26 Oct

00:57

The typical Swede

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Good evening!

What's up? Hmmmmm. I have so many photos I wanna post but I have to transfer them from my phone first so you'll have to wait a bit - but they are on their way. Have lots of photos from Niagara Falls a few weeks ago - did I even write about that? Me and Matt went together over the day and extended my visa on the way. The weather was sooo beautiful so it was a perfect day for seeing the falls.

Today I was off work so I could fit in two workouts - rollerskiing and gym. As the typical Swede I am I don't wanna say too much, but at the moment I have a nice flow with the training and I have found more motivation the last month then I have had during the summer. One of the reasons is obviously because it's not summer anymore so it's not as much things happening, like partying and drinking. I have never been a big drinker, but during this summer it has been more than usual. Like, not crazy much, but much for being me & Frida. But I think that is ok sometimes cause we're just 21.

Everyone here is telling me that I should just have fun, party and enjoy myself, but for me it's not that easy. From time to time - yes totally. In the long run - no thanks. Everyone is different, so nothing is right or wrong, but I can't be happy in that lifestyle. I need to feel healthy, otherwise I would go crazy!

So now I wanna focus more on my training and hopefully I can keep that good feeling inside of me. I have my hopes set on a x-country ski competition here in Canada in mid Feb - The Gatineau Loppet. The only problem right now is that I don't have any skis here, hehe. Left them back home cause I didn't think I would be here in Canada during the winter again. It's so expensive to ship them over from Sweden, so my other option is to buy skis here- Since I work in a ski store I can buy them for half price so MAYBE I can afford that. Hopefully I'll sort that out in some way.

Now I have been talking way too much about myself. Gonna bike over to Kasia now and have some pumpkin soup together with her.

Have a good evening :)

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22 Oct

16:45

Joel is in Singapore!

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Morning!

Just got a message from my brother saying that he is in Singapore waiting for the last flight to Australia. Everything had been going well, but he was pretty tired. It's pretty exhausting and time consuming traveling that far. This is a picture my mum took at him just before he left Mora yesterday morning. Look at his bags - two backpackers!! WTF?! Good job packing! Compare to me and Frida.... On the second picture you can see all the bags easier.

Time to jump on the bike and get to work - have a great Tueday everyone!


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21 Oct

19:41

Monday thoughts

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It's Monday afternoon - another week just started. My legs are really sore from yesterday, but I made it to the gym in the morning anyways. Had a great breakfast - a mix of kefir, cottage cheese, protein powder, banana and some nuts before I went to work and now I'm on my break.

I have been really up and down with updating this blog, but I'm gonna try to be better at it. Like, I don't have to write an essay everytime I do a post - I can just write something short & unnecessary - like this :)

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21 Oct

04:47

Crispy air

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Good evening,

I'm laying in my bed under my sheet with a cup of hot chocolate - mhmmmm. Just got back from a late run. It was really hard to get out there today, but now it is done and I don't have to think about it anymore. It was hard to get started today because I have been so cold the whole day so when I got home this evening I just wanted to crawl underneath my sheet and stay there the whole evening. However, after an hour under my sheet I finally pulled myself together and did some good.

I have wanted to get a new pair of running shoes for a while and I've been thinking to get barefoot running shoes. With shoes like that you don't really put any weight on your heel, which actually suits me perfect at the moment since my heel still isn't fully recovered. Tommy at my work has talked a lot about barefoot running shoes too, so a few days ago I went to MEC and checked if they had anything on sale. I found a nice pair, in my size for half the price! Yey! So this evening I tried them for the first time and it felt great. I think I ran a little too far though for being the first time in barefoot shoes cause now my legs are kind of hurting in weird places. Oh well, I'll see tomorrow how they feel.

 


Just before me and Rob closed the store today, Annaliis and Kadi came by to say hi. It's always nice when friends come by your work :) After we closed, we walked to Queen & Woodbine to grab some middle eastern food - falafel, hummus, cabbage rolls and some different salads were on the menu. Delicious.

It's getting really cold here, like 7-10 degrees. Talked to some friends from back home today and apparently it already minus at home. Crazy! 

Now it's time to sleep so I can get up in the morning and work out. Fingers crossed my legs are almost recovered.

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20 Oct

17:37

Verraaaan!

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Skyped with Verran the other day - she's all the way in India! It was great to catch up and hear about her daily life over there. Just a few months ago we were all hanging out in Sweden and joking about "Stikåstugan" and now she's working in India with humanitarian rights and eating rice all day. Life is unpredictable. Carpe diem Verran! And also, buy a helmet ASAP!!

Tomorrow my brother is flying all the way to Australia with a working visa for a year. He has wanted to do this for a very long time so he's super excited. Wishing him all the best of luck - traveling is awesome!!

I'm sipping on a cup of chai tea and I'm just about to leave for work. Yesterday at work was....intresting. I'll tell more about it later, but today I feel well rested and ready for work.


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19 Oct

02:22

THE POLE LADY

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Hiya

Just had dinner - broccoli and cauliflower soup with some mushroom and cheese perogies. MHM! Think I ate a little too much though....was sooo hungry. Was off work today so I started my day with a walk before breakfast to get some grocerys. The weather was so beautiful. Met an old friend on my walk along the beach....THE POLE LADY!!!
The pole lady is a very special woman. She always walks along the boardwalk in the mornings with her poles so me and Frida have met her lots of times on our morning runs. One time when I was rollerskiing with Matt we met her and she stopped us. I thought she might just wanna ask something about the rollerskis (because everyone here is always so curious about what rollerskis are), but no, she wasn't intrested in that AT ALL. She were super pissed and told us that we could hurt someone with the poles (because of the pointy tips on our ski poles). She told us to change the tips of the poles to something softer (like hers) because with her logic we could seriously hurt dogs and babies by rollerskiing on the bike path (with our ski poles, of course). 
....We were just looking at her, trying to get what the fuck she was saying. Like, there's no logic in that at all. I can come up with 1000 of thing's that are more dangerous then rollerskiing, especially for dogs and babies. She was crazy. So we just turned around and left. On our way back we met her again and just as we passed her she yelled at us "SOMEONE IS GONNA GET HURT". Haha....it is so ridiculous. So this morning I met her and I just had to take a picture of her so I could tell you all about her.

