OMG, how good do these peanut butter brownies look? NOMNOMCITY!
I had to confess to The Things I Don’t Drink again today, this time to 3 colleagues during a training course I was at. They all boggled at me. I couldn’t decide which one each of them was boggling at me most for which beverage…as they seemed to be equally divided, all three. Yeah, I don’t drink coffee. I don’t drink tea. And I don’t drink alcohol. “For health reasons?” …no. I just don’t like the smell. Or the taste. Here in Sweden, most Swedes can’t decide which is worse: not drinking coffee or not drinking alcohol.
It’s not that I haven’t tried them; I have. I’ve tried all of them, but not enough to develop a taste for any of them. Bleah. And by try, I basically mean I have sipped them. I have sipped coffee a couple of times. Tea, a couple of times. Beer, once was enough. Ditto most of the liquors, and wine, and champagne. I WILL drink a little kaluha or amaretto or amarula with cream, but that hardly counts since it amounts to a couple of teaspoons, it’s basically liquid candy, and it happens, like, once every 4 years.
It’s Eurovision week here in Europe, and madness especially HERE, because we are hosting it. Malmö is hosting it! Because Sweden won last year. If you live in the States and have no idea what I’m talking about, go here to read all about it. The first semi-final was Tuesday and the second one is tonight. They have to have semi-finals because there are so many countries that want to participate. There are 39 countries participating this year, and of those, 26 will be in the final on Saturday.
So far this year, I have no favorite. Martin says I shouldn’t write this until after tonight, because the contestants tonight are better than the trainwreck full of forgettableness that was Tuesday’s semi-final. He knows this because he was at the dress rehearsal yesterday, along with 10,000 other Skåne-area students.
I am enjoying my life right now. My friend Camilla is back in Sweden (at least for awhile), this is one of the most beautiful Swedish springs I’ve experienced since I moved here, I have a big pile of much-anticipated new books to read, and work has, at least slightly, eased up.
The Saturday after this one, I leave for a week in Singapore. I get there on Sunday so I will have part of that day to see things, plus maybe some evenings, after work. But everything I have researched about things to do/see in Singapore mostly makes mention of shopping (expensive shopping!), eating out and nightlife. I’m not sure what to do while I’m there…anyone been and have suggestions?