1st of February,

One month is over already from 2011. Only 11 months and we have new year again. That makes time just to fly.
For us, that means, we have have only 3 months left to our big day. That feels both happy time and bit scary time, since one way, so much is already done and other time, there is much still to do.

This month will also bring along my sweethearts birthday and also valentines day. The day, what should be full of love. If all goes like I would like, when I will have small surprise to my sweetheart. If it works out, I will tell, what it is/was :)

Today I have not had one of the best days on health wise.  I have been feeling sick and that is not the best feeling. It has been made me feel sad since there was some things what I had supposed to do. Be out and take my friend out to coffee and later to be in Lions Zone-meeting, but there will be other times for me to go.
But at least now I feel better. I had even a very nice visit. And that felt good. Thank you my dear for that you visited me and our two cats :) I also must say thank you for the good food what was sent for me from Kastrullhäksans. That food tastes always very good. If someone would like to order from her, then more about different food and about contact information can be found here.

Now my dear readers and friends and family - I want to wish you all a pleasant evening and nighty night. Sleep well and see nice dreams.

Trust,

Trust - What is a trust? Why do we trust? What happens if we trust? Questions like that comes always in our mind if something happens.

Trust is both and emotional and logical act. Emotionally, it is where you expose your vulnerabilities to people, but believing they will not take advantage of your openness. Logically, it is where you have assessed the probabilities of gain and loss, calculating expected utility based on hard performance data, and concluded that the person in question will behave in a predictable manner. In practice, trust is a bit of both. I trust you because I have experienced your trustworthiness and because I have faith in human nature.
We feel trust. Emotions associated with trust include companionship, friendship, love, agreement, relaxation, comfort. There are a number of different ways we can define trust. Here are the dimensions of trust and consequent definitions.
When we trust other people, we may not only be giving them something in hope of getting something else back in the future, we may also be exposing ourselves in a way that they can take advantage of our vulnerabilities. If I buy a car from you and I do not know a good price, you can lie to me so you get a better bargain. If I tell you in confidence about the problems I am having with work, you could use this to further your own career at my expense.
Although the threat of retribution or projected feelings of guilt can counteract your temptation to abuse my exposed vulnerabilities, if you succumb I still get hurt and may still end up with the shorter stick. For our transaction to complete successfully, I must be able to trust that such agonies will not come to pass.

 In the end, there are 4 different deffinitions o f trust:
1: Trust means being able to predict what other people will do and what situations will occur. If we can surround ourselves with people we trust, then we can create a safe present and an even better future.
2: Trust means making an exchange with someone when you do not have full knowledge about them, their intent and the things they are offering to you.
3: Trust means giving something now with an expectation that it will be repaid, possibly in some unspecified way at some unspecified time in the future.
4: Trust means enabling other people to take advantage of your vulnerabilities—but expecting that they will not do this. 

 But what happens if our trust will be betrayed? How should we feel when about ourselves? Should be feel shamed, because we trust other people and they just betray us? How should we feel happy if some things are making us sad. How should we behave? So many things and thoughts and questions will rise just one small word up. What should we do, if our heart will be teared to parts and mind will be messed around by thoughts?

Kosta,

This weekend I visited a nice small village called Kosta in southern part of Sweden. It is more than 16 miles from my home. Than makes 160 km because 1 mile in Sweden is 10 km.
Visiting Kosta was very interesting for me, but I must admit, I really liked it. I had once possibility in couple of years ago to visit glassblower in Estonia and it was interesting to see this time how it is. I loved it. I really like glass and products made of glass. Most what Kosta is known are Kosta Boda glassblowing and its designers. A little bit more about Kosta Boda can be read here and more about Kosta Bodas products can be read here and products can also be bought via online shop. In Kosta is also more shops. Information can be found here.
Kosta is a part of Glasriket. More about other places what belongs to Glasriket can be read here.  I must admit, that was just a beginning for me to visit the Glasriket. Already now we are planning to go visit also other places what belongs to Glasriket, because we found it fascinated and absolutely fabulous. It was really interesting and we want to see more. Next visit to Glasriket will be before our wedding, since we want to find a special present for us.

This time in Kosta we visited also some shops. It ended, that we bought home 1 big dish and totally 4 candle holders. Plus we bought some things to kitchen. It felt good, because in the end, we saved quite much compared if we would had bought all those things from the shop. That made my fiancé happy :) And when he is happy, I am happy:P

Our 2 pink transparent candle-holders and pink transparent big dish:

Our 2 transparent candle-holders:

 

Those 2 pictures are just a experiment with camera what I made, when I took a picture of my new candle holders by Kosta Boda.

Sunday evening,

It is again Sunday evening and weekend is soon passed. This weekend has been passed somehow very fast, but that means it has been a nice weekend, since in very strange reason time just flies when you have a good time.
As I also wrote on Friday, when in this weekend we did not spend it at home. We had weekend outside in southern part of Sweden. We left Friday afternoon and came back today. It has been very good time. Yesterday we visited also one of the big big place in Glasriket. This time we visited Kosta and all the glass-shops there. It was a very nice and good experience. I liked it. More about my visit to Kosta I will write in another blog entry since I think that it should have it's own entry. Later we went back to our hosts and in the evening we had a fabulous 3-course dinner. I must admit, it tasted very good and gave me idea to try something of it to make self. We will see how the result will come out, since I will share it with you as well my dear readers.
Now I want to wish you all have a nice and relaxed Sunday evening.

Have a nice weekend,

Today is already Friday and that means, weekend is close. On the other hand, for some people it even has been arrived already and for other, have to wait perhaps some more hours until weekend can begin. Same time there are people who might be work during a weekend and they can hold their weekend during other days. As it is for me,. then  my weekend has been already started and I will try to enjoy it as much as possible.

Weather has need turned to snowing again and that makes nice and winter feeling. Today morning, when I went to  work, was very nice and chilli, but at least warmer, when it was yesterday during a day. Soon I hope it goes warmer, but on the other hand there are people who says, that it will go even colder than it is now. We just have to wait and see what will happen with weather. I just hope, that by the end of April all snow is gone and all things in nature starts to go green. At least I think it would be nice.

 

This weekend we will have a small weekend trip. More about it I can write after we have had it and perhaps also add some pictures from the places I have seen or been. I believe it will be fun and also good. That reminds, I need to go and pack my weekend bag, because I have not done it yet :)

So, my wish for all of you is, have a nice weekend my dear friends, blog readers and all other people. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I will and that you all will have it as memorable. If you want, you can share your thoughts. It would be nice to read how have you spend your weekend or how you plan to spend it.

I just want to end my entry with a quatation:

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Everyday is a gift, that’s why they call it the present.
- Anonymous