Awesome company and a boost of confidence!

What a day, finally felt like the spring it's way to Sweden!! Had a very nice day with Linn and Amanda, stunning weather and lots of laughs. Ended the day with A BIT of work... Was so frustrated when one thing didn't turn out as i wanted it to turn out... After an hour or so the problem was solved. Voilà, the confidence-of-the-day-boost right there! You need a "i-can-do-anything-on-my-own-boost" every now and then, i think that's what's making you stronger! You also need to spend time with awesome people every now and then. I've said it before.. but it's worth saying again, i wish i had all my friends from all over the world in one single spot so that i could spend more time with all of them! Really really miss all the beautiful, amazing people that i've met along my travels. But i'm so happy that i've gotten to know them all, they are a part of me.

Lucky to spend a day with these lovely chicks today!

Lunch-time-nap

Learn to dance in the rain.

True story.

Another place to call home.

Been home in Lidköping for one day and are driving down to Smögen tomorrow again. Then i'm probably staying for three weeks, work for three weeks and then i'm off for a couple of days. AND we're opening on Saturday!!! Yeay, so exciting but right now it's so much to do still. But hey, i enjoy every minute of work (except the painting-everything-part..) so i'm not worried about working for three weeks straight. Karin is coming down on Friday as well, i've missed spending every minute with her this winter season so working AND living with her can't be anything else then AWESOME!!!

These hot chicks are coming down with me for the day tomorrow! They played the very first game (therefor this brilliant photo..) with their new team yesterday, i couldn't be there to watch it BUT from what i heard they kicked assssss!!!!

A new friend.

I was the last one in my family to get one, and probably the last person on earth to get one as well.. But here he is, my new iPhone friend and a new family member for my Macbook. Welcome, i promise to take good care of you!

Karin was missing at the dinner table this week.. I replaced her with Alex and Solsidan, the best and funniest comedy show ever made!

Hard work, work.

Puh.. I'm tired. Drove home from Smögen tonight where i've been working for a couple of days. Spending a day at home and then we're going back early on Saturday morning. So much to do right now but i've never enjoyed working as much as i do now! It's a another world working for yourself, you know that if you don't do it yourself, it's not going to be done, none will do it for you.. And you know that the harder you work, the more you get back, hopefully.. Being your own boss is great and working with my dad is so much better than i ever thought it would be. A lot of our ideas are the same and if there's something that we're disagree on i found it so much easier then if i would work with someone else to solve that problem and make it work both ways. We're the perfect team! Can't wait till next weekend when we're opening up the doors. So so excited!!

There's no words for how beautiful the swedish west coast is! I can stroll around for hours, the views are stunning and i never get enough...

The coast guards.

It's been pretty lonely this week, Karin is back in Sälen for a week so i've been all by myself. Scary at nighttime since i'm A BIT scared of the dark. But.. what doesn't kill you make you stronger. This weekend my dad and sister is coming as well to help. Then after my sisters graduation middle of June, she'll be living in Smögen as well. So so good to be having both my sister and best friend there, it's going to be a WICKED summer!!!

I will tell your story if you die.

Listen to this... Sooo good!!

Laleh - Some die young.



You are your best friend.

Be confident. Too many days are wasted comparing ourselves to others and wishing to be something we aren't. Everybody has their own weaknesses, and it is only when you accept everything you are - and aren't - that you will truly succeed.

Accept who you are eh...

Too cool for school?

Hm.. I wish i was. Tomorrow is the last day for university applications.. BLÄ! I've never ever felt so lost before! I kind of have a plan for my future, kind of.. I'd like to start up a business that allows me to take quite a bit of work off during the winter months so that i can spend a lot of time skiing or start some kind of business in a ski resort. Gosh, life's hard, way too many decisions! And way too many other things to do except studying.. I feel strangled just by the thought that i'd be "stuck" in Sweden and not able to go wherever i want for a longer time. Not that Sweden is bad and absolutely not because i don't love all my friends and family here. The reason is that i wanna feel like i'm free to do whatever i want, whenever i want. Also, putting all my friends from all over the world in on certain spot together with my family would make life so much easier...

Just because you don't do like everyone else, something is wrong with you. What if i'm not meant to have a nine-to-five-monday-to-friday-job? What if i wanna live another kind of life, something that suits me better? Everyone is different and we need to start thinking in other ways, just because you and me are different, both ways of thinking and living is the right way.

