Last day at SEB kort

Presents: beautiful candle from Rituals, a book for my trip and adorable jewels from Edblad. 

Thank you everyone! 

Time flies and today was my last day at work. My work. It really feels like MY job, it feels like I have been working there forever or as my manager said in her good bye speech to me to today "it feels like both like you started yesterday as time has passed to quickly but at the same time as you have been here forever as you very quickly picked up the routines and became an important part of the whole team". I couldn't agree more. 

So, today I finished my last work tasks before I hand them over to other colleagues. I cleaned my desk. Removed my photos and personal belongings. Well, from being a very much "Maria desk" to an unpersonal empty  boring desk.

I had my leaving lunch at Ljungrens with my consultant manager from Amendo. Wow, what a restaurant! 

Then in the afternoon I had my "leaving fika" with the whole departments. They celebrated me with lovely cakes, flowers and presents. Such great day! But sad. 

Now I have left the office and I only have to concentrate on my new start on monday.

Happy weekend

xoxo

Leaving lunch with my colleagues

Today my manager invited me and my colleagues out for an absolutely delicious lunch at Melanders Fisk to "celebrate" me leaving the company. Is that kind of place that I rate as a little bit too expensive for a normal lunch so I felt very happy we got offered such great lunch to my honor.

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Special treatment from my colleagues

My colleagues are just adorable and I will give you a reason why…

Once a week we have  “fika” everyone together. One team member bake something nice and we take half an hour to sit down, drink coffee, eat the sweets and just relax the whole team together (we are 18 people).

Today my colleague Marie had done “mini semlas” (see pictures below) and as everyone in the office now knows that I usually don’t like too sweet things like the almond paste that is chopped inside the traditional semla. Therefor she had made a  special mini semla just for me, filled with lemon cream instead of the almond paste. I hadn't asked for it, she just did it for me. I felt so honored!

The same happened a month ago when Teresa, another colleague, had made wonderful little macarons. She made chocolate macarons to everyone, except for me, as I don’t like chocolate, so she made special lemon macarons to me instead.

Wonderful wonderful colleagues! I will miss everyone so much!

xoxo

Wild show jumping

Last night it was time for show jumping at my riding school. We actually go jumping every third time which is great fun. We get one horse for three lessons, two dressage classes and one show jumping. So this was my third lesson on Vanadis, an overly quick and energetic horse that during the dressage lessons only fancied running around as fast as possible. I was really nervous before the show jumping class yesterday, scared of falling off and hurt myself. But Vanadis, that has been annoyingly stubborn during previous classes suddenly was just positive and responsive and we made a great team. I was so satisfied after the class. Unfortunately one other girl, with another overly energetic horse, felt off and hurt her back badly.

Horse riding is a great sport;  the bond with the horse is an indescribable feeling and it is a great total body work out, but it is important to have respect for it as it can be dangerous, as many other things in life.

xoxo 

Lunch at Nem Nem Quan

Last lunch with dad at one of our favorite lunch places here at Södermalm, Nem Nem Quan, a Vietnamese restaurant. Their food is so nice but it will be impossible to get all the way there for lunch from my new job. Maybe I’ll be back for dinner one day :)

xoxo

Stressful gray days

Relaxing at home

The spring is arriving, is just not here yet. Stockholm has still got just a few plus degrees and a part from one and other sunny days most days are just gray. That typical in between winter and spring weather, boring weather. 

On top of that I am really stressed over the thousand things I have to do in these days....

I am woring my last week at SEB kort and lots of things need to be sorted out before I close that door behind me. I am a bit sad of leaving SEB too, I know I will miss both my work and my adorable colleagues a lot. 

At the same time I am preparing for my new job. I have already been there, working with them just few hours to try to learn the new work tasks. I just can't wait to get started for real, learn everything I will be responsible for and bring it on. I got high expectations and I hope I will enjoy my new job even more that my previous ones. However, I got three days to learn everything and I must admit that I am a bit scared that three days won't be enough. 

The reason I only got three days is that I am off for a holiday next week. I am going to Curacao, a paradise island in the southern Caribbean sea. I am going partly for holiday, and partly for work. I will be working an hour a day as a personal training for a group of doctors who's at Curacao for a dive medicine course, a job I have to be really well prepared for. 

Well, having all these things in mind stresses me a lot...

xoxo

The way - A fantastic movie

Fancy watching a good movie? Then I can recommend you a movie called "The Way". I really enjoyed it. One of those honestly nice and thoughtful films!

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My last financial month closing at SEB kort

I guess I haven't mentioned that I am about to leave SEB kort. I would lie if I would say that this year working at the bank has been absolutely great. I have learned a lot, I met great people and I have had great fun. I am honestly sad leaving my precious job. But I have an exiting career step in front of me as I start my new job already next week so I hope not to stay sad for too long. 

However, today the 1st bank day of March will be my last financial month closing I will do at SEB kort. At least for this time. For those of you that doesn't know I have been working mostly with bank account reconciliations (there are lots of them at a bank) but also with payments, book keeping and other kinds of reconciliations. But it has been my work with the Swedish and Norwegian bank account reconciliations I have appriciated most. I have treated my bank accounts with so much time and love that they feel like my little babies. I will really miss them. And I will miss my colleagues. And I will miss my daily routins here. Everything. But at the same time I just can't wait to be fit for fight at my new job. But more about that another time.

Now, at 19.15 I am finally on my way home from work. 

Have a great evening!

xoxo

Eurovision girl night

Johanna, Ana, Stella, me, Zarah and Jessica 

Flowers for my name day - Maria!

xoxo

Saturday yoga class

I went to yoga today. An advanced leveled yoga class at Sats Odenplan. It's been a while since I attended a really good yoga class but today's class was amazingly good. Both me and my friends can agree that Josefin Palmgren is one of Sats's absolutely best yoga instructions, too bad I don't manage to attend them more often. Now I just feel great, but fisically and mentally.

Now we (me and my mums dog Stella that is here) are just waiting for some of my girl friends to arrive for a cosy night in together at my place. What a great Saturday heh!

xoxo