Last day of freedom!

This is it! Tomorrow is the big day. It is going to be so nice to start working. I know it sounds really weird to be excited about this but I am……My little girls are not! Both of them started crying today when we were talking about me going into work tomorrow. They really do not understand why I have to go back full time. On the other hand they are both in school now so it is not like they need me the same way any longer.

And this also means that my new life is starting. Will start training again. I am going to work on that jogging plan that I have which is really good and working really well when you haven´t been jogging for a long time.

I also must tell you about a thing that I got from my friend in the UK. She was here visiting this summer and she had a Tangle Teezer. I have never seen or heard about them before but it is just amazing how good it is. I bought the two colours of the childrens version from this website, beautybay.com to give to my girls and I must say that it is really working with hair that is all full of tangles.

If you have loads of tangles in your hair you just must try this one. You will not regret it!

 

See you soon. Will tell you all about my first day

//Anna

Time to work with my horse again

My lovely horse, my Arab mare has come back from her summer field. She has been there for more than two months just grazing and having a good time with her friends.

I have not had her very long and before the summer I tried mostly to get to know her and to establish some sort of relationship between us. I think working from the ground with your horse actually gives you a lot. She is only 3,5 years old so I have a lot of time. She is still growing, will do for another couple of years, and I need to get used to having a horse again. My family needs to get used to it also.

I will start again now and try some things I have read about and hopefully I will get her to understand what I want her to do and we will be able to get to the riding part soon!

 

Tell you all about how it goes soon again!

 

//Anna

Time to think about Christmas

I can´t believe I am saying this but it is really time to start thinking about Christmas. I realized that yesterday when I saw some really nice yarn in the shop and thought about what I could knit from it.

The reason I think about this is because I really think the knitted garment is the ultimate Christmas gift!

I think two very nice hats for my girls. The yarn is in a very nice reddish-pinkish colour and is mostly acrylic which is good since we do not want any itchy hats for wintertime. I am thinking about a nice slouchy beret style of hat.

I am going to see what pattern I can find and show you it here on the blog and hopefully I will also be able to show a finished product for you. Hopefully before Christmas……

The other thing I have been doing today is going to the hairdresser and I can honestly tell you I am not pleased at all! I have not had a style for a very long time (read 10 years) just had it cut and long. And it has worked but now I really feel that I need a change. Might have something to do with me getting back to work on Thursday or just me getting older, I don’t know really. I have had some comments about cutting it short because I am now over 40 but I cannot do that! Not yet.

Will come back later with that pattern for you and hopefully a picture of the yarn.

 

Bye for now

//Anna

How many jobs are there today?

In Sales, Purchase or Marketing , Stockholm city with counties, 1427 jobs. (Mark that this number is only taken from the Swedish Arbetsförmedlingen, there are many other sites where you can put an ad out when in need of personnel)

If you look at the ads for those jobs many of them do not require any prior experience. And if there are about 17 % unemployed young people (under 25, whole of Sweden) this is just telling me that people are not desperate enough to try and get jobs, they rather be unemployed.

I think this is a generation and a moral question really! When I grew up there was not any question about finding a job, if that meant we had to move to another city or anything like that, you would do that. And the other thing was to accept any job you could get! You had to start somewhere even if that could be cleaning hotel rooms….

And sorry to say maybe, but I really feel that this is a problem created by this unemployed generations parents really!

 

Bye!

3 days left

of freedom!

I am only kidding. I´m looking forward to going back to work. But I think it will be exhausting, interesting, mind blowing and any other word I can think of!

Today is going to be a working day. I am going out to cut the lawn, it has not been done for two weeks, and then I will go to the shops for some groceries. I need to buy everything for the week because I will not have the time to do anything after I have started working on Thursday. It feels good to do two days and then have the weekend off, makes it a little easier the first couple of days. I mean I haven´t been in an office working since 2006!

Since the economics are as they are I am also thinking of trying to get some extra jobs done. Have anyone tried Real Writing jobs? Or any other site were one could earn some extra money?

Any tips are welcome!

 

See you soon!

All is calm

Everyone else is still asleep. We are out in the summer house probably for the last time this season. The weather outside is not the best. Windy and wet.

My coffee have never tasted better this early in the morning. I love being up before everyone else. I think I like it because I can here all the sounds around me that I cannot do when the family is awake. The girls make such noise that you hardly here yourself thinking.

This is my little slice of peace …..

I´m back……

or at least I am trying to be. I cannot say that I have missed blogging because I have been really really busy. Moving, starting children in school and nursery, being on summer holiday (that is really time consuming and hard, you should try it!) and just trying to not do to much!

But now I am back blogging and will try to do this as often as possible.

I am also starting work soon, after being a stay at home mum for the past 5 years I am a bit nervous about this I can tell you, but it is also very very exciting!

For one reason it is nice to know that someone wants to hire me after being away from the market for five years and second it is just nice to be able to get out there and talk to adults!

When it comes to me being hired this brings to mind that there are a lot of people out there with no jobs. The thing that bothers me about this is because when I was looking for a job I found that there were so many jobs out there that it does not feel like anyone should be without one! Does this make sense? I admit the jobs where not the best paid ones or the most funny jobs you could have but they were actual jobs! This is telling me that there are a lot of people out there without jobs who really do not want to work. Is that possible? Who would not want to have job if unemployed? One day I was looking at Stockholm and sale jobs and that day there were over 600 ads for jobs just around Stockholm and this was only on the unemployment's office website, there are so many more places to place your ads.

It really makes me angry because when I grew up there was never any doubt that you would take any job that you could get. Better to work and be able to show that you had been doing something with your time than not been doing anything. In your CV a space will look bad, and you can bet that if you have a space they will ask you what you did then, but if you were at least cleaning hotel rooms or flipping burgers you will get no questions about why you chose to do that! That is at least my experience from interviews with employers.

Well I think I have been writing some of my daily anger off and will now have a nice cup of coffee.

I will write soon so be patient and do come back for more if you dare too!

Bye, bye