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Good Morning everyone! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week! Mine has been very up and down. I had an appointment with a doctor across the street from our apartment (same building as my dentist, very convenient) earlier this week. I wanted him to check if my ears are ok, cause it’s been feeling like they are full of shit and I was afraid that there would be something wrong with them. But nope, apparently they are extremely clean, so that’s good news. And then I had him check my knees.

If you have been reading my blog for awhile or perhaps since the start, then you know that I have discomfort in my knees from time to time (I don’t like to use the word pain). I have actually never had a doctor take a look at them before or done any x-rays, I have only been to sports medicine, physio-therapist etc. who works with dancers or athletes. Everyone has told me that there’s nothing wrong in my knees and then they end up massaging my back and cracking my neck and I’m like a new person for a few weeks until I’m back with discomfort again. The doctor checked my legs and nope, nothing wrong in my back. We decided that I should go get x-rays on both knees since I’ve never done that before and then we’ll see. The machines at the advanced radiology place here in Stamford is broken and will be fixed next week, so I’ll know more then. 

Anyway, this has been a very emotional week for me. The doctor told me something what could be going on in my knees, and if that’s what it is, then I have a lifetime of work ahead of me and I took this pretty hard. But I’m motivated to fight for the rest of my life. But again, I’ll know more after my x-rays. 

To something more fun. We are finally getting real summer this week and next. Yay! We’ve had really nice and warm days from time to time, and in between we had really cold and rainy days that feels like fall. It has been nicer in Sweden even. But now it seems like the high temperatures are staying, at least for two weeks, and I can finally say it’s summer. Last weekend we drove to Harbor Point to have coffee by the water and let Thor play in a park and a dog park on Saturday morning. And on Sunday we took Thor with us to a park I had heard about in Greenwich. It was a big and beautiful park. Not much people there and we got a good walk around the whole thing. So a very outdoorsy weekend. It’s good to bring Thor to places too. He still freaks out in the car every time, but we have to just keep trying, get him used to it.
Yesterday, my friend who recently moved from our building to a new place, came over and we went for a walk on the cute street near our house. Such a beautiful day yesterday! And it was nice to spend some time with her. 

This weekend is supposed to be really nice as well. Not sure what we’re gonna end up doing. Hopefully we get our own car back today (it took much longer to fix it than expected after Jim’s accident). Would be nice to go to the beach, but I have to go get a beach pass for that. I walked over there last week but they needed registration and I didn’t know that. I’m watching my neighbors cat today and I have some other stuff I want to get done, so not sure if I have time to go all the way there to get the pass, we’ll see. Either way, I think this weekend will be awesome:) 

Harbor Point:

Bruce Park, Greenwich:

This morning, around 8 am after taking T for a walk and feeding him, I walked over to the government building to get a beach pass only to find out that you need to show a car registration. So I walked over to target to buy new hair conditioner and then continued my walk to a coffee place that I like in the city center. The place had closed down. Bummer:(
So, I walked over to Latham Park to take pictures of the giant statue of Marilyn Monroe that they put up yesterday. Stamford is full of life size statues of people in action, all in 40-50s style. Like, kids playing, someone taking a picture, men in suites going to work, veterans hugging their loved ones, woman walking her dog etc. This series is called “Timeless” and is created by artist Seward Johnson. One day I’m gonna walk around and really look at them all. Right now they are just something I walk by.
This Marilyn Monroe statue is called “Forever Marilyn” and was previously placed in Chicago. When my parents visit Chicago we tried to find her but they had taken her down 2012. She is 26 feet tall and weighs 30.000 pounds. Pretty cool actually. The opening is tomorrow and they are showing “The Seven Year Itch” on Avon Theater. My neighbor mentioned this awhile ago that she is going tomorrow, but it sounded like something else, I didn’t expect a giant statue like this.