Rebecca Löwengrip

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Salary and my guide to London

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What a beautiful day it is! The sun is shining and I went up at a reasonable hour, and my paycheck just came in! Although, this month it SUCKED! Cus I was home sick for two weeks in february. And I can't get my hopes up for the next paycheck cus by boss cut down on my hours so I'll get about the same! :(

So now I have to be cheap as fuck so I can save money for London! Good thing is that I've already paid the flight and hotel. And now I have like 2,5 grand that I could save from this paycheck. And on the next one I'll take another 2,5. Hopefully that'll be  enough. I hate it when you have to be cheap on you're abroad! When I'm on vacation I want to eat good food, do fun things like sightseeing, shopping, going to the movies/plays. Whatever I might feel like doing! I don't want to regret not seeing something just because it was a money issue.

Well, it'll work itself out! I'm just restricted from shopping until I get to London! That way I'll only spend my money on food and the occational movie/cup of coffe with a friend or something. I CAN DO THIS! ;D

Btw, I've already totally started a list of all the places I want to go to in London! What I've got so far is the shopping list!! Wanna see it?  I KNOW YOU DO!! ;)

 

Oxford Street:

    ·         Top shop
    ·         Primark
    ·         River Island (skor)
    ·         New Look
    ·         Anne Summers (underkläder)
    ·         Dorothy Perkins (accessoarer och skor)
    ·         Urban Outfitters
    ·         American Apparel
    ·         Faith Shoes
    ·         Agent provocateur (underkläder)


Vintage:

    ·         Absolute Vintage- 15 Hanbury street, Tube: Shoreditch
    ·         Beyond retro- 110-112 Cheshire street
    ·         Rellik- 8 Golborne Road, Tube: Westbourne Park
    ·         Yellow submarine- 38 Earlham street, Tube: Covent garden.
    ·         Brick Lane, gata med massor av vintage butiker- Tube: Shoreditch eller
              Liverpool street.


Shopping områden:

    ·         Camden
    ·         Notting Hill
               -Portobello Road Market
    ·         Mayfair
    ·         Soho
    ·         Covent Garden
               -Yellow submarine
               -David and Goliath (T-shirt heaven)
    ·         Westfield Shopping centre- Tube: Shepherd’s Bush eller White City. 
    ·         Brick Lane


Annat:

    ·         Victoria secret – Agent Provocateur-- 6 Broadwick Street, London
    ·         TK Maxx- 26-40 Kensington High Street, 57 King Street
    ·         COS –på Regent Street.


If you wondered how I got all this in an hour, google and blogs are your friends people! I knew some of these already, but those were the stores around Oxford street. The rest I got from different websites, aftonblandet and a wonderful London-guide a blogger made! So alot of credit (if not all) goes to the blogger fashionina.se who lives in London and study fashion! Therfore I got the best shopping guide ever!

Now I have to make a list of different sights I want to see, bars/clubs I want to go to and restaurants/cafés I want to eat/drink at! :) There's only 37 days left  you know!! And I'll be well prepared this time! Cus last time I'd never been there and I didn't bother looking things up. So we went shopping at Primark. Nothing else!! So this time I'll be well prepared for shopping in London! And don't think I'll look fab while doing so! ;D


 Soon soon soon! 37 days left! And this time'll be o much better! We'll stay at a nicer hotel, we have Nina with us, Sofia and Patricia live there now so they can show us alot of places, I've got my list, and we'll experience the nightlife this time and I'm gonna look so goddamn gorgeous that all the hot London-guys won't know what to do ;) haha! :D

Good morning, or eh yeah

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It's not one of the best mornings exactly. I'm back, the notorious sleeper, I could have easily sleapt about 5-6 more hours! But instead I'm sitting here with my coffe... Well, I have myself to blame. I made the classic mistake of being up by habit. Even though I was deadly tired at 10, I didn't go to bed until 01.30!! What did I do? Beats me! One minute I'm watching a movie and I look at the clock and it's 10 pm, the next thing I know the clock fastforwarded to 1 am and I hadn't showered yet. Hence, I went to bed like 01.30. And now I'm tired as fuck.

Only positive thing right now is that I get off at 14.00, and after that I'm meeting my aunt for a cup of coffe. Oh, and I don't have to get up this early tomorrow.

