Boyfriend and X Factor

Tonight finally I had some excitement in my lately boring life in bed... This afternoon my boyfriend came over to look after me a bit, we ordered pizza and watched the Italian X factor.

The Italian X Factor is is the worst talent show I have ever seen in my life and what makes it so bad is the jury. None of them seems to know what they talk about and they seems to be more aware of making a show that actually say something intelligent to the poor participants. As much as I like the English X Factor I will dislike the Italian one.

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Thanks heaven for web magazines

My life saving these long and boring days sick at home has been the ability to read my favourite magazines online. I have five magazines that I just love: Swedish I Form and Vecko Revyn and English Marie Claire, Fitness Magazine and Look. Isn't it amazing that magazines that I would pay around 5euro each for can be read for free online. But I can admit that I so much prefer to have the paper magazine in my hands than reading it all online but the possibility to access the articles online is for me amazing.

Now when I read them all I gonna turn off the computer for a while and watch some Gossip Girl :)

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I'm better but not good

Today I really thought I would be perfectly well again and I was planning to go to work. Then last night I started having stomach pains and I couldn't sleep and without sleeping I didn't get better.

So this morning I had to go back to my Doctor who just looked at me like with his confident big eyes saying "I told you that you would had to stay home much longer than just one day"... As I never been home sick here in Italy before I didn't really know how it works so on Tuesday when I went there I just told him I wanted to stay home from work one day and he couldn't understand why. He was right and this time he wanted to give me four days off from work but I told him that two would be more than sufficient. He did what I told him but his comment was "I can see that you're Swedish".

Many Italian people would do all they could to stay home fully paid as long as possible but I am not like them and I think most Swedish people aren't. In Sweden we grow up learning to be honest and never cheat. In Italy, specially in the south region, thety grow up learning that you can't be honest if you wanna get what you want...

So, other day in bed. So boring!

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Black swan the movie

BLACK SWAN is the story of the ballet dancer Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), a quiet, shy and insecure girl obsessed with perfection. When she's picked to be the next big star in the new ballet performance Swan lake her life changes. Her director, Thomas (Vincent Cassel) is confident in her ability to play the white swan because of her shy personality, but wants to push her into discovering her more seductive and sexy side to portray the role of the black swan... 


The movie is all from Nina’s point of view and you follow her efforts to access her inner passion to become the best black swan every which becomes like a runway into madness. The movie is a emotionally, visually and intellectually thriller drama. A strange film. So cleaver that many times I lost the understanding of what was real and what wasn't. I like it but I didn't love it as much as I thought I would do. It is a must see anyway!

You guys must wonder why all these film review lately but I don't have that much else to do during while staying at home sick in bed than watching movies :) Now I'm off to bed as I hope that after a good sleep I will feel better tomorrow so I can go back to work. I am so tired of being at home alone...


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Good morning sick Maria

I'm not better but not either worse today. I was able to sleep good so at least I  got a little bit more energy than yesterday but it's gonna be another day in bed I guess, sigh.

~ Britney Spears ~ Criminal ~  

I always been a little bit weak for Britney Spears and for some kind of reason I almost always like her new songs coming out. This video Criminal has it's premier today and it didn't go wrong either this time, I love it. Especially the beginning of the video is great :)

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Buck the movie

Buck; an absolutely extraordinary and beautiful movie about respect, love and understanding. A documentary film following the the horse trainer Buck Brannaman, "the horse whisper", on the road visiting ranches in US. Buck talks about his abusive childhood and gives credit to his foster parents and Ray Hunt (another horse training legend) for helping him become one of the most respected horse trainers today.It is a film that teaches you a lesson about life and understanding human beings and animals. It is real and fantastic. A positive energy swept though the whole movie and I was just amazed.

This movie made me want to be a better person. I would like to have good portion of his courage and to be a person who gives a little bit more, a person a little bit more like Buck.

This is a film for everyone to see and a must see for all horse lovers.

“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, sometimes you might not like what you see. . . Sometimes you will.” – Buck Brannaman

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First time off sick!

I have to admit it, I'm sick! I have a super cold with blocked nose and irritating coughing and I've spent most of the day in bed. It's the first time since I came to Italy that I take a day of from work for being sick and this morning when I woke up realizing that I just couldn't go to work I didn't know what to do (the procedure for staying home sick) but I learned. 

In Italy when you're off sick you need to go immediately to the doctor who will send a doctor certificate to your company to prove that you sick and how many days you should stay home. When that's done you're paid 100%. I remember that in London I was still paid 100% but I didn't have to go to the doctors until the 5th sick day home. I am not sure how it works in Sweden but I know that you're never paid your first sick day off and from the second day you're paid 80% I think.... Don't know if you need to go and see your doctor for a evidence or not.

Now I gonna eat a warm soup something with my flatmates.

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