Midsummer

Hi again, yeah I know..bombarding today..I have for so long been making theese drafts of what I need to write about and so much has just happened in my life and home so I just have no time to write about it.

Anyways..its june..and in mid june in Sweden we celebrate Midsummer.
This is how one can describe it....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ZLpGOOA1Q&feature=youtu.be

or like this as IKEA did it^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbh3uAZ4WUM

were going for the second one...Were getting some visitors from Gothenburg and rosewine is on the serving meny <3

This is how our neighbours are celebrating it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThk1gLMgiE&feature=related

Happy midsummer everyone^^

Summerburst 2012

Ok so the good thing living in Stockholm is ofc that everything happens here really.
All cultural events, all fun museums all movie shoots well almost eveything.
Last year me and Centi was at Summerburst..it was the first time we had a outdoor House musicparty in Sweden...in like...ever!

I showed some pics but didnt talk that much about the lineup.
Nor whis year its not only bigger and better but they sold out in less than a week.
25000ppl bought tickets and the lineup is pretty amaizing not to mention the media survailance on the internet and FB on the event.

Etohain joined us and weather was fantastic all friday and from 18,00 on saturday..yes right..it was a 2 day party this year:P

Here is som informaiton about the line up...in english even^^

http://www.beatmyday.com/2012/06/17/summerburst-festival-in-stockholm-sweden-2012/#axzz1y8KxMPKi

and here is some pictures we took :)
I btw seriously start to like my new phone again..thanx Eo for giving it to me...the cam pics are so much better than I ever expected. <3

The event makers learned so much from last year..everyowhere you could pay with VISA cards now.. there was atleast 200% more toilets and 600% more foodplaces. I litterately didnt que in nor out wich is amaizing. Really good party, good music, happy people!

Only down side was that snce it was "outdoors" ppl smoked...so clothes got burnt on the dancefloor area and the carpets they had put on the floor to protect the arena had burnmarks everywhere since poeple smoking just drops the ciggarette on the ground when done..discusting.
So for next year I would hope there is no cigarettes allowed.

For next year....we are going again! Want to join us?

Pictures of our livingroom/kitchen area

Here you have the finished pictures of all the work the past few weeks.
Enjoy :)

but now then starts the biggest challenge. Tiles and wallpaper.
Yeah u heard me..tiles for the kitchen and I just seriously need to get rid of that horrible epileptic wallpaper behind the huge painting (last picture)
so here is what Im thinking:

We have all cabins in white, all handles in brushed steel, workbenches are walnut.
tiles needs to be semidark.
we cant take white because then the entire freakking room is white and I dont want that.
But the wallpaper grey/black flowers *turns green* looks like a child wrote on the wall..needs to disappear. So...wallpaper that matches or at least picks up some of the colors in the room.
This int easy folks.
do u know how many producers of wallpaper there is? I dont but apperently more than companies that makes tiles. Its a djungel dammit.

So been googling the past days..discussing and came up with one wallpaper and one set of tiles...
now Centi decided tiles..so I think its just fair if I get to pick the wallpapers..right?

So here is a homemade collage of the two...ofc this can change like 500 times more but this is one suggestion atleast..your the first ones to see it so Im hoping for some comments.

Its actualy funny..I never get comments(more than spam) and yet still I have a shit loaf of ppl according to blogger that reads my blog..strange isnt it?
ofc ther eis no so much to comment on someones life but still :P

anyways..enough monolog..what do you think?

The tiles are 2x2cm mosaik called Höganäs CC Golden line brown.

The wallpaper (InTrade "Reflex") is actually not like that really the stripes goes from top to bottom but I want it in this direction so me and Centi just need to figure out how to get them in place:P
You start from roof to floor even though u do it in the "wrong" direction right?

So the kitchen.....

Here it is...without tiles and cover sides for the lamps..we need to decide tiles and wallpaper and shit befor eth erest can be put upp.
But this is our new 7,5 meter kitchen with a baking area and a bar desk to sit at.

Quite a difference right?
The fridge and freezer arrives next week so now I need ot get all my shit in place and be ready to get the last electronics in place :)
Im so happy Im about to faint..Finally I can start living in this shithole called capital of Sweden :P

Day and night....

Working day and night...from monday at 10AM til tuesday at 23,00 CET.
The guys barely slept and even when doing that they made up new plans for how to fix the kitchen.

