The Champions!

It has been a couple of nervous weeks, first my husband’s team winning the semifinals and having to wait 10 days to play AISIN in the finals. It’s best of have games, so me, the kids and my mother in law have been cheering at Yoyogo stadium for a weeks it seems like.

And they did it! They guys played so hard and brought home the championship! AISIN really didn’t stand a chance at the end.

I’m so proud of my hubby! Playing so well and getting to be a champion again, at the age of 37. That’s his 8th championship win too, pretty awesome! So now we’re on total vacation mode. Season is over and we’re going home to Cali for a few months. I’m gonna start packing and running last-minute errands, Monday is our flight out of here! Sunny SoCal here we come!!

 

YES!

We’re in the finals!!!

Last home game!

This weekend my husband’s team played their last home game for the season. Now all they have to do is meet Aisin “Sea whores” (ok, so their real name is Sea horses but I can’t stand them…) next weekend in Toyota city.

Anyways, great games this weekend and the kids got to walk out with their papa during the opening ceremony. Last time our daughter went, she ended up hanging tightly around her papa’s neck because of the teams mascot, the Alvark, whom she is terrified of. And so is our son, so this time we didn’t know if both of them would come screaming off the court.

It was a little shaky at first but once holding on to their hero it was all good!

 

Complain much?!

I love Facebook. I was very reluctant to join at first and was probably the last in my group of friends that did. But thanks to the nagging and begging of one particular friend…yeah I’m talking about you Fie.. I finally did. And of course it’s just as I imagined it to be, a ton of fun and a trap that sucks the creative juices out of my brain I sit and reload the stupid Facebook page hoping something new and utterly non-interesting will appear in my news feed. Someone went to the market, another one posts a picture of their child vomiting, one’s cooking dinner, one is bored, one is pissed. Same same but different.

But then there’s the friends that does nothing but complain. Every single status update there’s some drama going on or life is so unfair and buu-huu, cry me a river. I get extremely irked by cynical and whiny people. I’m in no way a person that’s always skipping down the road thinking the weather is goooorgeous when it’s raining, but come on! You’re not in a Thai prison awaiting execution. How bad can your everyday be?!

I remember my friends as fun happy girls and then somewhere during life, something must have triggered this bitterness, whining and cynical outlook on everything. Sad to me. And especially one of them, gosh what a drama queen, and everything in her life is everyone else’s fault. And the worst thing is, as much as it annoys reading her updates, I can’t help but read them! It’s like I’m fascinated in how much a person can possibly complain!

If you are miserable in your life,  make a change. If you think you weigh too much, stop complaining, get off the computer and start working out.

I’ve been in my fair share of shitty situations in my life but unless you’re open to make a change, can you really complain?

Anyways, enough complaining about complaining. Tonight we’re going to watch Toyota play Hitachi, in Yoyogi. Second to last home game for Toyota before the playoffs! Oowheee! Can’t wait! If you’re in the neighborhood come support the guys!!

It was a good day!!

Winners of All Japan 2012, Toyota Alvark!! Such an exciting game, I was ready to vomit several times! Oh the sweetness of beating AISIN and their cocky attitudes…

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Hanna, with papas gold medal, after the game!

 

It’s on!!….again!!

Yay!! My hubbys team killed it on the court last night and they’re now playing the finals tomorrow. They’ll be meeting my least favorite team in the league, Aisin…they’re just very whiny and the fact that they have beat us a few times in the finals, this is a huge game! Revenge!! It’s been a while since I was this nervous about a game….GET IT BOYS!! ….I really should go to bed..

It’s on!

All Japan semi-finals tonight! 19.00 in Yoyogi! If you’re in town, come cheer on Toyota!!

Go Toyota! Picture from -08 My awesome hubby and JR (in white...boooo!)

Good morning 2012!

How was your new year? Fun? Are paying for it today?

Last night I feel asleep in my daughter’s bed, watching Team Umizoomi with her. Woke up at 11.50pm only to relocate to my own bed, where i found my two guys snoring in synch. And then up at 7am. A new day and a new year, that I started off like I do any day, with a cup of coffee and some soy milk.

