as i said in a previous post…alexander skarsgård is pretty amazing – he can act, write and direct.  so after discovering this talent, i’ve checked out and joined some of the fan sites.  wow…i know that there are obsessive people but some of the fans on these sites are a bit scary.

yet another gratuitous shot of the swede...

this guy seems to be down to earth…or at least as is reported.  he’s not afraid to post a story about losing his virginity or even take a goofy acting role.  he’s self-deprecating and seems to have a sense of humor.

listening to some of his interviews about sweden makes me miss living in europe.  when he mentioned (in an interview with ekomiko, see below paragraph) that he missed living in a city that allowed him to walk over to friends or stop by the pub and walk back home…it made me miss living in zagreb.  zagreb isn’t the international city that stockholm is but it still had that wonderful european feel.  my husband and i could run out for coffee or a beer just down the block at the local pub.  if we wanted to go down town to have more than one beer…we could jump on a bus then a tram and be there in no time.

i do have to say it irritates me a little bit how she interrupts him quite a bit.  she’s kind of annoying but sweet and he is amazingly gracious throughout.

i feel like i’m a friendly person for the most part!  for most of my life i was painfully shy.  i was forced to stick my head out the door when i had children.  you can’t be that painfully shy and interact with teachers and other parents.  it’s still hard.  i still have trouble in social situations.  i hate it…but it’s me.

we have a woman at our local grocery store called jasminka.  she’s from bosnia and the most smiley grocery store clerk i’ve ever met.  when we found out she was from a serbo-croatian speaking nation, my husband and i made it a point to occasionally use our croatian with her.  a dobar dan here or there a dovidjena when we leave.  it’s fun and friendly.

i had the desire to go out to a pub tonight here in california but then i realized it would be no fun.  either my husband or i would have to abstain from drinking so that we could drive home legally and safely and what fun is that?

anyway…that sure wasn’t where i wanted to go with that post.  on to the great day portion…

the great day is simple…a nice adjustment by our friendly, funny (and not bad looking) chiropractor.  breakfast shared at IHOP with my dear husband.  and an afternoon spent working on my blog while drinking a glass of clean slate riesling from mosel, germany.

clean slate is my new favorite wine.  i’m notoriously terrible at picking wine.  i tend to go for bottles that are pretty or names that are cute or cool….usually with a bad outcome.  so i tend to let michael choose the wine and he usually picks a winner.  i’m not a red wine drinker normally…i prefer white.  and of the whites…i prefer rieslings most of all.  that has been the standard everywhere i go…

anywho…that’s my day and my small commentary on a.s.

i not sure where many of my alex pics come from so i’ll give you the link to the most reputable of the sites i follow.  according to the site managers, they have the cooperation of mr. skarsgård for the site.
skarsgardnews.com