Today I collected some books that I ordered over the internet and inventoried what I already had at home that I will need for this semester. And on the above picture is the pile...
It gets quite expensive, but I like to own the books. I want to be able to highligt the text if I feel like it, and I don't want to fight about the books at the library with all the other students. I can always sell the ones I don't want to keep when I'm done with the course. And I try to be smart about the purchases and buy the books I can use in several courses.
But at least some things are for free when you are a nurse student. Went to the Vaccination Surgery yesterday to get my vaccination for Hepatits B, tetanus/diptheria and do the tuberculin test. On Friday I'm going back for the TB-injection. And the good thing was that I only had to pay a small subsidized fee for the tetanus/dipthera, the others are free!! Good for me and my good for my wallet!
Tonight me and I and some other girls (or young women...whatever you would like to call us) are invited over to Å on dinner. Looking forward to that! It is soooo boringmaking dinner and eat it all alone...
I did just now understand how you make the YouTube video appear in the blog. No more links! (It's taken me a while...I'm a bit slow sometimes...)
So here comes the song of the day...or the month...or the past half year...or whatever....who cares?! It's a really good song...and today was the first time I reflected over the lyrics. The song is written and sung by Brian May and was performed for the first time at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992.
I'm finally done with the sewing of my new curtains. Yeay!! It took me quite some time, but to my defence it was the first time ever I sewed my own. And I've done it properly, no cheating what so ever!
Yesterday I realised my lovely CultDesign pots was looking quite sad where they were standing gaping empty in my kitchen window. So I took my bike down to the garden center to buy some plants. Easier said than done! I walked around in the different rooms trying to decide what I wanted. Green plants or something with flowers on? If flowers then what colour? Can I handle a plant that needs water oftenor should I go for one that can survive a drought?
I finally decided to go for the cerise begonias. They had the right size and a lovely colour. I hope they will like it here at my place...I sure like having them around!
Been following Project Runway season 4 for some time now. And I've fallen in love with it! Yesterday showed the two final episodes. Too bad Chris didn't go to the final (that actually made me cry....Me touchy?! No way!)...I think he made amazing and faboulous things. Was not all that impressed by Rami to be honest. But at least my favourit Christian won! He's sofierce!! Take a look at his beautiful final collection here.
Beautiful pictures of Dolly taken by F. Alfredsson
Rosé wine and beer on the beach
Memories of evenings like this make you survive the 10 dark months of the year
The french riviera
The port of Bendor Island
View of the landscape of Provance
St Tropez
Boats outstide St Tropez
Victoria Silversted shopping in St Tropez (Too bad I don't have the pictures Dad took in my computer at the moment...)
The alps - Mount Blance Massif
Lake Geneva - View from the city of Montreaux
Final evening at Leif's lounge for the summer Picnic at the cliffs by the sea Consert at Solgården
That was some of the things I've been doing this summer...
Besides the above things I've aslo: - worked with people I enjoy working with (most of them and most of the time that is...) - learnt a thing or two about football - had wonderful and lazy days on the beach - spent time with the family - spent time with good old friends... and some new ones as well...
One thing about looking back like this at a summer is that you always only remember the good days... But to be honest my summer have had some really low and lousy days this year as well. But that doesn't make thereally good ones less good...(and I owe it all to you...)
"Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens."
Jag har börjat stegräkna. Det är roligt. När man jobbar inom hemtjänsten, som jag ju gör, går man väääldigt många steg har det visat sig. Idag till exempel har jag jobbat 07.00 - 16.00 och gick under denna tid ca 15 000 steg. (Tilläggas bör kanske att det är rekomenderat att dagligen gå ca 12 000.) Efter jobbet idag tog jag dessutom en lång, härlig, varm och solig promenad utmed Nissan och västra stranden...så när jag nu tittar på stegräknaren ser jag att jag idag fått ihop 26 738 steg! Om varje steg är ca 50 cm betyder det att jag promenerat 1,3 mil!! Det är nytt rekord sedan jag började använda den!
Nu är jag trött i mina ben och fötter...ska bli skönt att sova. I morgon väntar en dag full av nya steg...förmodligen inte lika många eftersom jag bara jobbar till 13.30. Efter det tänkte jag bara lata mig i solen och på kvällen blir det nog karaoke med mina två galnaste vänner!
