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Photo at the top me on Empire state building with Central Park in the background. The one below is me at Rockefeller center (Long blog) I'm back folks. I haven't had the opportunity to write while I was gone because the cost to use internet was so high. Besides I haven't had that much time to sit down and write either. OK I will take it from the beginnnin g. We started out delayed from Stockholm and arrived in Heathrow with just 45 minutes left before our next flight. We ran through terminal 5, through security, on the little train that takes you to the B-gate, up to the gate and immediately onto the plane. We came just minutes before it closed. Up and away in economy, which I have never flown in before to USA, sitting at the last seats in the plane with a wall behind. The person in front of me layed back her seat which ma de me cramped like in a little box. Thus we sat for 8 hours. Horrible! I will never ever fly economy again at least not with B A (more information later)...

Tomorrow morning, very early, at 5AM we have to be at the airport so I think we have to get up at around 4 AM to manage that. Oh well early to bed it is. I hope we will get some sleep anyway because after that we have 13 hours of flying ahead of us before we reach our destination. By then it will be 1.30PM local time so we have to try to stay up as long as we can. It's very exciting and I'm so looking forward to it. Especially after everything I have had to deal with and sort out the last few days. Mamma Mia, maybe see Hedda Gabler with Peter Stormare if we can get tickets, and possibly see him afterwards. Nothing planned except for Mamma Mia. I'll write you when I get home and tell you all about it. Meanwhile take care!

I must share with you when J met his Spanish cousins for the first time. They live in Barcelona or rather just outside the city. I started talking to them on Facebook since I have never met them either nor my sister in Spain. I then told them about H.E.A.T coming to Barcelona and play. They at once said they wanted to meet him so finally we could arrange for them to be on the guestlist and also meet J before the gig. From what I have been told both from S and from J and A they got along very well. If you look at the photos I think you can see the family resemblance especially on the photo of J and S. I wish I could have been there too but having been in London last week and going to New York Thursday morning I couldn't afford it. I could gladly have been to every place they are playing. Mom like a groupie, how about that? :-) As I said I'm going to New York Thursday morning and we have to be at the airport around 5AM which is very early!! So tomorrow evening L is coming here t...

I must share this video with you. It was placed on Youtube just hours after H.E.A.T had performed in Madrid. It's awesome and the guys write in their tour blog, which you can find on tourblog , that this gig was magical and the audience super. They played in something that looks like an opera house or something. Enormous. H.E.A.T performs Cry and Feel it again I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. They are tonight playing in Bilbao and tomorrow in Barcelona. Markus Larsson in Aftonbladet has predicted the outcome of Melodifestivalen and he believes, without even heard the songs, that H.E.A.T will go to the final in the Globe through the second chance. That would be great so we just have to vote and hope for the best. Everyone out there, hardrocker, fans, relatives, neighbours and others be sure to vote on February 14 for H.E.A.T. Have a good Saturday night. I will be watching Clash of the choirs (Körslaget).

Upplands Väsby and Barcelona, two cities that means something to me. I'm quite excited. On Sunday my son J will meet with his cousins, my niece and his second cousin, whom I have never met. H.E.A.T is of course playing in Barcelona on Sunday and since my halfsister N, her 2 daughters and their daughters live there J has arranged that A and S are on the guestlist and will go and see them at Razmatazz. S speak English but A isn't that good at it so it will be exciting to see how the meeting will go. I can't wait to hear what they think of each other. Otherwise has this week been rather quiet after last weekend that was just great! I did my mamogram and the doctor checked a lump I had under the arm but everything was OK so I'm pretty relieved right now. I also saw my friend A in Norrtalje for treatment, chat and lunch. Always so nice to meet her. My body knows when I'm there and always gets so relaxed. On Monday I'm going to the Rheumatic association to pack materi...

I just got back late last night from London where I spent the weekend with rock'n roll. My main purpose was of course to see H.E.A.T play at O2 Academy Islington London on Saturday. But why not combi ne that with holiday I thought. So me, my sister H and her daughter B as well as Jona's girlfriend M all went. We stayed at this superluxurious ho tel in Holborn Renaissance Chancery court. We had clubroom which gave us a ccess to a Club lounge that offered complimentary meals like continental breakfast, tea/coffe, drinks throughout the day, evening meal and desserts. In our prize was al so an English breakfast in the Pearl restaurant which ordinary cost £24.50! But it was worth it. On Friday evening we went to see "We will ro ck you" with music by Queen. What a musical!!! They talk about Mamma Mia but this one - I don't know but I it's probably better. I got goosebumps all over when the audience at the end starting singing Bohemian Rhapsody, what a feeling. I co...

Tomorrow morning at 6AM we leave our house for London. We that is J's girlfriend M, my sister H and her daughter B. It's early I know but we are on vacation. I had one of my fever attacks yesterday which wasn't good but today it's gone again. Don't know what that stands for but I suppose it's my disease playing me games. So I won't be writing anything now for a few days but more when we return.

Yesterday we had a kind of farewell dinner for Jona and M before he took off on H.E.A.T's European tour. We had a very nice time together me, E, H, Jona and M. I had made fillet provencale with potatoe gratin with lots of garlic, to go with it I served asparagus and a green salat. For dessert just a icecreamcake. Today has been quiet and calm. It's getting warmer outside and it also snowed for a while. I just took in my suitcase that I'm going to have when we go to London. It is so much fun around this. I get to know a lot of H.E.A.T fans throughout the world which is fascinating. I will meet up with two of them in London. We have been emailing each other a lot lately so it will be very nice to see them "live". You can watch them here as well since I filmed their rehearsal gig in Jakobsberg on Saturday. Tomorrow I have a meeting with the Rheumatic association and H has a hospital appointment to do some tests. He's also going to the thorax department on Frida...

Yesterday evening I and my friends I and K and their daughter T went to see H.E.A.T perform in their rehearsal house in Jakobsberg. It was for specially invited and what a show we got. I filmed throughout the night and among other songs I filmed Cry, Keep on Dreaming, Never let go but of course there were a lot of others too. I have had problems uploading them because they are too big for this media for instance and also for MySpace so now you can find one on my Facebook site and soon on youtube. I am having problems uploading it because it's so big but maybe tomorrow. I forgot to put in my earplugs so by the end of the evening I was hard on hearing but today I'm fine again. In just a few days (Friday) I'm going to London to see H.E.A.T perform there on Saturday. I'm very excited and I'm going with Jona's girlfriend M, my sister and her daughter so it's really girl power. We are starting the rockweekend with the musical We will rock you based on Queen's ...

So here it is. A whole new year 2009 to be filled with joy and sorrow and everything between. It's always exciting with a new year and when 2008 was new I had no idea what was going to happen which in some cases is for the best. So many sad and hard things happened in 2008. My Mom and O had to go to a home for elderly after O had to amputate his leg and Mom getting worse in her Alzheimer. That also meant a lot of work for me and my sister during summeremptying their house. I also managed to sell their house. E ending up in hospital for 2 months very ill and not being able to work since. Me losing my job after 28 yearsd due to our Goverment's bad decision. H disease that finally got diagnosed as RA but he still hasn't got a diagnose for the coughing and breathing problems he's having. I gained all the weight I lost in 2007-2008. But there also were very happy times which is how you cope with the bad ones. I did a lot of travels in 2008. One that wasn't planned so lon...