Wednesday afternoon

This was Magnus's day off, and we've put it to good use. We've switched the insurance over, taken the cans to be recycled ($10), did some shopping, found the leftover Swedish money ($100!), filled out and mailed some forms we had from the insurance company, done laundry, made phone calls, done some packing, cleaned up the house a little, dropped off mail at the parents, transferred stuff from the Cavalier to the new car, further cleaned Goldie's seats, made CDs and worked on our homepage. We've cleaned the computer room and dusted in here and in the bedroom, been to the lake to take a walk, dropped film off at WalMart, made a terrific dinner, did dishes, and other stuff I can't even think of at the moment. I also thought of sixteen new things to add to the list of things to do. Go figure.

I'm going to Maysville tomorrow to meet Lisa (and Andy. I think.) for lunch. Supposed to be there by 1.. I hope I don't forget to take her present with me. That'd be excessively stupid of me.

We had a really nice time at the lake tonight. It was about 60 degrees and fading daylight, and we walked around the spillway and held hands and stuff. It was the kind of thing we'd have done on a visit and that we don't have as much time for now. We're going to try to do that again and more often, but probably won't have a chance until June.. when we get back from Sweden.

I'm so freaked out about this trip, and I know I'm being paranoid and worrying over nothing. I'm partially worried about the flying. I'm not sure why.. I do still realize that it's a very safe means of transportation, but I haven't flown since Sept 11, and while I'd like for it to not bother me, it sorta does. And furthermore, I'm worried about what will go on and who we'll see and what we'll do once we're there. Do I have a rational reason for this? No, not really. Does that make me less anxious? No, not really. I have lots of half-formed or completely analyzed theories about this, but I suspect I couldn't relate them very well, and I suppose it doesn't matter in the end why, anyway.

The flowers that Magnus brought me on my birthday are still mostly alive. I cleaned them out this morning, threw away the dead ones, picked off yellowed leaves, and they look all cute again. Amazing.. it's been almost two weeks.

Our dear ISP has decided not to bother providing us with an internet connection, which is troublesome, as I won't be able to post this until it comes back up. It is showing no signs of doing this.

We've been sticking to the list that I made on Monday pretty well. I've done some shifting, but in general, we've gotten the things done each day. Somewhat unusual. My lists never work that well. I guess it helped that this time, the stuff needed done. :)

I think I'll go to bed now and read. My husband is playing mandolin behind my head, and I might as well erm, appreciate the beautiful music from another room. :p

Thursday afternoon

I know this sounds dumb at this point, but I feel like I have nothing to do. I didn't schedule much for the day because I thought I'd be having lunch with Lisa (which I did) in Maysville (which I did) so I didn't know when I'd be home or how much time I'd have or how I'd feel when I got back. The stuff on the list for tomorrow really should remain for tomorrow, but now what? :) It feels somewhat unique, as I've had a billion things planned all week. I guess I'll go off in a minute and get some housework done after all.

Lunch was nice.. oh my, but they can cook a steak at the Tumbleweed. It's the reason I volunteered to drive to Maysville. Well, that and Chickles usually drives to Morehead to see me so i thought it'd be nice to meet her for once. It was soo tender and juicy. Wish I knew how they did that.

I picked up some pictures at WalMart on the way out of town. Never again will I let WalMart develop film for me. They're ridiculously grainy, which sucks as some of them were pretty decent pictures. Magnus says that the film was old.. but I can print pictures with our inkjet printer that look better than that!

I'm pathetically excited about the season finale of Friends tonight. Did I mention already that I realized that I won't miss anything being in Sweden? This is the last night after all. Which is good and a little annoying. The commercials have lied shamelessly about the last few episodes of this season. "In May! Every week a full hour of new Friends!".. and then in May, there IS a full hour.. and the second episode is a random rerun. Stupid.

Perhaps I should get a life. :)

I took Lisa's present to her, and she brought mine. Two books (Cider House Rules and Bridget Jones: the edge of reason) and a box of maple candy. *beam* My chickles is so neat. :)