MacBook Pro 15″ cover?

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I need your help. I got a MacBook Pro 15″ laptop around New Years, and have yet to buy a cover/bag for it. My old MacBook I travelled quite a bit with and hence I had a thicker padded cover for it, but so far, this computer has only left home once, today, to go to Apple Store for a one-to-one-session. If I am traveling, I’ll likely only bring my Ipad. So I don’t think I need a bolstered cover for it, but it would be nice with something which will both be a bit protective while at the same time being nice-looking.

Help me get a cover that's both stylish and functional, please!

Help me get a cover that’s both stylish and functional, please!

So. What’s your best tip for me? Please share a link or the name of a store or a cover brand that you think I should look into.

What’s worked for you? What hasn’t worked for you, that you recommend I stay away from? What would you buy? Or would you make a cover yourself even (I really like those of wool felt)? If so, how? (But perhaps those felt ones are more for traveling than daily use? I mean, I just want to snap my computer open when I need to work on it…)

As you can see, I am in some serious need for input here – so please, hit me with your best suggestions!

Podcast 10/52 – a pledge and a challenge

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“I have no intake at all of any feedback or criticism from anyone who’s not in the arena.”

That’s one of the quotes from this episode of Good Life Project with Brené Brown that really hit home for me: Brené Brown – On Gratitude, Vulnerability and and Courage.

She talks about what type of feedback she’s getting, and how she’s gotten very self knowledgeable as to what type of feedback she’ll even begin to consider to take in. The ones filled with love, with ”you’ve changed my life”, or the even grander ”you’ve saved my life”, she doesn’t want to read. It’s too much for her, and it’s not constructive, in the sense it doesn’t give her anything to work further with. The ones filled with hatred, she’s not looking at, at all, there’s no sense in that, whatsoever. What she does like are the constructive ones, suggesting she look into someone else research, a book or a study she should have included in her own research, and so on.

All of that makes perfect sense to me, but what really hit home was that quote that I shared at the top:

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What she’s saying there is this: if you are not vulnerable, putting yourself out there, in any way, shape or form, I’m not going to listen to what you have to say about me being vulnerable and putting myself out there.

I remember when I first listened to this episode. I heard what she said. All of a sudden, it made such perfect sense to me! Anyone not daring to be vulnerable, sharing themselves in that honest, open and authentic way (in any kind of arena, in any form, but putting themselves out there!) that Brené herself does so well, is not a good judge/critic of my vulnerability, of me putting myself out there. But if you do put yourself out there, if you are amongst those daring to be vulnerable, I am very interested in taking in what you have to share.

Today, on the International Women’s Day of 2015, that’s the message I want to help spread – if you dare to be vulnerable, then please also dare to reject the criticism and hatred of those who dare not, those who share not. Hatred doesn’t come from those who dare, it doesn’t come from those who share. No, from those on the arena, you will receive love, respect, compassion and empathy.

BoldomaticPost_I-will-dare-to-be-vulnerableSo this is my pledge:
I will dare to be vulnerable.
I will put myself out on the arena.
I will share and be love.

And here’s my challenge to you:
Dare to be vulnerable.
Put yourself out on the arena of your choice.
Share and be love. 

I’m hoping more people will dare to be vulnerable, because I think that’s the way forward to that loving society that I envision. So. Is this a challenge you’re willing to take on?

 

 

#pmjtour rocks!

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I promised you a review of the concert with Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox that I attended last night in Copenhagen, and I am, actually, at a loss for words. It was so good. The skill of the musicians, the voices of the singers, the arrangements of the songs (which I’ve loved since I first heard it!), but also the humor, the tempo, the generosity of the people on stage last night, was something out of the ordinary.

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#pmjtour at the very end of the concert. Me and my Happy Hat coming home, late last night!

 

If the #pmjtour comes anywhere near you – get yourself a ticket and go! At least if you dig the sound of this, which is one of my recent favorite songs, and let me tell you it was explosive in energy last night:

Or rather, just go, ok? You won’t regret it! I promise!

Goal completed!

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I use Runkeeper since many years by now, and the past two (or three?) years I’ve set year long goals for walking, biking and swimming. Last year was the first time I actually managed to reach all my goals, but this year, I teamed up with my daughter on setting shorter goals, for three months in a row. If nothing else to stop me from coming to the last month of the year and having 90% of the swimming goal left to meet.

So on January 1st I set goals to swim 4 km, bike 300 km and walk 250 km by March 31st.  My daughter also set goals for the same type of activities, and the same time period, but personalized goals suiting her.

TGoal runkeeperoday I reached the first goal, as I’ve been crawling one kilometer each day for the past three days, while staying at a hotel with a wonderful 20 m pool in the basement. I’ve been in Germany for work, and as luck has it, the hotel we live in is a fancy one, so…. I’ve made the most of it, and today clocked in at 4,5 km total (as I had already a 1,5 km swim logged since earlier this year).

So now I have to set a new swimming goal for myself. Am thinking of upping the ante a bit, not because I must, or feel I need to, but because I really really enjoy swimming, and having this goal makes me get out of the house and go to a pool to swim. So it does work as a sort of a trigger. But be not mistaken, I am doing this for me, because I enjoy swimming.

What do you enjoy doing, that you sometimes don’t take the time, or effort, to ensure that you actually do?

