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Yesterday I was at the DMV to get myself a NY State ID (yes, it apparently took me two years to get myself to do it).
This is my experience: I filled out the forms at home, prepared what I needed to bring and had an appointment at 11:45 am that I booked a week ago. I got there early. It was a lot of people there and I thought that this will take all day, I will probably not get it done on the time I had scheduled. I scanned my barcode and got a number. I sat down for not even 5 seconds and my number came up. I gave the lady my proof of name, backed up, took a picture, and she gave me my number back and told me to sit down. I looked at the board again and my number was up already. I wandered around like a crazy person trying to find what window that had my number and when I found it the girl had already taken someone else and she told me my number will come up again. This time I didn’t sit down and that was good cause my number came up again within 15 sec. The girl drew stuff on the paper, asked me to pay, gave me a note and I was done. My visit took 4 minutes! I was out of there 3 minutes before my actual appointment. 
When my husband had to get a new ID two years ago he had to sit there for 5 hours, and that was what I was afraid of. But I guess, if you schedule an appointment online before, then you’re done in less than 5 minutes. I can really recommend this!! Best experience ever when it comes to do boring stuff like this. 
Another good thing was that we have a DMV office only few minutes away from our apartment. When I was done I wanted to celebrate with a coffee from Filicori coffee next door. I sat there for awhile reading my emails and texting with Jim before I went to a deli to buy a salad and then go home. What a great day!
I can not believe how fast and smooth everything went yesterday. Can you? I have no idea how the picture will look, she just snapped a pic and done. I’m gonna have this for 8 years now so hopefully it’s not super crazy:)
A very long blog post about a very short experience 🙂

Igar var jag pa DMV (transportstyrelsen) for att fixa ett NY State ID (ja, det tog mig visst tva ar att ta tag i saken).
Detta ar min upplevelse: Jag fyllde i papper hemma, forberedde vad jag behovde tha med mig och hade en bokad tid klockan 11:45 am som jag bokade forra veckan. Jag kom dit lite tidigare. Det var valdigt mycket folk dar och jag tankte att detta kommer att ta hela dagen, jag kommer troligtvis inte fa det gjort den tiden jag hade bokat. Jag skannade min streckkod och fick ett nummer. Jag satte mig ner i inte ens 5 sekunder innan mitt nummer kom upp. Jag gav kvinnan mina bevis av mitt namn, backade, tog en bild, och hon gav tillbaka mitt nummer och sa at mig att satta mig igen. Jag tittade pa tavlan och mitt nummer var redan upp. Jag irrade runt som en crazy person i ett forsok att hitta luckan som hade mitt nummer och nar jag hittade dit had tjejen redan tagit nagon annan och sa at mig att mitt nummer kommer att komma upp igen. Denna gang satte jag mig inte ner och det var bra for inom 15 sek kom numret upp. Tjejen ritade lite saker pa pappret, bad mig att betala, gav mig en note och jag var klar. Mitt besok tog 4 minuter! Jag var utanfor dorren 3 minuter innan min bokade tid. 
Nar min man skulle skaffa nytt ID for tva ar sedan fick han sitta dar i 5 timmar, och det var jag radd for. Men jag antar att om man bokar en tid online innan sa ar man klar pa mindre an 5 minuter. Jag kan verkligen rekommendera detta!! Basta upplevelsen nagonsin nar det kommer till att gora trakiga saker som detta.
En annan bra sak var att de har ett DMV kontor bara nagra minuter ifran var lagenhet. Nar jag var klar ville jag fira med en kaffe fran Filicori coffee precis intil. Jag satt dar en stund och laste min mejl och smsade med Jim innan jag gick till en deli och kopte en sallad for att sen ga hem. Vilken bra dag!
Jag kan inte fatta hur snabbt och smidigt allt gick igar. Kan du? Jag har ingen aning om hur bilden kommer att se ut, hon bara tog en bild och sa klart. Jag ska ha detta i 8 ar nu sa forhoppningsvis ar det inte super galet:)
Ett valdigt langt blogginlagg om en kort upplevelse 🙂

Moments from this week. Don’t forget to follow me on instagram @thisisfanny

In less than a week, it’s my birthday! I love birthdays, all of them, not just my own. It’s something special about that day. A lot of people say that New Years gives them new energy, a start over or whatever, but for me it’s just like that 6 months later when it’s my birthday. Oh, looking forward to Thursday!
This week has been slow. It’s summer, hot weather and very humid so everything I do is vacation style, hahah, or maybe not everything. It’s really nice these days to have a rooftop to go up to and get some sun, some wind, listen to music and just relax, so I have tried to do that some times this week. I have done a lot of yoga this week too. I took a break from it for a while and I really missed it. Yoga has helped me in so many ways and at one point changed my whole life. My body feels great when I have done an hour of yoga. It is extra nice now when it’s so warm weather, cause the body feels warm quicker and you can really work on things earlier in the practice.
They say it’s gonna rain for three days now so I don’t know what we gonna do this weekend. Hopefully the internet-weather-dudes are wrong and we will have perfect sunny 30 degrees weather all weekend.

