Blingbling Cowboy back in the Loop

Hat bought in Massa Marittima, Tuscany, bikini H&M

MO:

Coming back from a 2 week long vacation takes a while. And I´m not talking about the travelling. I´m talking about the mindset, the speed of processing things that has got nothing to do with choosing what kind of lunch to eat or where to go for dinner.

I woke up this morning thinking that maybe it was all a dream?

It did feel incredibly good though, to get 35min in the gym lifting heavy weights (deadlifts, squats, overhead squats, presses, cleans and pullups - I was flying!) and sweating it all out. After 14 days on a solid pasta and meat diet, I´m ready to get back into some serious training.

Actually, I crave it.

I used my running gear 4 times whilst away. At 7am in the morning, when the sun still stayed friendly and the temperature landed around 29-30 degrees. Doing no records, but enough to keep my blood circulating and enough to create an appetite...

Answering e-mails and contemplating work stuff now. Off to buy a pair of binoculars before the very spontaneous evening activity, decided only yesterday: PINK in concert.

Have a kickin´afternoon, kids!

Honeys, I´m HOOOOME!

MO:

It has been an amazing two weeks.

The company.

The food.

The wine.

The scenery.

The food.

The ice-cream.

The tiramisu.

The shopping (oh, I´m broke).

The food.

The sunsets.

The history.

As you´ve noticed I´ve had almost no internet coverage for the full two weeks - and hardly any mobile phone signal either...

It´s been bless, actually.

But now, I´m back - and it feels GOOD!

Hope your 2 weeks have been wonderful as well!

The Scenery

The Shopping

The Tiramisu

The food

The wine

The company

The sunsets

The ice-cream

Happy Days

MO:

How many bikinis does it take to make a holiday in Italy?

The right answer: 4.

Hm. Or maybe 5?

At least I´ve limited the shoe collection down to 5 pairs and I think that is a personal best!

My packing for private trips is very much different (organized!) from my packing for work (ohhh, chaotic!) - and I actually started to write lists and stack clothes (Robin´s) in neat piles on Tuesday already.

We´re spending almost 2 weeks in two different places in Tuscany - the first place is close to Florence and the other little paradise is in the south of Tuscany, close to the sea.

On our last 3 days we will brave the heat and do ROMA - one of my favourite cities in the world!

YEEEEY!

Please excuse me for not being able to do regular blog posts for the next two weeks.

I´ll be back for regular posts from July 23, until then:

Ps. I WILL be here now and again of course, just to check out how you´re doing...

Holidaaaay, Celebraaaate

MO:

On Thursday PARADISE awaits...

1st stop:

"As soon as you leave the main road of Valdarno turning up in S.Ellero, you start getting the countryside scenarios of Tuscany. Just after the last small cottages of Donnini village, Villa Pitiana sparkles of elegant yellow in the wood landscape. The countryside around the villa is dotted with yellow, the colours of the Roman camomile, yarrow and dandelion flowers: their colours and scents crown the other plants sweetening the strict green colour of the large woods of the property climbing up the mountain till reaching the Pratomagno edge.

Pitiana's beauty and charm open a door to the past. The villa still retains the articulated architecture of a millenary history, from the foundation as a fortified farm, to the utilisation as Benedectine monastery and eventually to the conversion in nobleman elegant Villa in the IXth century – lately revised in to a tourist residence. Architecture, decorations and furniture maintain memory of flowing of ages and styles."

Smokin´ HOT

MO:

I´m not sure what happened, but when 2009 went into 2010, SOMETHING definitely happened. This year has just begun and it´s ROCKIN´, SMOKIN´HOT already!
There are so many things in the pipeline, that I´m not sure where to begin...
There are so many fun things going down, I unfortunately had to say no to Workout Åre AGAIN this year, since I´m already booked in Copenhagen that weekend...

As you know darling JOJO is on loan to Veckorevyn for 8 weeks, but she has promised to stay true to all you MOJO-readers as well.

Now, on Saturday I will be able to tell you big news no 1. Yes, BIG NEWS and actually quite AMAZING news if you live in Gothenburg or visit here often and love Yoga.

And hopefully by next Monday, I´ll be able to give you the inside on exactly what is happening on October 4- Oct 11...Let´s just say that anybody who wants some MOJO-magic should really mark those dates in their calendars.

Focus this week? NIKE NORWAY.
Travelling on Friday.
Teaching Spinning, Yoga & Kettlebell Saturday-Sunday. Always a fun event, always a pleasure.
Interesting meeting Friday evening. A HUGE project for 2011.
Could be something, could be nothing.
If it turns out to be something - you´ll be the first to know.

Ps. For those of you a little bit more curious than others: Everything will be revealed ahead of schedule on Twitter... ;)

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Unless... We get a little

CRAZY

Last couple of days...

Let me tell you I AM PROUD :)

Feels like I've done it for REAL this Christmas! You know - they way you're frieds tell you that they do it, and you can read in EXPRESSEN that that's how everybody DOES IT!

