lxforever

Stop lookin’ at what you ain’t got / and start bein’ thankful for what you do got // You’re gonna be a shining star / with fancy clothes and fancy cars / and then you’ll see, you’re gonna go far / ’cause everyone knows who you are // Never mind what haters say, ignore ’em ’til they fade away / Amazing they ungrateful after all the game I gave away…”

—TI/Rihanna

“ok, i’m going home / i’m really excited for you to visit! / hoepfully i can clean this weekend / i mean, i will clean this weekend / it’s not like it’ sup to fate or something

—Jenny, 2/11/09

“With this update,” he said, “write in the third person.”
“Um, no.” Lexi replied.
“The entire time! You can’t break from character. ‘Lexi is having a good weekend. Lexi is feeling a bit under the weather. Lexi will hopefully soon feel better. Hey – Lexi just rhymed. Lexi’s pretty smart.’ ” He tried to outline how she would accomplish this.

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OK wow. I’m a dork, but not THAT much of a dork, sorry dearie. Happy Valentine’s day yall! We are: watching hockey, watching gymnastics, eating pizza and eating sushi. Here in the Akervik household, it doesn’t get much better than that. I meant to go to Best of MN meet, but, some sickness and a night in was calling my name (oh who am I kidding, when does a night in NOT call my name).

Speaking of which. I had a nice chat with my mom tonight and I was telling her our plans for the evening. Her response was that it sounded pretty much like their plans, except substitute ‘random movie Dad will fall asleep watching’ for hockey/gymnastics and you’ve got it. A normal person would probably be bothered by this, but I’m not. I think it’s something I’ve pretty much wanted, the whole stay-in-be-a-homebody thing, for awhile. (Even as Erik makes fun of us for staying in on NYE, haha. “You’re not 70 yet, slow it down!”) But I’m just happy to have a ‘home base’, a home of our own and each other. It’s funny that my years of elementary/middle school being with the fam at home on Friday and Saturday nights watching TV, drawing, and just hanging out have become the same type of thing I do now—and I still love it.

Although last weekend I did go out on Friday which was totally awesome and something I want to do more of – Kristin and Susan and I hit up the AMAAAAAAAAAAZING Longfellow Grill, seriously I love love LOVED it, then K-10 and I went out downtown with her grad school friends and Misty. Somehow we ended up at NV which was actually pretty cool. Time and time again things like this remind me that it pays to get out of the house, because once I actually do, it’s a fine, fine evening indeed. So fun.

The Minneapolis ice rinks closed already!!! W T H. I was glad for the sunny warmth last weekend, but not if it meant that! TOTALLY LAME. I was just working on my tricks. We’ll have to go to Richfield Ice Arena then. STILL! Bitches!!!

Anyway. I hope everyone had a nice Valentine’s day, whether you did nothing, went home for a turkey dinner (yes, someone did this), or got a chocolate cake. We don’t really do much for Valentine’s day, but Jeff, bless his heart, did totally surprise me with candy boxes and a bear delivered to work on Thursday. What a sweet pea. Today our ‘celebrating’ consisted of working out together and the activities outlined above, which is pretty much Us and pretty much great.

Next weekend I am off to Chi to see JJ. We are going to American Cup too! Woo hoo. It should be pretty cool, mostly I just want to hang out with Jenny, drink tea and maybe go shopping. And see gymnastics, then! And go to Bin. Yay. YAY JENNY, I am excited.

Um yeah. Not much else to report. It’s now light past 5 which is extremely exciting. I am re-reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for the zillionth time, I just love that book. So I think I will go do that and soon conk out, Valentine’s bear in hand. 🙂