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I will wish you all Happy new year!

I and hope 2006 will be a really great creative year!!

Hopefully I soon will have my computer and internet that works in the new apartment so I can do some real updates here.

Now it’s near, only one day! There for I would like to wish you all Merry Christmas! And at the same time inform that it will not happened to much here in a week or two, I will celebrate Christmas and then start moving to my new apartment. Meanwhile visit my flickr.

But I’ll be back!

Photo of me and my nephew playing in the snow today, that was fun and it would be great if it will snow on Saturday to. (Christmas eve)

Alex tag me on the Christmas tag. So here we go…

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot chocolate, never had eggnog it’s unusual in Sweden.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? My mother wraps them and then label with “från tomten” (from santa) haha…

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? I prefer white ones, but I live in an apartment so don’t have lights.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No, mistletoes are very unusual here in Sweden, can’t be found wild where I live and we don’t have the tradition either.

5. When do you put your decorations up? This year I don’t decorate at all because I’m going to move, otherwise one the first of advent.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? In Sweden we like smorgasbord… so we have a Christmas smorgasbord with many different dishes on…

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? All my memories until I am 9 years or so are great.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don’t remember.

9. Do you open presents of Christmas morning or Christmas eve? At Christmas eve, after we has eaten dinner and watched Kalle Anka (Donald duck) the Swedish television has been showing a program with Donald duck and his friends (chip and dale, Mickey mouse, the jungle book, etc) since 1960 every Christmas eve. So we watch the same program year after year.

10. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him? None. In Sweden we give him rice pudding. But my family never used to give him that.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Oh… it is always snow in the winter where I live. I think I like it certain days. Like Christmas and so…

12. Can you ice skate? Yes! And I loved it as a child. After school I always went skating with my friends.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Yes, when I was tree years old and got my first par of skis.

14. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Don’t have one I think

15. What is your favorite holiday tradition? When I was little we always listens to a radio program in the morning at Christmas eve, Nicke lilltroll. (Nicke the small troll)

16. What tops your tree? Spire

17. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? Giving I think. But of course it’s nice to receive to.

18. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Stilla natt (Silent Night) and The Pogues – Fairytale of New York

19. Do you have a wreath on your front door? No

20. What do you want most for Christmas this year? Some things to my new apartment and some books and cd:s. But most of all a peaceful day I think.

I tag anyone, but it would be fun if Hanna answered.

“Play it again Sam” is one line from the movie Casablanca I think. And I am not sure if I even have seen the movie. But this text should not be about Casablanca it will be about music.

Music is something that I found important I really like to listen to music and to found new groups and artists. Concerts and festivals are really great too! Music can make me happy, calm and balanced. Unfortunately I’m not so musical talented but I wish that I could play guitar or piano. Maybe I can learn sometime?

My first memory containing something that has to do with music is when my little sister was new born and I wanted to sing for here at BB (maternity ward) but my parents deny me because I was singing to loud. Presumably she had woken up from her sleep if I not had been stopped. From that point I think I more or less has listen to music what I can remember.

When I was five I listen to Carola (a Swedish artist that has a long history I not will describe here), when I was 12 I listen to NKOTB (New kids on the block, a boy band.) Then I don’t really know what I listen to the years after that, but when I was 16 or so I started to listen to older music like The Beatles. So then I was stuck in the 60’ and 70’ music and still are, I also listens to a lot of singer/songwriter music like Rosie Thomas, Ryan Adams, Christan Kjellvander, Ed Harcourt, Nick Drake and many more. I listen to rock music and also a lot of Swedish music. And many of the Swedish bands/artists are from my hometown Umeå. Like The Perishers, David Sandström, Deportees and The Facer.

I’m going to try and list some great music (for me at least)

Newest record for me

Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now.

I heard it ones this summer when I went a course on Sätergläntan, than I forgot about it and for a month ago or so I remember it again. Since that I think I have listen to it at least every second day. I love it!

Some of my favorite records

Weeping Willows – Broken promise land
Lars Winnerbäck – almost everything but to pick one record. Söndermarken
Ryan Adams – Cold roses
Isolation years – Cover the distance

Some immortal tunes I really like

David Bowie – Life on mars
Sammy Davis Jr – Mr Bojangles
Gary Jules – Mad world
Queen - Bohemian Rapsody

My first cd

Michael Jackson – Dangerous

Christmas present in 1992, I got my first stereo with CD player that year. Now I haven’t listen to it for years and years. But I remember the video to Black and white, with the faces that changed.

My first lp

My first LP, and I have to point out that I don’t own more then three I think, was a record for children with songs. I think that the lp can be found on my parents attic. Wooffisarna och lill-babs.

Lill-babs is an artist from Sweden how is loved by the people (read: the older ones) and Wooffisarna was two bears or something like that. From what I found on internet the lp was recorded the same years as I am born, 1980.

latest concert

Laleh on Droskan

Yesterday I got my inspiration back and I started to do some secret stuff. Secret because it will be some Christmas presents. But I used my sewing machine, scissors and needles. More then that I don’t tell right now, when Christmas is over I will show some photos. Nice to do something, it was a will since a made something bigger.

I also changed the curtain in my kitchen window. I use to do that in December, it so easy when the window is small and in the evening my tiny kitchen becomes cosy.

And before I went to my work yesterday I made some pancakes. My favourite dish when I was a child. I think it still is one of my favourites. Pancakes with raspberry jam or apple sauce.

Har läst ut Harry Potter och halvblodsprinsen idag. Tyvärr förstördes läsupplevelsen och spänningen en aning när en elev till mig avslöjade en stor händelse i boken en dag när vi åt lunch i matsalen. Jag tänker utelämna vad det var för händelse nu för att inte förstöra för någon annan.

Trots detta tycker jag boken håller ungefär samma kvalitet som de föregående 5 böckerna. Förra boken var i mina ögon väl lång med sina 1000 sidor, Halvblodsprinsen var en sådär 350 sidor kortare och det uppskattar jag.

Spänningen håller i sig, det finns utrymme för kärlek, tråkigheter och glädje. Potter och co verkar dock aldrig ha någon tråkig vardag, alltid är det något som händer där på skolan. Jakten på Voldemort tätnar och det var många händelser som var förvånande och väldigt avgörande för utgången av historien. Jag ser verkligen fram emot sista boken. För nästa ska ju vara den sista i serien. Åhh, spännande!

Yesterday night outside my window. This is one of the great things about the winter a christmas tree on my yard. It makes me happy and brightens up when it´s dark outside. And I think that the winter is here to stay now. The temperature for the moment is 13 degress below zero.