I have lost my vocie. Last week I had a little bit of a cold but I practised anyway like I normaly do when I have a cold. I make sure that my pulse is steady. Saturday I spent 5 hours coaching my girls. My body felt fine but my throat was really sore and hoarse. Sunday we had to go a far way to play Svedala away. I took a couple of alvedon and hoped for the best. But half way there, we took the train, I knew there was no way I could warm-up. I felt so tierd and out of it. On the way home it only got worse even tough I took some more painkillers. When I got home I fell a sleep, waking up 2 hours later freezing and sweating. I was thinking 'this is how it feels to have a fever'. I haven't had one for such a long time. Anyhow, to make a long story short I have a infection in my vocalcords and I have been told not to speak for 10 days. It feels really stupid because it's something singers get not me. And I can't practise for 10 days! So I'm sitting here at home, bored, watching day time tv and drinking te.

Finally I have settled down a little after christmas, new year and school starting.

Christmas;

was really nice. We had a lot of snow so this time it really felt like a 'real' cristmas. I heard that I got a pretty scarf from SUE, but my mom has not come around to actually give it to me yet. The thing I love about christmas is, besides from all the food, is just haning around with family and friends for a couple of day. Without the school/work stress that usually interferes.

New Years

Seb and I hang out with about 10 people. Some are Sebs friends from 7th grade.
One of the guys got a girlfriend, Linda, and they have been togheter now from 7 years. Lindas best friend was in the same class as Seb.
A few boy-/girlfriends later we are a solid crew that play boardgames every sunday night after the volleyball games.

So for new years eve all of us had dinner at my and Sebs apartment. Delicious food, a very amuseing music game and some dancing. We walked out to watch the fireworks, there is a nice look out point close to were we live. Then we walked back to have dessert and a few of my volleyball friends came along. It was a very nice evening and I am so grateful to have nice, calm friends that didn't tear up my apartment during the night.

The day after we had some people over who helped us clean. We made our own pizza and played 'the mexican train game' the reat of the day.

School

It's a crazy school schedule now. I only have two more weeks to go! After that I have a 8 weeks of project work, and then 10 weeks of internship. After that it's graduation time! (and I have to grow up and try to get a job during the economic crisis, bad timing...)

Volleyball
It has its ups and downs right now. We lost a tight 5 set game last week. A game we 'had' to win. But for this weekends away game against Svedala our new american, Ashlee Fisher is ready to go. She went to Marquette, and is from Wisconsin! We really needed a hard hitting leftside, so I hope that she can live up to the expectations. For me I have been playing good, but not getting that much playing time. Well, probably more than anybody thought, but I always think it's to little!

I had a lovley birthday.

First I had a nice breakfast with family and friends.

Then some shopping at the Boomerang sale. Where I found a really nice cardigan, priced down from 1999:- to 500:-. The zipper "hook" was missing so I got it for 100:-. Mom would have been proud!

Practise 16-20. Wonderful spagetti and köttfärssås for dinner and a Make-your-own-icecream-sundae with cookie dough, rasberries, homemade chocolate sauce, bananas, meringue and thoose rolled up chocolat sticks. Delicious!

Saturday we played against Lindesberg and it was a really important game for us to win. And we finally did after 2 1/2 hours of playing! I played consistent and did I tell you that we won?!

I am looking forward to it.

It's been a long time since my last entry. Since november 9th I have;

- Had a cold and sore throat for two weeks
- Lost the Swedish Cup final
- Won 3-1 against Elverket and 3-0 against RIG
- Had a week off from school when my class was on a trip to Paris. Unfortunately I was sick and just layed in my bed all week instead of enjoying my free time.
- Had a wonderful birthday party for the swedish relatives and got a Food processor!
- Had some light anxiety over my portfolio that I keep avoiding.

But I'm very happy that the first of advent is on sunday. Only three more weeks of school and christmas in a month!

Now back to school....

Volleykanalen, shows some of the games that we play.

School is intense this week. On thursday we have our big presentation, so until then I'm crashing. Next week my class is going to Paris but I have a game wednesday so I have to stay home. Right now it feels nice to have a week off. A week to relax, take long walks, bake bread and go to etnografiska.

Sometimes creativity isn't the easiest part of the job. A deadline coming up and I'm sitting here lookning at blogs and dreaming about interior design. I need inspiration!