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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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3:20 pm - Still a lot to see
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As you can see, I still have a lot of countries in the world to visit. Not to mention that just because you've been to a country it doesn't mean that there isn't more to see there than you had time to. The world is big, time is short.
I'm very happy I've managed to see some places that were on my dreamlist already when I was a teenager, for example Japan and New Zealand.
I've started swimming again which is really nice. I'm trying to get fit for April when the baby is due and swimming is good exercise. I decided not to be a wimp and take the bicycle to the pool. I regretted it I tell you. It was cold, it was windy, blah. I wondered why I wasn't a normal adult who takes the car when the weather is like that. But the swimming was lovely.
We are doing our third ultrasound on Monday. I can hardly wait. And I long to feel the baby move around. I'm trying every night to feel it but not much luck so far. There is sometimes a kind of bubbling sound that I think could be the baby, but then again, it could just as well be my tummy :).
And thank you fabulous LJ friends for your congratulations!
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| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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10:02 pm - Psychology
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I was offered a doctor's appointment due to my pregnancy and since my philosophy is to usually take whatever the health care authorities offer me I went there today. It was quite funny. The doctor didn't know why I was there (in Sweden it isn't regular for all pregnant women to go to a doctor, only if you have trouble during your pregnancy etc) so she asked me: Did I know why I was there? Well, no, not exactly, I just got the appointment and got along with it. So she looked at some notes that another doctor (who I had never met) had made about me, saying something like: "is comming with a lot of "baggage", could need extra support during pregnancy from psychologist due to previous breast cancer and OCD diagnosis". The doctor asked me: "Do you feel you need extra support from a psychologist?" I was like: "Ehm, no, not really". And that was that, haha.
Ok, so maybe it doesn't sound that funny, but it actually was. I thought it was so cute somehow. And yes, I have been quite a lot in therapy earlier so it's not like they are completely wrong, but at the moment I just couldn't feel better.
Anyway, I got to listen to Baby's heartbeats as well, so it was worth going there just for that :). Yesterday I tripped and managed to fall flat on my face on the street you see so I was a bit worried about that. But the heartbeats were there, apparantely 140 per minute. It was amazing to listen to them. Oh yeah, on the way to the doctor's appointment, I went past the hospital grounds (I didn't meet the doctor at the hospital but downtown) and on one of these glass bridges that connects two blocks of buildings with each other, who do I see but good old Mrs Surgeon. I wonder why she hasn't contacted me with an operation time yet. She was supposed to fix my implant breast this autumn. Not that it matters really because I can't undergo surgery now anyway, but still...
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| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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5:59 pm - Long time no see and news
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I realise I haven't blogged in ages. Well I have had something to blog about for a while but I wanted to wait a bit more. Now it's time to announce it though. I'm pregnant. My husband and I are expecting a child in April. It feels fantastic beyond words actually. So far we've done two ultrasounds which is not completely common to have done in Sweden when you are in week 13+4. We got the first one since we had had problems getting me pregnant. OBGYN thought that it could be "fun for us to get to see it". We did that in the beginning of September. Today we had a second ultrasound because we did a cub test. The test went really well and it was great to get to peek in to little baby's corner of the world again. We saw Baby's little hands with fingers and thumb and everything, and Baby's nose, and Baby jumped around quite a lot in my womb.
So how did this come about since we had such problems earlier and all the tests we did showed that it would be almost impossible for us to do it on our own? We even had an appointment for a first talk of IVF. Well, who knows and who cares? We did it and that is all that matters. I'm pretty sure it happened when we were in France in July, so we'll have a little French made baby :D.
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| Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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8:07 pm
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Hubby seems to be a bit pissed off in the next room. What is it about these football games? I've been tearing down wallpaper today in the big part of our hallway. There is still lots more work to do, but I think it can be really fabulous when finished.
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| Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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7:07 pm - Very, very...
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I've been to visit friend G,![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) phantomtailor, which was very, very nice. I met her beautiful little boy and spent loads of time with him. Mmmm, I miss him already. We took it quite easy and mostly just caught up on things. We went to Mediamarkt (huge electronics store) though and I got serious cravings for a new computer, a Canon DSLR and a new TV. This could be very, very expensive.
What else? I'm out of work at the moment. My latest contract at the newspaper finished at the end of August and they have decided to try and go without their temporary journalists. I'm enjoying being a bit "off", but I hope it won't take too long until they call me again or until I can find something else that I want to do. When I went to visit G, I also did a visit to Stockholm to meet the photographer who took all the pictures for the Swedish production of The Phantom of the Opera in 1989 to 1995. I went there to buy some pictures from him, which I did. However, he also has several very, very thick files full of pictures that are in the same size as a negative. You look at the them and then decide which ones to develop in full size. He was in a hurry that day so we didn't have much time but I got to look a little bit in those files and also ordered one picture from there which he will email me. He said that I could come back some other time to look through all of the files with Phantom pictures, drool. Yeah, I really want to do that. It would be very, very wonderful!
