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I wish my sis J a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Although I can't be there to celebrate her I am there in my thoughts and of course I have sent her something :-) We live so far apart, she in La Mirada LA,CA and me in Sweden. It's not that often we meet and since we just found each other a couple of years ago every time feels so special. That's why this blogging is so good. We can actually share each other's lives although we are far apart. I also share my nieces lives which is wonderful. You get to know them quite well when reading their blogs. Even M, J's husband has started blogging and it's so interesting to read them all. My other sister who lives in Spain I've never met, yet I should say, which is kind of strange since she lives closer but she doesn't speak any English and my Spanish isn't that good so I could speak fluently with her. She also speak Catalan which I don't understand a word of. What's interesting is that my son J will be seeing them...

I'm just home from Lillejul, the last one, or is it? I have tried to put on a video here for you to see a little bit of the spectacular fireworks we had tonight. They have been competing in the World Championship for fireworks and they have had this tradition that every year they come and do this on our Christmas party in thanks of them lending our training field. We had a wonderful time starting with "Xmas-gifts" which delivers to those who has stood out during the year. Always funny and lots of laughs. After that it was the fireworks and then we all headed up to the restaurant for more amusement and dinner. We had a lovely fillet with roasted garlic potatoes and wine sauce. Excellent! Then coffee. During dinner of course a lot of singing as always which is nice and also a short speach from our head of school. We also had this HUGE Christmas tree. I think it was over 4 meters high and wonderfully decorated. It was both happy and sad to be here today. Happy because it...

Once again you can vote for H.E.A.T at the Swedish metal awards. They are nominated in the catagory hardrock (of course) www.swedishmetalawards.com It has been a quiet Friday and weekend which was nice. Well, quiet and quiet. I did most of the Christmas baking on Saturday so from 9.30AM until 6PM I made saffronbuns, lussekatter, different kind of cookies as well as making dinner. Friday I went to the Opera for our final opera this season which wasn't an opera but a ballet. The Nutcracker by Tjajkovskij. A wonderful saga set in the Swedish Christmas and with Petter and Lotta and the aunts Green, Brown and Lilac as well as Uncle Blue (from a Swedish saga by Elsa Beskow). It was wonderful and funny and there were a lot of kids in the audience. Before the ballet me and C went to the Opera restaurant for dinner which was excellent. We had beef for main course and for desert Oscar II cake and we had a glass of wine. Today I was down visiting my Mom and O at the elderly home. I did some ...

H.E.A.T are to perform in Skelleftea in the second part competition of the Melodifestival. It's very high up north in Sweden. In fact I have never been that high. When I called to book hotel today they said it was very mild "only" - 10C and lots of snow. Here on the side is a map of Sweden and Skelleftea is marked out. It's very close to the arctic circle. Speaking of booking hotels. Today was crazy, totally wild. We all expected the information on the where about of H.E.A.T but not until 9 AM we got it. Skelleftea! I was immediately on the internet to check out flight connections and hotels. Unfortunately this collided with our last administrative meeting so I had to abandon the search and run down. At the meeting we listened and watched Celine Dion singing Adam's Christmas song. Very beautiful. After that coffee, glogg, gingerbread, sandwiches and lussekatter. Up to my office afterwards trying to search again. Then what happened. All the students came and wanted...

Today we were supposed to get information on where H.E.A.T is participating in the Swedish pre Eurovision song contest but still nothing has come. Now it's said we are to know at midnight so their manager is on nightwatch tonight. Hopefully we will know by morning and also if we got the number of tickets we wanted. Today H and I went to my friend in Norrtalje, Anne, for treatment. She did some tests on H which was very interesting. Then we all went to have lunch at my favourite place - and you know what that is - yes you guessed right - it's "Ett glas". And do you know what I had to eat? Also a big surprise - chantarelle soup with chicken and peppers. It's very yummie. Even H had it and he really liked it although he isn't a big fan of chantarelles. After lunch I had my treatment which was so good. I almost fell asleep, it was that relaxing. Then we headed home in time to see the Nobel prize ceremony during which we had dinner. I have been watching the banquet...

I'm really too tired to write anything today. Just wanted to let you know. It's been a long hard day so I deserve a good nights sleep.

I went to a Christmas fair today at Steninge castle together with 9 other from the Rheumatic association. It was very nice and we started by having an excellent lunch. Then we went off to the fair. There were so many things, wonderful, handcrafted both food, candy, toys, handmade jewelry each one unique, knitwear and much much more. I ended up shopping too much of course but I did manage to buy some Christmas gifts. Of course when I came home I realized that one bag was missing so I called the fair and can you believe it, someone had turned it in so it was there. I'm so happy and it restored my faith in man. So now I have to get the bag before the boardmeeting tomorrow. I just heard a plane had crashed in San Diego in a residential area and I was so worried and I had to write L at once to make sure she is OK. They didn't say exactly where the plane had crashed that's why I wanted to make sure it wasn't where L lives. I hope not. Now it's long overdue my bedtime so I...