Days of Love!

I'm so enjoying my days off work now, just being with Anders, Dad and the dogs, such luxury!
This Yesterday we celebrated 7 months together and today we begin our countdown: 365 days until our wedding!!! Hooray! I've been looking for some sort of calendar/notebook for this exciting year to come, but no luck... =( Any suggestions?
I really want to get into planning and making our scrapbook, but this took my inspirations down a few nots.

What are your plans this weekend?

And the Days Go By...

Time has no mercy, it just moves on, oblivious to what people think about it at all. The strange thing is that my days off from work seem to rush by in a hurry, while some days at work seem to more or less drag themselves by... Very strange!
I've got time off from work until next Thursday, very nice! Though things could have ended sadly yesterday: one of the dogs got to some left-over chicken that he shouldn't have... 10 years ago, I lost my first dog to this, thanks to our cat, who opened the garbage-cupboard and pulled the trash out onto the kitchen-floor and then the dog ate it. We had to put him down because of his internal injuries, so I'm totally hysterical when it comes to dogs and chicken-bones. Raw bones are okay, but once they've been prepared somehow, they are lethal to dogs. So, I went hysterical, cried and screamed and couldn't move, called poor Anders at work and somehow managed to get the message through, so he left work to come home. Called the vet in tears and they finally calmed me down, told me to but asparagus and feed him and wait 24 hours. So, I bought the freaking vegetables and since I didn't know if Yoggi had eaten also--he got some as well. He's not the problem though, he chews (read: gulfs anything) down and so he did with the asparagus. Harry on the other hand, he's more of a cat kind of dog: he hardly eats anything unless it's ham or meatballs or such stuff. So, asparagus--big NO NO according to Harry. Force-feeding a dog with wet, slimy asparagus: not my idea of a nice Wednesday... What he did like though was the margarine that I had bought as well. Since almost all fatty foods are good for binding stuff up in the stomach, I gave him some of that between our fights... Poor Harry, he can't really trust me very much after this. But they both seem fine, a little weak, but they'll make a full recovery and that's all I care about. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to eat grilled chicken again though. If I do, I'll take out the trash before I sit down to eat!

Tomorrow we're going home to Norrköping and Anders' family, to celebrate our engagement and also it's his sister's birthday. We're planning on visiting "our" church as well -- very excited about that!

I'll be back with pictures of it...

It's the Small Things...

...that can really make or break you. Today I'm on a high! Partly because I've gotten a good night's sleep and partly because I've been out on my first jog/walk in over a week, partly because I love my new shower-gel and lotion from Body Shop (Pink Grapefruit) and partly thanks to Mark Salling (Noah Puckerman in Glee)... So, nothing extraordinary, just everyday life and it's moments.

I smell FANTASTIC! =)

Yum!

Mark Salling is H O T and I love his voice and mohican!

Sleep-Strangler?...

I've heard of the term "sleep-walker" and understand the mechanics of that, though I can't recall ever having sleep-walked myself... There is a nasty rumor from my childhood though: it is said that dad found me peeing all over my cuddly toys one night, sitting on the ledge of the chest they were kept in, the lid resting over my back... I wonder if it's really true, poor cuddly toys in that case!!! But that would be the only time I've sleep-walked if it is true. I've heard of kids doing it a lot, but maybe that's just when they're trying to get to the toilet and are too tired to wake up properly before embarking on the long journey to the bathroom?...
Is it at all connected to our dream-world? Interesting stuff, really!

But that wasn't my point, I was going to tell you about three scary incidents in our apartment that has happened over the last two months. Anders has been acting extremely violently in his sleep lately...

The first time we had watched Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, supposedly a horror-movie starring Katie Holmes and it contained the obligatory scary kid and the old, spooky, abandoned house... Anyway, we saw it late one night and it was a bit creepy, I had my feet off the floor and hid behind my pillow a few times. We went to bed and fell asleep. In the middle of the night, Anders' right arm comes flying across my throat, grabs my right shoulder and presses down, thus making it very hard for me to breathe. I screamed and started crying because I got so scared and Anders woke up startled and was as upset himself. He remembers having had nightmares about the creepy beings in the movie. This was the first time...

The second time we hadn't watched anything special, I was sound asleep and the ledge of the bed, when all of a sudden his arm comes around my neck and throat and pulls tight with his arm. Again--very hard to breathe!!! I panicked and cried out--Anders woke up startled and very surprised. This time he hadn't had any nightmares, he just thought his arm was around my waist... =S That was the second time...

A few days ago, it happened again... We had been watching The X-Files all night and went to sleep. Around 4 o'clock in the morning I wake up screaming--Anders has thrown himself over me and hit me in my left shoulder! As I started crying, he woke up and realized what he had done. This time he remembers having had a nightmare about a pack of super-intelligent velociraptors (small, mean dinosaurs...) chasing him in his specially built vehicle... This vehicle was very good against T-Rexes was his fully reasonable explanation...

Me look-alike?...

Rodney Carrington has a very good explanation as to why they were so aggressive...

Have you ever experienced anything like this? He says it's unconscious, but maybe it's him acting out real anger under the pretense of sleeping? He is so docile and kind when he's awake, it would make sense really... =D I don't know how I feel about going to The British Museum of Natural History with him--they have a life-sized T-Rex and some nasty Velociraptors hidden in the corners of the museum... 

Sleeping the Day Away!

Phu, that was horrible!!! I didn't wake up until 11:15 today! Anders told me to get some sleep when he left for work this morning and I sure did! Now I feel miserable because I've lost like half a day... Our dogs are amazing sleepers as well, so no help there...

Now it's time to get out in the sun, pick up my brand new passport at the police-station and get some 5 K in Nyckelviken with the dogs and wait for the most wonderful man I know to come home again! Think we'll give our home work-out another try tonight, hopefully with less fits of laughter due to funny noises! =)

Why can't laughing be good exercise?...

Time To Get Ahead!

What a wonderful week-end! It's been very cold, but since none of us has taken a chilly bath this week, it's all good!

Yesterday we planned a serious trip to a lake, made sandwiches and hot cocoa, bought Danish "semlor" and dressed the dogs in their overalls and got in the car.

After a short drive I realized the road was almost all ice and people  hit the ditches all over, so we turned back home and walked for a bit there instead.
In the evening we went to the movies (our first together...) and saw Hamilton with dad, who likes Guillou's books--so there was a slight chance that he might actually like this movie... No such luck! I didn't like it that much either--but I LOVE going to the movies!
Today we got up early, because we were supposed to hand the dogs in for trimming at 10. While they got stylish, we hit Old Town, had a very expensive pot of tea and just enjoyed being together.

The coming week it's time to get back on track, both with exercise and food... Not an easy task! Especially not since this is my tough week--5 days á 12 hours. But for next week (07) we've decided to try one of those ready-made food-bags that are so in style right now here in Stockholm! It'll hopefully give some inspiration for new recipes and make our dining a little easier, we'll try it out in my easy week. So the menu from varmiddag.com for next week will look like this:
*Risotto with crayfish and fennel
*Cannelloni with spinach and ham
*Roasted pork with onion sauce
*Chicken-stew with paprika and apple
I'm extremely fastidious with my food and seldom try new things, actually I never try new things unless I'm having dinner at a friends house or so... So it'll be a good experience for me and hey! I might even like some of it...

Then I have to get started on Johan's training-schedule and get my ass out running!!! Like it or not...

Have a great week!!!