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| The wheels are turning |
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Written by Kristoffer on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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Everything is slowly moving ahead to us moving into our new house in 2 weeks time. They still have some loose ends to tie up, some electricity work and the wallpaper goes up last, and an inspection on 13th and then we can go ahead and move in. Thats the plan now anyway. Can't wait!!
Saw "Knowing" the other day. I like the first 99.9% of the film but in the very last scene they ruin it for me by going religious. It's a bit like "Battlestar Galactica" - love 99% of it had they not been that religious.
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| FInally summer again :) |
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Written by Kristoffer on Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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Now it's really summer time here in Stockholm! It's wonderful to walk to work nowadays, stopping by Kungsan for a chocolate dipped icecream before work. Think that was one of Gods many plans to be honest!
Our house is almost done. We're waiting for the electrician and the wallpapers to go up, we're also having our fireplace mounted this week but it looks like it's the wrong kind. Won't know until it's done and the covers are in place though.
And then, on july 13th we have our big inspection of the house that will either end in such a huge list of negatives that the entrepreneurs will have to redo alot of stuff, or most likely a small list of things that will take them 1-2 days to fix and we should be able to move in that weekend. That's almost three weeks from now! Can't wait!
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| Almost there... |
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Written by Kristoffer on Monday, June 15th, 2009
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If you've been checking out this image gallery you should know why I don't update much. Got tons of stuff to do and when you least need another ball to deal with life throws a huge curve ball right smack in your nuts!... more of that later, sometime... now we gotta finish that small little shed that's soaking wet now...
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| House is going up! |
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Written by Kristoffer on Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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Sorry about the lack of updates. But as you can see from this gallery we have our hands full! Check the gallery now for the first glimpse of how the interior looks like presently.
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| Another little hick-up |
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Written by Kristoffer on Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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They're set to start building our house on monday and I thought I was on top of it. Then a truckdriver calls me up and says "hey there, where you want the house? you're suppose to set up a sign you newbie!"... well it's not my fault they told me I wouldn't need the sign since there were so many people building there that they had everything under control, the sign-thing is just for people building in the middle of nowhere.
That's what I get for trusting that guy...
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| Movies... |
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Written by Kristoffer on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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One of many things me and Helena have in common is we like movies! And we've seen quite a few in the recent couple of weeks, even gone to the cinemas - 3 times!!
Wolverine was pretty good and fun action. Angels and Demons was so so. And then we saw Terminator Salvation and it was abit of a disappointment! It was good action but it took itself way too seriously, hardly any comedy, paper thin story. So not that impressed. Atleast the third one had some moral to it, this was just plain action.
But one movie we saw on dvd the other week was "Fireproof". We thought it was gonna be a good drama/romantical movie about a couple who'd grown apart and was on the brink of divorce. But it wasn't. It was a sugar-overload sent by the american jesus christ society! I'm all for respecting other people and their beliefs and if they want to believe in jesus christ then go ahead. But don't try to convert the world through these kinds of Hallmark movies! I mean the movie and story was ok, had it just not been for the "I have to love god to know what love really is" crap they kept on about.
And someone really should take a look at the subwoofer in Heron number 9 cause it's been sounding crazy for a year now...
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| Another awesome weekend ends... |
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Written by Kristoffer on Monday, June 1st, 2009
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And so another awesome weekend ends and the first real week of summer begins!
Me and Helena are keeping ourselves busy wether we like it or not, but on saturday it actually looked like we were gonna have a lazy ass afternoon and evening at home with only the TV as company. But oh no, we were called into Heron City to watch "Angels and Demons" with two friends of ours. It was nice to see them again but the movie could've been better. Although I gotta say it's still fun to see movies from Rome where I can say "been there" (although nowadays I say it quite to myself).
But sunday was the big day for us. My family and some of Helena's joined us at our building site for a little tour of where everything is going to be becauase in exactly one week the house will be lifted in place. And after that tour we went to a nearby lake and had a picknick/lunch, celebrated my 34th birtday (!) and just enjoyed the kick ass weather! After that we went home to find out noone had showed to check out the apartment so to comfort ourself I got to open my birthday present 2 days too early and we spent the night trying to play Metallica on our Playstation.
Absolutely kick ass weekend!
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| Reconnecting with old friends |
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Written by Kristoffer on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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Back in 2000-2001 I had a friend called Markus. We lived a few kilometer from each other, we both liked "Star Trek", movies, computer games and the occasional beer (or in his case, bottle of wine). I liked him. But after Eden died and after Markus got married and I did my world tour we kinda lost touch for a long time and what little I heard from him was from my sister who ran into him now and again.
