08.11.09
Today…
Today he bought us pizza. I guess late is better than never…. however, it was mainly since he did not feel like cooking (and do I ever feel like cooking? No, but I do it anyways….)
We are back in the world of skating again, sort of. I’ll explain it more later.
I do need music for the new season though, probably 4 different songs (I know, four! Usually it’s only two!). I need two short, one long and one artistic. I have the two short ones, and a possible artistic (Hey big spender, maybe?), but I don’t know what to do for the long. I’m thinking something Latin maybe? I’ve never done Latin, and it might be fun. I just don’t know where to start or where to look. Suggestions, anyone? If I don’t come up with something, I’ll revert back to Celtic.
I am going to involve our delightfully crazy Russian as my choreographer. We will drive each other nuts, but it will be fun. I’ll be doing slow and pretty this time for BOTH of my shorts, which is something I’ve never done either. Spirals and stretching, here I come. *Pain*
08.01.09
Fun things
Next month is our 2 year anniversary. The 5th of September marks two years of being Mrs. L. Now, September also means that both hubby and I will be fully engaged in school and won’t really have time to do anything. Last year, we were going to go to a nearby city, have dinner and catch a show, but we ended up being forced to cancel, on the account of Hurricane Warning. We went to lunch at Olive Garden in jeans and t-shirt instead, then went home and boarded up the house. Yeah….
So this year, we decided to come up with a plan. Since my semester ends Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning, we are leaving for a small trip. We will be driving the largest city in our state, spend two nights, go to a museum, a FREE performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and the most exciting, go to IKEA. I am childishly excited. I will be surrounded by Swedish stuff, be able to eat Swedish food, and possibly buy Swedish candy and other exciting things. I have yet to go to a IKEA in the US, so I am thrilled. To me, it’s the best thing about the journey.
Today, we are going to go roller skating. I have never been to a roller skating rink, so this will hopefully be a lot of fun. We are leaving in a couple of hours, just have to do some studying first (have a final on Monday. Eek!). I hope I will return home in one piece. But that is yet to be determined….
Wish me luck!
07.21.09
Annoyance
I just wish that this lady would get off her high horse and just ask for help. It would make her life so much easier in the end if she did. Just send me the d*** portable hard-drive and I’ll GIVE YOU my entire music collection (over 350 CDs) to be used for the girls. I get out of school in two weeks and will have two weeks of totally nothing before the fall semester that I could dedicate to copy, label and sort the music, and then send it to her. It’s a lot of great music, some of it rather rare, and it’s a pity it is wasted sitting under my desk when some girl could be skating to it. *Sigh* But it will never happen of course. Too much pride, ignorance, laziness and politics…..
Update about our move into the new house will follow soon.
03.30.09
3/4
I have finished 3 out of 4 songs for Becky. I ended up choosing music I hadn’t planned, things that just popped up in my head. I tried cutting a lot of other stuff, but it just didn’t want to be cut, so I gave up on them. I’m going to try to cut the last song and send them all of Wednesday or Thursday together with her birthday presents.
I am living vicariously through Becky with a some of these songs. 
03.29.09
Song
Of all the songs I could have chosen, I chose this one. It’s mine, and very beautiful. It’s the one song I wished I had had the courage to skate to. And yes darling, a powdery pink dress would work. So please, I beg you, take care of my song.
And don’t you dare butcher it!
03.15.09
Got five
Alright, so I have five CDs picked out. All pretty, but hopefully not too difficult. All except one is movie music, nothing TOO recent. One classic, one that might be a little of a risk, one that might be slightly too challenging (I wanted to skate to it myself a number of years ago), one fairly recent family movie (2007) and a complete jaw-dropper.
Becky asked me today if I was done yet with all the cutting…. Not quite. She only asked me a week ago, and five out of seven days I’ve been away in Washington! I consider the fact that I’ve weeded out all the CDs a huge accomplishment! I’m currently in the pre-cutting stage with the first one. I sit through and listen to the whole CD, making careful notes.
This is a beautiful CD, it really is. Kaczmarek is a genious.
