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I tried dirty fries for the very first time: here’s how it went

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and iam finally back in bed. Just came home from a date night with my husband. We try to have those nights at least once a month but he has been working so much so we haven’t had time but today we took the time.

First we went out for dinner and I tried something new! I didn’t go with my regular as I take at this restaurant.  We started with starters.. I don’t know why but I love chili cheese now. I’ve always hated them and they were disgusting but now. oh god. M (husband) took some chicken wings with Mexican hot sauce. He liked them and I tried a piece. Not my taste but they were good. 3 stars of 5 stars.

For dinner M had his usual ~ dirty plate which is fries, chopped red Chilli, green onion, the restaurants sauces, meat and cheese. And I had a chicken burger with a dirty fries. The dirty fries was my first time trying and it had almost the same as dirty plate except no ground beef / meat but I had bacon on it. The sauce were okey, the bacon were a bit burned. I picked out the red chili’s and gave them to my husband (he loves red chili).  A 3,5 out of 5 stars.

After having dinner we walked around a bit before taking the car to the tiny beach in town. It was sunset so ofcourse I had to take pictures. While taking photos my phone started to act weird. It showed regular camera when taking picture but in the gallery it showed completely different .. It was so weird and strange. Even though the malfunction of the phone I managed to get a few pictures I could fix to share here in the blog.

Here is one of many pictures that my phone saved in gallery.. anyone know why it did like this??

this picture is not edited. it comes directly from the gallery map.

After watching the sunset we went to the grocery store to buy some snacks to have wbile watching a movie before bed but to be honest, we havent watched a movie. He watched his thing and im blogging, fixing photos and scroll youtube. so yeah that was my evening. How is/was your Saturday? 

Super excited to tell you what the niche is

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I saw a question that made me think really hard.. Why you chose your blogging niche? well to be honest, I have been blogging for many years, different blogs, different names etc and  I have been all over. Blog chaos, no red thread to follow etc. Which I might struggle with on this blog as well (atleast I struggle with my bad grammar – I’m sorry!) but why did I really picked my niche?

(cartoon filter on)

well to be honest lifestyle suits me best because I wanna have a place where I can share my experience, news (good and bad) and have just a place to write on. Lifestyle for me is huge in the category but the best part you do not need one special niche. I love photography but I also love beauty and skincare and having lifestyle as a niche I will be able to post that instead of just focusing on ONE TOPIC. Now I will not have many topics in this blog. Maybe 4 or 5. lifestyle ~ (and daily life) photography, parenting (autism), beauty/skincare, mental health and inspirational posts.

For me important subjects are important to share  such as raising awareness about mental health, bullying and autism . How to help, work and go through it. In today’s society it’s (at least where I live) a taboo to talk about these things and I have been through shit tons of things so I know a lot.

Photography ~ share photographs I’ve taken, share info and try keep my spirit up for photography (as you might have notice I always have at lease one photo on each post. taken by me or borrowed) . Share for my adventures, fun moments etc.

Parenting ~ As you know, I’m a mother to a boy named E who has a severe case of Autism. Autism level 3 and is non verbal. // I will share his progress, development and steps forward to the future. Not to seek attention or what so ever but to just remember the moments.

Beauty / Skincare ~ my Instagram has a lot of posts of beauty & skincare but in here I will just include some looks when I wear, information etc. Updates on beauty / skincare part will be on instagram, just like some lifestyle (will update LS on here)

Inspirational posts ~ Everyone need to motivation and inspiration in their life and iam here to share both quotes etc I have written myself and those I found online.

so now you all know why I picked my blogging niche(sorta know. it’s hard to explain). What is your blog niche?

Beautiful sunny day with laughter, madness and workouts

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Today I had a debate with myself if I would go to the gym or not. I was supposed to go yesterday but I didn’t so I broke my strike in days but it’s fine. Today I felt low on energy so I just wanted to lay in bed and sleep but I dragged myself to the gym which resulted 65 minutes on the treadmill and a painful hip. I wanted to push myself more but I had to stop so I don’t make the pain worse or something else .

after gym I took my beloved energy drink (I just started to drink these the other day. I wanted to try one and boom.. I’m hooked) and took a slow walk next to the sea in the beautiful sunshine. I was gonna meet up my best friend but her bus didn’t come until 20 minutes after so I enjoyed a bit in the sun and later met her.

