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Moments from this week. Don’t forget to follow me on instagram @thisisfanny

In less than a week, it’s my birthday! I love birthdays, all of them, not just my own. It’s something special about that day. A lot of people say that New Years gives them new energy, a start over or whatever, but for me it’s just like that 6 months later when it’s my birthday. Oh, looking forward to Thursday!
This week has been slow. It’s summer, hot weather and very humid so everything I do is vacation style, hahah, or maybe not everything. It’s really nice these days to have a rooftop to go up to and get some sun, some wind, listen to music and just relax, so I have tried to do that some times this week. I have done a lot of yoga this week too. I took a break from it for a while and I really missed it. Yoga has helped me in so many ways and at one point changed my whole life. My body feels great when I have done an hour of yoga. It is extra nice now when it’s so warm weather, cause the body feels warm quicker and you can really work on things earlier in the practice.
They say it’s gonna rain for three days now so I don’t know what we gonna do this weekend. Hopefully the internet-weather-dudes are wrong and we will have perfect sunny 30 degrees weather all weekend.

Om mindre an en vecka ar det min fodelsedag! Jag alskar fodelsedagar, allas, inte bara min egen. Det ar nagot speciellt med den dagen. Manga personer sager att New Years ger dem ny energi, en ny start eller vad som helst, men for mig ar det precis sa 6 manader senare nar det ar min fodelsedag. Oh, langtar till torsdag!
Den har veckan har varit slow. Det ar sommar, varmt vader och valdigt fuktigt sa allt jag gor ar semester style, hahah, eller kanske inte allt. Det ar valdigt harligt dessa dagar att ha en rooftop att ga upp pa och fa lite sol, lite vind, lyssna pa music och bara koppla av, sa det har jag forsokt gora nagra ganger den har veckan. Jag har ocksa gjort mycket yoga denna vecka. Jag tog en paus fran det ett tag men jag saknade det verkligen.  Yoga har hjalpt mig pa sa manga satt och vid ett tillfalle andrat hela mitt liv. Min kropp kanns fantastisk efter en timme yoga. Det ar extra nice nu nar det ar sa varmt for da kanns kroppen varm snabbare och du kan verkligen jobba pa saker tidigare i traningen.
De sager att det ska regna i tre dagar nu sa jag vet inte riktigt vad vi ska hitta pa denna helg. Forhoppningsvis sa har internet-vader-snubbarna fel och vi kommer ha perfekt soligt 30 grader vader hela helgen. 

A year ago today, we contacted a breeder about the cutest puppy I’ve ever seen. He looked too good to be true. Of course we were scared of finding someone online, there is a lot of scams out there, but after tons of emails, her sending us photos and videos, speaking to her on the phone and talked to references we came to a decision that Duncan was our Thor. 
He is still the most cutest little guy and we couldn’t be happier to have found him ♥

A lot of people might have something to say about that we didn’t adopt a dog when there is way too many who needs help. But, our reasons were these: • We have never raised a dog before and we wanted a young puppy without any horrible experiences • There is way too many who wants to breed dogs and make money and they all think that their dogs are so cute that they could sell them easily. But, that doesn’t always happen so instead when the puppy is too old for any buyer, the breeder gets rid of the dogs and they might end up in a petstore or on the street. We found a breeder who seems to really care about every single dog and puppy so she would probably not let that to ever happen. But either way, we don’t think we did something wrong. Duncan/Thor got a home and two people who really cares about him.

For ett ar sedan idag, kontaktade vi en hund uppfodare angaende den sotaste valpen jag nagonsin sett. Han sag alldeles for perfekt ut for att vara sann. Sjalvklart var vi radda for att hitta nagon online, det finns massor av scams dar ute, men efter massor av emails, bilder och videos som hon skickat, telefonsamtal och samtal med referenser kom vi fram till ett beslut att Duncan var varan Thor. 
Han ar fortfarande den mest sotaste lille killen och vi kan inte bli mycket lyckligare over att vi fann honom ♥

Manga personer kanske har nagot att saga om att vi inte adopterade en hund nar det finns allt for manga som behover hjalp. Men, vara anledningar var dessa: • Vi har aldrig uppfostrat en hund forut och vi ville ha en ung valp utan nagra hemska erfarenheter • Det finns alldeles for manga som vill foda upp hundar och tjana pengar och de tycker alla att deras hundar ar sa sota att de borde vara enkelt att salja. Men, det hander inte alltid sa istallet nar valpen blir for gammal for kopare gor uppfodaren sig av med hundarna och de kanske hamnar i en djuraffar eller pa gatan. Vi hittade en uppfodare som verkligen verkar bry sig om varje hund och valp sa hon skulle nog aldrig lata detta handa. Men oavsett, sa tycker inte vi att vi har gjort fel. Duncan/Thor fick ett hem hos tva som bryr sig om honom.

I wish I could show you the cute short videos that the breeder sent us, but it’s unfortunately not possible. In those videos you can see his parents and his littermates.
Jag onskar jag kunde visa de sota korta videoklippen som uppfodaren skickade till oss, men det ar tyvarr inte mojligt. Pa de filmklippen kan man se hans foraldrar och hans syskon.

