Hey ho

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Nar jag inte har nagot spannade att skriva och dela med mig av till er blir det latt att jag haller mig borta fran bloggen. Sorry about that. Thor har vackt oss varje natt den har veckan och nar jag gar upp mitt i natten kan jag inte somna om och blir da extremt trott under dagen. Igar holl jag mig hela dagen genom att stada varje millimeter av lagenheten, sa nu ar det jattefint hemma hos oss 🙂 
Vi forsoker nu komma pa vad vi vill gora idag. Det har ar New York City och det borde egentligen inte vara sa svart att komma pa vad man kan gora. Det ar kallt ute och vi vill saklart gora nagot inomhus vilket ger oss en utmaning, men vi kommer nog pa nagot. Vi hors senare!

When I don’t have anything interesting to write and share with you, it’s easy for me to just stay away from the blog. Sorry about that. Thor has woken us up every night this week and when I get up in the middle of the night I can’t fall back to sleep and then get extremely tired during the day. Yesterday I stayed awake all day by cleaning every inch of the apartment, so now its really nice in our home 🙂
We are now trying to figure out what we want to do today. This is New York City and it shouldn’t be that hard to come up with something to do. It is cold outside and we of course wants to do something indoors which gives a challenge, but we will figure something out. Talk to you later! 

“Just five more minutes”

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Nar maken gick till jobbet imorse stannade Thor och jag kvar i sangen och sov lite langre. Nar jag vaknade igen lag jag och tittade pa min somnige valp som inte alls ville ga upp. Hade jag inte vackt honom hade han sakert sovit en timme till 🙂 Underbart med sovmorgon, men nu kanns det som att hela dagen ar borta. Ska dricka upp kaffet och sedan kan dagen borja. Tjingeling

When hubby went to work this morning, Thor and I stayed in bed and slept a little longer. When I woke up again I watched my sleepy puppy who did not want to get up at all. If I hadn’t woke him up he probably would have slept for another hour 🙂 Wonderful with a sleep-in, but now it feels like the whole day is gone. I will finish my coffee and then the day can start. Tjingeling

Why so much salt?

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Alltsa, jag fattar inte varfor de oser pa med den enorma mangd salt har pa NY’s gator. De ska ha en klapp pa axeln for hur snabbt de jobbar med att skotta bort snon, men behover de verkligen tacka varje liten millimeter med ett tjockt lager av salt? Nar jag kom hit for fyra ar sedan var det betydligt mycket mer sno pa gatorna och de skor jag hade da blev tack vare saltet sa forstorda inom en manad att jag fick slanga dem. Nu har vi en liten valp som jag oroar mig for. Vi torkar av honom ordenligt, later vara skor sta utanfor dorren och dammsugar/torkar golven oftare, men vi kan tyvarr inte stoppa honom fran att slicka snon nar han samtidigt letar efter ett stalle att potty pa. Inatt fick vi ga upp och ta hand T’s “trevliga surprise” som formodligen orsakats av saltet. Stackars var lille hund. Det finns som sagt ingenstans vi kan lata honom potty dar det inte finns salt och jag vagrar att (som manga andra i NY) lara honom anvanda peepads inomhus.
Jag har under natten dromt om framtiden da vi bor pa ett varmt stalle som inte behover nagot salt pa gatorna och garderoben innehaller inga vinterklader. Det motiverar mig for att ta mig igenom kalla vintrar i NY i nagra ar till.

Really, I don’t understand why they pour this huge amount of salt here on NY’s streets. They should get a pat on the shoulder for how fast they work with shoveling the snow, but do they really need to cover every single inch with a thick layer of salt? When I came here four years ago it was a lot more snow on the ground and the shoes I had then got thanks to the salt so destroyed that within a month I had to throw them away. Now we have a little puppy that I’m worried about. We wipe him properly, leave our shoes outside the door and vacuum/wipe the floors more often, but we can unfortunately not stop him from licking the snow when he’s also looking for a spot to potty on. Last night we were up taking care of T’s “nice surprise” that probably was caused by the salt. Poor our little dog. There is, like I said, nowhere we can let him potty where there is no salt and I refuse to (like many people in NY) teach him to use peepads indoors.
I have during the night been dreaming of the future when we live in a warmer place and don’t need any salt on the streets and the wardrobe doesn’t have any winter clothes. That motivates me to get through cold winters in NY for some more years. 

