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Picnic lunch with colleagues
Here is basically what I have been doing for the last couple of weeks. Well not sitting in the grass having a picnic with my colleagues. But hanging out with these people – a lot. Basically worked, that’s what I am trying to say that I have been doing lately haha. This is me Elen, Peta, Kylie, Pearl and Tash. Someone came up with the brilliant idea to have a picnic during our lunch break.
Work would be one of the many reasons I have not had time to restart my online journal – yes, that is what I like to call this. Every time I post here it feels like a “Dear diary” moment for me. A bit intimidation but fun at the same time.This journal is actually a win-win situation for me. I get to stay more connected with my family and friends that I dont get to see or talk to on a daily basis anymore. AND, I dont have to log into our De-facto VISA site and log everything Ambrose and I do. I just send our agent this link – Absolutely fantastic!
One other thing has appeared from journaling month after month – it teaches you to be transparent and sort of forces you out of your comfort zone. But more of that later. Now its time for a dessert and time with Ambrose.Side note: Ambrose was at a leadership course through he work today and told me that one of his “assignments” is to undertake one new thing for 30 days – he chose meditation.
So excited – we are going to be meddi-buddies, like to nerds. haha.
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Fresh Start
Monday morning. A fresh new start. A fresh new site. Just writing it feels like drinking a tall glass of ice water.
I am not going to take away the alluring simplicity of this new beginning by babbling on and on just to fill with content.
Just wanted to say Welcome. And I hope you enjoy.
Good morning Sydney, Good night Europe.
Love,
N
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old friend from Bondi visiting
Got an old friend from the Bondi times to come visit me today up the coast. Yesterday I messaged her after many months asking how she was. ( one of my new “things” are that I want to be better at contacting friends) I did not think anything more of it but after my massage ( another of the “things” I want to add into my life) we had suddenly decided to have a day together. This morning I sleep in, walked down to Little Piggy’s” for a coffee and my book until Behnaz arrived around 10:30. I think we sat and talked for over 2 hours. One side of my face is completely sunburned – we should have swapped sides halfway thorough breakfast.
After breakfast we drove to Ettalong Beach, went for a walk and finished of with a watermelon and mint frozen Popsicle ice-creams. That was a necessity in the heath. Might have mentioned it before – I love the Australian winter!
After ice crams we headed to the next beach – Pearl Beach. Its is only a 15 min drive and the drive is pretty beautiful so loved every minute of it. We put on old Persian songs and had a singalongs during our drive.
Nice day with old friends – must do this more often.Back at the house I made myself a late lunch. Garlic prawns and mushrooms at the terrace to watch the last of the sun. Then I made a fire, a cup of tea, and watched an episode of Australian Masterchef. I also put an oil hair-mask in.
This product smells so weird, and Ambros really hates it so I am taking the time while he is away to use this stinky hair product. hahaNow I have folded all the washed clothes, vacuumed and I am going to do a short meditation and then watch some trash TV in my bed. I miss Ambrose a lot and hope he decides to come home earlier. I seriously cannot sleep when he is not lying next to me. Hope that does not happen tonight as well because I don’t want to have to sleep in like this morning!
Cant wait for my morning coffee in the winter sun tomorrow.
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Parents to be – baby shower for Bart Junior
Parents to be <3
This kind of giant cheese plates reminds me so much of my mum. She always made us these amazing plasters with everything on. Nobody makes food like my mum. Nobody. Finger licking good!
Mike, Kelly, the hot mother to be – Kali and Ambrose and ISunday and it was time for the second ( or is it the third?) baby shower of 2018. Our friends Bart and Kali are having their first baby boy which is so damn exciting!
Bart and Kali had all friends and family over at Bart’s parents house. Fun to see everyone, we don’t get to see our friends that often anymore since we have been living up the coast.Good vibe, good friends, good food so overall a very nice Sunday. Although it was kind of cold, the sun was out so we could all be in the garden. I was teased for looking like “Jenny from the Block” and looking like I was a “senorita” from Spain. Think it was the massive gold earnings and my off shoulder top that did the “Jenny” look haha.
Ambrose and i were out all morning before the baby shower. We were kind of stressed getting ready so as I put on my body lotion I did not realize how much shimmer was in the product. So here I am showing up to Bart Juniors Baby shower looking like I am about to disco! Fail.
Thank God the glitter does not show in the picture.
Bart Junior is coming into our lives in 7 weeks. Cant wait!
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Amazing morning, amazing life
This is how I started my day this morning. Amazing morning means amazing life. At least that is the case for me. I absolutely adore mornings. If I decide, a perfect morning include these details; stillness, meditation, no stress, no sounds but natural sounds ( like birds, wind, waves etc). Another must for an amazing morning is breakfast. And it has to be enjoyed slowly for a long period of time. Mornings with rush are some of the worst things I know.
Hotel buffet breakfast is another thing that just puts a smile on my face. My goal is to have the opportunity to stay at hotels with Ambrose and our future family just for the sake of it. Hotels and hotel breakfast…..amazing life.Last night I did not get much sleep. Ambrose had a work party and came to the house at 2am. I wish I was one of those cool girlfriends that go to bed, but no. I just can’t sleep until he is home. I might snooze off a bit, but no deep sleep Weird..
