More pain

Remember this? The competition my sister did last year? Well she did it again. Except that it was 98 instead of 86 kms... Just a slight difference! Imagine, almost 100 km and more than 5600 m of altitude change...

It looked like that this year:

Like last year, my stomach hurt, like last year, I kept pressing the refresh button when she was supposed to pass the several stages and her name hadn't appeared yet. Like last year, I went to bed late and woke up early. Like last year The first thing I did when I woke up was to check if she was still running. And she was! At that point, I knew she was going to finish.

And she did it of course, she finished. In 25h56mn53s. And it was very tough. Out of 2000 people, around 700 gave up, 1/3!!! It was very hot, around 30 degrees and apparently very hard according to the competitors. I think she can be very proud that she finished. And she is she told me.

And I am proud of my little sister. And in around 30 min, I'll be able to give her a biiiig hug and congratulate her. She must have landed by now. The beginning of two years living together, yipee!!!

Ma prochaine maison

I don't want to put too many pictures of the new flat yet because I feel that the furnitures and decoration are a great deal of how the flat looks like. And right now, and on the pics I got, it is still the flat of the current owner. So when I have moved in, when I have made it my own (well mine and my sister's), when I feel it is MY home and when I have taken some pictures.

THEN, I will put more of them.



But doesn't it have a faaaabulous potential? I already love it. Want to move, want to move, want to move... well the litterally moving part is not the one I am looking forward to but the fact of already living there. Just over a month now...

Program for this autumn

Lots of things happenings, lots of things to write about:

-new flat
-new life with my sister
-the new mascara from Givenchy (it's great!)
-ideas of a new blog
-trips of visiting friends still to be planned
-a trip to Paris to plan
-another nephew on his way (landing some time around the 10th of september, he's still waiting for his did to be on holidays)
-ecological bread
-a couple of friends turning 30

and much more of course! But right now, I just want to sleeeeeeeeeep....

Back in business

OK, time to reveal the results of the quiz. The correct answer was D, a flat!!!

Viriginie, Matthieu and Vickie guessed right; Fanny had the right answer but she already knew, hihi!I'll try to post some pictures this week-end.

Right now I'm back in Gothenburg. Back to the office as well... umpf, I wish I had stayed longer in France. But on the other hand I have finally started training again. I had trained close to nothing during the last month and I was feeling that I was getting all flappy and blah rather than fit. So on the gym level I'm back in business as well. It was tough tonight but when I left the gym after the shower, the weather was really nice after getting only rain since I've come back. Quite warm as well. Mmmmh! Nice!!

And for the blog as well, I'm back in business of course. Will post more often. Lots of things coming ahead, watch out folks!

How it should be

I'm home. THe French home.

The sun is shining.

I've been swimming in our pool.

My little wonder Clément now knows my name (Yoyen is my name) and is asking for me all the time.

I'm eating French food, I'm drinking wine at every meal (no, not for breakfast!).

There's no alarm clock in the morning and no plans for the days.

Now is the first time I'm connected to the internet since Friday.

My phone hasn't rang once.

God, life is gooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta go folk; my glass is empty, keep guessing on my purchase and see you around!

Quiz

Some times ago, I announced some changes that would happen in my life. One of these is actually a purchase. But what am I buying? I'll let you guess.

A. a dog
B. a car
C. a new pair of shoes
D. a flat

You have until the 10th of August to play. Come on!

Summer on Sunday

Summer on Saturday: call 2 friends, grab what's in the fridge, take the tram and head to the lake. That's what I did.

Summer on Sunday: plan a little bit more, take your brand new portable grill given by a nice friend the week before, go shopping for more food, call more friends, take the car, drive South to the coast and Amundön, an island, walk 15 min an you arrive there...

Sun: check!
Temperature in the air: around 30
Temperature in the water: 21 degrees.

And what do you get in the end? An even greater day that the day before if that now was possible.

Summer!

Today it was around 30 degrees. Really hot! The warmest days of the summer so far I would say. Most of my friends are out of town so they missed it. But Male, Edith and I didn't. We went to Delsjön, one the big lakes near the city. Just take the tram, walk 10 min and you arrive there. Walk a bit further to avoid the crowd and we got to the end of the small peninsula. Peaceful, blue water, blue sky, sunny, warm... perfect! We bathed several time, at first we were thinking a little bit too much 'cause the water must be 19 or 20 degrees, not more... but after that we just dived directly, right technique, even I managed! Some will be surprised 'cause they know how hard it is for me to get into cold water!

