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As I said many times before, but I do mean it, time really flies. Tomorrow my good friend J in England is scheduled to have her operation. She has a tumour in her head which needs to be removed. I do hope everything goes well and I will certainly think of her and pray for her tomorrow. It's kind of funny really with hers and mine friendship. We have been writing mails to each other for about 7 or 8 years now but we have never met. We met through a mailinggroup since we have the same disease and belonged to the same group. She started writing me privately since one of her grandchildrens name was Mia, and I answered. We have been sharing each others lives since then by sending photos of our families, talking to each other about everything both in happy and hard times. I have even spoke to her on the phone (when I had Skype) but never met. I would love to meet with her some day and I hope that day will come sooner than later. I went to see my new friend from the Rheumatic association ...

It's so grey and foggy outside and it never was light today. This is the darkest time of the year but if we are lucky we can have snow but all the snow that came last week is gone. It feels like you're never quite awake. It's like I always say in November we should gon intor hibernation and not come out until March or whenever spring comes. You are constantly tired, have headache and feel miserable. Three or four weeks with warmth and sunshine wouldn't be completely wrong :-) I have begun the process of emptying my room at work. It takes time because among my private things I found calenders dated back to 1990 so it's a trip down memory lane looking at those. I have the habit of making small notes every other day which has brought back so many things. My room is to be emptied by December 30 and I hope I will have finished by then but it's hard. Every class that has ever graduated at our school have made some art with all the pupils portraits on and they are tru...

I just came home from Stockholm where I saw the living singing Christmas tree in Filadelfia church with friends from the Rheumatic association. I had no idea until yesterday that I was going there but one of the girls called me and asked if I could go because her daughter that would have gone couldn't. So I said yes because this is a thing I have wanted to see for so long. This year it's 20th celebration and both my boys saw it when they were in school. And it was all I expected! All the wonderful songs of Christmas both old times and modern. They had the story of the birth of Jesus, of course, but they also had a figure skater on stage, hiphop, rock and of course little children. It was wonderful and just what you needed the 1st Advent. I came home and H and E had som glogg and gingerbread to go. I didn't want to have any since I'm going to work tomorrow. This is the last day of November so what happens now when the Nablopomo month is over? Is there time in December to...

attended the Royal Opera and watched the opera La Boheme tonight. She sat in the Royal box of course, but her boyfriend Daniel Westling wasn't allowed to so he sat in the box reserved for members of the court. This was a private visit and not official. Our box is opposite the Royal Box but this was actually the first time any royal has been there while we have. My friend and I usually go once a month during season so this was rare. I'm happy to say that it looked like she enjoyed the opera and even shed a tear. I and C of course cried. Puccini was a genious in expressing strong, human emotions in his music I think. Mimi was sung for the first time by Maria Fontosh and she did a wonderful Mimi. The conductor was Pier Giorgio Morandi whom we have seen before conducting Il Trovatore. He's so gifted especially when it comes to Italian composers. This was a wonderful evening and now I'm home still filled with that wonderful music and are taking that with me when I go to bed....

I'll try again to upload this videoclip from the studio featuring Jona, Chris, Bianca, Antonio and all the other kids and Helen. I had to put it on youtube because it was too big to upload here. If it doesn't open automatically just look for "never let go" and it's the one that says Bianca and Antonio...Enjoy! http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=6806D0vhlUI I'm off to the Royal Opera soon. I'm going with my good friend C, as usual, and we are going to watch Puccinis "Boheme" so I'm pretty sure I will cry before the end of it. A very sad story and so wonderful music. I wish you all a wonderful evening. Thank you J for the good advice to take a photo of the recipes I put here. I will try to do that in the future (just have to remember :-D)

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, ...