Nina Ricci~Premier Jour

I have a new smell, that is a new perfume. I have found out that I love Nina Ricci's smell of Premier Jour. It's sweet and feminine and strong at the same time. I love it. Well, my sister just came back from London yesterday and she was so cool to bring me Nina Ricci's Premier Jour. I was sleeping when she was home, but I could tell she could not wait to give me her gift. I woke up at 1:30 am to go to the bathroom, and she said "Ok, do you want it now?" So, I said ok. Half asleep I accepted her gift, loved it from the very second I saw her pull it out of the bag. I knew exactly what it was. Gave her a kiss then, went to the bathroom and back to bed :)

Well, this morning I decided that I am going to wear my new perfume, and I love it even more on me than in the store. It's a strong smell, but it's ok, it means it will last all day on me :)

I feel good today. I look great, wearing my black dress and a jacket, my favorite green mini-boots, my new ear-rings and my new perfume. I am going into the meeting with my boss and CEO of our company in about an hour, and I will be stuck there for 2 hours, but at least I feel good. I think I look beautiful today, and that is all that matters :) I am sure Matt would have commented on my looks and spirits today. I wish he was here to see me.

Anyway, Kara, thanks for a great gift. Matt, thanks for a great life. Me, thanks for being me :) Everyone else, thanks for being my friends. I am very blessed and pretty darn lucky!!!

Portsmouth, UK

It's the city where Matt is living and will be staying for the next 10 months or so. I came out last weekend to see if I approve of the place he will be at. Well, do I approve? You bet! It's absolutely gorgeous there. I loved everything there, the little town, the nice beach, the cruises on the water, the country side and the outside mall. Of course the best part is that I saw my husband and spent the whole weekend with him. It was a real treat!!! We got to walk around a lot, he got to hold my hand, I got to hug him and snuggle, snuggle, snuggle :) We celebrated his 30th birthday together, and he took me to some really nice restaurants where I tried new things and loved the atmosphere. His apartment is going to be gorgeous, within the walking distance from the beach!!! I am definitely going to visit him over the summer months and lay on the beach while he is away at work :) Anyway, Portsmouth is a place where I could move to and spend some time with just my husband. He can work and I can walk around Portsmouth, read my books and just enjoy life :) Although Matt thinks that I would miss working, and I guess he is right. But it would have been so cool to spend time with him, more so than we do now. The last weekend was wonderful, we did not do too much, just enjoyed our life together and just enjoyed the beautiful weather out in Portsmouht, England. I love England. I love being with Matt. We are a happy couple, and that is the best blessing I could ever ask for :)

Crazy Schedule

Well, this weekend I am functioning on a totally different schedule than I am used to. First of all, I left early on Friday so I can make on-time for my plane to go to England. I got to England, and found out that I am going to be sleep deprived during the weekend and therefore will be tired during the week. My weekends are usually full of sleep, I tend to stay up late, but then I tend to sleep till 2 pm on the weekends in Moscow and sometimes I take naps even if I get up at 2 pm :)

Well, this last weekend I spent with my husband, and since we only had 2 days with each other, I figured I would rather not spend the whole time sleeping, so I was pretty good waking up before 10:30 :) Although, usually did not get out of bed till after 11:00, I like to snuggle :) He did let me nap during the days, but those naps were rather short. But the craziest part of my schedule is that I took the red eye flight home. I left London at 10:30 pm, and landed in Moscow at 5:40 am. I did fall asleep on the plane, although I was not very comfortable and woke up a few times, I tried to buy a neck pillow so I can sleep better, but get this, English sell just about everything in their airport except for those pillows :( So, I landed at 5:40, went through security in no time, stood outside in the cold to wait for a bus to come by and went straight to work. Even though I don't start working until 9 am, if I were to go home, then I would have just enough time to go home, drop the bags off and head back to work. It would have made me more tired, I think. Anyway, so I have been at work since about 6:10 am this morning. Originally, I was planning on leaving early tonight, but I forgot that I have a meeting at 5pm today and it will go till 6 pm at least, most likely even longer, which is a bummer. I also was invited to a birthday party tonight, but I am definitely going to skip that, because just like my husband said I am "going to be a zombie by 5 pm" :) Oh, well.

