Welcoming winter, and a new job

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Since I last wrote a lot has happened. About a month ago my boyfriend and I decided to part ways, and I moved out into a temporary apartment south of central Stockholm at Midsommarkransen. It’s a nice neighborhood, and I haven’t minded calling it home. The commute is relatively easy, although it’s about 20 minutes. Fortunately the Fruangen-Morby Centrum line takes me door-to-door between work and home.

Apart from the relationship drama, I also changed jobs and I now work in online marketing and search engine optimization. I’m now working at a great new company, and I love everything about my job — except for the negotiation process, so I won’t get into that here for your own sake. It’s not that exciting.

I work a block from Stureplan, which is by far the wealthiest area of the city. My co-workers are amazing and this is the first time I’ve actually looked forward to going to work every morning. I have made so many friends over the last month, and the strangest part is most of them aren’t Swedish. The internet company we work for is very international. It’s been a blast meeting people from all these other cultures!

Making friends and working long hours have helped ease the pain brought on by my breakup, and I’ve found that time has also been healing my system. I’m no longer as depressed as I felt at the start of October, and I’m kind of looking forward to exploring Sweden on my own for a while. Life is crazy, but it’s also wonderful at the same time. Sunday afternoon my temporary roommates (from Tallinn), and I looked out our living room window and watched the first snow fall. It was so beautiful… another fond European memory which I’ll always keep!

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Shane
November 18, 2008

Great to see you posting again, though I am sorry to read about the break up. Must be really rough especially as you moved here to be with him.

I am sure it is his loss.

My background is actually SEO and online partnerships within the travel sector. Though I dont do so much of that now, I am Area Manager for a multinational dot com and not too far from Stureplan. Spooky!