Appreciate A Dragon Day

today is Appreciate a Dragon Day! I really love dragons, they are on of my favorite fantasy animals (after Fenix of course). One dragon I really love but people forget som times are Haku from Spirited Away. I love the movie and mostly I love Haku's dragon form. He is everything I like about dragons. He is powerfull (he is some kind of river god), he can fly and he is between good and evil. Mostly good!

after the trip talk...

So my plan to blog while in Japan didn't work out. The internet was bad, my telephone didn't function properly and I was so tired every night. But I did try to remember what I did and experienced and I am going to post it now, after the trip, instead. I will maybe not write about all of them at the same time, I don't have the energy to, and I also need photos from my boyfriends camera so you can see all the wonderful things we experienced!

two days left!

Today I woke up early and the first thought in my head was: It's only 2 days left! In two days we really starts our trip to Japan. We will be leaving 6 am on Wednesday to travel to Arlanda (the airport). Take-off is then planned 12.55. Then we will spend the following 13 hours flying and changing flights before landing in Narita. It will then be 8.55 in the morning japanese time (1.55 am in Sweden) and I hope that we at that point had the time to sleep on the plane ^_^''' 

I also hope that my finacé still will be as happy as he can be. He sometimes have trouble to be still, and doing nothing for such a long time on the plane can make him really cranky (yes, like a baby!). I think we both have to try to sleep a lot on the plane, so that the times flies so to speak.

Today we are going to wash the last clothes we want to pack and tomorrow the luggage will be filled and ready. We also needs to clean and stuff here at home, like emptying the fridge and so on and hopefully I don't have to do it all on my own. Maybe I will also have time to meet upp with some of my friends and say goodbye to them. 

I think I am going to miss Quinn the most when we are away. That cat is like my baby and splendid two weeks on the other side of the earth is going to make me miss her. She will be staying with M's mother and Quinzel's cat-brother. She is going to have a great time, getting fat on all the nice food and have somebody to play with all the time.  Hopefully her brother wont teach her stupid things so that she will miss-behave when she comes back home to us ^_^

It's time!

Yes, it is time to write again! Finally I have a lot to write about. Last week I visited my parents and had time to spend time with my grandma and sister as well. It was wonderful to meet them again <3I got to help my sister move and I went shopping with granny. I also spent a lot of time with the dogs and Bessie is so old now, you can really see it. It was nice meeting all of them but I was also happy to get back home, especially because I missed M so much!

This week was also my birthday and I celebrated a bit with my fiancé and his family, and of course I got money and flowers and stuff from my own family but we celebrated together before, when I was there. We tried to get our chocolate fountain working instead of making a cake, unfortunately it was a total flop. I got a bit sad because I turned one year older and nothing really wanted to work for me on that day, but I tried to just be happy for all the nice people I have in my life instead!

Yesterday I got together with some of my friends and celebrated again for both myself and for Sy, who is born the day before me. It was a given that we should celebrate together this year! I baked muffins and J helped me bake a red velvet cake. We also had dinner together before we got to eat all the sweet stuff and it was great. we played some Zatzy and Sy won! Then we tried the cake and it was wonderful! I got a lot of nice presents at well and the night was fantastic over-all. I really love spending time with nice people! 

When it was time to end things I was really tired and I fell asleep as soon as i laid down in bed. Today I think we will start the last things before our Tokyo-trip, it is only four days away now and I am so looking forward to it! <3 We have to wash and clean and read and pack.. There is always more thing to do before a trip. I will get really stressed out but I think that as soon as I set foot on the plane everything will just flow away. I am not going to care about anything else than just having a great time in Tokyo!

(But I will really miss my Qunzel Princess here at home, I do really love my cat!)

... some tihngs about my life and about E3

When you live with the worlds biggest gamer the time before E3 is kind of hyped and I am starting to feel it too. It is one of the time that I will be able to catch up to the gamingworld and sureley we will both be watching in the nights next week (yes, it is in the middle of the night in Sweden), especially when I finaly have done my last exam for this semester. Maybe we even will make it a party and find some snacks to eat while we at it.

