Knock knock...

GUESS WHO?!?!

I hope I havent lost the few readers I had lol... BUT in all fairness.. I have been so amazingly busy these last months...

After the holidays in July/August it was straight on with the last few weeks at work and BOOM straight into school... and let me tell you... the transformation from a fulltime job to a student is not as easy as it sounds...

However, im on it now.. doin the whole studying bit :) Havent found a part time job yet but I will ...

The gym has been put to the side a bit but I am back on it now. The routine is on its way back :)...
Thought I'd write a small 'welcome back to ME' note ..as an introduction.. dont wanna go all out today lol...

But.. IM BACK :D <3

Love

<3

Last couple of days...

Have gone past pretty quick. Been busy busy busy. Trying to catch up with my exercise regime and also make the most of my last week at work...

I'm feeling a bit deflated right now as I had some news yesterday that just put a big bump in the road for me. However, this too shall pass. There are always solutions and when things seem a bit hard it's important to remember all the other blessing you have at hand. But I'm still pissed off though. lol...

Anywho.... School next week. Wow.

I'm going to my happy place. A lot going on. Taking it all in.

So. Much. To. Write.

Heeeeey! Yes Im back. I think... lol.. if ANYONE has missed my blog I'm officially back..

Well, I have had an AMAZING summer, with amazing holidays and amazing memories :)

This is gonna be a short one because I just had to come back quickly and show my blog some love, but yea where was I. Amazing. lol

Right now though, it's back to reality time. A lot of changes happening and I'm welcoming it all.
Today is my LAST monday at work. As of Next week I will officially be a student WHOOP WHOOP! How crazy is that?... I'll let you know once I've started ha!

Not only that - in 35! Yes in THIRTY-FIVE days omg... DAYS.. I'm running the Half Marathon in Greenwich. Because of the Holiday and the muscle injury I had, there has been a severe backlog on the schedule. However Im gonna try and get back on track.. kinda at least.
So DAMN NERVOUS!... Oh well.. as long as I finish. Before S.. MUHAHAHA

What else what else... well... Im just trying to do me right now. So far this year has exceeded my expectations, I have a few more improvements to do and hopefully I will end this year on a high.

I feel ready for all the challenges that are left and all the new ones coming up.

That's it for today folks. But Im back now...

Peace love and Banoffe pie!

The day has COME!

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!! :D

Tomorrow we're officially off!

Me and my girl Noumi are going here!

To do LOADS of THIS!

Yes, not much to write I am just really really really looking forward to a nice little girly holiday <3
Need some relaxation , sunshine and sand between my toes...

<3 <3 <3

p.s S.B I'm gonna miss you a lot xx

Noumia Thursday :)

Hi blog,

Today Is a good day..  my bestest Noumi is coming to visit me from Sweden.. we have the whole weekend together before we fly off on Tuesday... I'm working today and Monday which is alright, just means she'll have loads of time to go shopping ! lol..

I am also looking forward to my 2 fave classes of the week. Body Combat & Nike training. I hope I wont feel any pain in my knee, fingers crossed. I'm gonna be extra careful with it but still work hard.

I've been thinking alot lately ( not going into a deep one) about how easy it is to take every day things for granted. So I am making sure to notice all the blessings surrounding me. Every person, every smile, every action... it all counts.  :)

Bring on this evening! Can't wait to see you Noumi! :D <3

Monday Madnesssssss ;)

Main event from yesterday was that I went to the physio to get an assesment and initial treatment done.

As suspected it was the ITB muscle that is causing the pain. Not my knee yay! :) Which is a relief.
My main objective from now on will be to focus on other exercises than running, take a rest from running, do the exercises to become stronger in my gluteus medius which is also a cause to the strain.

..I will now have to become VERY familiar with ITB stretches such as these..

And Gluteus Medius Strength exercises such as these..

Amongst others....

I will also have to learn how to use 1 of these...

