Help! I got vacation panic!??
Time has flown and weeks have passed since my first single was sent to the radio stations on January 3rd. It seems like there have been no stops in between: The first single release blended with the album release, which again caused the release of single number two.??Right after that followed rehearsals right up to the start of the tour - first clubs, then festivals. Somewhere along the way the sun melted the snow and spring turned to summer. Summer became late summer and suddenly I'm here in my living room and I have, gasp! � a vacation.??
I love what I do so much that I don't realize that I get tired.??My body is looking after itself when I have a concert the next day, making sure that I don't become ill. Even if I'm as careful as I can, it's kind of interesting that it is now, on my first day of vacation that I can sense a feeling of a cold coming over me. A good and useful exhaustion. Now I actually have the time to be sick!??I also have the free time needed now to do all the things I have longed for the last six months. I feel that it can take a few more days before my pulse settles again. I have to readjust.??
I can cook my own food. Actually, what I eat - being a vegetarian - is the most difficult part about being on tour in Norway. The supplies of vegetarian food are very limited. Or even healthy food, in general. Here the other day I was presented with a loaf of bread with three slices of cucumber. And the dinner at a festival I played earlier this week had only a dry salad, nachos and dip to offer. That�s why it is good being home in my own kitchen again. I can shop groceries and make the food I want. I have to enjoy that.
??I can have sun in my face! Luckily the holiday weather is wonderful. Oslo is the best city in the world when the air is warm as it is now. As I'm writing this, I have only bathed in the sea once yet this summer.??I can play until really late! I can do that because I'm allowed to sleep as long as I want. Now, I will sit down with all the ideas I have collected to make some music.??
But most importantly: Deep in my heart I'm frustrated and restless. It's good to feel these emotions. Because then, I know that I'm still on the right road, going in the right direction. Now I'm going to miss my band. And count the days until my next concert.