yes i know the date isn't really correct on here
but the 5th is the date that i got back from my little 'exploration' in sverige again so its befitting that i put this post on this date..............................
that morning was a bit hectic..............................i had a flight leaving skavsta at 6am in the morning so i didn't really sleep that nite since i had to catch buses at like 2am (funny story that happend, the bus driver on the first bus gave me a free ticket and the second bus driver drove me to the flygbussarna terminal??? which i can't complain about since i would have gotten lost anyway............ ) and then as soon as i touched english soil i was straight back in london to help someone with something............................. i cannot believe that everything went so smoothly because it all started and could hasve been really really tragic but wasn't so i am grateful................ (god....... thank you so much!!!)
okej this trip to sweden was a so-called 'unplanned-planned' visit.......................
it was unplanned that i was going to spend new years on the apple farm although it was planned that i would get an invitation...................................... it was unplanned that i would make an excursion to stockholm again but it was planned that i would visit a friend for the last time before he moved.................................... and the whole going back to sweden was not something i intended to do so soon but because i intended to get a 'wii', felt it was possible to sacrifice getting a wii so i could finance the visit..................................... and yeah it was worth it!!! since wii's are bound to get cheaper this year sometime anyway!!!!......................
originally i was supposed to leave for sweden on the 28th but the date changed to the 29th due to some errands and mislaid paper work...................... and then at stansted i had heard alot of cancelled flights being annouced due to bad weather so was worried that my flight would be cancelled too but luckily it wasn't ...........(thank you god!!!)....................................... then i had to deal with some angry/ upset friends that said they would never forgive me if i didn't spend new years with them!!! (but they were only joking around.....i hope............ i will see you in feb anyway!!!)................... then when waiting for the train to kristianstad i got kicked out the station because they close it at midnight!!! that wasn't so bad because i sat with some buskers in the gangway and just listened to them playing music till my train arrived...................... and eventually i arrived at the apple farm at like 3am or something on the 30th................................
(i was completely shattered because i didn't really sleep much the days before and so my plan was to sleep as much as possible before the 31st............. but when sleep is involved in any of my plans i usually get none so it was stupid to plan!!!).............................
the 30th was really preparation day and what i remember of that day was not baking three pies but playing table tennis and the board game 'acquire'??? (i guess it was okay since we still had the daytime of the 31st to prepare??? and fredrik.......... for as long as i live i will never forget your wonderful interpretation of waht a 'minority shareholder' is......... too bad the real world concept had no implications to a board game!!!)........................ it was fun playing table tennis because we weren't being too serious in that fact that we were playing the game where you had to hit it on one side then run round to the other side, and if you missed it then you would be out (the sort of thing you do when you were 13/14!!!).................................... as to the pies that we baked, they carried a health warning!!!! lets just say we put three kinds of cheese into one of them (and it was alot of three kinds of cheese).........................................
on the actual day of the party nothing (except the pies) had been prepared....................
the house needed cleaning, the food needed to be prepared and cooked, the table needed to be laid, the placement cards needed to be printed and the precious soup bowls needed washing!!!!.................. as a guest i was entitled to sleep until 7pm when the other guest would arrive...................... BUT................ somehow after breakfast i found myself as the role of 'maid and cook' because being me, i couldn't sit back and 'not do' anything...................... so being a helpful little-chinese-servant i offered to prepare the salmon main course (alot of scales were flying in the sink and some careful cutting of the head and tail to make it fit in the oven was involved!!!)...................... after the fish was stuffed with herbs and wrapped in foil (thank you sofia) .......... i then set about to make the sushi hor-deovres that were needed for socialising the mix of lawyers and artist and other riff raffs together......................... (this was my contribution to the party since i don't drink, i wasn't participating in the open bar so offered instead to make sushi, which everyone loved so thank you!!! and johan............ fy dig!!!! how dare you steal the vegetarian sushi's!!! and to david ................... fy dig!!! how dare you steal my sushi's i left behind in the
fridge!!!!!).............................
