Ibrahimovic 'sedotto' da miss Francia, Malika Menard

Ibrahimovic 'sedotto' da miss Francia, Malika Menard

R.I.P. Nelson Mandela

 

Swimming competition 2 - New personal best

Yesterday we had a whole day swimming competition,  the second of the season. My daughter Chiara had 2 competions, 100m free style in the morning and 50m freestyle in the afternoon. On 50 m she held her time but on the 100m she manage to lower her personal best, improving with 3 sec, 1.09.08!!!! Go girl!!!

Zlatan Ibrahimovic - the man of the year 2013 - France

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Disaster Sardinia, Italy

My thoughts go to the victims of the flood in Sardinia. To the people who have lost everything; their loved ones, homes and personal affections.

Swimming competition

My daughter is having her first swimmimg competition of the season....she is very excited as she have her new swimming suite.I'm exited to but also very tired....I have taken with me 4 h of sleep and a huge head ache but what do you not do for your children. I think we parents often or almost always are more exited then our children!!!
My son is playing soccer and I' m his biggest supporter and that goes for my daughter too but my god how many people are going to the swimming competitions, morr then to the soccer games...rrally crazy. And that for only 30-60 sec of competition!!!

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Pasta with chickpeas

This eveving for dinner I'm preparing pasta with ceci. A very quick plate that you can prepare in about 15 min. I use 2 cans (400 g each) of ready chickpeas, half union ena 5-6 cherry tomatoes. Put some olive oil in a pan and start to roast union,wtomatoes and a bit of salt for about 5 min.
In the mean time boil the water for the pasta.
After 5 min add the chickpeas to the union and tomatoes and let them roast together for about 5 min and then turn it off.
I use the pasta Pipe Rigate (a macaroni pasta) as the chickpeas easily enters in it.

When the pasta is ready mix it with the chickoeas and add some salt, white pepper and olive oil.

Buon appetito!

23 October 2013 - Thinking Netherlands Antilles

Last night after work I decided to go for a run as lately I'm not doing any sports. I only ran for 3.5 km but what a effort!! I do feel that I'm not going swimming anymore because my condition really sucks! I came back red as a tomatoe and I thought I was going to faint....luckily I managed to recover quite quickly and I actually felt good afterwords. Now the hard thing will be to keep up with running 2-3 times a week...the negative thing is that this morning I woke up with a slite head ache and thick eyes...
Always at this time of the year I get in some kind of depression and I always start to look for warm places where to transfer and yesterday I checked out the Netherlands Antilles. It really seems a paradise, it's around 25°C all year, perfect, and I could really immagine my self moving there! I checked work possibilities and it seems quite ok. The only thing I ask my self, how would it be living on an island? Will you not feel limited? I mean, on the island Bonaire (one of the caribbean islands) the population is 16,541, that means the have of the population in the city where I live in now....would I not get crazy?!?! But maybe the weather conditions and the life would let me forget that....I need to check some things out first and then I will make my valuation....

Bouillon with pasta

This evening I decided to prepare some bouillion with pasta. I putted some union, a few cherry tomatoes, a carrot, a celery. I added some salt, bouillion, a bit of curry, chilli peppar, some pieces of parmeggiano, olive oil and parsley. Let it boil for about 20 min and add the pasta.

Buon appetito!

21 october 2013

A new working week has began after I quite hectic weekend.....I have to get up at 6 a.m. saturdays too as my son in going to school so actually I get up early 7 days a week....yesterday my son had his usual fotball game and unfortunately they lost, my son had 2-3 opportunities to score but he didn't had a good day yesterday so his team had to accept the loss.
Yesterday evening I made some home made bread and the usual swedish cake that I really adore. I spent 4 hours in the kitchen between cooking and baking. I was really exhaused but I was glad of the result.
Now lets see what this week has to bring.....

Have a nice day!

