HOT HOT H.E.A.T

Last day in August. Where did summer go? I don't know because this summer was the worst but finally it seems like things are getting better, thank God. I went to the Royal Opera on Friday and saw the most amazing Troubador by Verdi. It was so awesome. The singers were great especially the tenor singing the troubador's role. He was amazing! The public including me and my friend were extatic. You don't expect that on an ordinary evening. I said to H, who is so kind to drive us home after every opera visit, that we should be out pretty soon after the curtain fall because there is not a premiére or something extra. But it certainly was. The applause were many, long and welldeserved. One other singer I must mention is the mezzosoprano who played the gypsy. What voice and the voice of her and the tenor came together so nice and with Verdi's wonderful music and the words that just spoke to me I was totally overwhelmed by emotions and moved to tears. What a wonderful unexpected...

It's Friday again and a weekend lies ahead. The weekdays really fly. It's Monday and then it's Friday. I'm going to watch H.E.A.T tomorrow. They have a gig here in Upplands Vasby in the "Fadderbyn" which is the place where they are rehearsing. Speaking of H.E.A.T - you have to vote for them being one of the bands playing at Sweden Rock festival. There is a poll right now at: www.swedenrock.com . Unfortunately you can't vote on their English site so you have to click on the Swedish flag. Below the Sweden Rock Festival-logo you see a menu. All the way to the right you find a section that's called 'Rösta inför 2009'. Click that button. From here it's fairly easy, just check H.E.A.T (the first band of the letter H), and scroll all the way to the bottom and submit ('skicka') your vote. They really want to play there again next summer. I saw my doctor yesterday and he told me I wasn't feeling well, as if I didn't know that. Bu...

I got my diploma today! So now I'm certified accountant economist and it feels great. Despite this awful summer where everything seemed to happen (not in a good way) I managed to write my diploma assignment and pass. Yesterday my whole class including our teacher went out for dinner at a Greek restaurant in Stockholm. It was so wonderful and we had a lot of fun. This class has been the best. We have had so much fun although the subjects themselves aren't that laughable (is that a word?) I'm actually very proud of myself :-) Tomorrow it's back to work again and I think J said he would come for dinner.

I have finally seen it. What may you ask. Of course the movie Mamma Mia. And it was just as wonderful as I thought it would be. I have seen the musical in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Las Vegas and I loooove it. It always makes me happy leaving the theatre with a smile that stays for a lon g while. The same thing happened with the movie. The difference this time was that I'm amazed how well the actors sang. I mean I don't think of neither Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard as singers but they did a great job. Of course Meryl Streep was just gorgeous in the role as Donna and she could sing and so could Colin Firth. He had a real nice voice. Was it the best film ever? Well, that depends. It was absolutely one of the best movies in musical/comedy making you feelgood. In that effect it should win an Oscar. But dramatically not the best but it doesn't matter. When I go to a movie I want to feel good afterwards. There is enough bad things happening in the world. To sum it up - I LOV...

Martin Stenmarck, very famous singer . I just had to share some photos with you guys. It's from Rockweekend in Kilafors, Sweden yesterday. It was the most awful weather with thunder, lightning and heavy rain but just as H.E.A.T went on stage the rain stopped and there were even some sunshine during their show. Afterwards it was back to raining again. We did stay until Alice Cooper started but not the whole show. Enjoy the photos and I will write some time again later on. J ona and Sara preparing for the show. Victoria wonderful singer and friend. Peter Stormare signing with H.E.A.T H.E.A.T signing. Me with the gang.

These 2 last weeks have been awful! Why, E is in hospital and we don't know when he will be well again. I can't write too much about it but it's very sad and that's why I haven't written and I won't write for a while now. I neither have the energy nor the will to do so right now. I wish all of my readers a really nice summer and lots of sunshine.

We have celebrated Midsummer's Eve here on Friday. It was a lovely day with sunshine and kind of warm around 22C daytime and 12C at night. As the vikings we are we sat outside shivering but if it's summer you sit outside regardless. We were invited to our good friends I and K and our lovely adopted grandchildren Ta and To. All in all we were 18 friends that had met up. I made potatoesalad and brought. You can imagine the bowl. It was huge. I made potatoesalad out of 6 kg fresh potatoes, mayo, sour cream, garlic, italian saladspice, leek and dill. It was very good and all said the same. To that we had grilled meat which K had marinated all day. He had also made this delicious sauce that had been cooking since 8 AM that morning that is almost 12 hours. The first thing though we ate was, of course, sill (herring) in all forms and fresh potatoe with "nubbe" vodka. And of course we sang to every nubbe we took. I don't like and can't eat sill so me and the kids had...