So today I had just that, an absolutely amazing morning. Drove down to my favorite cafe and had my favorite breakfast – coconut latte with cinnamon and a “Mademoiselle”. This is heaven, if you guys are in Sydney come to Tascott and to This Little Piggy.
Even though it is winter I was able to sit for over an hour in the sun with my breakfast and a book. Amazing!
After a while I saw Ambrose coming ( my phone had no batteries so did not get his text). We sat in the sun, reading deep and meaningful life question from my book Think and grow rich. And we just laughed and laughed answering these important questions. I don’t know why we laughed, but we had a good time.
This is the rest of my day. The whole theme of today could be summed up in ” stillness”. After a couple of hours at the cafe Ambrose went back to bed. He had a big night and could not keep up with my out and about lifestyle today.haha
I went to the beach and listed to a podcast with Dr Joe Dispenza , just for 45 minutes or so. More than that makes me feel restless, like I am wasting my life just lying around on a beach. haha. Just the way I am!Now it is 10 pm and time for me to do my meditation and go to sleep. Hope all of you also had an amazing morning like I did!
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A lifetime of friendship
I just found an old group chat on my phone with my friends back in Sweden. Last time we used this friendship group chat was back in 2017 or something so I did not have much hope. But it worked, I got connection hahaha. Well at least with 2 of them – Suzie and Peppi. So happy right now!
We were sending pictures from last year this time when we all (well almost all of us)flew to south of Sweden to visit Ã…sa who lives there.I have to say, my friends are really shit at planning anything together, especially trips. So this was a big deal! It took my friends 7 years (!!!) to come visit me when I lived in Barcelona. Crazy.
Anyway, only a few sentences were exchanged, but that was enough. My whole chest got warm of happiness. Crazy how that you don’t realize how much you miss and value your friends and this lifetime of friendship, and then 2 sentences later, it all just flushes over you. Kind of overwhelming almost.
And then I texted my cousins in Sweden, my sisters in Barcelona and my mum…. and now I am like screaming at poor Ambrose that I am all alone in this stupid far away country and that we need to fly back to Europe ASAP so I get to enjoy this lifetime of friendship I built !
I miss you all terribly. Ambrose always tells me I am so dramatic and I can see now why he thinks that. 🙂Lets go back to that trip with some pictures.
I cannot even begin to explain how much we have laughed over this ugly picture! Suzy who looks like she lost her legs, Michaela who looks exactly (not a compliment btw) like Michael Jackson here. Myself who clearly failed in jumping all together. ONLY Åsa looks okay here.So bad!
Carro and her 2 beautiful kids. So lucky we matched visiting Stockholm at the same dates. That almost never happens! Carro lives in The Canary Islands.
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interior design magazine
It’s already Tuesday and except working nothing much has been going on over here. That why I think we should go back to the weekend instead. A weekend with open house inspections, forest walking, sleeping in and flipping trough a magazine while having a coffee in the sun. Ahh love the last one the most. Favorite activity, well if you can call sipping coffee an activity. I say yes we can!
I especially like it when it is cold outside and you get a spot right by the window and the sun trough the window warms your body. So you see, this is a hobby of mine hahaThe magazines I am interested nowadays are mostly interior design magazines. All I want to spend my money on are things like a lemon tree, new paint and solar panels for the roof. Just the thought of shopping clothes makes me tired.
At one of the cafe´s we visited there was an interior design magazine that featured 101 tips on how renovation for the home. Super interesting and valuable now that we are buying a house. By the was, what an exciting sentence that is – we are buying a house!
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Baby shower – its a girl
our friends Hannah and Ari are having a baby girl very soon. And of course this was celebrated with a pink feast – a baby shower! I have been to a couple of baby showers now, and I love how well Hannah, Ari and their families pulled it off. There was soo much food – which is always good, balloons and beautiful decorations everywhere. And I really like the present table at a baby shower- always tasteful and well though of wrapping.
I was almost not going to make it. Living up the coast is really not ideal when you want to socialize. I could drive, but then Ambrose would be stuck without a car. The other option was the ferry to Palm beach, a bus to I dont even know where and then a cab to the baby shower. Puh… no thank you.
Luckily my pretty little friend Nikki picked me up and I did not have to miss the baby shower.
What was extra fun for me was that there was a lot of Persians at the shower. Ari is Persian and I got to meet his mother, sisters, aunties and cousins – like always, Persians come in a pack haha.I spoke Farsi ( persian language ) which felt a bit strange. Language tend to wear off a bit when you dont get to practice.
I got to get some children and practice my Farsi on them. I know you cant force it but I will definitely try my best to get bilingual children. English is given from Ambrose, Swedish is given from me, and because my sisters live in Barcelona, we have Spanish. I really have nothing to worry about. My mom and my entire extended family will speak Farsi with our kids. No way they wont get to be bilingual!They will thank me one day…
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