Day 12: Favorite TV-shows

Ok prepare yourself to realize how much of a TV-show nerd I truly am. I will present some of my all-time favorites, as well as the shows I have seen EVERY freakin episode of. Trust me, there are more than you thought possible. There’s a reason I call myself a TV-show neeerd. Just saying..

Favorites:

FRIENDS

This show is soooo so dear to my heart. I started watching it when I was only 11 years old, and I couldn’t stop watching it. It’s such a classic. It’s true what they say: “I’ll be there for you”. They’ve always been there for me!

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

So stinkin hilarious!! It started airing while I was living in Philly, and it shows just how stupid people can be, yet lovable. If you haven't already seen it, you better start watching it now!!

Entourage

Well what I can I say about this one, huh. Started watching it after watching one of the newer seasons and realized how freaking awesome it was. Then I saw everything back to back until I was up to speed. I heard they're working on another season. Can't wait!

Californication

Their lines are incredicble! I love it. Also reminds me of a certain someone..

Sons of Anarchy

This show is unfreakinbelievbly heartbeating dramafantastic.

Glee

My newest favorite. I love all the singing, dancing and high school drama :)

Shows I’ve seen EVERYTHING of (excluding the ones from above):

24 30 Rock 90210 (the new edition) Accidentally on Purpose

American Idol Americas Next Top Model An Idiot Abroad

Breakout kings (fairly new show) The City Community

Cougar Town Criminal Minds CSI CSI: Miami

CSI: New York Desperate Housewives Dexter Eastwick

Freaks and geeks Gilmore Girls Gossip Girl Hellcats

The Hills Heroes Hot in Cleveland Hung Jersey Shore

Law and Order: Criminal Intent Law and Order: SVU

Lie to Me Life Unexpected MAD Mad Men

Melrose Place (New Edition) The Mentalist Mr Sunshine

Nikita (new edition) Nip/Tuck Numb3rs

Nurse Jackie One Tree Hill Parenthood Party Down

Popular Pretty Little Liars Prison Break Privileged

Scrubs Sex and the City Shameless Shark

Sherlock Sopranos True Blood The Tudors

Ugly Betty United States of Tara V Vampire Diaries

Veronica Mars Weeds White Collar Who do you think you are?

Let it be known that these are the ones I’ve seen from back to back! I have subtracted all other shows that I have “only” seen a couple of seasons of. Still feels like I’ve forgotten a few, but who cares… Give me some suggestions of shows I might have missed!

Day 11: Something you don't leave the house without

Hmm, well it's pretty average stuff actually. Nothing too interesting! I can't leave my apartment without music blasting in my ears, fingering on my phone and some reading material for the road. I usually always have my camera on me, but lately I haven't, because my phone's camera is pretty god damn good by itself (12,1 megapixels). That's it, I think. :P

Aussie-time :)

Maybe I should give you an update about what's going on with my plans for Australia. I now have my CoE (confirmation of enrollment), so I can apply for my VISA for OZ. We had to correct it a little bit first, because they had written some details about me wrong. CSN refuses to give me money until I pass these first two classes of the semester, and our teachers are being slow with giving us our grades.. So god knows how long that is going to take. I don't wanna buy a flight ticket nor pay for the VISA until I know for sure that CSN will give me the money. I have, however, found a place to live for at least the first few weeks, if not the first 6 months. I'll be sharing an apartment on the 17th floor with a 180 degree view of the ocean and the city. We have a pool, gym, spa etc in the bldg. Gotta love it!

Moreover, Nubie is now classified as a Swede, so she is allowed to get money from our government as well. Even though she will be on another campus, it feels good knowing I'll have her there for my first semester. We're going to bbq the asses of those bogans, aren't we Nubie? ;)

Shots are taken care of. Well, the last one will be taken in the beginning on June. I've sorted things out with cell phones, where all my shit is going when I'm moving out of this place, talked to my doctors etc. I still need to talk to the bank about giving my mom full rights to handeling my business while I'm gone, and get an international drivers license.

What else. Well our official "Goodbye Sweden party" will be on June 4th, for anyone of our friends who are interested in saying goodbye to all of us (La Familia minus Munteriño). I already bought a dress for the occation. Haha.