My husband who was off from work today, likes to “be funny” and made a comment,  hinting that I should get on with the cleaning…he thinks this is hilarious, as he himself is planted on the sofa with the computer on his chest. Stuff like that tics me off, cuz I do nothing but pick up everybody elses shit. Yeah you know, how many times have I said this before…

Anyway, I started angry cleaning, pretty effective actually. And I was almost about to get unpleasant, but as my couch potato put it. “Happy new year!”…I snapped out of it, and my daughter took over. Holy hell, she was in such a horrible mood all day! It made me look like a daisy in comparison..

And we had a 7.0 earthquake close to Tokyo. I didn’t feel a thing, I think I was vacuuming at the time. My friend and neighbor said her whole apartment was shaking and me and my husband was just looking at each other wondering how we could have missed it. I’m not complaining though…

What I’m wondering is, is this just a taste of what is to come? Please no…

We took the kids to the park for a bit and it just turned in to a cry and scream fest! If you have kids, you know when they start crying over everything, they don’t make any sense and it doesn’t matter what you say. That kind of mood. And it kept going till they went to bed. I’m sitting at the kitchen table over looking the living room…the house was clean for a minute, my better half is back in horizontal position on the sofa, snoring. Gosh I love that big lazy man of mine…

and yeah, I’m sitting here wondering how concerned I should be about the Mayan calendar only goes to 2012….

Getting there..

Ooh ho ho! I’m spending my last night before hubby comes home, in the company of Orville Redenbacher and a glass of red wine. I’m actually starting to feel a little Christmasy, finally. Could be the wine..or it could be that I got something done today.

We got out early this morning and went to the crafts store where I bought some fabric and lace. I made a quick version of a runner for the table..It actually helped a lot to cover up our hideous table.

getting there..

The kids are sleeping and I’m wrapping presents, candles lit. I’m feeling quite cozy actually. I like it I like it…

And of course, knowing that my husband is coming home tomorrow evening makes everything feel so much better. It’s lonely when you’re by yourself. I know I have two kids but once they go down, it’s just me. No one to talk to about how was your day and stuff, it kind of sucks…

but anyways..so I’m wrapping these gifts for the kids. I’m gonna let them open one each in the morning tomorrow, since us Swedes celebrate on the 24th. My husband still does not want to acknowledge  that a big part of the word do celebrate on the 24th and it’s “legit!” It’s been 7 years people…we’re still having debates about it. But hey, just look at the kids chocolate calendars, they only go up to 24…heeeey! I rest my case.

I hope you guys will have a great Christmas, in the company of  your loved ones! Goodnite!…this Santa need some sleep!

Seeking: cozy fluffy feeling

I love christmas and all the cozy cozy feelings that comes with it…but I’m still not quite there. Thinking maybe it’s because we don’t have a tree this year? I don’t know. Looking out on the balcony seeing the two Christmas trees from previous years that I still haven’t gotten rid of, reminds me of why we shouldn’t have one this year, but….I feel like we do need a tree…

I have an old CD with some half assed christmas music on repeat…mjaa…not really doing it for me..

I’m old school when it comes to christmas decorating, I want the real tree, linen runners on the tables, lit candles, oranges with dried carnations in them, the smell of Glögg and cinnamon and Swedish christmas music in the background of it all. I’m just having such a hard time with it this year, why?

All this lack of decorating spirit, I need to get on it. Is it just me, or is someone else out there “not feeling it” too?

I’m excited still though, for the kids of course, cuz they’re over the moon. We’ve received boxes of Christmas presents from family overseas and Hanna and Micah have been studying every wrapped gift in detail. It’s hilarious, their conversations.

Hanna repeating over and over “Micah Santa is coming in three days Micah! He’s coming in three days! Micah! Santa is coming Micah, in three days!”

And Micah yelling back, binky to the side in his mouth and squeezing on a big box “Sasnhta!! Sasnhta!! Sasnhta!!” 

Moments like that I get overwhelmed with love… and 2 more days and then my big Santa will be back! Shot gun for sitting on the lap!