insomniac

Working evening shifts makes you think you can go to bed like 4am and wake up at 1pm everyday. Then all of a sudden it's saturday and you have to get up at 6am, and you're screwed!
I can't sleep, thoughts keep popping up in my head. I don't like that. I don't like thoughts. Might sound stupid, but sometimes I wish I didn't have a brain, and sometimes I think I don't have one, than sleepless nights like this happends and then you know you actually do have a brain, AND that you're using it TOO MUCH!

No, "why did mum tell me to never stay up later than 2 am? because after 2 am you just say stupid things"

"If there was a moment in your life that you could re-live, when would that be?"

C'est dur la vie...

I just got back from La tour de pin, where Vincent's parents live. We spent the whole saturday at the swimmingpool, sleeping by the pool, sleeping in the pool.
Today we had lunch on a boat that gave us a 3 hour guiding tour around Lac de Bourget which is by the Alpes. It was great. Then we went back to the house and spent even more time by the pool. I think I slept about 75%of the time. I really needed it.

born and raised in Sweden, with origins from Indonesia, living in France ...with a brazilian heart :)

Yesterday I went to my friend Giovana's bazaar. She and her friend had a small thing for friends and family where they sell there creations. You can see that their stuff is southamerican because of all the patterns and colours. It's really pretty.

I was so touched by Giovana's comment:
where are you from? Sweden
but you most have origins from somewhere else? Indonesia
..yes but she has a brazilian heart!
..awww.

Anyways, going to Madeleine now. Meeting up with Vincent, we're gonna get the ticket to Lyon this weekend. Nice to get outside of Paris for a couple of days.

Vincent's 25 years

Vincent is now going in to his 25's. He threw a big party last night, and it was so fun!
Me and Astrid made a big coverletter on a cardboard (an old cojean box).
I'm Sorry I don't have any money to get my friends an ipod, or highspeakers. But I do know how to tell my friends about their qualities and why they are my friends, and I know how to show it to them. Vincent has been telling me about how hard he have had getting responses from all the job applications he has sent. So I wanted to make him the ultimate Cover letter for him, that will instantly get him a job. so we wrote about all his qualities together with a picture I've had taken of him. And I did notice that I have plenty of them! :P
I hope he will come to an interview with it, the only problem is it's about his size, and not very easy-transportable.

...other than that. I came home 6am. Woke up 12:30pm and have had my breakfast while watching How I Met Your Mother and is going to start cleaning the appartement. YEY!...

buhu, changing restaurant :(

I'm gonna be changing restaurant next week, I'll move from Madeleine to Printemps, and I really don't wan't to...:(
I guess most of the people from Madeleine is going to quit anyways, but I just don't feel like moving.

I got my letter from Atelier Chardon Savard. When we're starting, the material we need to get, etc...and I'm scared to death! no, I'm just a tiny bit nervous...

I watched the video from Michael Jackson's memorial in Los Angeles, and I started crying when his daughter Paris spoke. She is so cute, and it's awful that she is gonna continue grow up without her father. I'm in tears...

14 juillet i efterhand

Det lilla vi såg av fyrverkerierna...:(


Yesterday the french national holiday was celebrated with fireworks!..I just wish I could have seen them...
Me, Vincent and Astrid were gonna meet up at Trocadera in the beginning. But already in the metro I noticed the supercrowd that was gonna be there, so I got off the metro and decided with Vincent and Astrid to meet up in Montmartre to get the view from Sacré Ceour. Vincent decided to not come after some up-and down walks from his place to M°Chateau de Vincennes. So me and Astrid met up, sat by the stairs in front of Sacré Ceour. We had no view at all over the fireworks, because the only fireworks were by the Eiffel Tower which was on the other side! :P so everybody started moving that way, which caused a big non-moving block. You know like all other holidays with fireworks, you just end up getting stuck with a big crowd, not seeing anything.
But we did get to take a walk around Montmartre, which was pretty cozy, I don't go there very often, so I always get amazed by how cute it is, and how much I really want to win a lottery and buy an appartement there, with a perfect view, with a terass and a hammock....!!!
Today I had my interview with A.A. (american apparel, and not Anonyma Alkoholister...) it went good, and the guy was really nice, the problem was just that the staff can work a minimum of 24h/week, and I wont be able to do that with school, and I really want to do good work this year. But he told me to call him back if I wanted some other position than a seller. So I might try to get an internship or something else with them later on.

A night out dancing Forro!

It's quarter to five in the morning and I just got home from an evening dancing Forro at Los Mexicanos. It was sooo fun! It's a brazilian bar, so I don't know why it's called Los Mexicanos...??
It was the first time I tried dancing forro, but I had all my capoeira friends teaching me how to do it, so after a while I got the rythm, it was awesome! I love going out dancing, I hate all the bars and nightclubs where you just dance whatever to the usual clubmusic, but going to a salsa club or forro and actualy learning something is great!!
So we were dancing forro in the beginning, then they started dancing samba, and then it was some kind of funk and brazilian rap...Anyways, I'm gonna go there a lot, and it's free too!

