Exciting Weekend!

Well what a update I have for you guys, I know I haven't been around for a while since you all know life is always in the way and although I have the blogging app on my phone it's just not that great and certainly not that easy to edit your posts with. But seeing as this was a big deal I decided what the hell and will give the app a try so that I can fill my blogging family in with the latest news!!!

So myself and my lovely fiancée decided to take a small trip again to Gothenburg since she had bought me tickets to see Nickleback live for my birthday and while we were there on our romantic get away we decided that we would do the dead finally....

So whilst there we did it! We finally got married!!!!! 7 years together and wonderful years I must say but we thought it was about time we got around to making our relationship a more concrete one.

It wasn't a big thing as the both of us wasn't that interested in anything super big, so it was just us two and nobody else, although it was a little sad not to be surrounded by our loved ones, and especially our children it was still a fantastic day that was just about us two which was strange since we are normally always with the kids in some way shape or form. 

So to be away and to do without anyone else was strange but at the same time very romantic I thought. (Jesus I sound soppy)

So does that mean that I'm no longer angry anymore? Well that is still to be decided, right now I'm sitting on a train with my new wife on the way back home and I must admit I'm angry! Angry that our weekend went by so quickly and angry that I must go back to work tomorrow but at the same time I feel like one of the luckiest men on the planet. 

Who would have thought that after 7 years in a foreign country that I would be where I am right now? I mean when I moved to Sweden, life was really tough and to be honest neither of us knew if we would last or what would happen but this year has been spectacular! I've got myself job, passed my driving license in another language and ended up getting married!

Life is pretty damn good right now! Let's just hope that it continues, right now all we have left to look forward to this year is my parents and sister to come over to Sweden to spend Christmas & New Year with us which is going to be absolutely amazing! We have so much to celebrate when they come over that I think I'm going to have to place the car in the garage and throw away the keys for a few weeks since my blood alcohol level is going to be too high to be able to operate a vehicle lol!

I would just like to finish this post by saying a big thank you to my lovely wife for turning my life around the way she did. You are truly amazing and every day that I wake up next to you and see you I get the feeling of completion. 

You are more than my partner, more than my wife... Your my soulmate, the other half of my heart and my bestest friend in the whole world. 

I look forward to spending the rest of my life with the most amazing and wonderful person in the whole world. <3

Hectic

It's funny how your life can change in a instant and without you even realizing it everything you loved to do Is no longer possible.

Take blogging for example it was something I really got into and for the most part I was pretty good at it and was always getting good feedback from people (although originally it was only meant to be a way of keeping my family up to date with how life was in Sweden and what i was up to) but as you can see I have absolutely no time at all for it anymore. 

This has happened with a lot of things in my life, not just blogging i used to play loads of games all the time (for the most part it was World Of Warcraft) and had made lots of friends from all around the world and I don't even have time for that anymore, and for the most part have lost all contact with great people. 

But on the other hand although I have lost time for a lot of things that I used to enjoy, I have also gained a lot. I'm now working all the time (still not fully employed, but one step closer) and I got the money together to pass my driving test and get our family a little run about. 

So I guess there has to be a balance just now though feels like if I'm not working, I'm driving somewhere and if I'm not driving somewhere I'm working. 

Although at work I'm doing both at the moment. 

But I'm sure things need to have a balance and right now I haven't found it but perhaps it will come one day when I least expect it. 

So to all my followers for the ones I still have left I'm sorry for not being more active it was never my intention to let the blog slide the way it has, but like I said life has gotten in the way and the time that I once had for it is no longer there, so for now and until I find a balance to what is currently my hectic life you will just have to be satisfied with the small updates I do from time to time. 

So until next time! Take care everyone. 

                                        

Wonderful Day Out.

Last time I wrote on the blog i had mentioned that a couple of weeks ago I had finally passed my driving test and while it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life it was by far the most stressful.

But although it was so stressful yesterday proved to me that every single kronor and stress was well worth it as myself and my hunny Marie decides to pack up the car and the twins and take a little road trip down to the Swedish coast. 

Everyone has always said that the Swedish coast is a must see for anyone who has come to Sweden or lives there as it is one of the most beautiful places in the whole of Sweden and I must admit they were not half wrong!

We set of pretty damn early as its a good 2 hour drive roughly down to the coast followed by a ferry ride over (that was a experience let me tell you! I have never been driven a car onto a ferry before but it was quite easy I must admit) and then headed on down to a town called Lysekil.

Whilst down there we decided to take the kids to the aquarium down there but I just admit it was quite disappointing, I had expected them to have a lot more fish and sharks and such likes but nope. They did have a fairly decent variety of fish but they had no sharks or at least sharks that we have come to know and love. 

But it was still great to go and see it and the kids had a really great time which was the whole reason we did it in the first place. 

However after about 45 minutes we were done and we had decided that we would spend the rest of the day walking around the town and just taking in the sights. I must say that if I had the money (aka was rich) I would buy a house down there haha. 

So although the aquarium was not as awesome as I would have liked it to be myself and the family had a truly awesome day out checking out the coast. 

It was just a weird feeling being able to just jump in the car and take the family out for the day without having to think about busses and trains for once and although I made some small mistakes on the drive down it was nothing life threatening that would cause a accident and I have learned from them so thumbs up I guess. 

