Saturday, November 28, 2009

Going with the flow


We were out for dinner last night.
Italian.
I ordered mushroom soup as an entre cause I never prepare anything with mushrooms in it at home (Hasi doesn't like mushrooms at all), so I often take the chance to eat something with mushrooms when we go out...
So when the soup arrived (after more then half'n hour) I was excited.
It was served in a huge bowl made out of bread. It really looked like a soup bowl and even had a lid.
It looked so nice.
Unfortunately I didn't have much time to enjoy that (I couldn't even take a picture with my camera) cause the bread bowl started to leak!
At first it was just one corner... "Hasi looked at me and said " EAT! FAST! "
But then it started leaking all around and I could do nothing about it!
My mouth was all watery and there went my soup!
Within ten seconds it was gone and the plate under the bowl was floated. The dark green paper napkin got all soaked and in my opinion helped prevent the worst.

I went up, went strait into the restaurants kitchen...
"Ursäkta! My soup bowl is leaking!"
The waitress started to run back to the table and started to apologize and then she tried to remove that plate from the table. But the problem was, that it was filled up to the edge and everybody could have guessed what would happen if the plate would be lifted up...
She did it anyways! She tried to take it back to the kitchen like that!
I couldn't believe what I just had witnessed...
After messing up my side of the table and floor with the dripping mushroom soup, she realized that it might be a good idea to get a tray.
Well, you can probably guess the rest of the story.
I did eventually get my soup, in a regular, real bowl. It tasted good and I was happy!
Also with the rest of the evening.
We got home in time to watch the dutch version of Idols and stayed up till around midnight...
But thinking of that soup event last night still puts a smile on my face!



It's been a busy week.
We did a lot at school, that language (swedish) starts to make sense to me, which is nice.
We had to work on our CV, write about our past, educations, work experience and future plans or goals and wishes...
AND I went to a meeting with a company who is searching for female bus drivers!
Yes, they say that they have lots of men working for them but they think that women can do that job so much better for many reasons.
So I have a very good chance to be able to get the bus drivers education, beginning in January, for free.
AND a very good chance to get a job right after that.
Bus driving sounds like fun and I'll definitely give it a try.
I've been thinking about following that career for quite a while now.
I love to drive trucks and I enjoyed working on my last job in Austria, but dealing with all those heavy pallets I had to move around and transport, was hard on my body.
Another big plus with this whole bus drivers thing is, that I will be able to work on different places in Sweden, in case we keep moving around like this. :)) *lol*
They wouldn't mind and promised they would have a job for me in every city in Sweden and even in France, if I would decide to move there... *lol*
Why on earth would I want to go to France??!!
I like it here and so does my small family.
Anyways, I'll have a personal meeting this next week and then I'll know more...
*excited*

We'll make no plans though for the future, no big ones anyways.
We'll just go with the flow and see what opens up for us.
It's kinda fun to do that, although it's a bit scary at times.
We tend to think we must plan everything, we must have perspectives, plans, goals and that security feeling.
And yes, to a degree we do, because we are human.
But do we need all of that?
We have been given this (more or less) intelligent brain, that remembers so much and tries to dictate our lives every single moment.
It gets a life of it's own sometimes and makes up all kind of scenarios, doesn't it.
I have to admit that I had times in my life where that brain of mine got very close to driving me crazy.
Things have changed and so have I, thank goodness!

I keep wondering how life would be like, if we would sell pretty much all of our possessions and live a more simple life somewhere or on the road even. Maybe just for a couple of months, or a couple of years...
I don't know, sometimes that idea is very appealing to me, sometimes it's not.
But I'll definitely try to get more comfortable in going with that flow that is called life, or destiny.
Some call it life plan. Some think it is the plan they make for themselves. Some think it is made for us long before we are born.
But frankly, I don't care if there is a plan or not, I'll keep working on my independence of that brain of mine, of this doubt and fear factory in my head.
I'll keep working on being present with a smile on my face.
I know I'll get many smiles back for it!

:))

Have a fantastic NOW-MOMENT everyone!






Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Busy Week



We have a busy week, so not much time for writing...
I'll be posting a photo here and there though...

Today it's

SWEET CLEO



I edited this in Photoshop.




Here's the original SOOC (straight out of camera)





:)

Cool! Another Award! :)


THANK YOU

JENNIFER from

for this nice award!!!



I am really honored by receiving this award AND I am extra glad that it comes with just one instruction... that is to pass it on to 15 Bloggers.
Unfortunately I really don't have the time to choose 15 Bloggers, put links here and so on and on....
I'm really sorry BUT I will offer this Award to anyone who visits mine instead!
How does that sound?

So, feel free to take this award if you like...!

;-)


Gotta go....


Thanks again Jennifer!

:)

Monday, November 23, 2009

Chickadee Feeding - Please visit a friends blog!



Today's Recommendation:

For ALL BIRD LOVERS...!

I have just visited a friends Blog - Visit them too to see photos of

gorgeous Chickadees who are best friends with their human neighbors...

VISIT





:))

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Sunday tales



It was raining this morning when I got up.
I went into the kitchen to take Mika's breakfast out of the fridge and turn on the coffee machine.
I looked out of the window and saw a bird sitting on one of the huge birches in our yard.
It was a falcon and looked pretty miserable and wet. He was probably hoping to see and hunt for a mouse, they are living under the leaves along the fence line.
But after a little while he left for the Naturreservat across the street...
He was a cute little fella and it was nice to wake up to such a beautiful sight.


I gave Mika his breakfast (he's always having access to dry cat food, but he also gets special treats every morning and evening...) and made coffee.
Missy came into the kitchen to say Good Morning and to let me know that she was ready to go outside and so I let her out the back door.
I made some sandwiches and started up my laptop.

There were some messages from friends and I was glad to have some time to catch up on the news and blogs.
It was very quiet in the house, I could only hear the water running down the gutter.



Time flies and it was almost noon when Cleo decided to take us out for a walk! It had stopped raining and the walk was quite nice.
A lot of birds were out looking for food and some of them were just singing for us, it seemed.
They gave their best to entertain us on our walk and let us forget the noisiness that comes from the highway nearby.



I took following photo on a walk two days ago when the sun was out and breaking through the branches in the woods.







Yesterday I decided to widen the layout of my photo blog justamomentpixels to be able to post larger images so I can show them to their best advantage.
I did the same adjustment to this blog now, hope you like it.


Here are a couple of new photographs from several walks we took this past week...




Some leaves are still green, but on the ground



Islandic horses taking a nap in the sun.



Fresh green between lots of grey.



The small ferry to Ivö Island a bit north of here.



Fly agaric



Chippy in the tree.



Metal on stump.



It's almost 3pm now and we lit some candles.
Ice speed skating is on this weekend and Hasi is watching. Always. :)

It's time to play with our little man, he's full of energy and needs some attention. I really hope we'll get some sun again next week so he can go out and play in the yard too.




:))