The Book Fair

I finally made it to the Book Fair. It was interesting but way too much people. I found these three books, I got them so cheap. "Zorro" by Allende only 35 SEK, "Paradiset finns om hörnet" by Vargas Llosa for 29 SEK. At Adlibris they gave away "Fantomerna" by Östergren for free. These books have to wait until they are read since I have so many books waiting on the shelf. Next book after "Los aires difíciles" (have only about 100 pages left out of 800) will be "Vindens skugga" (La sombre del viento) of Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I've got it from Pepe & Vicen when they were here this summer.



I found this book of architecture at the Book Fair. I think it is quite awesome that this Valencian architect is so big in the world, even though he's not so popular in his own home town. This book cost 795 SEK.


When I got home I made the bread of the week. Cooking and baking can be art sometimes. Don't you think?


Tomorrow my friend Maria will be staying over night, she has a conference in town on Tuesday. We'll be going out for dinner. I think I'll take her to an Indian restaurant. Yummie!!!

Dani's Birthday Party

Delicious Spanish Food

Domenec, Dani & Tato

Anna, Emilio & Åsa

The creativity was present during the whole evening

This van was parked outside Lisa and Dani's place...

Buf!!!!!!!!!!!

I woke up way to early this morning. Should have slept all day. I went out with my work colleagues yesterday and there were too many drinks. I had fun though but why why why oh why do we drink alcohol?

I had booked the laundry today but yesterday I decided to leave it for another day. But since I woke up so early I thought it was a perfect "the day after punishment".

Now I'm heading down to city to buy a birthday present for Dani. We are celebrating his birthday with a fiesta española.

I had planned to visit the Book Fair (Bokmässan) but I have to leave it for tomorrow instead.

Trying out new designs

I want to change the layout of my messages and since I'm not into coding myself right now I'm trying out new layouts at blogspot. What do you think about this one? Boring? Easy to navigate? Repelling? Tell me what you think!!!

Good ingredients for a great weekend

What a lovely weekend. I started with an hour of hatha yoga at Andas . I watched the latest chapter of "Upp till Kamp" and then I went to bed early. Long live web TV. I woke up on Saturday morning and felt so relaxed. Did the laundry and some cleaning (not very meticulous). Around 12:30 I left to go to Lillmor's house. 75 min walk. She had made a lovely pie and vegetables. Walked back home and made some pizza. Then I watched a pretty weird movie called Donnie Darko, maybe weird is not the word, different and quite interesting would suit better. I wanted to see the last chapter of Tre Kärlekar att SVT but they haven't put the right link on the web. I hope they'll fix it this week.

Today I have put the light on my bike, within short it will be dark when I get off to work in the mornings. I have also had a walk in lovely Slottskogen, cooked, made a delicious bread, paid bills, read a lot and now I will call Pakko-Raffa before I turn on the DVD to see Babel.

Home-made pizza

Satay wok

A lovely walk in Slottskogen

Delicious bread stuffed with fibers

My friends Lillemor and Åsa (Sigge you're missing since you left early)

Thursday

Puh, what a week. Lots of work. All I do is: sleep, eat, work, and riding my bike. This weekend I'm going to do so much fun and I'm going to relax all the time :-) Have hooked up with Lillemor, Åsa and Sigge. Maybe we'll cook good food and watch some movies. A walk in Slottskogen should be nice too. Oh I forgot, want to try the pool at Valhallabadet. I really miss the laps in the pool with Verónica at Abastos. Wasn't that nice Vero?

First snow in Östersund

My sister told me that yesterday morning when they woke up the ground was covered with snow. Isn't that early? 17/9 and the seasons first snow? Weird.

What's cooking good looking?

Today I have cooked three different plates. Had to fill the freezer with lunch boxes. I don't know if the result is more than OK but at least it is nutrition. The total "lunches" are 11. I have made:

Beef steak

Chicken

Salsa Bolognese

Carrot muffins

The recipe of carrot muffins can be found at vegalex.

Weekend at Ekudden, Småland

The whole Lundholm family has spent the weekend at Monika's place at Ekudden. We have had a wonderful weekend with lots of food, wine, music and fireplace. We visited Carl von Linnés birthplace in Råshult, the IKEA museum that was open for public during this weekend, we took a walk in the forest and just hung out at the house (which is incredibly beautiful). Here's some pictures. Since I'm having problems with blogspot.com the text is not formatted.

Ekudden

The girls painting with Tobias

My dad

Monika & Julia

Matilda & Julia
Martina
Mum & Julia
The golden brownie
Matilda & Donnie
The caravan has been re-designed

Carl von Linnés birthplace

A livingroom from the 40's at the IKEA museum

500 min

I'm very proud of myself, I have already exercised 500 min this week so far (counting the bike ride home today). I'm now number 1 in my department. Yeahhh!!! But that will change later today when people start registrating their activities of the day (at www.funbeat.se) . Tomorrow I have to take the bus to work since I'm going straight to the train station. I'm going to visit my familiy in Älmhult. YES, the whole family (unfortunately not husbands/boyfriend :-( )will be at Monika's place this weekend. It is going to be so much fun. I hope we don't have ANY plans, I'm so tired.

By the way, this is what I look like at funbeat

Funbeat

We have a campaign at work. We are competing in health. For every 30 min of exercise we get points. The campaign lasts until the 4th of November and the department that has exercised most win 1000 SEK (in gym subvention) per employee. I'm doing really well so far, going to the gym and riding my bike to work EVERY day.

Maybe you want to challenge your colleagues? Take a look at Funbeat

Innovation day with Guide

Stenungsund

Kookaburra


Henric & Mattias


Dragi & I

The Guides


The Guides and their guest singer Sofia


Sara


Big bellies at Guide


Tired guys at the Central Station

Flickr or not?

Can anybody tell me if there is a point of paying $25 for storing photos at flickr.com???? I need a place to store my photo albums.

Para los hispanohablantes

Pakko-Raffa me pasó este vídeo. Super divertido.

Party with Guide

On Friday we're going to Stenungsbaden with the company. I guess there will be "team building" and other fun stuff before the dinner starts. We'll have a crayfish party. I have alreday had crayfish this year (in Oviken as usual) and I'm not so keen on having more. Don't know why. The bus will take us back to Gothenburg after the festivities.

Bread, bread, bread

This week I've done some baking, some healthy baking. Take a look at the recipes at my friends blogs: Annelie and Anneli.

Thank you!!!

Thank you mum and dad for organizing our stay in Oviken. We really appreciate it.
With lots of love from Paco & Maggie

Some photos from the vacations

I forgot over 100 photos on my dad's computer. As soon as I have them (and a place to store the photos) I will publish them.

Östersund

"Prästgården" where P&P stayed in Oviken

Paz preparing one of our picnics

Stockholm on our way back to Gothenburg

The Parliament

Paco & Paz having dinner at a restaurant in the old town

The Esteve Aparicio family in Stockholm

"Paco Padre" on a sightseeing bus in Stockholm

Riding horses

Last Thursday I went riding with nine girls from work. It was so much fun. Two hours in the forest with the horses. It has been 15 years since last time. I hardly remembered anything and I was so tense and nervous, but it was so much fun.

Isn't she beautiful?

The girls from work