Comments on my blog and New Year resolutions!

Just got back from Stockholm, went to a lovely Japanese restaurant with my mama, brother and A. Oh I have been crawing sushi, good sushi, with perfectly made rice, really fresh fish, no fried beef/chicken (and all possible crap) and absolutely no mayo. Sushi in Oz feels more like junk food, a healthy version of junk food. Afterwards we went to Radisson's Skybar for a few drinks. I am getting used to this whole free drinks at the bars. Oh it is going to be so hard slapping the goon.

I am so glad that I got 2 comments on my blog, more of those are welcome, even though I write it to get down all of my bs, it is great when people comment on what you have written. Thank you mom and Danja (for the comments I got months ago) and also Allana and Lizzie! Mwah!

Also, Lizzie, I have read you blog, even tried commenting but then forgot to fill some of the spaces or something went wrong and I couldn't be bothered to rewrite it.

As for Allana, simply because you have bigger boobs, therefore it would be harder to tape yours, not mentioning the fact that you just loove to flaunt them. We'd save time and boob tape. Hope that answered your question.

When it comes to 2009, I have a few resolutions that I would love to try out, here comes my list (under construction):

1. Be nice to Allana. Stop fighting and being a bitch, start listening it wont harm you. Simply give her more attention. Show the appreciation, because there is so much appreciation.

2. GOON BAN, no more, PASSION POP ban, stop all of this drinking 10 min before going out. Buy a coctail shaker, Allana has a coctail book, buy wine, start drinking in advance, this unclassy rushing is just unclassy. I like starting at 5-6 pm, talking around the table, getting ready. So much better.

3. Save money. Start saving for Perth trip and just having some cash laying there. I would also like to write that following is very me "She was spending cash like it was out of fashion".

4. Hang out with Steve and Karen. We do actually live in the same city.

5. Take uni seriously. (don't laugh Allana, I know that you secretely think that too)

I have so many more...let's have those to start with.

Also, forgot to write, people think that my year is -86 or -84, how did that happen? I really don't look like i'm 24 (at least 24 as someone said, what a compliment, made my night). I mean I can't stand the fact that I am beeing placed in the "grandpa" category. People who fit in that category are; Phil, Steve, Linda Udnes, Barbro, May Linn, Eric, ¿Me?, Hooold ooon, ¿Que? Me? No, no, no, wrong, wrong, wrong!!! I am NOT OLD and I def do NOT look old. Or do I??? That's it, I am growing back my long hair.

Over and out.

x

Substance is everything

Nelli & Elli, what a couple, we clicked the moment we layed our eyes on each other. Good times. Mandy called me Elli and Elli got called Nelli sometimes.

Tonight I have been a Ben & Jerry bandit...ate the whole pack, do I feel great or skinny? I don't think so!!! Going shopping with my mommy tomorrow so hopeffuly I will manage to loose a spoon of the icecream I ate. I mean you sweat like a pig walking around stores with all of the clothing layers on.

I know I have been bad at updating my blog, I have so much to say but get way too lazy to write it down. Well since this is what Allana sees everytime she opens her internet explorer page or whatever the name is I should make an effort. Can't believe this still is her homepage. I would never leave Allanas blog as a homepage. While I'm talking about Punanchkin I should also mention that I miss my husband. Normally I don't drink tea with milk but everytime Allana makes tea for me it is a white tea. So I have been making those quite alot recently. It's funny how close we are. I mean we fight soo soo soo much. Allana you need to get a job so that we both get waay too tired to fight come home, wait for Shannon to come home and then make Kristian to cook for us, (he is the jobless one) Then we pass out (not drunk but tired), in the morning we wont have time to fight because we will have to go to work early. So yeh I figured it out for the weekdays. Now, when it comes to going out...oh loord, beware. Or we could solve that too, you become lesbian Allana so I wont have a reason to get mad at you for no reason?! Sweet plan.

I have to go and have a coffee with Michaela and then I need to go out with her. I am broke. Oh well. That is the reason why it took me a WEEK to give her my number. I know that she is bored and is hating Sweden and will want to meet and therefore refuse to hang up before getting an answer from me about this going out/meeting. I want to meet her and love her but don't have an answer. I don't know, so I have been having urges to grab the phone and call and then ending up not doing it. So hopefully Friday...