Nothing was missing..I mean...NOTHING. We gotten a "goodiebag" witht he delivery with extra of every crew, plug and shit we ever might need but then the problems arrised...
The fridge and freezer is 180. the cabins above is just 40. its going to be a huge gap between the two.
and it just looks shit if we dont get the cabins same hight from the roof...
So in the late mondya evening..with BBQ and beer infront of them the guys figured it out.
Lets build int he electronics!! Lets build a cabin arround the two..that way we can rase them from the ground..and get it symmetric and goodlooking. Perfect!
And that they did...

And so the work begins...

with gettign the new kitchen in place ofc..
But before that I need to tell you..
that friday when it all was sorted I got a text message from above..the handymen were going to be 1 day late..so they arrived at 10aM on monday morning..
Kitchen was in place..and all my electronics. I have a few more grey hairs but...
....Its a fucking miracle.

But we had decided we needed help to tear down a wall aswell.
Its a wall doing no good except creating a 1,5m wide corridor between the livingroom and our computer room. so we wanted it cut in half...

So when the handymen came..they had some serious work to be doing...

after some serious fighting over the phone...

There was finally a decission made..lets use UPS to ge tht ekitchen to Stockholm.
EPOQ ( The company we purchaged the kitchen from) calls the trucking company up at 12,00 CET wednesday. And calls back to me.
-Gaia, I have bad news...the truck with your kitchen already left.
-WHAT?!?! but hten its ok they should arrive latest friday here in Stockholm so we can get out kitchen then...
-No..we need to get it to our central storage..repack it to an other truck and check so everything in the order is in place. But if I say we come with it first thing 8am on Monday morning..is that ok?
-Not really but what can i do...I think I can keep my handymen bisy from 6am on mondya mornign until the kitchen arrives so ok..deal.
But you better have everything in the delivery or I go nuts and bananas on you.
-With every right, I just hope this is all of it.

Few hours later phone rings...
-The telescopic addition to your owen..we found some here in the back..do you want ot come and pick them up or do you...
-Send them with the post..they are not big and I can pick them up closer than going 60mins one way to your store
-Ok, Ill put them comming today already so you shouldhave them tomorrow.

few hours more, phone rings again.
My heart kinda stops every time and I have started to hate the fucking signal, just bringing bad news again for sure.
- Hi its form electrolux...your stew..we are out of the sort you want..so we have 2 options..you wait for us to produce it or we try finding somethign else.
- Ok I can take somehtign else but it better have all the functions i want!
-I´ll check and call you back!

10mins later..phone rings again..SHOOT ME!!
-Hi Gaia, I have good news.
-*exhales*
-We dont need to replace the stew...
-Oh?
-No there is someone that has put one away for safekeeping for an other customer..and since you have had more than you share of problems I just give that one for you and the other customer can just take an other one or hope tha tin 2 months time whne he is to get his kitchen the stew is back in stock.
- Great news..when can i get it?
-It son its way already^^
-Fantastic! And wkilest Im talking to you..we need to buy a freezer and a fridge..and since you pitty me crazy lot you give me a fair prize kompensating for my sorrows and heartfailures the past week right.
-Yes! I put an offer togheter you cant refuse.
- <3

In u face Murphy!!!!

Murphy fucking hates my guts...

So the journey with our kitchen begins...
We picked out everythign we wanted in march..and delivery was to come 29/5.
One would think they got a lot of time to get my order togehter right?
Well that wasnt goign to happend for sure..
15h before delivery I get a phonecall
-Hi Gaia, I have some bad news. the telescopic function you wanted incerted in your owen..we havent been able to get hold of them via Electrolux so you wont recieve them tomorrow morning as agreed originally.
-Hey, ok as long as that is the only thing missing *joking*

14h before delivery phone rings
-Hi Gaia we have a problem :/
-Oh..what is my entire kitchen forgotten? *joking*
-uhm...yes.
-*silence*
-Our driver from the Czech republic has some car troubble so he has not left Czechia yet. But your kitchen is on its way so we need to book a new delivery date.
-Ok fine..as long its here befor eend of week things should be fine..my handymen arrives sunday to start working.
-Im sorry but I was thinking end of next week.
- WOOOT?!?!? Is he fucking walking here with the kitchen on his shoulders?!? It doesnt take 2 weeks todrive from there to here.
I dont care how u sort this but I must have mu kitchen before end of week!!!!