I came back from Smögen tonight, drove Karin to the train station in Falköping and then straight home. Was so freaking tired.. Hard hard work for five days, so proud of us! We've been painting like professional painters, using a screwdriver as if we was born with one.. Girlpower! hah Think i'll go back on Tuesday, there's a lot of things that has to be done in the next two weeks. But even if it's hard work it's so much fun!

If you ever come back...

... i leave the key under the matt.

Smögen!

Long time no see! My life is busy right now, and it feels like i'm kind of isolated from the outside world..hah Karin and i moved down to Smögen a couple of days ago and has been working in the shop from the moment we got out of bed till about 8pm.. Just came back from a short walk to get some fresh air , it's so beautiful here! I'm so so happy and excited about spending the summer here, can't be anything else then amazing!

How beautiful is this?

Lasagna for dinner, second day in a row, one more to go.. And the "table" is a microwave-box. Karin's comment was "Sofia, you've lived in Japan you should be used to sit on the floor while having dinner..."

Time for a movie, then bedtime for some sleep and up early in the morning to work again..

The land of snow and ice?

Hakuba and Whistler aren't the only places that still delivers snow in April.. This is taken outside of my house this afternoon!

When i tell people about where i am from they usually say that "you're from the land of snow and ice..". Everyone seem to think that Sweden is super cold and that we have snow all year round. But i start to think that it is true, i start to think that maybe Sweden is the land of snow and ice. Or at least turning into snow and ice. Come on, it's the 6th of April and it's been snowing all day!! I'm ready for spring and i'm pretty sure everyone else is too.. As long as i'm not in a ski resort i don't really care about the snow, and especially not in April.

New York Grill.

Here's some pics from our dinner at Park Hyatt in Tokyo last week..

Miss my girls!

Almost reunited.

Today is a happy day, almost every day is a happy day but today is a special-happy-day. Caroline and i are driving down to Gothenburg to see our lovely Johanna. I haven't seen her since last summer!!! Sooo excited!

Two of my absolute favorites.

On top of the world.. Almost, top of Sweden!

I've been playing this, probably 10 times today, Amanda Fondell with All this way. She have the most incredible voice, i'm loving it!! She won the swedish idol last year. Enjoy!

Bästa bästa CAROLINE!!

I've had such a good day! Spent the morning getting stuff for the store with my dad AND THEN i went home to Caroline who came home from uni last night. My wife, sort of, and better half Caroline!! She knows everything worth knowing about me and probably a bit more.. How i've missed her. She had to go to the hairdresser now, but we're meeting up again later on tonight and are going out for dinner. So so happy that i got to see her over easter!!!

The Golden Rule.

My mum and dad always taught me as a kid to live by something called Den Gyllene regeln, i would translate it to The Golden rule. The rule was, or is, pretty much just "Treat other people as you want them to treat you" I think that's the most important rule i can think of, it's something that is following you till the end. If everyone lived by that rule i think that the world would be so much better...

But i guess everyone, even the "difficult" people, teach us something every day. And if they can make more people then there is difficult people, to realize that life is all about caring and TAKING care of each other then i'm happy!

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Bad mood.

It's always hard to come home. One part of me want to be home while the other part just want to go back. Back to fairyland, back to all my friends and back to the snow. And right now i miss so many people that i've met through these three past years, so many awesome people that i don't get to see that often. Luckily Canada-Karin is coming here on Monday, can't wait to see her!!!

The best thing ever would be if i could take all the great people that i love including my family and put them all in one spot so that i could see them all every day. How good would that be?! Sometimes it's frustrating to have friends all over the world, yes frustrating. Frustrating that they aren't a part of your daily life anymore. Someone that you've seen every day is now thousand and thousand miles away! Oh i'm just in a bad mood, that kind of mood when i miss all the happy times and people i've met along all my adventures.

Here's some picture from the weekend when we went to Smögen to do a bit of work in the store.. So stoked that i get to spend my summer there. Or i'm pretty much moving down next week so even the spring. Yeay!!

Just outside the store.

Our morning-before-work-swim-spot.

How beautiful is this? Even Sweden has it's beautiful sights..