We didn’t celebrate Midsummer on Friday since we were going to a concert, so on Saturday we went up to a store in Midtown where they have Scandinavian stuff to get herring and other fresh vegetables (cause the store by us only has spongy old things). They were out of herring, but we got a lot of other good things. I also bought white daisy’s on the way home.
In the evening I made a potato salad with slightly overcooked potatoes, I boiled eggs and made a creamy mayo sauce and with this I served Swedish hard bread, some Danish cheese, Norwegian smoked salmon, chopped radishes and carrots. Jim made us very good mojito that gave us the feeling of summer. We had strawberries for dessert but we were too full so we had it for breakfast on Sunday instead. In the evening we watched a Steven King movie. Not so much Midsummer feeling but the darkness outside the window didn’t make it feel like celebration of light anyway (which Midsummer is).
Since it rained a little bit during the day it really felt like a perfect Midsummer celebration. We did the best we could and I think we succeeded. We’ll see what year we can celebrate it in Sweden. I would really love for Jim to experience it. 

Vi firade inte Midsommar i fredags eftersom vi var pa konsert, sa pa lordag akte vi upp till en affar i Midtown dar de har skandinaviska grejer for att kopa sill och andra farska gronsaker (efterso butiken vid oss bara har spongy gamla grejer). De hade slut pa sill, men vi kopte en massa andra goda grejer. Jag kopte aven vita prastkragar pavag hem.
Pa kvallen gjorde jag en potatis sallad med nagot overkokta potatisar, jag kokade agg och gjorde en kramig majonas sas och med detta serverade jag svenskt knackebrod, nagon dansk ost, norsk rokt lax, hackade radisor och morotter. Jim gjorde en valdigt god mojito som gav oss en kansla av sommar. Vi hade aven jordgubbar till efterratt men vi var sa matta sa det fick bli till frukost pa sondagen istallet. Pa kvallen kollade vi pa en Steven King film. Inte sa mycket Midsommar kansla men morkret utanfor fonstret gav inte direkt kanslan av ett firande av ljuset iaf (som Midsommar ar for).
Eftersom det regnade lite under dagen kandes det som ett perfekt Midsommar firande. Vi gjorde vart basta och jag tror vi lyckades. Vi far se vilket ar som vi kan fira i Sverige. Jag skulle garna vilja att Jim far uppleva det.

Yesterday I went out to Bushwick in Brooklyn for a lovely fika with Emma and little Levy. When I did the music video a few weeks ago I walked through the area to get to a subway that worked and I saw all these walls with graffiti art, so I have been wanting to go out there to really look at it. We chose a small cafe and then when L woke up we walked to a park and sat there for a while. It has happened so much in this neighborhood since I lived with E and her husband there. If you wanna live in Brooklyn, then I think that Bushwick will be the new hip place. 

Igar akte jag ut till Bushwick i Brooklyn for en harlig fika med Emma och lille Levy. Nar jag gjorde musik videon for nagon vecka sen gick jag igenom omradet for att ta mig till en tunnelbana som funkade och sag alla dessa vaggar med graffiti art, sa jag har velat aka ut dit och verkligen kolla pa det. Vi valde ett litet cafe och senare nar L hade vaknat promenerade vi till en park och satt dar en stund. Det har verkligen hant massor i detta omrade sedan jag bodde med E och hennes man dar. Om man vill bo i Brooklyn, da tror jag att Bushwick kommer bli nya hippa stallet.

On Friday its Midsummer. I will not celebrate it this year 🙁 One of J’s favorite bands has a concert in the city so of course we have tickets for that, which we are looking forward to.
I have been in NY the last 4 years during Midsummer. Now it’s my fifth midsummer here and I will not celebrate it. Swedish people know how much midsummer means, the best holiday of the year! So I’m a bit sad, but, the Battery Park celebration isn’t very fun anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. Maybe we can eat herring and potatoes on Saturday instead:) 
I would love to bring J to Sweden to celebrate Midsummer. We are planning on being married forever so he will definitely get a chance to celebrate it for real in the future. And of course I need to bring my future child to Sweden to celebrate with family:)  

Pa fredag ar det Midsommar. Jag kommer inte att fira i ar 🙁 Ett av J’s favorit band har concert i city sa sjalvklart har vi biljetter dit, vilket vi verkligen ser fram emot.
Jag har varit i NY de senaste 4 aren under Midsommar. Nu blir det min femte midsommar har och jag kommer inte att fira den. Ni svenskar vet ju hur mycket midsommar betyder, basta hogtiden pa aret! Sa jag ar lite ledsen, men o andra sidan sa ar Battery Park firande inte sarskilt kul, sa det gor inte sa mycket egentligen. Vi kanske kan ata sill och potatis pa lordag istallet:) 
Jag vill garna ta med mig J till Sverige for att fira Midsommar. Vi planerar ju att vara gifta for alltid sa han kommer absolut fa chans att fira det pa riktigt i framtiden. Och sjalvklart kommer jag ta med mig mitt framtida barn till Sverige for att fira med familjen:)

Me and Emma last year in Battery Park. Very Swedish looking 🙂