Skiing is dangerous!

Traumatised after a weekend in st Anton. Was going there mainly going there to discover the Austrian part of the Alps and to try on their world famous after ski! 

... Nope, I ended up at the hospital instead! 

It was an eventful weekend though. It started already at the Friday with a train ride to st Anton with some of the girls. Before I left work my manager said "Frida, we have a negative trend in the organisation. Don't fall!" On the way We shared a bottle of wine and was in a good mood! We found the place where we were supposed to live and settled in. The day after we were up in the slopes fairly early. It was a great first ride!! I had just, the weekend before, rented skis for the season and they were great!! Turned easily, the slopes were lively etc! We were above the clouds! 

It was quite crowded in the slopes. And unfortunately me and another guy were crashing right into each other... 

I was of course thinking that I only needed to rest for a while. Had a pain in my arm but thought it would pass. 

Nope.... The medical guys came. Tied me to the orange banana sled and took me down the slopes. What an experience! What centre of attention I became, what views I saw... Wanted to take pictures but was tied up... 

The guys took me down to the village and dropped me off at the doctors clinic... In the blink of an eye i had made a series of x-rays. They couldn't see anything. A thought crossed my mind "I could be back in the slopes by lunchtime!!!" -no. The doctor sent me off to another clinic to do a MRI... I was still having hopes about the afternoon, but with the MRI result those hopes were effectivly killed. 

Doctor; "Your upper arm is broken. Do you want us to perform surgery? We could fix this with two titanium screws" 

me; "......eh?..." 

Doctor; "you could of course wait. We could fix your arm for three weeks instead. But the surgery takes only 15 min. We could do it now" 

Me; "...huh...?"

3 hours later it looked like this:

I was undressed, put to sleep and fixed in less than an hour. I also got local anesthesia which made my arm completely numb for 12 hours... It just hanged there! OMG I never realised how hard it could be to get dressed, wash your hair or do anything with only one arm. It was even harder when you at the same time had to babysit the arm that was non functioning! Ha! I was just constantly dropping my left arm. Scary! 

The adventure has continued.... And it's a bit tough to manage everything. But at least it's the left arm that's injured. And thanks to all my fun pills I'm not in pain! Amazing!! 

Weekend reflections

Listening to piano music and mentally prepare for the week to come. 

For me it's always a trick to go to bed early on a Sunday evening, specially since it seems like I always twist the hours a bit during the weekend. This weekend was no exception. But for me this weekend has been calm! With calm I mean that I haven't needed to put the alarm on or rush out either Saturday or Sunday. 

Today I've been to the movies, watching "the wolf of Wall Street" not sure what to say about that film. If I say "sex, drugs and rock'n roll"'the one of you who have seen it will know what I mean. 

Oh my, it's relaxing to listen to piano music! Just love the invention of Spotify. 

Had a really nice weekend, lovely gathering Friday evening with nice wines and great cheeses. Yesterday evening the Basel family had a dinner, we all are like crazy!! Ok, some where skiing during the day, but it was more than that! Guess we all were just hungry! 😁 

Yesterday I made an afternoon trip to Laufen to rent skis for the season. Feels good! First found a pair of ski boots, very happy that they were white and pink!!! Sooo nice! New ones as well so that I can buy them off after the season if I like them. But then I got to the ski corner.... The guy gave me a pair of black skis.... Didn't want to bring it up to him that the skis will not match my outfit.... I know it doesn't matter.... But yeah... Can't help reflecting! Typically girlish.... 

Ok, will be an early start tomorrow, will fall asleep to the piano music (and now they've even added an orchestra to it!) 

Sleep well!! 

Home or away?

First day back at work, had a weird thought about that it would be calm. No no! That's not how it works! Stayed until 7pm to clear some things up. Still not even got through half of my mails. However, it's been a good day, my brain was not still on vacation (at least not all the time). 

The absolute hardest thing today was the bike ride to work. OMG I was almost crying, how out of shape can you be after only three weeks?! But first, before you make any judgements let me tell you this: all the way from my place to where I work  is a slight uphill ride, sometimes even (for a few more weeks in my mind) a STEEP uphill ride!! Today I was fighting this also against the wind. Another thing is that I had to do this for about 35 min! I amas close to being a hero/saint/icon as anyone else who performed heroic deeds like this one! Well anyway.. When I got to one of the steep his I passed a person also on a bike, was proud. Next hill I was almost crying and the same person passed me and just carried on like the world wasn't about to go under?! How rude!! When I got to work I noticed that I was biking with the wrong gear.... Well, eh.., good training. Will be better tomorrow then. 

Another thing that has happen is close to a miracle. My plants are alive after three weeks if starvation! I'm greatful! I was prepared for the worst! But my trick worked an upside down pet to drown the poor bastards! One is not doing so very well... But so far it's alive still. 

