Sweden is hot ...

Well... i dont want to complain at all.. just tell that at the moment it is really hot here in Arboga.
The temperature is around 30 degrees celcius and that is quiet much for a country like Sweden. Normally I love the heat and the sun and also now... but now it is really challenging since the whole hotel is kind of boiling.

And the backyard is like a desert. I took some minutes off this lunchtime and fell asleep in the sun. Woke up hot and swetty and you know the strange feeling being kind of hit by a truck.

But but .. i improve my tan some and try to enjoy every single minute I can to sit down and relax.

To be honest, I am very tired since I can not sleep during nighttime and at the same time wake up at 0515 .. well.. then you fall asleep when you at least expect it.

And honest again... I don´t care to be tired. Soon I will go for vacation with two of my sons and at that place it will be damn hot. One more week to go.

/ sunny greetings from here

Anna

Charlie 15

My son Charlie celebrated his 15 th birthday on the 20th of June and we did it to a great day.

Together we went to Södermalm for one of the outdoor restaurants and had a super duper nice lunch/ dinner. Afterwards we spent walking down to Skeppsbron to watch all the ships from Volvo Ocean Race. How fascinating these lovely boats. And what a lovely fascinating guy you are Charlie

so.. just good luck . You are a most loveable boy and I love you very much. I know your future is just waiting for you and I am ready to join you on your trip as a curious mother. I am your best supporter and sponsor.

Love and love

Mother.

Summerdays are here - and midsummer already gone

These kind of sunny days in Sweden reminds about how lovely Sweden really is.
You see things from a different view when the sun is shining. And it is shining.

It has been a lovely week midsummer weekend included.

This year I spent midsummer without my kids and it was some strange since I have done that since they were born.

Together with lovely people in Åkersberga I celebrate all day long. We started at one neighbour with the traditional lunch and snaps thing. Great..

Continued at another neighbour with a competition. I teamed up with Tobbe from Skane and we did win the whole thing. Damn... I hate to loose and love to win. The prize was a bottle of champagne and yes.. we drank it immediately of course.

To a third neighbour we were served chilled champagne and Skagen toasts... oh... i love both of it and yes.. at this time I was a bit dizzy.. so when my lovely company brought me two glasses of water I did not say no thank you.

Some hours later ... to the last and fourth neighbour. Barbecue and more to drink.

To be honest, I had one of the nicest midsummer days ever and I laughed almost whole evening and felt both love and happiness flowing.

I guess its about the summer and the sun again. Summerdays are here again.

Love
Anna

17 of June - Happy birthday

So... time for celebration again. Its my 43th birthday and it feels actually great.

Early this morning I got some lovely flowers delivered to the hotel ... damn I was happy.
On the other hand I am not so happy about the sender... who cant tell who it is... and why should somone send flower to me like that?... hm......

I prefer people to be honest if they want to show appreciation. But but... no time for to much thinking. The flowers were to me that was clear.

At 1 o´clock we closed the hotel for one hour and Michael and Susan had arranged a staff birthday lunch at Ågården. So great... and I had a glass of white wine for lunch and that was a great thing as well. ´

Now... working and working. But it is very calm here... so I guess I can continue the celebration during the evening.


But hello... if you read this and if you are the sender of the flowers, please let me know who you are.


/ hugs and greetings from Arboga

Anna

Red Mustang...Sally

So.. finally I got the photos of the rental car in Florida and I need to share.

It was a red, quiet new fancy red Ford Mustang, and it fit me perfect. ( as a coincident I had a red skirt that day... how funny, it looked like it was planned... ) .

When the rental girl administrator handed over the paper, she got a lovely smile on her face and said..

--- I am so happy for you because you willl have a Ford Mustang, look behind you. !

I turned around and just jumped out into it and screamed out loud of happiness. What a car.

I like cars, that is for shure. And even more convertibles. This was the second convertible I have been driven ever. First one was Leifs green frog cruiser ( sorry Leif). ... but you can not compare this.

This Mustang Sally was sent to me and how I enjoyed it . Every minute possible the roof was down.

Cruising in a Red Ford Mustang thrue the lovely Florida , Naples, Fort Meyers, Captiva Island, Tampa and finally Orlando was fantastic.

It was lovely to drive up to the entrance of hotel Walt Disney Dolphin in a convertible, happy, sunny and a great temper.

Oh... I forgot to tell you about my red cowboy hat. I bought it in a vintage shop in Mimai. And since it was quiet windy in the car I put the hat on while driving.