I'm glad I'm not staying here next semester. Feels like everyone is leaving. Me and Nubie are going to Aussie, Mathilda to Milano, Rödluvan to Switzerland, Sarah to Austria, Kaiser to Rome, Marina to Madrid, J+K to Cadiz, N+S to Prague and so on. And well, Sandy and Jenny are leaving for London in just a few days. So Stockholm will be quite empty with out some of my closest friends.. To those of you that will still be here - Have fun. I'm not jealous of you at all ;) Haha. Sorry. I just had to say it!!

Lonelyboy

It's funny how you find people who think the same way as you do. When I was talking to Lonelyboy today I realized how alike we are in many ways.

I'm glad things are finally turning around for you love. You deserve this. You really do!

Day 10: Something you're afraid of

Ok, I tried to google the thing that creeps me out the most (Spiders), but I couldn't keep myself looking at the pictures for more than a split second, so I refuse to have a picture of one on my blog! Anything that has more legs than I do (ie more than 4 legs) creeps me out. I'm not an insectsfan. Far from it.

Something I am afraid of (I realize insects are more of a freakish-disgust-issue than actual fear) is to be left alone. It's not that I have a problem being alone, it's the LEAVING part that freaks me out. I don't want to be the last person standing - unless I'm winning a prize because of it. It's like what Peyton said: People always leave.

So there you go. Don't leave me! It's as easy as that ;)

Day 9: Favorite pictures of some of your closest friends

There's something you need to understand, I have toooons of pictures that I would love to post, as I love my closest friends very much and I want to show them off as much as humanly possible, but I've narrowed it down to one for each person, from days/nights that are special to me in one way or another.

Me and Mathilda

Me and Rödluvan

Me and Ibell

Me and Em

Me and Marina

Me, Jen & Jess

Me and Sandy

I'm sorry if you feel left out, I know I probably forgot some people I shouldn't have, but I needed to have some kind of limit (and Babycake, I tried to find a good picture of us, but I couldn't settle for which one). To the rest of La Familia, don't believe I have forgotten about you, but I feel like my other friends think I've been showing quite a lot of pictures of you for the past few posts)

Day 8: A place you've traveled to that is dear to your heart

Ok, now you've seen some of the places I long to see. In this next segment you'll learn more about the places that are dear to my heart. I've been fortunate enough to been able to travel a lot during my upbringing, and because of that there are many places that are dear to me - but I'll try to narrow it down. Also, I'm not going to write about Gotland, but it is a place that is very dear to me because of pretty obvious reasons. I'm also not going to write or show pictures of Stockholm, even though it's an amazing city as well...

First of all, I want to come back to my favorite city New York.. I wish I was walking the streets of SoHo right now...

Or be back in Zanzibar, playing in the water..

or walk in the desert of Wadi Rum, Jordan

There are so many places I wish I could go back to, but I know my experience would never be the same as it was the first time I visited. Maybe it's better to keep those memories dear to your heart instead of chasing the memories and be let down by the fact it's not going to be as amazing the second time around..?

Day 7: Places I long to visit

So I know I'm falling a little bit behind on this 30DayBlogChallenge, but I blame St Patrick's Day. Either which way, I'll do Day 7 and 8 now, so hold on to your hats - here we go :)

Places I long to visit is a pretty easy one for me to write about, or at least show you pictures from. Seeing as I want to visit pretty much every country in the world, there's no shortage of ideas. But some places have been stuck in my head for many years, and here are some of them:

Fiji

Brazil

Vietnam

These are just three of the places I would love to see, but they are the ones that I always come back to when I'm thinking about where to go next.. Just thinking about all the traveling I want to do is more than I can handle right now... The snow has come back to Stockholm, and there's nothing I'd rather be doing than travelling..

Day 6: A picture that makes me smile

There are many pictures I could post here, but today I've chosen one from yesterday. A picture with all members of La Familia :)

Day 5: My favorite holiday(s)

Soo this one is easy! Well, actually, I would like some categories to this one. You see, I have different favorites depending on what I’d like to do on the holiday, or where in the world I am. Favorite Swedish one: Midsummer’s Eve, followed by Lucia. Other favorite holidays are: Thanksgiving, St Patrick’s Day and after living with a Jewish family for over 2 years, I’d say one of them is Passover. So why do I love these particular ones so much?