18 October 2013

I woke up around 6.30, tired as usual as I never manage to go to bed earlier then 11 p.m. My son didn't go to school today as the trains are on strike today so they cannot ensure that all trains will be active so I decided to let him stay at home to avoid problems and strangely he didn't object ;-)
I believe today I woke up angry as hell....we have some changes at work that makes me upset...now the managers have decided to move the start time 15 min so the flexible time starts at 8.30 instead of 8.15!! 15 min doesn't change anyting.....on the working side but for the people (including me) who is coming to work by car or public transportation changes a lot!!
Luckily today is friday and it gives me some extra energy to go through this working day with a small smile on my face...

17 October 2013 - Late

I think I was in coma last night......I woke up by myself (it's like my consciousness knew something was wrong) and looked at the clock and it was already 6.40!!!! The alarm usually goes off at 6.00 a.m. but for some reason this morning it was too tired to go off....I woke up my son, run under the shower, got dressed and I was suprised that in a half hour I was ready to leave. Then my son was late and I already was in the car waiting for him. Funny, before I went under the shower he told me he was ready....boh....I hade to rally to the train station, I seemed Schumacher.....Normally the train is always late but can you believe it, this morning it came just on time, like it knew that we were late for once!! Luckily my son manage to catch the train so after all the morning continued like every day.
Now lets see what the rest of day has to give!

Have a nice day!

4 stove cooking

This evening the stove is quite busy don't you think. On the upper left corner we have mini lentils, upper right spaghetti, down left timato saus an down right rice with curry.

Buon appetito!

16 October 2013

Goodmorning head ache!!!
My head ache is still going strong and keeps me company since a couple days now......I'm trying to understand why it doesn't disappear....I may have a clew....stress and a lot of thoughts...
Yesterday morning we didn't have any electricity due to an unpaid invoice....one salary in the family is really heavy....every day you have to be precise in what you buy and you cannot go over line ever...let's hope that my husband manage to find work even if I think that's quite difficult as here in Italy the age is really an issue. Basically after 30 you har not interesting for the job market any more. Crazy don't you thing as you older you are the more experience you have, that means though that you have to pay more so they prefer to hire a young person with no experience giving them a trainee contract so they pay less. Incredible don't you think....
Well well, now it's only remaining 12 days to payment day so we're slowy getting closer...keeping up the hope though!

Buona giornata!!!

14 October 2013

Today I have a day off but don't think I got to sleep any longer this morning...the alarm went off at 6.15, I got out of my bed and prepared breakfast for my son who has the train for school evert morning at 7.16. I brought him to the train station e went back home to assist my daughter preparing herself for school, luckily she only has 300 m to school.
A busy morning as usual...
Now the kids are at school and I got some strange energy to make some home made bread. Like this I don't need to buy some for a couple of days and honestly the home made bread is so much tastier then the one you buy in the supermercato.
I only hope that it will succeed with my home bakery!!!

12 October 2013

I honestly do not understand why weekends are called so....
This morning a stood up at 8.30, went out with the dogs, got back home prepared a cake then breakfast, after that I started dishwashing, passed the vacuum cleaner in the entire house. Done everything, it's already 13 p.m. and I'm just in time to prepare pasta with tuna sauce for lunch!!!

I can say for sure that it's more relaxing staying in the office!!!

Buon appetito!!

11 October 2013

Today it's finally friday and even if my head ache hasn't disappeared I have to say that I feel quite good this morning. Yesterday evening a terrible storm came in and I had a hard time driving back from the fotball training of my son. I also have a small car, Fiat Panda, so you can understand how stable I was on the surface, NOT! The storm went on until midnight I guess (actually I was lucky to fall a sleep before) as I heard it while laying in bed. So last evening I had to pull in all the things from the balcony, the flowers, the table, chairs, a small closet....my god!!! Then it was time to bring out the dog, really scary actually as I was risked to get things in my head as they were flying all over the place. Luckily Mia (my dog) was very quick in doing what she had to.
This morning I woke up and it was all quite, so I looked outside and everything was as usual except some leaves and peaces of trees on the ground.
After standing up I prepared some tea for me and my son (my daughter gets up later), took a shower and got dressed.
We ate the remaining things there was to eat, rusks with marmelade and tea.
We were running late for the train that my son takes every morning so I had to drive like a crazy to the train station and luckily he got on the train.

