I was so disappointed when I woke up this morning. Another 3 cm snow had fallen during the night and it was, and still is, snowing. It was once again down to -7 and windy.
I have just had enough right now.
The only good thing ist that I get to practice my winter driving but honestly I could be without that too.
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Monday, 23 March 2009
Sunday, 22 March 2009
My mummy has disappointed me this week
Twice, yes, twice has my mummy really disappointed me this week. Thursday morning I saw that she was packing a bag with cloths and things from the bathroom. Of cause I though I was coming with her. I danced, sang for her and my tail wagged for her. Guess how I felt when she got out some of my special treats and I realized that I wasn’t. I sat there and hoped she felt really bad for letting me stay home. It didn’t matter a thing that she had asked to of my favourite people to take me out during the day. Then came Friday morning …
When we were out before she has to leave me along I found a lovely frozen mouse. I managed to dig it out without mummy noticing. I think she was busy keeping an eye out for the dog that was running loose (lucky fellow). I walked nicely home with my catch and got all the way home before she noticed that I had something in my mouth. She made me drop it. With an Usch! she kicked it outside. I tried to show her that I wanted it back, I even looked for it when we went out for lunch. My lovely catch was gone.
Well, she has tried to make it up though. She has taken me for some nice walks. She has let me dig in the snow. I had so much fun when I was digging, using both my claws and teeth. With the result I guess using my teeth wasn’t a good thing. When mummy noticed that I was bleeding she decided that it was enough. Ok, she did fry a large batch of liver in butter and with some spices. I like liver even if I don’t understand why she has to fry it. It’s really nice as it is.
All in all I guess mummy starts tomorrow on zero
When we were out before she has to leave me along I found a lovely frozen mouse. I managed to dig it out without mummy noticing. I think she was busy keeping an eye out for the dog that was running loose (lucky fellow). I walked nicely home with my catch and got all the way home before she noticed that I had something in my mouth. She made me drop it. With an Usch! she kicked it outside. I tried to show her that I wanted it back, I even looked for it when we went out for lunch. My lovely catch was gone.
Well, she has tried to make it up though. She has taken me for some nice walks. She has let me dig in the snow. I had so much fun when I was digging, using both my claws and teeth. With the result I guess using my teeth wasn’t a good thing. When mummy noticed that I was bleeding she decided that it was enough. Ok, she did fry a large batch of liver in butter and with some spices. I like liver even if I don’t understand why she has to fry it. It’s really nice as it is.
All in all I guess mummy starts tomorrow on zero
Spring is here – I think
For a few days it has been sunny and warm. The wind has been calm. The swans have arrived to the river. There is also another bird that normally turns up when spring is around the corner.
BUT
It has also been snowing – like right now. During the nights it’s cold and below zero.
Stella and I have started to explore the area around Kungsbäck. We don’t have many options as I don’t have a car. I know that our walk normally takes 2-2½ hour but as Stella and I like to walk neither of us will mind a longer walk – if it’s worth it. Last week I found a map and we started to try a road but it was getting dark so I decided against continuing it. Saturday we went along another road, a road that was a circle so that we would return to where we started. We walked and walk and came to bunch of houses. On my map there were not houses. We continue but my guts told me something where wrong. I stopped a man out walking his dogs. All he really could tell me was that I was outside the map (like I hadn’t figured that out) and that he didn’t know how I should walk to get where I wanted. He walked much faster that Stella and myself and quickly disappeared out of my sight as we started to walk back the same way. Guess who we met … the man with the dogs. I told Stella that he had probably gone the way we should have gone.
Today we did another try only we took another way to get there. The weather was wonderful and we started to walk along a very snowy road since not many cars had gone there. After a while we reached the road we walked on yesterday and there we met one of the nurses that work at one of the health care centres. He told us that we were on the right way and how to get where we were heading. He also told us about several other walkabouts in the area, some very long but he said they were worth it.
So I guess that we have some walking a head of us in the country side.
BUT
It has also been snowing – like right now. During the nights it’s cold and below zero.