So I can do something like that.... :D

Also got a Bio Freeze gel, in case of instant pain

After that I went straight to Sainsburys, and done a HUGE shopping .... It had to be done :)
Big thank you to S.B who is so helpful! <3 <3

Enough of this injury talk now. I am working at getting it stronger but in the meantime there's nothing stopping me from doing other exercises.

So tonight I have Nike Training Club on the Agenda !!

LET'S DO THIS!!!

Update - New Week, New Beginning

Hi friends,

So, I'm back. I took some time off training to make time for other things that needed my attention more. But I'm back now...

Fitness wise I haven't done anything since Wednesday - feels like ages.
Food wise - could have been better, a few sneaky treats here n there...

Today however I am going to see the physio therapist which should be good, find out what's niggling my knee. I refuse to be injured...

That's it for now.

More to come tomorrow :)

x

"You can win tomorrow, if you know WHY you lost today.”

Finaste Mona...Hbiba..

Sa mycket att skriva... sa mycket Mona..

Jag kommer sakna dig, sakna vara samtal, sakna vara sjukt intressanta diskussioner & aven dom ointressanta for den delen. Jag kommer tanka pa allt vi planerade att gora. & jag kommer aka till Marocko & ha dig i mina tankar f'bladna...

Zwina, efter att du hade skrivit t mig pa myspace, klickade vi direkt. Du hade saaa ratt nar du skrev detta back in 06'..

'inget brev i världen..kort eller långt kan förklara hur ja vet i mitt hjärta att du å ja har ngt speciellt goin on..vår vänskap om gud vill kommer va en sån med vördnad respekt å diskussion. those kinds I like..ja visste att det skulle löna sig att ta kontakt med dig..våra själar har mötts.

kärlek till dig'

Vi hade nat speciellt Mona, det ar fortfarande speciellt & kommer alltid vara det. Vara sjalar mottes & det motet ar inte over. Vi kommer traffas igen inshallah... jag kommer aldrig glomma vara diskussioner.
Tack , du oppnade mina ogon, fick mig att se ett andra perspektiv nar jag manga ganger inte trodde det fanns andra alternativ. Ah, det var mycket du fick mig att inse. Men det.... aah you know :)....

Kommer du ihag hur mkt vi skrattade forsta gangen vi traffades?.. det va som en film... alla konversationer online fran sthlm, telefon fran utomlands for att sen hookas upp i Brixton? lol... you gotta love it..
Du kommer alltid ha en speciell plats i mitt hjarta... & jag sag upp till dig som en storasyster..

Jag skickade en dikt till dig, precis i borjan da vi hade lart kanna varann... efter ett par langa djupa samtal tyckte jag den passade dig..
I still do.

A hand reaches out through the despair

No questions asked - No judgments made
From the depths, her light clears the darkness
Her soft smile brings with it a warmth
A gentle, knowing look - and hope rises...

Jag ar glad att du foljde ditt hjarta sa mkt som du gjorde... <3

Mona bnt bladi, khti... allah y rahmek...

Til' we meet again. xxxx

Physio?!

Good morning my beautiful blog...

Yesterday was a good day...

Exercise wise I did a 4k run - pain in knee still there. Finished off with Nike Training CLub. No pain in knee during those exercises.

This morning however, running to the bus I felt a sharp pain in my knee and it was quite painful. I was worried I wouldnt be able to do the boxercise class but it went well. I now know it's only related to when running. Apparently it's something called the ITB syndrome one of the 5 ' big ones' for more infor press here. It might be it, that's exactly how I feel.

Pain is exactly on the same spot too...

I booked an appt with a physio therapist for Monday afternoon just to be on the safe side. If it is an injury I wanna do as much as possible to keep the 'damage' limited.
Nothing major, but better safe than sorry... :D and either way I'll be getting a good massage! :)

I'm looking forward to trying out something different tonight. I'll be doing a British Military Fitness session. First time is free, so it's a trial this time. Should be interesting, I'm always up for a fitness challenge :)

Just hope I won't feel annything in my knee...!

