Upgrading, slowly but steady!

Wow, falling asleep at 7 pm on a friday night...and waking up again around 10 pm...what does it tell you? I must be dead tired, right?
I am so happy the weekend has come. I had a looooong week and this freezing cold doesn't make it any easier. We have been having temperatures between -25 and -30 for about 2 weeks now. A freezer!
This cold combined with work has definitely taken its toll, I guess I need to rest and take care of myself as much as I can these two days...the coming week will be even harder!
I am getting more and more work, I am happy about it, but I realized that combining work and being a wife, doesn't leave much time for other things...like time for myself and for having fun. I occasionally go out and have a nice time, but nowhere near how much I used to. Despite that, I am happy anyways!
I am very excited about our new apartment. We are moving in on tuesday and can't wait.
We still have to buy lots of furniture and decorations, but we will do it little by little, with time.
What counts to me is to get unique things that will make our home feel special and all ours...last thing I want is to buy everything from Ikea, which would make it look like any standard swedish house...no, I want something more, a special touch.
Still rococo hunting...but didn't manage to get anything yet in this specific style. I can wait.
Lately I have been getting lots of satisfaction at work, lots of compliments.
I am happy that my work is being appreciated, because everything I do I try to do it in the best way I can and I believe hard work should be rewarded.
So new apartment ( with garden and garage!), more work...I guess what I need is also a new car! Hopefully in time I will fix that too..
Let me tell you, it wasn't easy to recover from that fire that destroyed everything I had...
then moving to another continent, starting off from zero, build something and deciding to move again back to Sweden and begin everything from zero once again.
I became strong as a rock, but it feels old and new at the same time this starting off from 0 all over again. I have a need to put my feet on solid ground, that before I can seriously start off with music again.
I bought a keyboard and a microphone, that was a start at least.
If only I had a band supporting me it would be so much easier, but on my own it's all at a pause.
Oh by the way I think I forgot to mention that Amr and I have been interviewed by the newspaper about the revolution in Egypt. It seems that lots of people read it.
Here is a pic of it.
Cheers!

This 2011

I can't believe I didn't post any blog in 2011 until now!
This new year started off in a really strange way...on new year's eve the bomb in the christian church in Egypt, then the revolution in Tunisia followed by the one in Egypt and on a personal note, the sudden death of my dear cousin.
It has been a storm of events and emotions. I have been feeling quite strange both physicaly and psychologically. The death of my cousin hit me like a knife in the heart.
Since then my heart has been beating strange.
From time to time I started to get this intense feeling, like my soul is going to fly out of me...it comes suddenly, I don't know how to explain it...it is more or less the same feeling of when one wakes up scared from a nightmare or from a loud sound...or when one has the sensation of falling while asleep...
I think it is something related to my psychological situation, it probably affects my heart...
I just know I want to live, I have a whole life ahead of me, I want to have children and enjoy everyday of my life with my wonderful husband who is the happiness of my life.
On a brighter note I got a raise in salary ( as I am working more now) and we just found a wonderful new apartment, closer to the sea. We are moving in about 10 days and I am extremely excited. It feels so new and fresh, it has just been renovated, new floor, new wallpapers...finally we will have a place of our own again!
I can't wait to decorate it and buy nice furniture, a little at the time inshAllah, it will be just like we always dreamed of.
I recentely fell in love with rococo style for furniture...I got totally obsessed with the thought of getting a bloodred rococo sofa, I must get one!!
It is very hard to get in shops, they don't seem to produce furniture in this style anymore, so I guess the only way is to get it from an antique shop or buy it from some private person on the internet.
I dont like used furniture, but if it is a piece of art like I have in mind, it is another story of course.
Ah this new rococo passion is going to be very expensive!
We will see how it goes!
This is exactly how I want it...I saw this on the internet but I wish they had two for sale, not just one peace...or at least some arm chairs to go with it...

Saw this one too...it looks wonderful!