Tummy Ache

Miss Hazel Girl made us some fabulous food last night. We ate until we were ready to explode. :) ... Not too surprising the rest of the evening was spent having tummy ache, tummy ache... ouch!

I just saw the weather for tomorrow - RAIN!!! :( The freakn Dog Show is outside..how great is that going to be? Not very...

Oh smoke...

...it is Sex & the City on TV.. and it does not matter how many times I've already seen the episodes... it is still fabulously good. :)

ps. Did I mention it is time for the next Dog Show on Sunday? Very exciting...my gorgeous Baby Blue is so ready!

A Visit

Susanne and the kids came for a visit today. We walked up to the city where we strolled around for a bit. Had lunch at a restaurant and enjoyed the food on their outside patio...well until the rain came. However, we braved it under a huge patio umbrella ... but after a while we decided to go inside and continue the feast with some ice-cream instead. Yum! :) It was great getting to spend some time with you guys - we're very happy you came for a visit!

Mr. L with Juliette in his arms, Susanne with Emilia in front of her, and the beautiful castle in the background.

Juliette enjoying a cinnamon role (en bulle). :)

Big Girls Do Cry

I don’t write about my baby Carlos on the blog very often. But that’s because it’s still such a sensitive topic. It is quite amazing how you can survive losing someone that means so much to you. When it happens it is such a life altering experience that hurts so bad that you can’t help but wonder... Is this going to kill me?

No words can describe how much Carlos meant to me... He was my dog, my baby, my guardian, my best friend... he was my EVERYTHING! Carlos was the heart in our family! Not a day goes by without me thinking about him, and missing him like crazy.

When we came back home from the vet, having been given the devastating diagnosis, Carlos and I laid down on the bed just looking at each other... I had the TV on in the background and my favourite song at the time was playing .. Big Girls Don’t Cry with Fergie.

Every time I hear this song now, I think of Carlos..... it has become “our song”. Here it is...



We miss you losis ... love you - always!

I got challenged...

..by Anna. So I guess I better step-up to it. I answered in both Swedish and English.

Swedish first –
Reglerna: Svara på alla frågor. Välj ut 6 personer som du vill ska svara och utmana dem i deras bloggar. Be dem läsa din! Låt personen som utmanade dig veta när du svarat på utmaningen.

Fem saker som finns på din att-göra-lista idag?
*Gå med hundarna
*Arbeta på denna veckas ”assignment” – alltså PLUGGA
*Städa
*Ringa Susanne
*Blogga

Vad gjorde du för 10 år sedan?
Pluggade på Santa Monica College i Los Angeles

Ställen du bott på?
Grythyttan (Hammarn), Los Angeles, London, Örebro

Fem saker du skulle göra om du var biljonär?
*Köpa flera hem runtom i världen
*Resa jorden runt, om och om igen
*Skaffa mig ett superteam av de absolut bästa ekonomiska rådgivarna (så man aldrig blir fattig igen:))
Sen måste man faktiskt göra något givande också, annars blir man inte lycklig oavsett mängden pengar man sitter på. Så därför skulle jag –
*Starta flera ideella organisationer med fokus på utsatta, vanvårdade, misshandlade djur runtom i världen samt skänka massvis med pengar till hjälporganisationer för alla fattiga barn som finns i Afrika och Asien (& övriga världen).
*Skänka massvis med pengar till cancer forskning (och forskning inom andra sjukdomar) varje år.

And in English –
The rules:
Answer all the questions. Choose 6 people who you would want to answer, and challenge them in their blogs. Ask them to read your blog. Let the person who challenged you know when you have answered the challenge!

Five things that’s on your to-do-list today?
*Walk the dogs
*Work on this week’s assignment – in other words STUDY!
*Clean
*Call Susanne
*Blogging

What did you do 10 years ago?
I was a student at Santa Monica College in LA California

Places you’ve lived in?
Grythyttan (Sweden), LA (USA), London (UK), Örebro (Sweden)

Five things you would do if you became a multi-billionaire?
*Buy several homes around the world
*Travel around the world, over and over again
*Gather the best team of financial advisors (so I never have to be poor again:))
But in order to live a happy and full-filled life, one must perform some good deeds too. Therefore, I would –
*Start several non-profit organizations with focus on fighting all animal cruelty around the world and with focus on helping poor children in Africa and Asia (& in other parts of the world too).
*Give away lots of money to various cancer research (and other diseases) each year

The Puppy Boy

Here are some recent pics of the puppy! The first 3 pics are actually from this morning, and the last pic is from the other day at the lake.

Gorgeous Puppy

You think he can jump?