Now the sun is looking out and it should get to around 17°C today, so after all today seems to become a better day then yesterday!

10 october 2013

Una giornata No oggi, praticamente sono ancora in coma con mal di testa.....che non migliora le cose di sicuro!! Stamattina piove e sento che oramai tutto che ha a che fare col sole non lo vediamo fino all'inizio marzo....come al solito in questo periodo ho solo voglia di andare in lettargo.....si, come gli animali...........o partire per un posto caldo dove c'è il sole....forse dovrei prendere un pò di vitamina D che ci viene a mancare d'inverno perc colpa chel problema dei soldi non migliora la situazione di sicuro e ogni giorno che mangiamo ci va bene....ma il pensiero è sempre li.....perchè siamo solo al 10 del mese e dobbiamo arrivare al 28 per incassare, vuol dire che ci manca ancora 18 giorni di sopravivenza......
Lo dico a voi perchè per me di sicuro non lo è: BUONA GIORNATA

Enkel middag

Ikväll blir det linsärtor och basmati ris med sojasås som är nyttigt, billigt å gott! Till det har gjort Bruschetta och inlagd ättiksgurka.

Buon appetito!

Mercoledì 9 ottobre 2013

Oggi la sveglia ha suonato alle 06.10, 10 min dopo il solito orario...che normalmente mi sveglio sempre alle 06.00!! Vabbè i 10 min non sono tanti ma basta per avere la sensazione di aver dormito un pò di "più". Abbastanza ridicolo direi ma la mente umana funziona così, penso.....la mia di sicuro!
Preparo il cappuccino "alla Anna" per me e mio figlio, purtroppo non ho la macchinetta per il cappuccio e uso il mixer per schiumare il latte e devo dire che dopo un paio di volte sono diventata abbastanza brava a farlo....almeno mio figlio non si lamenta e quello è già un buon segno....
Come ogni mattina accompagno mio figlio alla stazione e poi vado direzione lavoro. Vado con calma perchè uno non ho fretta, posso entrare solo dalle 8.15 in ufficio, secondo devo risparmiare sulla benzina. Eh si, ogni mese ho lo stesso problema, i soldi!!! Il pensiero è sempre li. Ogni volta dopo il giorno che mi è arrivata lo stipendio aspetto che il bancomat mi fa notare che la mia "disponibiltà di prelievo" è solo di €50.....cavolo, siamo solo al 3 del mese!!! Vi giuro che è un terrore....poi ti passa per la testa mille pensieri....come faccio ad arrivare alla fine del mese??? Non dormi niente perchè non riesci a nn pensare....ogni giorno sei stanca, se sei stanca non riesci a concentrarti...BASTA!!! Dicono tutti che i soldi non fanno la felicità, vero....ma di SICURO fa la TRANQUILLITA!!!

Oggi devo dire che sono più tranquilla del solito ma la giornata non è ancora finita........

Buona giornata!

15 ottobre 2013

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Sommartallrik med zucchini och körsbärstomater

2 msk olivolja
1 lök
10-15 körsbärstomater
3-4 zucchini
Salt
Peppar

Tillagning:
Häll 2 msk olivolja i en stekpanna, hacka löken i små bitar och lägg den i stekpannan, tillägg lite salt, skiva tomaterna och häll i dem i stekpannan och stek dem tills dem är mjuka, skiva zucchinerna och stek allt i ytterligare högst 5 min. Zucchinerna ska inte bli mjuka. Tillsätt salt och peppar. Klart!
Att äta med basmatiris.
Smaklig måltid!