half the weekend
Feb. 5th, 2011 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaStill loving falling into an already established social life. This morning ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
archinonlive's parents came over for a visit. This was the first time they'd seen him since his birthday last month, so they brought cinnamon rolls, and we baked a cake. This cake was sweeter than I normally go for, since he thought his parent's would prefer a sweet cake, but since it was filled with fruit (bananas and raspberries) and cream and frosted with more cream and decorated with segments of mandarin orange and kiwifruit I happily ate a slice anyway. (His dad had 4ths of the cake over the couple of hours we visited, so I think he approved). I like his parents, but wasn't able to talk as easily with them as with his brothers and sisters, as they don't speak English as fluently as the kids do. They left at mid-day, which left time for lunch and snuggles before heading over to gaming.
I'm enjoying the gaming--the group of people are fun, and the characters they are playing all have distinct personalties. After gaming some of us stuck around for dinner (and a few others joined us), which was early enough that I was still able to eat. It is nice to enjoy a meal with others now and then. After that we came home and practiced reading aloud to him from children's books. I really appreciate his patience in being willing to do this with me. While I'm still not good enough in Swedish to want to attempt to speak it in front of witnesses, trying (and failing and getting corrected till I can say it correctly) while curling up in the lap of a loved one is very nice.
I am very happy here, and really enjoying being in a relationship again. I know that he must have some points upon which we aren't compatible (everyone does!), but though I've been here a month, and we had a month of video conversations before I arrived, we still haven't found the places where we are incompatible. Even our taste in colour is matched; I have to look closely at the clothes after washing them to determine whose is whose because the colours are identical. Now that I've got a local phone number he gave me an old mobile phone he had lying around to put my Italian SIM card into, in case I get any calls to that number. Normally I prefer a plain phone--no fancy wallpapers or themes for me, I'm content with a solid colour (blue is good) with no embellishments. This phone came to me with a weird blue wallpaper that has some sort of blue ball in the middle, and swirls of other blues around it. Wanting something plainer I spent some time trying to find something I'd like better. Eventually I gave up and commented to him that I'd failed in my quest to find anything on the phone that is prettier than the one he'd used. He agreed that it wouldn't have been his first choice, either, but it was the best of what was available.
Tomorrow is the SCA fighter training in the morning, music and folk dancing in the late afternoon and evening. If I'm really lucky I'll also find a bit of time in between to do some uni work--last week's effort was back up to the kind of hours I think I should be working (well, if you count Swedish homework as well as geology stuff), and a few hours on the weekend will help keep the average number of hours worked up where I want it.
archinonlive's parents came over for a visit. This was the first time they'd seen him since his birthday last month, so they brought cinnamon rolls, and we baked a cake. This cake was sweeter than I normally go for, since he thought his parent's would prefer a sweet cake, but since it was filled with fruit (bananas and raspberries) and cream and frosted with more cream and decorated with segments of mandarin orange and kiwifruit I happily ate a slice anyway. (His dad had 4ths of the cake over the couple of hours we visited, so I think he approved). I like his parents, but wasn't able to talk as easily with them as with his brothers and sisters, as they don't speak English as fluently as the kids do. They left at mid-day, which left time for lunch and snuggles before heading over to gaming.I'm enjoying the gaming--the group of people are fun, and the characters they are playing all have distinct personalties. After gaming some of us stuck around for dinner (and a few others joined us), which was early enough that I was still able to eat. It is nice to enjoy a meal with others now and then. After that we came home and practiced reading aloud to him from children's books. I really appreciate his patience in being willing to do this with me. While I'm still not good enough in Swedish to want to attempt to speak it in front of witnesses, trying (and failing and getting corrected till I can say it correctly) while curling up in the lap of a loved one is very nice.
I am very happy here, and really enjoying being in a relationship again. I know that he must have some points upon which we aren't compatible (everyone does!), but though I've been here a month, and we had a month of video conversations before I arrived, we still haven't found the places where we are incompatible. Even our taste in colour is matched; I have to look closely at the clothes after washing them to determine whose is whose because the colours are identical. Now that I've got a local phone number he gave me an old mobile phone he had lying around to put my Italian SIM card into, in case I get any calls to that number. Normally I prefer a plain phone--no fancy wallpapers or themes for me, I'm content with a solid colour (blue is good) with no embellishments. This phone came to me with a weird blue wallpaper that has some sort of blue ball in the middle, and swirls of other blues around it. Wanting something plainer I spent some time trying to find something I'd like better. Eventually I gave up and commented to him that I'd failed in my quest to find anything on the phone that is prettier than the one he'd used. He agreed that it wouldn't have been his first choice, either, but it was the best of what was available.
Tomorrow is the SCA fighter training in the morning, music and folk dancing in the late afternoon and evening. If I'm really lucky I'll also find a bit of time in between to do some uni work--last week's effort was back up to the kind of hours I think I should be working (well, if you count Swedish homework as well as geology stuff), and a few hours on the weekend will help keep the average number of hours worked up where I want it.