Midsummer’s Eve is so typically Swedish. It’s a holiday I’ve loved and longed for every year (well at least as far back as I can remember). We celebrate by singing and dancing around a maypole, doing silly things, drinking (when you’re older) and get completely and utterly jittery. There’s this magical feeling surrounding Midsummer’s Eve – like you were in the middle of a fairy tale. Maybe that’s why I love it the most. It reminds me of childhood and a simpler world.

Lucia is not originally Swedish, but I don't know if they celebrate it like we do, in Italy? What we do, since we're toddlers, are to dress up in different costumes and sing beautiful songs about Christmas, gingerbread men and other fun things. Taking place just before Christmas, it has a very warm and cozy feeling to it. Here's a picture from when I was in kindergarden, having a "Luciatåg" with my fellow youngsters:

Thanksgiving pfff - do I even have to say the reason?? The FOOD of course!!! I do like the whole thing about getting the entire family with relativs together though. I wish we could have a big Thanksgiving dinner here with all of my family. Last year we had a huge feast with the internationals. That was a lot of fun! Here's some pictures:

St Patrick's Day - tomorrow to be exact. Why? Well, I know it's lame (I love being lame) but it's such a fun day to celebrate! Drinking and having fun with your friends - and the Irish. Gotta love those Irish boys! Haha. Last year me and the other Tourists decided to celebrate it along with the others, since I (ofc) couldn't miss celebrating it for the 3rd year in a row..

Last but not least: Passover. I think I've realized I have an reaccuring theme with all of these holidays: putting something in my mouth - or being allowed to become a child again. With Passover I love the story telling and the little plague box we always got while everyone was reading. It's one of those holidays which brings you closer to your family. My hostfamily in this particular case.

Sooo, now when you learned more about my favorite holidays, what are yours?

Day 4: My parents

Ok NOW it’s time to talk about my biological family – my parents to be exact. Day 4 here we go!

I would lie if I told you I’ve always expressed my deep love and regard for my parents in a good way. I’m sure I was pretty difficult and self-centered as a teen (I probably still am to some extent). Luckily, my parents have been able to pull through all my crap and still be with me to this day. I’m glad they did.

My dad is probably one of people with THE most social skills I’ve ever known. He starts talking to EVERYONE, and always has (from what I’ve learned), and can make them laugh in just a few seconds. When I was a teenager I wasn’t as impressed with this asset as I am now. But as I said, I was a teenager. Most of my friends thought their parents were embarrassing at some point or another. At this point in my life I see it as a great asset and strive to better myself into becoming just that; someone who can make random people happy in just a few seconds.

Growing up I was a real daddy’s girl, but things change, and now I’m very much a Mama’s girl instead.

My mom is my rock. She’s so ambitious, generous and well – she’s my mommy. I could probably describe her in a thousand different ways and it still wouldn’t be sufficient. She always pushes me to be a better version of myself. Not in the crazy: I-want-you-to-be-someone-else-kind of way, but the: I-want-you-to-reach-your-goals-and-succeed-way. She has taken a lot of crap from me and my brother because of it, but I am thankful for all the hard work she was put into making me who I am today. It’s also thanks to her I’ve been able to travel the world as much as I have.

I want to say more, about both of them, but I feel as though it would be too personal and bring up too many memories. I hope you respect that this is as far as I will go as of right now.

Just one last thing though: Whatever I have felt, or will feel over the next 50 years, doesn’t really matter when it comes down to it. They are my parents - for better or for worse. I will love them till the day I die!

Day 3: La Familia

You might think that I’m going to tell you about my biological family, but I’m not. La Familia is the 4 people (including myself) who always come up w crazy shit together (and yes, everyone in La Familia is a little crazy themselves). Besides me, there’s Margarina, Nubie Call center and ass-flasher Munteriño. The four of us run around school making MTA+B more fun than it should be. We come from different parts of the world, but when we are together it is like when Sailor Moon shifts into her costume – unbelievably freaking good!

I’m extremely happy to have these three people in my life. They constantly brighten up my day and give me a stomach ache (and I’m not talking about the bad kind). Knowing I will see them makes me want to go to school. I know it sounds silly, but have you ever had that one friend that can change your entire mood swing just by the fact that they are there or not? Even if you have a bunch of friends in class there’s always that special someone that you really don’t want to be missing in school..? Tell me if I’m out of a limb here. The point is, when one o

f us is missing, it’s noticeable (even if we still have fun). Whenever I go to work and miss out on school, I miss them. We’ve grown so incredibly close over the past few months and I hate the fact that in only 3 months we’re splitting up..

