Posts in Category: Personal
Greener with the scenery
I am getting quite obsessed with the plants in my apartment, constantly finding excuses to pass the fancy floral shops and flower market on Mariatorget trying to find new ones. I have no idea what I’m doing but this is my mental image:
Best nine
Here’s my nine most liked pictures from Instagram this year, generated here. A lot of me apparently. But this year was good. A lot of changes, trips and some glitter. I spent the holidays sick in bed unfortunately but my hopes are high for this year. Happy holidays!
My year in music
The other week, Spotify released their annual music report titled ‘2015 Year In Music’ which is a neat feature that provides a recap of the most popular songs and artists that have been played all year. What’s fun is that they also do it custom made for your streaming account. Spotify presents your top acts and songs, how much time you spent listening to Spotify tracks, how many tracks you listened to — and they also conclude with putting together a new ‘Play It Forward’ playlist based on your listening habits to help you close out the year discovering new music.
Here’s what my year looked like:
Sick days
I’m home sick on a Saturday and so far I’ve turned to Netflix, youtube yoga and Pinterest. Here’s a few things that made me feel a little better:
My online shopping behavior
I do a lot of online shopping, mostly because I hate going through crowded stores to try things on in tiny fitting rooms. There are several types of online shopping behaviours, and I would characterise myself as spontaneous but picky. I either now exactly what I want before I start looking, and rarely find what I’m looking for. Or I just stumble across something; on a blog, in a newsletter or on Pinterest. Then I will enter my PayPal details before I even browse through the page. I am a spontaneous online shopper. But I always do try and go to the brand’s own online shop. The first thing I look for is their return policy – can I make a free return if the items don’t fit? If yes, I will look for free shipping and hopefully get it. This would be my shopper’s threshold – will my impatient and/or laziness be worth whatever I spend on shipping?
The other week, I ended up buying a pair of jeans online. That’s a first. I had a very pleasant online shopping experience on Dr Denim – from the browsing to the unboxing. I actually bought two pairs of high wasted jeans (and a tee to cover the free shipping range), but ended up sending back two items. (Apparently, crop tops can be a little too short, who knew?) Now I’ll just wait and see if their customer service is as good. I sent them an email two days ago and still haven’t heard back, so I guess I’ll have to get back on that one.
Update: got an email from their customer service team today, so all-in-all: great shopping experience!
Tumblr, we meet again
This is a little disclaimer: I am back on Tumblr yet again. I keep coming back because it’s so easy to explore and as easy to use. I am a frequent pinner already, and although these two mediums are quite similar, but Tumblr is still not about selling products, just about posting and re-posting inspiring content. This also means that there is a lot of crap. A lot. But I choose who I follow wisely, and I have a zero tolerance for sexist content (which is also overflowing, but that’s another discussion). Pinterest and Tumblr are both two mediums that actually work much better on my iphone than on my desktop, and it allows me to collect and keep coming back to useless things that inspire me in some sort of way. One of my best ways to kill time in other words.
Refugees Welcome
It’s time to get together and help the people in need. A new report from the UN refugee agency says that more than 2500 migrants and refugees have died or gone missing this year only while crossing the Mediterranean Sea. More and more people are dying in their desperation to reach safety at the borders.
Here’s what you can do to help at home:
Happy birthday Harriet!
Tweening since 2011. Love you not-so-little girl. Happy birthday!
Vacay
For the first time in forever, I will have a proper summer vacation. Goodbye Stockholm, hello Berlin. And New York.
My hate/love for code
Yesterday I made a brand new website from scratch. I built it in a subdomain to the root without any indexing from Google, built a nice little structure and trying out some things. This afternoon I was ready to replace the whole root catalogue with my subdomains. But instead, I deleted my work-in-progress in the process. No backup, no cache, no files on my computer. Did I mention it was for work? Insert gun emoji.
Dedicated x Smiley
Perks about working with an awesome brand: getting to sell (and buy) this awesome t-shirt. I’m obviously happy about it.