Sunny weekend

Tired and ready for work at 6.30am on Monday morning

My mother and I went out for a terrific dinner at the newly opened restaurant Makeriet on Friday evening. My mum recommended a sublime white Italian wine for my seabream and paella. For dessert I enjoyed a crème brûlée, which is probably the best one I have ever had in my life!

The weather this past weekend was excellent, so I decided I would lay out in the sun and read The Catcher in the Rye (this is my mothers book from the 70s!). I didn't like it. But at least I can tick this book off my book list, as it's on of 'the classics'. I started reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain today. My dad also recommended a few books by Hemingway and Steinbeck.

I spent Saturday evening with Natalie, Juno, Ronja, Ewelina and Jenny, driking wine and enjoying fresh fruits and crisps with dip. My mother let me have this bottle of white Chenin Blanc from South Africa, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Ronja and Jenny went out at about 11 or so, and Juno and Ewelina left a little while after that. At around midnight, after Oskar, Robin and Emil arrived, we headed out to Satin where we met up with Juno and Ewelina again and had a beer. We sat there until closing at 2.30am

Everyday photos

This was the view of the sunset the other day from one of my bedroom windows. The clouds were more pink in real life. It's a shame the camera couldn't capture it

I would like to think of myself as quite an avid photographer. The truth is, I hardly ever take photos on a daily basis, lest the sunset is nice as depicted in the photo above. However, I feel I should resurrect my habit of taking photos, to make these update-posts more interesting!

After Helen left to go to Spain after spending a week here in Sweden with me, I suddenly felt very lonely and bored. I usually feel this way when I have spent a lot of time with people, it's a slight separation anxiety I have. I especially get it after getting back from vacation/holiday! Post-holiday-blues, as they say..

But alas, life goes on and after a week of sleeping in until noon and watching Mad Men on Netflix, I started work. I normally work for 7-8 hours a day, starting either at 7 or 8 and finishing at 15.30 or 16.30, depending on what my duties are for the day.
Ideally I would be soaking up the D-vitamin in the sun after work but it has been chucking it down with rain for a fair few days now. It was sunny for the better part of today, before the torrential rain and thunder returned. Due to the ghastly weather conditions this past week, I haven't been able to go strawberry-picking, much to my dismay. But this'll have to wait until the sun decides to stick around for a little longer.

I don't have work tomorrow so I'm assuming I'll be sleeping in and taking it easy. I do have a pair of jeans that need altering, may haps I'll commence that project. If it rains, I'll probably be playing GTA 5 or watching some more Mad Men. I'm not liking the series as much as I thought I was. I find the characters quite odd and distant, and sometimes they get on my nerves. Oskar can't seem to understand why I keep watching it, but at the end of the day I want to know what happens to Don Draper, so I keep watching.
Here's some trivia for you that I learned from my brother: Aaron Staton, the actor who plays Kenneth (Ken) Cosgrove in Mad Men, did the facial and voice acting for the video game L.A. Noire, in which he portrays the protagonist Cole Phelps.

Friday

An old picture of Paola and I from Connor's flat party back in January

What the hell! It's already Friday. Time has flown by so fast and while I've been working these past 6 weeks I think my brain has been on auto pilot all the time and not noticed it's the end of July already! Gaah!
Other than that, I'm currently tuning into UK's Ministry of Sound radio channel because they're airing live from the Tomorrowland Festival in Belgium! Amazing :) I wish I could go. Maybe next year!!
Tonight I'm just going to enjoy the fact that the weekend is here! I was out enjoying the marvelous weather this afternoon when I got back from work, I thought I was going to melt there in my chair....

Summer days

Natalie, Ronja, Juno and I got together one Saturday to drink rosé and eat some snacks, before we headed out to a bar called Satin

BBQ with the family one night

Ronja, Natalie and I got together last saturday before we headed over to Satin yet again. It's our favourite place to chill during the summers

Early morning (5.15am to be exact -.-) bike ride to work

I ate dinner with my friends Karin W, Karin C and Sangeet last night. This was my first plate of pizza and tacos

After that we headed over to a bar called Ivy for some drinks before we headed to the cinema to watch "Man of Steel"

Sangeet and her San Francisco cocktail

Karin and Sangeet

Me and Karin

We went swimming, and worked on our tans today in the beautiful weather and 28°C!!

I've been eating several kilos of strawberries from our garden! They are the most delicious strawberries you will ever eat, I swear.