Really long, possibly boring blog

This is a 2 part blog b/c i forgot to post the other day so its long. you should know this and dont complain if its too long 1st part is sillyness 2nd part is our game! See ya!

Im starting to this blog with a random thought of the day--please proceed with caution:

Have you ever had a place where you do your best thinking? Im 98% sure mine is the bathroom. Maybe its a Dolinsky thing, I dunno. I was thinking, in the bathroom, how I like to talk to people no matter what I’m doing..its like the opposite of an elevator. Now some people read or do sodoku, but not us. I dont really mind it-in fact the only one who does is my momma. Sometimes I think she questions how we all got this way or if we got switched at birth. She is much more proper and ladylike than us. We do all use manors though which im extremely grateful for as for those that don’t really bust my chaps. I could stop, but i wont. Then there’s the shower thinking. Ive been thinking I need to create a marker board that goes in the shower so you can write stuff down and not forget it! Then we add in the Friday Shower Beer to the equation... Thatsswhatssup. 

Okay so here is my forreal blog. Wednesday was so fun. Tove, Anna, Ase, Megs and I went to the field and played. We had a shooting competition with our coach and then we played soccer tennis. It was awesome. I got 3rd place. Then Megan and I went to O’leary’s to watch some footy and enjoy a nice cold coca-cola and some grub. We watched a Swedish premier division game--it was alright but some guy missed an open goal and a few of us yelled, TORRES!! poor baby face Torres. Missing goals like that could really make someone lose sleep. Thats the worst. 

Thursday we woke up and drove an hour to Are. Its a super nice ski resort..looks like a Lake Tahoe. I love love loveddd it. Everything is so pretty. It makes me want to book a cabin for a week this winter...anybody in?? Training was great. Well my final ball was shit but on the ball I felt good and was moving around quite well. Im excited for our game Sunday.  I watched its always sunny last night-Hilarious. Tonight Im hoping to find some more American shows--Is it sad that is probably one of the things i miss most? Besides the fam and friends (F.O.E.)hahah is  Television, Premium Cable and my bed (may it RIP). Can’t wait to do some more exploring and hit up the Moose Garden! Its a garden, full of moose, go figure. I even have the perfect shirt for it! Hope everyone is well and staying healthy with the weather changing! 

“Yes, considering we're in America. I mean, if you don't like spaghetti and meatballs, why don't you get the hell out?”

PART 2 of BLOG

Saturday: we went to the boys game and they won so they get to move up to the first division. Pretty exciting..makes me want to win our playoff games even more and move up a division here! I went to dinner with Ase and that was that. Pretty eventful Saturday....ha

Today is Sunday, game day. I woke up pretty, again. hahaha no but really I woke up really excited to play! We won 11-0. I had 4. My first goal was off an awesome cross from Megan and I HEADED IT IN! hahah I never score on headers so i felt pret-ty cool. THEN the 2nd one was off a short corner. I played a ball to Suss who gave it right back. I took a touch and bent the ball with my left foot far post side netting. we worked on those the other day so it seemed to have paid off. The other ones were also pretty nice from outside the box. Everyone played well which is great news for going into playoffs. Sucky sucky that we have to drive 9 hours for the next game but ohh well. 

After the game we went to dinner with some parents and other people. After dinner, I dropped my tray and my plates shattered on the ground. It reminded me of Freshman year when I tripped going down the stairs and rammed myself and tray into the wall, spilling food everywhere. THEN i got to skype my well-spoken, polite, really pretty friends who were playing a nice game of chess and just relaxing on this fine Sunday, not. GO COLTS?.... I also got to skype my momma and brother kris. Kris is so funny, i wonder where he gets it from--although many of you think i get it from him. I think my favorite thing ever is that we both think were funny so we just laugh at silly stuff all the time. Hmm this blog is plenty long. Hope everyone had an awesome weekend! 

Chlorophyll..more like BOREophyll. 

Bieliber or not...

