Lodz, Poland.

At very cool hotel.

Very interesting...

Very interesting indeed I have to say. My stats show that I have readers from the following countries: Sweden

Malta

France

United States

United Kingdom

Ireland

Poland

Slovenia Isn't that great? But who are you all I wonder?

Valley of death

So yeah, pretty bad storm and flood last night. I'm glad we live on a hill!

Hej hej

I'm still alive, I have just not had the time or energy to blog since I came back from my baltic tour. But now I promise to get better.

It has been raining quite a bit since I got back, and last night was pretty bad. Really bad for us since we have some electrical failure going on in our apartment that makes everything trip everytime it starts raining, meaning no electricity for us.

A guy is coming to look at it this week though, so let's hope for no more thunder storms until then.

Other than that we have been planning for the upcoming Halloween party, lunching, playing squash, cosing and working. Working from the new office, that is, and it is awesome! I really like my job now, and I feel really good about it!

Still alive and kickin'!

But this time from  Lodz, Poland. It seems like a nice city, even tho I haven't seen a lot of it yet. The hotel is awesome and there is a huge shopping mall right next to it :)

That's all you get for now, I will blog more when I get back home again!

Alive and kicking

Just letting you know that I am alive and kicking in Riga. Work is going well and we are having a good time, but i forgot to bring my camera cable to I am unable to upload any  pictures until I come back home.

Had a nice gym and spa session today, the spa in the hotel is really luxurious and nice, and then buffet dinner here at the hotel. Full, but not too full actually.

Missing my man as crazy, but I am keeping a mental countdown until I come home :)

The hotel's room service menu has a 'Scandinavian style shrimp sandwich' (Räkmacka in Swedish) and we have had two each so far. Yum, nice hotel. The weather sucks tho, it is really cold and autumny and I miss the Maltese weather now.

Time to sleep!

Riga!

We have arrived safe and sound in Riga, after a whole day of travelling. Now we are off to the casino and the Rigged in Riga tournament party!

I'm really good at this!

Had a nice run and a good, exhausting workout on the rocks with Nema, now I'm sitting here eating cheese for dinner, having a glass of red and postponing the packing. I have to say, I'm quite good at it. But far from as good as I am postponing unpacking.

My record still is when me and two friend when for a summer vacation to Malta in July, and by christmas I still had some stuff in that suitcase. I just took whatever I needed out of it, and let's face it, in Umeå in fall/winter you're not gonna need that many items that were usable in Malta in July!

Ok, I have to do this now! Get the packing done and over with. Joe the Crazy driver picks me up at 7.30 tomorrow morning, then off to the Paris of Baltikum! Or is that Tallin..?

What to pack?

I don't know what to pack for this Lavia/Poland trip...I heard today that it is 7 degrees in Riga..What?!! This means I have to start wearing socks again!! I haven't worn socks or a long sleaved top since May... On top of this I'm going to be away for 8 days, I'm gonna miss the hell out of my fiancé, that's for sure. I'm starting the countdown the minute I leave..

This pic is from when we were in Riga a couple of years ago, a traumatizing boat trip and many mugs of Glintwine was included in that trip :)

Football and cooking class!

While Seamus is charging for football practice with Beergarden FC, I'm attempting to cook carb free chocolate cake.

 

Now, time for cooking class with the girls!

Every other day...

...the water has to be changed for the little ninjas! When I change the water in the big tank, I move them to this kidney shaped smaller one.

And then they go mad when they come back to the big one. Swimming around like maniacs! Cute!!

Buster!

The pork roast...

...turned out very nice despite of my lack of experience in the pork roasting field. I cooked it in beer, beef and chicken stock, a lot of herbs, mustard and carrots.

Like farmor!

I'm currently making a pork roast, and I feel like my farmor (grandma). The reason I'm making a roast at this hour is that I bought it on Saturday and I don't want to waste it by not cooking it. Btw, that's another shopping problem I have -meat, if there is good meat in the store, I can get really inspired to cook something from it, even tho, as in this case, I don't know how to cook it, and then I just have to buy it.

Well, we'll how this one turnes out, I kinda made it up as a went along, and now it's just cooking. I'll take a picture when it's done!

The Shoes!

Unfortunately my colleague tells me that there are good shoe shops in Riga, where we are going this weekend and next week, so I might have to take that statement back and make it a week instead!

More shoes will move in here:

I think I have a problem..

...these are the shoes that I have bought in the past 2 weeks...Too much? Borderline. I should probably take a little break from the shoe shopping for a couple of weeks.

 

But I love them all. No regrets. I think I have to break in the beige ones today in work :)

October 3rd, Malta

As you can see, the weather is still quiet awesome! Today we had a long wine lunch in the sun with M & L by Spinola bay and planned for our upcoming Halloween party! The rest of the day has been dedicated to watching Two and a half Men in bed and just general relaxing.

The Hangover

I think one of best things about a crazy party night is to check the photos on your camera the day after, it is usually very entertaining, and can explain what happen better than your blurry memory. If you have seen the movie The Hangover you know what I'm talking about.

Well, this morning was no exception, and I'm sharing what I think is the winning picture from last night :)

Caption: 04.00 Saturday morning, Beergarden

Another crazy night in Malta

It has been a very quiet day today, we woke up at 12, both of us very hungover. Haven't had a hangover in a while, or to be exact since mum and dad were here and we had that birthday party in Beergarden. And as a matter of fact, last night was a very similar evening. We went to the Blue Elephant to celebrate that Nema got the job (starting Monday) and had a super nice dinner. Again, I can highly recommend that restaurant, the food is great and the service superb!

After that we went to Beergarden and stayed there until they closed -4 o'clock in the morning! There was karaoke this time as well, and yes, once again I sang Hotel California! :)

I don't even want to know how much I drank last night, but we were 6 people and I think we averaged two rounds each... Yeah, it was a lot of drinking, singing and talking. But it was fun, so I don't mind that this day had to be dedicated to watching Modern Family and eating junk food in bed. And speaking of that, I think it's time to go back to doing that :)