 
Met this girl - Annaliis - for a walk and some catching up yesterday. We had amazing tea at "David's tea" on our way - Pumpkin chai latte, so delicious.

Soon I'm gonna bike to Kasia and hang with her for a while before we bike Downtown to see her boyfriend Lucas's band play - "TJ Hollywood". It's like a indie night so it's gonna be a lot of other bands too. Will be fun!

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16 Oct

16:06

Fridaaaa!

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Gonna skype with this girl for a little while before I make my way to work for another Wednesday at the store. I'm a bit excited about today actually cause a sales rep from Salomon is coming today at 11 am to tell us about all the new awesome ski stuff! WOHOO! I'm going to be very easy to convince...most likely too easy. Luckely Rob and Tommy are there too.


 
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15 Oct

18:45

Gravity

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Morning!

Saw a movie downtown last night with Jameson & Matt - "Gravity" in 3D. It was a drama/sci-fi/thriller kind of movie about space, so therefor my expectations were kind of low, to say the least. BUT I was so wrong. It was amazing and super intense. Don't know if it's released in Sweden yet, but go see it if you get a chance! And dad, especially you - you'd really like it.

Oh, on a side note....Frida, just so you know, Jamezzy believe your mum is Veronica Maggio. Just thought I'd tell you...

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12 Oct

21:13

Where would you go tied up to a lasso?

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Hi there!

It's been a while since last time, so I don't really know what I should start to write about. What have I been up to? Hmm....working, hanging out with friends and training for the most part. Work is great - the new owners are so nice so it's exciting to go to work nowadays. 
Oh, the guy who does most of the bike repairs in the store had an old road bike just standing in his garage, so he tuned it up and gave it to me a week ago. So amazing! It really meant a lot to me. I've been biking around on Maddys heavy mountain bike for half a year and even though I'm very thankful for that there's no comparison to ride a road bike. It goes sooooo much faster, weighs probably less than half as much as her bike so it feels just amazing to ride it. One time when me and Matt were riding our bicycles (I had Maddys heavy bike) and we switched bikes he said something like "I don't ever wanna ride that bike again. Like ever." What a gentleman. However, nowadays with my new bike it's kind of the opposite.

So, I have to figure something out to give to Tommy (the repair guy) to say thanks. I don't think he understands how much it meant for me to get a bike like that. I'm sure some of you thinks about my bike accident when you read this....and yes I do too. In a way I don't wanna bike at all because it is so dangerous in this town (and especially with a fast bike). However, I'm very careful when I bike and I try to always use the safer roads.

Look at this beauty!!! Mmmh-mm.

Yesterday evening Annaliis and Kadi came over for some tea and How I Met Your Mother episodes. Can't get enough of that serie. This morning I worked a few hours with Annaliis at the bakeshop. It awesome to work together :) We made a Swedish berry cake among other things. Anna just came back from being in Italy for a week so she had a lot to tell us about. Makes me wanna travel to Europe a little. Oh well, it's not so bad to be here either ;) It's thanksgiving this weekend so almost everyone gather their families to eat turkey and just relax. Laura and Maddy went to their cottage so I'm here alone in this giant house. Kasia is coming over tonight and we're gonna make some delicious barszcz (polish beet soup) with perogies. Yummy! Tomorrow I'm covering Kasia shift at Velotique cause she's going to a wedding.

Just realized that I actually have a lot to write about and that I don't have anymore time now, but I'll hopefully write more later today. Gonna bike to Roncesvalles now and "fix some stuff"... It's funny, everytime I say that I need to fix some stuff, people think that I mean to actually FIX something, like to repair something. Haha. To me it just means "to get something" or to "sort something out". Matt always laughs at me when I say that cause I sound so "important".

This is a few pictures from Canadas Wonderland a week ago and from the concert with "Ewert and the two dragons"  who by the way were fucking AWESOME! If you haven't heard them yet -
GO LISTEN TO THEM! For real.  

Dylan & Kadi


Annaliis and Julie
 




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02 Oct

22:17

Canada's Wonderland & chanterelles

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It's been a week with the new owners in the store and it feels great. They are super nice and it goes better than I thought it would.

Tonight I'm going to see an Estonian band play downtown with Annaliis, Kadi, Dylan, Julie & Matt. The band is called 'Ewert and the two dragons" - listen to them if you haven't already. They are awesome.

This past weekend I went to Canada's Wonderland with Annaliis, Kadi, Dylan & Julie. It was so much fun. Canada's Wonderland is a huge amusement park a little bit north of Toronto. They had some pretty crazy rides....not even close to comparable with Grona Lund or Liseberg.
Check out this one. According to me it was the best ride of the day. Crazy steep, but super smooth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ASWKwQwzE

Also, the other day I went to a farmers market where I found chanterelles! (kantareller) Gosh what I have missed being able to eat fresh chanterelles. Pure deliciousness. It was crazy expensive, but I just had to buy some. So a few days ago I made a quiche with the chanterelles together with something similar to the Swedish Vasterbottencheese. It turned out pretty good actually...:)

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