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Good afternoon, this is Toronto calling. It's super humid and hot today - around 30, but with the humidity it feels like 40. Unfortunately I can't hang at the beach and enjoy it cause I'm working (or maybe I'm lucky cause the heat's kind of crazy). It's great though to not have to worry about being cold days like this.

Last week when I was working it came in a sales rep from Louis Garneau (cycling brand) and he ended up offering me to borrow one of his road bikes to go riding with his cycling club in the weekend. I was thrilled by his offer and a couple of days later he came by the store again to deliver the bike. OH. MY. GOD. Whaaat a bike. It's made from carbonfibre so it weighs like nothing. Apperently he bought it for $3000, which is about 20 000 kr. Good god, I felt kind of scared riding that bike back home. I walked with it for a while at first just because I didn't really dare to actually sit on it. SO EXPENSIVE!! However, I tried it - gosh - it felt like I was flying. After been biking on an old and super heavy mountainbike for 3 months this really was like flying.

On Saturday I met up with the people from the cycling club at 7:00 am (among them my friends Courtney and Christophe). We went up north to a place called Unionville and back. It was so much fun riding with them. I had a great time! I was unsure before the ride if I would be able to keep up with them, so I was a bit surprised that I managed. I have never been riding on a bike like that or in a group with other cyclists so this was a very nice and fun experience for me. 

This morning I went up even earlier for another bike ride with my friend Christophe. This time we started 05.45 am. We had a really nice ride and the weather was great. We rode for 1 h 45 min, so I came back around 7.30. Felt great to have done it so early and have the whole day left.

Today I'm bringing back the bike shoes that Kasia let me borrow and soon the guy from Louis Garneau will come back and pick the bike up. I don't wanna leave this bike! Seriously, we're attached to each other now, me and the bike. I wont leave it. It will be pretty hard to go back to the old mountain bike after this. Oh well, I'm so glad I got the chance to try how it CAN feel like. Maybe I'll get one when I'm rich.

 I'll post a picture of it later!

E

Hello igen,

Borde ju berätta lite om förra helgen. Det var grymt roligt! Kommer alltid komma ihåg min 21:a födelsedag som något speciellt.
Frida och jag började dagen med att baka tårta inför kvällens partaj. När klockan sedan började närma sig 12 drog jag iväg till jobbet för att jobba till kl 17. När klockan är 16.45 ringer telefonen på Velotique och jag svarar. Det är Frida som ringer och säger åt mig att skynda mig hemåt på cykeln. Hon säger att hon kommer möta upp mig på vägen, men att det är bråttom. Jag fattar ingenting och säger att jag inte bara kan lämna jobbet, men då säger Beverley också åt mig att skynda mig hemåt. Väldigt förvirrad sätter jag mig på cykeln och cyklar hemåt. Halvvägs hem möter jag en Frida som står vid trottoaren och vinkar glatt. Med bestämda steg visar hon mig över vägen in till en frisörsalong och säger att jag ska få hår och naglar fixade till kvällens party - whaaaaaat! Så himla gulligt! Efter det ger hon mig min klänning, mitt smink och mina smycken. Ut från salongen går vi sedan som två nya människor, fast jag med träningsskor till klänningen, haha. Vi sätter oss ned på en parkbänk längs Queen Street och då tar hon plötsligt fram en tårtbit av sällan skådad storlek och en liten Baileysflaska till det. Vi sitter där ett tag, precis så - äter lite tårta, sippar på baileysen och studerar människorna som passerar. Ett riktigt moment.

Tiden går och det börjar klia i mina fingrar. Jag säger till Frida att vi måste börja ta oss hemåt eftersom det är massa att fixa innan alla kommer. (Ni som känner Frida vet att saker och ting ibland drar ut på tiden i hennes sällskap...;) Måste dock tillägga att hon skötte detta exemplariskt). Tillslut börjar vi cykla hemåt och i garaget på väg in till bakgården står mina klackskor (?) beredda att klivas i. "Okej" tänker jag. "Passar ju bättre till klänningen än gympaskorna liksom". Öppnar sedan dörren in till bakgården och där står massa människor som skålar och ropar grattis!! Sån himla överraskning! De har fixat allting - massa mat, drinkar - allt! Frida hade planerat allting - kan inte ha varit lätt eftersom jag samtidigt försökte planera partyt själv. Tusen tack Frida, du är bäst. Kvällen var underbar och slutade inte förrän kl 05 på morgonen. En dag att minnas.

Thanks Frida for the sweet post yesterday! I'm a bit upset at the moment. Just wrote this loooong post about the weekend and how great it was and all of a sudden the window closes and everything I wrote is gone. FUCK.
I'll try to sum it up later when I'm in a better mood and not wanna punch this computer.