I'm tired of writing!
xxx

My, oh my!

Sooo, now I have tried this whole going out in Sweden and it SUCKS!!! It was so different than I remembered it. The clubs are definetily nicer looking, people are better dressed but oh my god its boring compared to Australia. First I thought that everyone were more sober, but no after a better look around, the majority of the crowd were off their faces. That's not the point, the point is that people here are stuck up and are trying to be sophisticated and present themselves accordingly or at least try to, many are very snobby, others just rude, no one is really just letting it loose. Even the dance floor looks boring. I like the cleaned look and all of that, but putting so much time and effort on their appearance people here seem to forget that they go out to mingle and have fun. It is sooo much harder to make friends with people, I mean random people. I wish that Swedish people could get some of that Aussie spirit, charm and simplicity in human relationship, that openness and friendliness. I wish people here could smile with a real smile, that is meant to express their joy and not a fake one which you come across way too often here. That is what I miss with Australia, not the weather but the customs. Swedes need more sun, 3 months a year is not enough!!!

Had a reunion with Linda yestarday and it was a bit unrealistic in a way! I wish things could go back to what they were 6 months ago when we lived together and could see each other every day. I also met Lindas girl friends, they are all very sweet!
Thank you Sara for opening the door to your home and heart. Also thank you Sandra for a great night. Both of you are so sweet, Sandra is also very CUTE...(hahaha)
When I got home today I realised that I got sick again! This time I feel like crap!

Miss everyone, specially 3 ladies: Allana, Shannon and J-Lil! Miss us four ladies together.
Mwah!!! Much love.

You have watched 119 minutes of video today, wait 57 min...

It's 9 am and I am up, sitting in the kitchen with a ciggie and coffee, have been up since 4 am. Let me tell you something, yet again I fell in this "I'm pretty sure I can cope with jetlag very well" trap. For the two past days I've fallen asleep really early, around 9-10pm and woken up real early. Obviously, no matter how hard I try jetlag is kicking my ass. I'll give it a few days or a week, should be fine by then.
My flight home went pretty well, the flights themselve weren't too bad. The layovers were more annoying. First in Sydney, where they threw away my Vegemite (I so wanted to see my brothers face when he tried it, but the stupid can had more than 100 ml in it and apparantely it counts as a liquid or whatever they said). I was supposed to collect vouchers from Thai Airways in Sydney because I changed my flight but I couldn't leave the airport so no vouchers. My next stop was Singapore and if you think that Goldie is humid, well time to rethink, the humidity level there was crazy. Got to feel it in the smoking area which was sweet as, they even had a bar with rinks and if I haven't lost/forgot my credit card in Allanas card I would have been by the bar. People in Singapore are very friendly and when I get the chance I would love to go there. My next layover was Heathrow, London. Seeing London through the plane window, buildings, nature and the rain made me so happy that I couldn't hold my tears back. For the first time in 10 months, I was back in Europe, let me tell you something that was the craziest feeling ever. Fantastic. Instantly it hit me, I am only a few hours away from my mom and my brother.
In Heathrow the police were walking around with guns, I guess considering the past they kinda have to, but it was weird. Spent my few early hours in Heathrow by browsing designers stiff. Tiffany's wedding collection was dazzling. OOOh it so sparkled in my eyes, made my fingers all itchy. If I only had a few mills, who cares married or not, jewellery they had behind the glass was sooooo prettyyy!!!
Thought of Allana and Jess whenever British people spoke...had an urge to yell out "Chaaaaaarlieeee biiit meeeeey!" Oh my. British people though, not so friendly, not a tiny little bit. Compared to Aussies they are freaking RUDE, ALLRIIIGHT (Shannons accent).
In the line for the security check for the Stockholm plane I stood next to Sanna Bråding, she is so pretty even though her hair is shaved off nowadays. Everyone in the line was holding a Swedish passport, (their passports were in an excellent condition, I guess they didn't get to go on a year long binge in Aussie eh eh eh eh hee). The funny thing about the people in the line was that I might have been the only one who could confirm the stereotypical view of Swedes. "The blonde, blue eyed, big boobed girl" and I am not even Swedish. I saw two other blonde girls, probably from Stockholm as well. Rest of the line (and trust me it was long) included people from ALL around the world. I am still getting used to this versatility in this country. Australia doesn't have this type of immigration. On the plane I was ordering "white tea" while Swedish lady next to me ordered "a tea with miiilk please" ("l" in milk read it as if a baby would have said it...) Everyone had so strong Swedish accent while speaking in English, I had a hard time holding myself and not starting to laugh. Linda and her wannabe Swedish accent wouldn't even stand a chance compared to those people.
When I finally got off the plane, I once again felt an urge to cry, but stronger this time, I actually did cry. When I was leaving the customs to enter the lounge where everyone was waiting for the arrivin passengers I had to bite my lip real hard and resist from crying. I have been wondering what it would be like to see my family after a year, would it be strange? I mean we had a constant contact but would it feel different? As soon as I saw my mom and my brother it was like I have never even left, the feeling is undescribable. Everything went back to normal in a second, both mom and I talking at the same time, my brother trying to get in a sentence every now and then.
The weather is heaps different and colder but I actually liked it and I still do, I enjoy being home, I am on a vacay in Stockholm, how weird does that sound? I LOVE BEING HOME!!!
This morning I enrolled in my courses for semester 1, year 2. No Spanish for me next year, it clashed with my stupid statistics lecture, actually they are at the same time same day and I have to priorities, but that doesn't mean that I am going to quit Spanish alltogether, I'll just have to postpone it a little bit.
This was just a little update, I wanted to say so much more, but forgot alot of it. I will just save it for later.
Don'tmiss Aussie too much (talk about it all the time, and even refer to it as home many times. Mostly miss the people there. But you all will still be there next semester. It already feels like the time is flying by too quickly, I want to stop it and enjoy it with my family)

