Day 42: A marathon date in Sthlm

It’s true… ladies we need to be straight forward and to the point with our partners if we want them to give us what we want. NO subtle hints. It will never work. Just say what you want, because your hints will never take a very looooooong time to piece together. Take my situation as a case study:

One thing I learned is that my meatball HAS actually been paying attention to what I say! He really delivered for my birthday and continued my birthday celebration this past weekend with a marathon date in the city.

Marathon date – a date that lasted many hours and includes many different activities!

The sweet thing about this day was each activity was something I really enjoy or have great interest in!

1) I love brunch! I tell my meatball about brunch with friends and also suggest that we should go sometime. He took note, and naturally this was our first stop! Our date started at the Stallmästaregården Hotel & Restaurang

Girls just wanna have brunch!

Love it here!
Then we were in walking distance to our next destination – someone is good with logistics!

2) I had previously asked about the butterfly garden in the city (Fjärilshuset Haga Trädgård), and someone’s swede smarts remembered, making it our next stop!  Trying going on a weekday if possible as the weekend draws family and the parking lot gets full

3) Dinner at a cozy Italian resto called Linguini! Tasty food, comforting wine and a great date in candlelight.

4) When I had first researched things to do in the city, one of the places I absolutely wanted to experience was the Absolut Ice Bar located in the city center. I had brought up the bar again, suggesting we should go sometime and SURPRISE! he already arranged our reservation!

Watch your back and don’t get stuck on the ice wall!

I actually learned about this bar from the Amazing Race… good job marketing!

5) We were feeling lucky so our last stop was the Cosmopol casino nearby the bar – again impressive planning! There’s no better way to end the night out than tripling your money! Funny thing is that there’s a 30 kr cover charge for the casinos here… could be a karma thing?

Hopefully this will help your dating plans in Stockholm or just some general things to do! I love this city!

Day 38: Beardlings – swedish ones!

Today I discovered the greatest instagram account: @swedishbeards

If you like any following then, this is for you! Either way, you should just take a look!

• BEARDS
• Swedish men or just men in general
• Men with beards aka beardlings (shoutout to Ais)
• Hipsters
• Beards that have been filtered
• Lumberjacks
• Badass beards
• A manly beard
• Santa Claus

Alright just view the page already: http://instagram.com/swedishbeards

Or if you don’t like beards, you can view my instagram: http://instagram.com/jocie_

Signing out with my two favourite beards! One of these is not Swedish though … heh heh!

Emil Kåberg of Örebro HK. Best hockey beard EVER! Photo from http://www.aftonbladet.se

James Harden and his badass beard! FEAR THE BEARD. Photo from http://bustasports.com

Embrace the beardlings.

Day 34: Because it’s my birthday

My meatball kicked off our weekend by celebrating my birthday (a wee early)!

This was so sweet / så sött as my past love interests have failed to do so… But I am NOT opening that can of worms today!

Good thing I bought the vase the other day because I opened the door to a trio of romantic roses. Now girls, if you are living with a man and you want flowers then get a vase! He won’t have to worry about not having something to hold them. You buy one and then make a joke or really blatant state now I just need flowers!

We went for dinner at Lux that night but hmm I didn’t want to take a photo because that would be so non-Swedish of me, and it the lighting was romantic and flash would be required! Oh she’s one of those girls

So I’ve decided to share the photo from their Instagram. It looked exactly the same!

Roasted duck with artichokes and bacon – nomnomnom!

We then went snowboarding for my actual birth day! But that deserves it’s own post 🙂

This weekend was so special being my birthday but also because of Chinese New Year. I’ve had many happy tears to myself as it was my first time being away from home for so many things. Over time I won’t be a sappy sap but the words from my loved ones and friends were so special aloud and in writing!

I received some birthday cards today and it makes me love snail mail again! I will make a better effort at sending notes and cards for 2014!
Hand written words are so simple and so touching! Bring back snail mail!!!