I could write pages and pages about La Familia. Trust me. But I will be difficult to capture the essence of our relationship. It’s a relationship filled with passion – that’s for sure!! ;)

Munteriño, Margarina and me

Day 2: Meaning behind your blog name

I don't think the name of the blog confuses many of you, since it's all about my thoughts; Funderingar is Swedish for thoughts, and well "Fundileringar" is always what I said instead of it, I think it sounds cuter.. There's not really too much else to say about this one :P I almost want to go ahead and do another "day-challenge" just for the hell of this, but I know that would be cheating..

Theeeese boys..

I think of Uncle Kenny every time I say that. Haha. Terence and Li always did such an amazing job copycat:ing him.

Annnyway, Jamie made my night, tonight! I now have a place to stay for at least my first few weeks in Australia :) Pictures are coming soon! I'm so excited!!

Day 1: Introduce recent picture of yourself and 15 interesting facts

Ok, here we go - Day 1:

1. 1. I used to walk an actual pig named Gretchen
2. 2. I used to pack condoms for a living
3. 3. I have a hair fetish
4. 4. I also have a weird fetish with bags. Now, I'm not talking about nice fancy leather bags - I'm talking plastic or those simple fabric bags that you can get for free.
5. You might have realized this already - I LOVE FREE STUFF
6. I occasionally steal drinks if I think the bartender is taking too long
7. I love to dance and wish I started doing ballet when I was a little kid (I think I would've been good at it)
8. I talk to myself constantly
9. I'm called Evil Ylva by some, but I think it's ok to be evil sometimes
10. I haven't changed my current city from Philly since I moved back home, because I don't like the idea of that my hometown AND current city being the same
11. Me and my roommates have decided that if either one of us EVER get to go to the Oscars/Golden Globe etc we HAVE TO invite the other two (this has been a pact for the past 9,5 years)
12. I'm like a lioness when it comes to my friends and family
13. I'm such a tv-show nerd, I get addicted so easily
14. Yes, I'm addicted to Facebook and Twitter (recently) as well
15. Last one -I hate goodbye's

And here's the recent picture of me:

30 Day Blog Challenge

I have seen many people start this challenge, so I wanted to join in on the fun. Plus, it might give me a reason to actually stick with something other than my usual everyday life stuff. Anyway, I just want to try to do something that will encourage me to keep blogging creatively and stay in tune with the personal side of random thoughts.. There is more to me than Random Writing Chaos [really? I know, it scares me too].

Here is a list of the days. If you'd like, take the list and do the challenge yourself! Make sure you at least let me know that you are starting it so I can follow your journey too!

Day 0: The 30 Day Challenge Explanation and Description
Day 1: Introduce, recent picture of yourself, 15 interesting facts
Day 2: Meaning behind your blog name
Day 3: La Familia (changed from "Your first love" because of well, it was too stinking difficult to talk about)
Day 4: Your parents
Day 5: Your favorite holiday (Supposed to be: A song to match your mood)
Day 6: A picture of something that makes you happy
Day 7: Places you long to visit
Day 8: A place you've traveled to that is dear to your heart
Day 9: A favorite picture of your best friends
Day 10: Something you're afraid of
Day 11: Something you don't leave the house without
Day 12: Favorite TV-shows
Day 13: A picture of you from last year - how have you changed since then?
Day 14: Goals
Day 15: Qoutes that stuck with you (it's supposed to be Bible Verse, but you all know I don't read that thing)
Day 16: Dream house
Day 17: Something you're looking forward to
Day 18: Favorite Place to Eat
Day 19: Something you miss
Day 20: Nicknames - What they stand for, and who gave it to you?
Day 21: Favorite Picture of yourself of ALL TIME. Why is this the best one?
Day 22: What's in your bag?
Day 23: Favorite Movies
Day 24: Something you've learned
Day 25: Put your iPod on shuffle, first 10 songs
Day 26: Your Dream Wedding
Day 27: Original Photo of the city you live in
Day 28: Something that stresses you out
Day 29: 3 Wishes
Day 30: a picture of yourself this day and 5 good things that happened since you started the challenge

This shit reminds me of Julie & Julia the movie. Anyway Happy Blogging and I hope to read you'll enjoy my efforts!

