June 30, 2020
Hi! Hope you are all doing great! I guess we can say that I took a little summer break
The thing is, there is a lot of stuff going on in the Fanny World at the moment and I can’t write about any of it yet – or rather, I don’t want to tell you about it yet because nothing is for sure. For example, we have a trip coming up and that could be one of the most exciting trips ever,.. or it could turn into absolute nothing // sidenote; I am nervous about traveling during corona times and I do not encourage it. Jim and I have decided to not see anyone from now on til our trip and when we come back we will quarantine ourselves for at least 14 days // I will tell you all about it once we get closer to the trip and when we know more:)
I can still update you on some things we have done and what has happened these past weeks though.
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More places has opened up in Connecticut, for example the common areas in our building including the gym has opened but you have to keep 6 feet apart and only 5 people at the time at the gym. We have however still not been anywhere, the virus cases are soaring and we want to be careful. But the weather has been hot and amazing so we spend a lot of our time outside, on the terrace and going for walks. Thor’s new favorite thing is to go sit under the trees by the church behind our building. When I take him out around lunchtime it’s so hot and humid outside that he can’t walk very far and by those trees it’s actually usually quite breezy.
And speaking of Thor, he is still driving us nuts. His ears looks better but he keeps scratching them which causes irritation which causes more scratching etc. and we are trying our best to keep a positive association to when we need to put drops or clean his ears or when we have to put a cone on him so he doesn’t scratch, but it is hard. We have to keep an eye on him 24/7. All we want is for him to be ok♡
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We celebrated another Midsummer in the US. This was my 10th away from Sweden. This year I really planned on going to to Sweden, not only so that my husband could experience the real thing for the first time but also because I now have a little niece. But it is what it is. We ended up having a wonderful time in isolation. I went to the grocery store in the morning. Shelves were more stocked this time, still no cans, toilet paper or much meat but I could still get some nice things for our evening. I made a potato salad that we enjoyed with salmon, sill (herring) and greens. For dessert I made us espressos to enjoy with coffee flavored ice cream and strawberries. Can’t be much more of a Midsummer than that. Very very pleased with this years celebration!
Oh, and I went to get another blood test. It showed the same result as in May, which was different from my previous results but nothing to be concerned about. Since it has been a full year since I started to see my oncologist (and one year since my 2nd surgery) I had to go in for an exam but I’ll tell you more about that in a different post.
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Yesterday my friend Daniela and baby George came over. We went to have a little picnic under the trees by the church, at a social distance of course. They were the first two people I have seen in person since beginning of March (except my doctors and walking by people in the lobby of our building). I really wanted to hug her and snuggle her baby but because we have a trip next week I told her that we need to keep distance and be careful. It was so lovely to see her, I’ve missed her greatly. And Georgie has gotten so big♡ She gave me a birthday present and when I came home I found a fun birthday card from my mother in law in the mailbox. A perfect start of this birthday week (as you may know, I love birthdays, not just my own but everyone’s 😀 ).
So cute, D included a picture of the three of us last time we saw each other in February:)Jim’s mom sent this awesome pop-up unicorn-cake card. Love it!
We keep isolating ourselves, we wear our masks if we are near other people and we stay mostly at home. Other than what I just mentioned, nothing has really happened… or, well… I hate to keep the other things a little secret at the moment, but I will tell you, stay tuned:)
The sky last night was absolute magical! It was like a painting,it was far more interesting to look at than the tv-show we were watching hahah
(Photo above by Per Bjorklund)
(3 performance photos were taken by my dad)
This last photo is Graciette’s not mine, but I wanted to include it since it makes me so happy.
To my pleasant surprise there were tons of fruit and veggies and most of it looked really fresh. I grabbed apples, bananas, blueberries, lettuce, sweet potato and some other veggies, I felt like a little kid first time in a candy store. The first half of the store had full shelves, some random items had run out but I was very happy to see that there were so much to choose from – unlike when we ordered groceries from stores online when 2/3 was either out of stock or had to be substituted for some brand or version that we didn’t like (we even had to throw some items away because short expiration dates or it had already gone bad – like one almond milk package that almost exploded and smelled like sausage…that was nasty). And then half the store was empty, of course the toilet paper isle was empty and all the can food plus the cleaning supplies were all gone. 
So happy we received these masks last week, easy to breathe and they fit well