January 2011
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Blogging on through Kindle's experimental web...
Once more I find alternate ways of submitting new posts to the blog. It seems I prefer writing on tiny screens and/or with tiny buttons rather than sitting in front of my computer with its comfortably-sized screen and keyboard.
Now my parents are scolding me for wasting my time blogging through such a clumsy device. I guess that’s my cue to go to bed.
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Lively Saturdays
I was supposed to write something before running out the door yesterday…but I completely forgot to.
My morning started at 8:15 AM, i.e. when Adrian called to make sure I was awake- which I- so typically- wasn’t. YET AGAIN I was abruptly woken up on a Saturday morning, running around like a dummy trying to find my things and ran out the door with a slice of bread in my hands. I hope...
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Tired much?
I should be sleeping right now.
I wonder how many blog posts I have that begin with that same sentence. Or at least contain that sentence. Too many, I suppose.
It’s been a busy week and a hectic day. I woke up, zombified as usual, and forced myself out into the -7*C cold to catch a bus I ended up missing anyway [see previous picture post].
At school I almost fell asleep in class, and...
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Desolation
Yesterday’s afro-training was probably the most extreme thus far. I don’t think I’ve ever been that drenched after a training session, as well as in pain. [The good kind of pain, that is]-!
I was so wiped out I fell asleep around 10 PM last night, which was exactly what I needed after such a hectic week- all of last week. I woke up a quarter to six as usual, though with more...
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Operation 'start finding my things'
It’s that time of the year again.
Time to clean my room and clear out the things I’ve gathered in my room since the last time I cleared it of things. My personal deadline is before the 2nd of February [Chinese New Years]- but I probably won’t make it till then.
I guess it’s the thought that counts?
I’ve been thinking about remodelling my room but unfortunately...
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Deliveries complete~!
And my final package finally arrived today!
I read ‘postage’ as ‘hostage‘…..
It’s my flexishield skin from Mobilefun! I wasn’t too happy with it at first. The colour looks nothing like what I had expected [see picture below]…. But then again it isn’t that bad, the lighting when I took the picture wasn’t great which gives the cover...
More sleeping hours please....
I’m currently on the bus from Lund, and I’m absolutely exhausted. I was at work all weekend, yesterday I only worked a half-day’s shift so I could’ve been in a worse condition than I am right now. But even with my 5 hours of sleep, I had problems keeping my eyes open during my lecture.
There’s a shared hatred toward early hour commuting that I now face every morning. People look angry and...
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Dragging on...
I should be gulping down a plate of food right now, but I’ll write this first then I’ll go and prepare something.
Yesterday was a horrendously tiring day. It started at 5:30 AM when my radio alarm started blaring and blasted loud music at my face. I tumbled out of bed by 6 AM to get ready to leave by 7.
I love how the buses to Lund go by every 5 minutes, yet people can complain...
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Was there a time when my legs never hurt?
I think my legs are going to fall off now. I don’t even know whose brilliant idea it was to go for spinning class tonight, all I know is that I probably won’t be doing that again any time soon.
I had a lecture in analytical maths at 10 in the morning, it finished past 12 PM which was when I left for central Lund to sign up for a fraternity/sorority [not really but that’s as...
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The long awaited..
Today I slept until 10 AM, and I was still tired when I woke up- my body is definitely not happy with my weird sleeping patterns from these few days and the many more to come.
I went about my morning rather slowly, I waited for a text to confirm that Piggie was awake and ready to meet up in town. After getting myself ready to go out I took the bus into town and dropped my uniform off at work, a...
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New phone new phone new phone!!
I can’t believe I actually got out of bed this morning. I don’t even know how I did it. At 6 AM my radio was blaring off, I decided to be on the safe side, setting it half an hour before I needed to get out of bed, I always take forever to roll out of bed.
Breakfast took me almost 20 minutes to eat, I was exhausted and in no mood to be going anywhere.
By 7:45 I was still the only one...
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First day of school all over again
I just sent an e-mail to my job-coach. Remember the man I used to visit once a week a few months ago? Yes, him. He helped me write my resume and he helped me practice job interview-questions. When he wasn’t doing those things he offered me pleasant conversation and cheered me on. Anyways, he told me to e-mail him once things started getting hectic in my life again, he seemed pretty curious...
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Shop shop shop
Owww… My body has been pretty sore today, all because of the aerobics class I took with Addie yesterday morning. Speaking of yesterday, I ended up ordering my phone online after aerobics and I just cannot wait to get my new phone. [Insert inaudible girly squeak here]…..Estimated to arrive sometime this coming week.
Additionally, I ordered a pink protective skin for my phone as well,...
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Okay...
I think I’ll wake Blanka now…It’s 1:15 PM..
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Bizarre mornings
I didn’t really write anything yesterday did I? I guess there wasn’t anything important to mention here anyway, not that there usually is anything interesting in here….Oh well!
