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I spent my whoooooole morning binge watching Youtube clips!!! Everything I didn't have time with the week before! But this sadly means I haven't done anything productive all day either! Even if it's nice and all I'd like to have done sooomething else as well on July 28th 2015 :P Which is why I'll go and bake a bit! seeb ya~

I took up the video exactly 1 month after it was filmed, IMPROVEMENT!  The Swedish crew and I(haha we got that name from Sam): MissWeerdo, Chucky and Maknae went to Helsinki for a day to see Lunafly at their Re:born tour, it was awesome!!!

Salaaaaads!!!!! Okay wait I don't mean crap food as in ''oh no! this will make me fat, I'm ashamed I've eaten this food!'', NO. But I've spent the last three days in Stockholm where I've lived of  McDonalds, Carbonara, dunkin donuts, frappuccinos, sushi, bacon and eggs.... see where I'm going with this? Sure it's just normal food but it's food that has less good reactions on especially my face and my acne if I indulge in it too much without moving around or exercising :( On the bright side my acne has never bothered me or destroyed my confidence in any way other than that it's just annoying to have people talk about it... I just find it annoying that people can't find a better conversation topic with me than the little bumps on my face.... Oh well :) I presonally like to vary my diet between healthy and not so healthy things now and then. I find balance in it better than commitment to just one of the life styles :) theref

Can we just get this out of the way first, I have the weirdest OOTD pose ever?                                                                           Skirt H&M                                                                        Blouse DEA                                                                        Tights H&M

Haha I just bought my first song ever on iTunes... even if I have had an iPod since I was 12ish and iphones since some time in junior high I've just never gotten to it. My first ever bought song became YUI's Hello which is the intro song for the Paradise kiss(the manga I wrote about here: ) live action movie from 2011. I've liked the song ever since I first saw the trailer for the movie in late 2011 early 2012 or something like that~ It's quite cutesy powerful, but not Jpop suger sweet cute like that, it's mostly cute because of YUI's high pitched voice. But the text of the song is quite bitter-sweet which blends together nicely with her voice~ Gosh I wish I had the original song as a ring tone but you can only get ''weird'' versions of it :/

Since I'm working in a kitche, I have to constantly wash my hands to keep them clean and proper when prepering stuff for the cutomers. Because of that my hands get very dry and sensitive and I've been trying out a tons of hand creams to prevent it. My absolute favourite of all is Lush's Handy Gurugu! It works like magic on my dry hands from work and wonders on mum's hands in winter because hers really break from the cold! It's made out of shea butter, rose water, camomile oil and a lot of other moisturizing components. It has a very plesant, hand cream like, soft smell unlike some other lush products (that tend to be more fragnant. It's a very rich but still thin formula that sinks in to the skin quickly unlike my other hand favourite Lemony Flutter, it's a good option if you want something to do the jib but don't want to worry about sticky hands for the sake of it :)

(oooh the shame to see that I haven't posted this one here when I wrote it in July on my Swedish blog.... Oh well it's a pretty non important post! I still want ALL my posts on both blogs though so here we go!)  I really love avocado!So please if your life is dear to you. DO. NOT. BAD.MOUTH. AVOCADO. IN. MY. PRESENCE! haha I was in need of a little energy kick and something that would fill me up before going to work (cause working in a kitchen with a growling stomach is the WORST!) My favourite way of enjoying is to really mash it with as few lumps or anything as possible I alomost leave it as a puré, with some aroma salt(or normal salt), and on crispbreads! For me it's better than toast and ANY other savory snack! mmmm~ Does anyone else have any tips on how I can indulge in these heavenly fruits?!:D

hahahaha (that'sa veeeeeeeeery sad laugh..) I have a Swedish version and this English version of my blog (mostly to keep my writing skills in the languages on going even after school)... anyway! I tend to write the Swedish posts first because I find that they are more annoying and not as easy to write as the English ones, probably because I'm more used to hearing youtube videos, readiong blogpost and other similar media in English and because I went to an all English high school program I'm just more comfortable in expressing some sort of thoughts in English~ And I somehow ended up 22 posts behind... come on that's just plain laziness! I'm going to stike this iron now and start to ''catch up'' on the posts! I'll try to do it in the span of 3 days (fri-sun) but put the ultimatum in a week!  I think I can do this!

