I’ve been preoccupied for the past few weeks so, blogging has been sparse. It’s a good thing though, nothing bad going on, knock on wood.<\/p>\n
But a lot has been going on, both at work and at home. Music Madness is keeping me plenty busy, and is so much fun to handle, I’ll miss it when the tournament is over. Sometimes I can’t believe people pay me money to do the things I love to do. Seems too good to be true.<\/p>\n
We’re losing our awesome video guy though, which kind of sucks. He’s going to go into the wild and wacky world of bar ownership, which I find odd, but somehow fitting for him. I guess it just seems weird to completely 180 on your career like that. But he seems really excited about it, so I wish him the best. This means the paper is hiring back our other videographer who was laid off recently. Luckily, he’s cool with coming back, and he’s also pretty good so that means we don’t have to spend time training someone new as we head into a busy sports season.<\/p>\n
At home, the kid is finally just about done making Kelly’s veil. It’s turning out so pretty. Kelly will look beautiful in it. Also saw some pictures of the spot where they’re getting hitched and my god – it’s freaking gorgeous. It’s on a congressman’s property in Big Sur (he will also officiate) and is just at the edge of a beatiful cliff looking out over the Pacific. It’s stunning.<\/p>\n
The wedding is coming up faster than I expected. My poor sister is subconsciously stressed about planning a big wedding on the other side of the country from her (she won’t admit it, but she beat the crap out of her laptop the other night, so I’m thinking, yeah, stress.) so I keep asking her if, as main of honour, I can do anything to help out and make things go smoothly but so far there’s nothing. I’m cracking the whip on the veil though.<\/p>\n
Let’s see what else… Ah, my Swedish lessons continue. I’m loving it, but just when I think I’m doing really well, my underbara teacher lets loose with a huge conversational sentence and I just gape at him. Don’t think I’m going to master the language any time soon \ud83d\ude42 But I can say things like, “Hur mycket kostar det?,” “Jag har g\u00e5tt vilse,”\u00a0 and “Kittla inte mina f\u00f6tter,” which will come in handy if I’m ever lost and wondering how much it would cost to have someone stop tickling my feet.<\/p>\n
Swedish is interesting to me because when you look at a simple sentence, it looks completely, well, foreign. But sometimes, when you say it out loud, the sounds are very similar to English, as if you’re speaking English with a bizarre accent. I love it. I’m told I’m picking it up pretty quick so that’s good. Love languages and always wanted to learn others apart from French. I know a smattering of Spanish, a titch of German and a few Russian words, but learning\/becoming fluent in more languages is on my Do Before You Die list.<\/p>\n
For the past 2 days I’ve been listening to the 70s channel on XM. I finally got tired of Fred on 44 which played Bauhaus’ ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ just one time too many and switched to the 50s channel. But other than Matt’s show each night, I’m not fond of the other DJs or their shows. So I switched to 60s which was cool. Listened to that for quite a while before I decided I couldn’t take one more episode of “Chicken Man” and so now I’m the 70s. This one’s a little harder to take. There is a ton of 70s music I could go the rest of my life without ever hearing again. But as I’ve discovered doing Music Madness, there is actually a lot of 70s stuff I always loved but never realized it was from that decade. Go figure. So I’m enjoying it for the most part, and tuning out when something crappy comes on.<\/p>\n
Well, totally meant to go to bed early for once, and blew that with a rambling-about-nothing bedtime blog \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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