Delivery day, aprox 30 mins before assign delivery I get a phonecall...
-Hi, Im suppose to deliver 3 things to you..your owen, your stew and the telescopic things for your owen...
-Yes well I know the tleescopic things are not with you so..
-...well neither is the stew. I cant find it and they tell me it isnt here.
-WTF?!
Delivery day at lunch when I should have my entire kitchen all all electronics at my place..wehave the owen..alone..standign ont he floor of the torn down kitchen,


What the hell happened?!?!




To be continued.......

Whilest parents working indoors...

The cats outdoors is mocking Xa and shes constantly stressed out they might come to close to the apartment door. So shes guarding the front door with her life.
Ofc the cats knows shes stuck in her leash so they go just so she cant reach them and sits down refusing to move regardless of how much shes barking.

I can show pictures of our outdoors later...now you just literately see the ground only :)
But we learned..
1bark= a dog
several barks= cats
Crazy hysterical never-ending barking= cats taunting her or Tyson :P
Tyson is the neighbor dog..its a little hairy fluffy thing that wants to kill Xa.
Last time he made an effort i had to hold Xa in the air so she wouldn't just take him over hes back..and while Xa was standing on her back legs...Tyson bit her in the ass.
I can tell you..next time I'm not holding her in..and there is no Tyson any longer.
he just ran out through the door when his "daddy" came home and he saw her he literately flew out to kill her. Crazy dogfucker.

Lefsovers...

So here is what is left of that old kitchen from hell....

Yeah and a pic of Centi with my sunglasses on..that was ofc until I found my safety helmet from work that had safety glasses in them so then he looked like a oil-rig worker.half naked one but anyways.
We were laughing pretty hard... That is the fun part.
Me and Centi are constantly "nagging" but more in a friendly way than u know..fighting and couples renovating is usually a damn struggle.
People just cant seem to agree at all whilst there is any kind of garden or in house work to be done..
We have just realized we are the opposite..when were have shitload of stuff to do we are really good at teamwork. whilst us being bored..its a fight! :P
Renovating is good for our relationship..ofc during the sunny days we were indoors tearing the old shit down...Xa did something totally different....^^

Stockholm Marathon

My belowed friend Sofia came up to Stockholm to run her first marathon this year. Her goal is to run the NY Marathon in 2012 if I dont recall wrong.
She runs in an Angel costume in her role as "Superheroes against Cancer".
This means that when we came to the Stadion where the start (And Finnish) line was, our little Angel with fluffy wings just ran arround givign out posters to people.
So we lost her in the crowd...
but ofc we found great spots to look the start from when she ran her 42km so we saw her in the start of the race and hten I hooked up with her every 10km to check so everythign was ok and that she didnt need anythng.
Yes...it was seriously raining like crazy, it was cold as hell and worst of all..we did not run we walked arround the city for 4 fucking hours.
For our little angel it went really nicely..4h 10mins and she had completed her marathon..what an achievement. I seriuosly was about to start crying when she ran through the gates toward the finnishline. My little angel.

Here is her blog and her story..though in Swedish so it might be hard for all the foreign readers but still you can look at the pictures I post above :)
http://sofiagoesnymarathon.wordpress.com/

Old Kitchen..shoot me!

So I promised you some pictures of the kitchen we had...so here please don't puke:P

Seriously, no room for any cooking at all..not enough space even for all my food neither and the fridge and freezer is just constant puzzle to get the stuff in.
The new kitchen is 3,5m longer in workspace and that is not even me counting in the fridge nor freezer that are full height of 180cm...
Ive been telling my self since February when we moved in....-Things can only get better:P

Renovation nightmare...

Well not really but its really hard when u start with shit and try to make it really good.
We purchased the apartment it looked ok on the outside but when u started to really look u saw all the cheats and stupid stunts the previous owners done..for an example..we had a wall that was a total wallpaper puzzle. Its white wallpaper so its hard to see but the glossy white squares on it was not in a proper line meaning they just didn't match the wallpapers att all...
When looking closer we discovered that the entire wall is filled with leftover pieces of the same wallpapers they used in the rest of the hallway..so instead of opening a final wallpaper roll they took all the little crappy pieces and glued them to the wall..like a really bad wallpaper puzzle.
I wasn't able to photograph it due to it just doesn't show with the camera..u need to stand pretty close to it and have the light hitting the wall from a spec. angle.
But still...WHY oh WHY?