everyday life

at the movies

la mome
Originally uploaded by catsfalk

I spent the afternoon at the local cinema with a friend watching the french film La Môme - La Vie En Rose. The movie about Edith Piaf, directed by Olivier Dahan and with the fantastic Marion Cotillard as Edith. She was awesome.

I liked the film very much, and I need to buy a CD with Edith Piaf songs. "Non, je ne regrette rien" "Milord" "Padam Padam" "La vie en rose" "Sous le ciel de Paris".

We were the youngest persons in the audience and the rest was ladies in their 70s..

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Georg. 1 year old today! I can't believe this year went so fast. He is walking and talking, sort of anyway...

/ C

saturday afternoon

peonies, originally uploaded by catsfalk.

My camera is with me again! Yay! Now I can enjoy the rest of the weekend with peace in my mind!

But the semi final isn't going my way - not yet anyway.. Canada has 3-0 at the moment... Come on, lads! YES, 3-1...

I had a misson yesterday morning. Before work I walked to Hötorget to buy some flowers, at the flower market. If you want a big bouquet for a small amount of money - Hötorget is the place to visit. I always buy my flowers here (and some of my vegetables too). One of my colleauges is turning 40 today, and we wanted to celebrate her yesterday. So I bought a really big bouquet of summer flowers - among others Lily's, Blue Bells,and Peonies. It was a lovely bouquet and Vivre totally loved it!

My best friend today is my hot water bottle. I have pain in my lower back, and I'm sitting in my sofa with the hot water bottle behind my back.. And it's hot and cozy and I feel a bit better in my back.

Now back to the hockey.... Come on!  (Oh, no - 4-1)

/ C

darn!

Kiruna 070511, originally uploaded by catsfalk.

I left my camera at work yesterday! Darn! And I had a couple of nice picture's to share. So I need to go back to work today and pick it up! I can't have a weekend with out my camera. I had a horrible dream last night, a dream about loosing my camera, during a visit to Moscow (where do you get everything from, in your dreams?).

I got this photo in the mail yesterday, from one of my colleauges, Barbro, in Kiruna. Here in Stockholm and the rest of south Sweden, are enjoying spring and the summer is not far away. But not in Kiruna, there the winter is very much on. This picture is taken yesterday afternoon. And when I was in Kiruna in middle of October - the snow had just arrived and now we are in middle of May and the snow is still there.. 8 month (and counting) of snow... I'm very glad I'm not a resident of the city of Kiruna!

Plans for today? First, get to work and pick up the camera. After that? A stroll through the city, get a cup of coffee somewhere, catch a train home and curl up in the sofa knitting and watching some Ice Hockey World Championships semi finals, Sweden vs Canada and Finland vs Russia. I'm hoping for a final between Sweden and Finland.

Go Sweden!

And by the way, HAPPY 40th, Virve!

umeå

Rådhuset
Originally uploaded by catsfalk.

So, finally, here is my report from my trip to Umeå last weekend. When I landed on Umeå Airport early Friday morning, the mercury was low, - 25 C/-13F - and we had a clear blue sky, but during the day it got "warmer" to -12 C/10 F and it started to snow - and when we walked home from the pub late Friday night we had a small snow blizzard to get by. But I didn't mind the snow, it was knid of fun walking home in that weather.

In Umeå I stayed at the home of one of my best friends, Ace and her lovely hubby Richard. I have known Ace for years (actually since 1988). And it's always a pleasure to meet her, and we always has lot of fun together. This weekend was her birthday weekend, so I brought her a package of lucuoius bath bombs from Lush and those blue Opal socks I made a couple of weeks ago. The birthday kid became very happy over the gift!

Umeå is my old "home town". I lived here between 1988 to 1993, so I really don't have to make all those tourist things. So on Friday afternoon we took the bus down town to just chill and relax and do some shopping. We had lunch at Catarina's and then worked us down the shopping street. We actually didn't buy anything this day, just looking. We meet up with Jenny and Emma at Illy's - situatued at the University camp - for a coffee and after that we walked to the Pub - Rött, near the Univerisity and meet up with Richard, Peter, Lena, Gunnar and Henrik to celebrate Ace's birthday. We had a great time, chatting, eating and drinking. And during our stay at Rött the snow blizzard hit Umeå. So when we got home we were looking like Frosty, the snow man.

On Saturday we where back down town, and this time we actually did some shopping. I found me two pair of shoes - both on sale, a pair of flat Merrell shoes at Sko centrum and a pair of heels -Chilli, on DNA. And I also bought me a regular black skirt on sale at Indiska too. And Ace found a couple of t-shirts on H&M and two pair of shoes on DNA. We were quit happy when we had coffee at NK and ate their (fantastic) Lemon Meringue Pie - a must at NK!

Saturday night we made a fantastic dinner at home, and Ace's sister joined us. And it was great to see B and she told me she has her last chemo today! Yeay!! And so far, everything looks good!!

On Sunday it was time to fly home again, but I will see Ace and Richard very soon. They will visit me during the Easter!

/ C

monday

drops fabel
Originally uploaded by catsfalk.

I have fever, not much - but I don't feel so well. I'm freezing, and I'm all dressed up in a long sleeved t-shirt, pyjama trousers, a pair of thick socks and my fleece dressing gown. Perhaps a good night sleep will make me feel better? I'll hope I feels better tomorrow. I have a meeting tomorrow morning and I need to attend.

