After picture ;)

So now i'm done at the hair salon :)

And no it didn't take three hours.

It took a little bit over and hour or something like that, but then i decided to visit my parents. You see they have both gotten sick :( seems like a nasty flu.

Since they are sick there won't be any sunday dinner tomorrow so i decided to visit them today instead to see how they were doing. They were pretty down, but they can still always talk, so i sat with them and talked a bit, aired out the apartment for them and nagged on them that they had to eat haha :)

But now, i'm finally on my way back to Robert's place ^^

Oh and i promised to post an "after picture" for my hair right?

So there it is :) she cut quite a bit of my hair. A wholesome four centimeters of the length :)

Before my hair was kind of in three parts - the bubble gum textured bleached hair, the bleached but still kind of okay hair, and the good hair, now we have finally cut of the last piece of the bubble gum hair and that's also why i asked her to cut of so much - i really wanted for the worst hair to finally be gone!

So now, there's only about 6 cm of the so-so hair left in the tips, and then, i'll finally have only my healthy natural hair left! And then, i can finally start saving my hair to be long again :)

It will be great!

//wayu

Time for a haircut!

I'm right now on my way to my hairdresser for my regular haircut. She's really taken care of my hair so well, it's not much of the bleached dry hair left, only a few centimeters left, and then i'll have all smooth and nice hair again ^^ <3 data-blogger-escaped-br="">

how my hair looks right now, kind of a before pic? ;)


I must though say that i think my hair looks pretty good already (compared to before), so i can't wait to see how it looks when it's healthy all the way from root to tip!

I'm looking forward to it so much i'm thinking of asking her to cut off a few centimeters more than usual....

I will post a picture of the results later <3 data-blogger-escaped-br="">
//Wayu

Moustaches with authority

Today was a long school day for me, with one seminar in the morning, lunch and then a lesson in the afternoon. I'm not saying it's a super long day really, but usually i don't have more than one lesson a day at university so, compared to usual, it's been a long day.

But it's also been a fun day!

it's a picture of the whiteboard with santa's (my teacher) writing. It's frickin' unreadable :p any guesses?


First of all, my teacher in this course is hillarious! He keeps on saying all these fun quotes that i write down in my notebook, like this one:
"they talk about the good and the bad breast, because sometimes no matter how damn hard you suck, you get nothing".

Given, it IS a course in freud and psychodynamic Theory, but surely even in those circles such a quote must be funny?

At least it's fun for me and my classmates :p

Hanna played around with her moustache necklase, cause apparently it gives the wearer authority ;)

But then, we're a pretty funny bunch ;)

//wayu

Cheating Bitch

Sometimes (Okay, a little more often than sometimes) I cheat.

No, not on tests or with taxes or anything major, I mean smaller things, like for example blogging. And that "sometimes" have been in session today. It's been on my to do list since christmas to blog retroactively, and let's face it, I've been lagging behind pretty darn bad. So, since I started confusing myself with all the retrospect posts about christmas when I just, really, want to think about the snow melting away (and summer, ice cream and short shorts...) I decided to use the convenient cheating system that blogger provides us bloggers - the magic power to decide when our post were or will be posted. So, I changed around and fixed the blank (read, lazy) days into days were something actually happened. It did, I just wasn't focusing my energy on writing it down. But well, it happens when you're like me.

A cheating bitch that is ;)

This is cheating like a baws!

Thankfully, I'm not that bitchy for a bitch ( at least not too often), so I've compiled a nice link list for you so you can find the post I've written and moved around. Here you go:

The three christmas posts (Just click on the names to redirect to the posts):

♥ Christmas morning - About the morning of the 24th
♥ Christmas Eve - About the rest of the 24th
♥ Christmas Day - About the 25th and 26th (Warning for funny pictures)

 The missing posts after New Years (Once again, just click on the names to redirect to the posts):

♥ Fika with the girls - My last day in Stockholm
♥ IKEA - going back to Örebro and shopping from Swedish most famous world wide brand IKEA
♥ Yoga Vinyasa Flow - Trying a new class
♥ New Years Resolutions - A list of my promises for 2013
♥ Balance and Zen - More for my Work out category


So, there you go :) For those of you who will actually use the links and not just, you know, scroll down the start page. For you, I'm a nice cheating bitch!

