H.E.A.T 10.000 likes on Facebook!

How about this then? Well they are the best (according to me, a totally objective mother ;-) )

This weekend I had a great experience. As I have told you before I won a VIP-weekend with tickets to finale of the National Qualification for Eurovision song contest in the Globe. But not only that! It also included staying over night at Clarion hotel Stockholm from which you can see the Globe, also dinner with surprises.
Well the surprise started already when we arrived to the dinner. We were greated like moviestars and photographed. Also we were filmed during the whole evening and interviewed on camera. The conferencier, and singer, was Jacob Samuel singer of the Poodles (H.E.A.T has played and also been on tour with them) Also entertaining was the twins Rongedahl. They have also been in the finale in the Globe a couple of years ago. Great musicians.

 My beautiful sister Helen who joined me for the event

 Me, happy as can be

 The film crew that filmed us throughout the event

 Jacob Samuel from the Poodles

 The twins Rongedahl

 Helen, Jacob and me

The Globe - it was completely sold out and around 14.500 people there

Did you know that there was a Swedish guy that wrote this year's winning song for Eurovision for Spain?

Next day I and another friend of mine went to a TV-recording with H.E.A.T. It was a great show and I'm looking forward to see the ready product. They are one act in a one-hour show.

I still have a cold and I'm so tired of it now. It has been going on for 2 1/2 weeks now and enough is enough! I have to get well because next Friday we are off to London. That is my work. I have organized and planned the whole trip so I really want to get well so I can enjoy the trip properly.

Well that's it for now. I will now try to get well but if I'm not on Monday I will go to the doctor.

Take care everyone out there!

March already?!

Dirty Dancing was just wonderful. Did I tell you? I loved it as I of course love the movie.

The week after, last week, I of course caught a cold. Our flu and colds are very late here in Sweden this year. Normally we are getting out of it by now but this year it has just started!! I hate this. It started out rather nice with fever and when that went I thought nice, now it's over. That wasn't too bad.
What have I said in the past? Never even think the thought because it will, always, haunt you back.
And of course it did. I missed out on the Opera last Saturday. My friend also had a cold and me too. So I decided to be a good girl and take it easy so I would be fit and healthy for this weekend.

On Monday we had a board meeting with the Rheumatic association and luckily it wasn't that late but when I woke up on Tuesday my eyes were sore, especially the right one and very watery. Also I my sinus was clogged (too much information?) and it got worse. I did work but tried to stay in my room so I wouldn't give it to my co-workers.

Yesterday I had to go to the doctor and I got medicine :-) I have a bacteriell eyeinfection which with the drops should be good by tomorrow. I sure hope so because tomorrow I'm going to the final of the National qualification to Eurovision. I want to be able to put on some make up then of course.
In the morning I will go to my hairdresser for styling and then off to get Helen for further driving to the hotel, Clarion Sign Stockholm. In the afternoon we will be treated with a 3-course dinner before transfer over to the Globe and the final. I'm really looking forward to this and I will go no matter what!

 The Globe the year H.E.A.T was in the finale.

Then next week I have a full schedule, as ever ;-). Tuesday dinner with my work, Wednesday I'm going to visit a Fair which is all about travel and conference. On Thursday I will have a couple of ladies home for lunch and planning for the jubilee.

And now it's only 2 weeks left to London baby :-) I have booked and double checked everything so I do hope we will have a great stay.

Dirty Dancing

I just came home from the musical Dirty Dancing that is on here in Stockholm.
Me and my friend Inger went and we had "the time of our lives"
I love the movie and I have probably seen it more than what is good for you ;-)

The production here in Stockholm I just loved! Great cast, great scenography and last but not at all least incredible dancers. And although I've seen the movie so many times I still get moved to tears especially when Johnny says his famous line: Nobody puts Baby in the corner.
And then their final dance. Love, love, love it!

What more has happened since last. Well I won a competition :-) And the price is a Melodifestival-weekend (that is our National Eurovision Song Contest qualifier) which includes dinner, tickets to the final in the Globe and a night at hotel. So me and my sister, H, who had already planned a sister-weekend, had to change plans. Not that we were sorry, we love Melodifestivalen and this will be the third time we are in place for the final. First time several years ago sitting so high up you can come which meant we didn't see much. Second time when H.E.A.T played and now this time :-)

I also was to the Royal Opera this week, on Tuesday. Me and my friend C have like a subscribtion for the whole year. We have the same seats which is a box in Royal circle. This time we saw Dialogue des carmélites - Karmelitersystrarna by Francis Poulenc and I can say we didn't like it at all! This is the first time in 3 years we haven't liked anything about an opera. I don't know what it was but it didn't "speak" to us in anyway. So we actually left during the interval.

This is it for today. I have to go because the "Mello" starts now. This time from Malmo in Scania. In two weeks the cirkus will be in the Globe!
Take care and have a fantastic weekend :-)
 

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

I wish all of my family and friends a Happy Valentine's Day and much love and tenderness.

I just realized I haven't written for 10 days and I have no idea where time went or a little I do have ;-)

I spent Thursday with my friend Anne in Norrtälje with treatment, lunch, chat and laughs. I have missed it since I haven't been able to go there for over a month.