This afternoon after been doing the close, Vincent told me I was gonna get moved to Cojean Printemps, for all of you that doesn't know, I've been working at Cojean Madeleine so far. AND I really don't want to move!! If I'm gonna stay in Cojean it's going to be at Cojean Madeleine! But apparently they are opening this new Cojean in the big houseware, and they need confirmed staff. But I'm so sad I'm going to move, no one knows I'm going because Vincent was not suppose to say it, not even Thibault (the director of Cojean Madeleine) knows! I was actualy gonna move there this thursday already, but they got it postponed to in 2 weeks :P Anyways, I hope I get a new job before that...As I said, Cojean Madeleine or nothing else..!

do not take a step outside the door!!!

Can't believe I've been sitting infront of my sewing machine for 10 hours and I haven't gotten anything done! I started on a dress that turned out really weird cut... I know it's because i'm too lazy to cut out all the patterns exact. If something is gonna hold me back to succeed in the future, it's my lazyness. And I'm very very afraid of it!
..well, since the dress didn't come out right, I decided I have to have had something done from my day of just staying in, so I made this flowery skirt...

..I know you can't really see it, I just took one single shot with the camera, and was..again, too lazy, to take another one.
Whatever, I'm going to bed!

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"Unemployed hipsters Line up for chance to work for American Apparel"...hahaha

I have my interview with American Apparel on wednesday and I just saw this article on the web. I don't know if it's suppose to be funny, but I think it was. For me it just shows a desperate hipster trying to still be hip although she can't...because there are more imporant things to do than trying to be hip! haha, hilarious.

Unemployed hipsters Line up for chance to work with american apparel...

...I don't know if I'm that hipster, I just so badly wanna work for American Apparell!!! and no, I wasn't trying to be funny.

late sunday

Yesterday I felt a bit sick and went home a bit earlier from work. My stomach has been a bit worried so the past 24 hours I haven't been eating anything but couscous. Which is great! lol, it's so good!
Yesterday evening I saw a friends expo in the bar Les Etages in Marais. It was very poetic, a bit hard for me to understand. But I think he made a great job. I don't know if You can like things even though you don't 100%understand them. But that's what I did.
He is starting a new project with 9 dancers. He wanted to do a collaboration, so we'll see if that's happening. I would love to do something though.
I then fell asleep around 3am watching How I met your mother.
I woke up around 1pm this afternoon. I don't know what I'm going to do today, I just feel like staying in.

Lovely thursdays :)

I just love thursdays....

Did my yoga class Which felt great.
Besides that Janeck the check-in guy never came, and Sabrina (yoga teacher) was late, so I was inside the studio, since I have the keys. But I couldn't open for the students, because I'm not the one doing the check-in. When Sabrina finaly came to open the studio, everyone seemed so annoyed because they couldn't enter the studio, and there I stood already inside, changed and done for class. I felt so stupid, and people were giving me looks saying:"Grrr, why didn't you open the studio, stupid bitch!" I felt slightly uncomfortable...

I went to the bank in Fontenay sous Bois, transferred my money. I love the front desk girl at BNP Paribas in gare Fontenany sous Bois, she is always soo nice and helpful.

Then I met up with Adela (an old classmate from highschool) and her friend Annika. It was fun to catch up. Have had no idea what she has done for the past 4 years.

We walked around the area Etienne Marcel and Réaumur Sebastopol, because I wanted to find my friend Tomoko's boutique (she is a fashion designer, that studied at Studio Berçot)I didn't find her store, but I did find a great vintage shop where they re-do all old clothes, I found really cheap wigs there too :) So, I'm really looking forward to be invited to a masquerade sometime very very soon! ;)

This evening, Lucy had her good bye drink at Le Piment in Marais. She is going back to England. I had a drink and fell asleep..almost. I felt super tired, so I should probably go to bed now. Nighty nighty!

Lolo going crazy with the cameras at rushhour :P

Today Lolo and Fred was there to help with the rushhours, and of course Lolo was gonna go crazy with the camera taking shots of the dream team ;)

Neighbour with Tourettes syndrom..?

It's 2am and I'm listening to my neighbour. I don't know if it's him playing the classical music, but I definitely think that it has a connection. Cyrielle(the former tenant, and a friend of mine) and Juliana(my flatmate) have warned me about him making sudden noices,and they told me he had Tourettes syndrom. I thought that included sudden shoutings of whole words, but maybe not. Because all I can hear is like strong, long like caughings...It's like when something gets stuck in your throat and you try to get it up again. And it also sounds like he's blowing his nose everytime, so I'm not sure he actually has Tourettes syndrom... And everytime he is making those noices, I also hear classical music playing in the background, it's probably him, putting on the music to reduce the other noises he is making...It's interesting, I hope I wont ever meet him in the hall, I think he would scare the shit out of me...
Ok, I'm seriously gonna go to bed now, so tired, I'm gonna at least try to.

thanks, but no thanks!

