Thursday, October 29, 2009

work work!

They called me from the hospital today and asked if I could work night shift tonight and tomorrow night. Yay extra money for Christmas! I'm coloring my hair now so I can look cool for the Halloween party on Saturday and after that I will prepare the laundry for today and most likely go back to bed. I have to be well rested if I am going to be able to work all night hehe.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The neat meat experiment...

Yesterday evening I started with my meat experiment. Last year I came across a blog that explained the wonders of low temperature cooking. In that very same blog I also found interesting recipes for dry cured meat which I intend to try out. So Yesterday i bought a piece of lamb steak with bone and began the long long process of drying it. hopefully it will be all nice and tasty by Christmas!

The first part of the process is to salt the steak for 24-48 hours.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Going to England

Schoolwork is ready for now. On Thursday next week, me and Jenny have to defend our essay against the teacher and some school friends that will make comments on it. Should go fine.

Now everything is prepared by the way. Me, Toine, my parents, Elin and her boyfriend Simon are all going to england for a long weekend in the end of november. Hotel and flight tickets are booked and we hope that the christmas decorations will be up and running by then. It's gonna be awesome!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Dinner at my parents place

Today (well yesterday now) me and Toine had dinner at my parent's place together with grandmother. As usual I helped prepare most of the food and we made a "castle roast" (slottsstek) or whatever you might call it in english... It's a special pot roast anyway and it turned out very delicious. Afterwards we watched a movie, Arn - Riket vid vägens slut. It's a swedish movie and everyone talked about it so much before it was finished. Saying how good it was going to be... I'm not impressed. The storyline is similar to that of "Kingdom of Heaven"...It's about Arn... he goes to jerusalem to be a templar knight, his maiden waits for him back home. Arn looses the war, comes home, reunites with his maiden and their son, gets married, has another kid, then fights a war with the danish and dies...The end.

Anyway I'm sitting here now doing the finishing touches of the essay me and Jenny has to hand in tomorrow. It's looking really good!

Friday, October 23, 2009

Mirror's Edge

Woohoo today I picked up the HDTV box and after some fixing and trixing, we can now watch some awesome TV!

I finished playing Mirror's Edge on our Playstation 3 today as well. I have to say at first glance the game looked really cool but I thought it would be too hard for me. But the game started of really nice and wasn't really too hard. But when you get further into the game the difficuly increases, but at a perfect pace, not too hard, and not too easy either. It just feels so good when the gameplay goes smooth but at the trickier parts you also have to really use your brain to figure out which way to go, and how to get there. Sometimes you have to do it quick and under preassure. It's got to be one of the most fun games I've ever played!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Jehovas...*sigh*

One morning just days after me and Toine just moved in here in this lovely apartment. The doorbell rang. I look in the little peeking hole and see an elderly lady. I think oh thats nice, she must be one of our new neighbors, so I opened and she introduced herself. In my mind I start thinking "oh ooh!". She came from jehovas witnesses. I was polite and started talking, explaining that I believe in god in my own way. I was hoping that she wouldn't return. I was hoping she would think that since I already believe there is no need for her to come back.

A couple of months later the doorbell rang again. I looked though the peeking hole as I always do but I didn't recognize the woman standing there. I opened the door...big mistake. As soon as she opened her mouth I remembered her. I was polite once again explaining that I am a nurse student and a blood donor, since I know the people of Jehovas don't donate or receive blood because they believe the soul lives in the blood, I thought maybe then she would leave me alone. I also told her I wasn't really interested in converting or anything...

A few weeks later there is an invitation in my mailbox. She writes that she has a movie about blood donation and healthcare and things that she would want me to see. I ignore it.

A couple of weeks ago the phone rings early morning. I answer and a woman starts talking without introducing herself... "Hi Martina, how are you doing? You sound tired, have you been working nightshift?" and I'm like..."who is this??" ... then she introduces herself and starts talking about the movies again... I tell her that I'm not really interested in the movie and she says "I guess you are tired I will let you sleep and I'll call you another day". I put her phonenumber in my phonebook so I could see if she was calling again, then i would simply not pick up.

Today she rang the doorbell again... I refused to open the door...Why won't they give up? I tried saying no the polite way but apparently it doesn't work... She rang the bell 3 times before she left. I guess she knew we were home, the lights were on in the apartment. Maybe she will take the hint and give up... If they come back I'm gonna put a sticker on my door saying "no thanks to Jehovas" even though it looks god damn ugly...

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Idols...

Well I didn't write about it yet. But me and Toine went to see the Idol broadcasting live in the TV4 studio last friday. Toine got VIP tickets from his work. It was a lot of fun! We got there and got some food, gift baskets with thingies and stuffies... good seats, ended up on TV a few times and the show was way better live than on TV. The sound was so much better, you could really hear how good they were singing!