Okay first things first. Ai Yazawa herself  is one of my favourite mangaka,  she just has this way of quite perfectly depict very human and complex characters in ordinary yet special stories. The stories are very normal but super interesting and easy to relate to! Paradise kiss is my current (and has been for about 2-3 years) manga of her, if it's my actual favourite manga of all I've read? The story revolves around 18 year old Yukari Hayasaka who is in her last year of high school and is pretty much flunking it...(tell me that someone else than me just feel/felt connected to her with just that!). She accidentally runs into  some senior students of a design high school that asks her to model for their senior fashion show. Initially she sees them as a burden and look down upon them, for not studing something more ''serious''  like a lot of people around her. How ever after a while these students passion for what they love doesn't seem so stupid to Yukari

So I'm going to try to be more efficient in my blogging~ I think one of the reasons I don't blog that much is because I feel as if it's more time consuming than it's worth :/ But I actually think it's more my fault for not sitting down and focusing on the posts when I start them so it takes longer time to finish them... I'm going to start timing myself, ''forcing'' myself to finish a post completly BEFORE 30 minutes~ (unless it's super long/complex) then I'll have to be more efficient in my writing :)

Oh yeaaaah~ That wasn't that hard! Because it was already done for me, Great!!! Still going to read through all the stuff just to understand it and make sure that everything is in order but at least it seems to be good for now  :)

No not the yummy kind! the technological kind! I was just about to start updating this english blog again, when I stumbled across the announcement about the mandatory cookie ''warning'' we have to put out on or blogs now~ Even if I've been intrested in bloging for quite some time now I'm reaally not computer smart~ Which maked this whole cookie ordeal really hard to grasp for me? What do I have to warn you guys about? which cookies do I use?? how thorough should it be???  I have quite a lot of reading to do in order to fix this blog to match the new EU standard, so I'll guess I should stop procastinating and just get reading and understanding of all this! Good luck to all fellow bloggers out there that have to do the same :)

I know know I'm not supposed to rant about sunshine especially not in Sweden! But how am I supposed to sleep when it's so bright and beautiful out there( that kind of saved it, didn't it?).

I was out a quickie to meet up with one of my best friends,  take a cup of coffee and catch up (I thought apparently we were supposed to be more productive!) We went to a Swedish coffee chain called Wayne's Coffee, since I didn't bring anything to be able to work we mostly chatted and I'm really sorry I wasted your time, Friend! most of our time went to talk with our mutual good friend that is studying aboard, which was a comepletly worth waste of time because talking all three together brought back alot of memories and was just wonderful! We spoke with her for about 40 minutes and our whole little meeting/hang out/date session was a bit less than 2 hours :) Next time we meet we really have to prove to ourselves that we can be productive together, which I really believe we can! Or we'll just have to stop meeting for that :( The weather was super weird in my town yesterday, first when I was at work between 6am and 10 it was raining cats and dogs, and when I w

I've been really pondering about denim skirts lately! They're just very versatile and can go from being super casual, cute or cool and edgy depending on what you combine them with and what you do while wearing them :)

Hello there, about a week ago I was down town with one of my best friends Emma and our leg some how found their way to The Body Shop. Which was both a good and a bad thing. Good because I bought some stuff I really needed and bad because well.... I bought stuff for money I could have set aside and saved for my korea trip!! At least there was some magical mebers only bonus that I got exactly that day so I got quite a lot for my buck(bad bad way of thinking don't do like this girl people...) This is what I bought: A Pink Grapefruit Body Butter , this was one of the things I really needed because I always suffer from terribly dehydrated skin, year round and I'd been with out a moisturizer for the body since June.... The little Lip&Cheek tint doll that I had been eyeing forever and finally got my hands on it :D and last but not least one of the other things I needed was a good lipbalm to sooth my also chappy, dry lips so a Vanilla Creme brûlée lipbalm . Eve

