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Jag har fatt en liten sjukling har hemma. Han har frusit och svettats hela natten. Stackars liten. Han gick upp samma tid som vanligt och har nu jobbet pa datorn, men ja, han blir hemma idag. Jag har varit i butiken och kopt juice och soppa till honom. Det ar underbart vader ute idag!

Igar kom det en gitarr pa posten. Jim kom for ett tag sen med forslaget att vi skulle lara oss att spela gitarr (och jag trodde det var nagon annan som hade hackat sig in pa hans chat pa jobbet, hahha). Men nu har vi alltsa kopt en gitarr. En Yamaha. Den ar otroligt ostamd. Jag har alltid haft en gitarr. Fick min forsta fina plastiga rosa gitarr nar min syster foddes. Men jag har aldrig lart mig att spela (och inte heller lart mig att stamma gitarrer). Jag hade alltid sa mycket annat for mig och jag har inte sa bra talamod och trottnar snart. Men nu har vi lovat varandra att om vi koper en gitarr ska vi lara oss att spela. Far val lagga upp ett klipp har sen nar vi kan lite mer och visa vad vi kan, hahahhaha. 

I have got a little sick one at home. He’s been cold and sweaty all night. Poor little one. He woke up the same time as usual and is now having his work on the computer, but ya, he’s staying home today. I have been to the store and bought juice and soup for him. It’s lovely weather outside today!
Yesterday a guitar came in the mail. Jim came with the suggestion a while ago that we should learn how to play guitar (and I thought it was someone else that had hacked himself in to his chat at work, hahha). But now have bought a guitar. A Yamaha. It’s incredibly out of tune. I have always had a guitar. I got my first pretty plastic pink guitar when my sister was born.  But I have never learned how to play (and not learned how to tune guitars). I have always had so much else going on and I don’t have much patience and easily bored. But now we have promised each other that if we buy one we will learn how to play. Maybe have to share a clip here later when we know a little more and show you what we can, hahhahaha. 

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Tuna dinner

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Har varit nere pa gymmet och sedan atit en riktigt god tidig middag med quinoa, linser, grona artor, tonfisk och avokado. 

Forresten sa var det ett ar sedan jag promenerade fran skolan till Battery Park (och gick vilse, haha) for att kolla pa en lagenhet. Den lagenhet i det priset vi letade efter fanns inte kvar, men eftersom jag anda hade tagit mig dit kollade jag pa tva andra lagenheter som de hade tillgangliga. Priset var hogre an vi tankt oss och jag visste att jag inte fick bli fast vid nagon av dem. Den dyrare pa oversta vaning kandes inte alls som ett bra val, men nar jag gick in i den andra pa fjarde vaning fick jag varldens starkaste magkansla att “har skulle jag kunna bo”. Efterat chattade jag med Jim pa mobilen och sa som det var. Eftersom priset inte var vad vi ville sa vagrade jag saga vad jag tyckte, men Jim markte nog att jag gillade den. Senare pa eftermiddagen akte vi tillsammans ner till Battery Park igen och kollade. Oh, sa fin!
Ett par dagar senare hade Jim skrivit kontrakt och var lagenhet var packad i lador redo for flytt. Jag alskar den har lagenheten!! 

Have been down at the gym and ate a really nice early dinner with quinoa, lentils, green peas, tuna and avocado. 
By the way, it was a year ago since I was walking from school to Battery Park (and got lost, haha) to look at an apartment. The apartment for the price we were looking for did no longer exist, but since I had gone there I looked at two other apartments that was available. The prices was higher than we wanted and I knew I could not get attached to any of them. The most expensive on the top floor didn’t feel like a good choice, but when I walked in to the second one on the fourth floor I got the strongest gut feeling that “I could live here”. After, I was chatting with Jim on my phone and told him how it was. Since the price wasn’t what we wanted I refused to tell what I thought, but Jim probably noticed that I liked it. Later on the afternoon we went together to Battery Park and looked. Oh, so nice! 
A couple of days later had Jim signed the contract and our apartment was packed in boxes ready to leave. I love this apartment!! 

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Oh, det ar sa mysigt att pa morgonen gora iordning frukost och sedan kolla en massa onodiga saker pa datorn. Ibland har jag ju pa nyheterna pa tv’n, men jag blir sa nedstamd under dagen da. Jag vill inte veta om allt ont som finns i varlden som start pa dagen. Da ar det roligare att tex. lasa bloggar eller lasa roliga artiklar som folk lagger upp pa facebook. Och nar kaffet ar slut kan man borja dagen pa riktigt. 

