{"id":322,"date":"2003-10-16T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/10\/16\/tgiaf\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:55:52","slug":"tgiaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/10\/16\/tgiaf\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Thank God It&#8217;s Almost Friday \ud83d\ude42<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Anders and the kids made homemade pizzas for dinner, just as I was heading out the door for social circle at Sigurborg&#8217;s. I wanted to stay so badly&#8230;but, commitments&#8230; \ud83d\ude41 argh <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was a nice evening, even though I was the only other member of the AWC there. Sigurborg had invited 3 of her neighbors (1 didn&#8217;t show) and another woman from Iceland who is planning on joining. We spoke Swedish the entire time, and each one of them at some point complimented me on my Swedish. I&#8217;m really beginning to wonder when the statute of limitations on how <i>duktig<\/i> I am with Swedish is going to run out. I&#8217;ve been here nearly seven years and still, people are impressed. \ud83d\ude42 They were all very nice, and the food was decent and now I&#8217;m tired and just want to go to bed.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend is another busy one (more cleaning), although we don&#8217;t have anything in the evenings, which I&#8217;m glad about. I&#8217;m craving one of those weekends where I didn&#8217;t have to go anywhere or see ANYONE or do anything but sleep in, eat lunch, read on the sofa, watch a movie, cuddle with the cats (boo HOO!) and go to bed late. Maybe after Christmas, things will settle down. <font size=\"-2\">(SHUT UP tiny voice in my head saying yeah, right!)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pookasleeping.jpg\" width=300 height=201 alt=\"\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\n<b>Pooka-nini-kitten-face<\/b><font size=\"-2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Choir last night was great fun. We worked on a Christmas song and a cool cool song that I love singing, called &#8220;Titania&#8221; where the melody weaves around through each section. It&#8217;s great fun to sing, especially now that we&#8217;ve pretty much got it nailed. I gave our choir leader Eva a copy of my favorite modern Christmas song to see if she would consider it for our Christmas term. It&#8217;s called <b>Were You There on That Christmas Night?<\/b> My favorite traditional Christmas song is <b>O Come, All Ye Faithful<\/b> \ud83d\ude42 and my favorite time of year to sing it is in the middle of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, thinking about Christmas carols isn&#8217;t complete without a chorus of<\/p>\n<p><i>We three kings of orient are<br \/>\npuffing on a giant cigar<br \/>\nit was loaded<br \/>\nit exploded!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>hahaha!<\/p>\n<p>Sushi &#038; crafting with <a href=\"http:\/\/galestorm.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">galestorm<\/a> ahead, yahoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God It&#8217;s Almost Friday \ud83d\ude42 Anders and the kids made homemade pizzas for dinner, just as I was heading out the door for social circle at Sigurborg&#8217;s. I wanted to stay so badly&#8230;but, commitments&#8230; \ud83d\ude41 argh Anyway, it was a nice evening, even though I was the only other member of the AWC there. Sigurborg had invited 3 of her neighbors (1 didn&#8217;t show) and another woman from Iceland who is planning on joining. We spoke Swedish the entire time, and each one of them at some point complimented me on my Swedish. I&#8217;m really beginning to wonder when&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}