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Today is Valborg and for once, we're actually going to do something to recognize a Swedish holiday. We're having new potatoes and pickled herring. I don't think we'll burn anything, though. ;) Hopefully, anyway, otherwise dinner might not be so special! We're also not going to get drunk, but M might have one of his sacred Julmust. He's actually only drank one since Saturday, because he's trying to make them last as long as possible.

I ordered my new graphics card last night. See, the one I have is flickery, and the main problem is that the ICQ icon flickers constantly and it drives me batty. I had this with another ATI card a while back, and finally I switched it with M. It didn't bother me as much when it flickered on his computer! (He got a new card for Christmas, so he didn't have to put up with it too long.) This is just a cheap piece of crap substituted in a hurry when my old graphics card wasn't compatible with this new computer, so I'm not too worried about the money loss, although it does really suck on principle. Anyway, I don't need a particularly great card, since I don't do games and such, and I think I ended up with a decent one, so I'm happy. Or I will be when it gets here in 4-7 days. This should also mean that if I'm on your ICQ list, I'll stop with the bouncing on and off line. I just can't stand it being open very long with that steady flicker.

I have a hickey from hell this morning. Normally, I wouldn't be writing this, but it's going to be pretty darned obvious to anyone I see in my real life, so I figure I might as well gripe about it here. I don't have a chance of hiding the thing. I'm so not looking forward to seeing people I know until this thing goes away!

I made that Jamie Oliver chicken thing that [livejournal.com profile] carrieb posted last week, and it really was very very good. Magnus in particular loved it. I'm not a huge bacon fan, so while I could appreciate that it was very good, I only ate half of mine before it got to be too bacony to finish. Magnus was happy, since that meant he could finish it. The potatoes were excellent, though. I also used regular bacon instead of pancetta, and I put two extra slices on top of the potatoes. (I touched them with raw chicken on fingers, figured I might as well bake them than throw them away.) I'm now instructed to make this once a week. *laugh*

I dreamed all night about my high school friends. For the last two years of HS, four of us were inseperable. I suppose the problem was that it eventually became two couples instead of four single friends, and while those relationships lasted two or three years each, neither of them lasted past our second year of college. It's actually somewhat weird even now, because I have a hard time talking about anything that happened during that time to M, so there's three or four years of my life that barely gets mentioned, or is edited a lot before the story gets told, but this ex was my best friend through most of high school before he was my bf. It's not like there are things I can't tell him, it just feels awkward. M and I were close friends for at least four months before we ever got the nerve to ask if the other had a bf/gf, so I guess it's not all that surprising.

Anyway, I'm not surprised that the exbf and I aren't friends anymore. As I said once, I wouldn't mind exchanging an email every eight months or so with the guy, but well, you can very rarely go backwards and ease into a friendship again, and frankly, exbestfriend or not, I wouldn't even remotely want to try it. But Josh and Barbie are another matter altogether. I haven't seen either of them since just after I got back from Sweden for the summer in 2000. I went out with each of them to dinner and we talked and had a very nice time, and I invited them to my wedding. I sent the invitations, and I haven't heard from them since. To tell the truth, it still hurts my feelings when I think about it. I mean.. I didn't expect us to remain as close as we were, but it's been two and a half years and I haven't even heard from either of them, and I can't believe they didn't make it to my wedding. Or.. actually, I wouldn't even have minded if they didn't come.. we were married out of town somewhat, but they could have CALLED or sent a card, for goodness sake. In the time since then, I've considered emailing Josh (Barbie wasn't into email) and seeing if he still had the same address, but to be honest, I'm not sure what to say, and I'm afraid I'll be bitchy. ;)

Oh, well. It's not that I can't live without them in my life, I just wish that we were still at least friends. I had no idea I was going to go into all that when I mentioned dreaming about them. Anyway, I need to go find something for lunch and turn the ac down a little. It's freezing in here, which seems a little excessive.

Date: 2003-04-30 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] totte.livejournal.com
Glad Valborgsmässoafton, hickey-girl!

Date: 2003-05-01 11:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] same-sky.livejournal.com
Glad Valborgsmässoafton! Only, it was yesterday that I should have replied to this. Ooops!

Date: 2003-05-01 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carrieb.livejournal.com
I'm glad you liked the recipe *g*. I guess if you have to make it once a week you can make yours less bacony. I'm not big into the bacon either so don't put as much as Jamie recommends.

Date: 2003-05-01 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] same-sky.livejournal.com
Yep, it was jättegood. Course, I'm not so sure about that once a week thing, but still! Thanks for the recipe. :)

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