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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!   Yester...

For all of us H.E.A.T fans the wait will soon be over. In a short time, I can't tell you exactly when, they will release the first single from the new album and that is really something special.  I will of course tell you as soon as it's out there to buy. This is how they celebrated that the album was ready :-)  ( Photo from H.E.A.T's Facebook-page) We have started the walking competition this week at work and my goal is to walk 7000 steps a day which I have achieved almost every day. Two days I have like 50-100 steps away so I think that is good.  The thing is that every 7000 steps we take our firm gives a certain sum to Save the Children which is a really good cause I think. It's also a fun way to get you out walking. I have a goal to walk from Upplands Väsby to Gävle in this perid which lasts until February 12. Last night I had reached a bit further north of Knivsta and are heading for Uppsala. It's kind of fun because we have a website where we register o...

This Friday my brother-in-law was operated and we really need all good thoughts and prayers because it didn't go as planned. He's now i ICU and they couldn't complete the surgery as they wanted to. He and my sister lives in California so it's very far away and I'm here in Sweden frustrated cause I can't do anything. I would probably not be able to do anything if I'm in place either but at least I could be to some comfort and also helping out with the things you don't really want to do in times like this - like cooking, cleaning and shopping. I am happy though because their girls came and has been there the weekend so at least they have each other. Otherwise here in Stockholm things are really back to normal. We have had some snow (not much) and below 0 degrees so it's "nice" and icy outside which means I don't go out. I'm scared to fall again and hit my head or even worse ;-) break something. I hate it when it is like this. Last...

After all the holidays I'm back to normal again which is kind of nice in a way. Nice to go to work and meet everyone but sad because I miss the days home. Hasse and I made a habit of going out walking the last week I was home. We walked at different places redescovering Väsby again. I like to walk where there is water, even if it's frozen :-) Hasse likes the wood, which I don't. So we have tried to combine them and that actually works here. We do miss Hilma because when we had her we were out walking every day 3-4 times a day whether we wanted it or not :-) Sunday when we were out walking by lake Norrviken we saw the lake completely frozen which is kind of strange because it hasn't been that cold this winter. But there were a lot of skaters out there. I didn't dare go out because of the singing noice the ice made. The skaters we talked to said the ice was around 5 cm thick. That is way to little for me! So now I'm working and tomorrow I'm going to get a...

  The cook-book's cover I think you know about our cooking competition at work? We cook for each other every Monday and after each cirkle is completed (approx 10 weeks) we vote the best dish that cirkle. At the end of the year we count all the points and one winner is selected. Last year 2011 I won for the second year in a row :-) I was extatic because one of the things I love to do and I think I'm quite good at is cooking and baking :-)   My work which once was a stable. Isnt' it gorgeus? My prize was a gourmet dinner for 2 at a White Guide restaurant in Sweden. They are in places like Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and a lot of other cities in Sweden. Great prize and I know Hasse is happy too because he's the one I will take with me, of course. An example of a recipe, by me :-) Two other recipes by me and it's in the dessert section   I'm sorry it's in Swedish but if you are interested in any of these I can give you an English translation. I wish you al...

Well, it really was yesterday but we had a lazy day then and just watched TV like the New Year's concert from Vienna that we watch every year. A very nice tradition. Otherwise nothing much happened. We had leftovers from New Year's Eve. I made a cold Avocad soup with shrimps as a starter and to that I made rolls with Västerbottencheese. Main course was fillet of beef with potatoe gratin made of almond potatoe (I don't know if you have it in USA but it's a delicacy here) and of course Västerbotten ;-) and garlic and to that a green sallat. For dessert I made tosca pears with whipped cream. We ate slowly and enjoyed each dish and it took us around 2 1/2 hours to eat. At midnight we watched all the fireworks from our balcony. We have this amazing view and can see 360 and all the way into Stockholm. It was a clear night which made it extra special. But that was then and now is now and the new year began today with work :-) January is a month with lots of work sin...