Anyways here is some pictures for you guys to check out of the trip, hope you like them :)

So until next time, I hope everyone else had a awesome weekend and we shall see you next time :)

                                          

We Did It!

Note: Long Post Incoming! :)

Don't i look handsome? haha

I haven't been around the blogging world in quite some time now, not quite sure how long but I'm guessing a good 6 months or so. I have of course been keeping up to date with all my blogging friends and what they are doing with their lives and trying my hardest to keep posting their posts via Triberr but i just haven't had the time nor the energy to be able to publish anything myself.

So your all probably wondering (or at least those who don't have me on Facebook) what's been happening in my life and what's been happening with the kids? Well lets just say a whole lot of things have changed for me and my family in the last 6 months and overall our quality of life has improved ten fold.

As everyone probably remembers i got myself time employed at the local hospital as a Vaktmästare (Caretaker you could say) and yes i'm still there fighting away, i have actually been given summer employment there now which means 8 weeks of non stop work, which in my opinion is completely awesome, not only that i have just been informed that they will be keeping me on until October on this contract since one of my work mates had 58 holiday days to take out and he decided he wanted to take them all at once, so i get to do his job until he comes back! SWEET!

The kids have also been doing awesome as well and really making me proud, a couple of weeks ago my 2 boys Alexander & Maximus graduated there first class of school which i was able to go up and watch and am really proud of how awesome they are doing in school, it's really strange that the 2 little hell razors that i used to call them have turned out to be so smart haha.

But now they are on there summer holidays and have started going to swim school that we have here in Sweden and have already taken their first badge.

This is the little pins they get when they accomplish tasks at the swim school

So the boys are having a blast and doing really well, so i really can't be more proud of them.. Sure they still get into stupid stuff and do a lot of things they are not meant to, but hey they are twin boys what can you expect....

As for my now 16 year old daughter Mikaela, well boy has she changed. I think it's natural that every parent especially when it comes to girls looks at there daughter even when they have grown up as the little girl that used to run around all the time being happy and laughing and all such things, unfortunately i missed that period as i never met Mikaela until she was 8 years old but i still look at her as she is 8 at times and remember that sweet innocent face. 

But now she is all grown up and is moving on with life at a rapid pace, her life no longer consists of playing with dolls and going out on her bike with friends and is more now all about cloths, shoes, makeup and boys. The phase i guess you could say every parent dreads when they hear "it's a girl" haha.

However i cannot complain she has really done some amazing things this year, including getting her grades to an outstanding level in school, of course she is not happy with them and wishes they were a lot higher, but honestly i could never have got the grades she did, and in fact i didn't lol! But not only has she accomplished finishing this schooling phase with high grades, but has also been accepted into Hair Dressing school here which she will start after the summer.

She is my world <3

As for Marie? Well she is still the same old Marie, totally nuts and i love her for it, she is working away like always and trying to keep us all in line and for the most part succeeding, it's really funny when i sit here and think about it as for the most part i think we all take what she does for us for granted myself included, but i have to say that without her our family would not stand a hope in hell of functioning the way it does, she is really a exceptional woman that i am glad to call my future wife.

But right now she is on her summer vacation from work, but as i said to her yesterday when she was talking to me about having to keep the house in order and that her holiday never feels like a holiday "You take vacation from your job to then take up another job looking after the kids and house"

Although the good news doesn't stop there, i have always said that once i get a job i was going to save up and finally get around to taking my drivers license and this year that is exactly what i did!

I have to say taking my driver license was one of the most amazing experiences of my life but at the same time was also the most stressful. Not even moving country and starting a new life in Sweden was as stressful as taking my drivers license.

But i did it and manage to pass it, i have no idea how as i decided that taking my license in my mother language was going to be to easy so i decided to make it a little bit more challenging and take the full test including the theory in Swedish!

Now however its all done and i got my license on Wednesday and went to pick up my car so now my list of things to do is almost complete, all that is left is to get married to my absolutely amazing and beautiful fiancee but god knows when that will happen.

So there you have it! Everything that has been happening with myself and family, this year has so far turned out to be a stressful but exciting year and i'm just hoping it continues! But for now i shall bid you all farewell and hopefully it won't be to long before you hear from me again.

So It's 2013 Eh?

Well I honestly can't believe that we are already into a new year, I mean seriously how quickly did 2012 go by? for me at least it seemed to go flying by or at least the last part did.

Well I say the last part but really I mean from May onwards.

And this year?

Well it's turning out to be a pretty good year or at least it's started out so. Not only that I honestly think this year is going to be my year, I was actually talking the other week to one of the summer workers who had been pulled in over the Christmas period and out of the blue he turned around and said "You know what Ben, this year coming is going to be your year", and hey why not?

I actually sat the other day and looked at my old New Years post that you can find HERE and had a look through all my New Years resolutions that i had last year and I think for the most part I actually did pretty damn good on them, I mean I got myself a job.. Well Marie actually got me the job or at least got my foot in the door which I will be forever grateful to her for and as for the rest?
Well I failed on a few things but they weren't anything that I would consider hugely important.
But the things I really wanted to accomplish I did, I feel that my relationship with the boys although still could use improvement is getting a lot better and with my daughter? Well that's still failing but at the same time she does not make it at all that easy for me, but she's a teenager so what are you to expect.

