Sweden Other - 6

June 6 is the official national day of Sweden! Today is an especially exciting day because they are playing a soccer game, FOTBOLL that is, in Stockholm........Sweden against Denmark.
Tatiana misses Sweden in the summer. Stockholm on a nice summer day is such a gorgeous city, it's right at the ocean and you can walk everywhere.
Sweden is a great country. Tatiana moved there with her Mom from Poland when she was around four years young.
HEJA SVERIGE!!!

HEJ means Hello/Hi in Swedish.
Tatiana has been pretty much busy all day today, since 8 30 this morning. In stripper time, that is an ungodly hour, unless Tatiana is out dancing and is just leaving the party to go to another party or going home. She needed to take care of lots of things today and accomplished quite a bit. Like her taxes. Tatiana heard that paying taxes is against The Constitution, is that so? If you have any info about this or if you live by it, e mail Tatiana with the info please.
Regarding taxes......some of Tatiana's thoughts are....... Ok if the money is used to pay for things that pretty much all of us use like roads, streets, public transportation (it's a good thing), parks, schools and free healthcare for everyone! Tatiana is not ok to fund wars and bailouts and The Octomom- she didn't make the choice to go to war, if anything she wishes there were no wars. Remember, Tatiana grew up in Sweden, pretty much free healthcare, unless you go for some kind of a plastic surgery, then you pay out of pocket, for example boob implants. Did Tatiana suffer terribly by growing up in Sweden, this "scary, socialist country" where people can get free higher education and not worry about hospital bills of they break a leg or get cancer? Hardly. Like, who gets sick on purpose or breaks a limb on purpose anyway? Not many. But since Tatiana considers herself a Global Citizen, she left Sweden to experience the world. The world needed Tatiana's presence and boobs! But she tries to go back and visit Sweden every so often.

Speaking of Sweden. Today Tatiana saw a commercial with Conan O'Brien, she loves Conan, he is so funny and so very cute. He has a great commercial out, and yes........Sweden is mentioned in it.
You should see it too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HazUvFXY2X4

Hej Hej!

So the other day I went to PIAS, a store on 4th Ave where you can find all kinds of things from Scandinavia, mostly Norway and Sweden. I bought a traditional candle holder that most homes have on display in the windows in Sweden during December.
A lady working in the store told me that there would be a Lucia celebration today at Viking Hall in town. So I went and it was fun. There was glögg!
And risgrynsgröt, one of my favorite foods, it's a rice porridge, served with cinnamon, butter, sugar and milk to your liking.
Then there was a Lucia train, that was really nice. Btw, I was Lucia once, in 6th grade. And then some singing and dancing around the Christmas tree. So nice, but of course it made me miss Sweden even more!!!!

www.piasweaters.com

So it's getting closer to Christmas and I miss Sweden, a lot ! Today, December 13 they are celebrating LUCIA in Sweden, a wonderful tradition. There will be singing, a LUCIA train, lussekatter (LUCIA day marks the opening of the Christmas season in Sweden). Lussekatter are delicious saffron buns made in any number of figures: cats, "S" shapes, or figure eights), glögg (a Swedish drink for a cold winter evening). Glögg is a heated, spicy and sweet wine, a bit like the German Gluchwein, delicious. It is so nice, Christmas-y and yummy and I am not there!!!!
I miss my friends, my real friends. What am I doing here? Seriously. I am sad. Sometimes life sucks. I love Chhaya, she is my angel.
😥

To view LUCIA copy and paste this into your tool bar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk0FyZqNp5Q&feature=related
Enjoy!

So I went to see ABBA the movie/musical. I have seen the show before in London, Las Vegas and New York. I know, I know, Tatiana is so well traveled.....what else is she supposed to do with all her millions? Save? Bah!
So you all should know that I looooveeeee ABBA. While growing up I pretended to be either Agnetha or Anni-Fried, singing into the handle of a jumping rope like most Swedish girls.
I really liked the movie, teared up many times. But I do think that they should had tried to find a Swedish girl to play the lead instead of Amanda Seyfried, which could totally pass for Swedish and is super beautiful and fresh....but still.
ABBA made the best songs seriously, the lyrics are so good, I love ABBA.
After seeing the movie I decided I need to go to Sweden next summer because I haven't been there for too long now. Need to visit Mom and friends and have many lattes and pastries in the quaint coffee shops in Gamla Stan which is the Old Town part of Stockholm, very nice.
I miss Sweden now........ 😥