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| Thursday, August 13th, 2009
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6:36 am - Pink update!
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Sometimes Mrs Surgeon walks in the grocery store like an ordinary woman ;). Met her there yesterday, though to be honest, considering that I live very near to the hospital and she lives (I think) not too far away from me, I'm a bit surprised I haven't run in to her before.
Speaking of Mrs Surgeon. I'm going to Gothenburg on Saturday to participate in a walking event called "Rosa Steget" (Pink Step). It's a walk around Gothenburg with a breast cancer theme to put the illness in the spotlight (which it actually is quite a lot). I'm looking forward to it, but I really hope the weather will be better than it is now.
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| Saturday, August 1st, 2009
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11:52 pm - Antiques
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Tomorrow I'm going to the big annual antiques fair that is just across the street from where I live. It's going to be really fun.
At work last week I met someone who made a big impression on me. I'm probably going to write about him. He has a very tragic story to tell and that story really got me when I first heard it.
Well, what else is going on? Right now it's "same old, same old" sort of. I work and I'm enjoying myself. I got work for four more weeks, then we'll see. I'm hoping to go and see friend G, her boyfriend J and their baby E in September and also to go to Moscow in September.
I'm going to try very hard not to buy too much at the antiques fair.
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| Friday, July 24th, 2009
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10:54 pm - Update
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I'm such a bad blogger these days. Well what to tell you. I'm still working and I am enjoying it a lot. I'm having fun at work. Next week I'll interview a farmer about his pigs and I'll go on a bicycle ride with a family who is doind that for holiday.
Speaking of holiday. I was in France last week with my whole family. It was really fantastic. We were in the same place as last time and it was nice, warm, sunny and I spoke French. Well, not great French, but still. I never managed to get the staff at Virgin Records in Nice to get what I meant when I asked for cds with French artists who had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. They were for hubby's cousin. We didn't quite find that, but something that I think will be good too.
I bought two Gaston Leroux books in French. I've so far read one page in one of them. Maybe I should read a bit in it tomorrow? I also visited his house in Nice and his grave. I went a bit gaga for a while there and went on and on and on to poor hubby about things like "Do you think Gaston Leroux walked on these streets?" "Oh look there is the door. There is where he must have entered the house!" Hm... Well, he did write my fav story, I like the man :).
What else did we do? Lot's of swimming in the pool and some in the Meditarrenean. We visited lovely little villages in the mountains, Cannes, Nice and Grasse. And ate loads of lovely food and chocolate.
Chocolate has become something of a problem. I've eaten chocolate everyday basically so this week I told myself that enough is enough. I haven't eaten any chocolate or ice cream since Sunday and it is going surprisinly well actually. I had a bit of withdrawal in the beginning but not now. We'll see how long it lasts :):
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| Saturday, July 4th, 2009
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7:39 pm - Pics!
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Pictures of Emerald Princess from today on my newspaper's website. If you click on "visa alla 8 bilder" there will be eight pictures there. The eight picture is from the beach where hubby and I spent the day.
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5:50 pm - Emerald Princess
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The big cruise ship Emerald Princess was anchored outside my town today. It's seriously hughe! It was quite fun to see all the tourists roaming around town, there were more than 3000 passengers onboard and quite a few seemed to have chosen to get ashore. The town where I live isn't very big (about 120 000 inhabitants) so a few thousand tourists in the city center kinda make an impression.
There are quite a few cruise ships that anchor here, but this one is the biggest of them. Today the weather has been amazing (as it has for the past two weeks). Hubby and I went to the beach, sunbathed and went swimming in the sea with a view of the cruise ship. The town really showed its best face today.
And a special congrats to operafantomet who I know is in for a treat this evening. I'm so sorry hubby and myself couldn't be there, but we just realised that it wouldn't work with the travel and work schedules. Hope you have a great time!
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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11:08 pm
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I've enjoyed my life a lot lately. I enjoy work, I don't even mind working even though the weather screams of summer. I'm working tomorrow and on Sunday and I don't even mind that. Am I sick?
I spoke to friend C the other day. She was very stressed out, lot's of work and a big case in court the next day (she is a prosecutor). She asked if my work was stressful at the moment and I answered "no, it's fine, we relax". I've since then spent two days eating those words. All of a sudden it was immensely stressful. A stream of water dried out, the fish were dying and I have tried to find out what the causes might be. No one really knows, though you might guess at one or two things. It's very hard to prove them though, at least through me interviewing people and working towards a deadline the same day. Well, I managed to finish the article anyway, even though I can't explain why the stream dried out.