And therefore resumes have to start getting spread around again! I've made a list with most of the shops in my town that I'll send my resumes to and I'll just have to cross my fingers that at least some of them get interested and want me in their team :) I'm doing this because I need more capital for my study trip to Korea next year and the sparse amount of time I get to work at my current job and it's difficult hours to combine other jobs so it's just not cutting the job.... Come on Nat! out on the job market again! ... oh and please start blogging a bit more regularly... make some of your resulations true~

on the 30th of June I had a cinema evening with mum. We went out and saw the Age of Adeline, which was a movie I had really been waiting for ever since it started to play as a commercial at youtube, and that was around the time when there was still snow on the ground wasn't it??     The movie tells us about the fictional life of Adeline Bowman,  a beautiful young woman (played by Blake Lively) that becomes victim to an awful car crash at the age of 29, with quite a particular side effect.... from that very moment she stops aging! For us this can sound fantastic, convinient and to a certain extent romantic at first! That is until the viewr as much as Adeline finds out that this state brings her more misery than what it's worth... We get to follow Adeline's life from the 1920's until our current time. Personally I thought we would get to see a lot more fashion from the decades than we got in the final cut, but most of Adeline's few  flash backs are very ver

So the leader of Lunafly Sam Carter was back as the DJ for Arirang radio's Superkpop during some weeks in june, since the current DJ is currently out and about in the world promoting his own band :) A lot of the the lunafly fans (lukies) and radio listners were exceptionally happy about Sam's little comeback for the show, I think he's a particularly charming DJ, not just because he has a very nice voice to listen to but also beacause he has a very natural and personal way of hosting the show. Which isn't weird considering that he was the DJ for the show for almost a whole year, a year or two ago? I guess it flows quite natural for him~ I actually didn't have time to listen to him live except some day when I started late or was free(and in Sweden!) because it was live when I was working in the morning and I couldn't really listen then... But I was lucky enough that one person that I know recorded them all so I'm listening to them now afterwards :) I

Well so I'm definitely feeling a bit under the weather right now, I think I'm on the way of cathcing a small cold (please let it just be small!). But I'm not giving in that easy I'm going to try evry single house cure before it get's any worse! The most common ones at my house are chicken soup, and lemon-ginger-honey-tea! We don't have ginger or fresh lemon so I'll buy some after work today. I did start my day with a soothing cup (yep eat it from one of my monster cups!) of chicken soup, I made it a bit spicy too because I thought spice might combat the virus.... yes? no? maybe!

Oh well I'll just have to use Pippi plaits until I get to follow treatment on the roots of my hair~ I should've gotten one on th 15th of May but that never happend.... So I've gotten some serious afro roots (not that I dislike my natural hair, I've flaunted a well cut afro some years ago I just like to change now and then).  Buuuuuut afro roots and straight permed hair don't go well together! When ever you try to De-tangle it it goes ''great'' till you get to the scalp and drag down your brush because it just becomes a giant lump all the way down, kind of like a forced teasing(for the hair!) But with some patience it works and plaits is the best way to go to keep the hair de-tangled for the longest time possible and not strain it with the brush everyday :)

Now since I work in a kitchen that means a lot of dishes have to be washed! And that is leaving its traces on my hands, I've always had quite dry hands but this week it takes the prize! Nothing helps! I've been used so much hand cream whenever i got home that I've finished a tube in less than a week! Maybe I just need a more potent one, right now the only one doing the trick (at least keeping them smooth a little while after I apply is Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea Honey Drops body cream~ yes yes it's a BODY cream but it's the only thing helping right now and hands are technically a part of your body anyway ;) It will do the job until I can get my hand on one of my favourite Lush ones :)

Good morning it is (was) 10 am but it's still quite early :) at least it's not lunch time yet! But something needs to get in my belly so I can start my day~ Eggs and bacon 'tis because it's been far too long since last!   this breakfast deserves and extra big picture! 

