I’ve had a fairly productive day today. On the internet front, I finished up my editing work for the upcoming issue of Mosaic Minds and updated the kids’ pages (Lydia and Tage) so that they’re finally current — the last two pages of Lydia’s pictures and the last four of Tage’s are new. I also went to the midwife for my first Pap smear in over three years. That went well, although I was a bit nonplussed when she waxed almost poetic about my nether regions (“Åh, det ser så fint ut!). After that, Olof, the kids, and I drove to town where we shopped for a birthday present for Lydia to take to a party next week, and I went to my Weight Watchers meeting (down .6 kg from last week — yay, me!). After that we came home and I made a tasty dinner, washed the dishes, then finally got a chance to sit and relax a bit. Oh yeah, I gave myself a haircut, too (if hacking at my hair with kitchen scissors for five or ten minutes qualifies as a “haircut”).

On a completely unrelated note, I was watching a rerun of Jay Leno this morning and Meg Ryan was a guest. Her lips are so collagen-injected, or whatever the hell it is, that her puffy top lip barely moves when she talks or smiles. It was very distracting and even a little creepy. I just can’t bring myself to like her anyway, after she threw over Dennis Quaid for Russell Crowe — what on earth was she thinking?! Stupid woman.

Tomorrow I’m going to town by myself (I managed to talk Olof into keeping Tage, even though it will be the middle of the afternoon!) to have fika with Helena and Debbie. I am so looking forward to the chance to get out and spend some time with my friends without having to worry about who’s going where and who’s getting into something he shouldn’t be and all the mommy stuff. Plus, I hear there’s cheesecake and cinnabons in the offing. Can’t beat that with a stick.