//Wayu


P.S I'm not saying I won't cheat with my blogging anymore.  After all I'm pretty sure I didn't write down "don't cheat with your blogging" in my new years resolutions. D.S

Balance and Zen

Today I've been off from school. So I've been doing some "must do" stuff all day like washing clothes (I finally got around to washing my jacket and my bedding), stuying, cleaning and working out. Today it was a much longed for class of les mills body balance! I haven't done a class since last year (ha!) after all, so to start again felt great. It was also to boot the old routine (Though next week will be the new routine), so I felt right at home with the moves! 

The les mills Bodybalance poster at my local gym.

I also noticed that even though it's been a while I'm getting a lot better and since yoga class this monday when I learned to perfect my yoga poses, I noticed how much more each pose made my muscles burn. It's great when you can feel that even though you're getting better at something it's not getting less effective as a workout but actually more effective.

I'm going to try and squeeze in a cardio workout this week too, to get an all round body workout.

Suddenly I feel so hearty and brisk lol.
 

//Wayu

New Years Resolutions

So usually at new years I just look back at the year and hope for a better one this year, I also make a new years wish when the clock strikes midnight, that's been my tradition. These last few years though, I've started to also think about what I can do to improve myself, and to get closer to my goals. I've never written them down, but I had them loosely in my head.

A comic about New Years Resolutions by Dave Granlund, you can find more here.

This year (or technically last year), "loosely in my head" wasn't enough, so on the last day of 2012 I wrote down my New Years Resolutions for 2013. Granted, it was a new idea on my part to write them down, and I decided on it pretty late in the evening, so they became a bit fuzzy, and I forgot some important stuff as well, like about writing(!), but it's my first real try so I guess it's fine either way. I also made a deal with my brother to try and write small short stories for him every month. It doesn't matter what it is about he said, but personally I thought it might be a nice way to try out ideas for books, or to develop my characters. If I feel like it I might even post some here for you all to read :) If I do, be sure to comment on what you think :)

As a human though, I have a tendency to forget about the New Years Resolutions a soon as a few weeks or moths pass so I will post my little list here to make sure I really stick to it. (At least it's worth a shot, right?)

 ♥ Do my best in school, but keep the pressure down!

♥ Stop biting my nails gradually

 ♥ Start taking driving lesson regularly in Örebro.

 ♥ Loose (at least) 5kg and start working out regularly. 

♥Start working (and show some improvement) on time management.

Some of these I have already started with, for example I started a routine to stop biting my nails before christmas (I can explain later) and only have a bit left, and I've also always done my best in school (I just noticed I was laying too much weight on the grades that it stressed me out) and I began working out pretty regularly last semester too. No one said you had to begin with your New Years Resolutions at New Years, you can start earlier. So I did :) 

Hopefully now, I can keep them the whole year. Go me!

What do you want to happen in 2013?

//Wayu

Yoga Vinyasa flow

Today is the first day back in Örebro and I've actually gotten back on track pretty fast, I've even started studying on time! It feels kinda great I must say! 
I even managed to start working out and eating correctly instantly :) Now I just have to keep it up!
Today, I went to the university gym and did the Yoga Vinyasa flow basic class for the first time. I have been doing yoga before I came to Örebro to study, and I've also trained yoga in the bodybalance classes and at home last semester, but I really wanted to try out the pure yoga classes here and I must say, it was great. The basic yoga class was focused on doing the poses correctly and our teacher went around in the class and corrected people's stances and helped us achieve true Yoga poses in the correct way. Even though I've done yoga classes before, this one was the most informative, and I noticed that with a few nudges in the right direction the poses strained my muscles so much more! I could feel my muscles burn in a totally new way! I'm aboslutely sure my muscles will ache tomorrow!

 

I will definitely go do the Vinyasa flow yoga classes again :)

When I looked it up online, it also seems that Vinyasa Flow is one of the type of yogas that burn most calories (the yoga classes that burn more are those extreme ones where you're in a hot-like-a-sauna-room and do yoga, not sure that would be something for me as I can't stand heat too well) since it's a flowing yoga without stop. That's a happy surprice too!