But for the most part I think I managed to accomplish quite a lot last year and I feel the year ended on a high.

So what's this years resolution or resolutions well none really, apart from getting my drivers license, and as long as I get that then I'm pretty sure that everything else will fall into place.

But that's it for the now I think, I'm going to make a conscious effort this year to blog a lot more since I noticed that last year at least since I started working I had dropped off a bit, and it's not like I don't want to or that I don't have stuff that's happening that I could blog about it mainly due to the time It takes. I mean who wants to read a blog post that was thrown together in 5 minutes and no effort has been put into it? I know I certainly wouldn't.
But who knows from Monday I'm heading up to where they perform the operations to clean up there for 5 weeks which is going to be exciting although I'm not looking forward to the hours (09:30-17:15) which is a lot different to my normal (07:00-16:00). This also means that I won't be able to take the bus into and home with Marie but oh well got to think of the money and I think it's going to be a lot of fun to try out something new.
Although not working with my normal group of people is going to be a bit of a bummer, but then I get to work with new people which will be awesome.
So as you can see its kind of a 50/50 thing, on one side I'm really happy and on the other I'm not but I'm sure things will work out.

But for now I'm going to head off, so take care everyone and hope your year works out for you guys too!

Stuff Kids Come Out With...

So I found it rather amusing the other week, we had shouted to the boys that it was time to get ready for bed and that they should go and brush their teeth.

Alexander on the bus on the way to town the other week.

So like good little boys off they went and did so, now normally the routine is go rush teeth, come say good night to me and then head off to bed. But out of the blue Alexander decides to come through to the living room where myself and Marie say and out of know here says:

"So really, when am I going to get my own computer?"

At first it took me a good few minutes to digest what was being said to me, mainly because I didn't quite understand where the hell it had come from, I mean I had sent him to brush his teeth but obviously in the process of doing so he had decided to think about when he would get his own computer.

My only reply was:

"Well not now at least, you need to grow a little bit more before ill get you your own computer"

I don't think it was quite the response he was looking for and is still trying everything in his power to obtain his own computer.

He has even gone as far as putting it on the list of things he would like to buy me and his mum for Christmas.
I think this is more an attempt of well if try but each other a computer from us then perhaps we can have their old ones.

Safe to say this is not going to happen, I mean where the hell am I going to get the money to buy Marie a computer that is awesome enough to do everything she wants it to do lol. Plus the fact we have decided to buy a new TV after Christmas instead of buying gifts for each other so yea.
It was a nice idea of his but its not going to work lol.

And then yesterday was probably the best ever!

Alexander had came down and asked Marie:

Alex: "Can you put a film on upstairs?" to which Marie's reply was:

Marie: "No, go and play like normal children, you don't need to play computer games or sit and watch movies all the time" and then he comes out with...

Alex: "Do we have to play???" He then comes into the livingroom and informs his brother that they HAD to go upstairs and play .... which was rather disappointing by the sound of his voice.

But it doesn't stop there, oh no! they go upstairs and then after a short while we hear:

"Max, if you don't stop talking in English, then i'm not playing anymore!!"

I mean although my children can understand English and when they ask me what words are in English can copy exactly what i have said, they cannot actually speak the language on their own accord, so for him to come out with this so randomly was hysterical to me.

I just found it funny that he randomly came out with it. Honestly the things kids come out with really crack me up at times, especially when it's in Swedish.

She's Gone Christmas Mad....

Ok so finally after 6 years being together myself and Marie have found ourselves weeks before Christmas being completely finished with everything except for the Christmas food.

And for some strange reason because of this Marie has turned into some sort of Christmas crazy person, I mean seriously for like the last month I have been getting a run down to Christmas like everyday.
She's worse than the kids.

But i have to admit that it's a really great feeling that for once we don't have to do the mad rush down the shopping centre on payday to go and buy everything that we can possibly afford this year. We are able to just sit back, relax and enjoy the time off that we both have, and be able to just enjoy the kids as well without having to stress about anything. So i'm guessing this is probably the reason why she has been going Christmas Nuts as well.

I got to admit though that since i have been working and earning money that I have found myself a little bit more happy at the thought of this Christmas since for once we have been able to shop everything and get the kids exactly what we want to get them without thinking about the cost. But Marie is just totally mad about it lol.

I honestly think she's more excited about it than what the kids are, but although she's been driving me nuts with this count down of hers, it's a really nice feeling to see her so happy and excited about it.

Lets just hope that our good fortune that has been bestowed upon this year can continue into next year and who knows maybe more surprises can happen along the way, but for now I'm going to sit back and enjoy this ride of life that we are currently on and enjoy the feeling that I get every time I wake up and see her face and see how happy and excited she is about everything.

I love you, you crazy Swedish Christmassy chick :)

I'm Back! - Well Hopefully

Well it's been a while, but as i had said in a previous post it was quite likely this was going to happen as i was finding it hard to keep up with blogging and working and then not to mention the good old family stuff.

But things are settling down and i feel i am quite possibly able to keep up with things a bit better now that i have had the chance to be away and get things sorted.

So what's been happening in the wonderful world of The Angry Scot?

Simple and most direct response would probably be LOADS!

And then possibly the next question would be where on earth do i start, well i guess the working life would be as good a place as any to begin.