Then on Saturday we were invited to our good friends K and J for dinner. It was far too long since we saw them due to them being ill when we first decided to meet. We had a wonderful evening with a lot of good food, chatting, discussions and memories.

After that we, on the way home, went to a place called Rosersberg where Jimmy from H.E.A.T playes trobadour. Half of H.E.A.T including parents, siblings and friends were there so we had a great time chatting, singing and more. We didn't come home until 0.30AM which is very rare for us.

 Hasse and Matz

 Me and Vonne having a good laugh

 The Blue Laguna with with people dancing and chatting

Sorry for the bad quality of the photos.

Sunday was the most gorgeous day and I went for a long walk on the lake Norrviken's ice. Sunshine and a lot of people were out, skiing, skating, walking or driving 4-wheelcars.

 Me on the ice

 Gorgeous day!

Yesterday we inaugurated our new kitchen at work. No one were able to cook and I was so disapointed so I said I will cook.
I made pork tenderloin with sherryfried champignons in a creamy sauce and then gratinated in our new oven with some Västerbotten cheese. Served with potatoe gratin, of course with Västerbotten cheese and a wonderful green salad. For dessert I made meringue suisse which consist of meringue (of course) icecream, bananas, whipped cream and my homemade chocolate sauce. It all went down very well and I made so much we also ate it today :-)

 The main course

 Our new kitchen in the background and my co-worker in front

The dessert - Meringue suisse - but you practically just see the chocolate sauce

Today I went to see my company's doctor for the annual checkup we have at work. He said I was very well considering I'm so sick. You know I have like 8 or 10 different diagnoses of various severness. My heart was good, kidneys, colestorol, BP. The only thing is that I have mild COL which isn't good.

Have a good Valentines Evening everyone and take care!

H.E.A.T - New album titled ADDRESS THE NATION!!

 Yes, all you H.E.A.T friends and fans out there the new album will be released March 28 but already now you can buy the first single from the album.








But already now you can buy the first single som the album called "Living on the run"

It's available both on Spotify and on ITunes

It's great so buy and enjoy!

Apart from that I've been to my former work on a conference with the Rheumatic assocation which was very productive and rewarding. We did a lot of job and also had boardmeeting at the same time.

 In the conferenceroom, concentrated

 Dinner was delicious!

I still have got my parking space after so many years :-)

Tonight it's time for the first of the qualifying to the Swedish Eurovison song contest and of course I will be watching as usual :-)

London baby

This week so far has been good. I'm feeling so much better this week and hopefully the thing I had is gone :-)

I have planned and booked quite a few things for when I go to London in March with my work. I do the planning and booking of this konference/study trip. We will do a lot of interesting stuff and of course, since you know our favorite thing to do, we are also going to eat at some amazing restaurants. I can't reveal it all here because some of them read this and everything isn't in the open yet.

We are going to see "Olympic London" that is we will walk and get exclusive viewing of all they are building for the Olympic this summer. We will be guided by a practicing architect so very interesting for "my" architects but also for the constructing engineers.

We will be eating one evening at Gordon Ramsey's restaurant which is rather close to our hotel. I had the confirmation just now tonight. It is very booked so you have to be out in time.

You will hear more about it as we get closer.

Tomorrow I'm off to a conference, at my former work Rosersberg, with the Rheumatic association. It's our first meeting there with the District of Stockholm so it will be nice to hear what they think. I'm sure Anna and Lasse will take good care of us :-)

That's it for now folks. I will try to take some photos to place here. Have a great weekend and take care, especially you living in Sweden.

Sick :-(

Well, I told you last that I was feeling so tired. Well, I got the explanation when I on Tuesday had 39,5 C fever. I wasn't feel well at all. Could hardly walk because my lymph glands was so swollen. Infection of course but as usual I have no idea where. Next morning, no fever!

So I went to work. Came to work at 6.30 AM as usual. Worked for 2 hours and then I was off to my annual occupatioanl health care control! My BP was excellent, my heart was a bit too slow but the EKG perfect. I do hear bad on one ear and of course my usual. But of course the blood tests I don't know what they said. Maybe the Sed rate was high. I'm going to see the doctor Febr 14 so I will know then.

Anyway after that back to work and then a budget meeting at the Rheumatic association which went very well.
I also had time to visit my friend Christina who has a chocolate and coffee shop nearby. She has the most tasty coffee ever!

Doesn't this looks sinfully good?

I can tell you it is!

 

Yesterday I had a meeting with the jubilee committe and as always we had a lot of fun but also did a lot of planning.

At work our kitchen was almost completed on Wednesday when I went home. I don't work Thursdays and Fridays so I'm really excited to see how it looks Monday. I took a photo of the wall which is painted orange (one of the logo colors) The pattern is from a spot in the ceiling. Sorry about the bad quality but it's taken with my new phone and I haven't learn the camera yet :-)

Today it's my mother's cousin's birthday. She turns 84 and still going strong.
Happy Birthday Kerstin <3

Tomorrow I'm going to see Mom. She hasn't been well the last days but today she had been sitting up and she even drank some juice which is a good sign.

After being at her place I will go to Danniel for some lunch. I have a treat for him :-)

Hope you all have a great weekend and take care!