Förra veckan var jag och såg Sex and the city-filmen på bio. Åh vilken film det var! 2 1/2 timme med skratt och gråt om vart annant. 2 1/2 timme med skor, väskor och kläder som jag önskade jag hade...(råd med!) 2 1/2 timme med relationsproblem; olycklig kärlek?, lycklig kärlek?, göra slut?, hitta tillbaka?, gå vidare? Vad är rätt?, Vad är fel?, Vad vill jag? 2 1/2 timme som jag önskade aldrig skulle ta slut...
14 timmars jobbedag...det är nästan omänskligt. Jag är trött men samtidigt för uppe i varv för att kunna sova. Fasade lite för att vara på jobbet i så många timmar....men det gick trots allt bra...skönt att kvällen var lugn.
Resten av veckan blir mest jobb. Och det känns helt okej. Vad ska man annars göra? Vädret är ju inte precis det bästa. Blåst och regn och mera blåst och lite åska...usch och fy...man skulle kunna tro att det är september...
Nu ska jag läsa en stund i Paulo Cohelho's : Vid floden Piedra satte jag mig ned och grät. Har kommit halvvägs och tycker än så länge väldig mycket om den...
(Svar till D. Jägmästarevägen är ju också fint...kanske att vi skulle kunna ha det som sommarbostad? Jag menar, med tanke på våra vårdlöner så är det ju inga problem att ha två bostäder!)
Bloggen blir tyvärr lite eftersatt såhär i sommartider. Finns så mycket annat att göra när man är ledig. Annat är det när man pluggar...då är bloggandet ett mer lockande alternativ än själva böckerna. Så ni får nog räkna med färre uppdateringar, även om jag ska bättra mig och i fortsättningen göra mitt bästa.
Klarade sista tentan också. Känns skönt att inte ha missat någon under hela det första året...antar att jag är rätt så bright ändå när jag lägger den sidan till!!
Här hemma i Halmstad har vardagen kommit igång och jag tycker (tro det eller ej) att det är skönt att få jobba lite...i allafall än så länge...
Helgen som var spenderades i Malmö med vänner och Dolly Parton konsert. Såklart blev det även shopping...Köpte ett par bruna högklackade skor bland annat som jag sneglat på ett tag...kände mig liksom värd dem, trots att de inte var på rea.
Dollyvar, precis som förra året i Globen, helt fantastisk!Vilken kvinna!Vilken röst! Hon spelade alla gammla goa låtar (Two doors down, 9 to 5, Jolene, Why'd you come in here looking like that, Baby I'm burnin', Joshua, Coat of many colors, Here you come again, Island in the stream, Little Sparrow, Eagle when she flies och I will always love you m.fl) och några av de nya från senaste plattan (Backwood barbie, Better get to livin', Shinola m.fl). Hade hört alla låtar utom två...Saknade dock Apple Jack och Tennessee mountin home. Men dem sjöng hon ju förra året, så jag antar att man får vara nöjd med att i allafall hört de live en gång i livet.
För övrigt har den senaste tiden bestått av shopping, födelsedagsfirande av M, några strandbesök, grillning på stranden, en utekväll, lite EM-fotboll (jag har till och med tippat en rad på skoj...gick bra i början, men lite sämre nu på slutet...lite svårt att få rätt när man baserar sin rad på lag med snyggast spelare...)tandläkarbesök, jobb och lite annat smått och gott. Ikväll blir det Hulken på bio...
Lite bilder från den senaste tiden kommer snart...På återseende och jag säger som Dolly:
"Thank you for loving me and letting me love you back!"
Yesterday was such a great day.Started with an hour walk, ate breakfast on the balcony then took a book and a blanket out tothe nearby park and stayed until lunch time. Had lunch and then met up with I in town for a loongafternoon shopping. Took ofcourse a break at Espresso house with one mocca latte for I, one ice chai latte for me and a mudcake with whipped cream to share...yummy!! We really deserved that after this first year at uni. Spended some money and I'm very satisfied with the things I bought. Didn't get home until 6 o'clock.
I bought one black and one white body, one black tube top, one necklace, one bracelet and a pair of sunglasses.
At 6:30 pm we where supposed to be at N's place...arrived only fifteen minutes late, not too bad... Then we (me, I, N, F and S) had a lovely evening at the "roof terrace" with food and rosé wine. We stayed at N's place all night and I got home around 1:30 am. Perfect way to start the summer... <--- My evening outfit...I'm in looove with the black and white bodies...perfect togheter with a skirt or jeans!
Today has been good day aswell...just been lying in the park reading the new Elle Decor magazine and listening to Dolly in my mp3 player. Then I got to the gym and attended the BodyJam class...Now I am packing all the stuff I need for the summer in Halmstad...20 pair of shoes...Do you think that will be enough?!
