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Jim and I at the weddingThis looks like props from a horror movie that I would watch

Hi guys! I’m alive. It’s been two tough weeks. Somehow I got a bit of superpowers this weekend so that I managed to be a normal person for a little bit which was awesome.
I’ve been so nervous about this trip since I wasn’t feeling well. On Friday we went to a brewery and I had enough energy to enjoy it, but after that when we kinda crashed the wedding rehearsal, my energy ran out and eventually when everybody continued out to bars I walked back to the hotel on my own.
For the wedding on Saturday I got those superpowers and I had a great time. We had fun catching up with friends, met new fun people and we danced all night long. Such great wedding. So happy for Lindsay and Mark. 
Felt better on Sunday when I woke up but when we had checked out from the hotel it went down again. My belly is now the problem (yes, a new thing after another). It’s been bloated since Friday and since our flight back on Sunday night I have massive muscle pain in my entire stomach. I could finally manage to sneeze this morning, been trying for three days. It hurts when I do deep inhales and I can’t yawn. My belly feels full at all times and I have no idea if I’m hungry unless my stomach is making noises. My guess is that I got so stressed about being sick on this trip that my stomach muscles has cramped up and is now telling me to rest for real. So that’s what I’m doing. Gentle stretched seems to have worked, I feel a little better today.
More pictures from this trip will come.

Good Morning! We’re currently at LaGuardia airport waiting for our flight to Wisconsin.

I’ve been sick all week and my only focus has been to get well enough to go on this trip. I’m feeling a lot better and I keep my hopes up that I will be able to enjoy our weekend. I’ve never been to Milwaukee so I’m excited to see a new city in America.

I hope you’ll have an awesome weekend!

Aug, 2016. It’s been 15 months, the longest I’ve ever been away from Sweden

Hello! How’s your weekend? Isn’t it nice to have an extra hour today?:) Jim flew to Minnesota on Friday after work and is not home until midnight today. So Thor and I have been spending the weekend alone here. Or, not completely alone, I skype’d with my sister for awhile yesterday and with my parents today:)

It’s nice sometimes to be alone. I’m glad that J got a chance to hang out with his friends in Minnesota. We both need time to miss each other sometimes.

My plan for the weekend was to take yoga classes and work out but my body said no. I told you about my right knee that was messing with me. It felt better on Friday and I decided to take Thor for a long walk. He was all excited and the weather was warmer so I was excited too. Well, we didn’t get far. All of a sudden it felt like someone shot an arrow through my left calf. Oh that pain. I tried to massage it away, but whenever I tried to take a step the pain was back. I don’t know how, but I somehow managed to have T do a nr 2 and then get us home. I was in so much pain that I even started to cry halfway back home. On top of this, the left side of the lower back/butt was tight and had started to be painful too a few hours earlier, and not being able to walk properly gave me pain in my right hip. Yup, my body was broken and tried to tell me to rest. So that’s what I did. I watched a movie on Friday night and went to bed early. Took it pretty easy all of Saturday and today I felt much much better. So I managed to clean the whole apartment spotless, do laundry, skype and take T for walks before the rain came. My body is not back to perfect yet, but it’s definitely functional now. I think I can go take class tomorrow.

It’s important to listen to the body and take care of it!

For the rest of today, I’m gonna make the bed when the dryer is done, read a book and have some tea, eat some kind of dinner and then maybe finish the day with a movie. Not the weekend I had in mind, but it’s been pretty nice anyway:)

Two days ago, my right knee started to mess with me. Actually, both knees did, but mostly the right one. I have had pain in my knees for like ten years and I’ve had several people check them and there’s nothing wrong. The pain moves around and shifts between the two, so it’s not just one type of pain. Usually I just need to do something in my neck and back; stretch, get a massage or have it cracked and I’m like a new person in my legs. And usually the pain is in the muscles. I can feel that I am tight in the quads and hamstrings, but this time it feels different. Stairs is hard and I can’t really squat down to play with Thor or whatever without it feels like the bones is gonna break. I’m sure it’s still the muscles that is weak and tight plus we’ve had a few colder days and my body doesn’t function like it should when it’s cold. But it’s scary. Even if people haven’t found anything wrong, you never know.

I have a bunch of exercises I can do and yesterday I went to the gym to work on strengthening the muscles around the knees, both with body weight and weight machines. Knee rehab is not new to me. I’m sure this will go away soon. Today I feel ok in my knees, but I haven’t been outside for a walk yet (J took T out this morning) or gone up and down stairs, so I’ll know more later. I would love to workout and do yoga this weekend, so hopefully this goes away quickly:)

My plans for yesterday did not happen and it didn’t bother me at all. The reason was that Emma, Cristian and Levy came for a last minute surprise visit. They were passing Stamford and wanted to say hi. I much rather spend time with them than cleaning the apartment, doing laundry and edit photos on my laptop:) It was so nice to see them. I haven’t seen Levy since the beginning of the year right before his 2nd birthday, he’s getting so big now. 

After they left we were pretty tired. I watched a documentary, we cooked dinner and then watch Shameless together before we went to bed. We thought that maybe that hurricane wasn’t coming after all, cause it hadn’t been that bad during the day. But when we went to bed the wind got really strong. We had covered and prepared the things on the terrace the day before, but I was still a little worried, cause I have seen the wind move stuff around there before (we are on the top floor on the corner of the building and the wind can get pretty strong there), but we went to bed anyway hoping for the best. After my third nervous run up the stairs to check on the terrace, I finally screamed at Jim that we needed to do something. The cover of the furniture had disappeared and everything had moved from it’s place. We ran to put jackets and shoes on and then moved everything in to the corner of the terrace and moved the heavy storage box of our other terrace things in front of it while trying not to blow away ourselves. In order to relax and finally fall asleep, I listened to a sleep meditation podcast and managed to sleep all night. J found the cover on the parking lot this morning, so that’s good and the furniture has not moved. 

Another thing I noticed last night is that the carpet by the terrace door, is completely soaked. We had a problem with rain coming in when we moved in, cause the door wasn’t lined up and we had it fixed. But now it’s not really coming from the door, it’s more from underneath which sucks big time. We have reported it and hopefully they can come and fix it. We rent, so it’s not really our problem, but still sucks to have this puddle upstairs. So I’m staying home most of today and hopefully they’ll show up.