Stella and I have started to explore the area around Kungsbäck. We don’t have many options as I don’t have a car. I know that our walk normally takes 2-2½ hour but as Stella and I like to walk neither of us will mind a longer walk – if it’s worth it. Last week I found a map and we started to try a road but it was getting dark so I decided against continuing it. Saturday we went along another road, a road that was a circle so that we would return to where we started. We walked and walk and came to bunch of houses. On my map there were not houses. We continue but my guts told me something where wrong. I stopped a man out walking his dogs. All he really could tell me was that I was outside the map (like I hadn’t figured that out) and that he didn’t know how I should walk to get where I wanted. He walked much faster that Stella and myself and quickly disappeared out of my sight as we started to walk back the same way. Guess who we met … the man with the dogs. I told Stella that he had probably gone the way we should have gone.
Today we did another try only we took another way to get there. The weather was wonderful and we started to walk along a very snowy road since not many cars had gone there. After a while we reached the road we walked on yesterday and there we met one of the nurses that work at one of the health care centres. He told us that we were on the right way and how to get where we were heading. He also told us about several other walkabouts in the area, some very long but he said they were worth it.
So I guess that we have some walking a head of us in the country side.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
An update
I am in Germany!!!!! I have passed Wittstock. During this week I have walked 145 km. I haven’t done anything differently from what I normally do so I guess I do a lot of km every week. Instead I would say that I have had two days at work where I spent a lot of time on my butt.
However I have learned one thing this week and that is that I walk much more during the weekdays than during weekends. I didn’t know that. I always thought it was the other way around. Perhaps having a vacation around Easter isn’t such a good thing, competition vice that is.
Anyway here are the current results. Now have in mind that most update their result the morning after and it’s now Tuesday evening.
The team lay in 66th position with 81 km done. On the individual list I am currently in 46 th position.
All in all 2088 teams are participating meaning that 11539 people are walking around with a tiny box at their hip. So I really think we are doing good.
However I have learned one thing this week and that is that I walk much more during the weekdays than during weekends. I didn’t know that. I always thought it was the other way around. Perhaps having a vacation around Easter isn’t such a good thing, competition vice that is.
Anyway here are the current results. Now have in mind that most update their result the morning after and it’s now Tuesday evening.
The team lay in 66th position with 81 km done. On the individual list I am currently in 46 th position.
All in all 2088 teams are participating meaning that 11539 people are walking around with a tiny box at their hip. So I really think we are doing good.
An update
I am in Germany!!!!! I have passed Wittstock. During this week I have walked 145 km. I haven’t done anything differently from what I normally do so I guess I do a lot of km every week. Instead I would say that I have had two days at work where I spent a lot of time on my butt.
However I have learned one thing this week and that is that I walk much more during the weekdays than during weekends. I didn’t know that. I always thought it was the other way around. Perhaps having a vacation around Easter isn’t such a good thing, competition vice that is.
Anyway here are the current results. Now have in mind that most update their result the morning after and it’s now Tuesday evening.
The team lay in 53 position with 79 km done
On the individual list I am currently in 61 position.
All in all 2088 teams are participating meaning that 11539 people are walking around with a tiny box at their hip.
However I have learned one thing this week and that is that I walk much more during the weekdays than during weekends. I didn’t know that. I always thought it was the other way around. Perhaps having a vacation around Easter isn’t such a good thing, competition vice that is.
Anyway here are the current results. Now have in mind that most update their result the morning after and it’s now Tuesday evening.
The team lay in 53 position with 79 km done
On the individual list I am currently in 61 position.
All in all 2088 teams are participating meaning that 11539 people are walking around with a tiny box at their hip.
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Eurovision song contest
Once up on a time there was only one program and I found it interesting. This show lost my attention when SVT decided that it was a show that was going to travel to several cities. That was a few years ago and they are still doing that. This year it has apparently been a duel between songs and from each program 2 songs have gone directly and 2 to a “second chance”. I haven’t seen one of them but I decided to watch the final yesterday as it would probably be a subject discussed at work tomorrow.