Everyone, watch this. HILARIOUS. I'm completely hypnotized by it. The funny thing is that I'm not sure why it's so funny. It's something about his eyes, the rhythm and his voice. The mix just makes it so weird and good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RNdcmYnXig

Hej hallåå
Kl är snart 11.30 här i huset. Morgonen har bestått av bakning, löpning, lite mer bakning och nu frukost. Frida mosar kakor och Philadelphia (ska bli Cakepops - förhoppningsvis lika bra som Verrans!). Vi har gjort två tårtor som ni ska få se sen :) Ikväll bli det partaj! Jag fyller egentligen år i morgon, men det passade bättre att ha festen en lördagkväll. Nu ska jag slänga ihop en matlåda och cykla iväg till jobbet, medan Frida fortsätter att slita i köket. Här kommer några bilder från veckan.



Frida på beachen. Volleybollnät i bakgrunden!

Det verkar visst som vi blev hackade igår här på bloggen av en god vän... Vilket ordförråd, va. Sånt språk vill vi ju inte höra :)
Kan väl iaf sammanfatta med att säga att vi hade en väldigt rolig kväll igår och denna låt spelades på repeat!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF8aaTu2kg0

 

 

This sunday is not an ordinary one. I got the true feeling of summer for the first time. The Toronto summer might be great after all. Probably it has been here for a while but it seems like I havnt fully. However I really felt I had to write a post on the blog since my most recent post is from ApriI. Not okay, I know. I guess it is somethng about what Ellen mentioned before when you have to much to say and fellings are all over the place you end up not saying anything at all.

Today we started up with a run along the beach, after saying good bye to Maddy who is going away for a month to greece to see her dad. Further on I listned to a part of Krisitan Gidlunds Sommar i P1. I will have to hear it bit by bit. You who have Heard it knows why. Further on Laura and I had a walk with the dogs. They were so happy to go free and have a swin.

And now Im finally sitting here on the patio writing. Wich I hopefully will keep up doing each day during july to make you a fair description of whats really going on over here. well ok at least a part of it since I havnt got the time this far to make even a post once a week. Have a lot to make up for so there might be some Pictures to. And oh Cant Believe time has gone so fast, May was that kind of month I seem not to remember, June has been a great month though. Hopefully July is gonna be a just as sunny as today!
This sunday is special cause people know we still have tomorrow ,Canada day, off. So they stay outside and get together. Also the wonderful weather adds to that. Lots of love for this long weekend, we all feel it. Most people are heading out of Town to their cottages, but still there is a lot of people down here at the Beaches. That is the area we live in this time, about nine km from Downtown and just a hundered meters from the waves. dont know if I will ever live this Close to the water at any Point in Life. However, the expression Life is a beach really makes sense those Days.

So hopefully this is the start of blogging and a really nice month coming up. Im not Reading this through now, something seems wrong with the symbols and Capitals. However, hope you had a great weekend like we are still. In about half and hour Ellen get home from Velotique and we will head down the beach for some volleyball. And I actually know someone who still needs to make that first bath of summer

Since I have no Picture to share at the moment, a Summer camp song
http://open.spotify.com/track/1fTgAdSP5Uizj20YydZ3V5

Hi again.

So apperently I'm updating the blog two times today. Vad hande?!

As most of you already know, I like coffee. A lot. I drink it whenever, wherever and however. It didn't start so bad. Maybe a cup or so a few times a week. I liked it, but didn't have to have it. Just drank it cause I could and it tasted kind of good, you know. Maybe that's how most addictions starts. Well, somewhere along the way it got worse. A few times a week just wasn't enough. Everyday? For sure! One cup? No. I needed more. Much more...(dark and heavy music starts)

If I would blame someone in my life for projecting this addiction to coffee on me, it would without any doubt be my dear and beloved friend back in Sweden, Karolina. When we lived together in Gothenburg almost 2 years ago I slowely got into her coffee routines. And it sure didn't help that we (from being smart and poor) came over around 10-15 kg coffee from free coupones. And damn, we drank coffee! Gosh, I miss that coffee drinking girl.

I'm not gonna be too detailed about this (I already am), but what I wanted to say with this is that last week I went through 3, long, severe days WITHOUT coffee. Just felt I had to do it. Challange myself. Push it to the limit, you know. See how my body reacted, how it felt.The result? Well, I was tired and my head was aching. Felt better than I would expect though, but on the fourth day a friend gave me a coffee in my hand and that was it. So now I'm back and I'm on my second cup today. I'm gonna try to stick with 2 cups a day though and maybe once a week have a "clean" day. How much coffee do you drink a day?