Gosh... what a sight. First of all.. I dont know if I am a cowgirl, secondly..... a cowgirl in a fancy red mustang. ??

The truck driver coming up on the side just stared down in the car. And I vawed. why should I not. If they stare, I stare back.

Good night... I am totally out of control here. Give me energy.

Anna

Friday - rain drops keep falling....

So, back to Sweden and the lovely June weather :-( Friday evening and I am working in the hotel. Almost fully booked and that is great. Uploading my photos from the trip and its more and more obvious why it is good to be in a country with more safe weather, or lets say.. higher temperature at least.

I remember how much I enjoyed the great weather and bike tour in Central Park New York.

I just close my eyes and pretend I am back there.

Have a great Friday.

/ Anna

Prepare for Teamclinic show - How to manage RUP and Scrum - how make it possible and work

So, today is the final preparation before the breakfast meeting with Keyman tomorrow morning where Teamclinic owns and is responsible for the Agenda.

I am stilled very jetlegged and fall asleep as soon as I sit down but anyway, when I am on stage it will be great.

I will do the opening/ Introduction and the retrospective. Annika and Pär will do the Case study and the Strategy parts.

It feels great and I am just starting to get some nervous about it and that is a good sign. If I am not nervous then it will be no nerve or engagement in the talk and that is bad and boring.

I had an interesting chat with my favourite speaker in Orlando and he actually speaks like I do...
like having a conversation. That means I cant read from the lines in the ppt , that is so boring and worthless . Its what is said that is the key and importance.

We will put out the presentation on Teamclinic blog later on and you will realize what we like and that is not to many rows and text in the slides.

Hold ýour thumbs and give us a kick for a great job.

/ Anna

Back in town ...

So back in town. I have to admit, I liked the warm weather better then the Swedish cold 4 degrees when landing.



On the other hand it was warm and lovely to see my boys again.



Yesterday when landing I was like a sleepy ghost on the way back to Arboga. To go back the same day was an even worse nightmare. Had to stop some times as I was so damn tired and jetlegged.



My car was not fixed yet so I had to take another rental car, a new SAAB this time with a great engine and horse power so I should not complain that much.



My boys were so happy about me being safe home and of course of the stuff I bought so yes, they were chocked about my good choices to them... I sat in the sofa watched them and sleeping at the same time....



- mother... you are sleeping.... !! yes... i fell asleep.. standing, sitting and everywere... damn.



This morning I slept over, woke up at812 and the school final started at 8 so you can imagine we had a rush this morning, but we fixed it.

Lucky my son has a great temper and personality so he just jumped into his class on the schoolyard as we were on time and life is wonderful. I was standing there with his father and of course he had to give me some lovely comments on the way... but we laughed like hell together anyway as we just realized that we are a bit of outsiders here in this fancy rich area..

Its just like rock´n roll... and we rock on.

Life is wonderful. And I am tired and satisfied back in Sweden.

I will tell you my US story very soon and add som lovely photos as well, but I have to wait some days until I am back in Arboga again.

Raindrops keep falling on my head.....


/ Anna

Energy from US

So... I have been busy and away some days and not even been able to blog... what a shame. But I will do later on. This is just a very short summar so far and you know what you can expect later on when telling the storys.

- Miami South Beach.... damn, what a nice place. I will definately come back and the buildings, the poeple and the partylife is, and was asume.

- Ford Mustang convertible.... Hey and hello. You can imagine my happiness when picking up the Red brand new fancy Ford Mustang Converible from Hertz to drive up to Orlando...

and also imagine how much I burned by driving open air for a whole day.. so lovely, so fun and what a car.

- Captiva and Sensible Island. ... Mexican Gulf... how lovely... even more sun and swimming in a water that was warmer like .. i dont know.. so great.

- Orlando ... Walt Disney Dolphin Hotel... feels like coming home. I got a great room with two windows all over the resort and two balconies as well.. damn how nice.

- RSDC 2009 ... I am in and on and I have done my presentation yesterday. I will tell you more about it but honest, Vivi and I did great. The audience were stunned and so happy with us. Cool.

- something else.... let me see..

- Party life... as good as ever, except that Pleasure Island at Downtown Disney is closed. How boring.. but we manage anyway and yesterday .. IBM Kelly and I did own the karaokee stage and we did great. The audicenc were stunned to see that we also can sing.. .

[- and the rest.... so good to see people you recognice again and just networking witht a good outcome.

I will be back..


Hugs and energy from a sun burned Anna