We went to the grocery store and bought more of my celsius drinks plus other stuff as well. I know I know, energy drinks aren’t good for you to drink so much off and im not drinking more than two (pre-workout and after workout) per day but thank you 🥰

after that we walked around a bit and after we decided to go grab some dinner. I was not in the mood for pizza (I had pizza yesterday) but for chicken salad ..with pineapples! so good! I love pineapples on pizza and in salad. Unfortunately I had to throw away a lot of chicken because I got that feeling.. uhm.. where it “grows in the mouth” you know. I don’t know how to explain in an other way. Anyway, we sat at the pizza place for two hours or so and just talked, laughed, joked and had a wonderful time – just what I needed.

We always order a plate of fries (because we like it) but we always end up throwing away 3/4 of it 😅 thankfully I know what the pizzaplace do with the left over food that’s everyday and it goes to animals (pigs and chickens) so that’s good ☺️

My plans is to go to the gym tomorrow again but it all depend on my hip. On Monday I start school again – yay finally back with one routine in my life (again) and hopefully get the schedule so I can plan my workouts (while son is in school and me after school or when I have day off from school).

What have you done today? Any plans?

Date night for under $50 – Ideas and suggestions

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sometimes you have to take time for your loved ones and enjoy the moment. // Instead of going to the gym today as planned, my husband felt tired (worked 26h shift) and needed to go to my old hometown to drop some papers off so we went there and on our way home we stopped to eat some dinner (it was late). Not fancy nor healthy food but today got to he my cheat day. That pizza was no bueno though so I only ate like 1/6 of it and the fries.  left the rest. I tried it ans I didn’t like it. After dinner we went to a food store because I was craving sour candy (sometimes those cravings kick in. not often though) and my husband knows – when craving hit me  give it to me.. haha! We decided to have a movie night (which is rare these days) and today’s movie was Jackpot! with John Cena and Awkwafina. It was an alright movie. Weird but alright. 

To have a date night doesn’t really have to cost a lot. This lil date night cost us around $40. The food, the candy and one bottle of coca cola zero. Pretty nice deal to be honest.

Date nights doesn’t have to be expensive. There are so much to do on dates (not only date night).

You can (for free) go visit museums, go on a beach, sit my the sea, go for a walk and so much more. 

You can (for very cheap) have movie night (popcorn etc.), have a picnic next to the sea and a lot more

Do you have any tips, ideas or suggestions on different activities to do on dates?

Try this recipe to have an amazing dinner | Choritzo Stew

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When I was younger, I was tired of same food everyday. It’s typical here in Sweden to always do same food everyday (almost)  so I tried to experiment with food and ohmygod this choritzo stew is amazing! Even my autistic son who is very selective and picky when it comes to food eats this.

Let me know if you will try this and also what you think of it. Did you add something of your faves in it? Different spices? Mushrooms etc (you can also add that into this but my son doesn’t eat that so I skipped it)



Time approximately:  30min

What you need;

6 choritzo
4 dl cooking cream
2 tbs of Ketchup (or tomato pure)
1 yellow onion
1 apple
1/2 teaspoon of Red Curry paste
Black pepper and fries Spice.
2 tbs of creme fraiche (optional)

you can add how much spices you want depending on your personal opinion 🥰🥰

Step by step (simple)

● Cut the choritzo in your preferable size
● Cut the onion same way
● lower the heat to lil bit under medium
● Fry the choritzo til it’s golden and add the onion and fry together til the onion is golden as well
● add cooking cream, ketchup, the spices and mix well
● add the sour cream to make the the stew creamy and stir well.
● put the stove on lowest and let it cook for 20 minutes
● boil spagetti during this time
● last 10 minutes ~ add the apples and stir well.

Serve, enjoy and let me know what you think of it 🥰