Grooming, Mani/Pedicure, House showing

Started my day at the gym as usual. Worked and then worked out. Then i dropped Razberry off at the groomers for his haircut and bath. He looks sooo good after its done, and you can tell that he feels soo much better. Then I went and did manicure and deluxe pedicure. I love doing mani/pedicures, it feels soo great. Right when I was done my phone rang, and it was my leasing agent that wanted to show the house, already geeeezzz. So I rushed home and cleaned up the house real quick, and then I took the dogs with me and we went for a ride in the car while she was showing it. I don't know what they thought about the house, but its the first one so its not the end of the world. I'm excited tho that someone was interested so fast, and I'm emotional that someone else is gonna live in our house. But its all for the better and I really miss LA.

Look at the pics of Razberry before and after.

Love and Peace

Eva

Big, fat, hairy butt and on CD

Den storsta spindeln jag nagonsin sett ute i det fria, var ute o promenerade pa grannens tomt.

HERRA MIN DAG, Jag sag precist den storsta spindeln jag nagonsin sett ute i vilda naturen, en san man bara ser pa zoo. Den var jatte harig, STOR o svart. Nar jag var 3 hus bort sa sag jag den fortfarnde promenera pa en av mina grannars tomt. Fy vad det var ackligt, onska att jag hade haft en kamera med mej. Mannen som bodde i huset kom presict hem nar jag stod o titta pa den sa han kom o titta o blev super chockad. Han hade heller aldrig sett nage liknande ute i det fria, bara pa TV sa han. Han var modig dock o dodade den stackars stora spindeln. Man vet ju aldrig det kan ju vara massa fler runt om. Tur att jag ska flytta!

Facial and eyebrow wax

FACIAL DAY :-) I LOVE IT!!!!!



Today I'm gonna go and get a facial and an eyebrow wax. I LOOOOOVVVEEE facials, afterwards you feel soo clean and fresh and its good for your skin. I try to do it at least once a month.

After that I will go to a warehouse store called Home Depot to buy some more boxes, and some stuff for our fence that need to be repainted to keep its color.

Then I will pack some and study a little. I also have to call the roofing guy, who has not called me back yet. I'm starting to get mad about that, but what can I do, keep calling or get another roofing company.

Today its raining here, and its really nice. Only around 80F degrees (25C), and its wonderful.
Of course I worked out this morning, that goes without saying, and my tip today is:
Try to do at least 30 min a day of some sort of aerobic/endurance exercises. Its good for your heart, blood pressure, cholesterol and of course your waistline. If you have time I would shoot for 45 min to 1 hr, but at least 30 min.



LOVE AND PEACE TO YOU ALL
EVA

My house is for Lease

My house is now officially for Lease, I cant believe it. I'm happy, excited, nervous and anxious all at the same time. It can be rented out fast or it can take time, but now I need to have everything ready for the move just in case someone want to move in really quick. So now I need to really start packing, calling moving companies, fixing the fence, the roof etc etc...... Now I need to do a schedule of what I should do every day. When I get overwhelmed I never know where to start and then I do nothing instead. So a schedule it is!

My tip: Take a yoga class when you feel overwhelmed, to relax and think about something else for a minute.

I love you House, but its time to leave :-(

LA here we come :-) soooon!

Love and peace

Eva

Getting Ready

Tomorrow our leasing agent will come to take a look at our house and take pictures, to then put it out on the market. Wow its really happening! So cleaning and yard work is on the schedule today, and then a little pool with my nephews, that spent the night last night, in between the cleaning and yardwork.

Midsommar Fest

Oh herre min dag!

I ended up going to a midsummer party last night in Uptown Dallas, and I ate way tooo much Swedish food and had a little to much wine. I nearly never drink so 2 glasses of wine and a black licorice shot is enough. I came home at 1 am, wayyy over my bed time I usually go to bed at 9pm. (I know I'm like a grandma, but I like it.) Then for some weired reason I woke up at 4am and I could not go back to sleep, so I have been up since then now. I am very tired and I really need to take a nap.

