HOT HOT H.E.A.T

Today my sister, my niece, nephew, brother-in-law and a bunch of girls went to the studio www.standstraight.se where H.E.A.T recorded their CD. The owner Chris is a good friend to J and also to me and my family. So I went there too to see and listen. B has a wonderful voice and she is a huge fan of H.E.A.T so she wanted to record their song Never let go. She and A, her brother went into the studio and sang from the top of their lungs while having a wonderful time. I filmed with my camera and here's the link. I hope it works and that you can see and hear how much fun they had. Mind you it's filmed with an ordinary camera and not a video. Unfortunately it didn't work to upload the video but I will try another way. It was just a little bit too big. .

I know, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Sweden but my American family does so I send them extra thoughts on this day. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Also to Lisa who is celebrating her first Thanksgivin in Washington. I hope you have a wonderful time and of course that you will find everything you wanted on the big sale. Here the snow has almost melted away already. We have had over 7C today. Isn't it a strange world we are living in? Nothing much happened today just an ordinary day with work and meetings. Do you want another recipe? OK here's dinner we had today: Smoked pork chop with bacon and tomatoes 500 g smoked pork chop 1/2 leek 70 g bacon 3 tomatoes black pepper oregano 3 dl cream 1 tablespoon tamari soy 0,5 dl creme fraiche Peel the smoked pork chop and cut in thin slices. Slice the leek and the bacon. Place the smoked pork chop in a ovenproved pan. Put the leek and sliced tomatoed on top. Season with oregano. On top of that place the sliced bacon. Stir cream, ...

It was a big day yesterday with the announcement of H.E.A.T in the pre-Eurovision in Sweden but today it's back to normal again until February 2009. Today was my Doctor appointment day. He wasn't too pleased with me. I got two new medicines, one that is a new medicine for cronic pain (which I have) and hopefully that will help me. Also a medicine for restless legs (which I also have) so perhaps I will be able to sleep all night now :-). He wanted me to stay home from work on sickleave but I told him I only have 4 weeks left before my job closes down and after that I can rest. So he was OK with that. There are some examinations he is going to send me to. I'll let you know when I have the results. Other than that a relaxed day which I really needed. Oh, my new medicine is kicking in. I can tell because I'm getting so tired to the point I'm nearly falling asleep. So good night to you every one except for you in CA whom I wish a good day.

Here's a link to a TV-interview made with H.E.A.T this afternoon regarding their participation in the Swedish Melodifestival. It's in Swedish but at least you get to hear and see them live :-) http://www.expressen.tv/noje/Melodifestivalen%2B2009/1.1381707/h.e.a.t-tror-folk-ar-trotta-pa-discopoppen Enjoy and sleep well. We have -5C outside now and lots of snow but they say it will melt away in a few days. I just have one question - why?

From left to right - Crash, Dave, Jimmy, Kenny, Eek and Jona - H.E.A.T Finally, I can tell you that H.E.A.T is going to compete in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest in February 2009 with a song titled 1000 miles written by David Stenmarck (Martin's brother). I have known this for quite some time but haven't been allowed to say anything with the risk of disqualification if it came out earlier than the official announcement. I'm a big fan of the Melodifestival as you who know me knows. I think I have watched everyone for as long as I can remember. Even the day E was born I watched the Eurovision final the same night at the maternity ward. He was born at 11AM and the final was at 8PM. That's a true fan :-) http://www.svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=79702&lid=puff_1324650&lpos=lasMer Here's a link to Swedish television where you can see them but they are in all our papers and on TV as well. I'll try to write more later but now I have to cook dinner. Until l...

This past 24 hours has been filled with snow and more snow and on top of it very strong winds both full storm and in some cases hurricanewinds. I took some photos earlier and I post them here so you can see for yourself. They are taken on our frontyard, on our street (so you see they haven't plowed yet) and in front of our house and as you can see it's still snowing! I both love and hate the snow. Well, not the snow itself but the concequences that it can cause. Especially in traffic. When it snows this much they can't manage to keep the roads clean from it so for instance yester day and today Norrtalje was almost isolated. No buses could go to Stockholm and they warned people to go by car. But if you could stay inside or just go for a walk it's actually quite beautiful. I'm going to my Mom tomorrow morning in rush hour and I'm not happy at all about this weather then. But she has an appointment with the Rheumatologist and I have to go with her because since sh...

I'm sorry I haven't written since the party Thursday night but I have been on this course in Nynashamn and I didn't have access to a computer. I drove down to Nynashamn on Friday with two other ladies from the Rheumatic association who I picked up outside their homes. We came down in good time to get our rooms and gather before dinner which by the way is excellent at Nynasgarden. For starter we had a Gazpach o soup with grilled prawns on a toast. It was very very good. Main course was a vealentrecôte with baked potatoe and a winesauce. This was on Saturday which was a very long day with lot of lectures. Since we are many different associations represented among them blind, deaf, epileptic, heart- and lung disease, mental illnesses and more a lot of things can happen. And yesterday it did. Two of our participants had epileptic attack first one in the middle of class and the other in the evening. That was also more serious because they had to call ambulance and she was then t...