So, perfect settings, good food, good friends... perfect day!!!

Mamma Mia!

God, it's so GREAT!!!!!!!! I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!

La conspiration des vieux

Constatation: au boulot on est 3 dans ma boite et 8-9 dans l'autre. Les 2 Daniel qui bossent dans l'entrepot ont le même âge que moi pour l'un et 31 ans pour l'autre. A part ca, il y a Petra et Andreas, qui ont dans les 35 ans. Sinon, ils ont tous plus de 45 ans voire sont plus près des 50-60...

Je vous avais dèjà raconté comment 2 des vieux m'avaient fait chier lors de mon retour de vacances sur le temps et les resultats de l'équipe de France... Aujourd'hui un autre de l'équipe des vieux s'y est mis. C'est Håkan, le père d'Andreas le PDG de l'autre boite. Il fait quelques heures extra ici et là (payées au black pour ne pas nuire à sa retraite...) et sa fille (donc la soeur d'Andreas) fait le ménage. Au black aussi j'imagine... mais bon bref.

Donc aujourd'hui, je descends a 12h30 (au lieu de 12h) ds la cuisine pour déjeuner et je cherche dans le frigo mon tupperware Ikea déposé quelques heures auparavant. Et là rien! Le frigo vide! Vide aussi d'un vieux plat cuisiné qui date d'il y a 2 mois. Vide également du tupperware plein de paella de mon chef parti en vacances il y a 2 semaines (mmmh, elles devaient sentir bon les crevettes là-dedans!). Je cherche dans le micro-ondes, dans le congélo, dans le placard... rien! Je sors (on a une table de jardin devant l'entrepot) demander à Daniel nr 2 et Andreas s'ils savent quelque chose. V'la t'y pas qu'Håkan (celui qui bosse au black) a décidé de faire le ménage dans le frigo.

Ok, mais il pouvait regarder et sentir ce qu'il y avait dans les tupperwares avant de tout jeter. Et demander s'il savait pas depuis combien de temps c'était là. Et à Andreas ou moi plutot qu'à Daniel qui rentrait à peine de vacances. Résultat un bon petit plat aux aubergines au four et steack haché. Pfout! Disparu! Evidemment il faut que ce soit qd j'ai cuisiné un truc de bon et quand j'ai de la viande rouge (ce qui arrive rarement ici vu le prix...), mais pas qd j'ai des pâtes au pesto cuites à l'arrache pendant le petit déjeuner (ce qui arrive plus fréquemment)... Donc déjà ca m'a énervé. Et puis qd je lui demande où c'est, il me dit "dans le container dehors mais je ne conseille pas d'aller le récuperer"... Et il demande même pas pardon! Le con!

Mais ce qui me choque le plus c'est qu'il aie balancé les tupperwares dans demander! Ca va de jeter de la bouffe mais les tuppewares... on les a payé merde! Bon OK le mien coute 2€ chez Ikea, c'est pas la ruine, mais j'en avait que 3 des comme ca et vu que j'ai pas de voiture, je vais pas chez Ikea tous les jours pour m'en racheter. Et puis c'est le principe. Je balance pas ses tupperware moi. Un tupperware ca sert a etre récuperé et réutilisé. Les trucs jetables qu'on te donne qd tu commandes à emporter, on s'en fout, mais celui-là je l'avait acheté.

Bref, comme vous pouvez le constater, ca m'a bien enervé. Ils me font tous chier ses vieux dans cette boite et je sens que je vais pas faire long feu... Le fait que mon pneu tout neuf changé il y a 2 mois pour 50€ aie crevé aujourd'hui et que je m'en soit rendu compte aprés 3 min de vélo sachant que le trajet dure 30 min n'a pas arrangé les choses... Journée de merde. Rien à la TV en plus. Heureusement, j'ai fini un bon bouquin et là je vais me coucher avec l'embarras du choix du prochain.

Conclusion avec une phrase que j'adore: Les vieux faudraient les tuer à la naissance!!!!