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How much Christmas feelings can you have when lying at Avoca Beach?
How do I get freckles ??
Just came back after a lovey day at Avoca beach. As you know I have not been out much for the last couple of days because I’ve been sick. So I was extra excited to go for a swim in the ocean. And a tan is much needed! After a couple of sick days you tend to turn completely pale in the face.
Before we left this morning I had some fresh turmeric, Vitamin B complex, Fish Oil, and some thing Ambrose bought with Vitamin C and Olive Leaf. Nothing left to chances haha.For some reason I don’t have any pictures from Avoca beach nor from our giant breakfast board we ordered after the beach for brunch. That is why all you guys get is this snap picture of me with freckles. To have freckles has always been a dream of mine. Ever since I was a child I admired the people in school who had them. Weird and unnecessary fact you did not know about me haha
Also wanted to show you guys this picture my mom sent us the other day. She woke up to this magic – first of snow in Sweden! One of my absolute favorite days. Can only be described as magic. After a while you tend to get really really tired of it. BUT the first day, or the first couple of weeks of it, its like a magical fairy land.
The reason why I even brought this up is because today its a Swedish group that organized a traditional Swedish Christmas Buffet’ at Bondi Beach.
I really wanted us to go, but honestly, how much Christmas feelings is there when its 29 degrees sunny outside. Not complaining…..just saying you know!?Now we got to drive and find a birthday present for Nick. For his b day tomorrow we are going paddle boarding. Love paddle boarding.
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Choosing alternative medicine from BioCeuticals
Not a bad office space!
If you want to impress on Ambrose, get him a view and a telescope. Done and done!
Hello from our bed. Where I have been ALL day!
Yep, still sick so have been drinking hot tea, watching series, and sleeping. The only time I took myself out of bed today was to drive and get some medicine. Ended up talking to a very knowledgeable pharmacist. He had the exact same interest as me in regards to using more natural ingredients instead of just chemicals. The only difference was that this guy actually knew what he was talking about. I asked him questions for 45 minutes. I wanted something to increase my energy and I have heard Vitamin B is great for that. Just did not know what brand to go for. He went behind the counter and got me something from BioCeuticals. He explained to me that their products are activated, this means that the body don’t have to “work” as hard to well “activate” the vitamin. Also this brand only makes high potency stuff and use natural ingredient such as Turmeric and other great things. If you want to read more about what they have you can check out their website HERE.
Well as you can read not much exciting stuff today. Last night on the other hand we had the Ball for my Volunteering in the city. It was in a beautiful building on the 42nd floor, so pretty great view.
I got to meet the board of directors, some of the little sisters, and a lot of our donor’s or in other way, great contributors to our work at Life Changing Experiences Foundation. If you are interested to learn more how you can get involved visit out beautiful website HERE.Now I am going to finish my coffee that I made at 7pm, and go spend time with Ambrose whom I have missed very much today. Isn’t the most boring thing to be sick and stuck in bed to rest for a whole day?
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Shopping in Sydney
Gooooodddd moooorrrniiing.I woke up not feeling great. My trough hurts and whenever I swallow its this pain in my ears. After driving Ambrose to the train I went straight back to bed with a hot tea. I haven’t been able to sleep but I have forced myself to stay in bed for a couple of hours to rest. Modern Family have been keeping me company.
The last couple of days I have actually been shopping a bit. As much as I dislike shopping I must say, Sydney has amazing shopping. My favorite type of clothe to shop for is, and has always been dresses. I found a couple that I liked. What do you guys think? Any of them that you think I should get. The white sparkly one is beautiful. I love white and I love bling so I think that one I have to buy. The powder-pink dress (looks white but it’s actually pink) I found in David Jones and I fell in love. The fabric, the cut, the thin straw-strap. Exactly right in every way!
And then we have the first one. The long super sparkling dress. I did not even look at it, the sales girl brought it to my dressing-room saying this would be perfect on me. I think its a bit too much and not something I usually wear. So I don’t know about that one.Now I have to jump into the shower and try to get myself together. I am driving down to the office in Surry Hills. We have our big Ball event tonight for Life Changing Experiences Foundation. I am going to drive in earlier to help out. After I am meeting Ambrose at the even at 6pm.