I have all the time in the world to watch telly...but I found that there is nothing, ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING, worth watching tonight...Ironic, don't you think?!
I'm finally free! And I don't care how the exam went, I'm just so relieved it's over. I don't have to think about childhood dieseases, dehydration, macrophages, eosinophiles, diabetes mellitus, personality disorders and all the other things anymore...at least for now...
Now I'm gonna take a long walk in the sun...and then eat the rest of that delicious Ben&Jerry Ice-cream on the balcony...and then I'm gonna make my flat look like a flat again...AND THEN I'M GONNA WATCH TELLY ALL NIGHT LOOOOOONG!!!(Haven't done that for ages...)
I give up...enough is enough...the things I don't know by now I probably won't learn until tomorrow. All I want is this semester to be over. I need a break. I want to be in Halmstad with my friends having a lazy day on the beach and an evening with barbeque and too much rosé wine...
My head is spinning...I can hardly tell what's up and what's down. And I still have at least 3 more hours with the books today...and then another 8 or so tomorrow. There are still so many things about the immune system to figure out...I keep mixing it all up.
Everything felt quite good earlier but right now I'm on the verge of giving up...
I just got home from the grocery store where I found my dear old friends Ben&Jerry standing in the freezer waiting for me...
I guess there is no bad mood Ben & Jerry can't fix!!
Got the day for my exam next week...and with my bad luck I got monday. But at least monday afternoon... I is writing on wednesday...(I wanted to do wednesday as well...) A well...nothing to do about that more than to get focused and more or less isolate myself in the flat with all the books and notes... Next tuesday I am gonna treat myself with way too muchshopping...probably won't write anything new here until then...so...see you next week! (And keep your fingers crossed for me...)
Yesterday when I was listening to the radio they where talking about queuing. And they wanted people to call in and tell them what they where queuing for at the moment... And there was this guy calling in and said: - I'm queuing for the love of my life. She broke up with me after 5 years this winter so now I'm standing in line, waiting for it to be my turn again...
I can't decide whether I think this is really sweet or just really stupid...
Just got home from the cinema. Been watching the new Indiana Jones movie togehter with I and M and J and A. There is only one word to describe that movie : Unrealistic. I didn't expect anything else of course since it's Indiana Jones we are talking about. But still...come on...even Indiana Jones need food sometimes and he would probably need to go to the loo aswell! Things like that annoys me... But besides that...the movie was quite amusing...and Harrison Ford looks really good for his age.
It was the last day at my work experience place today. Had a very good evaluation with my tutor and she was very, very pleased with me and the progress I've made during the past 5 weeks. Felt really good to hear.
This weekend and the whole of next week I will focus on the uppcoming exam. So much to do and soooolittle time...but I guess if there is a will, there is a way...
Now it's time to shake that ass at the BodyJam class at the gym...that will probably make me fit for fight for an evening with the books...and ofcourse the semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest with Charlotte Perelli and the song Hero tonight!
Jag börjar blijääävligtless på kursledningen... ...vi studenter har varit väldigt lugna och fina och tålmodiga och förstående denna terminen med allt framflyttande av föreläsningar och obligatoriska moment i tid och otid...men någonstans går gränsen....och den passerades idag!
Och orden "ni får göra det bästa av situationen" känns mest som ett hån...det påminner lite om den gamla reklamfilmen där chefen kommer in och säger : " Du har ju hela helgen på dig..."
Jag kan säga att vi studenter, som denna respektlösa schemaändring berör, har försökt göra det bästa av situationen ända sedan det första barn HLR tillfället ställdes in för oss...efter att det andra tillfället också ställdes in pratade vi i min basgrupp ihop oss och jag skrev sedan ett mail till kursarsvarig med förslag på hur vi skulle kunna lösa situationen på bästa och smidigaste sätt för oss studenter som var drabbade...men icke...det är ju alltid vi studenter som "ska göra det bästa av situationen"...det vore tacksamt om kursledningen och kursansvarig också kunde göra det ibland!
It is cold and grey and cold and grey and cold and grey outside...and yesterday it was raining. Where did the lovely, sunny and warm weather go??!
Days like this make me wanna pack my bag and take the next flight as far away as possible. Would be nice to be lying under the palmtrees on a far away beach with a good book(and not some medicin or nursing litterature)...ah well...I'm glad I at least have the ability to daydream...
On Facebook there are so many fun tests you can take. And I love doing them to find out what kind of person I really am...if I don't already know ofcourse.
