So yes. Quiet here for over a week again. Why? Well lots has happened. We won the bidding. Andreas signed papers on friday. Met with the bank again on tuesday. Situation right now is that we will get the keys to the flat at the end of march!!!

It went very fast and I don't really think it's sunk in yet. But I'm so so so happy! We got it for a very good price and we'll be able to paint before we have to move from the this flat we're in now! So nice to not have to move and live in the mess of that!

Also, my future sister in law had her twins! So much excitement! They arrived on Andreas birthday, saturday the 20th. They named the boy Hugo and the girl Alma. They were both tiny and Huga had some trouble breathing at the beginning but he seems fine. We've been getting photos and little videos sent to us, but since they are in a nicu ward no one is allowed to visit them. They may get to go home before the weekend already since they seem so healthy and we're keeping our fingers crossed. I want to give Ellinor a hug (she was in labour for over 24 hours and the pregnancy has been hard on her the last 3 months!) and give the little ones a (tiny ;P) squeeze!

Things are happening fast and that's all good! We feel very good about everything. But I ghave a problem. My work-rehab thing is dragging on. I called the place again yesterday and the waiting list is not really moving. The estimated time they gave me at the beginning of autumn (that I would start around the new year) has been pushed up twice now. The woman I spoke to understood my situation when I explained and thought I should call around to the people involved in my case and see what my options are if I want change city.

And speaking to a person at the social insurance office it doesn't seem all that difficult, actually she sounded very positive and seemed pleased that I haven't gotten stuck in my sick leave like I've had a tendency to do before. And she totally understood that this situation is unsustainable for us both economically and personally. So I'm optimistic! I might be able to move in to the new flat sooner then I thought initially!

On the wedding front nothing new right now of course, too much other stuff happening!


(Harriet. Honey. I haven't said anything on /emgee. Just because I don't know what to say. I'm so sorry you have thing hanging over you, and you know we're all keeping everything crossed that all is fine. I love you.)

So quiet for a few days here. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Andreas mum's death. We went up to his (still very pregnant) sister and had dinner with the whole family. It was rough in parts but also a few laughs.

And a little snag in the plans came up friday when we got another flat-viewing for monday. The family did understand of course, they seem almost as excited as Andreas and me that we're moving closer to them, but to me it still felt a lot like it was encroaching on their day.

Anyway, we went, we liked, we told the agent we'd sleep on it and then we spent much of last night talking about it. How we LOVED the location but that there is a bit to do in the flat (but nothing too big either) and that it was still only our second viewing.

We've decided to put a bid in. We have a mid-stopping point and we'll see how the bidding is progressing how many bidders are still there and so on, and then we'll see if we really want to pay the REAL stopping point we have.

It's a 3 bedroom flat, first floor (but you still have to get up a small stair) very white atm and we need to do some painting and fix some stuff here and there (unmatched doorhandles on the kitchen cabinets for example) but the white is a good canvas for us to do whatever we want with it but not having to do a lot of groundwork. So here's a couple of photos: (I've decided to imageshak them instead of linking to the ad it self.)



1, Livingroom, very white and boring as is, but good blank canvas. At the top left corner you see a door, that leads to the kitchen, but the photo is taken from another door leading to the hallway.
2, Livingroom taken from the kitchen doorway. You see the third doorway in the room, that leads to one of the bedrooms (the blue one) and a small second toilet.
3, Kitchen, also very white but I sort of love the white here! I can SO see Andreas father's paintings on the walls, one on each side! Doors leads to livingroom to the right, and a bedroom on the right (the white one with wooden floors).
4, Kitchen seen from the opposite angle from before. Some stuff to do here. You see the door leading out to the hallway that has white clinker floor tiles (I love that, so easy to clean!), the hallways is also white with white closets.
5, Bathroom, the big one. Remodelled -08, heated floors!
6, Bathroom from the other angle. Also there is water and electricity already done if we want to put in a washer!
7, The smallest bedroom leading from the kitchen. Clean and white.
8, Bedroom leading from the hallway, behind the wall with all the shelfs in livingroom. Don't particularly like the floor, but it looks better in person than in the photo at least. Lots of closets on the wall you can't see here.
9, Bedroom, the one you see a little of from the livingroom photo. Very blue. Needs fixing.
10, Balcony with evening sun!

Here's an extra, the floor plan, but it's not 100% correct.



Atm we have the winning bid, but the agent is calling us back tomorrow, we'll see :)

Yes. Update on the flat viewing. Not so impressed at all actually. As Haz commented on the photos from the ad it looked very light, airy and spacious but when we got there it felt tiny! The estate agent most have broke out the largest wide-angle lens she could find when she took those! Also the view sucked! In that last row of photos the one taken sort of off to the left side outside, there was a reason she took it looking out that way. If you turned and look straight a head all you could see was this big 7 floor building that looked really rough and dingy that was on the left hand side. Nope not impressed.

Also on the minus side it was a bit of a walk from the bus stop and as it is atm none of us have a license so buses and close by stops are sort of important. Andreas does plan on getting a license soon but yeah, we need to think about now not just later.

So today the agent called and asked if we were interested and Andreas said like it was and she told us that at least 2 or 3 new flats are coming up in the next few weeks that sounds more like what she thought was our thing. So looking forward to those.

We do already have another viewing on monday for this flat. It's a 3 bedroom which would be sort of a good thing if we want to have more than one kid and don't want to move again soon. But the bidding has already begun for that one and we know that many people that have 2 bedroom flats in that area are looking to buy bigger. But we've got nothing to lose by looking at it.

If the url's I link to disappears it's because the ads for the flats are taken down when they've been up for a while.

UPDATE: just took a look on the site of the flat we saw yesterday again and the atm the biding is up to 900 000 sek (about £75 500, up more than £16 000 over the asking price)! All I can think is WHAT!?? But yeah, someone at the viewing yesterday must have liked it! That mush in just one day of biding?

Quick post before bed. Andreas and I are going on our first flat-viewing tomorrow (today really, its 1.30am here now)! This (scroll down for photos) is the flat we're looking at! What do you guys think? 

Posting this as an explanation to why I came back to LJ. Don't know who still has me on their f-list (Well Haz of course, thank you for your comment :) ) if you're still here do leave me a comment, I'd love to know who'd read my updates! I posted the following as my user info:

Post an ANONYMOUS comment with the following:

1. One secret.
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3. One non-compliment.
4. Lyrics to a song.
5. How long we've been friends.
6. One wish you have.

If there is one or more people on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

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