The world

Monday. New week.

Did my walk back and forward to the subway but my legs were quite stiff today (I walked 10k yesterday – wanted to see if I could do it). Need a break I think.

Went home – picked up the car – went to buy groceries. Business as usual. Got home – fixed dinner for today – and tomorrow (I have dinner guests and work late). And baked bread. Wow. Busy busy.

Now I have crashed in my corner taking care of my e-mail and other stuff that need my attention. But – this is going to be a great week – dinner with my girls and then DN-galan on Thursday. Yeah!

Last night it was the 33rd edition of Midnattsloppet – the 10k run in Stockholm. They sat a new record with 41500 participants in the run which is the highest number of participants in a 10k run in all Europe. Amazing.

My husband has participated a lot of times (15 or more) and maybe maybe it is time for me to drag myself to the challenge. I have never ran far my whole life. Barely even short distances. But I am a pretty good walker – and I just saw that there are a whole bunch of runners that probably (looking at their result) have walked the whole distance.

Hm…

Very proud of myself today – started early (couldn’t sleep) with a  quiet breakfast in my corner. Then I decided to challenge myself and see if I would survive a run. So, I walked quickly to the forrest – ran as far as I could, then walked some, then ran some more – came back out from the forrest and walked quickly back again. 38 min. There is a big difference in altitude in this track and the hills almost killed me – but I made it back and I feel very proud of myself. 

We have now made some plans for the winter – we have skipped the idea of going to the sun this fall. We will go down to our paradise instead. But we did book a trip to Trysil since we really enjoyed it there last year. The weather wasn’t great but we have decided to give it another try. This time we will be there for a whole week and not in early January like last time and instead go a few months later. Anyone wanna come too? See you in the slopes!

Tonight it is Midnattsloppet – maybe that is a challenge for me? Mwhahaha – no, maybe not. My husband has run it loads of times. Since it is practically a family-thing maybe it is my duty to at least try. I wonder how slow you are allowed to be in order to be allowed to finish!?

It was a beautiful morning today. My walk to the subway was really nice. After work I decided to walk back again – 7 times this week! And my scale is actually happy again. Let’s hope the weather Gods are with me so I can keep up this new trend of moving more.

We have had a great Friday eve with my parents over for a bbq and a nice time to catch up after their long journey around Sweden and Norway. And to watch the athletics on tv of course. Abeba won the silver medal (she was so disappointed) and Michel qualified for the long jump final on Sunday. So Hammarby has done good so far.

No visit to our second paradise tomorrow due to bad weather. We’ll see if it gets better – then maybe we can go on Sunday.

First shot out of 11 today – it was no problem and we had a great battle at the Fia-board.. two clowns came by and gave us a first and second prize to fight for! Guess who got what?

Now I have run some errands and still have some more to do before it is time to sit down and enjoy the second day of the athletics competition. Missed the morning session due to the hospital visit but still have the evening session to look forward to.

Back to work again – but it was actually really nice to be there again. I slept pretty good and woke up early. Decided to try and stay with my active life that I started before vacation, so I walked to the subway – since I knew it was going to rain in the afternoon and I had to buy groceries on the way home. It turned out to be a good decision!

Now I have a lasagna in the oven and a few minutes to myself before it is time to serve dinner.

This lovely flower still hangs in there – I think it was a gift from my mom a few years ago and it surprises me by coming back again year after year. I love it!

 

Last day of the summer vacation – last morning swim. It is such a luxury to be able to just walk down to the ocean and jump in. Not having to drive anywhere or plan.

After a great dinner there are great left-overs – which we enjoyed outside in the sun before it was time to return to the city and get ready for work tomorrow. We have had a really good summer and hopefully we still have some amazing weekends and evenings to enjoy before fall takes over and forces us indoor.

The moonlight last night was amazing. Something almost as great to watch as the sunsets in our other paradise. But a bit harder to take a good photo of. This one turned out ok – especially for being shot by my cellphone.

Today it was Lars time to be the name of the day – congratulations Lars!