Things haven't quite worked out as i was first and possibly delusionally excepting, i don't know why but i had this strange delusion that if i had managed to get myself a Praktikplats (Practice Job) that i would be able to show the company what a good and hard working employee i am and that it would then lead to then saying something along the lines of:

"Damn!, we can't be without this guy let's employ him straight away!!"

However as i said this was a delusion of grand proportions. Although however delusional this fantasy of mines was i have still been able to make a great impression on my fellow co-workers which i guess you could say is a massive PLUS! So much so that all my bosses that i have down there (In theory i really only have 2 but seeing as Börje, he's another Vaktmästare (Caretaker) who used to be in charge and although he no longer has the boss title still kind is so i include him along with my other 2 bosses Ninni and Ulla) and most of my co-workers have been fighting there asses off trying to keep me, and in some respect it has worked as i have now found myself under what is called "Time Employment" which as i have mentioned in previous posts means that if someone is sick they can contact me and i come in and work that persons job. 

Now in the start i was only Time Employed as a Caretaker basically, but now my other boss Ninni has got me coming in next week to start taking a look at cleaning work, so on Thursday & Friday this week i will be coming into the hospital to go up to where they perform operations and learning the procedures that are in place to make sure that all the surgical rooms are cleaner than clean, and i just have to say although i'm terrified about messing up i'm really looking forward to this. 

I mean seriously how many people get the chance to learn alot of different jobs with the same company and then earn money from doing these jobs, think about it! I'm NEVER going to get bored, one day i could be working as a cleaner, the next as a caretaker and then the next who knows what? 

So i'm really really excited about this new prospect, and who know's what can happen down the line?

So basically the job front is looking up and i have already received my first pay packet (real pay packet) for working Time Employed and the difference it has made to us this month is unbelievable. Seriously! We have already finished with Christmas and sent off all the gifts to my folks over in Scotland! THAT NEVER HAPPENS HERE WITH US! 

Last minute OH SHIT dash to the shops, pick up any random crap and send it is normally more our style!

As for  the family side of things, well i don't know we have seemed to move alot closer to each other over there last couple of weeks i feel and the feeling is absolutely amazing, yes we are still having our challenges and ups and downs as a family unit but that's just how family's work don't they!

Our absolutely amazing daughter is getting ready to begin the next stage of her education so last weekend we spent the whole day just myself, Marie and our daughter Mikaela over in the town of Skövde looking at the hairdressing gymnasium that they have their, which i have to say was an amazing day out even if i managed to loose £90 in the space of about 45 minutes after taking us out to lunch at a nice restaurant and then buying Mikaela a new jacket and 2 new tops at one of the clothing shops there, but it was worth it!

As for the twins? Well they are still a HUGE pain in the ass, but hell i wouldn't have them any other way! Mainly for the fact life wouldn't be as much fun as it is if they were any different. But they are also coming on leaps and bounds as i think the saying is going. 

They have finally settled into school and things are looking up for them, i'm actually really surprised how amazing they are doing at school since well we all know they can not sit still or be quite for more than 30 seconds at a time, but they have been doing fantastic learning new words and how to read, and what can i say about that Maximus has blown away all expectations i once had about him and is smashing this whole reading malarkey without even breaking a sweat.
Alexander is also doing amazing but i think his concentration is lacking at times so is not progressing at the same speed as his brother but at the end of the day Who the hell cares? i have never been one of these parents that expected both kids (seeing as they are twins) to be at the same level on anything, and i can only say that i am proud of how amazing all of my children are doing academically.
I know that all parents say that they are proud and that is just perhaps the duty of a loving parent to be proud of your kids, but i seriously am. Without the need to be or anything, everyday all 3 of them impress me in one way or another when it comes to how they are progressing not only in school but in life generally.

I honestly couldn't be any prouder of all 3 and how they are growing up and the decisions they are making.

And as for myself and Marie? Well things are looking up i had a little spell the other week where i thought everything in life was wrong and that Marie deserved alot better than me, and if i'm honest i don't think i have ever felt this way ever. I have felt low points through my life but this was different and i think it was the lowest i have ever felt. I mean i still loved my family and Marie of course but everything about life just seemed that it was pointless, that i was failing not only as a partner and parent but as a person in general. I think it was because in my delusional fantasy that the company i'm working for would straight out employ me, and this didn't happen. Not that it was anyone's fault but right now they are not allowed to employ anyone not fully employ them at least. But i don't know possibly it was to do with this, possibly it was something else, whatever it was it has some what subsided and i'm feeling alot better about how life is going, and i'm finding myself alot closer to Marie than i think i ever have. Possibly to close? if that is possible. I mean seriously right now she is on my mind 24/7 and she is all i can think about. 

I'm guessing this is probably a good thing, or at least hoping so. But i don't know why but recently i have just felt alot closer to her and i think our relationship is becoming stronger by the day.

But enough of this mushy stuff, it's not at all Angry Scot style! SO SCREW YOU ALL! HA! I'm only messing, but things are looking up in life and i'm hoping that i am able to start blogging alot more frequently that i once was, i'm not saying your going to see something new every day but i'm going to try and make a more concious effort to try and be more active in the blogging world!

