So they promised us snow

I went to sleep, hoping to wake up into a snowy Jerusalem which resembles Stockholm in early January. In reality, all we've got was a sunny morning with fragments of ice on some parts of the ground, as an evidence for something that might have happened at night. They, too, melted within few minutes. 

Today there's a Melodifestivalen deltävling again, but I won't be watching it at all. I don't know how on earth I happened to forget about it, and managed to get an evening shift at work precisely today. But the songs tonight suck anyway. Molly has an okay song, but it's not in Swedish, which sucks. That Maria (I have no idea who she is) has a song in Swedish, but it's quite boring,over-schlagerish and repetitive. All the other songs are nothing special. So I ain't missing a thing. Probably.

Anyway, as a sort of compensation to myself, I made this...what do they call it? I heard several names, like "meme" and "what I think I do", but a formal name is yet to be discovered. So...I made a Melodifestivalen-themed thing for this...thing which is so popular now, which explains how various kinds of proffessions, people, etc are seen by you Vs. by others.

So Here it is, dedicated to all Melodifestivalen fans, who happened to be born in the wrong (middle-eastern?) country:

As it appeared to be a creative weekend, I also made this one about my work at H&M. But I guess it applies for all the workers of other big fashion brands too:

So that's it for today. Now I'm off to get ready for work. Happy MF for all the lucky people who can stay at home and watch that Swedish delight!

Keep on doing what you're good at

It's been quite an interesting day. First, I got to work with our store's visual merchandiser for the whole day. The girl who's a visual merchandising trainee was taking a day off or something like that, so I was asked to come and help him instead. That's why I woke up at 05:00, took a taxi to the mall and worked with him non-stop, especially in the Divided department which is my personal favorite.

It turned out to be quite a busy day, because we got about 10 clothes racks, all full of new clothes that should be placed in four different departments. So it all was a little messy and stressed, and we took a lunch break only at 14:00, but for me it was all fun and exciting. That's how it feels when you do something you like - time flies and you don't even notice it. You don't even notice that you're hungry, and as the case is with me - I'm usually hungry.

At the afternoon, after I took care of a huge clothes rack with 4 new jeans models to place at the Denim department, I was allowed to go home. And when I got home, started the amazing race of me trying to change clothes, fix make up and hair and pack my bag as quick as possible - because I had to make it to the Eurovision show in Tel Aviv that was about to take place in 3 hours!

I made it on time, eventually. Unfortunately, I didn't sing so well at the show. It's been a while since I sang in front of people, and I might have forgotten that I shouldn't choose upbeat songs - it confuses me. That's why I always used to stick to ballads.

Anyway, after the show was mostly over and I was heading out in order to make it to the last bus back to Jerusalem, a guy stopped me and told me: "Your Swedish was perfect in that song!" I asked him how could he know that, and then he told me what I could guess myself - he was Swedish.

Wow, that really made my day! To hear that my Swedish sounded perfect to a Swedish person is worth so much more to me than performing well on stage! When I walked in the streets of TLV on my way to the bus, I just couldn't stop smiling. "Perfect" is a strong word indeed.

That made me reach this final conclusion - I wanna keep on doing those things which I'm good at. I want to go on with visual merchandising, and I'll try and work with the store designers at every possible opportunity and then have lots of experience.

I also wanna go on with studying Swedish - watching a Swedish movie every night in the last two years turned out to work well for me. I want to sign up to a Swedish course in Sweden this summer again, and reach the highest level of C2, according to European languages standard.

And I want to fullfill all of my dreams and have more opportunities to hear things which make me smile with no ability to stop.   

Songs and dresses

On wednesday I'm gonna take a part in a small Eurovision karaoke show of OGAE Israel. It's gonna be a contest, and the whole thing is gonna be held in a club, with a real stage and stuff. Exciting! Especially because that means...that I have an opportunity to create a new outfit.

Well, as a self-diagnosed shopaholic, I constantly look for opportunities to buy new clothes. Usually it sounds like "I had a really bad day and need to feel better by buying a new mini skirt" or "I need a vacation and can't afford it, so maybe I'll buy a nice dress and plan to wear it while I'll walk in the streets of the country where my future vacation is gonna take part" and so on. As I said, my shopping is characterised by pure rationality and actual needs. Or not.

So...buying a dress. Since I'm gonna sing 'Det gör ont", I was looking for something which is in the Lena Philipsson's year 2004 style, and by this I mean - very feminine and bright-coloured. I was looking all around the mall and couldn't find something like that. All I found was colourful-but-too-casual dresses, or elegant-and-sexy-but-dull-coloured dresses, mostly in black or gray.

But at the end I found the perfect dress - in my own closet! I almost forgot that a month ago, I went to see the first-ever Forerver 21 store in TLV and saw there a marvelous fancy dress, which I fell in love with, and bought it even though I didn't have any special occasion (I usualy don't have special occasions) in which I would be able to wear it. And now...the perfect occasion! 

The dress is royal blue, which is a more Invincible-Carola colour than Lena Ph, but who cares. It's a pleated dress made of chiffon and its skirt moves when one turns around...perfect! In addition, my friend lended me a pair of extremely high black heels which I'm gonna wear with it. All is left to do is...buy some accessorize tommorow. And that's gonna be the real fun!