Studio time

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Igar var det Super Bowl har i USA. Tydligen var det en valdigt jamn match vilken gjorde det kul. Jag befann mig dock i studion under halva matchen. Nar jag kom hem sag jag slutet pa Katy Perry’s performance och min man stod i koket och gjorde middag (vilken lyx 🙂 ). Resten av matchen kollade jag igenom det jag filmade pa min tid i studion.
Nar jag skulle till studion (Gibney 280, gamla DNA) kandes det nastan som att jag skulle pa en het dejt. En dejt med studion. Tva timmar i en stor studio dar bara jag kunde bestamma vad jag skulle gora och fa ut av tiden dar. Det ar alltid lite laskigt att boka en studio, oavsett om man bokar for enbart sig sjalv eller tillsammans med andra dansare. Som nar man satter sig ner med ett blankt papper och en penna for att rita nagot. Man har en ide, men kommer det bli som man har tankt sig? Jag hade en plan men efter forsta timmen av den inplanerade improvisationen med vissa riktlinjer kande jag att det sista jag hade planerat inte passade in, sa jag fortsatte med improvsation med lite andrat fokus. Jag avslutade med en helt annan typ av tema som jag garna jobbar med och alskar att utforska enbart for att det utmanar mig men aven kanns bekant. Jag filmar alltid allt jag jobbar med. Om det ar improvisation kan jag senare se och skriva ner det man gillar och om man jobbar med en koreografifras ar det bra att kunna se vilka andringar man gor sa att man senare kan skriva ner det hemma och inte behover ta tid till skrivandet i studion (jag skriver alltid ner allt jag skapar). 

Yesterday was Super Bowl here in USA. Apparently it was a very close game which made it fun. I was in a studio during half the game though. When I came home I saw the end of Katy Perry’s performance and my husband was in the kitchen making dinner (luxury 🙂 ). The rest of the game, I looked through what I had filmed on my time in the studio. 
When I was going to the studio (Gibney 280, old DNA) it almost felt like that I was going on a hot date. A date with the studio. Two hours in a huge studio where only I could decide what I should do and get from the time there. It’s always a bit scary to book a studio, regardless if you book for only yourself or together with other dancers. Like when you sit down with a blank paper and a pencil to draw something. You have an idea, but will it be like you thought? I had a plan but after the first hour of the planned improvisation with some guidelines, I felt that the last thing I had planned didn’t fit in, so I continued with improvisation with a little changed focus. I finished with a totally different theme that I like to work with and love to explore because it challenge me but also feels familiar. I always film everything I work on. If its improvisation you can later see and write down what you like and if you’re working on a choreography phrase its good to be able to see what changes you do so that you later can write it at home and don’t have to take time for the writing in the studio (I always write down everything I create). 

Cozy Sunday Morning

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A little blurry photo from yesterday. It was soooo
cold. I was wearing three layers of pants!!

Hej mina blogglasare! Hur mar ni? Vi har en mysig morgon med kaffe och musik fran skivspelaren. Idag har jag massor jag maste planera och jobba pa. Ikvall ar det Super Bowl, men jag har rakat boka en studio under den tiden. Aja, jag bryr mig inte sa mycket om football iaf, det ar bara reklamerna och halvtids performance som ar kul att se 🙂 

Hi my blog readers! How are you? We are having a cozy morning with coffee and music from the record player. Today I have a lot to plan and work on. Tonight is Super Bowl, but I accidentally booked a studio during that time. Oh well, I don’t really care about football anyway, it’s just the commercials and the halftime performance that is fun to see 🙂