I had a meeting with my mentor from the unemployment agency, I didn’t really see the point in going but mummy made me go. And I was right. It was a complete waste of time;
Mentor: So, Ashley what...
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Oooww..
I ended up getting about 5 hours of sleep last night, I even woke up before my alarm started beeping. There’s something wrong with my second alarm clock, even though it’s ticking it’s completely off time, no matter how many times I set it back. Oh well.
I met up with Malin today, and we decided to be healthy enough for salad at a salad and smoothies bar in town. We talked about...
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Time to get back on track!
Phew, I’ve juuuust finished reporting about the weekend trip, and I’m not even tired anymore.
It’s 4:30 AM and I know I should have gone to bed hours ago, but there’s something I enjoy about the stillness of the night. It soothes me. And it’s addictive…! But I’ll go to bed after this post, I’ve promised myself that.
The trip was amazing and it was...
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Ashley's Weekend Adventure [The bits in between]
So I left out a few pictures and random events that probably weren’t important to bring up anyway. But here goes!
Yaaay! Early mornings, don’t we all love them?
On the way to Edinburgh’s….city centre..? We tried to take a bunch of pictures because the scenery and buildings were amazing. We failed.
I had pizza the first night
I had pizza the second night
I had...
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Ashley's Weekend Adventure [Part four]
And here we are, at the end of my Glasgow-trip. How fast the weekend managed to pass.
It was sad to have to leave my friends again, but we’ll see each other really soon, so why be sad?
Our phones started screaming at 8 AM and I dragged myself out of bed fifteen minutes later. After a quick freshening up and re-packing all our things, we said our goodbyes to Jonathan and Pooja. Our cab...
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Ashley's Weekend Adventure [Part three]
It was a late night the night before so we were all incredibly tired the next morning.
At 12 we finally got up and went looking for food somewhere nearby. At least half an hour later, if not an hour later, we settled on getting soup at a small restaurant. After that some people started craving dessert for some reason, so dessert we hunted for.
We went to the same Italian restaurant we’d...
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Ashley's Weekend Adventure [Part two]
Today was our shopping day! We had already planned to go shopping the night before, which was of course such a joy to the boys [that was indeed sarcasm, yes].
We got up at 11 AM and took our own time getting ready, eating breakfast and meeting Matt up at the subway station. After a few minutes on the tube we were in town and geared up for shopping!
We sifted through Primark, Topshop and TK...
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Ashley's Weekend Adventure [Part one]
So here I am, back at home thinking of where to begin.
Waking up on Friday morning was a pain in the butt as I hadn’t been sleeping that well the whole week and was suddenly forced to be up and ready to leave by 9 AM….Which I realise now in hindsight isn’t that early, but it felt so at the time.
I managed to force breakfast down my throat with a glass of chocolate milk and...
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Goodbye Christmas!
Today is the ‘official’ ending of Christmas, or trettondagen [Thirteen days after Christmas] as we call it here. All decorations were taken down [-and I just realised I’d forgotten about the ones in my room…Oh well I’ll tackle them later…] and put away in the outdoor storage shed. I tidied up my room a bit and sat down to watch Easy A and Despicable Me with...
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Off we go again!
I’m off to Scotland tomorrow with Andrea, Pooja, Jonathan, Angelica and Josefin to name a few. Or well, mainly with Andrea, Pooja and Jonathan.
Andrea’s parents will be over at 9 AM tomorrow to drive us to the train station where we’ll get on the train to the airport in Copenhagen. From there we’ll fly to Edinburgh and hop on the next bus to Glasgow.
I’ll be home...
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It's past midnight. Again.
Today was another one of those long days.
I woke up ‘early’ for another session with Max at 9:30. This was the very last one as he’s going back to China tomorrow night. We talked about general things and even shared some personal stories, one last time. Two hours later I was on my way to mummy’s shop, waiting for Sofia to drive herself there so we could grab some lunch...
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My New Year's Eve
I just realised I’d forgotten to mention New Year’s Eve here.
First off I had work in the morning, [11 AM to 4 PM] - and stayed in town until 5:30, waiting for the bus to Blanka’s house to arrive. I had just missed it and had to wait another 25 minutes. I spent the 40-minute bus journey reading Assassin’s Quest, though the bus with full of people I managed to slip away to...
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2010 overlook
Looking back on the past year it gets frustrating trying to recall everything I’ve done in an entire year, this is mainly what I remember;
I went skiing for the very first time…Yes, for the past 18½ years my mother has successfully managed to keep me away from snow-covered hills that exceed an altitude of 200 metres. So I expressed my gratitude by going to a skii-hill that had an...
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Oh wow, where do I even begin.
First off I haven’t been keeping proper track of time. Or at least it doesn’t feel like I have. All I’m aware of is today, and when I think about tomorrow it just feels like something beyond a curtain of fog….And just when I think I know where I am it’s New Year’s Eve.
A very disorienting way of living, but it won’t be like...