But for now i'm going to go off and take it easy for the rest of my relaxing Sunday with the most precious thing in my life World Of Warcraft! HAHAHA Ok no i meant to write my amazing woman Marie, but i guess my fingers had other things on their mind!

So until next time, i hope everyone is still rocking hard and that life is going well for everyone else! I have missed all my followers alot and hoping that my small break away hasn't made you all forget me!

Employed... Well Kind Off!

So the other week I wrote about a surprise that was going to happen, but seeing as nothing was set in stone I didn't actually want to post anything.

Well the surprise finally happened and as you can tell by the title of this post I have now been officially employed by the company that I'm doing my praktikplats (practice place) with.
Or well sort off...

What I have been given is what they call here timanställd (time employed) so basically what this means is that if anyone phones into us sick for that day or whatever then I will be called in to do their job for how ever long they are unable to work.
But seeing as I am still on my praktik this will work slightly different, so basically how it will work up until the 4th December (this is when my praktik with them ends) is that normally I will be a praktikant, and if anyone phones in sick leaving us with to little people, my boss will say to me today you are time employed and for those days i work as an employee I will get paid from them instead of being paid by the government.
This means I will get a lot more money than I am making now and you cannot image how great a feeling that is.

Sure this is not full employment but it is certainly a HUGE step forward to where I was a week ago. Also there is still a good chance that I could get full employment with them but we shall just have to wait and find out.
I mean anything can happen between now and December when my praktik ends.

What was even more great was that my boss came to me and said you are officially from the 1st October time employed with us and then I got to work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as time employed which means ill get 3 days wage from them at the end of November. But what a feeling it was to actually work those 3 days knowing that I was actually doing it for a real wage, this was something I had not experienced in a long time and what can I say it felt great!!

So there you have it! That's my surprise and once more I have to say it feels great. Now I just got to hope that between now an December something happens and I'm able to get full time employment with them.

But that's all I have for this post, I hope everyone else had a great week but until next time.....

What A Week

So this week has turned into quite the experience I must admit and on top of that busy as hell.
I mean not only have I been working like a absolute dog at work, ok nothing is unusual with that, it takes hard work and dedication to be a kick ass Vaktmästare haha!

But on top of that the last couple of days I've been basically coming home eating dinner, taking a shower and then heading out of the door within the space of a hour.

Firstly on Tuesday I had a meeting at Mikaela's school, this in itself was a experience of a lifetime, since it was the first meeting (school meeting that is) in Swedish that I have attended myself without Marie accompanying me and sitting half the time translating stuff that I don't understand, and although I didn't quite understand 100% of everything that was said I got enough of it to make me feel great about it.
Not to mention I think the main reason I didn't really understand everything fully is because I still even after living here 6 years fully understand the Swedish schooling system.

However I had to have a good laugh since when we first arrived at the school the first thing to come out of my beloved daughter's mouth as she walked up to a group of friends was.
"You can stand over there"
As she pointed half way across the school playground, safe to say I was more than a bit shocked I mean I'm still cool right?
Well apparently not....

But it went well apart from that, and I learned quite a bit about the education system in Sweden and about her next step in her education which will be happening next year, but we still have a lot to look into and sort out before then so we shall see.

Not only did I have that, I also ended up in another meeting on Wednesday although this time it was for the boys and actually in Järpås so at least I didn't have to travel into town like I did for Mikaela's meeting.

That meeting however was nothing really important and more along the lines of meet the teachers and see what they have been doing etc, and it seems like the boys have been doing well.
We obviously still have a proper teachers meeting to go to in the not so distant future but it was still nice to get a mini update I guess you could call it.

But that's been my week, working and meetings although now it's the weekend and the boys are away to their dads for the weekend and my oldest Mikaela is away saying at friends all weekend so it's nice to be able to just sit back and relax with Marie for a change without having to worry about kids hehe.

But for now I shall bid you all farewell and I hope you all have a great weekend as well.

If You Don't Laugh...

So i'm aware that the post is a bit later than i had originally planned but if you seen my photo over at The Angry Scot's Facebook Page you will have noticed that i finally decided to get outside and cut our damn grass, it took me about 2 hours and after it i was completely dead. But i said i was going to post one this weekend and i didn't want to let people down.

I have actually considered taking a small break away from blogging and just focussing on other things, because if i'm honest even though i love to do it, trying to find the time at the moment is becoming difficult. I honestly can't believe how much getting a job would affect the time i actually have to do things and i just feel that i'm stressing alot about not putting out content etc and always making promises that i'm going to post something and then not doing it because i end up doing other things.
But i don't know yet, perhaps i'll just download the blogger app to my iPhone and just write things up when i get time at work like on lunch etc and just post them up when they are finished we shall see, but i shall keep you all updated on what i decide.

But back to the post...

So the other day i got a big shock when i asked Marie to give the försäkringskassan (It's the people who pay my wages for being on this praktik i'm on) a quick call to confirm which dates i should write on the paper that i need to send into them in the next couple of weeks, the reason i asked her to do this is because we had apparently doing it wrongly and they were getting annoyed and it was holding up my money.
So to make sure it was right i had asked Marie when she was off work on Thursday to give them a call just to double confirm the dates.
However when she gave them a call she was told that they were not aware that i was still on my praktik, thus meaning i was not insured while i was at work for the first week of my second 3 months....

