Today I´ve been working (and working out) outside the whole day.. and I´ve got a nice tan.. or at least some nice red colour..

This morning there was a press conference for the event; Summer Streets - which is arrenged for the second year in a row… Three saturdays in August, some of the streets in NYC will be closed for all the traffic, so people can walk, bike, skateboard or what ever they wanna do - all over the streets… Crunch is one of the sponsors of the event and they´ll offer classes outside along the road.

The mayor of NYC was there talking about the event - and Russell Simmons as well. And we did some promotion for the classes that´ll be offered.

And in the afternoon there was a hughe PR-event for the TVshow; dance your ass off that´s premiere tonight.

It´s a TVshow where people that are overweight competes in loosing weight.. by dancing. They got paired up with a professional dancer - and each week they do a routine in a new style, could be hiphop, ballroom, pole dancing anything..  The competitors will get score points from a jury.. the score points together with their weight loss will decide who can stay, and who can´t…

Crunch has a class with the same name, and each week Crunch has the same theme at the classes as the show.. and if you participate in one class a week all 10 weeks that the TVshow runs, you can win a night out on the town with your galpals..dancing all night long at a cool club.

How ever.. today we shared the scene at Herald Sq with some of the pro-dancers from the show - and danced our asses off to promote both the TVshow and Crunch.

Carol was our lead dancer today, and she´s also the lead instructor for the class at Crunch.

On my way home I got stopped by another TVteam, shooting an episode of a show in NYC about NYC.. and they wanted to catch me on camera while I crossed the street  - cause I had such a cool Nike outfit.. only in New York City baby!

…and I call it mine cause it feels like it is…

Yesterday I was supposed to go and take classes for Patricia M, dance and yoga. As you know, she - and her amazing personality - is a big inspiration to me. Last week at her classes she told the crowd the great news that she is pregnant, and you should have heard the applauce and excitement that broke out, and kept going, for several minutes.. Can you imagen my thursday´s core crowd at Tule get that excited if I revealed the same news..? I really can´t! ( I can see my wednesday´s crowd get a little crazier though) how ever - it´s gonna take a while before I find out the truth about that, huh?!

Anyway.. Yesterday I overslept and missed the classes. But instead I got another opportunity. I woke up by a call from a woman that has been taking my hiphop-classes here in NYC. Her company was holding an audition for a dance job, which made her though of me - and that I´d be perfect for the job - so she called me to invite me for the audition.

Of course I went there!

I have no idea how it went.. I guess I´ll find out - but her thinking of me of all  the people in NYC gave me a good day, and yet one more audition experience.

Finally, today it´s Therese´s birthday: HAPPY B-day!!!

…it is probably my favourite thing to drink after redbull.. but in Sweden we don´t have the same range of lemonade as here though.

When I was in Greece with my boyfriend and his family earlier this summer - I persisted in ordering lemonade, everyday.. and everyday - in all different places, I ended up with Fanta Lemon… What´s up with that?

And the waiters served me that like it was the most obvious thing; lemonade = fanta lemon…

Fredrik´s mom asked me, “what exactly do you mean by lemonade then”

So - I took a picture just for you, of my favourite brand.. notice that today I stepped out of the box and went a little crazy, and bought limeade - instead of lemonade…

…and sometimes one of this days becomes a little bit tougher than a regular day…and it feels like all of your power and strenght is running out of your body and follow the raindrops down in the drain on the street.

But you know what - that´s ok to feel like that. Cause it´ll pass! And it doesn´t make me a tragic person… As long as I do the right choises, and choose to remember that it´s not worse for me than for someone else…and choose to not let the small things that brings negativity in to your world affect me…

By small things I mean the fact that there´s always gonna be…

…people that call them self my/your friend - and in the next minute they´ll backstab or bullshit me/you…

…people that can´t feel good about them self unless they make me/you feel bad…

…someone that have to take me/you down when I´m/you´re just so excited it almost bubbles over…

…some ugly skanks that tries to steel my/your boyfriend…

…people that steal my/your ideas, and take the credit for it…

But that doesn´t say anything about me - or you! 

Actually - it doesn´t even concern me. Cause I choose to cut that kind of people out of my life.. I don´t want to waste my energy on them.. cause I am not responsible for their actions, values in life or consciense (or maybe the lack of it) - they are!

