Erika

about combining pleasure and work

Erika — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:33:30 +0000

I went with the best colleagues to Paris a couple of weeks ago.
Amazing! Is the word to describe it.

Four days later and we’re the best team! Can’t wait to make all ideas happen.

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No time to worry

Erika — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:48:32 +0000

It’s been a while as always… But there’s not much time.
There’s work, training, horses and studies. And everyone I neglect during the weeks since there’s so much to do…

I thought I made my priorities right before I went Turkey. But I guess I forgot.

But no time to worry about missed opportunities.
Graduation has come and passed, and I can’t believe it’s been four years since highschool. And it’s fun to see how much one day mean to people.

Happy to celebrate Henke and Christoffer

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it’s spring!

Erika — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:39:19 +0000

It’s crazy that I a couple of weeks ago had skiing-training here in Stockholm, and that I today was riding in just a sweater (and not freezing, rather the opposite regreting not to have a t-shirt under). And Gullan was sweeter than ever, I think that she is trying her best not to have me falling off, but we’ll see how long that’ll last. I guess she’ll forget about it when we start to train her in trot and gallop.

But it’s spring anyways! I just wanna sit by the water drinking a good cup of coffee listening to music or gossip with good friends.

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I’m in Winnipeg, but in Stockholm

Erika — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:18:03 +0000

Beautiful Maha is visiting in Stockholm, that doesn’t happen to often so I’m taking my opportunities to gossip and drink coffee with one of my favorite girls in this world!

And I’m amazed that despite we haven’t met in over a year it’s still the same. We took off where we left it when saying good bye at Winnipeg Airport in December -09.

The only thing is that it’s weird being at home, speaking English to a German girl I met in Canada. And it’s weird not having the entire family surrounding us, drinking horrible coffee at P-hall, gossiping about everything, taking care of eachother.

Mahas visit makes me think that I’ll meet with BJ, Alya, Leo, Maggie, Mike, Polarbear-Petey, Cecil and everyone else in a short while for dinner, or coffee, or just studying when we talk more than we study.

I’m in Winnipeg with my heart (or in my Winnipeg-memories) but I’m in Stockholm appreciating that I can spend time with a friend I haven’t met in a year.

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well… I did it again

Erika — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:26:43 +0000

… handed in a paper, which I’m not really proud of, but it’s done. Written in a day. I kinda still surprise my self when I can’t concentrate the same day as I have to hand something in… I have to learn someday I guess, maybe when I actually care about the subject and feel like I’m learning something.

After handing in my paper I took my car and went to the pony and was met with a present from the ponys owner who was glad that I’m helping her (and ‘m glad that I have a pony to ride, a win-win situation).

And tomorrow I hope to meet with the amazing Maha who is visiting this week :D

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papers are still nog writing them selves.

Erika — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:33:09 +0000

But this is the day when I will write them. Or atleast start with them so I have some sort of possibility to hand it in tomorrow. To bad they haven’t set a time so I guess I can send it in at midnight if I want to…

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surprised pony = bruised rider

Erika — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:12:22 +0000

I was out riding yesterday, first time in over a week so she had some energy, the little pony. But she was acting like the sweetest pony evr when I groomed her so I thought it would be a nice little ride on the roads (without saddle and bridle ofcourse…).

When we were going up the little hill up to the owners house she all of the sudden stood besides me looking down, wondering why I was lying on the ground. Well I was surprised as her. How and when did I get off?

Cute little pony was so stressed out that I had fallen off her, so it was a weird training in the paddock where I had to calm her down and follow my directions without running me over… It was weird…

And I woked up today with my knee and leg hurting, and my elbow is sore, it costs to stay on top ;) But I’m glad I could walk away from it without anyting hurting, I guess that’s the charm of riding a small pony, not that high off the ground.
Update: when I was leaning on the kitchen table I realised that my hand is bruised and turning purple/blue, I should try to match my outfit to those colours.. :P

But now time to get ready for meeting with three of my favorite-colleageues :)

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loosing a language

Erika — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:41:59 +0000

I’ve noticed that since I got back from Canada that I’ve lost some of my English. I thought that I would never do that, but just doing this blog in english proves it to me.

Not practicing a language everyday will affect your skills. I’m not saying that I’m a beginner at English now, but I would like to have like it was when I got back from Canada. When I spoke more English than Swedish, did my papers in Englishx adn had to really yhink about what language my papers should be in.

It’s the same with the other languages I once knew. I would like to be fluent in five languages again, that would be awesome. But I guess I’ll jsut have to start with learning one of them again from the beginning, and hopefully the others will follow (they are all latin languages…)

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only 3-4 pages? then it can wait

Erika — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:06:13 +0000

I have a paper due on monday, and I’ve just read the instructions, I was panicking earlier but after I saw that it’s only 3-4 pages I don’t feel that stressed. I mean I wrote 2 pages in half a day in the same subject earlier so I should work it out during the weekend.

Well that should mean that I have time to do som workstuff that has to be done. Or maybe I’ll just watch Top Model before I’m off to the stable…

Or eat…

Or drink some coffee…

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preparing for roadtrip

Erika — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:00:54 +0000

So it’s time for going to my grandparents with the sock (or my sister.. ;) ), or not just yet, in a couple of hours. It’ll be fun, listening to music when driving there and just sing-a-long, poor Frida who will have to listen to me out of tune …

I just have to pack my things and get dressed, can’t drive a car in my towel, what would that look like?

The pony was supersweet today, even though I didn’t have the time to ride her since it took so long to prepare the food for the evening, and stod by the gate and waited for me to come pick her upp and she tried to groom me with the brush as well (not really appreciated but sweet… :) )
But it’ll be some hard training on monday, and I hope it’ll be possible to ride in the forest (it’s still snow up to her stomach).

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