Oh, and then it's getting better :) I am going home and we have my sister's best friend staying with us for a couple of days. Knowing myself, there is no way I am going to go to bed when we have guests in the house, plus I haven't met Vitya's girlfriend, so I am definitely staying up for a while tonight. Like I said, it's goign to be a crazy week, and I am going to be tired. Next Friday I am doing the same thing over. I am flying out Friday night to go to England, but I will stay an extra day because we have a 3 day weekend in Russia (holidays :)) So, next week I will be this tired on Tuesday morning, but I don't think I will have as much planned for next week as I have for this week.

But honestly, I don't really mind. I am sitting here at work, listening to music, and actually getting quite a lot of things done, because there is nobody here and nobody is distracting me. Just working away and watching how it's getting lighter outside :) Oh, but the biggest reason why I don't mind this all is because I got to see my husband, and it was great. It's been about a month and a half since the last time I have seen him, and I missed him crazy. So, I don't mind traveling and I don't mind not having a good night sleep, and I am ready to give up naps and many other things just to be with him :) So, yeah, I have a bit of a crazy schedule and running low on sleep, but it's all worth it.

Work, work, work

Geeze, I think these Germans are going nuts. I work for a German company and I always thought that Germans were not super hard-working people. Well, the Germans that work in our company sure do like to work and like to keep everybody else rather busy. My project list keeps growing and I am starting to wonder when in the world am I going to have time to do all this stuff.

Time flies, days go by without me noticing. I can sit at work and all of a sudden look at the clock and realize it's 17:02 (5 pm basically), which means that I only have an hour of work left and I haven't accomplished everything I wanted to in the day.

Some times when I complain to Matt, he says that I love it, which is a good point, I do love my work, which is a huge blessing. I love what I do even though I get frustrated at times. I live my current job much more than I liked my previous one in MN, although I liked working at Graco as well. But this job is very busy, much busier than I ever was at Graco, plus here I work in a very nice office and dress up every day :)

I wish I could have a job like this at home in MN, then I would be the happiest person on earth :)

My Husband...

...is truly wonderful. No, really, he is all you would ever want in a man. He
- compliments me often, tells me I look beautiful on my worst Monday mornings :)
- calls me 'cutie-potutie' all the time :)
- laughs a lot
- makes me laugh a lot
- wants 4 trouble making kids from me, which I think is the biggest compliment to me ever
- is 30, but in heart I think he is more like 3 :)
- takes me to tons of places, even though he has traveled to Europe, he doesn't mind going there again, because I haven't been there
- is very good with money, no need to worry about my retirement and well-being
- disciplines me (that is not my favorite part, but it's good I guess), makes me save money if I want a new car :)
- always talks about me to his co-workers. Every time I meet his new co-workers, they always tell me that they couldn't wait to meet me because Matt has talked to them so much about me; it's very flattering really :)
- provides a home for me, the best part is that our home has a lot of my hubby in it, many things were done by him in there, and it's great to be in that home and be surrounded by his work :)
- educates me, he always seems to know more about the news, new technologies, science, history and even gossip than I ever do :)
- lets me sleep in often, although sometimes he does wake me up but not without prepared breakfast, that way I think he knows that I won't yell at him for waking me up, instead I am happy to see food and get up usually without fuss
- talks to me daily, even though I am cranky a lot and give him hard time
- on occasions will talk to me for over an hour if I can't shut up :)
- is very patient with me, and actually listens to me the whole hour or more of me talking on the phone :)
- is good looking!!! (i thought I would put it on top, but was afraid that people would think that i like him just for his looks; if he ages all of a sudden or something else will happen to his looks, he has nothing to worry about, there are a gazzillion other things I love about him besides his look, so I will still stick around :)
- encourages me to go to a doctor when I am not feeling well, instead of just telling me to toughen up and get over it, although sometimes I need just that :)
- puts me before anything or anybody else, and that is just so COOOOOOL
- has no interest in other girls and I know he doesn't. Although he does "look at the menu", I am confident he would never "order" :)
- travels a ton to spend just a few hours with me :) Why would he want to do that, I have no clue, I hate traveling and I probably would not like dealing with myself either :)
- tells me I am a great cook, and tells that to everybody else
- picks up on everything I say I like and would like to do or have and gives it to me for birthday/christmas/etc

He does many more things that are super nice, more things that I could count really. But mainly he loves me like crazy and I love that :) I am quite spoiled by his love and attention, but that is the way I like it :) I couldn't ask for more in a husband, a friend and a partner for life :)

Stupid Work Computers...