Well I gotta go get ready, uuuuggggh....

Have a nice day y'all!

This song will ALWAYS cheer me up! :)

a long walk home

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Work today was... work. I wasn't so happy when I went home so I decided to take a detour and take a long walk home. Er, well long-er. Anyway, I got inspired to take some photos. I really wish I had a better camera.










Even if I walk a long lonely road, I will always find my way back to where I belong, home.

according to me you're officially grown up when...

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...you start liking going up at 7, to get and early start of the day and go to work at 8. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME?! The notorious sleeper. Like I said yesterday I love sleeping in to like 2 pm! And when I got up  a while ago and started to turn on the computer, putting on the coffe and fixing breakfast I quietly thought to myself 'this is nice, now I won't miss out on the whole day'. I MEAN WHAT WAS THAT?!?!?!?

It's creepy.

This thing called growing up.

Hmm.

Well, at least I'm not tired like hell. I'm sitting here with the most awesome breakfast ever! Yesterday when I went grocery shopping I bought yoghurt and freezed raspberries and blueberries. I also bought kesella vanilj for other purposes, but just now I though 'hey let's mix em up and test how it is!' AND IT TURNED OUT SOOO GOOOD!!! :D
YUMMIE!!

Well I gotta get to it, and then I gotta go!

See ya later!

Ohh, and the cutiepie Willow Smith has made a new video! Our next Rihanna? I think so!

cosmo

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Aaaah, I'm done! I've even gotten to the part about eating candy! ^^ Okay, I might have cheated a bit on the cleaning the appartment bit. I kinda skipped my bedroom, and vacuum cleaning the appartment. I will do it though! My friends are coming over on friday, and I want my appartment to be clean then! I can do it tomorrow! I also have some boxes I need to take down to the basement.

Well, I better get ready for bed soon. I have to get up at... ehm... let me think.... 06.30 tomorrow!!! Oh, no! :'( Good thing I bought coffe! I'll just finish my cosmopolitan and then go to bed.

Good night!


I love spoiling myself like this! Makes any day better!

update

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Agenda of the day:

Sleep ALOT

Eat brakfast

Work

Get dressed, I sitting here in a t-shirt. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't qualify as being dressed.

Book the laundry room

Go to the store

Wash dishes

Clean the appartment, dude it seriously looks like SHIT

Eat dinner (shit, I have to cook! Damn it that I'm not working today... there I can just pick something)

Kick back

Chill

Chill some more

Eat some candy?

Go to sleep early, if possible (totally my loss otherwise cus I'm working from 8.00-14.00 tomorrow)


YEAH! LET'S DO THE FUCKING DISHES THEN!!!

day off but still working

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Hey everyone! I hope you've had a good day! Guess what I've been doing almost all day? SLEEPING! Kinda regret missing out on the whole day, but nah, I love sleeping in! I really needed to just be able to sleep for as long as I needed and then just lay in bed until I waned to go up! ^^

Other than that I haven't done much. Eaten breakfast and working. Working from home? How? Well, thing is I'm gonna be a traineé at work. That means I'll have more responsibility, I get to lead my own shifts, I'll get a raise and after that I'll be able to become an assistant. Assistants are like Jr bosses.

But to get there I have to complete a series of tests on the internet. And since I never have the energy to do that after work, I'm doing it today on my day off! Wow, am I ambitious or what?! I'm totally patting myself on the shoulder.

Right now I'm taking a break from that, and I'm considering going grocery shopping cus I'm running out of food and stuff! But I aslo reeeeeeeeaaaaaally need to wash the dishes and book a time to wash my clothes. Guess I'll get to it?

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Agenda of the day:

Sleep ALOT

Eat brakfast

Work

Get dressed, I sitting here in a t-shirt. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't qualify as being dressed.

Book the laundry room

Go to the store

Wash dishes

Clean the appartment, dude it seriously looks like SHIT

Eat dinner (shit, I have to cook! Damn it that I'm not working today... there I can just pick something)

Kick back

Chill

Chill some more

Eat some candy?

Go to sleep early, if possible (totally my loss otherwise cus I'm working from 8.00-14.00 tomorrow)
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 I've been sitting here with favorite coffe cup all day.

