HOT HOT H.E.A.T

The week started out so well with that wonderful Yasuragi Spa which in retrospective was very lucky. On Tuesday I had a phonecall that said O, my Dad, was on his way to hospital in ambulance. I had to immediately take care of arranging for my mother to come to a short time home since she has Alzheimer and can't stay at home by herself. So I contacted the municipality who arranged a place to the day after. My sister H, took her home over night and I fetched Mom the following morning. Luckily I had vacation so I had time to do it. We went home to Mom's and O's home to pack some things and go through the fridge and the mail which took a couple of hours since they hadn't been able to do that. Mom can't and O had been ill for a while and hadn't the strength. Then we went to the short time home where she's been before but when we got there she said: Do I have to stay overnight here? And I said yes, you know you have. When installed in the room she became very sad ...

Me and my bonus daughter G went to Yasuragi Spa on Sunday. This is a place just outside of Stockholm in the wonderful archipelago of Stockholm. It was my Christmas- and birthdaygift for her and since she's in the middle of a separation she really needed to get away and relax. Thanks to M who works at the Yasuragi, we had the most wonderful suite called Shikara (I really don't know what that means and I forgot to ask). We had our own very big bathroom with private Japanese washing area as well as the biggest bathtub we've ever seen. It was in tile and very deep approx. 1 meter, 2 meter long and 1,20 broad. You could easily fit two people in there but it took forever to fill it up. A big, big, room almost like a whole flat with different areas. One was the bed who was like on a podium, then a meditation area and a sitting area. Also a big balcony. See the photos. When we arrived we put on the Yukata, which is the only clothes (apart from underwear) that you wear throughout t...

A new Year lies ahead. So much to look forward to, so much that is happening. I'm not much for New Year's resolutions because you tend to break them very soon ;-). But I have one and that is to write this blog - one reason is to share my day to day life with my family in USA and the other reason being I want to share my son's band H.E.A.T and their journey this year. So much is happening right now with them. They signed a record contract with Peter Stormare's record company, Stormvox, last year and they recorded their first album last year and it was finished in December. In February J, my son, is going to LA to mix it together with Michael Blum and hopefully the album will be out in stores beginning of March. Their music, which is mostly written by J, D and K, is a melodic hard rock and I love it. I'm not alone. We are many fans waiting for their debut album. Their biggest gig yet is when they last year were opening act for TOTO in Umea, Sweden. Me, H and E went t...