last blog in this year

so another year is almost over ... time to recall the year, which I will make short:

I traveled a lot - Mallorca in March, Sweden (Gothenburg, Luleå, Skellefteå, Töreboda, Sundsvall, Stockholm - airport lol) in June/July, Mallorca in July, Gothenburg in September, November and December ... continue that with a short trip to Gothenburg in January

I went to 3 Ace of Base concerts and had the time of my life there

I haven't sleept 4 days in a row - due to traveling to those concerts

I went to the Swedish book fair and bought so many new books lol

I went to 2 Jenny concerts

I became an official Jenny Berggren fan lol

I met so many nice Acers (Sara, Katie, Anna, Anna Velvet, Najs, Dimitry, Julia, Alex, Louiza, Andi - in case I forgot someone I'm sorry)

I sang my very first solo in Big Ben and got good reviews lol which was nice since I did it in a lower key than usual.

We made 2 albums with Big Ben.

We went through a lot of crises with Big Ben (member changes, arguments etc.) but had also a lot of good times.

I worked a lot (well that's not new) and will probably continue in 2010 as well.

And I joined the gym in August, which was a good decision.

I ran long distance for the first time in my life and I did it voluntarily. 6 km, which might not be that much for some, but for me it was a big challenge.

I can't think of anything more right now, but I can tell you that I have been very busy the whole year.

So see you next year.

Hugs

/J.

I confess I'm addicted to the internet

I was 3 days off and I felt like I was going crazy lol not able to read emails or worse get news. And when I finally had a connection today again I read all the messages Jenny Berggren had written while I was not able to be online and read this news lol so I confess I'm obviously addicted to the internet or at least to the information I get through it.

Well either way I was 3 days offline since I had to change my room and there was no connection I could use for free. After x-mas the big sale started in Sweden, like usual so I was busy with finding stuff, went to Freeport - outlet center, but didn't succeed so far to find some interesting stuff. The only thing I got there was a new nice dress. But now I'm missing suitable boots, which I wanted to get during the sale, but boots and men it's all the same I have the detailed preview and can't find anything that reaches my imagination ... lol so I will have to go on looking for them.

off for now,

/J.

just read about hurting friends ....

just read a blog about one of my friends who was upset about her x-mas gifts. I'm fine with that complaint and will try not to be too original with me coming presents. we obviously have different opinions on presents and I'm fine with that.

But since I read her posting I remembered something I'm carrying with me for more than a week now. We had our yearly band x-mas evening. don't worry I'm fine with my presents, but it was something else that bothered me. I brought one of my all time favorite x-mas CDs which is Peter Jöback's X-mas album. it's my favorite and it's Swedish lol. Well since I had heard gregorian songs, sarah Brightman's several (I believe at least I heard several) x-mas albums, Josh Groban etc. I thought I would bring something new. I just laid it there and if they wouldn't have played it it would have been fine with me too. but instead they played the first song realized it was Swedish, then skipped some tracks, making fun of the others and told me during that time that they like to understand those songs and find it not fun, when they don't understand it. this made me sad.

I was sitting there a lot of times listening to french music, which I don't like, since I don't like french as language too much, and which I don't understand. One of my friends was wishing SWEDISH albums of Per Gessle for x-mas or his B-day .... would he understand those? And third he doesn't French as well, so what's all about that with the I don't understand the language so I don't like the music.

I didn't understand it and I'm still hurt. The longer I keep thinking about it the more hurt I am I just wanted to bring something new around and if they didn't want to play it they just have said that. Since this would still have been more honest than destroying my good will. But who cares anyway.

They probably didn't even pay attention to that. But still I keep thinking of that and will take my consequences.

Just my 5 cents

/J.

x-mas greetings

so merry x-mas to all of you. have had some nice and relaxing days so far. yesterday I got to see the last x-mas-present-rush here in town. it's amazing how everyone panics just to get a bunch of presents to please people around them. too bad people don't see in their whole panic of getting presents and getting food what is most important family and friends ... harmony. myself I had a very relaxing day as I already wrote getting some rest and then we went to the midnightservice. they had a nice one with a choir and music. loved it. I was looking for a service with music so this one was perfect.

the minus today was that it was raining so bad today so after a short walk I was so wet, that I'm afraid that my clothes will be dry tomorrow. hope it will. but now it's snowing again. Hope it stays like that so that I can a little bit more snow before I have to go back home. I'm here 6 days now and it feels much longer already, which is good since I really had to recharge my batteries.

so I'm off for now. again a merry x-mas to all of you =)

hugs

/J.

being in Sweden

well, as some of you know I travelled to Sweden some days ago. and so far I have so much fun. my biggest wish was to have snow around x-mas and here it is. from sunday to monday it snowed so bad. I love it! And today when I was visiting Liseberg it snowed even more. Talking about x-mas feelings, mine are definitely alive since today. It was so beautiful. Haven't figured out how te resize pictures on my new laptop but as soon as this is done, you can see some here as well =)

Hugs

/J.

x-mas is coming

IT's saturday and it is cold. When I woke up this morning all my windows were frozen. So the first thing I did today was a small photosession around my windows lol and yes that's usual for me. Things first get real when I have them saved on a picture lol Pictures are my way of memory.

Right now I'm sitting in front of my computer listening to x-mas songs and with all the cold outside it looks like the perfect x-mas morning lol

ok here is one of the pictures I took today.

My little life - the past month

Well it has been quite a while since my last blog. I wanted to write ealier, but then I thought it's maybe not writing so what has happened?

I'm didn't do that much with my project ... nothing to be honest... I simply haven't had time.

I was working much - as usual - when I was home I was working on updates for www.jennyberggren.net and when I was not busy with these things I was rehearsing with Big Ben. We released our album and had a nice cosy concert on the 4th of December. It was cool and I was excited as I never have been before. Don't know where this come from. My throat was totally dry and I had problems being concentrated because of that. But the concert went well. The audience liked it and that's the most important. Nobody didn't take notice of my clumsy mistakes during the choreography lol

well and I have been to 2 Jenny Berggren concerts with Anja again. It was awesome as usual- Jenny did a great performance at both gigs. And I met nice people again and also some new ones. Katie was going with us and we had a blast. We met Najs, Louiza, Julya, Alex and Dimitry, who we haven't met before. And we met the funniest priest ever. Joachim is priest in Kungsbacka and guess what born in Berlin in the district I am living in. It was a pleasure to talk with him and all the people at church. I was really enjoying myself.

Yeah then yesterday I had x-mas party at work. It was funny and nice.

And tomorrow we will have our last performance with Big Ben this year. We are going to perform the x-mas set on a x-mas market in Berlin. After that we will meet up and have some x-mas celebration within the band so this is also going to be fun.

Meanwhile I plan our next Sweden trip already. This time it's 5 Jenny Berggren concerts in 8 days, so this is going to be exciting. We will go to a town near Karlstad (never been there before), we will visit Halmstad (as Roxette fan a must), will see Jenny perform in Malmö, have a great time in Fristad, where we saw her 2 years ago, Alingsås will also be interesting etc. So at the moment i'm spending my time with booking of accomodations and planning this trip as well.

Sunday I will take of for my "private" holidays in Sweden. Hope we will have snow. I love snow, at least in winter. My suitcase is packed and I'm excited to go there. Will write some updates on my life there as well ...

So have a great time until I am posting the next time.

Hugs

/J.