A day in... Stockholm - Part I

Easter holidays are going by fast!

And I am already thinking on the next few days off work that I will (hopefully) enjoy in May.

Where to go... where to go?

Of course Stockholm, Stockholm is the official European capital of 2013.

So here I am planning a day out in Stockholm and getting all excited about it.

From breakfast to dinner including a lot of shopping, this is the first part of a post series that will take you to my choices to spend a day of shoppinng in Stockholm:

 So it's Thursday morning, you get up early and fuss about your sister's place for a while and finally get out to the cool of Stockholm's May morning.

Where to go first?

A.- Let's start the day in Kungsholmen, a nice and quiet neighbourhood close to almost everything, and hiding a little super cool (super dickhead, I mean hipster) shop, where you can either buy a skull or have a nice cup of coffe.

Not the cheapest place to buy stuff, but a good idea to get inspired for the rest of the day.

Grandpa has an unlikely name but a cozy interior, and an online store which may be interesting to visit:

http://www.grandpa.se/

B.- Very, very close by, around the corner actually there's the best shop ever to buy all kinds of boxes, organizers, baskets, bottles... and tables that you can carry on the plane back home and totally affordable. Granit.

http://www.granit.com/

 But we are still in Kungsholmen, and the good stuff, the really good stuff is somewhere else! 

Let's take the train to Ostermalm, just 11 minutes away from Granit (Kungsholmen).

C.- Not everything will be home design in this shopping day, but before we move on to the usual and still unusual letter D, we have to stop in another super expensive yet cool place in Ostermalm:

 

 http://www.designhousestockholm.com/

D.- One more stop before we stop for a Diet Coke to recharge. Although it is vastly known in the East Coast it is not so in Spain, so everytime I travel abroad there is a search I always do online: is there an  Urban Outfitters store?

In case of Stockholm... Yes!!

An in case you have not done so yet, go check their online store, it is the best...

 http://www.urbanoutfitters.co.uk/page/home/ 

And...

I need a break.

More Stockholm is coming soon, and next time, lunch is on me.

Such is Life.

Back to basics

I was lazily going through the blog trying to decide whether I like or hate the new look and I realised that, even if I have made it with six posts per month so far, I have not posted anything with much content in 2013 yet, not that this blog ever had much content, but at least there were always a few posts were I could let go the frustrated writer within and go with the fun ironic part of daily life.

Maybe I was putting too much preasure on myself with all the "You have to post more often" thing, maybe it was better to wait for the right story to post, maybe I was doing this all wrong, maybe Lizzy Bennet was right, and I should be “unwilling to speak [write], unless we expect to say [post] something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the éclat of a proverb”. When did I stop thinking post-savvy and decided that a quote and a doodle would save this blog from oblivion?

Were those ideas a sign that I was becoming a boring person? The lack of fresh stories had turned my blog cheap. Easy. All in all... BORING. I couldn't remember the last time I posted a "Ten worst things..." and boy! those were fun posts to write.

Is it time for a break?

I don't think I need a break, I just need to set things right, and maybe, if I take this week of holidays from work (if they ever let me) and relax, maybe my fingers will be itching with stories to type yet again, maybe, hopefully.

I'll see you soon, but until then... have fun.

Such is Life

Slow Fastart!

Date: March 24th
Time of execution: 3 hours
Tools: Paper 53
Location: my aunt's

Friday's quote VII

Here I was, Friday evening at work, waiting for comments to a report... and I remembered I owed you a quote! Quotes seem to be the only post that keeps this blog alive lately, it may seem stupid, but if I star posting one silly easy post once a week, it may be easier to post twice a week after that, right?

Anyway, I was talking about patience and waiting, and today's theme for the quote seemed then so obvious...

“He who can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Well, Mr. Franklin, as much as I admire you and you are wrong. "He who can delegate can have what he will" (in the short term at least). And I walked out of the office, for the whole week.

 

Frohe Ostern!

 

Such is Life

Friday's quote VI

I watched the las episode of Clone Wars season 5 last night and I don't know when I'll recover from the shock.

So today's quote is the opening quote of the episode.

May the force be with you.

Friday's quote V

About sickness...

If you wonder who the author is, check him out on Wikipedia.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg

Postcards to Stockholm: Flu me to the moon

Dear sis,

You know what is worse than being sick? Being sick with mom and dad.

The flu has got us well, and oh how I suffer! Fun part is the competitions. Who has the highest temperature? Who complains more? Whose pain is more oddly similar to something?

After 27 years of perfecting the art of being sick I think I have won each and every competition so far, then goes dad, he is quite the expert too.

Ugh how I suffer.

Such is life