The Mob

...and out came the wolves

Today we got up early to get to central for the X-mas sales.
With 50 off we were hoping for bargains.With that being said,It was also the first time Kimberly drove to central Gothenburg.Which meant more traffic and more roundabouts...
She handled her self well and had the patience...which is a feat considering she has stated that she is "mrs schumacher" ...hmmm.She also managed to find a 90% "discount" on parking... The indoor parking of the mall is a known as a money monster.She basically found a hidden gem, just around the next corner to the mall is some apartments,they have a "guest" parking lot.A lot of people would probably use it but its hidden...

Ok we found it by accident...we made a few turns around the mall because we had some problems with the lanes....but thats a different story. :)

The first store we got to was H&M...to sum it up,it was like walking into a room full of hungry dogs fighting over a bone...women in various ages had a predatory look over them...as the minority of men accompanying their girl friends and wives played the part of static objects.The women were having a freenzy over the various items...pushing and shoving the "competition" away.What women dont understand is that it sucks the life force out of men....which answers the question of why men get gray hair or worst... go bald.(only applies to men accompanying their loved ones on every sale there is)

At the end of the day just seeing my wife with a smile because she made a bargain or hear the phrase "this will look so good with..." together with a priceless look, makes it all worthwhile.

Christmas Eve

Well I am not sure where to start really, other then the fact I should not be up this early seeing how much I had to drink last night. I think this is the best Christmas I ever had. I never had so much fun before. I am finding that here in Sweden things are done differently. We went to Stig & Dolores' house where we all had supper.........

(Paul and me)

(Mimmi and Carolina dancing the jig)

(Paul and the girls bullshitting)

(The ancient ones having supper)

and we watched a movie.

(Paul and I)

There were some people there already but not too many at the time.

(Not really sure why Carolina is making that face!)

Next thing I know there are more people joining us and we are playing some card game, which I don't remember what it was called, but we had so much fun, and Carolina was getting tipsy already by this time. I just cracked up laughing at her. She is so funny when she's been drinking.

Eventually we were all drinking like crazy, singing karaoke......

(Paul singing)

and having the best time ever. The music started pumping after Mimmi turned the stereo on and we all ended up dancing like weirdos, but it was so much fun......

(Dancing to Brittney Spears?..No thats Justin T.)..lol

Caro went downstairs to the adults (people much older then us! lol) and grabbed her dad........

(Dad dancing with the girls!)

and had him come upstairs to dance with us...which was hilarious!!! Then Stig came upstairs and he wanted to dance too, so I was dancing with him like a maniac while he tried to dance some 50's dance with me. I was too drunk to care. All the girls wanted to know how us 'Americans' dance....so...I showed them how the ermm...how to say this nicely....how the african american girls dance at clubs, the booty dance...lol

(Me cracking up after showing the booty dance)

(Carolina getting jiggy wit it)

It was just a totally crazy night. I danced till I could not dance no more and before I knew it , it was almost 2am. Paul and I decided to go home, and I was almost sober by this time...we opened our gifts to each other, which my honey got me a new cell phone!! woohoo!..I was so happy, and I had the best time with him, our first Christmas together. I couldn't of asked for a better one.

Oh...there was a time last night when we were almost down to the bottom of the 2nd bottle of vodka....so I thought we should all chug it straight...taking turns...which we did...

(The vodka chug)

Everyone had cameras last night and a video camera was going too. Needless to say Mimmi cought my booty dance on the way to the bathroom..lol

Here I am at 11am, which I woke at 10 am for god knows why!!! I have no hangover thank goodness....trying to get this all in because tonight the people are all comming here!!! yikes! another party and well....I dunno how much more drinking I can handle...I think I'll have to keep it to a minimum tonight....I hear from Cheryl that new years is even more crazier here..I have no comment on that.

(Tyson and Kompis all ready for Santa Claus)

(Me on the far right with the girls showing our asses)

Happy Holidays!

God Jul och Gott Nytt År !!!!!!!!!!!!

Out of a job

I always kinda wondered how it would be like having my wife here with me. All I can say is that distance doesen't do her justice, she is beyond wonderful. I've discovered a lot of little habits that she posseses that I never got to see before. One of them is being very handy, in an earlier post she mentioned the wardrobe we got at Ikea. At that time I was ready with my hammer and screw driver to assemble it, only to have it taken away from me and the next thing I know....she is building it herself. Yesterday we got a new dresser and again she wanted to build it her self.















What was I doing? Sipping on a drink and being fascinated with my wife...(yeah I felt kinda lazy)
In the end this post is a small tribute to my amazing wife, she continues to surprise me even to this day and she never fails to make me smile. For the record she assembled those two pieces of furniture better then I would have...I was always the hasty king of short cuts.

Bottom line...honey you rule.
So your the official assembler now and I'm the pro drinker...hmmmm.

Pissypants

Well we are supposed to go out tonight but Caro is sick so we have to put it off for another night. But thats ok!