Saturday was game day. The 8 minutes of our 2 hour bus ride was beautiful. When we arrived I still felt pretty shitty, but I wasn’t going to let it keep me from playing. Owe that one to my Daddio who always told me its ‘mind over matter’ so thats what I was telling myself. I managed to score 2 goals. the first one I was in the right place at the right time and the soccer gods were on my side. Must have done something right that day. The 2nd goal came like 5 minutes into the 2nd half. I saw Megan start taking the ball down the wing and said “shit”. (Megan not only played D1 soccer, but she also kicked booty on WVU’s track team her last year.) So when I saw her running it was like a porpoise trying to catch a cheetah. Anyways, I made a like 50 yard run into the box and found the ball on the back post. 15 mins later I was subbed out. The game ended 3-1 as they scored in the last minutes of the game.

Where dem girlz at?? Hahaha that was definitely my jam for the night. That and Someone Like You, obvi. I even did a rendition at the kabob place. Your welcome Ostersund, im here all month. The girls are great and all of their friends are so nice. 

Megs and I slept until about 1:30. Went to McDonalds. then came home and basically did not do a thing all day. We watched love and other drugs and the Justin Bieber movie. Naturally crying in both. Im such a sap. Then I got to skype with Alex =] I was at like 175% . Pretty bored right now and anxiously awaiting tomorrow. Im hoping to go to the doctor and not have the town be shut down. Although it stinks mostly everything is closed, its pretty peaceful and relaxing--just need to stock up on some desserts! and by desserts I mean veggies. Our diets started, remember?  Haha just realized I already told you I went to McDonalds. oh well its all gravy baby. Im gonna go do something crazy like get on FB or Twitter. Hope everyone had a good weekend!!! Miss everyone!

Well forgot to post the last blog sooooooo today I went to the doc and got some meds... annnd that basically sums up my day. I wasn’t allowed to train and am supposed to take tomorrow off. I forgot how mad I get when someone tells me im not allowed to play soccer. I had to count to 10 and keep my cool. Megan just electrocuted herself. As she let out a fairly loud yellp, I maintained my composure and position on the couch. All is good in the hood and we are trying to get to sleep early tonight! good night you little bloggers. 

Woke up in the morning not feeling like P. Diddy

This is a boring blog. But its a blog nonetheless and about hair and stuff. Just thought Id warn ya!

 Last night I, well Ase, colored my hair. I felt it necessary to look more Swedish so blonde highlights were fitting. Anyways, some of you may know that when I try this process myself, things don't always go as planned. I hate plans. For those of you that don't know my tragic hair story of 2006 ha...I had my 3 new "friends" color my hair. We had done similar experiments before such as relaxing Estelle's hair and I was not really concerned. Then we washed it out. See what had happened was my hair turned a nice blueish-gray. As per-usual, it was way passed our bedtime and all three "friends" took their pictures and went to bed. I should have sent them to that country formerly know as Ariz. Anyways, we may or may not have some blotches throughout my hair, but I think it'll build some character. Before I went to bed i started to feel a little sicky-poo. (wouldnt be right if that word wasn't used in one of my blogs) ha but then I woke up and felt pretty shitty, again, no pun intended. Im showing signs of strep throat which most of you know I have the tonsils the size of golf balls and it hurts pretty bad, womp womp. Other than that there isnt really much in my personal life occurring other than some pretty cool people that message me and continue to check in on my life here =]. 

We have a game today at 430 o'clock against the 2nd place team in the league. I am very excited to play again especially since we have trained with the team for just over a week now. I made cheesy eggs and toast, breakfast of a champion really. who doesnt like cheesy eggs? well besides ppl who dont like eggs but were not really friends with them anyways. kidding. Anyways I'm gonna enjoy this cup o coffee and make some tea to try and get my throat to not feel like an elephants trunk. p.s. did you know British people think its weird we call the place where we place our garbage, in a TRASH can, is weird.  I think its weird YOU SOUND LIKE YO FROM LUNDUN. haha classic movie.  I will have more to blog later and hopefully a funny story after our night. 

Its going to be weird not traveling with my KU girls and talking about silly, absurd, ridiculously inappropriate stuff. Love love everyone. 

Good Skill in your game today Kristofer! I love you!! 

Yello. you meeesss meee?? hahaha

So I am a day late and a dollar short--I have no idea what day of the week it is, ever. Anyways, Friday we had our second training. It went really well. We had a passing drill, played 5v2,  then did 2v2 and 1v1 transistion game. I felt a little better on the ball and the communication is getting easier with the rest of the girls. After practice Megan, Ase, her bf and friend and I went to a hockey game. I kept thinking of the h.s. games we went to back in the day and yelling 'CHANGE IT UP' obvi like the Mighty Ducks. After that we had movie and candy night.