Igar tog jag Alexandra Beller’s klass igen. Gibney har nu oppnat upp den gamla ingangen och det kandes konstigt att komma in dar. Sa fint de har gjort pa gamla DNA nu. Nytt, frascht, vitt och verkligen fint. Den salen vi var i igar hade fatt nya vita mattor istallet for de gamla svarta. Iaf, den moderna klassen var valdigt bra. Min hjarna hangde med mycket mer nu an forra gangen nar jag precis hade varit sjuk. Min kropp kandes lugn och den moderna dansaren i mig kom tillbaka och jag njot av kanslan. 

Oh, it’s so cozy to make breakfast in the morning and then look at some unnecessary things on the computer. Sometimes I have the news on tv on, but I get so depressed throughout the day then. I don’t wanna know about all the evil things in the world as a start of the day. Then it’s more fun to, for example, read blogs or read funny articles that people post on facebook. And when the coffeepot is empty you can start the day for real. 
Yesterday I took Alexandra Beller’s class again. Gibney has now opened up the old entrance and it felt weird to walk in there. So nice they have made everything at old DNA now. New, fresh, white and really nice. The studio we were in yesterday have got new white carpets instead of the old black ones. Anyways, the modern class was very good. My brain followed a lot better now than the last time after I just had been sick. My body was calm and the modern dancer in me came back and I enjoyed the feeling. 

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Fantomen

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I lordags var vi pa Midtown Comics pa 45th and Lexington. Vi har varit dar ett par ganger forut. Jim har tydligen inte last mycket serietidningar. Det har kanske inte jag heller har. Men jag minns att jag bladdrade i Hulken, Batman och saklart aven Kalle Anka (om det raknas):) Men en favorit som min kara far hade hemma var Fantomen. Han sag sa cool ut, hade en vacker vit hast och bodde i en dodskalle-grotta. Serien ar valdigt gammal. De gamla orginalen kan man fa en bra summa for idag. 

Nar jag var liten fanns aven Fantomen godis. Det var det basta lordagsgodisen man kunde fa, tyckte jag. Lakrits, lakrits och lakrits. Mmm! Jag kan fortfarande komma ihag vissa smaker i den blandingen. Och jag minns hur roligt det var med Fantomen-ringar som man hade pa alla fingrarna, haha. Foretaget som salde dessa godispasar gick sen i konkurs. Mitt favorit godis forsvann. 

I butiken hade de bara nyare tidningar, inte de gamla som jag hade last. Men jag kopte en iaf. Sag sen att den inte var som en “vanlig” seritidning, utan mer om en bok. Det gor inte mig nagot. Kul att lasa iaf:) Jag har sparat nagra av pappas Fantomen i Sverige som jag tankte ta med mig nasta gang jag ar dar pa semester. 

On Saturday we went to Midtown Comics on 45th and Lexington. We have been there a couple of times before. Jim has apparently not read much comic books. Perhaps, neither have I. But I remember browse through the Hulk, Batman, and of course Donald Duck (if that counts):) But a favorite that my dear father had at home was The Phantom. He looked so cool, had a beautiful white horse and lived in a skull-cave. The old originals, you can get a good amount for today.
When I was young, you could get Phantom candy. It was the bast Saturday candy you could get, I thought. Licorice, licorice and licorice. Mmm! I can still remember some tastes in that mixture. And I remember how fun it was with the Phantom-rings that you had on all your fingers, haha. The company selling these candy bags then went bankrupt. My favorite candy disappeared.
In the store, they only had newer comics, not the old ones that I read. But I bought one anyway. Saw later that it was not like a “normal” comic book, but more like a book. It doesn’t bother me at all. Glad to read it anyway:) I have saved a few of my dad’s Phantom in Sweden that I was going to take with me next time I’m on vacation there.

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It’s already April!

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God morgon! Hur mar ni idag? Sjalv ar jag pa riktigt bra humor. Sitter vid mitt skrivbord har i sovrummet och blickar ut mot Freedom Tower, kan ju inte bli mycket battre. Jag ar suppertaggad pa att ga och ta en klass idag. Har inte bestamt mig dock for vilken. Det finns tva som jag vill ta men de overlappar varandra och ar pa tva olika stallen. Vi far se.

Var helg var underbar. Igar var det varmt och harligt. Vi tog oss en promenad langs Hudson. Vi stannade till och solade lite. Den platsen vi hittade blir nu min nya favvo-plats. Ser fram emot trevliga lasstunder dar, hoppas bara pa att det inte blir fullt med turister dar. 

Good morning! How are you today? I’m in a really good mood. Sitting by my desk here in the bedroom and looking out on Freedom Tower, can’t be much better. I am super excited to take a class today. Have not decided which one though. There is two that I want to take but they overlap each other and they are at two different places. We’ll see. 
Our weekend was wonderful. Yesterday was warm and nice. We took a walk along Hudson. We stopped somewhere in the sun for a while. That place is now my new fav-place. Looking forward to nice reading time there, just hoping that it will not be filled with tourists there. 

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