Home alone

It's been a busy few weeks for me at work and a lonesome few weeks for me at home. Klas has been out on tour for the past two weeks in Sweden, Finland and Estonia. It is always the same story...I am sad when he leaves, then I enjoy the first two days of having the apartment to myself, and then I get bored and lonely and just want him to come home.

It's reporting season at work right now, which means there is about three times the amount of reports being published and three times the amount of editing to do. It means longer days for me at the office and the need to be flexible enough to work from home some nights too. The timing was about the only good thing about Klas being gone, because I could focus completely on work. I was never really in a rush to get home to my empty apartment in the evenings, and some nights I had nothing better to do than to put in a few more hours on the computer. I'm pretty sure my boss was impressed by my work ethic over the past two weeks :) If only he knew how it would have been different if my hubby-to-be was actually in town.

April has been a really good month and I can hardly believe it is almost May. Four months and counting until our big day. The weather is beautiful right now, the daylight is seemingly never-ending and all the signs are pointing towards a summer that just may go down in history as one of the best.

Quarter of a century old

Yay for birthdays! Especially birthdays with presents, family, friends, good weather, and of course...cupcakes. Klas' mom and sister stayed with us on Saturday and shared in my birthday breakfast and then on Sunday, we had 12 people over to celebrate my 25 years of being alive, as well as our new apartment. I wanted an American style kiddie party so that's exactly what we did. Gourmet hamburgers, pin the tail on the donkey, balloons, goodie bags, charades and more! It was a blast and I have to admit that I am already looking forward to my 26th :)
They were yummy cupcakes with real Betty Crocker icing that I found in the "American food" section at the grocery store.

That's corny

I always mean to take more pictures of some of the crazy things I come across in my daily life living abroad. I laugh every time I see these granola bars. They are corny, they are big.

You should know, these are not actually Swedish. They're from Germany but they are sold everywhere here. It's my new favorite snack because they are very yummy and make me laugh all at once!