I just took one called: What is your dance style? And after answering 5 questions or so I got the result: A cha-cha dancer. And the motivation: "Tess is one hot firecracker. You've got a vibrant and flirtatious style that keeps you zesty and fun. You're not afraid to get up close and personal with whomever your partner happens to be."
Last week a took a test called: How british are you? And the result: I'm proud british. With the motivation: "While still not bloody British, you're the second highest level of Britishness we can aspire to. You probably love a good game of cricket, appreciate sarcasm and are extremely proud of our culture, heritage and our almost successful sport teams!"
And when it comes to who I would be if I where a LOST character I got a bit surprised because the result showed : Desmond Hume... ...with the motivation: "You are mysterious and a secret romantic. No one has any idea what you're doing most of the time, and you like it that way. You may be crazy, or just drunk, but more than likely, you know what's going on more than most of the people around you. If you don't already have an accent, you probably secretly want one."
I'm totaly empty in my head, but at least I finally finished the summary!!
I'm gonna celebrate this with the very first episode in the very first season of Beverly Hills, 90210. I've read that there is aspin off planned...with Jennie Garth playing Kelly, now working as a study and career adviser at Beverly Hills High. Apperently Jason Priestly and Tori Spelling has told that they are interested in playing their old characters again if they get asked. I hope, I hope, I hope they do get asked!!! (And my favourit Luke Perry as well...)
Four days off:friday, saturday, sunday and monday. And all I'm gonna do is study. Today I'm gonna finish a summary of 2000 words (I only have 1700 words left to write) on the subject : "The nurse communicate with children about growth, overweight and obesity." Tomorrow I'm gonna focus on diabetes type 1 in children.
Next week is my last at the work-experience place. That's a big relief...I'm quite sick of it right now...not much to do, and since it's the end of the semester the school children are often out on different trips. You can feel in the atmosphere that the summer holiday is just around the corner.
Earlier this week I walked over the schoolyard in Tallboda and passed some lilac-bushes... and what a scent! Absolutly heavenly! I think I'm gonna take a walk after lunch and see if I can pick some to put on my coffee-table. Now it's time for breakfast.
M popped in earlier tonight and handed me a present from Å in Australia.
And what a lovely present then!! (Thank you soooo much!) 3 pair of pink Bonds-nickers (my all-time favourits!), 1 Koala-teddybear, a dolphine card, and a Kit-Kat CookieDough! Yummy! I'm gonna save that Kit-Kat until Wednesday afternoon when I've finished my examination in Medical technique . Can't wait!
Helgen har bjudit på sommarväder och jag har spenderat dagarna tillsammans med I i Trädgårdsföreningen och förenat nytta med nöje: solning och eximinationsplugg. Har lyckats få lite färg samtidigt som jag känner mig liiiite, om än bara liiiite, säkrare på vad det är jag ska kunna på onsdag. Paniken har inte infunnit sig ännu...men jag har en känsla av att den kommer slå till hårt och brutalt i morgon...
Dagens låt blir en gammal sång från en av mina absoluta favorit: Elvis. Förmodligen den finaste han har gjort...
"Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind..."
Took some lovely walks in a spring-beautiful Halmstad last week. Just what I needed.
Now I'm back in Linköping and I have spent the afternoon doing laundry...soooboring. But soon I will take my bike and visit I and M in their new flat! Can't wait to see it!
My flat is still a mess...The man from Nomus was here this morning and hopefully I will never have to see him or the bugs again!!
I had been looking forward to be home in Halmstad for almost 5 whole days...
But 2008 is so obviously NOT my year and I had to change my plan because the creepy carpet- and bacon beetles (funny names in engilsh!) are back in the flat and the man from Nomus is coming to do a second decontamination (is that the right word?) on monday morning 8 o'clock. So I need to go back on Saturday to empty all the cupboards and closets all over again.
Luckily I will get some help from mom and dad this time...
The bug problem is really not what I need right now...but then again worse things can of course happen...
I am sure everything will be alright and life will get easier soon...maybe not today or tomorrow...But maybe 2009 will be a good year?!
Fingers crossed...for me and for my dear friend C who hopefully is fit for fight soon again!!
Today the rain is absolutly pouring down and I guess that is a good thing sometimes. The spring need the rain to be able to make all the trees go into bloom. And sometimes you need the rain to be able to appreciate the sun...
That is why I think the song of the day is Tomorrow - from the lovely musical about Annie.
Hopefully I will learn some...
But at least some things are for free when you are a nurse student.