This blog post, number 5 of 100, is a part of the #blogg100 challenge currently running in Sweden. 

fritz-kola vs ginger shot

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Would you rather have the fritz-kola or the ginger shot from Joe & The Juice?



fritz-kola out of Hamburg, boasting extra high coffein content





ginger shot from Joe & The Juice

For me that’s an easy choice, the ginger shot would win all days of the week, and the nights to. I’ve basically not drunk coke of any sort since I was around 12-13 or so, when we figured out that’s what made me sick to my stomach every weekend… Nowadays I barely drink any soft drinks as all though, so I’m probably not the norm nowadays.

Anyway, one of my German colleagues had a fritz-kola tonight over dinner, and I have to say, I found the design of the label quite fun. So fun that I took a picture of it, and not of the Almdudler herb lemonade that I had with my food (yup, a soft drink, but a traditionally Austrian one. And as we were eating at Tschebull, which is a fancy Austrian restaurant, I felt like giving that a go).

What would you chose, fritz-kola or the ginger shot?

Aqua Sphere – I love you already!

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Over Christmas I got fed up with having to get myself out of the pool, swimming laps, not because my body was tired, but because my face was hurting from the swim goggles. I’d always come out of the pool looking like a badger. And that facial mark around my eyes would last for hours on end. I tried to find a photo on my phone, but you’ll just have to imagine what I look like with badger markings around my eyes. 

Anyway, I posted my frustration on Facebook, and asked for advice on what kind of goggles to get, and decided to take Rasmus up on his suggestion for Aqua Spheres from Wiggle. So. I did. Ordered a pair of Aqua Sphere Women’s Vista Clear Lens Goggles in White/Lavender.

Today I got to try them out for the first time, and I love them! From the beginning when I put them on, it was as if I couldn’t really feel them, and one kilometer and half an hour later, I still didn’t feel them. And look, there’s a fine line on my forehead, but 20 minutes later, that line is almost totally gone! 



Thank you Rasmus for the suggestion, and thank you Aqua Sphere for my new favorite swim goggles! As I am currently on the road, I have the joy of staying at a hotel with a pool, so I’ll be trying them out tomorrow again. Have you ever had problems with badger-eyes after swimming with goggles? If so, I strongly recommend you to try out a pair of these. 

A cruel and heartless world, anyone?

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BoldomaticPost_It-s-not-our-job-to-toughen-oI read the quote by L R Knost on what our job is, what my job is, and I nod, agree, and then give a deep sigh. Not because I disagree. I don’t, not at all. I agree wholeheartedly!

The sigh comes more from having met so many people – in person, or via their writings, articles, blog posts, or through their social media presence, tweets, Facebook status updates and the likes – who seem to think the opposite. People who state ”It’s a tough world and if kids don’t get knocked around a bit – metaphorically at least – during their upbringing and time in school, they will not know what hit them when they grow up and join ‘the real world’ as adults”.

Maybe not spoken in those exact words, but definitely sending that message. And I simply do not believe that is the way towards a more loving and peaceful world. On the contrary. And for me, the trick is this: I cannot raise my children to be more loving and wholehearted if I am cruel and heartless. Again – kids (and everyone else as well, I dare say) do as we do, not as we say.

It’s time to walk the talk. For real. Because I want to do my job, I want to be a part of making the world a little less cruel and heartless, and more loving and peaceful.

But how? How do I do that? How do I act lovingly? What is a wholehearted action? How do I show up in the world, lovingly and wholeheartedly?

I think I might write down a few bullet points for loving and wholehearted respectively, translating the fluffy words into actual activities (actions, words, gestures). Then I can look within to see if I am walking my talk, or not. What do you think, are you?

 

Podcast 9/52 – Love and Sex and Attachment

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Today marks the start of the blog challenge #Blogg100 in Sweden, and just as the last two years, I’ve decided to play. However, I have no real plan for doing anything other than what I normally do, which is blog daily…. but, who knows, I might think of something special as I go along.

However, today is Sunday, and it’s time for my ninth podcast tip, and I’m opting for an episode from On Being with anthropologist Helen Fisher, called Love and sex and attachment. I listened to the episode earlier this week, and just like a few other podcasts, immediately re-listened once finished. Today as I found the link for the episode I see Helen Fishers photo, and was a bit surprised. Her voice doesn’t sound like she looks. Have you ever experienced that? Anyway, that’s a side note.

Love, sex, attachment. I mean – you can’t really go wrong there, can you? It’s something we are all interested in and affected by. And that’s actually the reason why Helen got into this area of scientific enquiry in the first place, because she was so interested in that which ties us together, that which we all have a relationship to, the similarities between people, rather than that which separates us.

BoldomaticPost_relationships-evolve-and-a-goOne of the take away’s for me from this podcast is the ever-changing nature of relationships, and that it’s actually a sign of a good relationship, that it is constantly changing, growing, evolving. And you know why? Because life in itself is constantly changing – nothing is permanent. We have somehow gotten tricked into believing it is, or should be, but in reality, life is dependent on change, changing thoughts, changing needs, changing mental states, changing relationships. So how could we ever believe that any one person, or any one relationship, could be permanent? Is it a need for safety and security that have warped somehow? Perhaps due to the loss of the local community, that Krista Tippitt and Helen Fisher also touch on in the show?

 

Vackra Ronneby

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I morse hoppade jag på ett tåg för att ta mig till Ronneby. Har fått tankespjärn under hela eftermiddagen och kvällen och imorgon blir det detsamma. Härligt. Ska bli spännande att se vad det blir av det. 

Vi tog en bensträckare under eftermiddagen och se så vackert det är längs ån och i Brunnsparken:



Nu ser jag dock fram emot en skön natts sömn! Får se om hjärnan fortsätter bearbeta dagens tankespjärn – vem vet vad jag vaknar upp med för tankar eller funderingar?