We were in Angered at the store an hour ago and when we walked out this guy was pushing past us, rude swede! anyways he was in such a hurry for....guess what? To piss in the bushes! right where everyone could see him. I couldn't believe it! Apparently he had to go..lol

Thing is, I never have my camera with me when good shit happens. Like the postman on this little cart riding down the side of the road. I never seen anything so weird in my life. I have a lot to get used to here...I'm only in my first week...and Maja just reminded me I have been away form blogger for a year..wow. Time goes fast when your in LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Now that the room here is back to normal I have to go build my dresser now for my other clothes. If it isn't one thing it's another, but I love it. Oh, yesterday Carolina and I were at the mall, we took the Spårvagn in and there was a crowd around this retard...he happened to be the Svenska Idol..whoopti do, he didn't look special to me. They had guards around him and everything.

Turned out at the end of our little christmas shopping spree I got sucked into the swedish way of style a little bit. I bought the coolest shoes ever. I think Paul said they were imported from France...Things here are totally different but I really love it here. They kinda remind you of converse, but not really and they lace up past your ankles quit a bit.

As for my swedish lessons, well....I am using Rosetta Stone and I can say a lot of baby stuff..lol..and I can say bad things as well. My fave I think is Du suger elefant snopp .........'you suck elephant dick'..lol



I just want to throw this pic in becoz it's my fave!!!
(Paul and I 10 minutes after our wedding)
Here's a link to our other blog we had just for us, was for our wedding basically
http://www.spaces.msn.com/swedishwedding

Morning Mass

Today we had to go to morning mass for Dolores because her brother had passed on about a week ago.



The problem being I caught myself twice trying to stay awake....lol..uhmm..Then there was this guy walking in through the church in the middle looking at the priest then the wall then pointing at people...going though one side of the church then comming out of the other side, which about made me crack up laughing. Then he even went as far as looking over the priests shoulder during the prayers! Turns out he was a little 'CP' if your not swedish then I would say he was retarded. Though at first I didn't realize this. Paul said he had to keep from giggling too....anyways, afterwards we went to Dolores's house to eat then we came back home....not much going on really.....



Paul had mentioned about us changing the room out here into our bedroom...so..here is Paul starting to tear the room apart so we can make our masterpiece!..lol

The next day: Scratch that....we ended up putting everything back...it looked retarded...lol

Doggie Bath

I woke this morning sort of grumpy....

I wasn't really wanting to get up, but I did anyways....Paul and I had to go out in the horrible rain,again, and go to the store in search of a Swedish book so i can learn the language here.

We ended up at the library in the school and I picked up a book and started to read to Paul. It was a childrens book mind you, but I did it and I understood only because I knew some words already.

We are waiting for Cheryl to get home from work because she can get me the books they are going to use when I actually go to school for language learning. I'm excited to learn as soon as I can.

Paul cooked me lunch which was really good and then I took Tyson for his 'bada' which he wasn't too happy about. He doesn't like baths but he sat there like a 'duktig pojke' (good boy)....i'm sure I have many spelling mistakes. I don't care.

Yesterday Paul was looking for the Christmas balls for the tree, he was looking today too and they have yet been found.....we'll find them eventually!...anyways, here is Ty and the tree!

(Us decorating the tree)

Busy Day

Today we had to get up early even though I wasn't really up for it. I had to get to Skatteverket (Tax Office) to get myself registered under "Immigrants moving to Sweden"...nice.

I need my personummer so I can do things here in order to live and receive certain things.... blah blah. So anyways, we take the tram into Central and head over to the office, which I thought would be busy and Paul and I both thought would be a hassle just to get me registered. It went fast, like 5 minutes. So we left and headed back here to the house, and it was freezing outside! I survived.

After that was finished we got the car and I drove us to IKEA to get a wardrobe to assemble for me to put my clothes in...I have to say that getting this thing in a mini euro car was the funniest. The box it was in was as long as the car itself and I had to drive with it all the up the middle of the car,blocking my view of the right side. The stupidest thing I said to Paul at an intersection was " Is there any cars comming from the left?"..uhm...I was on the left, he was on the right. he says to me "your on the left, I can't see over there!"..duh.... I'm an idiot. So we did manage to get home safe, but was hard to drive when you can only see out of one side of the car, going through round-a-bouts left and right, we just kept laughing about it. This thing was a pain to put together, nothing lined up right..........

when all was said and done I think Paul and I did a very good job!(Finished Product)

We are pretty exhausted now, but I'd say we had a pretty good day! Time to just sit back and relax. :-)
(My Paul relaxing)

Type Type Type.....

I have a story to tell....It's about a man, a Swedish man, and an American woman. I can start from the beginning, but it would take a long time so I will try to do this as best as I can in short.

The Swede was my original keeper. Let me tell you something about this guy....I would hear allll day long, and I mean not just morning and maybe part of the afternoon, but for hours and hours all I would hear is type type type. Him on the computer, It doesn't end!! I try to sleep on the floor in my corner like a good dog should do, and this guy is on the computer all day doing god knows what!

Well, I come to find out he meets my other keeper, The American woman. Yeah you heard it right! I met this woman once, 7 months ago, and guess what? She's back! For good this time it seems..anyways, it's time for my nap again so I'll leave this on to them to tell you what's new everyday and what their future plans are.