So, I was supposed to write something about this past weekend and instead I keep on jabbering about my coffee drinking habits, which has nothing to do with anything and is without any importance AT ALL. But isn't that the nice thing about having a blog? You can write whatever, whenever and however. No one is forced to read it (I think?) It's just like drinking coffee. No one is forced to drink it (ok, now I have to stop writing, this makes no sense at all)

e

Hej på er!

Det känns som att sommaren dragit igång på allvar nu. Förutom allt regn så börjar temperaturen stabilisera sig kring 20-25 grader (vilket betyder att det KÄNNS som 30-35 grader med den höga humiditeten). Gött!

Nu sitter jag i köket hemma och dricker morgonkaffet innan jag ska cykla iväg till jobbet. Frida har de senaste veckorna börjat jobba tidigt (7.30), vilket gör att vi inte kan träna tillsammans lika mycket som förut, då vi alltid tränade på morgonen. Nu blir det istället kvällar och helger, precis som vilket gammalt gift par som helst. Jajamen.

I torsdags blev det grillning hos Matt med hela svenska ligan - Frida, Louise & jag + två av hans vänner. Tyvärr regnade det så head chefen fick stå med paraply vid grillen....en rolig syn. Vi hade en väldigt trevlig kväll och vi kan återigen konstatera att kanadensarna har svårt att uttala ord med minst två vokaler. På svenska alltså. Det blir liksom för mycket för dem.

Nu är det så där igen. Klockan är för mycket och jag måste hälla i mig resten av kaffet och springa ut till cykeln. Jag tänker varje gång att "nu har jag tid att skriva ett långt och bra inlägg", men tiden bara förvsinner. Damn. Fortsätter berätta om vad mer som hänt i ett annat inlägg.

e

Har kommit lite ur gängorna med bloggen....ber om ursäkt för det. 

Hur som helst, livet rullar på för fullt med allt vad det innebär och för er som inte vet det redan så är vår kära vän Louise här för tillfället! Hon kom förra torsdagen och ska stanna tills nästa onsdag. Hur kul som helst!! Kändes overkligt när vi mötte upp henne på flygplatsen för några dagar sedan. Hjärnan kopplade inte riktigt.
Vi har haft grymt roliga dagar tillsammans och fler ska det bli innan hon hinner lämna Kanada. I morgon blir det eventuellt lite BBQ om vädret tillåter, vi får se.  

Som jag sagt innan så har vi ingen bra fungerande kamera så jag tror inte jag har så mycket av värde att lägga upp för tillfället. Kan hända att det kommer bilder i efterhand från Louise kamera :)

Tack och hej leverpastej!

E

Don't have time to write, so I thought I'd just post some pictures from the last week. Once again I apologize for my bad camera....

I can't believe it was 6 days since I wrote something here. What's up with the time? We have done lots of things. For instance, Frida, Maddy and I went to the new-opened swedish cafe last Friday in the afternoon. I'll post some pictures later. It was a very nice place and the staff were soo nice! None from Sweden, but one of the guys had been to Sthlm and Malmo for one year studying. He spoke some swedish actually...it was fun to hear. Sometimes my brain goes a bit crazy when I speak English and Swedish at the same time, especially if it's with the same person. So we kind of spoke 50 % swedish, 50 % english mixed in the sentences. Confusing... 

When we were about to leave the cafe, a Tallest Man On Earth song started playing. Wtf. Seriously, Canada is like Tallest man on earth - land or something. Have never met so many people listening to his music as here.

Oh, about the restaurant O.Noir at Maddy's birthday - what an evening! It was sooo weird eating in the dark. And it was completely dark - not even a little chance of seeing anything AT ALL. Most of us ate with our hands because it was easier than with cutlery. We spend like 2 hours in there so afterwards, for the first 10 minutes in the light, our eyes had to adjust for a while.
The food was amazing. Me and Frida had the same - Portobello mushroom with parmigiano in a salad as starter and roasted shrimps with a sundried tomato risotto as main course. Delicious. Then we went home and had the chocolate cake me and Frida made earlier the same day for Maddy. We had a great time and hopefully I'll post photos later of that as well.

About photos, my camera doesn't work at the moment and the same thing with the camera in Frida's Iphone. The only thing we rely on at the moment is my dear, very UNsmart phone. The camera is really bad, but it's the only thing that works.

I'll write more and post photos later. Hope everyone's well. My sister graduates from High School on Wednesday this week. Congratz to her!

e

I just read in "The Grid" that a new cafe, inspired by Sweden, is about to open in Kensington Market here in Toronto.

This is from their website:

"FIKA Definition: Originally used as a Swedish verb meaning “to go out for coffee,” the word fika can also be used as a noun (“coffee break”). It is standard in Sweden to invite friends to fika every few hours during the work day. One’s coffee is normally accompanied with a small snack such as a sweet bread, cinnamon roll, or piece of cake.