But now we decided that it had definitely been too long so me and my fiancé went over to their house for a BBQ, some beers and alot of conversation. And it was good! It was awesome actually. Marcus and his wife now had 2 kids (she was pregnant with the first one last time I saw her!) and he had done so many home improvement I couldn't believe it was the same Markus! And we had a great time just talking and discussing things about life and stuff. It was great reconnecting and we're definitely gonna do it more often :)
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| Some new pictures |
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Written by Kristoffer on Monday, May 25th, 2009
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I've added some new pictures in my 2009 album here, although you should log in as "gäst" to see them all.
Most importantly I have some pictures from the baptism me and Helena went to a week or so ago. It was for her brothers newborn, Emilia. As always it was a great day and I had a blast! And so did Helena once she got over the anxiety of "what does a godmother do!?"
Then there are some new pictures in our album for our new house. (you really should bookmark cause I've grow tired of mentioning every update to it)
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| It's the small things... that drive me insane! |
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Written by Kristoffer on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
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Yesterday I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep when all of a sudden I realise... no matter how I do it, I will not be able to watch cable TV on my projector the way we have it planned now! And no matter how I replanned it, unless I dished out some $300 for another recieved and payd $10 per month extra for the card, there really is no way to solve that situation! And it drove me insane! Seriously, I couldn't solved it! I had the chance to design my cables in that room the way I wanted it but there's no way of getting the cable TV in there. Sure I can get the TV but no sound, unless I have extra cables along the wall that will look like crap!... so I guess we're gonna have to pay that extra money so I can sleep again... until I realise the next problem, whatever that may be.
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| Building the foundation |
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Written by Kristoffer on Thursday, May 14th, 2009
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Went by our new home yesterday to see if there was any progress with the house. And to our surprise there was! The foundation is now in place!! Very surprising how fast that happened actually! We've gone from "should we do it" to having a foundation set in stone for us in less than 8 weeks. It's a bit scary cause thinking back about 14 months (february 2008) I was living in my little rented 2 room apartment and totally happy with that and didn't see any need to change. Now we're building a house!!
Check out the photo gallery here (or on facebook!)
Also added photos and some captions to the photos from Söderköping. Again I remind you to login as "gäst" and password is the company I work for.
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| Lack of anything to say really |
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Written by Kristoffer on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
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Don't have much to say here really.
Our house project is moving along nicely. Should be ready to move in around july 15th if all goes well.
Me and Helena are going about our daily lives hoping that the rest of our lives are as good as the past year have been. 'Cause it has been freaking awesome!
F1 is going down the drain for Ferrari and now it seems like they may not be with the sport for 2010, great fun that'll be!
Other than that... moving along, nothing to see...
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| Quick little update |
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Written by Kristoffer on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
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This'll be a quick little update before I head out the door to join my friends and watch the pilot of "Caprica".
Me and Helena went down to Söderköping again. The ice-cream place had just opened and it was a swedish holiday (valborg) so we figured "what tha heck" and rented a cheap room at a nice hotel so we could stay for two days and have even more ice-cream and maybe see more of this calm, old little town. It was abso-freaking-awesome! :)
You can find pictures here and as usual, log in as "gäst" to see all pictures.
And today I went out to check up how the work on the house was going. Or maybe I should say the foundation cause that's what they are working on now. Pictures are here. You might wanna make that into a Favorite since I'll be updating it alot over the next two months! :)
And the summer is finally coming to stockholm so it's even better going out for a ride today!
Have fun! I will!
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| Busy busy |
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Written by Kristoffer on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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I'm not that narcissistic that I left that update for this long, it's just been really busy around here. Trying to sort everything out and making sure things are rolling and all the papers get signed and shipped to god knows who... but it's getting along now.
They shaved off an inch of ground on our lot to give us an idea of how big it was and it's pretty damn huge! You can check the image album here. You'd do best to login as "gäst". The password is the name of the company I work for.
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| So I'm one of the "good guys" huh? |
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Written by Kristoffer on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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Even though it's been a year now some friends are still surprised that I actually have a girlfriend, that I moved in with, and am now engaged with and building a new house with. I get alot of nice congratulations (like this). But the best compliment have come from three different people (from a family member, a close friend and an estranged friend/former collegue) and that is - "proof that good guys can win"! I like that. I like that people consider me a good guy. I know it's narcissistic as hell, but it still feels good getting the compliment.
Regarding our house building, everything seems to be set - except for that damn approval from the council that we may actually build the house we want and the way we want it!
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