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  OMG I just saw I haven't written anything since November 11. Bad Mia ;-) Lights at Kungsgatan, Stockholm I can just say that my days and weeks are so full now that when I have some moments I just want to sit down and do nothing. At most I write short on FB or Instagram but not anything else. I know, if I go in here every day it wouldn't be that much to write but I am so so tired nowadays. Sisters on the balcony of our hotel room I think you would be too if you lived in Sweden. This November has been the darkest ever! I'm not sure but I think we have seen the sun maybe a couple of hours the whole month. It's not even very light but kind of dusk all day. And this makes you even more tired. I am longing for next weekend when we can light all the advent lights. In fact there was a ceremony yesterday in Stockholm where they lit 700 000 lights in Stockholm. Birgit Bidder in concert Back to the last weeks event. As I wrote last I was to go on a concert at ...

The living room with work- and relax area Me and my collegues hard at work This weekend me and my 3 collegues in the working committé at the Rheumatic association had a conference at the Elite Marina Tower hotel here in Stockholm. We decided that time is never enough to do what we need to do which, at this instant, was to plan 2015 and furthermore make a 5-year plan. Another collegue joined us for a couple of hours to help out We had booked a suite with connecting bedrooms which turned out to be great (and cheaper than if we would have rented a conference room instead). Now we had a big "living room" with a working area with table, flipboard, pens and so on. This meant we could be very effective and we just left to have dinner, breakfast and lunch. Otherwise we stayed in the suite. Then at night we could hang in the sofa area of the room, tired and just laying there before going to bed.  We got so much done! And we did all, and a bit more, than we had planned ...

Just wanted to tell you with had our first snow for the season today. So now it starts. It's getting darker and darker, colder and colder and snow. Well we did know it was coming but it's always a surprise every year. I know I haven't written in a long time but there is so much going on and at night I'm usually too tired. Now it's almost midnight and I'm not in bed yet :-( Tomorrow I'm off to a conference with just the working group. We will be staying at a hotel in town until Sunday and work all the time. Then on Sunday I have to get back home quickly because it's Father's Day here and all the boys are coming to dinner :-) Yesterday me and my friend was at this amazing conference facility invited as VIP's. Touring round the premises followed by chocolate tasting and wine/liquertasting (that went with the chocolate). One of the dessert wines came from Cataluna. Then followed a 3-course dinner with wines that was choosen to get the mo...

I haven't had time to write for a while, as usual ;-) I have been busy with this and that. Me after visit to my hairstylist Since I last wrote I have been to my hairstylist, long overdue.  A rainy and foggy Malmo Last Friday and Saturday we had the Chairmen conference at Rosersberg and straightly after that I went to the Stockholm Central station to catch a train for Malmo where I attended a course in my economic program. Came home late Tuesday night. Up working, as usual, at 04.30. In the afternoon it was time for my flu shot, my Mekobalamin and Pneumonia shot so 3 at once. The next day, Thursday, I was supposed to go to Norrtalje for some treatment but I was a bit fiverish, after the shots probably, so we changed that to November instead. Haga park a rainy Saturday My friend Ingvor More of the Park Cosy fireplace Then yesterday, a very rainy and grey day, me and two other friends went to Haga parken which is the place where our Crownprincess Vic...

I promised to tell you what happened yesterday. Me and Kicken I had, without knowing it, been in a contest called the "Skrapyran" can't really translate it but something like scratchrave. It's when you scratch a lottery online. I had registered on the Postcode lottery site because I have one Postcode lottery and I don't have time to check that, so I registered for them to check it for me. Anyway while doing that I got some bonus cash on my page there and I scratched some lotteries until the money was out, maybe 2 or 3 lotteries and of course I didn't win but the money was almost down to zero. Some of the crew and winners BUT while doing this I was in this drawing for "Skrapyran" and this time my postnumber was drawn but unfortunately not my postcode. But I won :-) So this woman called me last week. I was on my way to put down the phone (always think it's sellers who wants you to buy more lotteries) when she said I had won and they wa...

  H.E.A.T on stage. Photo Pär Altan This weekend I went to Helsinki, as I told you I would in my last post, with the Rockboat. Friday morning I first went to the Rheumatology clinic at Karolinska hospital in Solna where we, the Rheumatic association district of Stockholm together with the clinic had an Open House. When I came at 8.20AM it was already a line waiting (we had open house between 9-12 AM). So by 8.40 they started to let people in. There were 3 doctors, 3 nurses, 2 specialists on ultrasound and one occupational Therapist. Last year we had 60 visitors. This year we stopped giving out numbers (for the line) when we reached 100. Almost everyone got diagnosed, some were in very bad shape and hadn't got the help they needed by their local care. I had to leave before it was over but I heard they had to stay until almost 1PM. Before we even opened this is a few of those waiting Then I headed home, took my packed suitcase. Hasse and I fetched Jonas and then we went...

On Saturday we had a meeting with the party/jubilee committé at my friend Ingvor's house. I had made Vasterbottenpies, she made sallat, I had baked cinnamon buns (which I wrote about in my last post). It all went down very well with the ladies :-) We had a really good, productive meeting and decided on a lot of things both for the upcoming Christmas party but also for next year's jubilee. I can't tell you yet because it's a secret so far and I haven't got due permissions yet, but you can be sure I will tell you when all is fixed. We were supposed to meet for 2 hours but we had so many ideas and chatted so it lasted for 4 hours instead :-) Then on Sunday I rested, yes really. On Monday our friend J celebrated his birthday but we couldn't be there so we sent flowers. Yesterday my Opera friend celebrated her birthday but she will get her gift when we go to the Opera next time. Tomorrow the Rheumatology at Karolinska hospital has Open House and I will be th...