I do admit the quality and variation of songs were surprisingly good and I did enjoy it. (ouch that hurt to admit) The two top songs were also my favourite which is also a surprise. They were both different towards the others songs. So who won?
A very famous opera singer called Marlena Ernman! Her song was a combination of opera and pop. The bad news today is that she already has an appointment that day! What? Don’t they check things like this before competing?
Nr 2 said in the paper today that she was happy that she didn’t win since her record company is so small that if they had won they would have gone broke. Why bother to take part in the competition? I know, the publicity for the song and company.
I do admit the quality and variation of songs were surprisingly good and I did enjoy it. (ouch that hurt to admit) The two top songs were also my favourite which is also a surprise. They were both different towards the others songs. So who won?
A very famous opera singer called Marlena Ernman! Her song was a combination of opera and pop. The bad news today is that she already has an appointment that day! What? Don’t they check things like this before competing?
Nr 2 said in the paper today that she was happy that she didn’t win since her record company is so small that if they had won they would have gone broke. Why bother to take part in the competition? I know, the publicity for the song and company.
Me again - Stella
I decided to write tonight again. Mummy forgot to close the laptop, hihi. She never does that when she leaves me alone anymore, wonder why?
Today she decided that we should try some new road to the forest. I guess that it would have been alright if she had known which way we were going to take. She didn’t. She had a map and yet we walked the wrong way. She blamed it on the map as it didn’t show where the path went. O boy! Blaming a piece of paper!
Anyway we did get to the forest. Now she took out the map again and told me that there were several roads that we hadn’t walked and that we should try. She said I might see something interesting. So we start walking along a snowy road. I tell you – no cars had gone down that road for a long time. As I guessed mummy didn’t let me go where the interesting stuff was. She pulled me back on to the so called road. After a while we reached a stop but a small path done by other dogs with their mums and dads. We started on it but mummy got the shivers and decided that we should turn back and take our usual way. She chickened out! This time it wasn’t the maps fault, this time she blamed the weather and it was getting darker and she didn’t want to walk in the forest when it got dark. Promised we would try the road some other time. Not sure I believe it though.
Opps, she is returning. Talk to you later.
Today she decided that we should try some new road to the forest. I guess that it would have been alright if she had known which way we were going to take. She didn’t. She had a map and yet we walked the wrong way. She blamed it on the map as it didn’t show where the path went. O boy! Blaming a piece of paper!
Anyway we did get to the forest. Now she took out the map again and told me that there were several roads that we hadn’t walked and that we should try. She said I might see something interesting. So we start walking along a snowy road. I tell you – no cars had gone down that road for a long time. As I guessed mummy didn’t let me go where the interesting stuff was. She pulled me back on to the so called road. After a while we reached a stop but a small path done by other dogs with their mums and dads. We started on it but mummy got the shivers and decided that we should turn back and take our usual way. She chickened out! This time it wasn’t the maps fault, this time she blamed the weather and it was getting darker and she didn’t want to walk in the forest when it got dark. Promised we would try the road some other time. Not sure I believe it though.
Opps, she is returning. Talk to you later.
It started so well
This day started so beautiful. The sky was clear blue, no wind, the snow was glittering and the sun was actually warm. It was spring in the air. People smiled. Stella was at her best. Well … that was until we were heading home. She constantly finds new ways to stall. Today it was coughing. This afternoon was pretend to pee.
This afternoon the weather turned. It got grey, damp and the fog got thicker and lower for every step we took. And so did my mood, not to mention the dog owners and joggers we met in the park. To make it even worse the lovely sun had melted a lot ice so it was wet and muddy.
I guess that this just shows how important the weather is for ones well being.
This afternoon the weather turned. It got grey, damp and the fog got thicker and lower for every step we took. And so did my mood, not to mention the dog owners and joggers we met in the park. To make it even worse the lovely sun had melted a lot ice so it was wet and muddy.
I guess that this just shows how important the weather is for ones well being.
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Pang!!!