Working bee

Vad har hänt mer de senaste 11 dagarna då? Jo, jag har jobbat på mässan nästan hela veckan, å hjälpt till på Allt om Sjön, Tholin&Larssons Stora Lönedagen, Geoteknikernas kongress, Vildmarksmässan m.m. Det har varit riktigt roligt, men krävande. Jag är nu trött i både kropp och själ! Imorgonkväll ska vi fira att mässan är över, när de andra slutar. Tror det kommer spåra ut ordentligt. Haha. På tal om att spåra ut - Farfars 30årsfest... LORD. Det var ju något för sig också.

I skolan har vi börjat en ny kurs om Medieteknisk forskning, där jag o La Familia ska skriva ett arbeta om vår favorit Skype. Turisterna är ju vana vid att skriva rapporter, så tror att det kommer gå finfint!

Jag råkade dessutom va med om världens tabbe i förra veckan när lönekuvertet ramlade/försvann ur fickan på en gång efter att jag fått det. LAGOM kul. Var så devastated att jag inte visste vad jag skulle göra med mig själv. Att man alltid ska ha så jäkla bråttom!! Nej gott folk, får dra ner på tempot ännu mer tror jag. Något sånt här får inte hända igen!!

Nu ska jag se vem som tar svenska folket med storm. Mer uppdateringar kommer senare! Följ mig på Twitter medan ni väntar ;)

Here comes the sun..

Hur som helst, idag har jag varit på Retromässan på Münchenbryggeriet, fikat o varit runt på Söder och shoppat - en riktigt bra lördag med andra ord! Dessutom sken solen på Söders alla glada människor, å gjorde livet en liten gnutta roligare. Idag är dessutom dagen som markerar att det är 4 månader kvar i Sverige innan jag drar till Australien, vilket känns både skrämmande, nervöst och otroligt roligt på en och samma gång! Som ni vet så hatar jag att säga hejdå mer än något annat (ok, inte ALLT annat), så jag fruktar lite hur pass emotionell jag kommer bli under dessa månader. Att CSN håller på o krånglar gör inte heller saken bättre. Men allt annat har klaffat hittills, så jag hoppas verkligen att de ger mig sitt beslut snart! Är dock RIKTIGT glad över det glädjande beskedet de gav Nubie häromdagen. It's you and me babe! Aussie here we come..!

Hmm..

Det börjar bli lite larvigt det här med bloggen egentligen. Jag känner inte att jag har haft tid att skriva något vettigt, å då drar jag mig från att skriva överhuvudtaget. Sen är det också frågan vem som egentligen tycker att det är så himla intressant att sitta o läsa om vad jag håller på med dag ut o dag in. Ja, ni kan ju gärna säga om det är det eller inte :P Studentlifesthlm har också hamnat efter, vilket känns otroligt tråkigt - men jag kan inte alltid vara supermänniska (bara ibland) ;) Jag har börjat twittra på sistone iaf! Ni kan hitta mig på YlvavZ.

Ten Nine Eight...

Another 10 days has gone by, and as usual many things has happened in little Ylva's life. Counting backwords from today, when I hung out with my little cousin (who's not that little anymore) whom I rarely get to see, finally sending in my acceptance letter to Griffith, hunting down my bosses to try to score some more hours in before the season is over, hosting Oscars Night w my roommates (and pulling an all-nighter), start twittering - yes I know I'm way behind, having two shorter barnights with fun people who truly deserves me in a better state than I was in, finally finishing the class from hell - with much help from Mr Bacardi, Nubie the Callcenter and ass-flasher Munteriño.

Hmm what else did I do these past ten days..? That was only dating back to Friday night.. Oh why yes of course, now I remember - we had a study night or "trip out Brazilian-style" as I would also like to call what we were doing. The awesome foursome did it again :) Then there was the whole student rep thing, being sick (which sucked ass, like always), and mostly a lot of PHP-coding going on. Oh and seeing "Wear it Like a Crown" as well as a dinners with the family somewhere in the middle.

In other words - I'm keeping busy. See ya in 10 days (or hopefully less)!