 Yes, these are the most normal pictures I took today. The other ones would have made you throw your computers of of the window in fright. And let me add, I know how precious your computers are, hence me not putting the pictures up is an complete act of kindness.

cause im leavin on monday mornin

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Have you heard the news today?
I'm leaving town, I'm cashing out.
This town's too small for me to stay.
The time is now, I'm heading out.

Baby I still need ya.
But if you stay I'll leave ya.
Cause I gotta get away.
And if I ever see ya my heart is gonna bleed.
But I'm leaving either way...

¨

I've got two tickets and a dream. 8:15, I'll save you a seat....

Love this song. For me it's all about your own choices and freedom. You have the right to follow your dreams, even if you have to leave everything else behind and go by yourself. And soon I'll leave too. Just wait, I know I will.

good morning!

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Who am I kidding! I know that you know that there's abolutely no way in hell the I'm up at this hour. I frikkin closed last night! And of course I'm writing this at 02.46. I just couldn't sleep so I looked around on the internet, looking for clothes. That, naturally, I can't buy. But since I'm so in love, I thought I'd share 'em with you.

These things make me wanna cry...




ISN'T THAT JUST GORG!?!?!?!?!? This dress with the jacket above = LOVE! Only question is, what kind of shoes do you wear with them? White ones? Black? Grey? Hmm..


I WANT SPRING NOW!!


I love denim!


I've already got this baby! But I thought you could cry over it a bit! It's so beautiful, totally worth flaunting ;)


But now I want these too! Oh for the love of feathers...


Gaaah, I'm drooling!

All of these are from H&M except the first one, that one's from Monki. But I guess you figured that one out :)

Oh shit, it's already 3 am! Gotta go to schleeeep! We'll I'll write for real when I'm actually up ;)

SUNday!

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Hello everyone! Hope your having a good sunday! It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining and.... I have to work! Well, oh well. I have to. No use in complaining! I want to work so I can save money to London!! I really can't describe how much I'm longing to just pack my bags and go! I really LOVE that city! I've already planned everything. What I'm gonna wear, how I'm gonna look, were I wanna go and what we're gonna do! I'm starting a list soon on all the places I want to visit and all the shops I want to go to! :D 46 days left!! Wiiie CAN'T WAIT!

I have to go take a shower now. I'm off to work after that, 16.00-00.45. If we're done. If you're not done at 00.45 you have to stay until everything is clean. But I'm getting better at closing, so hopefully we'll be done in time so we can go home!

Gots to gooeee! Have a nice day!

Peace!


 Soon I'll be here! 46 days left!

idontwannaworktoday

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But I have to... 15.00-23.15. I'll probably write more tomorrow, cus when I get home I'll be tired like hell.

tune of the day

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Just because it's one of the best songs ever made. And it totally makes me happy.

did someone say friday?

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Today's friday! Woohoo! Well probably for most of you. I on the other hand have to work all week-end... Well, I have London to look forward to! I want to work like HEEEEEEEEELL so I get a fat paycheck, so I can spend it in two seconds flat in London! ;D

Good thing today is that I have a short shift, only from 15.00-19.45. But that means I don't get a break. Yeah, I KNOW it SUCKS! My boss told me she changed the shifts so as few as possible had to go on breaks. Ergo, she took away 15 minutes of the shift so you don't work 5 hours. Cus when you work 5 hours or more, you have to have a break. It's like some kind of law. She is so sneaky... She's a real business woman. All about the numbers.

Anyway, Lana and I said that we're gonna do something after work. Question is WHAT?! I want to go out, but she doesn't... Hmm, well we'll see.

I'm gonna go eat some lunch now. I got some soup from my foster-parents when I was there :D Yummie!

Ciao!


Oh, I finally found my cable to my phone! So now you'll get pictures again!

This is from 2 weeks ago when Sali gave me my B'day present! I told you before she gave me a dinner and drinks at Vapiano. So that's what we did! Best wednesday ever!


Aaah, my mouth is watering when I see the pictures now! Insanely good food! A bit price-y, but SO WORTH IT!

my thursday

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So yesterday Lana and I went in to town. We didn't do much, we mostly went around, looked in different stores. We cried over all the things we couldn't buy. And as comfort we went to the movies instead!

