Waiting...

I have never been a person who have a lot of patience and the ability of waiting for things to happen in my life. I am a "doer" and if I want something I want it now!

But over the years I have learned that some things are worth waiting for and a lady once told me:

Remember: for a thing to happen in YOUR life it might first have to happen in HIS life or HER life. Universe spins around and we are all connected, which means my destiny sometimes need to wait a little to happen, due to things that need to happen in the other persons life that are involved.

As an example I can say that the wait for getting to be the singer in Nightwish showed me how much patience I needed to have and it was really a good lesson to learn;=) 1,5 year of "maybe" and can I get it or not???
But in the end it was all worth the wait and today I try to think that everything comes to me when its time for it.

At the moment I am waiting for something and have waited for quite some time now. Every day I check my email - hoping for THAT email... but nothing yet.

Today might be that day, I really hope so! But if not, I´ll give my patience another round and just continue to look at the email for another week;=)

Crosses, crosses...

I love crosses and I just found some really nice rings and bracelets with crosses on. They all are from a brand called JFR.

A really nice double finger ring.

A big silver ring that is big as the whole finger!

The same with this black, as big as the whole finger. This is my favourite;=)

Motivation

Good day everyone;=)

Today I have had a really tired and un-motivated morning for going up on the tread mill and do my intervalls. A bad sleepless night again and some tired muscles made me lie down in the couch again and sleep for one more hour. When I woke up I was so close to saying; I wont do it today!

But thanks to having a great exercising partner in Johan and also my own motivation, made me push myself up and did the workout. It was so hard and I felt so many times that I should quit etc, but when that happened I pushed myself a litle bit more and told my mental self that its only a few more minutes left etc.

And I did it. I survived. I feel good. I feel strong and proud of myself;=)

Many years ago I would never had been that motivated or stubborn to fullfill it like I have done the last years. When I was younger I was quite lazy and hated to run. Every time in school when we were having outdoor running, I ran a little bit and then faked an astma attack to just be able to skip the running;=)

But all over the years I have started to "long" for being able to run cause the people that run seem to looks so content while doing it and after being one of those that run nowadays, I agree. I love to run, even if some days are like today, harder and not so fun.

What I want to say with all this is that some of you ask me how I can get so motivated to do this day after day and its because I have learned that I need to exercise to feel good. My mood and my body need it. I feel so much happier inside, I can handle stress better, I sing better, I am a much better mum cause I have the strength to play with my kids etc. And I also love to have a strong and lean body and for me, that means that I need to keep it in shape since I am getting older and the metabolism and the organs slow down.

And not everyone love to run, but then there are so many other exercises to do, like dancing, bicycling, swimming, tennis, squash, volleyball etc.

Johan has started to follow a great app in the Iphone where your goal is to be able to do 100 push ups after following this programme. And there is also an app where your goal is to do 200 sit ups in a row etc. Great stuff out there;=)

Drums

Well good evening everyone and thanks all for being so many to enter the raffle! So fun and I also get really happy to see that guys want to enter;=) Good luck all of you!

Today Seth has tried to play drums for the first time with a really nice and great drummer who were kind enough to take some time and show him a little bit. He will also be Seths drum teacher when we have bought the drums for him;=)

Seth really thought it was so fun and he was really good at keeping the beat so maybe there is a drummer talent in there, who knows?

After the drum lesson, Seth and me went to the music store and tried out a pair of Yamaha d-drums since we cant have a regular drum set, living in an apartment. While there, I bought a new microphone cable and a keyboard cable to my studio equipment. The microphone cable we had was broken, but now we´ll hopefully get some sound going;=)

Now time for some story telling before my weight exercise. Today I do upper body and my stomach;=)

Raffle time!!!

Ok, guys!

It´s time for the raffle now;=)

I have decided that noone needs to "do" anything cause I want everyone to be able to participate and not everyone can draw, write or sing so to enter to win just write in the comments below that you want to win and your name or signature. On sunday, Seth and me will pull the winners randomly and let you know who the lucky ones are;=)

One will win my beautiful Hell Bunny dress that I had on stage in Portugal:


One winner will win this t-shirt and a skirt almost the same as the kilt below:


And a third winner will win a Nightwish Hoodie from Dark Passion Play with this motive in the back
and also a very special edition Nightwish poster signed by us all in the band (very rare and only 500 printed)

I hope to see many participate and if anyone wants the clothes signed I´ll do that of course;)

Studio report;=)

Good afternoon!

So I am home after a fun and good studio session with Niclas where I recorded some harmonies on some of the songs for the new Alyson Avenue album. I recorded 2 videos for you so here we go:

Tired morning

I am so tired after a little bit of a sleepless night. Nemo has teeths coming again and tonight he was up from 4-5.30 so I must say I am quite tired. But I am gonna run now and drink some more coffee before going to Niclas, so let´s hope the voice wants to work with me;=)

I´ll report later, will be back in the late afternoon and tell you how it all worked out.

Enjoy this tuesday!