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I hate titles. They are so incredibly important, but I can never ever think of a good one, and therefore hate them. When I write e-mails I always leave the subject out because I dislike using clichés and subjects and titles are evil traps for clichés. hmm, random, but it has been on my mind all day so....

  Okay, on to something else, Christofer has been getting the car stuck recently, yep, on Wednesday we went to say goodbye to Andrea, youngest Karltorp, who is moving to Malmö, and it was just another common Swedish day, which means snow falling in feet! So, we came to his family's driveway and it looked, well, we couldn't really see the driveway at all, so I suggested we park on the road and walk the half mile up, well, Christofer was, as always, stressed because he had five jobs lined up and it was already mid afternoon so he started driving up. The driveway is long and the first challenge is a little curving hill, well he didn't make it up and instead starting sliding to the side and getting stuck in about three feet of snow! I jumped out shoveled around it with my hands and we were able to back down, well, he couldn't really see anything since the driveway was buried so I walked besides him telling him where the tire tracks were. About more than halfway out of danger he started picking up speed and was just about to make when he slid right off and into even more snow. I was standing in front watching and couldn't help but laugh. It looked so funny! Well, we both started digging and pushing and pulling but it didn't work and we ended up walking up anyway and Gunnar, Christofer's dad, had to pull us out with the tractor. Well, this morning we slept in and had breakfast together since Christofer has been working until 10 almost every night and I don't have to work today. Well, anyway about a half hour after he had left he called me and told me that he had been stuck in our driveway for over 20 mins but he didn't call me because he kept thinking he was almost out! He is so silly! But ahh, it at least gave us something to laugh about!

  Today I have about a mile high pile of clothes to wash and three sink loads of dishes to scrub, but the sun is shinning and I am itching to go skiing, so I'm thinking about forcing Christofer to come home before it gets dark and making him go with me. After all he probably put in a 50hr week in four days so he should take some time off. Don't you agree? I do, whole heartedly! Now, off to a productive day!

Girls just wanna have fun!

The weekend flew by once again. On Saturday I ended up joining Linn and Andrea on Linn's recurring quest to find a wedding dress. She actually found her dream dress, but it unfortunately didn't have a dream price tag. She was a little discouraged and we were all very cold, that being that it was -18c outside, but then Andrea took us to 'Stockholm's best coffee place' and that cheered us all up! We then all three used one subway ticket to take the subway to try and find our way to Stockholm's bridal trade show, after finding our way to Slussen, we took a buss and Andrea and I tried reading the signs as they zoomed on by. We ended up getting off at the right stop and still a little worried that we might not find it Andrea and I ended up asking three girls holding pink paper bags if they knew where the bridal show was, they informed us in a rather short tone that it was right around the corner and there were large archways at the entrance. Andrea said we could blame our stupidity on me since I was from America, thanks a lot. Upon entering we were met by quite a crowd and lots of people trying to sell things. Since they often wanted to talk to the Bride, that being Linn, Andrea and I went around eating the candy, which almost every stand had, and filling out almost every contest. Our labor was not in vain however, because I actually won! Yep, we had just finished up drinking free espresso's with dark chocolate and we went back to a stand that had a drawing and my name was on the board. Of course they spelled it was wrong, but I was given hair products worth up to 600kr, at least thats what he claimed it was worth. I gave Linn the wedding magazine since that came along with it and Linn charmed one of the guys into giving Andrea a magazine as well. We ended the round with sorbet and Linn trying on a rather ugly but cheap wedding dress, so perhaps it wasn't the most successful day but it was fun and the best part was that we found a band that might possible be the band for the wedding, and of course it is always fun to spend some quality time with my sister-in-laws. It was only poor Caroline whom was missing, I bet she is having an absolutely awful time in Ohio ;)

Off to make some chocolate chip cookies.