Second day home from work with a bad cold. Woke up with a swollen throat, much worse than yesterday and found myself in a blue mood. Oh, the boredom! When I was reading on the toilet it struck me that I only choose my own mood and it’s simply up to me if I’m miserable or not. (Notice that all bright ideas and thoughts often comes from time spend on the toilet.) So here comes a list of things that’s really good and makes my heart warm right now:

1. The book I was reading on the toilet, The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Takes place in old Barcelona and tells the story about a young boy who wants to become a writer. I love how the author describes the environment, kinda dark and foggy. His language is also very good and I would say classy. I adored his other novel The Shadow of the Wind. It also takes place in old Barcelona, and one thing I love is that some characters appear in both books, wich makes it a lot more vivid.

2. Making and eating mini-pizzas! I choose greek inspired but just put on whatever ingredients you like, here’s how to do:

Buy Polarbröd’s Hällakaka (now would be a good time to visit Sweden).

Put tomato purée and grated cheese over the bread.

My choice of ingredients were: feta cheese, black olives, corn, green paprika, fresh basil and sliced cocktail tomatoes.

Set the oven to 200-225 degrees and the pizzas should be done in around 10 minutes.

3. Healthy drink that tastes good, orange juice with frozen strawberries. Lots of Vitamine C that hopefully will chase the cold away! And the view from my window where I can watch the world but the world cannot watch me.

4. A postcard from my grandmother on the “Johanna day”. I value a real postcard or snail mail letter a hundred times more than a text message or e-card, it’s so much more personal and loving.

Hey, it’s a pretty good day!

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