I trained my client this morning and then I had to take Razberry to the vet, again. Now I'm home and I will take a nap and then probably go swim 20 laps and then suntan. We'll see how I feel when I wake up. Ohhh and I can't miss USA play Ghana at 2pm. I'm rooting for Ghana GO GHANA GO!!!!!!

Here is some pics from last night.

Just so you guys know, the girl in the short curly hair, Jessica, that is Dirk Nowitzkis (The Dallas Maverics NBA player) girlfriend :-)

Love and Peace

Eva

Glad Midsommar

GLAD MIDSOMMAR till alla Svenskar!!!!!!

Happy Midsummer to all swedish people.
Its midsummer in Sweden today and that means lots of celebration, good food and drinks. Kids dance around a homemade tree (called midsommar trad, sorry I dont know how to translate that) with flowers on it (its like a big cross with flowers on it) and all the girls have flowers in there hair too.
So party all night for grown ups and party all day for the kids. Summer is here!!!!!!! :-)

Love and Peace
Eva

Nephew day

Today I have had a day with my nephews. We have been to the movies, the park and the playground, gamestop (a game store), central market and we have had lunch, soon we gotta go and eat snowcones. They are all excited and loves to have auntie Eva time :-)

OHHH and guess what, it rained like 10 minutes today, and I was in heaven. I wonder how you can be so excited to see rain, but when you haven't had it for a long time, and is in 100F degree (40 C) weather all the time you loooovvvveee it!

Love and Peace

Eva

My Tuesday

Today was an hour weight class and then yoga. I haven't done yoga in a while so it was time to do it. If you haven't tried it yet it is a good variation to do for strenght and flexibility.

Then I dropped off Razberry for dental cleaning an ear cleaning. Yep we do that to here in America. Maybe you do that in Sweden to, what do I know. Now Razberrys teeth's and ears are clean and fresh! :-)

I also went shopping, fixing in the yard, a little packing and of course I walked an hour at night.

Ok that was my day today.

Good Night I'm gonna go to bed now.

Love and Peace

Eva

My New Pet

My New pet i found in our backyard this morning. He was under the water hose, I think he was thirsty in this 100 degree weather. I gave him some lettuce and some more water he could swim in, but decided that I cant keep him so I took him on my "spade" and put him behind our fence where its water and a lot of wildlife going on. Its a lot of free turtles here in Dallas, you can see them on the streets sometimes, and some of them are huge. This one was cute and little tho! :-)

Love and peace

Eva

I love my Smoothies

Today i had a great workout at the gym. I did 30 minutes of endurance training with my client, then I did 1 hr of weight training with myself and after that I did an hour of spinning. Then I went to the pool and suntanned for about an hour. I feel great now!

When I came home I did my morning protein smoothie that I always do and LOVE. I make it with strawberry, half banana, blueberries, raspberries, protein powder, almond milk and ice. It is full of antioxidants, nutrition and protein and its a great smoothie after a hard workout. All the fruit I use in the summer time are always fresh.

Now I'm gonna shower and then go to the library and study for a few hours. I have a big test I need to take before we move back to LA, so its just to STUDY STUDY STUDY!!!!!

Love and peace

Eva

Congratulation Princess Victoria

CONGRATULATION to the Crown Princess of Sweden, it was a beautiful wedding!

So today was the wedding of the Swedish Princess Victoria and her fiance, "The Personal Trainer" Daniel. I watched it online and it was sooo nice.

So yes, the Princess of Sweden got married to her Personal trainer, how great is that. It's hopes for us trainers to LOL.

So the last few days I haven't done anything special. I have spent a lot of time with my neighbor. I was there last night and we had dinner and watched 2 movies, and this morning we went to a Mexican restaurant for Brunch.

I have also been to kickboxing, walked my dogs, washed my car. I have found the cheapest car wash ever. $3 car wash and free vacuums, try to beat that :-)

Peace and Love

Eva

Strenght Endurance Training

GYYYYMMMMM!!!!! TRANA!!!!!!!!! WORKING OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm on the way to the gym, I'm gonna do my favorite class "Strenght Endurance Training", with my favorite instructor Gina. She is also one of the Personal trainers at 24 hr Fitness, and her classes are sooo great and really hard, and I love it. Strength Endurance Training is a mixture of weight training and spurts of endurance exercises. Its a total body workout and you focus on all the major muscle groups, (Legs, Chest, Back, Biceps, Triceps, Shoulders and Abs) and in between the weight lifting you do 3 minutes of really hard cardio spurts.