A colleauge of mine, Mrs Y found out during the lunch break that Drops has a brand new sock yarn, Drops Fabel. So after work we visit the yarnstore Ljungkvist. And they had just unpacked it, so I bought 2 skeins in a greenish colour. And for only 21 SEK/€ 2,27/£ 1,51/$ 2,95 you get one 50 g skein.

February is a month with a lot of Birthdays, I told you that before. I have 3 colleauges who are born this month (and also 2 former colleauges). And today we celebrated Miss SF, who turned 31 today. Last week we celebrated Mrs B and on Friday we have Miss AF on her 33rd b-day. Miss SF had made a delicious frozen cheesecake with raspberries for us. And, o boy - it tasted heavenly! And I got her a small gift: I had made a mixed CD to her with some rockin' music.

/ C

sunny saturday

blue opal socks
Originally uploaded by catsfalk.

I finished the first sock in my blue opal sock pair yesterday. I cast on the second sock at once this morning, even before breakfast. And I hope I will finish this pair during the weekend. There is lot of Ski events on TV, and you all know my passion for knitting while watching winter sports (remember the Olympics last Februray?).

But I also need to do some housework around my apartment.. And as the title of this post says: It's a sunny Saturday, so I need to go out too. My next step is to go to the food store and fill up my fridge. And tonight I have dinner plans with a couple of friends of mine. A busy day!

Go over to Katarina, and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to her. It's her birthday today! Grattis, Katarina! Har du gjort av med förra årets presentkort än?!?

Have a happy Saturday!

/ C

february

february 2007
Originally uploaded by catsfalk.

So January is over. Finally. But the winter finally arrived, so I decided to show off some of my winter photo's in my February calander. All the photo's are from last year.

Project Spectrum has begun, and as I told you yesterday, I will start off the PS with some WIP:s in blue. I haven't decided yet what to start next. I need to think about that for a couple of days. I have things that I want to knit, and I have some ideas of what yarn to use. But I need to take some time to messure and calculate how much yarn I need. I will do that this weekend.

Other plans for this month? Well, I have my trip upnorth later this month - a long weekend trip to Umeå. I'm really looking forward to this trip.

And then I have a couple of birthdays to celebrate during this month. So I have a couple present's to make in a near future.

/ C

happy bloganniversery

tulipsred
Originally uploaded by catsfalk.

2 years ago I started to blog. I started to blog in Swedish, I had no digital camera and I had just started to knit again after a 15 year long hiatus. And I had no idea how big the blogland of knitting was and not in my wildest imagenation I could dream of to "meet" all of you out there, you lovely and beautiful ladies in Sweden, Scotland, England, Ireland, Germany, US - Ohio, DC, N.Carolina, Hawaii, Texas, Kansas- Chile and the rest of the world. I'm glad to count you as my friends!

What a stormy night we had! I was pretty sure my windows were to collapse in the wind last night, but they didn't broke.. This “winter” is totally off. Completely weird. I’ve never experienced anything like it before what I can remember. The majority of this country does not have any snow at all. It keeps raining and raining. And we have stormy winds too. We’re having temps like +12C/54F when we should have at least -12C/10F. January is usually the coldest month of the year for us here in Sweden, with temps often as low as -25C/-13F. Yesterday we had +11 in Stockholm, and that's what we have on a really bad summer day. But I understand that most of the world is having weatherproblems at the moment! I saw a picture in the newspaper with a man sitting poolside in Washington DC, tanning in his bathing clothes. Shouldn´t it be snow in D.C this time of year too?

/ C

breakfast

Time flies you know. 13 years ago today a sweet little girl was born. And I meet her for the first time when she was only a couple of hours old. And now she a teenager, miss Sophia.  Happy Birthday!

I'm about to finish my looong breakfast, I have been sitting here for almost 2 hours now. In my opinion the best when you have a day off, is having a long breakie, reading the newspaper, listen to music - at the moment Dixie Chicks  CD Taking the Long Way - sipping my favorite tea - Sir Williams, from my favorite tea store Sibyllans kaffe och tehandel (they have been in business since 1916 ).  But now the tea pot is almost empty (and cold), so I guess I need to do something else.

My next move is to clean up the kitchen. I really need to do something about the mess.

/ C

food

julkrans
Originally uploaded by catsfalk.

I have finished an other Christmas present. 3 done, 2 to go.. Can't show you yet.... You have to wait a couple of weeks.

I have just 11 days left to work this year... Yeay! Then holiday! Countdown has begun! Can't wait to fill my days with knitting, movies, meeting friends and good food.

We had a Christmas Party at work yesterday. Really fun. Yesterday morning the whole department (70 people) hoped on a bus and headed to Lidingö and a conferance center - Skoghem & Wijk. During the day we work shops but we were all waiting for the Christmas party.. And at 7 pm, the party began with the dinner. Not the typical Swedish Christmas Smorgaasbord, we had a shellfish buffet with lobster, clams, shrimps/prawns, oysters, smoked salmon. The food was absolutly fantastic. And I didn't take a photo at all during the night to show you. I was totally occupied with my food! And the dessert table... O my... a delicious Chocolate cake and home made Ice creams and fruit cakes. And after that, the bar... I got to bed early - I had bad headache, so when the music started to pump, I got into bed.

We stayd over, and this morning some were tired and some were even more tired... And the breakfast buffet - well, yet again, it was really, really good food at this place. After breakfast we had some more workshops before heading back to work after lunch. The work spirit when we got back was not that high, so some of us started to decorate the Office - It's Christmas time..

By the way, it´s my sister's birthday! GRATTIS!! Paket kommer!!!

/ C