On the road again,

Today I took my step to better me again and started to train. So many starts after new years promises, but not me. I want really get back to better me. The times I have been training before, it has been made me feel good. I have got more energy, I feel well and that has been part I have missed.
I have looked different gyms and programs they have, but I found the one, what fits to me. Today I had try pass in crossfit. One hour pass with learning right technique, information what bodypart exercise will help to work with and so much more. 
After the good pass I felt that I have leg muscles and muscles in my butt. My legs was quite soft after training and actually it felt good. I have really missed that feeling. At least I have not lost my muscles together with all weight and that was very good :)
I also got opportunity to try out my new training clothes from Peak Performance and here I can say one thing. That was the best bought I have made. They was so comfortable and fitted so well. I am not used to wear tights and for the first time, I am willing to wear it and not to feel very ashamed to do it.
Now I am waiting next week to go again to train. I have signed up myself for on-ramp pass and can't actually wait it to start :) Me love it. I feel, like I really have got my life back on track and that I feel more as I used to do. Of course, there is some things, what still is on my mind and probably stays there until they are solved, but at least my beginning of better me has made.
Have a nice evening,
                                   Love,
                                              Ingrit 

Birthday cake,

Day before yesterday I had a big baking day. I needed to bake some cakes for my husbands birthday yesterday. It feels so good to bake, when I know, that there is someone who will eat it. I wanted to make an easy cake and something, what is not very sweet, since I do not like very sweet things and in the same time, I wanted that it would look and taste as home made.

Ingredients:

3 egg
4,5 dl flour
3 dl sugar
188 gr butter, room temperature
3 teaspoon vanilla sugar
2,5 teaspoon baking powder
1,5 dl milk
1,5 teaspoon salt
4 peach halves

Topping and filling:

500 gr quark
4 dl whip cream 
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar 

Decorations:
400 gr blueberries - share as decorations and in the middle of the cake as well.
250 gr strawberries

Whip butter and sugar together with to a smooth mass. Add egg one by one. Mix all dry ingredients together and add to egg and butter mix. Mix it and add milk. Chop peaches to small bites and add it to the dough. Mix it until it is smooth dough. Pour the dough to the form and bake 40-70 minutes in 175 degrees. Depends how big baking form you have and how much dough you put to the baking form. Take it out and let it cool down. Take it out from the form and put it to the plate.

Whip up cream. When it is hard, mix it with quark and vanilla sugar. Divide sponge half in the middle. Half a quark mix put in the middle of the cake. Cover it with blueberries and add other half of cake sponge. Cover with rest of the quark and whip cream mix. Slice a strawberries. Decorate cake as you want. For me, it was just that I wanted it to see out a homemade and that it has a good taste. For me, it remembered cake what it is home made and what is similar, we have had during a years. I did not decorate as proff, but the taste is more important this time, when looks this time.

Bon Appetit!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit

Cake with chocolate and peaches,

Yesterday I had a big baking day. I needed to bake some cakes for my husbands birthday today. It feels so good to bake, when I know, that there is someone who will eat it.
To his work I was bake around pound cake. Here is recipe for that cake.

Ingredients:

3 egg
4,5 dl flour
3 dl sugar
188 gr butter, room temperature
3 teaspoon vanilla sugar
2,5 teaspoon baking powder
1,5 dl milk
1,5 teaspoon salt
4 peach halves

Topping:

200 gr dark chocolate 
80 gr nougat
50 gr almond shavings

Whip butter and sugar together with to a smooth mass. Add egg one by one. Mix all dry ingredients together and add to egg and butter mix. Mix it and add milk. Chop peaches to small bites and add it to the dough. Mix it until it is smooth dough. Pour the dough to the form and bake 50-70 minutes in 175 degrees. Take it out and let it cool down. Take it out from the form and put it to the plate.

Melt chocolate and nougat. Cover cake with it and top it with almond. Let it cool down. Best will be until next day at least. Enjoy it with a cup of good coffee.

