The blue skies are gone. It's back to the Belgium I have so grown to love. :) I was beginning to think that blue skies were here to stay, and then I remembered all of those gray drizzle days of before. (as if I had forgotten)

We primarily spent the entire day in the house. It's true that we woke up around 1, which was fine considering that we went to bed around 5. We rented Ghost World last night after we bough new 20 Euro speakers for our computer at MediaMarkt. We were dying to try out the new setup, and since it was raining buckets outside, and we had so much laundry to do that we weren't about to haul it all out in the rain, well, we stayed in.

Ghost World was the perfect rainy Sunday movie. Not a tear-jerker, not a laugh-your-ass-off, but a good movie with believable characters and real-life scenarios. We had originally wanted to watch it when we lived in San Francisco. We had even headed out a couple of times to see it, but in one instance I think we ended up in traffic (which made us grossly late) and another attempt left us at the wrong theater (at the wrong time). We were also going to try to catch it at Cartoons in Antwerp, but I vaguely remember it only being showed one day and we found out the day after.

Once again, I sing the praises of the former Tellme laptop workhorse Sony Vaio, Pentium II 365 (something like that) with 128 Megs of RAM, 6 gig hard drive, and the DVD drive we have only recently learned that we can love.

After the movie we were going to do laundry, and then suddenly it was 6:30 at night, and then suddenly it was time to get fritjes, and after our walk to De Witte, we found it closed. (on it's busiest night!) And so we walked around to every spot where the two of us thought there might be a frituur. We ended up at one that Eva and I pass on our way to the Berchem station. We got our regular deep-fried meal to go (no wonder I am not losing weight, but just staying consistently girthy) and spent the rest of the evening catching up on emails, tv, War and Peace, and our future plans.

Our talk over the future made us both a little animated (as usual) and left Eva sleeping on the couch and me reading War and Peace and then sleeping like a baby in our bed...to be resolved tomorrow.

God we're both so stubborn sometimes!

I would like to say that we "didn't let the sun set on our anger" but I'm afraid we both drifted off to sleep thinking the other as a complete oaf. A momentary lapse, only an oaf for a bit... We were trying to have a normal conversation about what are options are for next fall. I think we're both so un-excitable at the moment (regarding Fall) that we should back-burner it if we can. The only problem is that part of it can't be back-burnered. If we do, then we've already nixed the one as an opportunity. (**sigh**)

This is worse that the dream-apartment fiasco of last fall. Trust me, it's much, much worse! (only the apartment was really unimportant in the grand scheme of things)

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