I also took the car, drove out in the woods to find said stream and the couple who lived right next to it and who had alerted us to the problem. Their house was so difficult to find. I don't know how many wrong turns I took. Gaaah. I almost felt as if I was in the middle of nowhere and I wasn't really. The part of Sweden that I live in is one of the most populated parts, so hardly in the middle of nowhere. But still.
This evening was really nice so me and my brother went down to the sea and sat there to have a chat. He told me he had been playing at a gala for the local hospital in one of the neighbouring towns. His band had accompanied quite a few artists who participated in the gala event and who are actually famous in Sweden. He forgot to tell me that he participated in this. I really would have liked to come you know brother ;).
So tired, should go to bed, might go and eat some chocolate instead. I always think that that will make me less tired. It never works.
current mood: content
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| Thursday, May 21st, 2009
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5:40 pm - Last few performances
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I just ordered two more tickets to The Phantom of the Opera in Copenhagen. I'll see it on Saturday at the matinee and then again on Sunday. Gosh, it's closing on Sunday :(. I didn't exactly get the seats I wanted but I guess that's my own stupid fault since I didn't order the tickets until today. Well, I'm sitting in a box on Saturday, I like that. Then I'm having row 20 center on the stalls on Sunday. That's pretty good but at the same time it's a bit far away from the stage. Well, I daresay I'll have a good overview, except probably for the chandelier.
The last few months have been amazing! operafantomet, myself and friend G has had such a fantastic, crazy Phantom season with lot's of visits backstage, champagne onstage, meeting the cast, getting several different backstage tours and recording the most brilliant Phantom documentary to ever hit Youtube, lol. It's currently being edited.
Some pics of a great season, just because:
Operafantomet, Preben Kristensen as the Phantom, and myself.
Operafantomet, Mia Karlsson as Christine, Eva Malmgren as Carlotta, and myself.
Operafantomet, conductor Per Engström, myself.
G, myself and Per Engström. Climbing on the chandelier is such fun business.
I so own the Phantom's boat!
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| Thursday, May 7th, 2009
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10:06 pm
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9:58 pm - More costumes
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Here are more videos of me showing off my Phantom costumes. this one is the bodice for the Wishing costume.
Enjoy!
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| Monday, May 4th, 2009
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7:21 pm - Youtube!Josefine
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Here is a little video of me showing my replica of Christine's masquerade costume from The Phantom of the Opera. I've made four replicas with my friend G and I'm making a fifth one now on my own (gah). Anyway, this was costume number two and it was made in 1993 and remade in 1994/95. Operafantomet is filming and interviewing me. We did the whole thing in English so that it would be easier to show it to the Phantom fandom :).
Enjoy :).
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| Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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11:34 pm - Some pics just because
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| Friday, April 24th, 2009
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11:43 pm - Lovely voice
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Current Christine in Copenhagen Teresia Bokor has such a glorious voice. On her MySpace you can hear her sing Se son vendicata and Una voce poco fa. I especially like her singing the second aria.
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10:10 pm - Links and things
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I've been kinda slow in updating my livejournal lately. In other words, rather a bad blogger. My 100th Phantom of the Opera show celebration has made it in to The Really Useful Group's website and it is also on thephantomoftheopera.com. Fun!
I'm seeing my 101 and 102 show tomorrow. Yay!
I'm quite happy these days. I've felt so good the entire spring. Inspired, happy, in good health. I don't think that much about the bc anymore. And I'm not depressed anymore. During the past months I've felt like I did before I got sick with bc. It took two years but now I'm myself again.
I have even started singing lessons again. I have this fantastic teacher who trained at the music conservatory in Vienna, but I can never remember half of what she says, Therefore I was smart and recorded parts of my lesson. Only problem is that my camera and my computer are not on speaking terms at the moment. I can't get the silly file from the camera to the computer. I have no idea why. It used to work. Blah!
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| Friday, April 17th, 2009
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3:42 pm - Today's verdict in the Swedish courts
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The Pirate Bay, yay or nay? I've not used it and I don't exactly fileshare that much. However, I love seeing whatever stuff there is to see on Youtube and that is filesharing too.
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| Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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8:08 pm - Bread
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I'm baking breakfast buns and I got a whole new cheese. I can't wait to get the buns out of the oven and have them with some butter and cheese.
These are very simple, white flour breakfast buns. I'm thinking about baking something slightly more advanced soon. Something from my new bread recipe book. Mmmm.
I'm very obsessed with Phantom at the moment and I wish that Det Ny Teater would extend their run until June. Pretty please!!!
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