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A few snapshots of my journey yesterday

Yo! I'm back home, safe and sound, after a very long, and exhausting journey. Thankfully though, I travelled with Oliver all the way to Stockholm. It's always nice to have someone to talk to when traveling.

I have had a productive morning so far. I got up early to go to my dentist appointment, I then went to Blomsterlandet to buy a few bits and pieces to decorate our house with. I then vacuumed downstairs. In a few minutes, my mum and I will head out for lunch and perhaps a cheeky bit of Christmas shopping. Later today I might meet up with a friend for a cuppa :)

Peace!

Music Monday #65

Barbados 2012

Jubel - Klingande

This week's favourite!

Fool's Gold - Tin Sparrow

The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole

Frosty the Snowman -  Bing Crosby

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! - Frank Sinatra

December 2013

Helen and I looking exhausted in Helsinki airport, before we boarded our plane to Stockholm. August 2013 

I have been really bad at updating this blog apart from my weekly music Monday's, frankly because I haven't been doing much and I have no inspiration to do anything.

Apart from going to the cinema last Thursday, I wrote a sociology essay on Arlie Hochschild's claims regarding the broader social effects on the commercialization of human feeling, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Quite an interesting topic, but not my best essay…

On Sunday the 1st of December, the first of Advent was celebrated with a bunch of friends at Sofia's and Lauren's flat. We ate cookies and æbleskiver (Danish pancake balls) and drank Christel's homemade mulled wine. Afterwards we headed to Wagamama's to stuff ourselves with some tasty ramen.

On Tuesday I got my psychology essay and report back. They are both good grades, but it bothers me that I could have gotten a better grade because of the small, stupid mistakes I made, which I even knew about before handing them in but didn't do anything about because I was lazy and fed up. Meh!

I have also started my Christmas shopping. I have bought Oskar's and my Dad's presents. Once I get home I'll buy my Mum's, and at Heathrow I'll buy Natalie's. My flat has organized Secret Santa, and I'm done with those presents as well. I just need to find wrapping paper :)

Pip pip

Christmas 2012

    

Pepparkakshus

Glögg

Lussebullar

Today it's exactly 18 days until I go home and 28 days until Christmas!!

I don't think words can explain how excited I am to go home and celebrate Christmas with my family!

Hopefully, my mum and I can squeeze in a baking-day just before Christmas eve. Baking Lussebullar and Pepparkakor and other delicious pastries and food is one of my favourite things about Christmas.

Lussebulle or lussekatt are saffron buns made of a rich, sweet bun which is flavoured by saffron. The buns are baked into many traditional shaped, of which the ismplest if the reversed S-shape. they are traditionally eaten during Advent and especially on Lucia (St. Lucy's Day) on December 13th.

Glögg (mulled wine, or in German: Glühwein) is a beverage usually made of red wine (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) along with various spices such as cinnamon, cardamon, ginger, cloves and orange. It is usually served with raisins and almonds which you plop into the warm beverage. It is of course traditionally consumed around christmas, especially on Advent.