I just got home from a long day!
I started 8 am at Cojean. The team this morning were excellent, we were like 1h in advance with the sandwiches, which made everything so much more fun today.
This afternoon it was pouring rain like it hasn't been doing in a very long time, it was nice :)
8 pm I took Emma's class at the yogastudio, it was such a great class. Not many people at all, and such a great energy.
The cleaning guy at the studio was cute. I mentioned that I was looking for another job, and he sincerely proposed to me to join the cleaning firm. I don't want to sound too condescending, but I really want to think I can do better than clean all day:P Not that working in a restaurant is waaay better, but at least you are with people your own age, the same values and you have something in common. I mean I'm truly happy I've met the people in Cojean <3 And if you just know what you're doing next it's actually fine!

colder? no no!

I was looking at the weather forecast yesterday and it said rainy and 21° and this morning I looked out the window and it was quite windy, but when I looked down on the people they still seemed to dress very lightly as it was hot like the other days. I got dressed, put on my t-shirt and jeans! Have only been wearing skirts or shorts theese pas suuper hot days. And I was thinking about taking a sweater with me, but I didn't.
I came out and went down the metro, and I finaly understood why people still don't dress warmer, even though it's getting colder. The metro is not at all air-conditioned, and with all the people it's still like a sauna down there! And when I'm going out or going to work, I'm spending about 80% of outdoor in the metro! So here I am stil soaking wet, even though i was looking forward to enjoy the slightly colder weather...

a perfect end to a perfect sunday

...and now I'm home from a great yoga class with Christian.
Getting home in the slightly less warmer climate felt great.
I think people in Paris are soooo funny. It's just small things that they do. In the metro there were 2 guys in their early 20s looking at a graffiti book, and I kind of looked over their shoulders and saw that a lot of the pictures were from Stockholm. So they saw that I looked kind of interested in the book, and started showing me the pictures and talk really loud, but not talking to me! LOL
Then at the same time, two gay guys with Louis Vuitton shoppingbags started compliment a goth kid for his iron chain bracelet, which obviously wasn't their taste at all...
Anyways, I just feel so great in this moment. Next week the weather is gonna be cooler which I'm looking forward to a bit :P

sunday at the fleamarket in St.Ouen

Yesterday I spent the evening hanging out with Adrien and his friends at Champ de Mars. It was kind of cool. Besides that it ended up with a series of pickpocketing, a bunch of people lost their bags. Not cool...

Today I wanted to find a mirror, since I don't have one. This past week I've had to wait til it gets dark to see how I look like- in the Window! or I've started Photoboot in the computer, using the webcam to see how my face looks like.
So I went to the fleamarket in St.Ouen, which is in the north of Paris (well, exactly where I live). It's suppose to be one of the bigger fleamarkets in Europe. I mean I always get lost there, so it probably is one of the biggest. But there is also a lot of expensive antique shops, so like 75% of the fleamarket is not so fun to go to, because it's so expensive. It's fun to look at, but you can't buy anything, or more -I- can't buy anything! But anyways, in the end I found a mirror for 10€, which I like a lot. I didn't know where to put it though, because it's kind of heavy, and I kind of just hung it wherever there was a hook.

70 Boulevard Ornano, 75018 Paris

View from my tiny balcony


A corner of my room

Lilian's kokbok

Tyckte bara Lilian skulle ändra riktining och satsa på att bli bagarinna istället. Passar henne så mycket bättre, det ser man ju på fotot :)

slept until 10 am! :)

First time I've actually woken up at the same time as my alarmclock goes off!
Yesterday I met upp at midnight with Jess, we couldn't decide if we were gona go out or not since all our friends had stood us up, and he really wanted to go out, so being the good friend I really am :), I went with him. I have to say this club was quite an experience...Not really my thing, but I also didn't pay a dime for it so what the heck!
Last night I sat on my couch going thru my stuff and read the receipt from H&M, and it said that they were looking for staff to their new boutique in Haussmann, so I'll probably go there and leave my CV.
I need to get ready for work now, great another day in hell...Why do people need to be healthy and drink all this juice, WHY!!!!

Fais rien que transpire :P

All I've been doing today is just sweating sweating and sweating...:P
This morning I woke up with no air in my room, it was really hot. So I took a shower, I had breakfast, took a 2nd shower. I decided to leave home a bit earlier than needed because I wanted to take a walk. I walked from Porte de Clignancourt down to M°Villier in the 16th, that's about the whole northern part of Paris city. I came to work looking like I had taken a gymclass.
I worked from 12:00-19:00, we had a lot of costumers because everybody loves to drink juice theese days.
After the close me and Vincent sat down at Tuileries and had our Paradise fruitsalad.
I'm going to bed, tomorrow is an early day, and I'm finaly taking yogaclass after more than a week away from all training. I'm really looking forward to train, I need to stretch my muscles!!!

Revenue and is too hot!

I'm now back in Paris after one week away from the city, but it almost feels like a month.
AirFrance was, as always, delayed, not much, but still. I read the Expressen, and saw that a plane crashed close to Madagascar. I directly thought about what Micke had said earlier, that he was now afraid of flying because of all the plane crashes theese past months. I have to say, it is kind of worrying....
I should go to bed now, this end of the week, looks like it's gonna be more than I can handle after a week of lazyness....