The cancer is gone

Today: I have been studying all day. I have read about teachers' cultures and forms of collaboration between educators. A lot of fun… haha, NOT. Tomorrow I have to read about quality reporting and the development of school. Great! The weather today has been wonderful. The sun has been shining all day and we have not had to start the fireplace. It is about 12 degrees Celsius PLUS outside. You can really feel that the spring is in the air now even though the snow still is on the ground. I just got back from my evening walk and the sky was covered with stars. It was beautiful!

Yesterday: I studied in the morning and in the afternoon I had a seminar in school. We were talking about the teacher in the post-modern society and all changes in the recent past has led to ever more tasks, the time is not enough to do everything that need to be done etc. Everyone seems to think that teachers has got a great job and get loads of time of during breaks and stuff, but I can tell you that that is NOT the case…

Sunday: I went to Lindås to visit my cousin Erika and her family in the evening. I have not seen the kids in a while now so it was great to see them again. Vendela and I were playing some games and William and I were cuddling a bit. Vendela is 3 years old now and William is 10 months. They are soo sweet! I forgot to bring my camera, so unfortunately I do not have any pictures to share.

Saturday: I cleaned out the garage. There was a lot of stuff there that needed to go to the dump. I vacuumed (like I do every other day) the whole house, dusted, went through all my clothes in the closet, did laundry etc. I cleaned A LOT. Some of Mikes friends came over for some coffee. For dinner I made steak, wedges, green beans and a green pepper sauce. Susan came over around eight and we drank some wine/beer and watched a film (winters bone – Oscar winning film) that was quite boring actually. It was about hillbilly white trash poor people. It was depressing and I do not recommend it. But we still had a nice time and that is the most important thing.

Wilda is not really helping...

Beautiful Susan

Mikes friends

Friday:
Susan and I spent the day studying at her parents’ house. We made some nice veggie lunch and ate waffles. Before I went home I did some food shopping. Mike and I watched a film in the evening.

Thursday: I woke up to the fact that it was snowing AGAIN…I studied most of the day. I went for a nice long power walk (1hr) and watched my favorite show of all times; Eastenders. In the evening at 18.00 I went swimming with Linn. She is pregnant in week 20 now and she is gorgeous.

Wednesday: I was at the university and had a lecture between 10 – 11.30 am. Then I did 2 hours studying at the library. I walked to town (about 20min) and met up with Dad and Karin. We had lunch at Hamnkrogen, a nice restaurant that is situated right next to the see/port. Karin and I bought some sushi take away (to have for dinner later). In the evening Annie came over. We had some coffee and a game of cards. She went home around 21.00 pm, and after that I went for a power walk and then I did 20minutes on my cross trainer machine. I have not used it in over a year. It felt great. I am so motivated now to get into shape and to lose some weight. In October I weighed 63 kg and in 2 months I gained 10 kg (I believe that is a stone and a half) I blame it on the medicine (betapred – cortisone) I have decided that ALL that weight has to go away ASAP. It is just sooo difficult. I love food too much…

Sushi, yumm

Tuesday: Power walk and studying in the daytime. Ida.A came to see me in the evening. We ate some dinner together. I made burritos. We had a cup of tea with some cakes and chatted about everything that has been going an lately. Earlier we let Tequila-cat go outside for a while. She was only out for about 7 minutes and she stayed on the terrace. How sweet is she? Oooo, adorable!

To summarize: Lately I have felt brilliant! I am just so happy because I now realize that the cancer is gone. I have decided not to worry about the fact that I might have a relapse. The doctors have told me that if you do have one, it is mostly common in the first year. But I think that if I did worry about it, I would go insane and drive myself mad and I would not be happy. Instead I look brightly at the future and I love the fact that you cannot predict it.