…a good one in fact.

I find that absolutely love the new Janet Jackson CD. I downloaded the songs to my MP3 player so that I could take them around and listen to them.

I have been singing the songs as I have been walking around the city, or shopping. People don’t typically sing and even hum in Sweden, so to do that is strange here. I have never thought of singing to myself as strange. I often do it to releave stress and to stretch the vocal cords (shush Steve!) because I think it’s healthy for the voice. And my mom sings beautifully as does most of my family.

But I will say that I was singing a song in the supermarket yesterday. And I hadn’t really realised that I was singing as I was shopping. And an old lady looked at me and I got embarassed and apologies. And she told me that I sang really good. So that made my day in a small way.

Anyway, today is my day off so I am working on clearing up some of my e-mail. And maybe the final push on some of those smaller projects that I have been meaning to work on. And then I will go to the gym and work out.

Oh yeah…and the dinner turned out great. Thanks to help from Robin.

Got guests coming over for dinner in a little over an hour.

Preparations are behind schedule.

Why am I typing then? To go over the menu of course 🙂

Starter: Homemade mushroom soup

Main: Veal with choices of homemade gravy or blackberry sauce, accompanied by homemade gratinated potatoes

Dessert: Homemade strawberry cheesecake with champagne

I have been cooking up a storm the last 3-4 days. Tomorrow it is all about take-out.

Of course the more conservative element would suspect this of being unfair.

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So I was in Oslo on Friday in order to do some work and run some education sessions. And then since it was cheaper to stay the night than to fly home later that day, I decided to make a night of it in Oslo. It was okey overall, but since I didn’t know anyone, it was not as much fun as it could have been. And somewhere along the night, I managed to actually break a tooth. I drank loads of vodka that Friday which is why I didn’t notice the pain that much.

I came back to Stockholm on Saturday, and I noticed that I left some items on the airplane (see other posts). I was kinda bummed, but prepared to buy new things if I had to. Went out on Saturday night and got destroyed…which meant that nothing productive happened on Sunday.

Went to an emergency dentist on Sunday. Seems like the broken tooth will have to be removed. But I didn’t want to remove it right then and there because I wanted a second opinion. The dentist who was treating me was kinda rude, refused to speak English, and chastised me for not speaking Swedish. So I was in pain, wanted medical advice in a language that I could clearly understand so that I make proper medical decisions (e.g…sure, I can have them take out the tooth — it will have to come out — but what were the next steps? Should I replace the tooth or does that tooth have no real impact?)

She put in a temporary filling, gave me my paperwork, wrote some perscriptions, and I decided that I would work with the US Embassy to find an English-speaking dentist. So there is no pain.

Went out last night as well, and there was a general discomfort all night long. And the dentist did a bad job on the temporary filling, so awaking to a rush of pain, I went back to the emergency dentist and they put in a new filling. They are pretty sure the tooth will need to come out in about 2 weeks, which is good because I can plan to be away from work.

So Monday sucks so far, but I called the airport about my lost items and they were retrieved. So perhaps the day can equal out after all…

Grrrrrr!

I am so angry with myself!

I left my MP3 player, my sunglasses, and my Bose Noise Canceling Headphones
on the plane!! And in Scandinavian, lost and found is not open on the
weekends. At least they have a website that I can check.

I guess the only thing that I am really disappointed in possibly losing is
the Bose Headsets. The other stuff was kinda outdated. Maybe I will use
this as the opportunity to get a mini iPod, some new Gucci sunglasses that
I saw on sale, and smaller noise-cancelling headphones.

It just might work out already after all.

Staying on the positive side, Rodney