Things you realize about Ireland while youre away

• How nice everybody is. People smile and call you "love".
• No water preassure.
• Hot in cold water in different taps.
• Hot water available only when heating is on.
• Public bathrooms are constructed so that you can't enter them. It's strange. The door opens inwards and there's no room to both stand in there and close the door.

I have not forgotten about the traffic though. It's absolutely insane and anarchistic. Lovely.

After five weeks in Sweden I am now back in business. Things have changed on Vicar but I'm so happy to be back home. Home.

Sara has moved out, Olof is renting Sara's old room but living with Maria in her room. I am back in by big, big bed and my room is a mess. Tonight we're going out with the team.

seven

For a while we where seven people in the house. Olof has moved in, my friend Maia was visiting, and so was Amalie and Jojo.

It was kinda awesome. Maia left yesterday and Jojo leaves today, Amalie friday. Maria leaves friday too, for her holiday in Sweden. And Sara's sister comes here. And then Sara leaves, next week, for good, and before Maria comes back, the day before even, I go to Sweden for my holiday.

Olof and Maria are going to be alone in the house then. What a difference. And then, when I come back, it's going to be autumn and everything will be different... I think.

The joy of The Netherlands

Oh my god, we are the worst bloggers ever...

I have been in the Netherlands to meet some wow-friends this weekend. We were five girls who have played together and raided in the same raidgroup. I'm actually not in the raidgroup since I don't play anyway, but was invited anyway. But the other girls are still playing together... After this weekend I'm very tempted to start playing again though, meeting the girls and talking alot about the game made me miss it. I borrowed a laptop yesterday and did some dailies and also checked the new badges gear. (Well, I guess most people don't play the game and therefore don't really know what I'm talking about, but I don't care, hehe.) I need more than 400 badges (actually probably around 500) to get good gear so I can raid again in case I decide to start play, and at the moment I have 118, which is alot less than 400, hehe. But we'll see, I have not made up my mind yet and maybe the feeling of temptation will disappear.

Enough about wow, we went to Amsterdam one day, walked around and looked in shops and so on. I also had time to visit Ikea and bought some stuff that I have been missing here in Ireland. And H&M! I bought three t-shirts, all of them in black, but quite different from eachother. We went out for dinner on Saturday, it was really good food, and a great wine. Then we went home to Saph where we stayed and drank more wine. I will get some photos up on Pixbox as soon as possible, they are all in my camera. It was a great weekend, and very fun to meet them!

When I came back to Cork it was rainy and a grey sky, not so surprising. I'm longing for sun and blue sky. It is 24 working days (including today) until I'm going to Sweden. And then the summer is over (at least in my view as a person who grew up in northern Sweden) and the autumn is here. Things will change then...

Can you feel it?!?

Alright! After a quick nap I am now back on track. Or, after a quick nap, lots of pizza and some icecream. And some Jackson 5. Anyways!

Since Sweden was extremely crushed by Russia we have all been feeling extremely low, sad... rootless. That's why we haven't been updating lately.

But now! It's better! Happiness!

Sara is back, and she has really landed, she's a part of our lives again. And so is Olof, by now. He made copys of our keys even. And when Sara moves back to Sweden he's going to take her room. Wich is... wierd, in ways, but nice as well. Lots of fun. I'm sad that Sara's leaving but happy that Olof is moving in.

Last night Jojo arrived, with gifts! Candy and fishy things for me and I like her now. Fiiiish. And tomorrow (on Dave's birthday!) Amalie is arriving!!! It's great! We all miss her so.

Work is a bit tough, lots of calls and not very nice ones. We're all feeling a bit stressed out and tired over that.

But hey... Six people living on 22 Vicar for a couple of days. How about that, huh? Then Olof (who doesn't really live here but spends most nights) goes home to Sweden for his vacation. (Home? I didn't mean home. Cork is home. Sweden is gestapocountry.)

Well, all in all, life is pretty good.

You Can't Always Get What You Want

Damn Spain!!!

Ok, so we lost, but that is not a reason to be down. Instead Danne made the bar owner play "När vi gräver guld i USA" and we all sang "who's the man? ZLATAN!!!". We certainly are gracious losers.

Now Danne is making dinner and later we are all going out to show off the gorgeous flags we have painted on out cheeks (:

Btw, I haven't really been a good blogger the last couple of weeks and I'll make sure you are all up to date in a couple of days. But now, drinks!

Story like!?!?

We do not write enough nowadays! Stuff has been going on around here like you wouldnt beleive it. Sara has been gone for six weeks, and instead we had Viola living here, and then Johan as well, in the living room. And Olof a whole lot in Marias room... And every now and then... other guests. Viola and Johan became good friends and decided they wanted to keep living together, and they do, right around the corner! (Across the street from Tom Barrys... Makes me kinda want to call them and tell them to come down for one... But I'm way to tired.)

Also I forgot to do all the important stuff I was gonna do today. I ate pizza... And then my brain turned off. Anyways!

They moved out just a few days ago and Sara is back inna da house! Work is really different, Nicolai (commonly reffered to as "Pornboy") moved back to Denmark, Viola and Johan are there, Sara left and came back, Liz was moved and Marta sits over with us instead... The mood is high at work, especially after Sweden won their first game! Keep this up and we will all be hysterical all the time. I'm helping Björn from socs out with routercalls... That he's helping us with. (He knows danish. We have no danish agent.)

And even higher since we got monopoly on our computers! Thank you norwegian nerd! Now we can't focus at all... And we hate eachother intensely. So much funsies.

Pretty soon we will be even more people in here, Amalie, our most beloved Danish girl comes here in just a couple of weeks! And Jojo, Sara's sweetheart asian babe, is going to live for a couple of weeks in 22 Vicar as well! Popular house this... Our list of telephone numbers to familymembers that we have on the fridge in case of emergency is just gonna keep growing I guess... I like it.

Now it's pretty late and I'm doing some dishes, after that it's either straight to bed or maybe some Angel and ice cream... We'll see what Maria says.

xoxoxo
/Yours truly

The joy of being Swedish!

I'm not a football-fan... Well, actually, I think it's rather boring. I have never really watched any games. But, yesterday I did, I watched Sweden - Greece and Sweden won! All of us Swedish people went to Skybar, a pub here in Cork, to watch the game on big screen. Although the field seemed too small and too slippery, at least for the Swedish players, it was nice to watch it! I even wore a blue top over a yellow one, I felt so Swedish!

Today we are all talking about it at work. Carin even brought cupcakes and small Swedish flags with her! So we are happy, and even me, who don't really like football, can feel it. Yay, go Sweden!