One word: Arbetsförmedlingen (Job Centre)

Yes indeed they have struck AGAIN!

It turns out that although my Job Centre point of contact had given me the go ahead to work another 3 months at the company i'm with, she had decided not to bother informing the rest of the Job Centre, aka she hadn't written anything in my file that i was granted a 3 month extension, thus meaning that Försäkringskassan was not informed either and thus meaning i was not insured or entitled to any money.

Fantastic right??

So of course, Marie gives me a call at work and informs me of this and i have to now try and get in contact with my person at the Job Centre to find out what the hell has happened, but in true Arbetsförmedlingen style whenever you try and get in contact with them, they always seem to be conveniently busy and not able to take your call, so i got sent through to customer services who tried to help me but was unable to sent me through someone random girl at the Lidköping Job Centre.

By this point you could imagine who stressed i was, i mean i shouldn't even be working since i was insured and if anything would have happened i would have been up shit creak without a paddle as they say. But i explained what happened and read out the e-mail that i had been sent by my point of contact at the Job Centre and the lovely lady at the other end said she would come back to me as soon as she could.

So after about 2 hours of waiting my work phone finally begins to ring and it's the job centre, and what can i said but the relief i felt when she informed me that she had fixed the problem and that i would be receiving a letter in the mail that i need to sign and send back to them was unbelievable.

I know that i shouldn't be surprised by anything that the Job Centre does or in this case doesn't do but still. It seems that every time i have some sort of dealing with these guys there is always some problem here or there that i end up spending hours of a phone trying to get resolved.

But it's fixed and all is well, and i'm now working with insurance again (So grateful that nothing happened!). 
It was just lucky that i had asked Marie to get in contact with the Försäkringskassan, otherwise i don't know what would have happened.

But that's my fun and games for this week, as i said i shall see how things go and maybe try and grab the app so i can write up a post during the week when i have time at lunch etc so all i need to do is do some edits on the computer and add images etc if i want to at the end of the week, but we shall see.

So until next time.. Have a great week guys!

Back From Holiday!

So i've been back from my little holiday to Scotland for a couple of days now and i finally got some stuff sorted out so i thought it was about time that i let everyone know how it went.

For the people that don't have me on Facebook the trip over to Scotland started out in pure disaster, as when we arrived in Lidköping to take the direct train to Gothenburg it was announced that the train was cancelled due to a train hitting a tree on the track, great right?!? Please explain how a train is meant to hit a tree? I thought tree's grew at the side of the tracks not on them.

Safe to say, what started out as a nice and calm start to the day turned quickly into a state of panic and what the hell are we going to do? However we were saved by 2 absolutely amazing woman who had overheard us talking on the phone to train company, and informed us that they were going to take another route to get to Gothenburg and that it would get us to the airport in time.
I have no idea who these ladies are but they saved our asses that is for sure and i am forever grateful for their help!

Saviours!

But we got over to Scotland eventually, and of course it wouldn't be the same if it wasn't pissing down with rain when we arrived, and of course my lovely homeland didn't disappoint!

Outside Edinburgh Airport, and of course it's pissing down!

But i have to admit the whole week was not like that infact the Scottish weather decided to be nice to us and even give us a few days of sun which was more than generous of it, unfortunately we didn't take advantage of it which was a bit stupid of us and we spent most of our holiday either visiting people or shopping. I'm thinking that next time we will scrap the whole visiting and shopping crap and just spend every day going around and seeing different parts of the country.

Not that i don't actually want to see people but for once i think i would rather come over and actually show the kids different things around where i come from rather than here is 4 walls enjoy! 

However the kids had a blast, not only were they spoiled rotten like always when we go over, but they got ANOTHER birthday party, which would make that Birthday Party number 3 for this year (They had one at ours, one at their dads and then one at their grandparents, not bad for some people eh)

and of course a Birthday Party wouldn't be complete without a cake!

The boys Birthday Cake, complete with a lovely picture of them lol.

However not the whole trip was awesome, if you recall from my previous post i was meant to finally meet my son Louis, who i hadn't seen in a little over 3 years, and although i had my reservations about meeting up with him after such a long time i was really looking forward to it as well, but it didn't happen........

I have no idea why it didn't happen, i had phoned him on the Thursday to arrange to meet up with him on the Friday which was them cancelled (By him) and moved to Sunday and i had said to him that he should just send me a text when and where he would like to meet, but as i waited on Sunday it occurred to me that he wasn't going to get in touch and i was right, i'm pretty gutted that i was their for a whole week and i didn't get the chance to meet up with him but as i said in my previous post after not seeing each other in such a long time perhaps it was just to much for him, and i didn't really want to push him.

Unfortunately i have not heard from him either since the last time i spoke to him on the phone last Friday but i'm hoping that he has just been busy and that he will be in touch with me soon, i have sent him messages but had no reply. 

Not only did i not get the chance to meet my son, but then my Grandad got taken into hospital while i was over their which wasn't the best, luckily it was nothing serious or at least the hospital has said it was nothing serious and he is now back home after a couple of nights in the hospital but it wasn't exactly the best thing to hear the day after you land for your holiday.

But other than that the trip was fun, and it was so great seeing everyone, especially my parents and sister and just hoping that it isn't that long again before we see each other, but for now i'm going to head off and leave you with some other pictures i took on my trip. 