Today I watched some videos on Gametrailers.com as a start-up and I especially liked the new video from The Final Bosman about Nintendo and how they are kind of forgotten for E3 this year. He had some really nice statistics and I think he is right. I am somewath bias towards Nintendo myself, I have played Nintendo sience I was small and it feels comfortable and safe, but I still think that they are worth more interest than they are getting right now. 

On another note I can tell you that the job interview I wrote about last time didn't turn out good. Unfortunatly they wasn't able to hire me if I am in Japan two weeks in July. As I can understand. So now I have to use plan B and just enjoy the summer. I was joking with my fiance yesterday that I would be his housewife this summer, cooking and cleaning and shopping for him and make everything so much easeier for him. I think he liked the idea v(^∀^*) so that is what I will do. I will also be reading, watching drama, watching anime and hang out with my friends when they are free. it is going to be nice even if I will be short on money.I still have some savings I can use. 

The most expencive parts of my summer will be the trip and my need for new clothes. My closset really need new additions, everything I got is so old and nothing fits well anymore, I have also realized that I have underwear that is older than our relationship ( I have been together with M for seven years in June)... So it is time to buy some new things... And for the trip I alredy have a special account and the planeticket are allready paid for. 

It is going to be so much fun! I am so looking forward to this summer!! Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ

Some sun in the darkness

My world have been kind of dark lately because I haven't gotten a job during the summer yet. I have really been so frustrated because I don't have enough money to survive this summer besides the money I have saved up for my trip to Japan. All the workplaces I have applied for have chosen someone else over me and a lot of them haven't even told me about it themselves. But today I got a call and I will have a job interview next week. 

Even if I haven't gotten the job yet and I know that maybe it will be a problem that I am going to Japan for two weeks in the middle of the summer, I am still really happy that they at least are interested in me. I have a chance! If I get the job then... I will be really happy! Yes, I already have a B-plan for the summer, with money saved up that I can use. And yes, it would be nice to have a whole summer off and just be able to take it easy in the sun. But a job would be even better. I could make money instead of loosing them, I would have something to add to my CV and I would have something to do. I also have friends working in the same place and hopefully I will be working in the same department. 

It isn't a glamorous job, I will be working in a chicken factory the whole summer, but it is still a job and I can promise that it is better than my last job as a on the phone customer service employee where I got yelled at all the time. So I am really hoping for this and even if I don't get the job I will see it as a good experience and still be happy that I at least got an interview! Wish me luck!

Japanese sweets I would like to try

a couple of days ago I made a blog post about some of the Japanese food I want to try during my trip in the summer. Now it is time for the sweets and snack-version of the list. Here goes:

Daifuku - I feel you have to try traditional japanese sweets in Japan

Dango

Kakigori, shaved ice. This looks wonderful, especially in the summertime

Taiyaki

Melonpan

Koala's March. I have tried the strawberry ones but chocolate is interesting

Umaibō

Pocky!
I have tried a lot of different kinds of Pocky in my life but I will try a
lot more! Like the panda and some dessert pocky I haven't had earlier...

Hi-chew
I have heard that these are popular. And I really like all the different flavors!

Yan yan

Green tea ice cream

Japanese crepes.
Crepes isn't Japanese but I have heard that they are wonderful! 

Bubble tea.
I have had bubble tea before as well so my main focus is getting my BF to try it ^__^ 

Japanese kit kat.
In Sweden there is just one flavor so I have been longing to try some of the stranger ones in  Japan. 

Now I have most certainly missed some really awesome things and I am sure that I will try even more while I am there. Hopefully I can take a lot of pictures during my trip and then post them here afterwords. Maybe I can write a little about my reaction trying them as well.

As you can see a lot of my money this summer is going to get spent on stuff in Tokyo, mostly on things you can eat and drink. Oh, yes! i haven't told you about stuff to drink (except the bubble tea) and the main reason is that I am not really sure what to try. Any suggestions  I know that they have different kinds of flavor on Fanta and stuff so I am going to try that. I also want to try some Japanese drinks... We have to see what I find! ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ

2PM - Comeback When You Hear This Song

I love this song! It makes me happy and hopeful even if the lyrics is kind of sad. I can also see myself walking a lot with this song in my ears, it gives me energy and I want to smile towards the sky. I somehow compare it to Big Bang's Blue because they makes me feel almost the same even if the songs is different. 

