I don't know what to write that the pictures won't tell you.
We went to a basketball game the other day, my first NBA ever. 
At one point we had 22 more points than the other team, Grizzlies, somehow we ended up loosing 94-99.

It was a really good game, really exciting and well worth the money!

I think I'm getting old.. I'm seriously spending time watching swedish debates and tv-games.
Lately I've been watching several debates with Jimmie Akesson, I find that kinda interesting in some way. I watched "Kvallsoppet" today, they were talking about the swedish royalties. Could I care less? 
I watch "Vem vet mest" every night, I watch "Minuten" and I watch "Solsidan". 

I read A LOT of stuf on Flashback and a read Aftonbladet each day. Still going strong over here!
... and I pretty much dont know anything what's going on in Philly.

Soooo.. We got snow yesterday! 

I dont know what's wrong with whoever controls the weather over here, but do we have to get one huuuge load every single time? Just give us some.. Lagom should be an international word. And I dont know whats wrong with americans in general either. Here'se an idea, change tires twice a year and your life during the winter season will be so much easier. 

The temperature right now is +1 celsius so the snow has started melting but still, remember we got all this over one night. It looks kinda pretty, but I want sun sun, heat, heat and sun with heat, please pretty please!





Well.... this is my phone to kinda show u have much snow it was on the cars windshield.
My phone is maybe 12-13 cm high.

I got my first heart attack, at the age of 20. Score!

Cheeers, oatmeal it is!

It only took me five months to buy oatmeal and have it for breakfast, and right now I can't explain why I didn't buy it earlier. It's awesome! Well, it doesn't taste awesome, but with some jelly in it, it tastes better.
It's awesome in that way that it's an awesome breakfast becuase, it's healthy and keeps u full!

Has anyone thought about me overdosing the word awesome? (in this post on purpose)
It's just an awesome word ;)

 

 

The next best thing after ur workout is to change into bathing suite and, mix ur proteinshake and jump in to the jacuzzi/hottub (whatever) and just lay down for 10 minutes and relax. That's awesomeness right there!

When I got home I made some dinner for myself. 
I called and asked Amy if she bought ground beef, and she said yes.

I got home, opened the freezer, found this package and I read Ground, 85/15 and the brand was Shadybrooks (awesome?). I took it, defrosted it and put it in the frying pan. 
Amy asked me if I didn't ask her for Ground beef and not Ground Turkey... FAIL!

Dang it, I guess when u're coming home for the gym and you are starving for meat "Ground" is enough for ur brain to make a decision.  Well, it's not that bad and I thank god for black pepper and ketchup :)

I'm shaking powder again!! 
Almost a half year without shaking a proteindrink what so ever! Feels good to be back.

I found this one at Target when I was walking around looking for other stuff. 
It was cheap, it seems like a pretty good product and it taste awesome. What more can u ask for?

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This definitely qualifies as one of the most unnecessary post in this blog so far.

Well.. This is pretty much how much plastic it takes to make one waterbottle, amazing huh? .. not so much.
Also, this is what I do when I'm bored in the car, making plastic bottles as small as I can.

So save this picture, grab your notepads and write down this important information and make sure to remember where you first read about "the plastic bottles"

Yesterday me and Karl came with my hostdad, my hostdads brother and Jake to Camelback in Poconos to ski. 

I can't remember the last time I skied, probably at least 2-3 years ago but I think I did pretty good. 
Jokkmokks Kalle has skied since before he was born so he did pretty damn good, eventhough we rented skis.

We had a nice day, the slopes.. no, the lift lines were a little bit to crowded but the slopes were perfect

I Just realized that lately I've been writing like exactly what we've been up to, even details and stuff sometimes. Like "today I've done this, then we did this and then we went here and blablabla". When I read blogs, that is not what I wanna read. And also I wanna see a lot of pictures, and I know I've been pretty bad at uploading pictures. 


Right now I just have to let you all know how much I love this country and how much I love americans.
Americans are just fucking amazing, that's all I have to say, amazing!

I can't see how I'm gonna be able to leave this country in 8-9 months. I know it's a lot of time left but time flies by so fast and that day I'm actually going back is going to be a sad day.
I hope all of you back in Sweden don't feel offended by that. I'm just having a great time here, It's not that I don't miss you, and I am coming back, thats for sure.

I had a productive day today!
I started with a nap.... "wooho, productive!!"   omfg, chill!

