New haircut!

My mom decided she and I should have a girly day today now that my dad had to go back to Sweden for a few days for my granddad's funeral, so we first went for a manicure (and of course I messed up 2 nails within half an hour...) and then the küaför (read it as it were French) came around and cut our hair.

This is my mother and the hair dresser (whose name I never quite got) with her new haircut! Hehe...

I almost asked for the same haircut, I was that impressed, but my new haircut ended up much like it looked before.

I'm really happy it turned out the way I wanted, because he didn't speak a word of English, and my Turkish is extremely limited. I don't think he'd understand much if I started shouting "Apple tea!" "Lion!" "Daughter" "Thank you!"...For some strange reason...^^

Doing Turgutreis!

It's amazing how completely giddy and jolly and giggly you can become (without alcohol involved, although it might have been involved a little, tiny bit) when hanging out with other girls! I've been spending both tonight and Wednesday night hanging out with Gulnes (I'm sorry, I know this is not how you spell your name, but I have NO idea what the real spelling is...) and Amy down in Turgutreis, having dinner and coffee. So nice to be out and about again ^^

This is us, being merry!

S...S...Santa?!

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Comments

Sorry guys....Lars pointed out to me that you could only comment if you had a google account, or some other known identity (...), while I thought anybody could comment. So I had a look around my settings, and I have now changed this so that anybody can send me "anonymous, offensive comments" (Christin, I'm referring to you!) ;)

Just got a call...

...from the police in Gothenburg. They told me that the guys (apparently there were two of them) that stole my bags were caught on Monday, which is good. Well, not for them...
Unfortunately, they had of course done what anyone would do, that is they checked the bags for valuables, then threw away the rest, so I guess getting anything back is too much to hope for, but I still won't give up on die maus! I'll still keep my fingers crossed!

Guess who...

...made it to the local pub's Wall of Fame? :)

Spongebob...

...has volunteered to fill in for die maus until further notice, which I think is awfully kind of him. In return, I have promised him to take him to interesting places and also to try my best not to get him kidnapped. And he doesn't know this yet, but I might even try to find him a Hello Kitty friend once we get to Japan ;)

Comedies? Hmm...

I know I promised myself that the next movie I watched should be a comedy. I'm not sure I managed to keep that promise. Here is the list of my last 3 movies:

1) Chaos Theory. I like Ryan Reynolds, and the movie was funny, even though I can't say it was the kind of movie I was thinking about when wanting to watch a comedy. Like Christopher pointed out, Forgetting Sarah Marshall would have been more up my sleeve. Also, of course (what else) I may have cried a little. Not much, mind you, but a little.

2) Changeling. A real mood lifter...Based on a true story, involving disappearing kids, a mother fighting to get her missing kid back etc etc. Throw in a creeeeeeeeeeepy guy and what do you get? Tears, tears, tears darling!

3) Rachel getting married. Oh, my, god! Seriously, I don't know if I have stopped crying yet (I finished watching it maybe 2 hours ago).

I can recommend all of those movies though, I liked them. And as for comedy, I had saved up 8 episodes of One Piece, one of my favourite animes, and if anything can cheer you up, it's those guys on that boat! ^^

Bodrum

Yesterday, I went to Bodrum with my dad and a friend of his. There are not that many tourists around the place now, and being blonde is kind of a dead giveaway, so of course people would give me weird looks and try to sell me things *lol*

I played with my camera and took way too many pictures of stray dogs, but I can't help it, they are so cute! Here is one of them =)

We also found a boat that didn't seem to be doing so well. It sort of reminded me of a boat that was lying in one of the harbours in Bergen for basically the entire time I lived there. I would see it every day on my way to work and then back. They only had it removed about a month before I left. This one wasn't quite as old, ugly and broken as that one though...=)

After running around in Bodrum, I spent some time in a shopping center trying to buy at least some clothes to bring to Japan. Managed to find quite a lot, so I was happy =)

Oh, and I made cookies too, after running around in the food shop looking for rolled oats for I don't know how long (but I found some!). Thank you Ivy for the recipe for your yummy cookies!

In the words of Edina: "Tears, tears, tears darling!"

I didn't finish The curious case...yet, but I did watch The Duchess yesterday. I had no idea what kind of movie it was, I was just happy to be able to see pretty dresses, but by the end I was crying like the big sucker I am. That's 2 movies in a row that have made me cry (luckily the Duchess wasn't quite as teary as The Wrestler, that one was seriously heartwrenching). I have now decided that the next movie I watch has to be a comedy!

Any suggestions for good comedies?

The Wrestler...

...made me sort of depressed. Like watching a train about to crash and knowing it's going to happen...Had to skip some parts, I never was one much for violence, fake or not ;)

Since I was already a bit down being cooped up inside the house for days, and then watching this movie which kind of didn't help lighten my mood, I was happy when my dad came home and asked if I wanted to come with him to the local pub!

Felt almost like being back in England again, in my pub, what with regulars hanging out there, watching footie on the telly =) Turkey was playing the Ivory Coast, and when I left it was 1-1. Exciting...;)

And I found this photo on their wall of fame! The Gaston is already internationally famous! ;)

Congratulations to Ed and Martje to their little guy. I guess all that waiting was worth it ^^

"...why do you stay here..."

It seems my life has been put on hold for a few weeks. Nothing really happens here, today I haven't even really left the house (I went outside to hang some laundry, does that count?). Tried watching The curious case of Benjamin Button, but I didn't get very far. Have to say he is awefully cute as a little old man, though! ^^ Might have to give it another try later tonight. I also have to watch The Wrestler, I think it might be good. Will let you know what I think of it! :)


Just talked to the Gaston over Skype, he was happily splashing water all over the bathroom and trying to chew off the leg of a leopard. What a cheeky, little monkey ^^

In Turkey

With my new,pink passport in hand, I made it from Stockholm to Istanbul, where I met up with my dad. We didn't really do much, we walked around a bit, checked out this old bazaar and a mosque (where you got little plastic bags to carry your shoes, very sweet) and had some dinner under a bridge. =) There were loads of people fishing from that bridge, and all they caught were these tiny little fish, but still they wouldn't give up. Will try to find a picture of these persistent guys!

The next morning we caught a flight to Bodrum and drove back home from there. I am now installed in my little room, and try my best to avoid going outside where it is windy and rainy and generally awful ;)

new passport!

This is my new, temporary, pretty and pink passport! I wish that the normal Swedish passports could be pink as well, much nicer than the usual red. Too bad they're so expensive, these pink ones...

Any suggestions for a new travelling companion? Not too big and heavy...

R.I.P. die maus?

So, Lars and Christin gave me custody of this little guy before I left Bergen. He was supposed to come travelling with me and keep me company and act as a photo model when we were in interesting places. At least, that was the idea.

Alas, it seems die maus has gone off on his own adventure, and I have no idea how he is doing. The last time I saw him was on Tuesday night when I locked him in a locker in the Gothenburg train station to keep him safe over night while I visited my brother.

Unfortunately, a locker in a train station is not as

safe a place as I imagined for a little mouse. It seems that while I was snoozing happily some kilometers away, die maus was taken from the locker by somebody with questionable morals, and die maus has not been seen since. I hope he is doing ok, wherever he may be!

...and then there was a blog...or a log...

First of all, I just want to say that I take absolutely no responsibility for keeping this blog alive. What I mean is, I know myself pretty well by now, so the risk/chance (depending on how you wish to view it) of this blog dying after just a few posts is relatively high...But I will do my best to keep my bloggy-log from suffering such a horrible fate ;)