I like the theme of the video and the wardrobe as well. The guys looks cool and... Swag! I am a bit tired of that word but I can't find another way to describe it. The voices is good and is a big part why I get this happy feeling I get watching it. Taecyeon and his rap *sign*... I can feel his voice in my stomach! Especially when he tells me he loves me! Kyaa~

(and no, I am not usually a big fangirl of any group...)

The adding of the seven deathly sins was also a lot of fun in the video, I found myself searching for them. They added something. Like the "greed company" and the picture with Envy on it that describes the feeling in the scene. Such a good touch!

I think the only thing I don't really like is the six guys one girl concept. I understand that You can find different stories in the video and that they maybe end up differently depending, but still.... It feels a bit wrong.

Japanese food I would like to try

Lately I have found myself googeling pictures of japanese food as a way to pass the time until our trip to Tokyo. I hope that my money are going to be enough because I want to try everything. Here's some sample of what I have found that I would like to try:

Udon (Kitsune Udon in the picture) is one of the noodles I want to try!

Then yo have Ramen, the skinnier noodle from China

Soba noodles, also a japanese noodle

Yakitori, grilled chicken

Tempura, deep fried seafood and veggies

Okonomiyaki

Gyoza, japanese dumplings

Gyudon, rice and beef, a kind of donburi ("bowl" or "bowl of rice").
It is said to be very cheap so maybe we will be eating a lot of this?

I really love Japanese curry and plan on buying a lot with me home <3

I make my own omurice at home but it would be good to try the real deal ^_^

Tonkatsu, deep fried pork, looks wonderful!

So these were some of the things I would like to try. Besides this I want to eat Korean BBQ, a lot of the stuff they have in konbini and a lot of sweets. Maybe I will make a new post about some of them? Do you have an suggestion about other things I should try? Please leave a comment! ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ

EDIT: I have a new post about Japanese sweets I would like to try

Hello cyberspace~!

Hello~! It's been a while! How are you, cyberspace?

Maybe you are wondering what I have been doing recently. well I have been studying hard, started to work out regularly and watched a lot of Naruto. It has taken a lot of my time and I haven't been doing much else, that's also why I haven't been writing here. But now I am back~

So besides all the things above I have also tried to concentrate a lot on the upcoming trip to Tokyo (on Wednesday it is 10 weeks left!) and have been studying what to do in Japan. I have also tried to lern some kana, but I think I have to wait until the end of this semster, I have to concentrate on my "real" studies right now. 

Maybe you think, why care so much, it is over 10 weeks left?? But I have been looking forward to this for so long, it is a trip I have wanted to take for as long as I can remember. But maybe I have to wait and be patient a little bit longer ^_____^

Whit my recent researching on Japan I have gained a interest in jpop and j-fashion again and I have found myself searching fairy kei on google. I really want to buy everything an I even want to paint my own pair of fairy kei shoes. Unfortunatly my money aren't going to cover it because I haven't gotten any work over the summer yet and the trip is going to be expensive. But perhaps I will be able to do it after the summer when I start to get money again? In the mean time you can get inspired by these shoes:

Hopefully yours
Vea <3

Hopefully

They say that it is two different kinds of people that wants to become a teacher, the ones that was really good in school and those who had it really difficult. The last category wants to become teachers so that they can make it better for the new generation. 

I don't really know witch category I belong to. I didn't have such a hard time with my studies even if I sometime was lazy an other times had to high ambitions. But at the same time some periods was really hard even if it had nothing to do with the school work... I guess there is also a group in between, people like me, that know that they maybe can help people as a teacher.  Hopefully...

Ni No Kuni

Finally I have been able to test the game. If you are wondering why I havent written i so long it is because I have only focusing on studying and gaming the last few days. Both takes a lot of my energy and time.