“And first team leaving the starting line is from Carema Rehab. They are pulsing through the snow towards Prague…. Will they make it? Ouch! The first fall! How many victims will the icy road claim? Whew, she quickly up on her feet again, catching up what she lost.” :)
Tomorrow the walking competition starts. Starting point is Malmö with Trelleborg as the next city. And 606 km later we will arrive in Prague. My competitive comrades and, I have to admit even myself, have tested the step counters. I know for instance that Stella’s and my long winter time walk is about 13 200 steps. I do, on a day that I sit a lot or drive to my patients, about 10 000 steps etc. I get to convert my 105 minutes of yoga every Wednesday into 60 steps/minute. I am in good faith that I shall make it to Prague if nothing happens the next three months. I’m sad to say that one of us is not taking part in this. I tried to convince her by saying that we do a lot of walking at work and she didn’t need to do any more but no. :(
So these legs are made for walking ….
Tomorrow the walking competition starts. Starting point is Malmö with Trelleborg as the next city. And 606 km later we will arrive in Prague. My competitive comrades and, I have to admit even myself, have tested the step counters. I know for instance that Stella’s and my long winter time walk is about 13 200 steps. I do, on a day that I sit a lot or drive to my patients, about 10 000 steps etc. I get to convert my 105 minutes of yoga every Wednesday into 60 steps/minute. I am in good faith that I shall make it to Prague if nothing happens the next three months. I’m sad to say that one of us is not taking part in this. I tried to convince her by saying that we do a lot of walking at work and she didn’t need to do any more but no. :(
So these legs are made for walking ….
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Conference
Thursday I went to a conference in Stockholm that was about Dementia. My morning started at four since I had to have breakfast and take Stella for a walk before boarding the train at 7. And I didn’t enter my front door until 7.30 pm. A long day!
I went to last year’s conference and it was so good that when I saw the program I knew I just had to go. Several of the papers where about the testing equipment I have and it’s always interesting to find out what the latest studies say about them. We were also the first to hear about a study that had just finished at the end of February. It was about Lewy Body dementia. Just think of Don Quixote and you will a good picture of that type of dementia. Beside Frontal dementia (change of personality) I think that must be the worst type as your physic also is affected and before the dementia affects you.
Something that hit me was that I have probably worked to long in this business as I knew several of the medical firms represent that were their. I know it is nice to meet them but I almost go a déjà vu from a few weeks ago when I went to the homepage education and I was the one who was an inventory with my 8 years in the company. Any way the medical firms had plenty of candy and I did some information and material I needed.
It’s probably a bad thing to say but I really enjoy my work that involves the investigation concerning if a person has dementia or if it is something else.
I went to last year’s conference and it was so good that when I saw the program I knew I just had to go. Several of the papers where about the testing equipment I have and it’s always interesting to find out what the latest studies say about them. We were also the first to hear about a study that had just finished at the end of February. It was about Lewy Body dementia. Just think of Don Quixote and you will a good picture of that type of dementia. Beside Frontal dementia (change of personality) I think that must be the worst type as your physic also is affected and before the dementia affects you.
Something that hit me was that I have probably worked to long in this business as I knew several of the medical firms represent that were their. I know it is nice to meet them but I almost go a déjà vu from a few weeks ago when I went to the homepage education and I was the one who was an inventory with my 8 years in the company. Any way the medical firms had plenty of candy and I did some information and material I needed.
It’s probably a bad thing to say but I really enjoy my work that involves the investigation concerning if a person has dementia or if it is something else.
Sunday, 1 March 2009
My turn
While mummy is looking at the TV I decided to give this a try. I hate this machine, when mummy sits by it she always says that she needs to use both hands. I really don’t know why. I use one paw and have no problems at all.
I am going to tell you all about today. First of all it takes forever to get mummy up. I mean I started just after she turned of the clock radio and I had to try several times until it at least had gone 2 hours. I’m nice to her when I try to wake up, I guess that is why it takes so long. Perhaps I should bite her instead or make her bed?
When I finally got up she had the nerve to sit by the computer for a while. Hey!! I wanted to go out and check what had happened during the night. It took her forever to get dress. I really can’t understand why she has to have so many things on her. Today it was only -15. Ok, I admit it was cold and I got some cramps in my back legs. Mummy helped me loosen them up and blew some warm air on my paws.
