It’s so nice to be loved. My family rocks. I e-mailed my mom yesterday to ask her to schedule a couple of sessions for me with her massage therapist while we’re in the States and this morning she e-mailed me back to tell me that she had already done so before she even got my e-mail. And yesterday in the package of birthday presents that my brother sent Karin, he included 3 CDs for me. Dido’s Life For Rent, Amanda Marshall and The Best of REM. Life is good.<\/p>\n
I ran a bunch of errands yesterday, so my to-do list is shortening, which also makes me happy. Karin and I went to the nursery and bought a big flat of summer flowers to replace the sad looking pansies in the front pots. We got 4 HOT PINK<\/b><\/font> and BLINDING FUCHSIA<\/b><\/font> geraniums, 2 bright lewisias (bitter-root), 2 peachy golden-pink tea-roses, a big pink begonia, 4 dusty millers and a beautiful orange-red-yellow flower<\/a> called eldkrona<\/i>* in Swedish.<\/p>\n I bought marinated pork chops and Anders grilled them up for dinner. We ate out on the porch but the flies were so obnoxious that I don’t expect we’ll be doing that again any time soon. \ud83d\ude41 I don’t know if there is anything that can be done about the flies since we have a farm behind us with free-range fowl, 3 horses and a gazillion dogs. Because we were going in and out the flies all decided to come in the house every time the door was opened and we ended up a whole posse inside. I killed at least 7 before we went to bed, but of course 3 of the little bastards woke us up at 5:30 a.m. dive-bombing our heads. argh!<\/p>\n Martin and I finished reading Charlotte’s Web<\/i> last night. I’ve read it a dozen times and I STILL<\/b> tear up when Charlotte dies. Martin was very solemn as well. He really liked it though, and wants to read Stuart Little<\/i> next. \ud83d\ude42 I told him it was a great book, way better than the movie, and he said, “You ALWAYS say the book is better than the movie!” <\/p>\n I’m so pleased that we have solved a huge spam problem with the AWC email aliases. Thanks to a good friend who is a programming wizard, I hopefully won’t be getting over a 100 spam emails a day anymore. On the subject of spam, I would SO like to see this show: Spamalot<\/a>. What a lineup!<\/p>\n