i had heard stories about such parties that hakan and johan threw............. that hakan was too ambitious with the food, and johan even though he knows how to cook will avoid it at all costs............... so this year would have been no different................ the menu for that night consisted of 'avocado and white wine soup' followed by 'roasted salmon and new potatoe with 'shovel & dragon' sauce' and then to give our sweet tooth some satisfaction it would be 'glas-ful' dessert (cake base with ice-cream covered in mierangue then baked in the oven)....................
the plan was to start cooking the soup at 7pm..............................
at around 7:30pm the first of the guest started to arrive..........................
hakan was nowhere to be found since he was out picking ppl up and the avocadoes still needed to be done so as everyone else was standing around in 'proper' dinner attire, i was still in the kitchen donning a apron and a bandaid on my finger!!!! ( i errrrrrrr managed to slice my finger while peeling the avocadoes because i was talking to ppl and trying to chop stuff.......... whoops!!!!) ........................ at the point in time when hakan arrived back from his task you could actually see the look of panic in his face............................ while ppl were being distracted by the hor'doerves (how do you spell that word???) and familiarising with each other, we both quickly ran upstairs to get ready (i have never changed so fast in my life!!!!) but being a woman i had already picked out the dress i was wearing................ obviously it was black!!! and obviously i wore my boots!!!...................................
hmmmmmmm if confessions need to be revealed at this stage, then i should say something about the soup and sauce.................. we made two separate batches and errrrrrrrrrr both in hakans words were 'individual' (translates as they tasted different.......) and errrrrrrrr being selfish as i am allowed to be, i demanded that the one that was more pleasing to my palate be served at my end of the table......................... so sori to the guys at the other end!!!.........................
oh and i need to apolygise to peter and andreas for being immature.............. because peter offered the last of the sauce to me and i said to him he could have it, BUT as soon as he took it i screamed out 'you took the last of the sauce, i can't believe you didn't offer it to me that is so ungentlemanlike' so that everyone heard and it kinda embarassed him....................... then andreas offrered me the last of the haloumi (cheese) but i said he could take it but then i also announced to the whole table his rudeness in not offering it to me and then we had a mini-fight of him trying to give it to me and me rejecting it saying that it was too late...................... real maturity................ but then again new year banquets need a bit of childish fun or else it wouldn't be new years!!!! (and who else better to fit that part of 'the annoying child at the table' then little timmy!!!)...................
the dinner was a success, without ppl actually seing too much of the mess and stress in the kitchen, and it was funny that while cooking, even though hakan and i had the same idea of how we wanted to do things, we had different words and ways of expressing such wants???? (thank god we know each well enough as to understanding the objective)................. and of course after eating the main course it was ready to have the 'open bar'.............................. and guess who volunteered to be a bartender...................... and guess who doesn't drink ....................... so just take a wild guess at what i was mixing for ppl????? (but i don't think the drinks i made were too bad since ppl weren't complanining............ that or i had put too much vodka or whisky or rum or tequlia in the mix that they were just merry from the effect!!!).................................... seriously, i left the drink mixing up to ida, and when ppl did ask me to make thier drinks i was simply combining the colours that looked good together then added some lemon. lime, pineapple and star fruit to just make it look pretty............... and then i topped it off with a straw????? (unless you have a strong liver, never ask me to mix alcohol for you, i am really really clueless)
at 10pm the party games started......................'killers' ...................... (and i am so certain hakan was very happy at having successfully created a 'moderator' without the aid of a computer randomiser or actual invigilator......... don't ask!!!).................... this game is very much self-explanatory and involved the 20 guests being killers............................. the winner is of course the one that is left alive........................... the rules were simple, you had an envelope with the person's name inside that you had to kill and the way you kill them is to say 'you're dead'............. BUT you can't whisper it to them, it has to be openly heard BUT if anyone hears you saying it then you are dead instead and you need to pass your prey onto the person that kills you for them to kill the nx one................................................... it sounds complicated but was so much fun as ppl were staying in twos thoughout the night and everyone was suspicious of everyone and the best opportunities to kill were when ppl needed to go the the toilet or for a cigarrete or a private call on the phone!!!!!................................. ironically the guy that had to kill me, killed himself because when he said 'you're dead', his wife actually heard him and then i spent the rest of the night waiting for someone to kill me but no one did so i started killing ppl when we were outside to look at the fire works at the stroke of midnight............................. and ironically again i was the runner up in the game without actually trying too hard........................ i would have won but i got confused by peder as to who i was killing nx (he was talking about johan so i thought he meant johan but the name card that he passed to me was in fact the 'mr gay sweden peder' so i got killed by him.................. whoops but its okay.............i think i should read the namecards nx time so it was my own fault!!!!).............................................