Om mindre an en vecka ar det min fodelsedag! Jag alskar fodelsedagar, allas, inte bara min egen. Det ar nagot speciellt med den dagen. Manga personer sager att New Years ger dem ny energi, en ny start eller vad som helst, men for mig ar det precis sa 6 manader senare nar det ar min fodelsedag. Oh, langtar till torsdag!
Den har veckan har varit slow. Det ar sommar, varmt vader och valdigt fuktigt sa allt jag gor ar semester style, hahah, eller kanske inte allt. Det ar valdigt harligt dessa dagar att ha en rooftop att ga upp pa och fa lite sol, lite vind, lyssna pa music och bara koppla av, sa det har jag forsokt gora nagra ganger den har veckan. Jag har ocksa gjort mycket yoga denna vecka. Jag tog en paus fran det ett tag men jag saknade det verkligen.  Yoga har hjalpt mig pa sa manga satt och vid ett tillfalle andrat hela mitt liv. Min kropp kanns fantastisk efter en timme yoga. Det ar extra nice nu nar det ar sa varmt for da kanns kroppen varm snabbare och du kan verkligen jobba pa saker tidigare i traningen.
De sager att det ska regna i tre dagar nu sa jag vet inte riktigt vad vi ska hitta pa denna helg. Forhoppningsvis sa har internet-vader-snubbarna fel och vi kommer ha perfekt soligt 30 grader vader hela helgen. 

A year ago today, we contacted a breeder about the cutest puppy I’ve ever seen. He looked too good to be true. Of course we were scared of finding someone online, there is a lot of scams out there, but after tons of emails, her sending us photos and videos, speaking to her on the phone and talked to references we came to a decision that Duncan was our Thor. 
He is still the most cutest little guy and we couldn’t be happier to have found him ♥

A lot of people might have something to say about that we didn’t adopt a dog when there is way too many who needs help. But, our reasons were these: • We have never raised a dog before and we wanted a young puppy without any horrible experiences • There is way too many who wants to breed dogs and make money and they all think that their dogs are so cute that they could sell them easily. But, that doesn’t always happen so instead when the puppy is too old for any buyer, the breeder gets rid of the dogs and they might end up in a petstore or on the street. We found a breeder who seems to really care about every single dog and puppy so she would probably not let that to ever happen. But either way, we don’t think we did something wrong. Duncan/Thor got a home and two people who really cares about him.

For ett ar sedan idag, kontaktade vi en hund uppfodare angaende den sotaste valpen jag nagonsin sett. Han sag alldeles for perfekt ut for att vara sann. Sjalvklart var vi radda for att hitta nagon online, det finns massor av scams dar ute, men efter massor av emails, bilder och videos som hon skickat, telefonsamtal och samtal med referenser kom vi fram till ett beslut att Duncan var varan Thor. 
Han ar fortfarande den mest sotaste lille killen och vi kan inte bli mycket lyckligare over att vi fann honom ♥

Manga personer kanske har nagot att saga om att vi inte adopterade en hund nar det finns allt for manga som behover hjalp. Men, vara anledningar var dessa: • Vi har aldrig uppfostrat en hund forut och vi ville ha en ung valp utan nagra hemska erfarenheter • Det finns alldeles for manga som vill foda upp hundar och tjana pengar och de tycker alla att deras hundar ar sa sota att de borde vara enkelt att salja. Men, det hander inte alltid sa istallet nar valpen blir for gammal for kopare gor uppfodaren sig av med hundarna och de kanske hamnar i en djuraffar eller pa gatan. Vi hittade en uppfodare som verkligen verkar bry sig om varje hund och valp sa hon skulle nog aldrig lata detta handa. Men oavsett, sa tycker inte vi att vi har gjort fel. Duncan/Thor fick ett hem hos tva som bryr sig om honom.

I wish I could show you the cute short videos that the breeder sent us, but it’s unfortunately not possible. In those videos you can see his parents and his littermates.
Jag onskar jag kunde visa de sota korta videoklippen som uppfodaren skickade till oss, men det ar tyvarr inte mojligt. Pa de filmklippen kan man se hans foraldrar och hans syskon.

We didn’t celebrate Midsummer on Friday since we were going to a concert, so on Saturday we went up to a store in Midtown where they have Scandinavian stuff to get herring and other fresh vegetables (cause the store by us only has spongy old things). They were out of herring, but we got a lot of other good things. I also bought white daisy’s on the way home.
In the evening I made a potato salad with slightly overcooked potatoes, I boiled eggs and made a creamy mayo sauce and with this I served Swedish hard bread, some Danish cheese, Norwegian smoked salmon, chopped radishes and carrots. Jim made us very good mojito that gave us the feeling of summer. We had strawberries for dessert but we were too full so we had it for breakfast on Sunday instead. In the evening we watched a Steven King movie. Not so much Midsummer feeling but the darkness outside the window didn’t make it feel like celebration of light anyway (which Midsummer is).
Since it rained a little bit during the day it really felt like a perfect Midsummer celebration. We did the best we could and I think we succeeded. We’ll see what year we can celebrate it in Sweden. I would really love for Jim to experience it. 

Vi firade inte Midsommar i fredags eftersom vi var pa konsert, sa pa lordag akte vi upp till en affar i Midtown dar de har skandinaviska grejer for att kopa sill och andra farska gronsaker (efterso butiken vid oss bara har spongy gamla grejer). De hade slut pa sill, men vi kopte en massa andra goda grejer. Jag kopte aven vita prastkragar pavag hem.
Pa kvallen gjorde jag en potatis sallad med nagot overkokta potatisar, jag kokade agg och gjorde en kramig majonas sas och med detta serverade jag svenskt knackebrod, nagon dansk ost, norsk rokt lax, hackade radisor och morotter. Jim gjorde en valdigt god mojito som gav oss en kansla av sommar. Vi hade aven jordgubbar till efterratt men vi var sa matta sa det fick bli till frukost pa sondagen istallet. Pa kvallen kollade vi pa en Steven King film. Inte sa mycket Midsommar kansla men morkret utanfor fonstret gav inte direkt kanslan av ett firande av ljuset iaf (som Midsommar ar for).
Eftersom det regnade lite under dagen kandes det som ett perfekt Midsommar firande. Vi gjorde vart basta och jag tror vi lyckades. Vi far se vilket ar som vi kan fira i Sverige. Jag skulle garna vilja att Jim far uppleva det.