03.08.09
Heart pounding
Today my youngest sister called me at the most inconvenient time. We were stressed like hell, and late, and still hadn’t eaten. So I couldn’t log onto Skype to talk to her, but managed to talk to her for a couple of minutes on the phone instead (although I think she was more interested in talking to my husband…..)
She asked me that one little question that makes my heart pound faster and skip a few beats. She and her coach wanted me to start looking for music for Novice A. Could I help? Of course. She continued telling me that they had decided that it should be a slow song this time, for her first short program ever. Which is fine. Slow songs are admittedly not my biggest forte’, but it’ll be a great fun challenge.
She also requested that the music should be pink. They wanted to have a pink dress this time, so the music needed to be pink. And if I had any dress ideas I could mail them ASAP. Ah….. I don’t generally descriminate based on the color of music. And I also generally get an idea on how the dress should look AFTER the music is done and cut. Well, well…
Besides, she needs to take the tests first, before they can start doing programs…..
But I’m back in business again, and is listening to music. Hubby wanted me to give her his old song, which I actually might put in the batch. It’s a good, solid piece of music. It has been done though, so I’m a little hesitant to put it there. But it is good, and soft, so why not? If they don’t like it, they don’t have to chose it.
01.25.09
Skating…
He’s trying to get me excited about skating. I can’t let myself. I really can’t. It just breaks my heart. “We’ll get back in to it, I know we will. We can go up once a month and skate!” No. We won’t. We might do it for two months, and that would be it. I know you, I know us. It won’t work. And I’ll be heartbroken again. He doesn’t understand it, he never did.
Do you realize it would take me maybe five years to get back what I’ve lost? To get to the exact level where I was when I left Sweden the first time would take me up towards five years here in the US. Maybe two years had I been in Sweden. The edge quality, fluidity, spins (not that they were fab to start with….), power, confidence…..
To be realistic, when could I slowly start to get back into skating? Do you really want to know? Another three years of college, maybe four. Then I’ll be “off” for another three-four, busy with… other things. So I can start edging back into skating in maybe six to eight years. I’ll be in the adult track, of course. *Sigh*
I’m having a very bad day today.
01.24.09
Stuff
Priceline screwed us over, and we lost over $600. Hate them. Hubby is in a terrible mood over it.
I got my interview date for the residency-thing, March 10th. It’s during the Spring break, so I won’t have to miss any classes, which is nice.
We are watching Nationals on TV, and Galina are coming over tomorrow to watch some of it. I’ve told her to show up at 3, which means she will show up at 4, which is when food will be ready and skating starts…..
We went shopping today and I got two shirts, D got a pyjamas and hubby needed a new suit.
There are mainly High School kids in my communication class, we are only like 4 adults in the class. The dynamics were… interesting… Way to many of my perceived stereotypes were scarily accurate…. English class seems to be good, but tough.
01.07.09
7th of January
It’s just a month left to my 22nd birthday. I start my Algebra class tomorrow, and my Psychology on Monday. The other two start on the 22nd.
We are going to the dentist today, not me thank god, but hubby has to go. He was in last week to replace a filling, but they screwed it up so now we have to go back. So now we have to drive for an hour and a half to get to the VA hospital, for something that should have been done last week….
I went out last night to get all the school supplies I needed. It didn’t go too great. I was out looking for a specific kind of folder/binder, and they apparently don’t have that kind down here (if at all in the US). Very annoying, since I really wanted them. I always use cardboard binders with rubber straps on them, one color for each subject. But not this year, apparently. I might have to stack up on them when I go to Sweden this summer. *Sigh* I did however, buy a calender to organize my life with, a hot pink one. It’s about 1/10th of the size of hubby’s, who covers his entire desk.
Hubby suggested I go skate today. I turned him down. I haven’t skated since early September, and I’m not going to step into “enemy-territory” looking like a idiot. Because we weren’t going to the rink I like, no, we were going to the one I am totally uncomfortable skating in, due to it being Blondie’s rink.
Instead, we are going to go skating for my birthday, at the military rink. Neither of us have ever skated there, but we know that there is no figure skating club residing there.