Ever wondered what a Chippy is! Well here it is, and damn it's so good! Fried Pizza is the best thing ever created!

Decided to take a picture of the new hospital where i come from, when i went to visit my Grandad.

Perhaps the smallest Round-A-Bout in the world?

My Dad playing with the 2 boys.

Of course a trip back home, would not be complete without a small drink with my Dad, of course that small drink turned into me being absolutely hammered, but oh well it was great and Gentleman Jack was a pure Gentleman!

Scotland!

So the days are drawing in quick and fast and now it's only 4 days until i head off to Göteborg airport with Marie and the kids to take a flight over to Scotland!!

I have to admit that i am really excited about flying over, it could have something to do with the fact that i haven't actually been back over to my homeland in around 3 years, and although i have been able to still see my parents and sister since they have been flying over here for visits (Well except for last year, so now it's been one year since i have seen them too), i have been unfortunately unable to see my grandparents.

I did however last Christmas make the effort and have a Skype call with them all since my Mum & Dad had invited my grandparents over to their house for Christmas dinner, so although i was unable to be there and see them i did get to see and talk to them over video chat which was really nice, and actually made me realise how much i missed them. I should really make more of a effort to keep in better contact with my grandparents even if it is just sending them a e-mail every once in a while but you know how life is. You get caught up with this and that and before you know it time has slipped by and it's been years since you last spoke to someone.
But i think after my trip i'm going to try and make a better effort, and maybe give them a call once a month or something to just to see how they are doing and things like that, but i think it's going to be awesome to be over there again and see them.

Not only will i get to see all my family and hopefully some of my friends when i fly over but i also get the chance to meet up with a very special someone in my life, now i think by now that most of my readers know nearly everything about my life but something i'm pretty sure nobody knows except for very close family and friends that read my blog is that i have a son called Louis over in Scotland.
Unfortunately due to things completely out of my control i lost contact with him for over 3 years, i think the last time i spoke to him he was turning 9 years old and obviously the reason i have never ever wrote anything about him on here is because it was a very sore subject as i hadn't seen or spoke to him in that length of time. But a very good friend of mines managed to get us back in contact and after speaking to my son's mum he finally got in touch with me over Facebook and we had a good chat.

So not only am i going over and having the opportunity to see my family and some of my friends i haven't seen in 3 years i am also getting the chance to meet up with my son Louis. If i'm truly honest, i have some mixed feelings about this, i didn't a few weeks or even days back but as the days are drawing in i have found myself getting both nervous and scared but at the same time extremely happy. Although it's going to be strange seeing his since i haven't seen him in 3 years and my once little boy is now grown up and is nearly a teenager, but i'm sure it's going to be awesome and i just cannot wait!

So now you know a little bit more about me! As i said i would have wrote about him earlier but the fact we had lost contact and i was unable to do anything about it, made the subject of him really painful to even consider writing about, but now... Well things are looking up, i have this trip to Scotland and hopefully this is a good opportunity to build some bridges again.

My Son a few years back, sorry but don't have a up to date picture at the moment :(

But for now i'm going to head off, we have alot of stuff to get done since we will need to do all our packing this weekend as myself and Marie are both working Monday & Tuesday and our flight is on the Wednesday which means we have no chance in hell of packing any time before our flight.

But if you would like to keep up to date with everything that is happening while i'm over in Scotland with my family then don't forget to head over to The Angry Scot Facebook Page or follow me on Instagram (@theangryscot) as i will be posting up stuff on them all the time!

But until next time! Have a great weekend and a great week ahead!

Deal With The Devil

So it's been a good week and a bit now since my last post, i had actually planned to post something up but with being tired like mad every night when i come in from work and the fact nothing is actually been happening in my day to day life i decided that it would be best to just hold off on writing something, since i would much rather put out something that everyone wants to read, rather than just some random crap that nobody is really interested in.
Hell you probably won't be interested in this post, but hey maybe you will!

For the last few months i have been desperately wanting to get my hands on a iPhone for many reasons but the main one being that i'm totally sick to the back teeth of Android, i know it's probably my phone that is totally and utterly a pile of junk but i'm going to blame it on the whole Android series of telephones rather than just mines.
I mean i can barely do anything on my phone without it locking up, restarting itself and just generally being a pile of crap, i mean i have to literally take out the battery every few days because the whole mobile just locks up and that's me only attempting to activate the internet on my phone.
I've downloaded games to play while sitting bored and most of them don't even run, Temple run for example i can install it and play it but i die on the first corner because the phone lags that much, and then i noticed that i could install Plants vs Zombies which is a truly epic game, so i went ahead and bought it from the play store installed it and began playing, after the first 2 levels the phone restarted itself randomly and now every time i attempt to play the damn game i get half way through a level and boom phone restarts.

So i basically put out money for a game that i cannot even play, yeehaa?

So i started to look into iPhones and then made a deal with the devil........

The Devil In Her Nurses Uniform

Ok she's not the devil, it's my lovely fiancée and she's not even close to being a devil.

But your probably wondering what is this deal?