hmmmm.................. okej since i am making confessions there needs to be another confession that involved the 'special drinks' we were handing out to ppl.......................... after coming back inside from the celebratory midnight stroke, there was a period when timmy, elin and lina and others were running around mad, screaming and handing out drinks to ppl and encouraging them to 'skoll'..................... to the onlooker, it looked as if we were drunk and being very generous in making ppl feel as if they were appreciated and special to receive such beverages........................
in reality, we were trying to make that kahlua-coffee-cream drink where they are distintly separate in the glass BUT it kept going wrong because we poured the coffee too fast SO we had to get rid of the drink to try again since we had only one glass, and the best way to dispose of the failures was of course to make others drink it (its alcohol after all, swedes would never waste alcohol!!!!)
................. and i am afraid thats the truth behind the errrrrrrrrrrrrrr 'special drinks' you all recieved!!!! but if it makes you all feel any better elin succeeded in making it the proper way!!! (to the guys: you should realise that womens generosity sometimes have hidden motives.................. okej 'always' have hidden motives.............:-p)
towards the end of the nite we had the traditional 'new year swimmers' that were peder, david and andreas....................... timmy and elin agreed to go with them............... only timmy and elin didn't intend to go swimming.................... no no no.................. timmy and and elin intended to take embarassing pics and movies of them!!! (which i have, but as i pointed out, 'youtube writ them off as 'not suitable footage' so only a few have witnessed the naked swimmers!!!!)...............................
and of course no party would be a party without the drunken dancing to some cheesy music and lazing-around to xbox games???? (some very interesting dancing can be seen by clicking the links below.................. thank god i am not in the same country as the dancers because they will kill me for putting up those movies!!!)...........................
Oh and hakan....................... i still haven't forgotten that you owe me three wishes!!!! and tack sa mycket for my 'werewolf' cards (even though it was intended for oskar and jill)..............:-p the best prize for winning the 'golden apron award' which was the pride of the start of the new year.......................without a doubt???
eventually in the morning..................... after an intriging insight of "'being meat' on the meatmarket" conversation with fedrik (remember you need a maid or a wife, and i feel so sori for your kids because you have a 'planned model lifestyle' already for them!!!) and managing to be the last to sleep (i went to bed at 10:30am)....................... i was again up at 11am to take a shower and pack my bags since i was leaving on the 1st of january 2007 to stockholm!!!!..................... (really really sleep deprived at this point!!!!!)........................................ as you will all know by now , determination to kram as much fun in as little time as possible never follows my logic!!!!! but i was vouching on sleeping on the train anyway so it wasn't that bad..........................(although the journey to stockholm was an interesting tale too............will write about it another time since this is already too short :-p)
and now the question that should be answered is 'was the celebration worth the redemption of my wii............???'
hmmmmmm.......................................JA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-p
for more photos go to:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=6749&l=4c690&id=517037261
for more videos go to:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C744F268AB52B938
(unfortunately or maybe its a good thing, 'youtube' banned the movie i put up of peder, andreas and david in the shower after thier swim in the lake.................. it was 'too explicit material' apparently, but in all fairness you didn't see much so i don't know why they banned it!!!......... i have never been rejected by them before so of course i feel hurt!!!).......................
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