So, yeah, that’s pretty much my new news for now. I finally, finally got a new computer and I am so happy to be on my way to everything back to normal. I just bought it yesterday, so I’m still adjusting to the new keyboard (and also the fact that the computer is Swedish and I have it set to US, so have to just remember where certain keys are) and also still setting everything up and getting pictures on here. But, it shouldn’t take long before this just feels as natural and normal as my old one did. Hopefully anyway.
I’m still very impressed with Bryan’s ability to find what we need over here. We bought it at webhallen.se which we found through prisjakt.nu. Both very good and recommended sites. It was definitely the best price for a laptop, and I’m glad for this, because after searching at several electronics stores and also then comparing possibilities to what these same computers cost at Bestbuy in the states, I was feeling pretty nauseous, yet not nauseous enough to go without a laptop until we go back to the states again…
One of these days, I should share my favorite sites, restaurants, places-- all of my favorites and secrets I’ve discovered to making my life a little easier and more pleasant while living here. I don’t know. I guess I feel like this info will make for a good closure when/if we go back. For now, I don’t want a lot of competition on the sites where we can get airfare for 250kr (yep, that just happened, for two round trip tickets) or my 149kr “dress of the day” disappearing before I get to buy it—heehee. It took a long time to figure these things out. I want to keep these secrets for just a little bit longer 
But maybe I’ll share a little something every now and again.
Other than my new laptop I’ve been trying to figure out, our family has been very competitively engrossed in our new Wii. We decided this Christmas that instead of exchanging gifts, we would buy a Wii and accessories as a big family gift for everyone. I actually had this idea and didn’t know if the kids would really go for it, but everyone has loved this. Naturally, we all exchanged a few small things, but the Wii was basically our Christmas.
We had a very close call picking it up from UPS though. We just kept trying to decide if this was actually a good idea since we might just have to sell it all in a few months, so we did wait until only a few days before Christmas to order it; but, with a guaranteed delivery date by the 24th. Anyway, we weren’t home when the package arrived (on the 23rd I should mention), went to pick it up during the few hours they were open the 24th, and found that they couldn’t find one of the boxes. Long story short, the idiot delivery man had left this one solitary box in his truck, so we were very grateful they went to the trouble to thoroughly search everywhere it could be. Thankfully it worked out. Then we came home and watched the traditional Kalle Anka Christmas special, opened our gifts (we did it the Swedish way this year on Christmas eve), made Christmas dinner, then set up the Wii…and that’s basically all we’ve been doing since.
I swear, though, that one of these days you might find a video on youtube of me trying to do the hulahooping game on Wii Fit. I’ll admit, it will be hysterical. Meagan has ideas of setting it to background music, which I would guess would be something very club musicy. I also swear I’m burning a hell of a lot more calories with all of my hip motions trying desperately to compete with the rotation records my family has set. It’s a little embarrassing who in our family is the best at this game.
Anyway, this is just a brief update until I get all of the pictures on here from the last few days so I can do a proper post. But in reality, I’m really just getting really frustrated with pushing capslock instead of shift every time I want to make a capital letter.
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