I looked for my bird friends but they weren’t playing in the stream today. I guess it was too cold for them too. I saw them yesterday, they tease me by flying just in front of me. I nearly did catch a wild duck when mummy looked another way though. In the forest I got the trace of something wonderful, a wild animal. I even saw where it had walked but mummy held my leash too hard for me to run off. That is one thing I haven’t understood since I came here. I could help her, see to we have some nice meat at home, I’m trained for it but does she let me? No, she just takes a harder hold on my leash, sometimes she even pulls me some other direction. If I only wore a collier instead of a harness!
Sometimes I don’t like her. That’s when I can scent or see a handsome male. What’s the purpose of being in the heat if I can’t get to meet a male? Fabian preferred mummy last time I saw him, just because she has biscuits in her pockets. Oskar is too old these days and I haven’t seen him for a while. The other males around here are so small. Today I saw a berner sennen and a flat coated retriever. They were both really handsome. The other evening there was a nice tollare (don’t know what they are called in English) in my park. Mummy just embarrasses me by telling their people that I’m in the heat.
We have had a calm day. I like it when I know where I have my mummy. She has been sawing. I like that because when I go to get a cuddle she puts it aside. That is why I would never do anything to her sewing. This thing however I do not like.
We have been for walks. When we got home after our evening walk she made some dinner for us but I didn’t like what she gave me. Well, I do like chicken, just not today. I’ll just chew on my “chew” and my bone.
Tomorrow when mummy is at work I hope she forgets to close the lid of this think. Then I can play with it again. Just wonder which keys I’m going lift up this time?
Better go now, looks like mummy wants to go out for a pee before bedtime.
Stella
I am going to tell you all about today. First of all it takes forever to get mummy up. I mean I started just after she turned of the clock radio and I had to try several times until it at least had gone 2 hours. I’m nice to her when I try to wake up, I guess that is why it takes so long. Perhaps I should bite her instead or make her bed?
When I finally got up she had the nerve to sit by the computer for a while. Hey!! I wanted to go out and check what had happened during the night. It took her forever to get dress. I really can’t understand why she has to have so many things on her. Today it was only -15. Ok, I admit it was cold and I got some cramps in my back legs. Mummy helped me loosen them up and blew some warm air on my paws.
I looked for my bird friends but they weren’t playing in the stream today. I guess it was too cold for them too. I saw them yesterday, they tease me by flying just in front of me. I nearly did catch a wild duck when mummy looked another way though. In the forest I got the trace of something wonderful, a wild animal. I even saw where it had walked but mummy held my leash too hard for me to run off. That is one thing I haven’t understood since I came here. I could help her, see to we have some nice meat at home, I’m trained for it but does she let me? No, she just takes a harder hold on my leash, sometimes she even pulls me some other direction. If I only wore a collier instead of a harness!
Sometimes I don’t like her. That’s when I can scent or see a handsome male. What’s the purpose of being in the heat if I can’t get to meet a male? Fabian preferred mummy last time I saw him, just because she has biscuits in her pockets. Oskar is too old these days and I haven’t seen him for a while. The other males around here are so small. Today I saw a berner sennen and a flat coated retriever. They were both really handsome. The other evening there was a nice tollare (don’t know what they are called in English) in my park. Mummy just embarrasses me by telling their people that I’m in the heat.
We have had a calm day. I like it when I know where I have my mummy. She has been sawing. I like that because when I go to get a cuddle she puts it aside. That is why I would never do anything to her sewing. This thing however I do not like.
We have been for walks. When we got home after our evening walk she made some dinner for us but I didn’t like what she gave me. Well, I do like chicken, just not today. I’ll just chew on my “chew” and my bone.
Tomorrow when mummy is at work I hope she forgets to close the lid of this think. Then I can play with it again. Just wonder which keys I’m going lift up this time?
Better go now, looks like mummy wants to go out for a pee before bedtime.
Stella
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