i just found an enormous christmas gift! i wonder if it's for me... maybe i should open it just a little bit?

yesterday we went to visit a friend/colleague of mine. as there's a big hole in the toyota's exhaust pipe another friend/colleague was nice and let us go with him and his son in their nice warm saab. he is now the second of my colleagues who has almost fallen down the steep slope by our road. from now on i hope i'm going to remember to tell anyone who is coming to visit us to leave the car by the "main" road, and walk the last bit... i'm feeling quite ashamed when i think about the poor people i haven't remembered to warn. especially one of them, who specifically asked if it was ok to go to us by motorcycle, and i said "of course" and she nearly fell over. and a while later i asked her to take care of our mail when we were away, and forgot to tell her the mailbox is not by the house but down by the road. and she drove up and got stuck in the muddy road and someone had to come and pull her away with a bigger car.

the friend/colleague's house was nice and narrow in a funny way. and it was very christmasy, and her fun little daughter had made lussekatter together with her grandmother (and apparently they're really easy to make: you just need some kind of dough and then you can either put the raisins in the dough or on top of the buns. i might even try it myself one day:).

we were so inspired by all the christmas decorations they had, so today we went down to the skyltsöndag in the city and bought christmas things.
christmasy things in our home so far:
* 3 advent cadlesticks in the windows (2 of them were put up a few weeks ago, and one yesterday)
* a red pyramide thing with lights in (bought a few weeks ago)
* 2 stars with lightbulbs in the windows (bought today)
* red hearts on a wire with lights in the window (put up today)
* red flowers on a wire with lights on the curtain rod in the dining room (bought today)
* four black balls with silvery pattern on the curtain rod in the dining room (bought today)
* a plastic little christmas tree (put up today)
* two christmas flowers (bought today) (probably dead within a week)
* a few christmas gifts have been wrapped up in paper (today)
* a few christmas tree decorations (6 golden balls and some tinsel) in a plastic bag in the kitchen (bought today, have to wait for the christmas tree to be used)
* lights to put in a bush outside the kitchen window (bought today)  ¶ 10:11 PM