Bon Appetit!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit

A good day,

It has been some good days lately and that has made me feel good and also very happy. A feelings, what I have missed quite a lot due some other reasons. It feels, that after last operation I feel bit more as a human. I just do not want to think about my shoulder. That we don't talk about that since I just want to see the positive.
In Saturday I was away from home and had a very good time with a very good friend. Sunday belonged to school, since I thought that it will be good to fix the last thing on Economy and when I can enjoy a week before oral examination and enjoy the cinema visit with friends and husbands birthday, but also weekend in countryside. I love to spend my time in countryside. It will be perfect week I have decide :) It is enough with problems and issues and other scrap. Time to enjoy the positive things.
Today I started with breakfast with husband and after that me and Sally took a good powerwalk. I think that Sally is still not used with the short coat :D When we came back at home, we cuddled up on couch and took a small nap. After was a small coffee break in Norrahammar and visit to local medical center. I will never want to change that medical center with some other as long those doctors are there, who really are caring for their patience and listen them. That makes a lot. New medications and my injection and I was good to go again. Heheee :D Feels good. Next week I will talk with my doctor number one and after that if not earlier, when on 8 weeks it will be time for new injections. Time goes fast we could consider today. Last 8 weeks had passed very fast. She was happy to see me and told me that she can see changes on me after my last operation in December. I took that as a good grade to me. It has not been easy time, but it has been time, what has been very useful in so many different ways. I have got to know a lot of wonderful persons and spend good times.
After visit to medical centre I took my black purse and drove to Jönköping. Had lunch in Ikea with my dear and took a visit on the shop. Before the way out of city I visited Naked Juice Bar and bought a good healthy smoothie and met up with my husband. We decided to take another road for a change to home, and had to change that plan quite fast. There had happened accident and we needed to take a smaller road, but I loved it. I got to see so wonderfully beautiful sunset. Sad to miss the better camera, but good that todays mobile cameras are also more advanced and you can take quite a beautiful pictures. I loved the colors. it was a feeling like it was burning. Perfekt sundet after a so perfect and good day. Not surprised that my medical center personal says that I have changed more happier person. It feels good.Thank you for everyone who had made my weekend and my Monday a good and happy day!
Now, time for some TV and a good book. Tomorrow will be new day full with computer helping and later we will get visit from Northern Sweden. Love it.
Have a nice evening!
                                   Love,
                                             Ingrit

Wonderful winter day,

Today was another wonderful winter day. Nice and sunny and very mild outside. It was just a perfect day to take a trip first to Ulricehamn and later to Borås. Perfect day to try my new jacket from Peak Performance. Loved it. Passed perfectly today.

I had never been inside in Ulricehamns centrum. Even thought we have passed the place really so many times, that can't count it. So, today I had a chance to see bit that city as well. Nice small and cozy city in my opinion. Liked the lake view and I believe that in summer it is much more nicer when all colors are out. Since it will not be last time I will visit the that city, then probably you will see more pictures from it in my blog.

After Ulricehamn, we went to Borås. Usually with that city is also that we have passed it or visit the shopping center Knallerland.  Once in last summer I was in centrum a short time, but today I spent several hours there. We visited shops and made some shopping, we had good Asian food for the lunch and shortly before I left Borås, we had a good cup of coffee. Borås seems to be also very nice city, what has quite much to offer. I liked the old touch the city has, but I would not like to live there. Still too big for me and I am the one, who loves to live in smaller and more quiet place.  It is always good to visit it anyway and there will be more visits. Before there was one clothes shop I liked to visit, now I have founded a jewelery shop with several Scandinavian designers. My Pandora collection was complemented by a pair of beautiful earrings. My tea collection was complemented wit a new tea taste. Tomorrow after a training, I will enjoy the cup of good tea. It smelled at least good. Have not had possible taste it yet.
Only disappointment I had today was, that after all the distance we walked and walked, I did manage not to get more than just 6500 steps. We can say that we walked very much. But it was a counter in telephone, so I actually do not know, how right it is. Hopefully tomorrow after my training, I can manage to get my minimum 10 000 steps :) If not, that is not a big deal either. I know that I have made my best and that counts in the end.
Next meeting with my best is also booked in. Another good chat and good time will be soon spend. I love it. Now it is time for me to enjoy my evening and look bit TV and prepare my mind for tomorrows training. Have never been on that kind of training before, so, I feel that I have challenged myself again. It is not suprise for me anymore. I have done that before and probably my brain will continue with it further as well.
Have a nice evening!
                                  Love,
                                            Ingrit