Cherry Coke

I have a thing that I really miss from the time when I lived in the US.
Cherry Coke.
You can´t get it here as it is not really sold anywhere. But my wonderful significant other knows how much I miss drinking them. So he found an american store that sells them and bought a few to me. He wanted to cheer me up as he knows I have not been feeling too good lately.
And yes...tasting the cherry coke and knowing it is a gift of love does make me feel better :)

Getting old??

Yesterday I went out dancing with my friends. It was very nice as it is such a long time since I have done it. Before we went out I was talking with one of the girls and we both felt we are in some kind of mid-state right now. On one hand we are both happy to just stay home in the weekends and just do random stuff. But on the other hand there is always this thought in the back of our heads, that maybe we should go out partying more...
So, it was nice going out dancing yesterday as it was such a long time since last time. But I dont know if a) I was not in a good enough mood b) the music was not good enough C) the music was to loud or d) I am getting too old :/ But the music hurt my ears and I kept hoping for earplugs and at times we held our fingers in our ears...
Anyway, why do I even feel a need to define if I am old or young, a party princess or choach potatoe? I can still party all night if I feel like it, and I can just stay home and watch a movie if that makes me happy. The purpose of life is to do what makes you happy so if I one night feel like I want to be a party princess and the next a couch potatoe, then I luckily have the freedom to chooce what I want! :)

World parent

A couple of days ago I finally signed up to become a world parent for UNICEF. It feels good to have done something, but it also makes me want to do more.

I was channel surfing a while ago and Oprah happend to be on at one of the channels. The show was about the greatest gift she had ever given. She gave 1000 dollars to everybody in the audience and they had to give that money to a stranger that needed the money. The stories about what people had done with the money where amazing. One story that really got caught in my memory, was about a 75 year old black man who had never learned how to read. He had a twin brother and his mother could only afford to let one of them go to school. So his twin borther went to school and he stayed at home with his mom and she kept on praying that he would get the opportunity to also learn how to read.
It was not until Oprahs "pay it back" program started that this man got the opportunity to learn how to read. One of the women gave a teacher the money to let him sit in class with her first graders and learn to read. And when he was standing in the audience at the Oprah show, he was holding both womens hand, the tears were flowing on his cheeks, he had a big smile on his face and he was thanking the lord for answering his mothers prayers....
Just helping the people around you can be extremely meaningful. Sometimes a meaningless thing for you, can mean the world to another person....
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UNICEF, välgörenhet

Shower

How lovely it is to take a looong, hot shower. Few things get me to relax more.
I read somewhere that people who have grown up by the water are more addicted to taking long showers than others. Maybe it reminds us of home, or something, I don´t know, but it is definetly true for me :)

Flowers

My boyfriend doesnt like giving me flowers because he thinks they die too fast, and in a way he is right.
But a few weeks ago he gave me the most beautiful bouqet of flowers that I have seen in a very long time and every time I have looked at them, they have just made me feel good. Eventhough the flowers only lasted for a few weeks, I got so much good out of them. I looked at them and felt happy because of the fact that somebody had given me so beautiful flowers. The flowers were not only beautiful to watch but they were attached to the feeling of being loved.
Now the flowers are dying and in a way that is also part of why I enjoy them. You know you will never have time to get used to them so you just savour every moment while they are alive and blooming. And of course, you can always make them last for longer, by taking a picture and saving them in your blog :)
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blommor, kärlek

Two ways

There are two ways of looking at your life. The subjective one and the objective one. I feel I am hardly ever cabable of having a really objective look at my life, although I do try :)

The subjective way of seeing things is the way most people see their lives. And it is strange how you see yourself so differently depending on if you have a good or a bad day. Things might go as well or as bad as on any other day but your feelings about what is going on might be filled with self confidence or low selfesteem. Some days you are feeling like you are the queen of the world and you can do anything, other days you might do as well, but you feel like you are the smallest thing, lost in the world, not knowing where to go.

It would be so much easier to just be able to be objective all the time....but I guess that would be boooring ;)
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filosofi

Just a day

This has been one of those duracell rabbit days when I have just had to go on and on and the meetings never ended, neither the problems. The weather has gone cold again and I am not feeling too motivated at work. But still.....it has been a good day. I had a presentation for the management as I am trying to do some improvment work and it went well. My boss called me later on to tell me that she thought I had done a very good job and she liked my presentation. My love also called me and said he thinks I am the best in the world. Life is pretty good.