She did great ... but she didn't make it

Jenny Berggren was participating in the Danish pre-finals for the ESC in Düsseldorf with the smash hit "Let Your Heart Be Mine" a very cool and very ESC song, that is getting right into the brain. I had just listened to the song one time before, since I had to be informed what was going on lol. I didn't have had time though last week to get deeper into this song unfortunately nr to upload it in my iPod but I didn't have to since it was stuck in my head from this one time listening. No doubt that Jenny has a great taste ... music, husband, friends lol ... aaaanyway.

I had rehearsals yesterday so I didn't have had the time to follow the show. Too bad, but on my way home in the middle of the night I was checking the results. I was down when I read that Jenny did a great performance but wasn't chosen as the winner. Somehow I was sure she was gonna make it to the finals. So I won't go to Düsseldorf with Anja May 14th instead of that we will take part in the Avon women run against breast cancer. Another great opportunity to spend the day, eventhough I would have loved to see Jenny in the ESC :(

one month already :)

One month already that I got my DL ... again ... how time flies. So much happened in this month, good and bad. It's all touching me deep inside, to see friends suffer, to see other people that are happy because I made their day. Life is filled with ups and downs ...

I started my training again ... soon the next run is taking place. But today I cacelled the membership in my gym, since it just takes me too long to go there and there are soooo many gyms in Berlin, it shouldn't be hard to find one close to me.

When you think it can't go on ...

... then you are in my shoes lol... I have been to our new office today. It's 3 weeks now until we move. If you ask me I get the best office out of all that I have seen from the whole space :) I will sit there with someone else, which means we will only be 2 people in the office. Currently we are almost sitting on each other with 7 people in one room, that was originally planned for 4 people. I can't stand it anymore, it's loud and hard to work there esp. when you have things to do which need high concentration. So that is a big plus.

And I worked so much again this week, although it was only 3 days long. Thank God I went to the gym on Tuesday when I was off, since I worked until 7 the next 2 days and today from 7-4:30 I'm totally exhausted...

ok enough complaints :)

Back home and day off

The day yesterday was mostly traveling. We had to leave the hostel at 10:00 am did the last shopping, went to the airport and home. I was home at 6 pm finally, Anja had a longer way since she was going to her parents right after. I spent the evening relaxing on my sofa, working on my project and enjoying myself.

Today I have a day off. I never did that before. Normally I go to work the day after returning from my trips. So this is a little extra. I slept to 8:30 now I have the painter in my flat, since there are some things to be done here. I'm currently looking for a new one though, since here is too much to fix, my work is moving soon, so coming closer to my new working place would be a nice bonus and I'm just sick and tired of the property management company. It takes them ages to get things fixed and that just annoys me. And I have to fit in the repairs in the early hours before work, which is not always going well.

The plan for today is let the painter do his work :) go to the gym later on and buy some food. That's basically it :) Oh it's beautiful weather today. Since I saw all the snow that is left in Stockholm being back home with +8 feels like spring.

Stockholm

Today was a tourist day :) Stockholm was beautiful today with a lot of sun and a clear sky, just perfect to go around and take pictures. Our short trip will be over tomorrow. It's always equally hard to arrive back in reality with all those impressions in your brain, esp. after such a short short-trip as soon as you have realized you are in another country/city you are home again wondering if it really happened. Luckily I have all those pictures to remember that this was real :) I will be off on Tuesday as well, a chance to get some things done at home and to finally go to the gym again :)

It's been a while...

again :) I know I had so many ambitions to keep this blog alive, but I just have not enough time. A lot has happened that would be worth writing about, but time just seems to get by faster and faster every day. I for example passed my driving test, which means I'm able to finally drive cars. Now that's good news, huh? lol still I'm not able to drive rented cars for another year, so Anja is still on her own driving through Sweden with me, which is actually where we are now.

We went to Stockholm yesterday for a concert of Jenny Berggren... again. It was great. Well you didn't really expect me to write something different, did you? Anyway, she was doing a performance with Terese Fredenwall and Simon Petrén at Enebykyrkan, somewhere in the outskirts of Stockholm. This place must be brand new, since our GPS didn't find it. So we ended up driving around for a long time again to find the church. But in the end we arrived. We had just hung our coats when we saw Jenny waiting outside in the cold, since the door was locked. We let her in and she wasn't really surprised seeing us being there long before time. We went in with her talked about how we had been, received a warm hug from her and Terese. Then they had to prepare themselves and do the soundcheck, so we also found a seat in the front row and got our equipment prepared.

The concert/lecture started at 7 p.m. and was simply great as usual. Perfect to just sit there and forget about your everyday life which is waiting for us back in Germany filled with stress and huge amounts of work. The setlist was as follows:

Moonshadow

Let My People Go

No More Nights

Give Me The Faith

Ravine

Encore by Terese:

To You

I will continue the list as soon I can think of more.

The people were very eager to listen to the presentation of the book and didn't really want her to stop talking :)

When everything was over, Jenny and Terese sold her albums and the new paperback book, while we ran around, taking pictures and also having a snack which they offered. We accompanied Louiza and her friend who were there as well. Short after that Jenny joined us sitting around the table. She asked us about the great news that she is going to Denmark to perform at the ESC election there and we agreed that this was great news. So we chatted a bit about that and also about the upcoming concert in Russia next week. We agreed that the competition in Denmark would be a great boost for her album and even book but that she has to see how it works.

Even though she said in the beginning that she had to leave very soon we spent quite a long time with her and even Terese. We went home 10:30 p.m. after a long exciting day :)