And instead of spending energy of beeing sad, upset, angry or think about how I should get back or why, I choose to spend my energy in people that I care for - and love instead.. people who love me back.

Those people who actually are my friends… and those who bring something good to my life.

I beleive in Karma, and just like JT sais; what goes around comes around.. so it´s completely unnecessary for me to think about revenge or justice.. Karma and Destiny will care of that for me!

I might be naiv - but I prefere that, actually I choose naiv instead of cynical, just as I choose

pink instead of beige

cocnut &  vanilla instead of mould

over the top instead of lame

to much instead of to less

love instead of hate

hope instead of hopeless

positive instead of negative

and dreams instead of nightmares

Cause that´s what makes me alive - and happy.. (and to write about it also reminds me that this is how it works for me) and today I am happy for those of you who are my close friends.. that believe in me!  

And I´m also happy for those friends that I lately have re-connected with,  that haven´t been that close for a while.. I´ve missed you.

Today it might rain - but tomorrow it´ll be a perfect weather.. (even if it still rain)

Do you know what else that always makes me happy? Here´s some of it…

Yesterday, on my way home after teaching a class at Lafayette (who went awesome) I slipped by one of all the great stores in SoHo - and next to me in the line to the dressing rooms I ran into Nathalie. I´ve known her for a really long time and we normally bump into each other every now and then at different places… This time in NYC a saturday afternoon.

She is on tour with September (a swedish pop artist) and they just came from Miami, and had their next gig in New Jersey, last night, with a shopping break in the city of course.

 Don´t miss out the dance event that both me and Nathalie´s gonna present at in November.

At Crunch there´s a class called Chiesel.. which makes me think of Snoop. Even more funny is that there is also a class called Diesel.. (and it´s pretty much the same class)

In Sweden we would call that kind of class functional training; functional strenght exercises with your own weight, and a lot of core training.

How ever - I was subbing this Chizzle (I prefere to call it that instead - since it´s funnier…) the other day. And I did a lots and lots of lounges, and squats.. Today, I just have one thing to say; PAIN… I can´t walk in stairs, I can´t sit down, I can´t get up…

Just like Snoop would have summarized it; The Chizzle dizzle got me some seriousizzle painizzle, fo shizzle…

Also, if you haven´t found the perfect training-dvd yet, here´s a hot tip for you.. when you need some motivation.

(sorry Elaine - couldn´t help myself - I had to borrow it) 

Read what my very talented co-worker Terese Alvén wrote about me in her blog that she writes for VeckoRevyn.

A very stylish blog may I add…

As you might know I´m back in the best city ever; New York City. And I´ve got the amazing opportunity to launch my own class at Crunch - as one of the news for the summer season. That I´m very happy for, and proud of.

The class called Tribal House Party, is a fusion of afro and house - and I promise you: it is a hard core workout at the same time.

Last wednesday when I taught this class for the first time at one of the locations, I entered the studio, and noticed that I was the only white person in the room…and man did I feel white! I´ve never been in that situation before (since I´m scandinavian obviously) so the idea of it happening have never even crossed my mind. I was there to teach an afro (afro house - but still) and I could feel their doubts (and I don´t blame them) which actually made me a little bit nervous… but during the class I could feel their approval - and today a lot of the same people came back, and even brought their friends, so now it´s my favourite class of the week

it can look like this, when I´m in a tribal house mood…

Since I started to write the blog at fitness magazine I haven´t been as frequent here as I used to be.. but I miss that - so I´m gonna re-establish my writing here. Here I´ve got the opportunity to be a bit more personal and private if I want to - and write about all kinds of thoughts.

Also - if you´re not a fan of me it´s a smaller chance that you actually goes to my website and my personal blog if you don´t like it anyway… :)  For me it goes like this; If I´m not a fan of a particular blog or the person writing it - I don´t even bother reading it - cause why would I? To get irritated and annoyed? That´s just weird…

No - I rather put my time and energy for those things I actually likes and enjoy in life.. and for those of you who likes to read what I have to say; welcome back to this site anytime!

(that almost sounded like the Arlanda Express speaker…. “and for those of you who lives here - I would like to welcome you back..” haha)