All or nothing

 I bought a new canvas of Marilyn Monroe

 This week is filled with...work, surprising?

 I haven't had time to read so much lately but now I started to read this book.

I'm collecting glasses like these. Every time you go to the gas station to fill gas you get to buy these for like one euro.

I told you about this Swedish blogger, Blondinbella, before. Blogs are huge in Sweden and a lot of people have gotten famous by blogging, like this girl. I would say that she is the most famous blogger in Sweden. She even has her own magazine. Her blog isn't as big as it used to be though. This girl has one of the biggest blogs and she became famous by being mean to people. About 100 000 people read her blog - every day.

The truth is that I would actually have more visitors if I blogged in Swedish, since the blog atmosphere is so big here.

I love magazines, both Swedish and American ones. The top one is Seventeen and the one below is Blondinbella's. It was the first time I read it. It was ok but the bad thing about working as a news designer is that I see every tiny mistake and that annoys me. I do lots of proofreading at work so I know a lot of all the "language rules" there are for Swedish press.

Believe it or not, but I haven't been pink this week, except for today. It's funny how my coworkers notice when I'm not. They always come and search if they see a tiny pink detail somewhere, which they usually do, and then they get satisfied: "well, at least you got a liiittle pink on you".

Lots of mobile pictures!

 
I saw that I have lots and lots of mobile pictures that I haven't published. Most of them are from my old phone, which had a much better camera than my pink Nokia:/

 

I  always get to design the entertainment pages, I wonder why;)

 A night walk with my mum's dog

 Going with the snowmobile to the top of a mountain

 Reindeer are cute but it's a bit irritating when they're everywhere. I don't want to hit them.

 A last coffee with my classmates

 ...and a coffee with my best friend.

 The view from my hotel room in Stockholm when I went there for a conference.

 And this is me in the hotel.

 I was the first one on the top this day, can you tell!?

 I designed a magazine, but I actually didn't keep that pink color.

 This movie really has a special ending.

 My youngest niece.

 Rehearsals during the music festival.

 Photoshoot with a famous journalist.

 Here I'm doing a radio clip that was aired later.

 One of many hockey games I went to this winter.

 I drove a lot the last semester of school since I was working as well.

 Brussels.

 The cappuccino and waffles in Brussels were amazing...

...and the brownies!

Life goes on

 
I know that I always have your support and once again you proved it, thank you. Just so you know I would never stop blogging because of mean comments, and that wasn't even the reason why I thought about it. There has just been so many things going on lately and the tragedy in Norway has effected me more than I would ever have thought. In one way I'm glad that I have been working a lot the last days so I haven't had time to think about that and everything else all the time.

Take care ♥

A beautiful quote a girl said about the tragedy in Norway

Ooops...I did it again!

 
I "accidentally" made another chocolate cake.This kind of cake is really popular in Sweden and if you translate it it would be called "sticky cake" in English. Mine didn't get so sticky this time though but it's yummy anyway!

I quit!

  
I haven't told you that I quit my job as a recruitment leader in the beginning of this month. I was working for an au pair agency and I was responsible of recruiting au pairs in the north of Sweden. It took a lot of time, especially since I already was working as a journalist and I was also still in school during the year I worked for them. It was a good experience but I'm glad it's over. Now I'm off for real the days I'm off and I don't have to think about calling au pairs every day.

At least the "uniform" was cute:

Header making in progress

 
Tomorrow I start working nights again which is good. That means I can be up for a long time in the night and I love that. Right now I'm about to do a new header. I got so inspired doing it for others so I thought I should do a new one for myself as well. I'm just waiting for my camera battery to charge so that I can take some cool pics.

The good thing about working day though, is that it's not so stressful and you get to be more creative designing the newspaper pages. Just when I was about to go home today there was a murder in the city I live in. That is really unusual here so it's going to be big news about that in the paper tomorrow.

Hey, I'm not pink today!

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together

The future

 
It's so hard to decide what I want to do in the future. Or actually, I have already decided. I am moving back to Minnesota. I just don't know when yet. I'm working at the newspaper as a designer until the 1st of September. I'm a bit afraid that I will be offered a job as a reporter after that. It will be so hard to say no, and at the same time I want to say yes because I just graduated from school and I should work for a while.

The thing is that I have to study when I go back to the States, to get a visa. I'm going to get a bachelor in that case, which will take me at least four years, that is why I should do it soon.

Right now the plan is to work here until spring semester next year, but you'll never know what will happen...

 

Minnesota is where I belong, I know that.

I need my beauty sleep

 
Working daytime isn't really my thing. I only slept for one hour tonight:/ But I managed to survive the day anyway.

I have eaten up all of my brownies already. I think I have to bake something new, I just don't know what. I really want to try to do chocolate chip cookies, soft ones, since we don't have that in Sweden. I'll do that when I have some more free time.

What a day!

  
Oh my, what a day this has been. I went to the mechanics and then straight to work. It was really hectic there. Usually we are done designing half an hour before the deadline but today I sent the last page with only a few minutes left.

It has been worse though. Last summer I had to design a page in ten minutes (usually it takes over an hour) and I was only a few seconds away from missing the deadline but luckily I didn't. It was because the reporter and the photographer gave me the materials too late. If we, for any reason, miss the deadline it's really, really expensive for the newspaper.

I guess I should show you and tell you more about what I really do as a news designer. Not now though, I work daytime tomorrow so I have to go to bed.

 

I better eat something first, I'm starving.

Back and forth

 
Now I have to take my car back to the mechanics...again. I hate it how I have to keep going there once I start. Nothing's really wrong with the car, they just didn't do one thing properly last time I went there so they have to fix it.

I'm also going back to work. I have had three days off but it feels like weeks!

 

Maybe I should start walking more, in heels, instead of taking the car everywhere ;)

I can't live without flying, it feels like...

 
I booked another flight to Stockholm. How many times have I been there lately? I don't remember. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and sure, it's a nice city, but I don't love it as much as almost everybody else does. I only go there when I have to, which is quite often. This time I'm flying there in the morning and then home at night, in the beginning of August. I'm going to take the TOEFL test and Stockholm is the "closest" city I can do it in.

 

The last time I was in Stockholm was in the end of May when I came from Minneapolis. 

This is how I looked then, so tired after traveling for 18 hours.

Life as I know it

 
It's not only good to have some days off. I didn't fall a sleep until eight in the morning or something. Oh well, I work tomorrow again so I'm not going to complain.

Today I reaaaally need to fix those curtains. I promise! I'm also trying to figure out my future, and that is a whole other project.

The first time I tried macarons. They weren't as good as I thought:/

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Sent from my Nokia

My brownies

Another day at work!

  
I'm just about to go to work and then I'm off for a few days. You know I love my job but I haven't had so much time to do anything else than to be there lately. I still haven't managed to put up my new curtains. It looks so empty in my window:/

Rio is so cute!

 
I almost only work nights as a news designer. It suits me but the bad thing is that it's hard to meet friends. When I'm off during the day they are working and when I go off in the night they are sleeping. Luckily there are some people who like to stay up late. Tonight when I was done with work I had a friend over who tasted my brownies. He liked them. Then I went to him to see the movie Rio. It was so cute, you really should see it. The bird actually lives in Minnesota in the start. It felt like a sign.