Time for lunch soon.. I'm soooo hungry!

Catch you later amigos xx

Exercise..

Hiyaaa :)

So - Yesterday I did a small run with S.B near our house, my knee hurt a bit so I started off with a power walk.. felt better when we finished the lap so we decided to do a proper one jogging easily... was fine.

Today I'll be putting in some more effort. Doing a 4k run and then 1h Nike Training Club. kinda tough, just hope my knee won't hurt today.

My eating has been on a 7-8/10. Could be better. Will be better... The sunshine is playing mind games on me, putting me into relax mode. But I'm on it :)

Ciao friends! xxx

Love...

If my heart had pictures....

Beautifully true.. <3...

New week!

But before that, here's my weekend....

Friday started at the gym, I went there intending to do a Spin class only seeing as I done 3 classes on the Thursday. But when I was there I figured I might aswell do a Body Pump aswell...

So I did, and it was great. Hard but very gooood... after that I was on my way home but Amal & Aurore was nearby so I stopped by and said hi :)

HIII :D

After that I strolled on home, planning how I'd spend the beautiful weekend.. was sooo tired!

Saturday

Morning comes, I wake up quite early, wake S.B up too. The sun is blazing hot and its only 9.30!!

It was a hot run in the sun....

 

After the run we got ready and drove up to Bluewater Shopping centre :)

We spend allllllll day in JOHN LEWIS - big sale on -! Yes.. the whole sunny day lol! However it was worth it and we grabbed some nice bits :D :D

After that we went home, put on the barbeque and enjoyed a nice grilled meal by the masterchef himself :)

So focused... :)

Had to make sure everything was in order lol..

Waiting for the meat :) mmmm yummy...

Sunday

Woke up quite early again, did some arrends in the morning.. then home to enjoy the sunshine, footie and food. I spent most of the day in the kitchen but hey lol.. I enjoyed it.

In the afternoon I went over to Danni's and had a nice chilled out evening there...

Pretty much it :)

Ready for a new week now...

Monday today! Sun is shining, Brazil is playing Chile and according to my 'running schedule' I only have to do an easy 3.2 k run today.. aaah good times!

Hope everyone has a great week... <3 Sending out loads of love to my friends.. to those nearby and those far away.. 

                                 

Love you <3

Smiles for Friday... :)

Good Moorning Friends, It's 10 am, Its friday and I am in an exceptionially Fabulous mood - WHY? Because It's Friday.... And not just ANY Friday... I feel like I have so much to write, so if you don't feel like reading. Stop, now... 

  

You didn't stop! LOL..! Wohoo... now, where was I... oh yea! Fridaaay! ... hahaha...


Let me start - In no particular order.


My week in exercise :
Tuesday - 5-6k run, 200 situps , 30 pushups. Mr Dws Joined me. We did great.
Wednesday - Bodypump Class + 5k run.
Thursday - 5k run in the morning. Bodycombat + Nike Training Club in evening.
Friday - Spin
Sat - 6.4k run
Sunday - REST!! :)

That's how it looks so far, will update again on Monday of course.


Now what else is happening, we have FOOTBALL! Brazil is playing Portugal today, Im not worried though. Brazil WILL go through! VIVA BRAZIIIIL!! :)

And my dear Swedes, It's MIDSUMMERS EVE! Were I only in Sweden now I'd be preparing for a weekend of... hmm,... drinking? lol.. But IM NOT! So, I will enjoy a few typical Swedish Midsummer dishes and maybe raise a Midsummers pole in my garden? LOL..!

Sma grodorna, sma grodorna...haha

Whats more summery than this... I miss <3

Now, back to England - BIG GAME COMING UP! On Sunday it's so on. Germany will be a tough cookie.. but we'll see.... FINGERS CROSSED! :D :D

I have quite a few things planned this weekend.