So I always thought that Jet-lag was a crock-o-shit. NOPE. Megan and I are always wide awake from about 1-5 a.m. It is pretty sucky but oh well.

Saturday we went to the Boys game--pretty boring but they won 5-0, and I do like boys..and soccer..so i cant complain ha. haha im glad i think im funny. We then had dinner and a movie with some of the girls and watched the STUPIDEST movie ever. It was a scary movie and literally EVERYONE died except 1 creepy little boy who will go on to kill everyone else. Just another reason why dogs are better than people.

Today was game day. Alsmost didn't realize that it is 9.11. Watching it on the news here amazes me that it was 10 years ago. Many of the girls said that they even remember what they were doing on the day. It is nice that they recognize it and still remember the day.
We played the 3rd place team so I expected it to be a battle. I was so nervous in the locker room and then all I could think about was when I was 12 years old and all throughout college looking at Julie who would either be doing something random, like looking at toes like 4 inches from her face or making innappropriate gestures. Ha I was dying, chuckling to myself the whole time. then I got nervous again.  Anyways, we played really, really well and won 8-0. Megan scored twice and pretty sure got a few assists. I scored once and also got an assist or 2. I was fucking nackard by the 75th minute. I got player of the match and was given a prize! It is some pretty jewelery. I am still pretty out of shape but thought I worked pretty hard- especially playing with only 2 center mids. I miss my annie yi's and missy geha's that did the dirty defensive work for me. Anyways, it is 6:30 here and I am trying to get enough energy to shower. hahaha im such a dirt ball. But I think im calling it a night.  Hope everyone's sunday is going well. LOVE YOU MISS YOU KISS YOU K BYEEEAHHH

First Days

Welcome to my blog. I have never done this before so I am SOO nervous ha not really but this is for all you that are bored, want to see what I am getting into, or have an appreciation for waking up pretty.  It is pretty honest and probably a solid way to maintain my single status. This is my story:

As is tradition, I almost missed my flight to Stockholm. Security blew and I was approached by a lady asking if I was flying to Stockholm. I calmly said yes, and was then grabbed/pulled onto a golf cart where I was driven to the gate. It wouldn't be right if the plane was not waiting on me. ("ma'am, the plane is waiting on you" circa 2008 KU Soccer trip). So After I made the flight, I met Megan. She is the shit. She played at WVU and then with Boston. There will be more about her later--this is my blog. So I'm on the plane and just enjoyed a nice brisket dinner with mashed potatoes when BAM, I thought I was going to poop my pants. You know when youre with your friends and you think its funny when you fart and other people smell it but only you and your friend know--yea I didnt have that. With that being said, I pondered these following questions. 1. what if someone did in fact poop their pants on a plane? do they have spare clothes? would I ask someone to borrow their pants. 2. What is the longest amount of time someone has stayed in an airplane bathroom. Do they knock on the door? Anyways. We finally made it to Stockholm- and holy hamburgers. These men are, well, they are very nice looking men Mom. Nice fitting pants, suits, shoes-the whole package. There will be more about the men later but we then hopped on a little plane to our Island, better known as Ostersund.

Megan and I were greeted by paparazzi. No seriously. 3 girls on the team, members of the board, our coach and some news reporters. Lets just say after a 22 hour travel span, I was looking pretty fly. (Pics to follow)

The apartment we share is so cute and I expect to have zero privacy. Haha Megan and I's bed are like 4 feet away but its great. The girls took us around the town and are SO nice. Nicer than American girls i presume haha. After a brief tour, Megan and I headed back to the love shack where we slept for 15 hours. It was a dream come true, no pun intended.

Today (Wednesday) we had our first training. The stadium is AWESOME. Brand new turf surrounded by covered stadium seats on both sides. We trained at 7 under the lights. The girls here can play and the soccer training was all based around skill and actually playing soccer. I have a great feeling these next 2 months will be incredible; full of trainings, working out at Gold's gym, and enjoying the outdoors, despite old man winter who thinks he can keep us in.

As for now it is time for bed! I will post more later and be more specific about soccer and stuff like that. Thanks for reading.

<3monica