Saturday night

Our internet connection has been down a good deal of the evening. This is highly annoying, as that was the problem they were out here to fix last week.

All is fine here. Magnus got to come home early. That was nice. I made spaghetti and garlic bread, and then we went to WalMart so I could get a frame for the cross-stitch I finished today. I haven't worked on it in ages, which was silly because I knew I only had an hour or two of time left. So I finished it, and it looks really neat, and the frame was pretty much exactly what I had in mind. Simple and black. It's a Japanese symbol for love, and it says [Kärlek] under it, and the entire thing is done in black and dark gray. I just loved the idea of having a Japanese symbol with a Swedish subtitle in an English-speaking household. :)

Anyway, since then we've been watching TV and such. Tried to be online, but as I've mentioned, that failed, and we got annoyed and stopped. Tremors 3 was on and we watched some of that. The very beginning and the last hour or so. They're surprisingly good movies, they really shouldn't be. So weird. anyway, and now we've been watching the top 80 videos of the 80s on VH1. It's painful, for the most part, but Magnus seems to enjoy stuff like that.

Anther example for today of why the internet is so good. Talking about the old videos reminded me of that Van Halen video "Right Now". So I went to Van Halen's website (which was a little embarrassing, actually) and watched the video. Really one of the best videos ever made. Van Halen videos. It's under "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge". Don't wanna link directly to the file and steal their bandwidth.

The parents didn't get home from Lucasville until after 10. I must say I'm relieved that I didn't go with them when they asked. :)

It was nice talking to Chickles earlier. It's great to have someone to whom you can bitch to your heart's content, and they will whole-heartedly agree with you. :)

I've been fretting some about the proposed upcoming visit to Sweden in the last couple of days. It's not that I don't want to go, exactly. It's more that I don't really know if it's the right time for a variety of reasons (money) that (flying) I (timing) won't (money) get (comfort) into (money) now. At first I wasn't going to even mention it to him because I didn't think it was fair.. he's been away from the Other Place for a year and a half and if it were me, I'd be freaking out by now. Then I realized pretty quickly that I was being silly, and that if we talked about it, I'd feel better. And I did. And I was more than right.. we BOTH felt a little better about everything. That was nice. :) It's also, forgive me for a brief interlude of why our relationship is so much better than everyone else's, a nice example of how well we work together. *grin* So, well, I suppose that we're going to book tickets next. And make lists of things to do, things to buy, and people to see. I'm a little worried about my list-making tendencies, really.

Sunday night

One thing that we can say about our time habits now that Magnus is working in a serious way (the insurance job just doesn't count).. we certainly make better use of our time! We did sleep late, but had a nice morning, and then we had lunch (grilled cheese for me, barbeque sandwich for him) and were off to Papaw's. The kids were being pretty good, actually, so we played with their floam goo type stuff for a while with them. They're really cute when they're good. We left and came home for a while, Magnus worked on his mandolin, I cooked dinner (fettucini alfredo), we made plans for what to do this week and before we go to Sweden, and we went to Mamaw and Papaw's. We stopped at Slone's after we left to do some smallish grocery shopping, so I can eat lunch this week. :) It gets really old to decide between noodles and grilled cheese every day.. particularly when one is out of bread. :)

When we got home, Magnus did dishes and cleaned the fishtank and we listened to Bob Dylan. I swept and put things away for a while, but then just sat down at the counter to talk to him while he did the dishes. It's much nicer that way.. even if he doesn't always keep me company when I cook and all that stuff. He claims I'm not nice to him when I'm cooking. *giggle* He says he asks me questions and I don't answer for five minutes and then say "what?" in a mean tone. I think he's lying. *mgrin* By the way, that "I think he's lying" is from that email thingie about the guy who moves to somewhere with snow.. I've read it several times but I can't remember where, so I can't link to it or post it here or anything. I just wanted to point out that I don't actually think he's lying.

Argh, this whole wedding present thing is driving me crazy. I have no idea what to get for them. Worrying about shipping and practicality and stuff. I have an idea, but haven't decided yet. And they got married March 20, so I sort of need to get it together and get it sent, otherwise it'll end up as an anniversary gift! :)

We have a dry erase board hanging in the computer room, on the door. We use it to make lists of things to do, and such. I just noticed that I still have Wednesday's to do list on there. Looks like I'd have erased it, doesn't it?

I'm reading the second book of Lord of the Rings. I feel like a whining brat, but I really can't say I'm enjoying it yet. I downloaded the preview for that movie (the second one, yes, not the first) and we watched it this morning. Got absolutely nothing out of it, though, because it was flickering like crazy. Not sure what that was about, but it was annoying. On the other hand, at least I didn't download 20 MB on a modem only to end up with a worthless flickerfest. That would have sucked.

We haven't been doing so well with practicing my swedish lately, so we're trying to start with it again. I do pretty well sometimes, but at other times, it's just a hopeless mass of gibberish. I eavesdrop, sometimes when people call just to see if I can pick up on the subject, or online if he's talking to his friends. If he's talking to me, then he typically speaks slowly enough that I catch most of what he's saying. I do decently well with his parents when he talks to them on the phone. When he talks to Blatt on ICQ, it's completely and utterly hopeless half the time, which is irritating because in general, I do much better with reading than listening. :)

I suppose it's getting close to bedtime. I feel like a two-year old being forced to bed, whining about not being sleepy even though I can barely keep my eyes open. :) I am tired, though. A nickel says Magnus isn't.. he stayed up way too late last night. He's so silly.