2 weeks left

It is now 2 weeks left until I have to be in school. The lessons doesn't start until the monday after but there's a couple of other things the week before. There's so many things I want to do before, but I'm starting to realize that the time is just not enough for all of it.
I have at least 3 books (2 big ones) I want to read. I'm doing a cookbook for my mom that I need to finish. My room needs to be thoroughly cleaned. I need to get a backpack, pens, folders etc for school. My hair desperatly needs a hairdresser. Etc etc.. I also have 7 more days left at work, plus another half day at my dads work.

It all actually didn't sound that bad when I wrote it all down..

The girl from America who will be staying with us this next academic year will be coming on monday as well. Her parents are also coming and they will be staying for a week. We are very excited to have her! I love showing americans Sweden!

By the way, I'm thinking of getting a subscribtion of the magazine called Fitness (a swedish one).. Anyone out there that has read it and knows if its good or not? I was looking at one today at work and it seemed pretty good. And I would also get a free pulse watch, which I've wanted to have for a year now but I'm too cheap to buy one.

Time for bed.. Finally a day off work tomorrow! Which means cooking, reading, resting, cleaning and preparing for work the next day..

I met my future husband today

One of my customers today were italian and had several things on him from Texas, his cap, and a few other smaller things on his backpack.. He also had a ribbon where it said I love Israel.. He has to be THE ONE right? I can not imagine a better fit except from if he were jewish as well.

More structure please

16 days left till the gym starts.
22 days left till the lessons starts.
The last days at work seems to go by so slow now.. When I'm bored, I picture myself at the gym and it makes me so excited. I seriously really really miss it. It has been 3 long months when it has been closed..

I have a good feeling about this year. I'm more excited than ever to work out more serious and I will finally study nutrition! I also turn 25 in less than 2 months. Half way to 50! Which feels great!

Hopefully I'll get more time to be more serious on this blog as well as soon as I get more structure in my life. Right now it feels like a big mess with so different schedule every day. I should probably get a better camera for it as well. But I refuse to get an iphone.

America vs Sweden

I have a hard time deciding where I want to be. When I've been to America, I start loving and appriciating Sweden much more. But when the fall starts to come to Sweden, there's no place I rather be (except from Israel) than in America.

America has had a special place in my heart for about 5 years now, since I became a christian. And Texas has been the place that I've "always" wanted to go to. I have now spent 2,5 months total in Dallas and I must say it wasn't at all what I had expected. I thought there would be cowboys and people riding on horses everywhere. I also thought everyone would have a really thick southern accent and that almost everyone would be obese. It's not really like that there..
I totally saw 1 person riding on a horse and I didn't meet many at all with that accent I thought everyone had. And sure there were defently many more obese people in Sweden, but not at all as many as I had expected!

I've learned that american people are more generous than us swedes.. Families opens up their homes and lives to other people much more over there. They spend more time with each other and helps each other out. But they also work more. I heard somewhere that Americans live to work and swedes work to live.. maybe thats true.. Personally I believe Americans are better when it comes to the daily life and putting family higher than swedes, but swedes are better with traditions and also taking time to relax. Swedes are also really good with experience life. Swedes dare to travel and explore things in a better way.

I really want to live in America some day. I'd like to have it as my base, and then go out in different periods to other countries like Israel, Irak, India, France etc.. As I mentioned before, the middle east is really on my heart. I love food and nutrition but when it comes to maybe being able to start orphanages or help poor children in the 3rd world somehow, than my nutrition interest is worth nothing. But maybe it could be combined somehow.

That has been something that has worried me, that all of those dreams won't happen because I will start studying nutrition now. That's why I took the acceptance to the university with mixed feelings. I prayed to God about all of that.. And I went to church the sunday after I heard I was accepted to the program and I really believe God spoke to me there. The service was about dreams that God has given us, and that everything doesn't always come true at once, but some dreams takes a bit of time to become reality and that we shouldn't give up our dreams only because it looks impossible at the moment. That service really encouraged me and has put me in a more secure mindset about these 3 study years I'm about to start. I don't know Gods plans for my whole life but I know it will be much better than I can even dream or think. I trust that God will lead me in the right directions in my life even when I don't always understand it.

Oh and america also gets a point because they have NBA and they have the mavericks ;) First sport I truly enjoy to watch!

Filter - 2 really interesting articals

I managed to read through 2 of the 3 larger articals I wanted today in Filter. It was so worth buying it! Here is a short overview of what it was about..

The first one was about how hard it is for a small bakery, butchery or things like that to make it here in Sweden. The main reason beeing all these rules that the government and the national food administration has for them. They wrote especially about one lady that started a small bakery and her neighbours and the people in her village loves it, but now the national authorities are on her about that she needs to make it accessible for handicapped and they need to see how her (very small) bakery effects the traffic in the village, if it bothers the people close by etc etc.. There are sooo many rules that pretty much makes it impossible for someone that has a small place like that to make it. Not good.. I'd rather have bread from a close by bakery than from a huge bakery where they have so many preservatives in it.. And meat from a cow that got to eat what it's meant to eat and got to grow in it's own spead.

Wich takes me to the second artical.. That one was about one of the swedish labeling for organic food - KRAV, and about how they started really good but is now only a big buisness that wants to make money and in the long run, doesn't help the nature at all! Their cows are allowed to eat corn (up to 50 %) depending on what they will use the cows too.. That is defently one of the things that conserned me the most in this article. Cows should eat gras, not corn. Otherwise they can get sick, and people eating their meat can get sick and even die. I really didn't know that KRAV cows was allowed to eat corn..
They interviewed a few people that has KRAV farms, and they say that people are being fooled,.. but they do it anyways because they get more money out of it..

It's worth buying it and read it.. but if you want to, you can borrow it from me. Extremly interesting.. They are long articals but still worth the time.

I also took a picture of our own zucchini from our garden today.. They have been really huge and this is not the biggest one. The picture doesn't justify it, but believe me, it's huge!



Well, off to bed again.. morning shift tomorrow again.. can't wait for them to be over!

All about books...

Today I bought a magazine at work because of a few articals in it about food, preservatives, our cows etc etc.. So as I'm in a working period now, I don't have much in my life going on except from working, eating and sleeping, which means, not many fun things to blog about.
So instead I only write about all these books I want to read :) I find new ones all the time and am starting to wonder when I'll have time to read it all. I guess that is a good place to be (hungry for reading) for someone that is going to start study.

I have a day off work tomorrow, which means a lot of reading :) And I also decided to work out tomorrow. I'm starting to get my energy back again and this break from working out has been way too long already so it's about time for me to start again!

Come back tomorrow so you can read interesting things from whatever books I decide to read.

The death in the pot

Sounds a bit weird but that's the name of another book I've decided to read pretty soon. Döden i grytan in swedish. It's about food (obviously) and how many weird things that are in food now and how far away we are from eating natural, normal food. This is something that I think is so interesting, and I have many times thought that when I get my own children (and during my pregnancies), I will do everything from scratch.. without artifical things.. we'll see if that's even possible but I'll do my best!

I'll probably start reading it tomorrow. I'm too tired today (1st morning out of 3)(work)(which means that after work I eat berries and cream, then dinner and then off to bed pretty much)... There will defently be a few posts here from the book!

Only 13 more days at work left!