So let me explain more in detail: 3 min of squats (legs), 3 min of endurance, 3 min of chest, 3 min endurance, 3 min of back, 3 min endurance, 3 min lunges(legs), 3 min endurance, 3 min biceps, 3 min endurance, 3 min triceps, 3 min endurance and then ABS at the end. Of course we do warm up and cool down for a couple of minutes too, and shoulders are usually mixed in to the endurance spurts.
You are drained in sweat after, and you will fell awesome when its done. :-)
This is an great way of building lean muscles and burn a lot of fat, so try it!

Love and Peace
Eva

Blank

Today I'm blank in my head. I have nothing to write.

Hmmm lets think, I have been to the movies with my friend Christina. Now I'm waiting for a roof contractor to come to get a second opinion on our roof and I'm also doing laundry.

I miss my husband a lot, I haven't seen him for 3 weeks now and it wont be until another 2 weeks until I see him again :-( He is in Stamford Connecticut working on a new TV-show called the "The big C". He will be there until September so its a long way to go, but I have to prepare for the move. So I do have lots to do, but I do wish I could go to Sweden to at least be around my family for a few weeks when he is gone, but I have no idea what to do with my 3 dogs for so long. So I need to continue think about that to see how i can resolve that. All together now, Tommy and I have been at different places for 7 months already, within the last 10 months. That is one of the reasons why we decided to move back to Los Angeles. Its always TV and movies going on there, so he could always work there, not so much in Dallas. Of course im not gonna lie, I LOVE LA!!!!!!!!!

Love and Peace

Eva

Pool, Sprouts and my car

So the day started as usual at the gym. Then our insurance company came to our house to check out our roof. We had a hail storm last year (and when I mean hail storm I mean grapefruit size hail, BIG hail) and a lot of people in our area had to change there roofs. We have not had any problems, but its better to be on the safe side. He said we had very little damage so we don't have to be worry. We gonna have some roof contractors to come over anyway, because of course the insurance company will say that we dont have any damage. They don't want to pay for it, in other words.

After that I decided to go to the pool because its hot, of course what else is new. It was great, I got burned and I went for a swim in the lap pool too. Only 10 laps, but better than nothing :-)

On Wednesdays my favorite Farmers Market SPROUTS have items on sale from last weeks sale and the coming weeks sale, so Wednesdays is the day to go there, which I did. Ended up with Raspberry's, Greek yogurt, fresh mixed nuts and cherries. YUM!

Then it was time for the car, I went to the Chrysler place and had a tune up, (oil change and tire rotation). So now my car is happy too. On Friday it will get a bath too :-)

So my tip of the day is: Vary your training every couple of weeks with different sorts of exercises, like swimming and weight training for a few weeks and then switch to spinning, running and weight training for another couple of weeks. Then you can of course ad in more exercises like kickboxing and circuit training at any time. Your body will get confused and burn more fat and build muscles faster.

Love and peace

Eva

Lunch with my neighboor

Today after my workout in the morning it was such California weather, so when I came home I took Razberry for a walk. It was actually a little cool, like 75-80F (25C) degrees and it rained at night so it was wonderful.

Then I finished the cleaning of the house, which takes me 2 days to do, but now it looks great again. I love when my house is cleaned, it feels so much better evertime. I wish I had someone who could come like every 3 days to clean it for me :-)

Then I had invited my neighboor with her son over for lunch, and we had: whole wheat pasta sallad with ham and homemade garlicdressing. Super good, then we went for snowcones (shaved ice with a flavor, I had blue coconut with pinacolada) for my first time ever. I'm not an american as you can tell, kids here grow up on snowcones.

My Tip: Go for whole wheat pasta instead of regular. A lot healthier for you and a lot more nutrition in it, and I think it taste the same.