My little cutie.. I just wanna kiss him, kiss him, kiss him. :)

Hmmm, what happened? :)

Typical Sunday

It is Sunday, and like all other Sundays this summer, it has been spent working on the weekly HRM assignment ... The deadline is Sunday before midnight... but I am done, sent it in a while ago. This is so typical of me though, I always wait until the last minute ..:(

Just came in from the late night “pee & poo” walk with the dogs, and we ran in to a hedgehog (igelkott) ... there are lots of them, and Mr. Old Man Alih does not care for them at all... lol. Damn, he’s a freak! He got all worked up for a poor little hedgehog... lol. He's getting more and more crazy with age, I tell ya!

LA Shopping & Dog Trainers

I miss LA and all the shopping like CRAZY today. :(
And it does not help watching a bunch of TV shows, which all seem to be from LA....Reminders, reminders, reminders.... :(

In a little while I am about to watch a show called Show Dog Moms and Dads. It’s about five devoted (and some a bit crazy) dog families in the US. One I believe is a Dog Trainer, and I really liked her class structures. Her clients are people wanting to compete with their dogs in obedience trials. I wish I had known of her when my boys – Alih & Carlos – were young and I kept dragging them around to different classes...Quite a few of the classes we went to, I didn't like due to the trainers having philosophies that did not match my dog philosophy... or they were just plain old idiots who probably woke up one day and decided to start calling themselves Dog Trainers. Even though he’s not a dog trainer (i.e. he rehabilitates dogs and train humans) I truly am a follower of Cesar Millan. I cannot understand all these dumb asses who have something negative to say about him. To me their yapping sound like: "blablablabla, crap, crap, crap.... " In other words, it sounds like BULLSHIT to my ears! :)

What to do without music?

I love going to musicals and concerts...some of my most fabulous nights have been spent at some concert or musical.

One fabulous moment was when Anna and I went to a Tina Turner concert in LA at the Greek Theatre. The year was 1997 :) It was so damn AWESOME!

And while I lived in London I stayed quite busy going to musicals and concerts – for instance I saw...

* The musical FAME with my friend Tasha... It was Superb!

* The musical DANCING IN THE STREETS with my good friend Gaby... AMAZING!

* I was so darn lucky I managed to win 2 tickets to the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park ..My cousin Karro was coming for a visit so she and I went. It was great! And the performance that probably excited and shocked me the most was Robbie Williams. I have never really been a big fan of him, but he was AWESOME live. He had such charisma... Karro and I were both totally sold!. Hihihi...

And, when in NYC I love going to Café Wha in the Village. Amazing singers and performers... I could sit there for hours listening to them.

What the heck would we do without music????!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out Robbie at Live 8... Karro and I are in the audience somewhere mesmerized by him... LOL.



Below is a live performance at Cafe Wha by one of my favourite guys - Amadou. Give the clip a little time for him to get started. He has an amazing voice. Not sure what the guy who's filming is up to though... he's all over with the camera. :) The guy next to Amadou is another favorite... his name is Bryan. The last time I was at Cafe Wha I was dragged up by one of the band members.. and had to dance with him in front of all the freakn people at the club. That was not embarrassing at all... NOPE! :)

Kolmården

James did great at the Day-Care. Can you believe he has been out walking with 6 other dogs at once – handled by one person at one time??? :) Yup, that would be my boy!

He spent 3 hours at the Day-Care on Wednesday, mostly to see if it would work and to give him a chance to get used to the new environment. And yesterday, Thursday, he was there the whole day as Mr. L and I went to Kolmården. Alih spent the first part of the day at home sleeping and the afternoon at work with my dad. His office is busy with people running in and out of the there the whole time, so Mr. Alih was busy greeting all the visitors. Hihihi... Since we came home kind of late, my dad had to pick James up at the Day-Care. And he was told Jay had been a very well-behaved baby this day as well. Ahhhh, THANK GOD! :)

When my dad called to let me know he had picked Jay up, he started the conversation by saying: “well, the damages Janne has caused came to an amount of ... “. LOL

PS. Did you notice the name, Janne? Janne is my dad's nickname for James. LOL...A Swedish name and maybe not the most beautiful name in the world. :)

But back to our day at Kolmården which is, I believe, the biggest Zoo in Sweden. However, having been to both the Wild Animal Park & the San Diego Zoo (in San Diego, California) we were both a bit disappointed to tell the truth. We went there because it would be a fun day trip, but also because a friend of ours was there with her kids. Our friend, Susanne, is a friend from LA and she’s in Sweden for 5 weeks with her kids, visiting her parents in Linköping. Susanne also had some fabulous “treats” for me. Hihihi.. You see, I asked her before leaving LA to buy some items for me that I can’t get here or items that are too pricey in Sweden. In my Goody-Bag were make-up from Dior and Channel, some stuff from Victoria Secrets and some other fabulous items. :)

Here are pics of some of our new friends at Kolmården:






We finished the day off by going on an aerial cableway ride over-looking the park.