Will tell you all about it on Monday , OH and... I'm doing something today. Can't say what cause I dont want to JINX it. But If I could get some appy thoughts and Good luck wishes sent my way I'd be very happy LOL..! Thanks in advance! :)

Excuse the long blog but I did say I had a lot to write about lol...

Last but certainly not never ever last, I need to highlight the fact that it has been a year since Michael Jackson passed away.

RIP Michael - We will love you forever... <3

                     

“You can always dream, and your dreams will come true, but you have to make them come true.”

Michael Jackson

On That Note Amigos. MWAH!

Wonderful Wednesday!! :)

I MEAN - NEED I SAY MORE!?

I looooove me the sun, love love loooove it! And now I see that it's lasting the whole weekend. It's lasting for the whole beautiful midsummers weekend! :) Cant wait to indulge in it!

England is playing today and I've been invited by Dell Perot to come watch it on their floor, and also by some others to join them at the pub. However, seeing as I have my duties at reception it's IMPOSSIBLE! So I will enjoy it online. My live update from google lol...

It will however sting badly on Friday when Brazil are playing Portugal cause I re-he-he-heeaalllyy wanted to see it!! Oh well.. at least I'll have the Chile-Spain game in the evening! BRING IT BRAZIIL!

Yesterday after work was a loong hot journey home. It was so hot in the evening, but im not complaining :) Got home , got changed and went for a long run with the mister. Did 2 laps around our area.. took me about 45 min. Should have covered at least 6k. Which I was supposed to.

Tonight I'll be doing bodypump and a 5k run....... :)

Oh yea. I was 30 min late this morning! DAMN YOU TUBE!!! Not youtube. Just damn YOU...the tube.. lol! Although technically it wasn't the tubes fault. More the buses near me. But oh well.. Im not one for excuses... lol MWAH!

Thankful Tuesday!! :)

1. The weather is AMAZING! :)
2. I did something today that I've put off for a while , feels goood that I done it!
3. THE SUN IS SHIINIING :D :D

Ok, helloo my blogette!

First off. I have a confession. I never made my 5k run yesterday. The reason was the fact that I had to prepare lunches for the week. I WOULD have done it on Sunday but I was out n about with my friend so it got delayed.

I started cooking and it took a bit longer than expected. But this is what was cooked :

• Spaghetti Bolognese
• Chicken Kiev
• Curly Fries
• Greek Salad
• Mango Chutney Chicken
• Tasty rice a la Me :D

After my very productive evening and after the lunches were packed, we put on a dvd.. ONG BAK - The Beginning.

I LOVED IT! I of course went martial art crazy and started showing S.B how incredibly brilliant my karate, tae bo and muay thai is!

After attacking him and making him surrender - of course I won - I decided to call it a night and went to the bed.

No exercise done yesterday but this evening a minimum 4k run is on the agenda! :)

Arrividerci friends!! :D

p.s IM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THE BRAZIL - PORTUGAL GAME!! CHILE- SPAIN too! lol xxx

Mini Update!

Weekend was great!

In no particular order....

Got loads and loads of rest, finished my book :(, hung out with Eunice, saw a boxing fight live vip tickets. Was great.

Cooked some yummy pancakes, rented dvd's, almost crashed,  had some wine + indian take away, chilled out with the Mr and done some foodshopping.

Yea that's about it. New week, new motivation , new spirit! :D

Today exercise wise I have a 5k run and some exercises on the agenda. Plus I need to cook lunches for at least 3 days. Exciting Monday! lol

Peace , Love & Brownies with ice cream mmmm!

Book Club!

Me & 2 dear friends of mine have decided to start a book club.

Ok, let me rephrase that cause they will read this and I don't LIE on my blog. In fact. I don't lie ever. :D

Anywho, I was invited to join, and as the BOOK LOVER I am , who am I to say no? I am looooving the idea, and can't wait for our first book date. However I think we're kinda the updated version of bookclubs so after the book discussion we'll watch the movie too!

