We also asked Tomas to invite Mountain Boy along, so that should be interesting if he decides to come.

I was supposed to go picnicing and clubbing last night, but I was still feeling kinda woozy, and those caparinahs and white wines weren’t helping. So after McDinner with Rob and Caroline, I decided to go home and go to sleep. So at 10pm, it was quite an early night.

Well, I wrote an awful lot, but anyway, hope everyone is well.

Hej då everyone and love you journal 🙂

Well, today should go a bit better, I think. I am still pretty pissed off from yesterday, but some rest did me some good. On the good side, I got my hair cut this morning at Toni & Guy, which is my favourite place ever to get my haircut. They did a good job. But I did some early-morning work before going to get the stylist, so hopefully that was all not in vane.

Decided against traveling to Norway this week, and will instead go next week. This will give me some time to work on the mountain of issues I have to handle for work here in Sweden.

To be the Scandinavian vacation period, I have never been so busy! Maybe I’ll post later. Hope everyone is doing OK!

Today was just such a bad day at work, that it sapped my energy to be at the beach. I gave my bottles of wine away and just ran home at top speed. I just came back to the apartment (I don’t even have the mental state to clean it, and it’s kinda messy). And I just set the CD player to random and then it went to the Sarah McLachlan “Surfacing” CD. And that just kinda pushed me right over the edge. So if you wanna know how I feel, here are the lyrics:

Full of Grace

If all of the strength
and all of the courage
come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than this
full of grace
full of grace
my love.

It’s been an afternoon where I could do nothing right, despite my best efforts. It’s emotional exhaustion. Hopefully it passes soon.