So on the pictures is some parts of my clean house that I love, and our lunch for the day. Sorry one picture ended up twice, oops.

Love and peace

Eva

Morning workouts

Its 6.35 am, im on the way to the gym. first to train my client, then my upper body will get the workout today.

Its no excuse not to exersise, so if you dont have time to go during the day or you are to tired to go after work. Get your butts out of bed early :-)
If you put your workout clothes right next to the bed, shoes and all, and the first thing you do in the morning is just to get upp, put on your workout clothes, and then just go. You are more likely to go to the gym than if you wait til later on.
Just a little advise that I have noticed works for a lot of people incl me. I go in the morning everyday and it really works. So get up early, its the nicest part of the day anyway. Its quiet and relaxing.

Oki thats my tip for now. Now I gotta run, so my client dont have to wait.

Love and pieace
Eva

Monday, NOT Fun-day

So another day, not much fun thats happening.

I have trained my client and then I went to a weight class myself. Came home and started to clean, and that is never fun.

Its very hot here in Dallas, 95-97 F degrees and im dying. I usually love when its hot, but seriously 4 month of this weathher with no break from it is not fun. I want 75-85 F degrees all year around, not 30F in the winter or 120F degrees in the summer like it is here.

Ok no more complaining, but I just hate it!

A few weeks ago my mom was here from Sweden and we went to NYC so I want to share a few pictures of when we were there. Just some fun memories that I want to share.

My tip for today: drink at least a bottle of 8 oz water before your workout, then one during and two right after, then plenty more througout the day. Make sure you don't get dehydrated especially in the summer time!.

Love and Peace Eva

Relaxing Sunday

Today turned out to be a relaxing day. I just watched TV shows and slept. The only good thing I did was my regular evening walk with the dogs. It usually takes me about 2 hrs to walk them because I take two dogs for one route and the oldest (Razberry) for another.
I have to say one thing that I really dislike with Dallas is this weather. It is sooo hot all day long so you cant start walking until around 7.30-8 o clock, and then its still around 93 F (30C) degrees.
I'm sooo looking forward to move back to Los Angeles, and I want it to happen now, but I have to patient as my husband Tommy says. In some cases I just cant be patient, espesially not in this weather.

The picture below is me and my mom walking Razmus and Busch, above is Razberry and Tommy

Now im gonna go to bed, tomorrow I have to go up at 6.30am to train my client and then workout myself after that.

Good Night
Love and Peace
Eva

My alarmclock, "Busch"

Good Morning, even if i have been up for 3 hrs already its still morning, because its only 10 oclock. It does not matter if it is sun, mon or tue I always wake up early. Sometimes not because I have to or want to, but because my little dog Busch wakes me up by licking me on my face at the lates 7am every day. I love him soo much so I cant get mad at him, so I always just go up and take him out and then feed him. I have two more dogs, Razberry 13 years and Razmus 2 years. They are my life and i could not live without them. If I put it in other words, they are my children.

So today, sunday, is the day I take off from going to the gym. You need at least one day or two per week to rest your muscles, and my muscles are sooo sore today so I really have too take off. I have already been to the grocery store and the rest of the day Im just gonna rest and watch an OLD Swedish TV show called "Svenska Hjartan" (Swedish hearts). My mom sent me the whole series on DVD so its just to buckle up infront of the TV in my mediaroom and watch it for a few hours, because I slept soo bad last night and im very tired.

I hope all of you have a great sunday

Love and Peace

Eva

So I decided to start a Blog :-)

Hello everybody, I dont know what have gotten into me but I wanted to start blogging.
So here I am!
I'm a Swedish girl living in the USA. I have lived here for 10 years now, and I feel its time to share a little of my life here. I have lived all over, LA, NYC, Albuquerque, Dallas, Pittsburgh, the longes was in Los Angeles where I lived 7 years. Currently I spend most of my time in Dallas but I will move back to LA within 3 months, and that will be for good to seddle down.
My passion is Fitness and Health, so I will share alot of that.
I will be blogging in Swedish and English so whoever wants to read can follow me.

Now im gonna try to figure out how I can put picture into this blog.

Talk to you all later
Love and peace
Eva