WHY? Because we can YAY!

Bring on the book nights...

This is us, kinda. Replace the tea cups for wine glasses, and the flowers for some treats and we're good to go! Marvellous :D Our first books will be Twilight! (I'm on the 4th, but they just finished the 1st. I know. Sooooo slooow) lol xx

EXCITED!

In September I will commence my student life.

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Great week so far!

Monday came quicker than expected ...

I didnt have a chance to rest up properly after the baby buzz Zoe left us with, so Monday had to be a rest /catch up with chores day, and make lunch for the rest of the week, but it only lasted for yesterday and today. I made a huuuge tuna salad, with tricolore pasta... yummy!

Exercise so far this week has been :

Tuesday : 5k run + 1h Nike training club

Today : 1h Boxercise in the morning , 6k run evening plus abs.

Still feeling motivated. I just gotta keep on my tippytoes with regards to food since my dear family brought me LOADS of sweety treats from Sveeduuun!

But hey, the treats will always be there... ;)

MWAH!

Zoe! :D

Sooo On Friday my AMAZING god daughter came to visit me along with Mom and her Nana... Aaaw I was so excited to have them over!
We had a great weekend, so busy, filled with shopping, walking, eating, treating, laughing, adventuring plus some more!
We filled in as much as we could during those 3 days and we had a great time!

I miss you already Zoe, my little angel.... <3

xXxXxxxxXxxxxXxxxXxxxXxxXxxxx

SUPER MOTIVATED!

I am really feeling the effect of what focusing on getting and staying fit does to the body. I feel good, happpy and very energetic.
Dont' get me wrong I'd love lay ins every day but hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

This time I have committed and I'm pulling through. This time it's all about what I'm doing NOW - not later.
It's all in my hands...

Feel. Great!

S.B

Because I know you sneek a peek at my blog now and then..... lol xx

MY SURPRISE!!

I'm on my 3rd blog this morning I know. But this one deserves it's own!
After S.B picked me up from the aiport on Sunday, we drove - an incredibly long diverted way  due to tunnel closures - home and guess what was waiting for me outside our house!?!? With a couple of balloons attached to it?!!?

GUESS!
Ok, here it is... drumroles pleeease :)

My. Very. Own. First. Car! :D :D

So so so so so sooooo happy! I am so lucky and grateful to have a sweet man like my S.B!

You're the bestest!

S.B..... xx

Thank you baby. It means a lot.

YAY! :D

Gym Update!

Being off for a whole week means I have a WHOLE week of catching up to do...

So I had a week off, and it included some partying, some alcohol and some treats.

I didn't go mad but I did feel bloated at times...... but I'm back on it now.

Exercise so far:

Monday -Circuit training 1.5 h

Tuesday - Fast pace run 30 min, plus sit-ups, pressups

Wednesday - Boxercise 1h morning ( will do evening run too)

I can't belive me & S.B are doing our HALF-MARATHON in September. Time Flies!!! Marathon run preparations tarts NEXT week. Then I'm doin it full on until I go away. BRING IIIT!!!

Oh yea, which reminds me. We have to set up our sponsor page asap!!!!

Bye for now my darlings! MWAH!

It's been too long!

Hey hey hey heeeey!

Once again my sweet sweet blog it's been too long.

Been off for a whole fantastic week and I enjoyed every second of it.
Ehm let's see if I can remember it all...

So last day I wrote something was LAST Friday, great day at work and finished it off with a Spin class at the gym.
Saturday - Met up with Daniella, Elena, Estella, Loouise & Rachel. We went to see SATC2 then went onw ith some drinks and dance. Had so much fun! Missed that! :)

Sunday - Sooo hungover, wow. But hey, doesnt happen to often so I'm allowed slack days lol... Anywho, got up quite early got dressed and then off to a Stylish Day Party for food, drinks, comedy and partying. That started at 6 in the afternoon. We stayed there til 9 then went to my workplace got changed and on to Soul'd Out. Such a good night, danced loads and my feet payed for it the day after lol..