I have been drinking lots of tea, water and some herbs to try to feel better. Hopefully these resting hours in bed with Modern Family did the trick.
We were going to spend the night at Marney’s after the event, but I think the its best to get back to the house tonight. I want to be able to rest as much as possible so I am healthy for our Byron Bay trip next week.
You guys take care and have a nice day đŸ™‚
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Health exam for our Partner Visa and Margarita cocktails
Pretending to be a Dr
Spicy Margaritas are the best
The restaurant closed so the staff had to get us out true the staff-elevator. Kali found a security vest and thought it was a great idea to steal it.
A post from my last Thursday. It was different to say the least. I started with getting myself all the way to Parramatta. That´s like a 2 h train but I did not care at all. I had my Visa health examination there and I was ridiculously excited. This means one step closer to receiving our Partner or De Facto Visa!
My health exam was done in 3 steps. 1. X-rays, 2. physical check and 3. HIV-test. It takes around two hours and afterwards I met up with Ambrose ( he works in Parramatta) for lunch. We wanted to celebrate that we soon are “a normal/legal couple”. Ahh cant wait!
When he had to go back to work I went on a walk around the park and then did some dress shopping at Myer and David Jones. I do not like shopping and was exhausted after all the test and running around in a huge shopping mall.
Called my friend and we decided to meet up in Bondi Junction for dinner and maybe one drink. That plan went to hell very quickly. Many cocktails later, we were recommended by one of the waitresses to go dancing at this underground Latino club. I don’t even go to normal clubs these days, yet alone an underground club. That was many many years ago I did something that adventurous hahahaBut we had so much fun. Makes me laugh just thinking about it actually. We dances all night together with the Latinos. Something about their music that makes you want to move đŸ™‚
Now I need to get back to work, or volunteer work. Today I am in the office discussing next Thursdays Ball. Super excited for this event!
Ciao for now. Have a great day.
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Puppy sitting and family weekend by the lake
I think I seriously have to learn how to blog on my phone. I feel totally behind with the “updates”. Anyway, here are some from this weekend. Or at least from Saturday and today, Sunday. Friday was a whole other story. Had 7 cocktails at a Mexican bar with my friend Kali, followed by dancing at an underground Latino club. We take that maybe tomorrow.
So Saturday we had plans to stay over at Leonard and Nick’s house and baby sit their new puppy Leggs. If you think he looks like a giant instead of a puppy it’s because he is a Grate Dane and is enormous already. We all plan to ride him like a horse when he is fully grown. Just kidding….
Afternoon walks. He was way more into Ambrose then me. hahaha
Leggs loves the water so we took him down to the lake to splash around some water.
The plan was to wake up early and rent two paddle boards on Sunday morning before meeting everyone for breakfast by the lake.
Because the kitchen is still under construction we had homemade BBQ burgers in the garden. For starters dips with crackers and veggies. We curled up on the couch with the puppy and watched the entire season one of FARGO.
Ambrose sister Anastasia and Xavier <3
As you can see we did not get to paddle-boarding on the lake. Instead it was breakfast by the lake with the whole family. 
After breakfast we took Xavier to play at the children’s playground. ( think the other parents at the playground thought we looked suspicious when walking in with ten grownups with only one child. Haha ) Back at the house for some video-gaming and to plan Christmas. We each picked a name from a hat. Decided to do secret Santa instead of one present to each person. I got Nick and I am happy with that. He should be easy to pick a gift for.
We finished our Sunday with a family dinner out at the terrace. Â 
My Australian family <3
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Time for my health exams
I’ve never been this excited for a doing a health exam! Today I have an appointment at 11:30. after the exam is done, I am just waiting for my police clearance rapports from Sweden, Spain and Australia, and that’s it! After that we have our Partner Visa !!! We have been waiting almost 2 years for this so you can imagine why I am this glad.
Started this morning with some toast and tea. I am looking thru my laptop for pictures to delete. It is time-consuming but needs to be done once in a while. I also saw these pretty pictures that we were tagged in from Ashalee and Stefano’s wedding. So because I forgot to take pictures of my yummy toasts, this will have to do.
After the test ( takes about 3 hours ) I have a lunch date with Ambrose. And I think we will stay in the city tonight. The groomsmen for Bart’s wedding are having their suits tailored this afternoon and then they have a dinner planned. So might as well stay the night. Now I am getting myself ready for X-rays and HIV-test. As you do…..