...now they decide that it's ok if I access blogger once in a while. They drive me crazy....Can they just make up their mind if I am allowed to get access to my blog or not. Anyway, I have been super busy lately at work, too much stuff really, but the days have been flying by, which is good. But I am getting a little worn out. Today things have lightened up a little, so I am enjoying it a bit :) I love my job, but I don't like it when I feel like I have a ton of stuff to do and not enough time to do it. I work with deadlines a ton, so it's a bit stressful. Our CIO usually expects things when he wants them, such as presentations ready by noon of next days, letters to suppliers mailed with a request for corrective actions by tonight, etc, etc. Seriously, I don't think this guy works on a weekly basis, if he needs anything, the latest he will wait is till tomorrow night. So, there has been a lot of running around on my part so I would put together all the info he wants. This, Dr. Martinelli, is a bit demanding if you ask me, but at least I got to sit on the board of directors meeting 2 weeks ago, it was pretty cool I have to admit. And boy, our Dr. Martinelli can go from being furious to being hilarious in a matter of seconds. He is pretty funny actually :)

New blogging technique

I am forced to use a new blogging technique now, because my lovely work blocks blogger, so I can’t post blogs from work, and my sister’s computer is sick, so I can write blogs at home either. So, my husband found a new way for me to write blogs and that is through email. I write a blog in an email, then send it to the blogger and it posts, except my blogs look funky and I don’t like it.

 

There seems to be a lot of wasted space in my previous blogs and that bothers me like crazy. But hopefully this way I will keep blogging. I missed it for a while and then I got used of not doing it J Now, I will need to get back into the habit again J

Nice...

...no, I am not nice...I am going to Nice. France that is. I am not really sure whether I will be going there or not, as it seems that my hubby might not be able to get us a hotel with the points, which means that then we will have to figure out an alternative place to go.

See, my sister and I had an idea of going to Greece and laying on the beach for a week and take our parents along with us so they could relax and enjoy their life, but then my hubby said that we should not go to Greece unless we are planning on traveling to different islands, and well, with my parents it will be rather hard. So, then Matt suggested Nice, and after I looked at the few pictures, I figured I like it way better than Greece.

Anyway, I am keeping my fingers crossed that my hubby will make Nice work, because I want to go there!!! But, meanwhile we will keep thinking deciding between Nice, Athens or some other place for me and my folks and sister and hubby to hang out at :)

I am the luckiest and happiest person on Earth :)

 

 

 

 

A place called Here

Well, after a few months of not reading anything, I have decided to pick up a book and read it. Actually, it was not as easy as it sounds. I have purchased a book in the states called "Citizen Girl", it's by the same authors that wrote "Nannies Diaries" and although I enjoyed their first novel, I could not force myself to keep reading "Citizen Girl" I have picked up that book at least a dozen time, but I am just not interested.
Then one night my sister and I went to her friend's house, and there, Mrs. Black gave me a book to read "Sophie's Heart". Not really the kind of book I like to read, too romantic and very predictable, but it was a very easy read and woke my hunger to start reading books I like. So, I finished "Sophie's Heart" in 3 days and then went to a book store, where I picked up 4 books in English.
My first one that I have decided to read was "A place called home" by Cecelia Ahert. She wrote "PS: I love you" that I truly enjoyed. Well, Ms. Ahern did not disappoint me this time either. I loved her last novel, it was great, especially towards the end. I would recommend it to anybody who wants a light read but still a book with meaning and not just fluff. Even though it's fiction, it has some really good meaning underneath it all.

I am now reading "Just friends" and even though I like it, I don't like it as much as "A place called here". All in all, I am glad I am reading again, because then my time flies by and I am much happier when I have a pepsi and a book by my side :)