Maybe you allready know but I have been waiting for Ni No Kuni for a really long time now and now when I have it, it is as good as I hoped! I love how they really captured the ghibli-feeling in the game and how it is like playing a movie. The story is really moving along the usual story-structure of an anime movie. And the art is awesome! it is so nice and bright and detailed. It makes you happy just watching it. 

I still haven't come very far in the game, even if I have played for 8-9 hours right now. Maybe I will make a new update when I can write more about the story?  Tell you all if I finds something I don't like with it or so?

Diet, day 8

Yes, now I have made it trough my first week of dieting and it works. I have lost almost 3 kg (2,9) and the calculated was 1,2 for my attack-period. I am happy! But it was a bit hard, my body misses all the sugar so a couple of nights I have really been craving it, I have also easily been cranky over small things and I think that also is because of my body and everything it is used to have and wont right now :/ But I succeeded! So now I can start adding veggies to my food and it is going to be so good <3 

It feels like my fiancé doesn't really care if he is dieting or not so I have to stick with it even harder right now, I want to loose some more! I know that we both will cheat a bit on Saturday, we are invited to a party, but sometimes you have to have fun as well!

Before then my new course is going to start, history 1. I am both happy and afraid, they say that this is one of the hardest courses you can read on this level of studies but at the same time is it going to be so fun to study something new. Hopefully it is going to be ok, I am waiting for the first lecture now. In the mean time I will be able to listen to some old and new music ^__^

Diet, day 1

Yesterday was my first day of dieting, here is the list of things I have eaten:

Breakfast
Mini-Yogurt (no sugar nor fat added) 
A boiled egg
Water 

Lunch 
grilled meat (from yesterday) 
A little bit of quark (I am not sure that this is right translated but Kvarg in swedish anyhow) 
A boiled egg
Water

Dinner
Chicken 
Scrambled eggs
Milk


I have realized that I am going to have some fun making new things for this diet. My sister have given me some recipes to try and later on I am planning to try different things myself. I thing te first day went really well, I haven had any troubles yet.

The princess diet

After some thinking and discussions I have decided to try a diet my sister have tried. I am usually not found of dieting, I think you looses something when you always think about what you eat. But right now I really need to loose some weight and I can at least try.

So the thing I am going to try is Dukan (AKA the Princess Diet, I really like that name <3). It is a diet where you eat a lot of protein and excludes almost all carbs. Dukan is built on four different phases; the first one you eat only protein like meat and egg, the last one you eat as you usually do but have one day each week for meals on only protein. It is a way to restart the way you eat and the way your body takes care of your food (it is hard to describe in English >__<) and for me that sounds like something that can work.

I am not to sure how well this is going to go for me personally, I don't like not being able to eat what I want. But hopefully I can loose some weight at least (even if I don't really think I will loose all the weight that the web generator calculated for me). The best thing is that my fiancé decided to also try so at least for now we are two fighting with it! But maybe that will be a problem later on if one of us gives up because I think it is hard for the other one to continue alone...

Well, we will see. Maybe I will post some updates here about how it is going because it can be a nice way for me to keep track myself when I usually don't like to talk about these kinds of things, with all the people around me, when I am so afraid that I wont succeed >___<

FIGHTING!

2012

Finally it is 2013 and looking back on the year gone by I realize how important this year has been in my life. To start with, I started with, the beginning of last year was a lot of planing for our trip to Paris and Music Bank. It was one of my best trips in my life! So nice to travel with all my friends <3 and the concert was wonderful! and the food and the sightseeing... It was a fine way to start up the year ^__^

I come home and the life went back to normal for a while. But me and my fiancé started to look for a place. We found one and in June we was living together. It was also something wonderful, a step in the right direction for our relationship. After we got our apartment we spend a fun summer together, travelling to Göteborg and Stockholm, spending time with friends and family and just having a great time. We also bought our cat Quinn, our little baby.

The autumn was not as depressing as I usually finds them, I had my family to thank about that. Some small trips to meet friends have also helped. Another thing that was important was the preparation and the weeks at my internship at the school, I once again realized why I want to become a teacher. Unfortunately I think the internship should have been longer...