Monday- Literally did nothing but sleep and eat all day.... payed for my party weekend... fun fun fun! S.B had to cope with a dizzy me.

Tuesday - Chilled all day and in evening out for Trey Songz concert with Hanna! GREAT NIGHT!

Wednesday - SWEDEN!
Did all sorts of fun stuff when I was there, hung out with my girls, went out partying,  had a barbeque, chilled in the city, cafs and ate loads of yumminess!
Got to spend some time with my Zoe aswell... Loved it!

Pics will come up soon! :)

I''m baaa aaack :D :D

Friday aaah yeeaa! :D

Goood morning dear blogette :)
Let me first say how amazingally, fantastically, superbically happy I am that it's Friday. Not ONLY is it Friday but after today I am off for a whole off 9 - NINE days yes. And im so looking forward to just.. NOT working :)

My day has started nice, I didnt have anything to eat at home this morning so by the time my first morning break came I was famished. More or less. But Marks & Spencer is right nearby so I Indulged in a healthy filling super brekkie..!

Porridge, Banana, Strawberries and Blueberries.. YUM YUM!

I am now starting to feel normal again.

This week has been good eating wise. 9/10 I'd say. Training wise very well, been to the gym 5 times this week (including today) and kept it consistent.
Need to keep this up, having a great momentum now.
Going to Sweden next week and I will be having a superbusy weekend but hopefully I'll fit in a run here & there aswell as some home exercises :)

I have to say I was impressed by myself wed & thursday. I really didnt want to go gym and there was a little voice in my head saying I should just rest and that it wouldn't do any harm. But I fought against it and I feel so much better for beating it and going.
Sometimes those days just creep up on you.

All in all, good week. In fact great week despite momentarily short flashes of tiredness.

SO looking forward to this weekend. Proper girly weekend...
Got SATC2 , barbeque, partying aah so many nice things. Last but not least Sweden on Wednesday!!! I know I'm repeating myself but hey I LOVE MY CITY!!! :D :D

Tonight Im doing a spin and then some abs. Then I am DONE for the week.

Once I come back from Sweden I'm gonna have to start preparing for my half marathon in September...  SO READY!!!
I wish the scenery I was running in was like that.. Oh well...!

Peace & Love Mwah!

One of my favourite...

Quotes... ;)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Sticking through it!

Goooood evening blog! ( Still haven't come up with a name, oh well)

I'ma keep it short and sweet today.

Yesterday was a good day, went to the gym after work and did a Spin and then Body Combat.
When I first went into the class there was a lady covering, a bit older so I thought ' aah I bet she's gonna be bad' but I was wrooong. She was great and she put on the best songs EVER! Im talkin oldschool Marvin Gaye, The Temptations u name it she had it! I was vibing on the bike! lol

Then to my next surprise. Walked into Body Combat and there was a guy covering there too. I got the impression he was a bit nerdy - which I dont mind - and you don't expect your B.C instructor to be nerdy. Little did I know he was a former UFC fighter. That shut me up. He was BRILLIANT!

After that, I just tried to make it home asap. When I did I tidied up a bit, dieshes, cooked some pasta and then finally got to bed.
Was gonna sleep straight away but the Graham norton show was on and Janet jackson was on it with Tyler Perry. So funny!...

Fell asleep at 12, alarm rang at 5.30 and up I had to go to make it to my boxercise class........ t.i.r.e.d.
It was tough but I love tough :)....
Day has passed relatively quick and I will be going to the gym now to join the runners club. 6.2k run in Regents park then im FINISHED for the day.

Ready to go home and put on a dvd and chill out :)

p.s Edward is keepin me company these early mornings.. and nights. I need to move to Forks. lol x

MMMMWAH!