//Wayu

IKEA

 

Tomorrow it's time to go back to the normal study days in Örebro, but first, today it was time to travel back, take a trip to IKEA, buy the paintings I've wanted now for a while but needed a car to safely take back home, and do the major grocery shopping. So, my mom and dad accompanied me. Why dad came along I still don't really understand, he doesn't even like to walk around in stores, yet he came along for a whole day of shopping - whining a lot in the process. He said he just wanted to check that my apartment was as in order as I say it is. And even though it wasn't really well cleaned as I didn't have time for that before christmas, he had to agree that it wasn't bad ;) (success!)
Either way I have decided to loose some weight for a while now, and decided to start for real in the new year, now a big problem at my place in Örebro is the plates. When I moved in me and mom went to IKEA, but they were rebuilding the plates section that time, so it didn't really have much to offer, so in protest I just bought black plates and bowls, not many though as I didn't particularly like them. Now except for the fact that I didn't like the plates they were also WAY too big! I noticed that my portions became much bigger in those plates and decided to buy smaller ones next time. So, this time, I did.

Ikea's picture on their website of the plates.

I bought a series of plates from IKEA called "Arv" (litterally heritage), in a lovely smudge pink colour. I didn't want them only in pink though, so I mixed up with the off white plates of the same series and personally I think It looks great together.

All the plates and bowls have this wavy edge that I love, it really looks cute and a little vintage at the same time. The plus side is also that the bowl and the small plates are a lot smaller than those I've been using up till now, so it's great for portion size I gotta say ;)

I bought some other stuff too, but I'll write about them tomorrow :)

//Wayu

Fika with the girls

After coming back from Norrland I only have a few more days left in Stockholm before I have to back to Örebro, so after coming back thursday evening, I went to Robert's place immediately and spent the entire day with him yesterday. We didn't really do anything special, instead since we are both tired, especially my sweetheart, we decided to just chill at home. So we played Zelda Windwaker and kept on watching season two of Americas X factor (After all the swedish version is utter bullshit. The winner in the swedish version wouldn't even get through auditions in the American version, just saying.) all day long :)

On Saturday however I had made plans with some of my friends from my Gymnasium days - Selin, Olivia and Julia. Selin is at the moment living in Maastricht, studying as an exchange student, so we don't get to spend much time together, but she came home for christmas and I just had to make sure to see her again :) She's also blogging about her experience in Maastricht on tumblr, it's called tre två nio (three, two nine) and you can find it here if you're interested. Note that she's blogging in Swedish.

Either way we went to a café in Stockholm called Café 60, it's a very busy café with a million cakes, cookies, food and beverages so there's always something to choose from. I myself chose a Cheesecake and a big cup of chai latte. The chai latte was okay, I wouldn't recommend it though, and I think I choose the wrong cheesecake. I wanted a raspberry cheesecake, and they had three(!!) versions of just the raspberry cheesecake (not to mention all the other flavours!). A regular one, one with gingerbread bottom and one with gingerbread bottom and chocolate truffle. So I went for the one that had it all. And the cheesecake was good, so was the bottom, but although I LOVE chocolate truffle, it overpowered the delicate sweetness of the cheesecake, so in the end I massacred the cheesecake and removed the truffle to the side  :P But overall they DO have good pastry at Café 60 and a nice atmosphere.

From the left - Seline, Julia and the one closest to the camera is Olivia. Cutiepies, all of them <3

In the end, because it's been so long (WAY too long!) since we all met we had a lot to talk about, and we ended up sitting and just chatting and catching up for almost five hours! Gotta love meeting the girls :) <3

//Wayu

Norrland

So where the hell have i been the past few days? Well i've been in the north of sweden in norrland (litterally north land) in a tiny village called bellvik to visit my grandfather on his 80th birthday. Unfortunately there were barely any internet connection up there so i had no way of blogging, the only thing i managed was one tiny instagram photo. ;) so here's a few pictures from the trip :)

The little house where my grandfather lives. There's still a lot of snow up there!

My grandfather is a retired baker who's specialty is cookies so when we arrived we were instantly treated with cookies of all sorts!

My mom received some cookbooks from grandpa, and also a chef's hat that says "first taster" and so my brothers had fun with trying them out while portrayinc different moods. Contestant number one here is my eldest brother henrik portraying a reeeeally happy taster ;)

While my other brother harald portrayed the murderous taster who absolutely has to taste the cookies first, or else...! Haha ;)

Of course we also had presents for grandpa, it was after all his birthday :)


//wayu