xoxo Nelli

Just a bunch of hacks

Still in Oz, don't really know when I will leave, hopefully on Tuesday. Bangkok is still demonstrating, never ever having a layover there ever again. Allthough it feels better being stuck in Australia than it would have been in Bangkok, that's for sure.

Had a great day in Ballina, doing absolutely nothing.

Said goodbye to a son of a snake at the airport today, was pretty sad. Saw Darcy at the airport as well and Mette and another guy from the village. Brissie airport was full of people I know, which is a bit random.
It is getting even hotter down here than it was before, just a few minutes in the sun drive you crazy!

Miss everyone at home and will hopefully see you on the 4th !!!

xx

Ey girl, ey ey, ey girl....

Thank you my beloved Mother and Brother, for being there for me, for supporting me and believing in me. Thank you for letting me to pursue all of my dreams. I love you very much!

Thank you to all of the wonderful people that I have met during 2008! It has been an amazing year. I got to know so many amazing and different personalities throughout this year. Best memory of the year still remains that road trip to Byron, which supposed to be a camping trip, but we had miss Hilton with us…Sleeping on the ground wasn’t good enough and the beach was dirty, all of us were way too slow when hiking etc I still loved that trip, thank you Linda, Steve and Philly-poo. Of course there have been so many other memories, like camping at Inskip point, Ballina, Q1, just chilling in Surfers, our trip to Brissie when Lindie got sick, Allana and I freaking out, laying in the grass all day outside of mine and singing at night, when Maxi and Chad played guitar, playing poker till 6 am and still not winning, singing Soulja Boy in the lecture halls, standing on the kitchen table screaming with Allana because of a spider in the kitchen, just being and doing nothing. 2008 has been a great year and there is still a few months left of it, which I will enjoy in the comfort of my own home with my dear family that I have missed so much.

Linda:

The one and only person who has enough patience to deal with me, I truly love you. I found a true and great friend in you. When you left last semester I honestly felt like half of me was missing and I am not even joking.

Allana:

Roomie, who had to put up with my shift for a year now, should we really move out together again??? We are like a cat and a dog but we find our ways back to the friendship and at it’s peaks it is amazing. I haven’t seen other roommates at the village who care about each other this much.

Steve:

You are one of my first friends here in Oz and probably one of the few people who really know me. You see me for who I am and you don’t judge me. You have brought a lot of warmth and care into my life. I look up to you. I am happy you are not leaving us just yet.

