Close - Closer - Closest

Godgiven Godson

I was trusted with the task to get dear Håvard to sleep tonight in Emilie's birthday party. I won't say much but nothing warmens my heart more than getting the little 10month-old-treasure to fall asleep on my arm and hear his heavy slow breathing. It wasn't more than a 20min power nap to him, but it restituted me in more ways than one.
Thanks dear nephew - the sweetest, calmest, warmest little thing there is.

I would love to use this other half of the post to continue on the warm embrace of someone else's arms but will leave it by replying to the old "2b or not 2b" that I guess I'll "B" - capital B that is. :)
Thanks for two great weeks and hope to see more of you for a long time.

2008 - images of memories

In the background of this image, but yet I managed to do 2 BJJ matches and 1 Muay Thai-fight, and actually lost them all three. Compared to last year's five wins out of five.
Åsgårdstrand, Edvard Munch loved it and lived there. I too love it
"17-mai" Party @ Papa's place
Blackeyed - thanks Petter (Blue shorts on image below :) )
My Frontline Muay Thai mates photographed in May
Hyttetur with the B&M-girls, lovely!
Coffee with S in "Linkan"
May-fight in Uddevalla against Lars W - a loss, but should rather be a draw in my humble opinion
Adam in A-dam
Easter-trek with H
Tour de Helsingborg with K
Växjö - my second home this spring with 40+ nights at the Stadshotel
Crazy night in Sthlm @ H&C
Skiing with H in Varingskollen, January
Lovely lovely lovely godson
Bruce @ Ullevi - a dream!
Arvika -08, a dream every year!
Crosscountryskiing-madness, December
Go-kart with the colleagues, December
A ray of light
Norwegian summer - it was actually quite nice though
P's couch, a place I love to crash
The co-travellers for Paris - now in Oslo, drinking a summer night away. H&P
And this is for all those crazy Oslo-nights I didn't and shouldn't take pictures of :)
The lovely Oslo-days in summer, beachvolleyball games @ Huk
Malmö, hey Em!
Linkan, hey M
Two summerweeks spent up north with dad
A lovely place - Tarevike. 20 km south of North Cape
New Year's
Christmas @ Mum's
Paris - a great experience!
Shuttertime adventures in Maridalen, Oslo
Interior in the new Opera building
Luxembourg @ H's place
Happy birthday Me!
Trekkers looking morelike aliens
Best Bro' there is
Best Miss B there is
"Østmarka" - a great trek and wonderful photos
"Elvelangs" along Akerselva, had some of this years best photos there
Best niece there is
Best grandpa there is, when I imagine him it's always with a crossword puzzle
Step-grandma Ämlan "playing solitaires 'til dawn with a deck of 51"

Autumn trip with colleagues to Haugastøl
Åsgårdstrand @ B's summer house. A lovely place
Nephew Håvard, a welcome addition
Poolside madness in Uddevalla this summer, my home away from home
Musical Hightlight of the year - Rage @ Hultsfred June

2009 is here to stay

So the Good Old 2008 smoothly transformed into the new and unknown year that is 2009.

What I do know, or at least hope for, is that 2009 will be filled with:

Miss Right - hoping to involve myself in a relationship this year
Friends - will try seeing even more of you all
Lovers - will try getting even more of them :)
Travel the world - in mind as in body
Less drinking then the later half of 2008
...more drinking than the first half of 2008
Some sort of therapeutic examination to check how I am doing
Lasers - pew-pew. Hope to get my eyes fixed a.s.a.p
54 km of skiing in the Birkebeinerrenn
89 km of cycling in the Birkebeinerritt

Blogg less
Read more
Exercise more
Fight less
Ride a horse
Climb a mountain

With this I wish all of you a fabulous start to the New Year!