Looks something like this:

• Christmas Eve - Well, still in an Andersson kindaof way, everybody runing around doing their own thing until Kalle Anka comes along on the telly... and THEN we eat the FIRST Christmas Food ever at around 7pm. Followed by a maraton of christmas gifts being unwrapped until 1am... then Mom takes out the risalamalta and we sit in the sofa eating it til around 3am
• Day after: I DID IT! I finally made it out on this day where it seems like EVERYONE in EVERY small town/big city decides that it is a PARTY night - WHY??! Anyhow - one of my OLDEST friends finally got me out - and WHOPA: Tages in LA was a sight :) I never stand in line, waiting to get into a place, or spend as much money as when I go out in LA (Landskrona). But hey - I did get to see a lot of old familiar faces and it was FUN dancing the night away to football/Hockey/Skånska songs (I think you can call them songs...)
• Day after the day after: I ALWAYS wake up EARLY - Why? Went to bed 5:30am and woke up super duper at 8:30am - WHY?! Bro wanted to look at some MONSTER Speakers in the city of LUND so I joind him in the MADNESS of the HOLIDAY SALE.... Ended up with a new office set of APPLE Computers for 40 000 sek - Congratulations JIRA :)
• Day after the day after the day after: Starting to get the hang of sleeping til noon -  YUM! Soon f to MALMÖ to check out my French Cusins NEW Bakery/Boulangeri :) And then a LOVELY Fika with gorgeous Anna Key before HELL will brake lose as we take over SATS ans team teach a BODYPUMP!!! - What do you say - my second BODYPUMP this year (my first one was Monday before Christmas :)

R you enjoying your HOLIDAY ? Or are you starting to long back to "reality"? 

- If so GET A GRIP of yourself and learn to RELAXE!!!!

Love Jo

But we're never gonna survive, unless... 

We get a little crazy 

- SEAL ;)

Right here Right now

MO:

I let the photograph speak for itself.
+1 and slush puppie in Gothenburg. Guess where I´d rather be right now?

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Monnaber Nou

MO:

Back home! Which is always good, always a pleasure. Isn´t that a true privilege? To be able to travel to beautiful, fairytale like, magical places and yet, when you step through your door at home, your heart skips an extra beat. I know I´ve said it before, but home is where the heart is...
However, I can truly and honestly recommend Monnaber Nou to anyone who appreciates stunning views, gorgeous food, great service and a quiet, romantic surrounding...

Monnaber Nou

The view from the restaurant...

The main building and its surroundings...

The view from our bathroom window!

The food!...

...recommended by the Guide Michelin...

Robin being taken by the olive trees and beautiful surroundings on an afternoon walk

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Holiday Groove

MO:

We are in this fairytale place called Monnaber Nou right by the highest mountains in Mallorca.
The food is exquisite, the service 5star and the place is magical. I will post some photos later.
We (the little family) is hanging, taking each day as it comes and exploring the island by rental car. Robin has never slept better and P and I are amazed that we have managed to have 3-course dinners 3 nights in a row!!!
So, he might not be a "latte-baby", but he sure doesn´t mind to sleep in fab restaurants! :)
The only thing that is not 5star? The weather. O.M.G. I have never seen thunderstorms like it! Wow. Until now it´s been fine, but tomorrow and Thursday, we´ll go chasing the sun...

Hope you are all great at home,

Love

Mo

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Going, going, gone

MO:

You KNOW your life has changed forever when this becomes one of the ESSENTIALS on your holiday packing list:




What it is?
A baby bottle brush.

Travelling tomorrow. Happy I had time for fika with fabulous Mango this morning, followed by lunch with MOJOs own SuperStar JOJO before we, the little family, head off to the lovely island of Mallorca for a week!

To be continued...

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Dreaming of...

MO:
Dreaming of white beaches, turquoise water, hot weather and yes, the delivery of a baby....
I went back to the gym this morning and ohhhh, it felt just as good as it did last time! Bless!
Tomorrow is Midsummer and I will bring my overnight bag to the dinner. Just in case.
No progress in the "Putte"-department. Yet.
I´m SO curious about how it will start? Will my water break? Will it start during the night or during the day? How many long hours will it take once I get into the hospital?

WHAT will the feeling be like when he is finally here-lying on my chest, small, wrinkly, probably purple with lots of hair??? :)

Soon I will know.

Have a lovely evening!

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Postcard from Paradise

Mo:

HEEELLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Yes, still alive! Ohhhh, I've been sleeping so much I don't even know what day it is anymore. Sleeping, working on my tan, sleeping, reading a book a day, swimming, eating, sleeping some more, going back and forth to our beautiful bungalow, sleeping, eating and...sleeping.

The place is stunning and we have a HUGE (100sq.m according to the brochure) bungalow about 25m from the beach. Like the travel agent told us when we booked this place, there really isn't much to do on this little island, unless you count going for a walk on the 20k of white beach that surrounds it.

30degrees+ in the air and 27 in the pool, who's complaining?

Right now, I'm so relaxed my brain has turned into goo and my walk has finally slowed down to Thailand pace.

I think P is a little bit more restless than I am, so he's checking out diving/snorkeling trips for tomorrow...

Left my watch at home. Don't even know what time it is. And don't care. Into week 12 today. Nausea seems to be gone!

Hope you're all getting ready for Christmas at home!

Lots of love from Kho ko khao.

Ps. JO - your 3 P's love you!
Pengu, P & the Paddle

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