THE MOVE 8!

The Move 8 Merry Christmas everyone! Have you been good this year? I know I have tried to. And that is all that matters, right? The though… I mean if my plan was to play with a dog, but I ended up kicking a hedgehog, you should focus on the thaught: ”playing with dog”. Right? Other nice things I have done is washing ALL our laundry. The fact that I only do that like ones a year does´nt matter. Mattias is the one who usually does our laundry (and I clean the house! Every three months…) but he has been busy working with Singing in the rain again (they have their new premiere on february 4th) so then I washed 6 loads of clothes! So again: Focus on ”Hanna washed 6 loads” and not ”once a year”. Do you get my christmas-strategy? Act nice and your sock will be full of goodies, and if you are too honest your sock will be filled with dirty laundry and hedgehog-poo. We are busy-bees like always; we have been in germany, france, and germany again, and we did a performance at Cirkus (next to Skansen) in Stockholm. The show was great and Harlem hot shots was in it and the FABOLOUS trio from Singing in the rain (Hanna, Kalle and Rennie) and also the popular boy-band E.M.D. Germany was great as always. We spent a lot of time with our sweeaty ;) sweetie friends Ester and Bernd and they taught us to play bridge. And France was a great event and we stayed in a supernice hotel and ate the best frensh food you can imagine. Je t'aime gateau!! I have tell you about our round-the-world-journey to stockholm: First 10 hours sydney-bangkok, then 12 hours bangkok-frankfurt, THEN a 6 hour transfer and a small 2 hour-flight to stockholm. Mjau. We have had supergreat hosts this trip, NO complaints at all, but there is just nothing that compares to sinking into your own bed or sofa and just talk to mattias or read a book or watching a movie. A superfun thing about coming home is offcourse cathing up with friends! Me and malin made the streets of stockholm a bit less secure and went to my friend Johans concert (the Soulband- they are so good and has an awesome horn-section). I love lindy hop and the social events and I have had a lot off really good dances during all our trips, but sometimes I need a Saturday where noone will spin me rytmicly at the same time as I´m having my fourth tequila (which only happened once this trip, but still): it is a dangerous mix. In christchurch our friends Tom and Amanda gave us some deliscious brew that almost tasty healthy, don´t remember the name though (hmm, my memory is always short when in contact with tequila, hmm). We are doing a very stress-relieving thing with gifts this year in our family. It makes a lot of sense because we are about 14 people(and then I did not even count my sister Sofias baby) celebrating together. So what we do it that we write everyones names on a piece of paper, throw that in a bowl (I guess it should be a hat, but who cares, right) and then we all draw a name and that is the one we buy something for. And the spending limit is around 40 euros. Great is´nt it? So use my stressfree tricks: 1. Don´t buy soooo many gifts! Even though real love is expressed with expensive gifts ;), it is more important to just spend time together. 2. Alter the truth when it comes to good deeds. Learn to focus on the important parts like ”Hanna plays with dogs and also washed 6 loads” and such. 3. If nothing else works; make yourself a cup of tea and turn off your phone and computer, curl up in a sofa, and just eat a BIG load of chocolate. Happy holidays and give someone a hug today! /Hanna "the tequila-queen" foam-banana and Mat-tiger Lundmark