Well... i have said that if she gets me a iPhone 4s then the day after i have it in my hands i will stop smoking completely! This is going to be quite a tall order for me since i have smoked for so long but i reckon i can do it and it will be worth it to actually have a phone i can do stuff on without it saying nah i'm going to restart on you because it's fun!
Plus we would save alot of money, so it's like a investment on her behalf you could say, she spends a bit of money like you do in business to gain a huge amount of cash back, i mean seriously me along i smoke for about £1,300+ per year (13,500kr) so be able to save that every year would be quite awesome!
Not only that i would become more healthy!

My insanity saviour! DEATH TO ANDROID ALL HAIL APPLE!

So it's like awesome in every way, i will be happy because i have a phone that actually works and does what i wants it to do plus more, we get to save a tonne of cash every year and i get more healthy! it's like a win win win deal.

I'm not saying that stopping smoking is going to be easy, because i really think i'm going to have problems with it, lucky enough for me we have SNUS over here, now i hear the rants of that's cheating, but let me finish i will stop smoking and use SNUS for the first few weeks and then slowly come off that until i'm nicotine free.

So we shall see! I think it was a pretty good deal myself ;)

But for now i'm going to head off, i was planning on cutting the grass today but the stupid weather has decided to bless us with rain so that's a not go.

But until next time!...

Yeeehaaaa!

So i got some good news that made me jump up in the air and scream "YEEEEHAAAA!" and thought that i would make sometime when i got home to let all you guys know as well since i am so happy about it.

Anyways... i had contacted my contact person at the local job centre and asked for 3 months extra on my praktikplats, i actually think i wrote about it a few weeks back but anyways, i was sitting in the lunch room today chatting away with one of my work mates when he asked:

"Have you got 3 months extra then? or are you still waiting" of course i replied with that i was still waiting and that my handler person had only started back yesterday but then i decided to head out for a cigarette and thought that i would give her another e-mail and ask her how it was going with it, i didn't expect much a reply since as i said she only came back off her holiday yesterday so the chances of her looking at my e-mail or dealing with it was pretty slim.

But a couple of hours later i decided to head outside and check my e-mails on the chance that she had decided to reply with at least that she was dealing with it.

However the response was even better than i expected, not only had she looked at my e-mail she had also dealt with it already and was planning on e-mailing me back today at some point. But the news was that i have gotten my extra 3 Months!!!!!!!! along with the week off i needed to go back to Scotland for a week to visit my folks etc!

So that's awesome, i have to admit i was pretty worried about it and it had been playing on my mind these last few weeks, so to finally have it dealt with is just a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, so now i can work the next 3 weeks and head off to Scotland then know that when i come back to Sweden that i shall be starting back to work the next day!

Instead of coming back to sitting on the couch and being depressed again :)

So i'm on cloud 9 at the moment and life couldn't get better! well it could, they could fully employee me where i'm currently working but i guess that's not going to happen, but least i have 3 months extra which could hopefully end up with employment at the end of that!

Happy Happy Happy!

But i just thought i would share my awesome news with you all, but for now i'm going to head off and eat some food and watch some TV with my beautiful partner before heading off to bed, i might have a blog post to release tomorrow but it will depend on how i feel when i get home from work, so keep a eye out :)

So until next time... Happy AngryScot is Happy!!

Sommarland Trip!

Yesterday we took our annual trip with the boys to Skara Sommarland, it's a gigantic amusement park that we are just so lucky enough to get free tickets to every year so that we can take the family + one extra person, but like always Mikaela our oldest daughter always ends up going with a friend on her own since well hanging out with her twin brothers and mum and dad is not exactly what she considers a fun activity.

So instead of coming with us and being bored all day watching the boys or taking the boys on slow rides etc she opts now to go herself with a friend of hers so that she can go on what she wants and go in the big water park that the boys have no interest in going to.

I have to admit that although it's quite disappointing that she doesn't want to come and spend time with the family it is quite nice to have some quality time with the twins, and to be honest it's probably the one time in the whole year that we can actually have 2 well behaved children who don't try and get up to anything they shouldn't be and this year was even better as they have now grown up a little and with growing up they have also grown in height which meant they were able to go on a few other rides that they didn't get the chance to go on last year.

But out of everything they were now able to go on, i think they were most excited that they were now long enough to be able to go on the Indy Carts...

Myself personally was a bit worried about this, like i always am when it comes to the twins and trying new stuff, especially things that include a motor. In my head i expected that before they even reached the first corner the cars would be upside down in a ball of flames with my boys climbing out the rubble, but once more they proved me wrong.

They had an absolute amazing time, and Maximus even managed to win 2 out of the 3 races he was in, they don't actually win anything and it's just about having fun but i have never seen Max smile so much in his whole life, i honestly think he's found is calling in life.. Ok probably not but he seemed to enjoy it the best out of every attraction he went on, but of course what kid wouldn't like driving around in a motorised buggy.

But i think out of the whole day the only thing that was remotely disappointing about the whole day was that the fact i had to sit for just about a hour waiting on some food, although at least i got to sit there while Marie stood in the queue to order it haha.

Overall it was a totally amazing day out with the boys and i'm more than sure they had a blast as well, they even managed to win themselves a couple of stuffed teddies and i won them 1 each as well.

Now they are just looking forward to their birthday which is in a couple of weeks and then our trip over to Scotland at the end of the month!

But i think that is everything for today, I shall leave you all with some more pictures that i took while we were there so enjoy ;)

So until next time....