Oh life as a gypsy girl. xx
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How to increase your productivity and performance – step by step
Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs – Successful people to model
Today, as I was on the train back from my volunteer work, I came across a bunch of articles on Productivity & Performance. I find everything on how to improve yourself and how to be the best version of yourself very interesting.
If we are not evolving, progressing, learning, then whats the point?
Productivity is simply : get more done successfully with less effort. It was a whole lot of reading therefore I have just taken out some of the main points from what I’ve learned:– Have a set time-frame and a clear plan. This will increase your chances to actually reach your goal.
–Â Your goal must be specific and clear. And you must know WHY you want this goal to manifest. When you know why you want something, that will amplify your motivation and assist you to take necessary actions.
– Look over your daily habits. What are those small Rituals you have everyday? Are they benefiting you or are they driving you away from your goal? An example could be to set out a specific time for checking social media. This way you wont unconsciously waste your time and will instead gain more time to complete actions towards your goal. Another example is to put the clothes you are going to wear the night before. This “habit” or “ritual” will overtime save you hours in the mornings. Have you ever wondered why many successful people tend to wear the same outfit over and over? Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Obama, Steve Jobs. Read more about this HERE.
Next is a quick and relatively easy way to productivity and performance is often spoken of by Tony Robbins….
– Modeling. Robbins is over and over recommending people who want to get the most out of life to Model” other, already successful people. Find one or a couple of people you admire. Famous or not and study their behavior. How do they speak, how is their physiology. Do they spend alot of time choosing what outfit to wear in the morning? Will they snooze or wake up early to get more time to get to where they want. Are they willing to study and try to learn from people who know more then them or not? Do they spend a couple of hours a day scrolling true their phone, watching what others are up to?
– The last point I want to make is one from tony robbins.com. It is something he calls “chunking” and I will definitely start using this method in my life. Simplified chunking is: taking everything we have on our ” To Do Lists” and divide them into chunks, depending on where they belong. For example one for relationships, another for work/career and the third for health.
According to Tony once you have chunked these together it is easier to see what result you want.
I especially got motivated to start with Tony´s chunking after reading this ;“When you start thinking of your to-do’s as clusters of desired outcomes, you’ll keep stress at bay and learn to focus on your greater goals, rather than getting overwhelmed of the minute details. Why? Because you will start to feel inspired, rather than forced to follow through. And when you feel so inspired by a purpose, you’ll come up with a more effective action plan to get there.”
Have a lovely day.xx
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Last steps in our Partner Visa Process and changes to morning rituals
Hello hello, Thought I come in quickly to say hi. I have been sitting most of today with the requests from our immi contact person Maja. Our Partner Visa is being finalized, just need to send in the last steps in this whole process. So I have filled in all the documents, sent them in (requested) and paid for police clearance check from the Australian, Sweden and Spanish Police authorities. Next, I have filled in my medical details, printed and scanned everything they asked me for (copy of passport etc ) and booked myself in for a full Medical Examination. Next Thursday 11:30 AM and I have never been more excited to do a health check and do blood test as I am now! If they let me I would go in an get it over with in the middle of the night.
It felt pretty great checking “NO” in all the boxes. Of course because being in perfect health is the ultimate blessing. But honestly, all I could thing was I don’t want to deal with all the additional documents and checks that would be required if I would for example have diabetes!On a whole different subject… I have mentioned before that I have a set of Rituals (you can read more about them HERE). For instant, one of them are : To get up early in the morning, before 6 am. Anyway, what I wanted to explain was that it is not so much WHEN you wake up, but more how you effectively USE that extra time you get by waking up earlier.
I’ve changed my morning rituals a bit, and because of some small changes, I now feel that I have managed to be done with alot of my “tasks” sooner then before.
For example, 1. don’t talk on the phone at all in the mornings, I don’t even open my email or anything. 2. I do my reading/studying of NLP with a cup of coffee at a cafe as soon as I drop Ambrose off at the train station. 3. After studying, I go straight to the gym and have breakfast after. By changing the order of my Rituals, I am done with all this before 10 am which is great. Then I am free to do all the things on my ” To Do List”, such as dealing with Visa stuff etc.