We saw "Just go with it" or the swedish title is "Min låtsas fru" with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. It was a good movie, not great. It was much like any other Adam Sandler-movie. Kinda the same storyline, you could predict the whole movie from the start. It was funny, but no tears of laughter. The funniest characters weren't the lead parts, it was the sub-characters.

But it was worth watching. And I had so much fun spending the day with my Lana! :)♥

But the thing is we shouldn't have gone around looking in shops, cus now I'm dangerously in love!

LOOK WHAT I FOUND AT MONKI!!



Jacket 450 kr and Shirt 150 kr

Here's the jacket ---> http://www.monki.com/products/Jackets-Vests/Johanna_1991 
But I couldn't find the shirt. It's in stores though, and they're both so lovely! I'm crying..

I'm off!

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I gotta go now cus I'm meeting up with Lana and we're going in to town! I haven't seen her in a while so I've really missed her! It's gonna be fun!

This is what I look like today :)


It's really hard to take outfit-pictures with the webcam... haha

I hate the frikkin web-cam pictures all the time! But I have no camera that works, and I've misplaced the cable to my cellphone. So, I have like tons of pictures onm my phone that I've taken to put up in the blog, but I can't upload them to my computer... Hope  I'll find it soon!

the sun has graced us with it's precense

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Finally we're getting somewhere on the walk towards spring! I can't wait to dump my winterjacket! I've worn it like every single day since october! I'm sick and tired of it...

What I would like to wear today is:





Gaaah! Imagine this with a highwaisted pair of light washed jeans and boots. And of course lots of rings and earrings.... I'm drooling!

food equals fat?

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Okay seriously, I need to go on a diet or something soon... Today all I've done is eating! When I woke up I made waffles again (the leftovers from yesterday, which resulted in 2 waffles. But still). Then I met up with my sister in Jakan and we ate at Tasty's, I know again, but this time with a different Amanda. ^^

After that we swung by my work cus I had cravings for Max's lyxury chocolate milkshake (if you haven't tried it, you absolutely have to do it!!!) and then we went home to my foster-parent's. There I ate a cinnamon bun and a pear (whoop whoop only healthy thing all day). Good thing we took the dogs out walking afterwards! And when I got home I ate a 'semla'. and now I'm sitting here infront of the computer with chocolate milk and a bun.

What does this tell you? I'm surprised I don't weigh 300 kg... Hahaha, no but seriously. I don't know what's up with my body cus I'm eating like a horse and I've never been thinner. Think it might be because of work. Cus I never stand still, we run around all day. And when I'm working I don't have time to eat :P

But that's not really what bothers me. I want to have a healthy diet. Not because I care about size. I want to feel good from the inside. Wow, that didn't sound muchy at all . . .

What I mean is -- I want to eat good stuff to feel good basically.

But the bad stuff makes me so happy...


Best thing ever is that they make Pucko with less lactose in it now!! :D


The usual me


Still sucks that I burned my hand. Hope it gets better soon!

Oh and I forgot to mention that my foster-mom is THE BEST cus guess what? She packed down a bag full of food and gave it to me! She even PEELED two oranges and put in a box for me to snack on. God I love that woman! :D♥

im on the right track baby, i was born this way!

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1st of March

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And here's a new month already! Whoop whoop! We're nearing us spring time! I'm in a really good mood today! I got to sleep in, I went to the hospital and got new bandages, and I went grocery shopping. So now I'm home reading my book, listening to good music and eating waffles with whipped cream and raspberry jam! :D And to it I'm drinking Starbucks coffe (My foster-mom bought me coffe beans from Starbucks when she was in London), it's sooooo DELICIOUS!! :D

I wasn't supposed to work today cus another girl wanted my shift. But now a guy at work called in sick so I'll have to work anyway. But it's okay, I didn't have any plans anyway.


Nom nom nom! Cozyness! Just what I needed this boring tuesday! :)

UPDATE: Btw, I saw now that the date on the photo was totally off! I did not cheat with the picture. I took it while I was eating the waffles and blogged about it. Ergo, the picture wasn't taken the 27th...