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Photo I took in Sweden, Aug 2013

8 hours of sleep, cold shower, a walk and coffee. Feels like I would have a lot of energy now but it has already passed. Maybe because of the cough, maybe it is the rain and cold or maybe it is the full moon we’ll get tomorrow that brings me down. No matter what it is, it’s kinda boring to start the week with low energy. So lets change that. 
They said on the news that it has been the second warmest May, but June starts wet and colder. A day like today when its grey outside and I don’t feel like my very best, I can use it for other things. Rainy day can mean that you do important stuff on the computer, work out, dance, create and other indoor things. I also like to walk outside when it’s raining and I get inspiration from that. Since I have a cough, I need to be careful if I work out, but there is plenty of other stuff I can get done today. Just because I have less energy it doesn’t mean that I need to be lazy and watch tv all day. We have days like this sometimes and they are just as important as other days. 

8 timmars somn, kall dusch, promenad och kaffe. Kanns som att jag skulle ha massor av energi nu men den har redan runnit ut. Kanske ar det hostan, kanske ar det regnet och kylan eller kanske ar det fullmanen som vi far imorgon som far mig lite hangig. Oavsett vad det ar sa ar det lite trakigt att borja veckan med lag energi. Sa lat oss andra det. 
De sa pa nyheterna att det har varit nast varmaste maj manad, men juni borjar blott och kallare. En dag som idag nar det ar gratt ute och jag inte kanner mig pa topp, kan jag anvanda for andra saker. Regniga dagar kan innebara att du tar hand om viktiga saker pa datorn, tranar, dansar, skapar och andra inomhus grejer. Jag tycker dessutom om att promenera nar det regnar och far inspiration fran det. Eftersom jag hostar behover jag vara forsiktig om jag tranar, men det finns massor av andra saker jag kan fa gjort idag. Bara for att jag har mindre energi betyder inte det att jag ska vara lat och titta pa tv hela dagen. Vi har regniga dagar som idag ibland och de ar minst lika viktiga som andra dagar. 

One World Trade Center Observatory

Yesterday, a 29 year old man jumped from the 24th floor down here in Battery Park. He landed on a car driving by. I noticed that it was a lot of traffic outside our door in the afternoon, which was kinda strange since we usually don’t have that much traffic, but after reading about the incident I understand why. Anyway… In the article that my husband sent me about this jump it said that “Tourists in a nearby open-air bus that was stuck in traffic, saw more than they bargained for when the gruesome scene unfolded right in front of them. Then they quickly found their bearing and realized the tragedy would look perfect on their Instagram profile, and scrambled for their cellphones to snap pictures of the body, said workers at the building.” 
This made me think. Isn’t that just sick? Someone is dead and people see an opportunity to put a picture of it on social media. Can’t we just be there in the moment, feel sorry for the man who jumped, try to help or walk away from it? Do we really have to share it on instagram? And also, do people really want to see those pictures? 
We are constantly connected, we live our lives through a camera lens and our memories involves checking updates on our phones. I am very tired of this. I have a blog, I have a new phone, I have a camera, we have internet on all the time etc, but I also take time to enjoy things without all this. For example, I usually don’t bring my phone when I take the dog out. I also get really annoyed when my husband is doing stuff on his phone when we are having a nice dinner in a restaurant. 
Soon we might not know if things are our own memories or someone else. Soon we will all stay inside while selected ones are out taking all the pictures to share with us. Soon we end up like the kids movie Wall-E. Or, what do you think? 

Today is finally the day they open the One World Trade Center Observatory Deck to the public. I’m very excited about this, I have been waiting. We look at the building from our windows every day and we have seen the process of getting it ready. I would love to go there this weekend but we’ll see how long the line is. The tickets for adult are $32 which is the same like The Empire State Building. 

Idag ar antligen dagen da de oppnar One World Trade Center Observatory Deck for alla. Jag ar valdigt exhalterad over det har, jag har vantat. Vi tittar pa byggnaden fran vara fonster varje dag och vi har sett processen att fa den iordning. Jag skulle garna ga dit i helgen but vi far se hur lang ko det ar. Biljetter vuxna kostar $32 vilket ar det samma som for The Empire State Building.