Yesterday I met up with the theater friends again. They were in the studio to make a CD of all the songs from the show. It was nice. Afterwards we decided to go out and party a little. Sadly it took a bit too long for everybody to be ready so we didn't get to the bar until 00.30. but we stayed and danced until 03.00 and had a lot of fun! I'm a little tired today but that doesn't matter. Today it's schoolwork day so I have to work hard. We have to finish our essay for the last guidance meeting. It has to be handed in on tuesday.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Explotions!

I gotta say there is a first for everything... What happened to me about 30 minutes ago was one of the most unbelievable things ever...

So there I was, feeling slightly hungry so I decided to boil some eggs. While waiting for water + eggs to start boiling I decided to pass the time and change some water in the aquarium. So while changing water I lost time of the eggs, and since I like my eggs very creamy I didn't want to risk them getting hardboiled. I took them out and cooled them down...started peeling them and realized they were way undercooked instead...bummer.

BUT! I get the best idea of my life and decide I can put the half peeled eggs in the microwave to finish the boiling! I run them for 30 seconds. Feel them a little and they are still too soft. So I put them in another 30 seconds. PERFECT EGGS! So I go to sit at the computer with a spoon and the first bite of the egg is wonderful and the yellow looked creamy and promising. I dig my spoon into the yellow and find out that appearances can sometimes be deceiving. The yellow was hardboiled inside.

The next second I hear a fizz and then BANG! The freaking egg explodes right up my face, my hair, the computer screen...everything! Luckily I didn't get burned or anything...So now I'm standing here...wiping off remnants of egg... so take my tip. Never cook eggs in a microwave...

This will forever be: The day the egg exploded in my face...

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Night = day

As you might have figured out, I turned my days around. Since I'm working on my essay and don't have any lessons in school, I've been sleeping longer in the mornings...well...days... and going to bed...well...in the mornings...Not good but oh well. Eventually it will correct itself. Today I went past Bauhaus to buy some more clips for the floor lists since we were out. I decided to also take a trip past IKEA and buy new drinking glasses and a trashcan, some coat hangers, and a large vase.

We needed new drinking glasses because somehow I seem to have broken half of the ones we have. The first one happened long time ago when doing the dishes. The glass was slippery so it fell out of my hand into the sink... BANG...broken... Then another one broke for some mysterious reason...I don't even know why. I was doing the dishes again and one of the glasses just had a huge crack in it, mysteriously... neither me nor Toine remembered doing anything so it broke. It could've been due to tension in the glass itself as well. Anyway...The third and fourth glass broke at the same time just a few weeks ago... Again me doing the dishes. I had 3 of them piled up next to the sink to free some space, I made a fast miscalculated move and all 3 of them fell into the sink...BANG!...luckily only 2 of them broke but then there was only 6 glasses left. Not so good if my family would come over for food hehe. So today I bought 8 new ones... We should be safe for some time now haha.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Disturbing...

For some fucked up reason... the neighbors thought it was a great idea to start drilling into the concrete wall at freaking half past midnight! I swear to god the whole house could hear it...

Monday, October 5, 2009

Busy busy

Theater is now over, after one hell of a good party. The party went on for so long that I knew if I went home to sleep. I wouldn't be able to get up in time to go back and help cleaning. So me and Toine decided to stay and sleep in one of the bed sofas down in the dressing rooms. Bad choice... First it was lumpy and hard. Almost as bad as my parents bed sofa... hehe... constant disturbance of people who kept running in and out of the room to get things (but that stopped eventually) and then in the end, it got freezing cold for some reason. I used my jacket as blanket but poor Toine didn't have anything... I think all in all we slept about 2 hours that night. But it was still a damn fun party. I love the parties with the theater friends cause I feel like I can really let go. They are so used to being on stage, acting, making fun of themselves for the audience that I know, if I make a fool out of myself nobody will really care. The parties are crazy enough anyway hehe.

The final show was on Saturday and it went really good. And on Sunday we had to clear out everything from the stage, which took it's good old time. Not everybody helped in, some people left way early (I'm guessing too much party haha) and some people didn't even show (I know one person actually had to work that sunday morning, poor guy). The ones who really helped out good with the cleaning and everything, were invited for a last dinner at a restaurant close to mine and Toines apartment. My parents picked us up cause we were all dead tired. The food was great and me and Toine decided to eat there more times in the future.

Monday I spent doing laundry and cleaning up a bit. Since we have been so busy with the theater, we haven't really had the time for that yet. We now also drilled all the holes we need in order to put down the floor lists!