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Now I'm done for today. I have made the Christmas meatballs, baked 2 different kind of cookies, shovelled snow in between and while I were at it I cleaned the downstairs bathroom. Hasse came home from Gavle and Emil came shortly after so we have had 4th Advent coffee with glogg, coffee, safronbuns and newly made cookies. Very, very nice. You can say I'm a bit exhausted now and still I have to make dinner. Today we'll have fish. Very good and a good way to eat before all the Christmas food. How are you all doing? Are you finished with the Christmas preparations? Has the peace come to your house? Or are you stressed out and not sure you will make it in time? Don't worry, take it easy, relax and find your peace. Then everything will be just fine. Tomorrow I'm off to the hospital, Ersta hospital, to finally check my stomach and what's wrong with it. After that I have nothing planned until Christmas Eve. Take care and enjoy the holidays :-)

Yesterday I went to the Opera with my Operafriends and since it was the last time before Christmas we also had dinner together. We usually do that last time before Christmas and last time before summer. Very nice tradition. However when on my way to fetch Carole it start snowing again. The morning had been sunny, cold and nice and suddenly the temp. went up and the snow started. Not very nice weather to drive in so we had extra time on our hands if something should happen which it often does in this weather. We luckily came into town, we had a very good dinner and lots of chat and anticipation for the opera. We saw Elektra by Richard Strauss. You would have thought with that name the music should be nice and tender and waltzy ;-) But you couldn't have been more wrong. This opera is so intense, so passionate and yes scary. The music makes you feel so much and many time my heart beated so fast like I was watching a horror movie. The scenography is really just a big red wall and in fr...

This morning I called my sister Jo in California who had her birthday yesterday but since it's such a big difference in time it was Thursday evening 8.30 PM when I called and here it was already Friday and 6.30AM :-) Anyway I called and Hasse and I sang to her and then we talked for almost 30 minutes. So nice to hear her voice and instantly I feel like I want to be there. Especially since Jo said the kids wore shorts yesterday in school and they had temperatures around 22 C and that is on the plus!!! Happy birthday big sis. I love you :-) (sorry Jo, I know you don't like to have your pictures taken but I love the one of you by the fireplace and the other one is the first time I came to see you) At the moment we are having around - 12C and it snowed for over 24 hours before it stopped last night. So that is when it really got cold. Up in the north they have had down to -35C. Can you who lives in California grasp that? I don't know what temp. you have in SLC but is it this co...

Since yesterday evening it has been snowing or really since yesterday when I was at the Christmas lunch, if you remember. But the heavy snowing started around 2 AM and it hasn't stop. Our Christmas tree is on the photo and I took that at 6.30AM when on my way to work. It's even more snow now. The good thing about this is that it's so much lighter outside, the bad is that it's so completely slippery especially after the plow has been there. It's like ice afterwards and you can hardly stand up. So that part I don't like! And of course it has been traffic chaos all day. "Same procedure as last year - same procedure as every year, dear". Yes, you could say that :-) Tomorrow I'm going into town to meet with my coach again. Probably the last time before Christmas but after talking to Pontus today it might not be the last time. Depending how it goes with my job I maybe can get help from her next year too. Althoug what I want most is that the company I wor...

Me and Anne had a great time :-) Today I first went to work and Richard told me if we didn't get enough students to the course starting January 24 he can't emply me :-( He can employ me on hourly basis but that is too unsecure so I said no to that. It could mean a lot of hours or very few and since I have to pay my bills I need to have a secure income. So not a very good start to this week. We are writing a selling letter and we will draw amongst the ones that apply a Ipod touch the latest model. We hope that will attract some more. So I have until the end of January and if we can't get it to work I will be unemployed again so already now I have started to look for jobs (just in case). Then I headed home and fetched Hasse who was so kind to drive me to Old Town and the Stortorgskällaren where I met my former workmates for our last Christmas lunch together. It was so fun to see everyone again and there were lots of hugs exchanged. In line for the glögg First of course the o...

Some of the ladies who helped making the party. Today is Lucia and I was up already at 6.45 AM to watch Lucia on TV. A wonderful procession and singing program with both traditional songs but also some modern ones. We ate breakfast watching it and of course we also had safronbuns, lussekatter, as well as lighting the third candle. But first is first. I have to tell you about the Christmas party for the Rheumatic association yesterday. We, who were the organizers, met around 11 AM to lay the tables with flowers, candles, glasses, napkins, set of knives etc. We also needed to figure out the tables. 85 persons had reported but when we finally counted they were 90!! Ages varied from 6 months up to 85 or so. When they first arrived I served them glögg, you know the mulled wine which we serve with raisins and almonds in it and it must be hot. We Patric who entertained us had it both with and without alcohol since some of the guests drove. It was a wonderful day with sunshine, pity we couldn...

Calle to the left and Erik to the right The latest news from H.E.A.T's recording . Enjoy, the guys seems to have a lot of fun and also have time for this :-) H.E.A.T latest studio diary Other than that how do you like my hair? It's a bit darker than before. When I returned from the hairdresser I made a cake for tomorrow's Christmas party. I hope it will be nice. We will be over 85 people and that many we haven't had before. Last year we were around 60 I think. Tonight is the final of Swedish Idol and I'm of course going to watch it. It's two guys to battle for the win. Both kind or rocker and good but in different ways. Erik or Calle, I don't know. I think the final song will decide, Higher. I'll let you know tomorrow. Have a cosy Friday evening :-)