I came home to Switzerland yesterday, I was a bit hungry I must admit. And since I couldn't remember what I had at home in terms of food, my mind just made things up, telling me that I could do grocery shopping like today instead. Well... I found cocholate, Ice cream, some herring and some hard bread. Eventually I realized that I had some eggs as well. Not the most exciting dinner I've ever had.... Specially not after a Holliday like Christmas and New Years. 

Well... After a Holliday like Christmas and New Years I would need some holding back anyway... So here I am. Back at work, long hours, healthy food, exercising, more sun, longer days, close to the ski slopes, soon a trip booked to Prague. Life's tough. 

Meeting at 8??? In the morning?

I have just realised that I have a meeting at 8 o'clock on Friday morning.... 8... I mean of course I have agreed to it myself, placed it in my calendar and all.... But it's not until now that I realised this. Yeah, I can't do anything about it since that was the only available time..

But MY GOD, how will I manage? 

I have a tendency to be a bit late in the morning. I simply can't get out of bed! We have management meetings that starts 8.30 AM and when I come, around 5min late I am met by silence and angry eyes. It's creepy really ;) 

So, back to the issue, with all given background... How in earth will I fix being on time Friday?!? Maybe I should stay at work over night? Or not go to bed? Or is that maybe too drastic? With my luck it might just be so that I accidentally turn off the alarm and not getting to work on time! 

Wow... Dilemmas... 

To be continued.

 

What is art really??

Another week has passed! All week spent on Basel/Pratteln, marvellous! Work wise.... Stressful, but things were back in control Friday I think. Not totally... But good enough! The week has brought so e good things; back on track with the biking and the working out... But the weeks of traveling shows on My body. Sad but true! 

This weekend I had visitors, lovely! Needed to think of something else after a tough week. Today, before they left again for Sweden, we visited the museum of modern art..... Well.... I love art. At least some I realise now. My mind is too narrow to understand the artfom of grey blankets piled up on the floor with three pines of wood sticking out underneath.... Am I just not creative enough? Or am

I too old fashioned when looking and apprishiating arts. How do some paintings/sculptures etc even end up at a museum or an Exhibition? For me that's abut of a mystery. 

This week is herbst messe in Basel. Activities everywhere!! But now I'm just glad to sleep in my own bed tonight and my only worries now is what to where when biking tomorrow, will it be really cold? And most important; at what time will they start working on the facade tomorrow??? Will I wake up with some peoples faces right outside my window??

Confusion and wine!

Today I have enjoyed the "wein messe" in Basel. It's a dream! You walk around, everywhere you go there's people offering you great wines! There were wines from all over the globe! Some great ones and some.... Well yeah... I met up with some friends around 4 pm and we stayed until they closed at 7 pm. After some tasting I got quite light and happy, and we all agreed to order some wine. Hm... I am counting my orders now. I don't have to buy more wine this year with that generous amount! Well, it is an interest... But to be honest, I don't have more space! At the last place we ordered I got one wine as a gift (beautiful Swedish girl etc etc...) and that took up the last space in my wine drawer. Well, I'll figure something out 😉

The rest of the weekend was also great! Apero Friday at some friends and birthday/luxury dinner Saturday! It was great to see all friends again after almost two whole weeks spent in Sweden (or at a plane flying back and forth) wow, it's been an intense period of time. 

The feeling of getting back to Sweden is always a bit strange, it's Luke my Vasel life is fading slowly and I'm just taking up my "old" life. But when I go back to Basel it's as natural but I need some minutes of adjustment and the Swedish life is not fading as much. Funny...

Well, it was a great and inspiring time back "home" but I'm glad to be back in Basel. Look forward to go to work by bike tomorrow morning. And today we even got one more hour from changing to wintertime!! OMG, was I confused this morning?!? My iPhone was automatically adjusted, but of course not the rest of the clocks! And since I had no idea of the time change when I woke up I didn't think of it until it became time to meet all friends for the wein messe. I all of the sudden saw that I had only 5 min until I was supposed to meet up with everyone!  And I couldn't understand how the time could just have gone so fast... Took me sw time to realise what it was! 

Well, now I will go to sleep and enjoy the extra hour tomorrow morning! 

Moments of brilliance!

I'm proud to state that so far I have gone by bike to work every day of this week. And the fantastic thing is that I have made it to meetings starting already at 8.30!! Wow.... That's almost not human! I mean, for me that's just too early nowadays! 

Today I have had my first meeting with my wine club. Finally I'm gonna learn more about wine so that I can show off whenever there's an opportunity! Yey 😁 

We tasted wines from the US, didn't know so much before but with some splendid education from the host I have now come one step further on the way!

Yesterday I was out on adventures, biking home from work and taking a detour to one of the Basel wine shops. I was aiming for a bottle from New Zealand, a really cool one. I actually bought the bottle Saturday... But then I accidentally dropped it on the floor... In another wine shop. It broke. It smelled fantastic, we all agreed to that. Including the poor guy that had to clean up after me. Now it's in my keeping. For how long is hard to say... But a few days more at least!! ;)