We survided the 21st of December and then we are finally at christmas, where I got to spend bouth in Katrineholm and Söderhamn ans also the days wen my sister wisited me at the end of the year.  In many was all of these moments have changed me, hopefully into something better. And now, looking forward to 2013, I really hope it is going to be a new great year!

When it comes to music it was also a great year, with Big Bangs Alive, the debut of some rally great artists and PSY's Gangnam Style, just to name a few. Maybe you would like to check out my playlist for 2012? I have also prepared a new playlist for 2013, hopefully it will be filled with great music!

The day before christmas eve

I will probably not have time to write much this coming week, I will be have to fun celebrating Christmas with everyone I know. Tonight we visited my mother in law and started the Christmas-celebration with porridge together with my fiancés brothers. We also played some Nintendo land before we went home. Tomorrow we will have a traditional dinner at M's grandmas place and on Christmas day we will spend some time at his fathers. on Wednesday I will be travelling home to Söderhamn to visit my own family and will be there until Saturday when I take my sister with me home again. 

So as you can understand I have a lot of things going on. But may be I will find some time to write something? Hopefully I will at least post one more text before new years ;) 

So what more have I been doing? yesterday we cleaned the whole apartment so now everything is really nice. The Christmas tree looks good as well even if Quinn still wants to climb it. We have a lot of gifts underneath it.Today I spent some time finishing my crotched kittens and then I baked. I made a cake to take with us tomorrow. So looking forward to it! Soon it is time to sleep, so it will be tomorrow really soon!

A dream

Sometimes I have the most crazy, wonderful dreams. After a lot of animewatching yesterday I had a new one, really sweet. I wanted to share a piece of it with you after writing it down this morning. But just so you know, everything was playing in my mine as a anime episode or a book story so the girl in it isnt really me even if I could really feel her emotions. 

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Yes, as I told you in the lucia-post I went to see The Hobbit. I have been looking forward to the movie since they only was rumours that it would be made. But i was also a bit afraid about the high frame rate I have heard so much about, like how it takes time to get used to and that you can get a bit nauseas. I was also afraid if they really would be able to fit three movies in one book without the story getting to thin. I didn't have to be so afraid!

It was beautiful really! The same feel that previous movies gave with awesome scenery and a interesting story. The high frame rate didn't make me feel nauseas at all but made the picture a lot clearer than it usually is, especially in a 3D movie. You could really see everything! 

When it comes to the story everything was still really nicely done. It is obvious that there is going to be another, the main quest isn't done, and they had a great cliff hanger at the end. But still they really succeeded with getting all the things together in the story as well. 

When it comes to characters I got especially happy about all the dwarfs, they are really funny and each individuality is really shown in the movie. They also succeed great with the game that Bilbo plays with Gollum and the way Gollum response.   

I haven't read the book even if I have read the fellowship of the ring. I wasn't really that interested in it.But I still think I know one or two facts from it that I have picked up from friends and the movie matches my picture of the story really well. After I saw the movie I also want to read it, and I want to do so in English. So when I have money I am really going to buy a copy and try it out ^__^

Lucia and some other things

Yesterday was December 13th, Lucia, and as the good swede that I am I baked. Saffransbullar or lussekatter or saffron buns if you like, it has a lot of different names but the main point is the saffron. The buns turned out really great, I dont thikn I ever made them that good before! 

Unfortunately i didn't have the chance to see any Lucia-event yesterday but last Sunday I watched the coronation of Katrineholms Lucia (the official lucia in my hometown Katrineholm). So with this in mind I wanted to share two pictures with you. 

Lucia in katrineholm (sorry for bad pic)

Lussekatter in different shapes

I really like the Lucia-tradition, we all need a little light in our darkness thes time of year. 

Beside Lucia the countdown for Christmas is really going along. Unfortunately I haven had that much time to bake and cook but the Christmas tree is up (something that Quinn is really happy about) and the gifts is also almost finished. I have also bought the last ingredients for gingerbread today so maybe I will be making the dough tonight and bake it this weekend. 

On a side note I am really looking forward to tonight, we are going to watch the Hobbit, a movie I have been really locking forward to! so hopefully I will post about it tomorrow.

Edit: A  frined of mine sent this on facebook, I thought it worked in this post.