“What is that? Is that Genghis?!?”

My sister’s facebook status yesterday was ” Åsa – has been to the lucia celebration at daycare. Interesting to say the least! The wee child bore a striking resemblance to Djingis/Ghenghis Khan!”.
I found thi utterly hilarious once I realized that the wee child in question was my niece. My always absolutely adorable Joanna. Well, tonight, upon [...]

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Score. Score. Double score!

So I’ve been having some issues with my left knee the last couple of weeks, and have tried to get a doctor’s appointment to have it dealt with. Of course I got one last week, when I was in Brussels, so of course I had to give it a miss, and hop around for another week. [...]

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Lucia and the third of advent

Today is an extra special day of the ones leading up to Christmas. It’s not only the third of advent, but it being December 13th it is also Lucia. A great many Swedish kids and teenagers got drunk for the first time last night, but that’s the backside of the otherwise fabulous occasion. I’m right [...]

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Must sleep. Soon.

I find myself yet again spending Monday trying to recover from another busy weekend, instead of taking on the new week well rested. Why is it always like that? I’ve experienced a constant lack of sleep for the last few weeks, and this weekend didn’t make it any better.
I had to spend Friday night in the burb [...]

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The show must go on…

…also for Rikard Norling. Today it was announced that AIK’s last coach, and later proclaimed cult figure, will be the new coach of Assyriska, a team from Södertälje [Sötälyeah] that plays in Superettan. They came awfully close to stealing the last spot in Allsvenskan from DIF last month, but unfortunately didn’t succeed.
I really like Norling, he [...]

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20-somethings…

Yeah, so last week had a few surprises in store. Young ones  I went out three nights, with three different men, all in their twenties. Ok, re-reading that I realize it sounds really bad, but that’s not how it was, at all!
The week kicked off with the Toby Keith concert to which I went [...]

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R.I.P. Lennart :(

AIK just lost one of its biggest fans – Lennart Olsson - to cancer. I’m deeply saddened to hear of Lennart’s passing, and my thoughts of course go to his twin brother Erik.
(And thank you AIK for giving Lennart and Erik the chance to see the final game in Gothenburg; it must have meant the world [...]

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The voices of winter are back

Oh how I’ve missed them! Every year it’s the same mix of feelings when spring rolls around: happiness over the sunshine and longer days, but despair over the fact that SVT’s Vinterstudion and their coverage of cross country skiing, alpine skiing and biathlon is over for the season. But now it’s the opposite! It is [...]

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Toby or not Toby…

Last night it was time for this year’s second country music concert. Last year I was fortunate enough to see both Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton live, and so far this year I’d seen Alan Jackson, which was awesome (Country in the country). But last night it was for something quite different. First of all, [...]

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Briefly in Borlänge

A lot has happened since I was in Brussels and wrote the last post. I promise there’ll be an absolute feast of an AIK post soon(ish), a post that only I will cherish, I’m sure ; one that will contain films and pics from the league final (Allsvenskan), the celebrations that night, the [...]

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