Yes, my first day at work. Still a lot of people on vacation so it is rather calm. I have had a nice, but rather busy vacation. Sometimes it is like you need a holiday after vacation. However, it has been, and still is a good summer. My favorite activity is running, and then a walk with my sweetie. She is now in the countryside and having a good time. Will see her in a few weeks. When I read the news I always read “Laban” who makes me smile. Found this one that made me think of all sweet dogs I met this summer during vacation. So adorable sweeties, all of them. My sweetie is very cute when she barks. She is so protective. Always so eager, and she definitely wants to walk her own way. No doubt about it.

Last day of holiday. In some way, it feels that you never can leave your job, because where ever you go, people you meet ask you where you work, about previous common colleagues and so on. Colleagues become friends, and friends become colleagues. I am happy that I did my journey to Rome. Now I feel ok with my mother’s passing away. Or at least so so, if you understand what I mean. When I travel, people ask what I do for a living. Since I work as a pharmacist I get reminded of my work constantly since pharmacies are everywhere. In Rome they were located on every corner. Once, I saw a pharmacy that made me feel that I would like to talk to them, and ask a little about their role in Italy.

Pharmacies in Rome are privately owned. Not like in Sweden and Norway where there are several pharmacy chains like Boots, Apoteket, Hjärtat, Apoteksgruppen, Kronans Apotek, or LloydsApotek where I work. It takes time, years, to go from governmentally owned, to privately owned pharmacy chains. Norway are years ahead compared to Sweden. A lot has been altered in Sweden after this change. There are more pharmacies available for customers, more products to chose between, and opening hours are much better. In brief, the pharmacy availability to customers has increased dramatically. The current challenge today for pharmacies is to have enough staff at every pharmacy.

This is my last holiday. I will soon go for exercise. And I am so happy, my dear colleagues will join me for “tjejmilen”! We will have great fun, and it will be a day filled with lots of joy. Now I am off for training.

Only a few weeks to go til “tjejmilen”. And on Monday I start working again. It will be a puzzle to do as much exercise as possible. I love running outdoors. That is so good. I live in the middle of Stockholm, and sometimes I think of pollution, but I believe that it must be quite ok here since we are close to the sea, Östersjön. With cool breezes and air exchange.

It is not only training that makes you feel good. You need to recover, eat well, and take care of yourself. Step by step, I am learning my new watch. I have friends who also track pulse etc, even during sleep. It measures how I recover. Maybe, it is a kind of Tamagotchi.

I have done the French manicure for my hands. I don’t have long nails, but I like some color. Not so often, but once in a while. Today, during running, I thought a lot of travelling. Past voyages and also about next travelling. It was nice to visit my friend, from long time ago, on Sri Lanka. She has her sister living on Lidingö where I work. My friend showed me a lot when I visited her. These photos have not been shown here before. They are from a park close to a holy area. We ended that day by buying fresh fruit at a market. I often have lime or lemon after training. For the C-vitamins. Important to have antioxidants when living in a city.