charlotte in stockholm

I am tired... and it seems difficult to get out of it. Working a lot still.
Now we are part of the bidding on a house. I think it will be too expensive for us but you never know...
This weekend we had a visit from Robert's brother Håkan - I just took it easy and slept a lot. Great, I needed that. On Saturday the guys went out to party and I hooked up with my cousin Anneli. We ended up eating veggies and dip and watching A Princess Diary II (obviously for 12 year olds) and skimming through wedding magazines. Actually just how a Saturday night should be spent if it was always up to me :)
Tomorrow we have a kick off dinner with work and after that we are invited to a restaurant opening. We get a lot of invitations just for working in the right place (last time it was a Björn Borg-party) and I would be partying every week if I went to everything. Now it is not really my thing to party too much (I am getting so old...) but goodie bags are always nice :) I gotta prepare for bed now - and make sure I get some light therapy soon to get rid of the tiredness. There is a cafe here in Stockholm which offers coffe in a white room = combined light therapy = perfect :)
Good night.

...Robert har got a job!!!!!! He got his dream job as a sales person at Länsförsäkringar - which is a very big national insurance company. He is going to start with 6 months paid education/training (including law etc.) and after that he will be a top sales man :) He will not start until mid January but they would maybe be able to give him some work already before that. This means that we can buy an apartment! We have already found one that we would like to buy (again in the same street as where we live now). I hope it doesn't got toooo expensive because I am desperate to move now!
Work is getting more relaxed (peppar, peppar) and it is still a lof of fun!
This weekend we met some friends from Finland that was in Stockholm for the weekend. On Friday we had a really nice (huge) dinner at TGI Fridays and an early night. On Saturday we met up again for lunch at Vapiano - nice concept. Saturday was time for girls dinner at Sara's place, we ate and talked until 02.00 so Sunday was lazy.

Karin, it is very beautiful (and personal) what Robert is writing about at the website :) Vill du gifta dig med mig? (the address of the site) of course means Will you marry me? Finally we are getting there!!! It is a lot to have buying a house, buying a car and getting married going on at the same time...

Gotta go for a late walk now in our beautiful neighbourhood (we only have 3 tv channels so there is nothing else to do...).

The weeks are flying by. Last weekend we went to visit R´s parents 300 km from Stockholm. The bus trip was not nice (especially not since the whole bus had to wait for R that was late...) - I am really longing for a car now. R is continuing with his interview and meetings - how many can one have for the same job? I hope it goes well. This week he has been working at D (in my office) almost the whole week with stock-taking. We have been shopping from the old sample collection (which is in the stores now) and now R has been helping counting and packing it in boxes. We have been shopping A LOT and I could have bought so much more...
Right now our 26m2 is exploding with clothes so today is dedicated to cleaning up. Tomorrow we are going to see an apartment in the area - I hope it is something for us! There is not much on offer right now since people are afraid of not getting enough for their place. One colleauge is selling a great apartment in a nice area but is not getting what she wants so the market is insecure right now.
Yesterday we had afterwork in the office with pizza, beer and wine. Very nice. I am so happy to have ended up like this - could have been so different. This morning we were up at 9 and went for a walk in the forest in the sunshine - so great. Gotta continue now!