Shannon:

You red haired bitch, love you my future roomie. Stop eating those Allstars boxes or you will explode. Please DO NOT get yet another job, 3 of them is enough. See you in March.

Eric:

Your laughter, Haha it cracks me up. What an amazing person. Too bad you have to go home, I will come and visit in Canada for sure and we can play guitar hero or I will just be the groupie that I am.

Phil:

Phil, haha, no words can describe our friendship. You are a ball and I love you. We click ok. I am mean you are stupid and it’s fun. You are another person who knows me.

Gunnar:

The asshole wannabe himself who actually is the sweetest guy ever. I miss the poker nights, your swearing and being an idiot.

Tommyboy:

THE BEST neighbour ever!!! Killing spiders, sharing chairs, dealing with me being noisy, promising consequences that never seem to come. Have the best time in Zimbabwe and see you next semester when we are no longer neighbours.

Tara-Lee:

Hot stuff who hates when I call her pretty, whatever, I will keep on calling you that. Still remember when you started a fight at Tavern with that rude guy. I have had some crazy and fun times with you. Thanks for cutting my hair. LOL!

Jessica:

If you would look up the definition of craziness in the English dictionary I am pretty sure you would find Jessica after that word. Lady you are sick (in a good way of course). Maybe a bit too much bum shows throughout this year but I absolutely love it. Keep on slapping that goon, oh wait you don’t have it in Canada which means you will have to come back Down under.

May Linn:

You are one of the old people crew, an amazing person, one of the friendliest I know as a matter of fact. You are so kind and so nice it’s unbelievable. I am lucky to be married to you darling. See you next semester.

Michaela:

“Miss Saaaa-aaa-aaa-ntaaa Luuuciiiiiiaaaa”, you sing and you grab people to sing with you even if you have to force them hence the grabbing. Who ever has fallen a victim to Michaela’s “grab and force the fucker to sing that weird African song with you” knows what I am talking about. You are the centre of attention. Iiiiiiiiiii Rioooooo De Janeeeirooo……..tra la la la la…




Barbro:

The NERD!!! Always studying on that balcony of yours and now you are more tanned than I am. I am going to miss you while you are gone. I think I owe you a carton of Camel’s, do you reckon???

Norway Linda:

Miss “I am too good for Griffith so I am changing to Bond”. Grandma of the whole Norwegian gang. Haven’t seen you so much this semester but every time I have has been a pleasure. Let’s improve after the summer break.

Aimee:

You are my very first friend, my beginning and hopefully continuation. You are so lovely. I see you as a little sister and I promise that next semester I will improve as the person you look up to! Mwah!

Courtney Reading:

You are the most social person I have ever known, you know everyone but you are definitely not one of those people who “just know” every one, you actually DO know them. Love you gorgeous.

Kristian:

You are my always thinking and analyzing friend, even in the drunkest state of mind. We have had some pretty awesome conversations and next semester I am going to be your room mate. Watch out sweetie!!!

I have definitely not written down all of you people, but hopefully you will understand I am in a bit of a rush, packing and organizing. Complain if you are mad ha-ha. Thank you all of you for this amazing trip together. I cherish all of our moments together. Also the order of your names wasn’t mean anything.

Just a few names I didn’t mention who do mean heaps to me and have been with me on this journey:

Dani, Darcy, Val, Stacey, Emelie, Bu-Bu, Gladys, Danielle, Karen, Rachel, Chris, Nathan (Northern Territory was it?), Lee, AJ, Ferrar, Kristen, Giovanna, O’Neill and so many others who I forgot.

Lexy.

1, 2, 3, 4 heeeey, la la la la foreeewaaa, heeey...

It is now Wednesday, probably still Tuesday back home. It is raining. I am excited. I have heard that they had a snowstorm in Stockholm. Gave me chills, so weird, finally I will feel the Xmas spirit. Sunday, 6 am.
Steve and Eric, thank you for the lovely dinner idea, or actually lets thank Erics Tina who wanted a dinner cooked by Steve.
I worked my last shift at work today, at least for the year.
I just can't wait to get home now!!!
Love you all!!!
xx