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Life, it is busy. M and I returned home with renewed energy and a thousand things that we want to get done. We're not talking, buy toilet paper. We're talking great big projects requiring lots of time and energy and thinking. Oh, the thinking. We gave ourselves a break Monday and Tuesday, but today we started making lists and plans and schedules. Coincidentally, paradisecowgirl posted about one of my own renewed goals today, so the two of us have been making lots of plans of our own today.

I realized, while we were away, that I have spent the last three years doing very little to practice my Swedish. I know it's not a terribly practical thing for me to care about, since we really have no plans to move to Sweden. It's just something I want to do, and the time has come that I really want to either give it a good shot, or just forget about it and stop pretending that I'm going to learn. That's not really my style, so the only other option is to continue. There's not a Swedish course around my neck of the woods, so the two of us are going to help keep each other accountable as we both study. And, M and I are doing a few things that will (hopefully) help. It feels a little overwhelming, especially when I don't have that added motivation of not understanding what's going on around me. :)

In other news, there is no other news.