Like I said cleaning isn't my forte but it's at least better now. I'll just fix it a bit more tomorrow or something :)  

Okay so the day after(15/5) my final exams (retakes), I started working immediately. Sure it's no big deal but everyone that dealt with exams in May knows that one day, just one to relax once it's all over is just *bliss*, it was pretty rough~ The nexxt day I was free but used it as an errands day becuse I was supposed to be free the day after that too!  Or was I? *Dun Dun Dun* I thought '' I'm always free on Mondays and Tuesdays anyway! Those can be my recharging days!'' *cries* Half of my monday did become that, until my colleague texted me and asked me if I could fill in since he was sick, and thus Nat went~ But that meant I had evening shifts Monday and Tuesday and morning AND evening shifts the rest of the week! Of course I got a longer break between them, my employers aren't tyrants~  It was just until Saturday because saturday evening he texted that he was better and could take the morning pass on Sunday, which meant.... Yes?

Progress starts when you acknowledge your flaws... And mine is obviously not being able to keep my room pretty! I've had a lot to do recently, exams, work being the major ones! While the exams were going on I didn't care about keeping my room clean and then I was directly slung in to work, where I had to take morning and evening shifts at the kitchen  because my collegeague is apparently down with the flu :( which I turn left me with no energy to clean it either xD  I know most people have a hard time with keeping their rooms tidy but mine won't even stay tidy for a day guys! 

   Last Friday I went down to the south of Sweden in order to attend one of my best friend's fashion show at her design and fashion collage. It was about a 5-6 hour car ride from where I lived but it was DEFINITELY worth it! Her and her classmates collections were just amazing! Talk about ready to wear for all different sizes and tastes! This was my favourite outfit from my friend! It was a full circle skirt with a turtle neck vest top! All made by her?! I'm sorry but I'm still in awe.... I love the femenine very delicately soft grunge vibe her collection had~ girly grunge kind of! If wear that any day! 

Okay so yeeees I'm in the midst of exam hell and that means that the majority of my days this past week has been spent inside, with my books, revising..... more like extreme cramming! Anyway tomorrow it's the last of this weeks test which means I'll be free for 4 days until the next. To the point Nat to the point! Well I've just really missed going outside! even if the days are gloomy most of the time there are some hours each day that just seems like paradise! It makes me really want to go back to the King's Garden in Stockholm and walk through the cherry blossoms. The picture of those days work as a small energy kick because it reminds me of the beautiful weather I'll enjoy after the exams and that it actually wasn't too long ago that I was there :) Here are some of the photos, some of them didn't turn out that great because the sun wasnt really working to my favour and I'm a complete camera noob~ but hey I'd did my best and pr

Okay so most of us students are in the middle of the most important time in the school year, yep may is usually when exam hell starts to break loose, especially for IB students! I know you guys because I'm in the same boat as you I have my first exams( actually retakes if I should be honest) tomorrow!  Even if it's feels fairly tempting to just sit her and cram in as much last minute info as possible in not gonna do that! I'm going to take my needed breaks, relax, take time to make some snacks, because your brain and body needs it to retain information and gather strength for tomorrow!  Those 2 minutes to grab a drink or 10 to make a quick snack will not make or break you! So just go grab some energy and then come back! Good luck tomorrow ! :)

I just saying you guys~  Their ballads are awesome Now that's the last of the late blog posts :)

For the first time in.... I don't even know how long I have working blinds and its just amazing! My room had been covered in darkness(extreme hyperbole but oh well) for the longest time and now I don't even need a lamp! It soo nice! I can just walk in and see how bright and inviting my room looks now!   It's warmer, cozier and just beautiful now~  21 St of April