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Hello my friends! This morning I took T out for a walk, then had some breakfast while reading in a book to pass time. Closer to 10am when everything in this city opens, I walked over to the Stamford mall to buy a book at Barnes & Noble. On my way home I bought coffee and actually got it half off because the internet didn’t work for the card to go through and I only had a dollar in my wallet, so that was nice. They are always so nice to me there. Of course I will go back another day and pay an extra dollar for my next coffee. 

So what book did I buy? Well, a Kauai travel guide! We booked our flights a few weeks ago and this week we are looking for a place to stay. Doesn’t really matter where we stay, we can rent a tent or sleep in a car for all I care. I’m not going to Hawaii to spend time in a room anyway. This is another huge dream of mine that will come true. SO EXCITED! I’ve been dreaming and fantasizing about this trip since I was 14 years old. Ya, 14, not kidding. Our trip is in January so I have a lot of time to build up excitement around this. But honestly, to be any more excited than I am right now, might cause me to explode:) 

Some might think it’s stupid to buy a travel guide. We have the internet. But, another dream that I had as a kid was that when I’m an old lady I want to have a whole bookshelf with travel books of places I’ve been to throughout my life. We never really traveled when I grew up so when I visited someones house and they happened to have a lot of travel books, I kept dreaming that I would have that too one day. I don’t buy books for all my trips though:( I only have Portugal, our Italian honeymoon spot and three New York City books (no idea why I have 3..). For our Hawaii trip, I felt like I really wanted one. It’s something special with having a guide book when you go on vacation:)

Do you own any travel guide books? 

This morning started with a walk to get coffee. Noone outside at 8am on a Sunday, very quiet and nice. Later, Jim took Thor for a little car ride and I did stuff at home. When they came back, we went down to the gym and I was on the bike for a little bit. Felt good for my knees. 

While Jim went to the rooftop to grill hot dogs, I baked chocolate chip cookies. A youtuber that I like had recipe for some interesting choc chip cookies and I felt like trying it out. J thinks they are a little dry, but I think that they might seem dry because of the almond flour, cause I think they are good:) I can post the recipe in a separate post if you like. 

We are just watching football now. Very relaxed. Thor is napping on the couch next to us and his stinkies are the absolute worst today hahaha. 

I need cooooooffee! Oh my, I’m so tired. I’m trying to think that I’m not, I want a positive day, but everything I do is in slow motion and my eyes are barely open. Jim took the pup out in the middle of the night and I woke up when they came back in. After that, I was awake for 5 hours. Got to sleep for one hour and then it was time to wake up. I don’t function when not sleeping enough #zombie! Eight hours of sleep is my thing and it has been for over a decade, especially since I met Jim. And I actually hate that. Sleeping is so boring, waste of time (and so is taking a shower, that’s the most boring thing there is and when I was the most active I had to shower several times a day. Waste. Of. Time!). I rather stay awake all night long, Im actually very creative then, but I need my sleep. Zombie Fanny isn’t a well functioning Fanny.

Yesterday I joined my hubby at the gym. I had already worked out a bit during the day but I felt that my body needed to move more. Used the weight machines for arms and upper body and did other leg stuff standing or lying down. Finished with things for the abs. My whole body really felt like it had got a good workout and muscles were shaking. Nice! I can feel my muscles getting more sore by the minute now. I love that! The “good hurt” is the best thing in the world:)

My plan was to take a morning yoga class, maybe I should, but I actually have a lot of things to write down that I thought about when I couldn’t fall back to sleep. There are classes tonight, so I can go then.

Good Evening! My hubby is down in the buildings common area for a fantasy football thing he signed up for, eating veggie pizza and hanging out with neighbors. Since I don’t care about football or even understand the whole fantasy team thing, I am sitting on the couch upstairs in my office sipping tea while Thor is grumpy downstairs. 

My motivation to move has been very low lately. But, earlier today, I all of a sudden got a lot of energy and I was excited to get my body moving. I went down to the gym for 1 h 25 minutes. If I hadn’t got so hungry in the end I could have stayed longer. Tried to push myself harder today because I had so much energy. Started off as always with a little bit of warmup and then I was on the cross trainer for 10 minutes going so fast that the machine could barely keep up, haha. Then I did things for my hamstrings and abs before I used the more laid-back-bike. I tried that one the other day and discovered that it doesn’t put as much pressure on my knees since I’m in a different angle than on a normal exercise bikes. After 15 minutes of pretty hard biking, my knees got tired and started aching, but I pushed myself to do 20. Might not seem like a lot, but for my knees it really is. I love to bike and want to use my actual bike more, so I need to build strength. Did some pilates; abs, back, arms and legs. And finished with a shorter stretch before I went home to Thor and stretched there as well. 

It’s been a good day today and it’s pretty nice to sit upstairs right now just watching youtube videos by myself. And the pink moon is gorgeous! Can’t complain:)

Oh, and now as I was gonna post this, we suddenly got a massive thunderstorm and it’s super crazy! I haven’t seen this much rain come down out of nowhere here before.

Good Morning! It’s a beautiful day today, even if it’s pouring down right now. But those days can be beautiful too, right?:) It all of a sudden got cold here. I was hoping for a few more weeks of really warm summer, we’ll see, it might change again. But the fall usually isn’t so bad. Hot beverages, blankets and candles, colorful trees, pumpkins and fall decorations. It’s the winter I can’t stand, but we actually have a vacation booked for January, so it shouldn’t be too terrible either:)

I should have warned people that my .se would disappear soon and now it’s .com. I had to find a new domain host for this website and some hosts couldn’t sell me .se. So instead of finding another Swedish host, we created a .com. So, this is my new website www.thisisfanny.com

My dear husband sat with my website the entire day yesterday and a bit of Friday to make the change happen. I owe him a lot for this, I’m very grateful! I am also lucky to be married to someone who knows stuff about computers, cause even if I actually know a lot, I would not have figure out how to change domain and shit.