Here's the snowstorm in pictures.

This is pretty much what it takes for americans to freak out, about 4-5 inches (10-12 cm). The schools are closed today, and the kids are home. Fortunately my hostmum is a teacher and will be home today as well. 

We got hit by the snowstorm today. Well, here it's called snowstorm, in Sweden it's just snowing.

There is no such thing called winter tires here, they use the same tires in the summer as they do in the winter.  And they are NOT designed for snow, thats for sure. I was out driving tonight and it was just crazy.

I had a coupon that gave me 20% of my entire purchase and another one that gave me 5 dollar off the price at the Vitamin Shoppe. Since I'm pretty much out of supplements I felt like it was time to use them.

I got something I've never tried before, I haven't even had anything from that brand.
Let's find out if it works or not, and if it doesn't it's always good for my motivation and it makes me wanna eat better and choose the healthier option if I have the opportunity.

Jessie is staying home from school today. She's in bed with a stomach ache, that means I'm home as well, doing nothing but laundry. It sucks. It always does but today I had a pretty important appointment with someone that I had to reschedule. 

So except for being home with Jessie this day is all about trying to eat good and try to make the best out of the gym tonight. I tought my pecs would be so much more soar today than the actually are. I hope my legs will react the same way after tonight, I seriously hade problem walking last week, it was horrible and also some kind of record. They have never been more soar than they were then.

Im having to best morning ever, I don't know why. I should be tired as a bear (winter + hibernation, get it?) but I'm not. usually this means I'm gonna be bear tomorrow. Let's don't worry about that for another 22,5 hours.

I guess when the Sundays are getting boring, you know that this is your new home. Just like back home, in Sweden.

I took a shot last night and decided wear my MVP (most valuable player) Beer Pong T-shirt, just because it's freaking awesome. And fortunately it turned pretty damn good! 

I won all five games I played, felt gooooooood! I'm not gonna take credit for eveything, nono! You always team up with someone when you play, so I should rather say that my team won five out of five games.
Felt like I teamed with the whole world, Sweden, Denmark, France, USA, Germany and i dont know whaaaat.

so I did two things to make my karma better the last couple of days, and I guess none to make it worse.

1)
I spent new years eve in NYC, we had a grrrreeeat night, I'll tell you about later.
Sometime around 1am I guess I went outside to take some air, Karl and the others were still inside. I found this girl next to the street wiggeling around, drunk as hell. Her name was Julie and she turned out to be 22 yo, she looked like 19 to be honest!
I dont remember how, but somehow we got to talking and talked for a while. Apparently a bit of a swedish accent isn't that bad after all, she liked it, no doubt!
Her friend that was supposed to pick her up kept hanging up on her all the time. She wore a tiny dress as any other girl that night and she froze. She lived liked 40 blocks away from the club and if we would start to walk to her apartment we'd still be walking, being drunk and wearing high heels slows you down, a lot!

Anyway, I gave her my blazer and started to walk her up the street to the closest avenue. And it took me like 45 minutes to get her a cab. Next problem.. She had no cash and the driver wouldn't accept cards.
We were kind of blocking the street, so I pulled up 20 dollars from my pocket, gave it to her and then the driver left. He was kinda stressed from all the people behind him. Sucks that he just left just like that, but still I feel good.
I just keep my fingers crossed everything went well, we didn't change  phonenumbers or anything. Score!
And how do you find Julie, 22yo in New York?  Screw it, I did what I could!

2)
When I got home the other day two dogs were running around on our frontyard, one white and one black.
No tags or anything, just a chain around their neck. The black one got  away but the white one was to curious and I got that one. Lovely dog by the way, I don't know all the raises, but something close to a golden retriever I'd say. I asked our neighbour about the dog but she had never seen it before. What can you do, except from calling the cops? Well, a guy dropped by to leave a suitcase that got away from my hostfamily on their way home from Mexico. I told him about the dog and he was like; "good luck with that, see you". 
I heard someone calling the dog so I went to our backyard but I couldn't see or hear anyone. When I got back to the frontyard the luggage guy came back, he had picked up this guy who was calling for the dog. He took the dog and thanked me like a hundred times and they caught the black dog right before he was picked up.
Both dogs back to where they belong and one of them kinda because of me. That's an other good thing I guess

Vacation's over and the same not too old routines are back, that means I went to the gym today.

No Seriously, that was a line from Friends.