…I just realized the blog theme looks crap in Internet Explorer 7 🙁 I guess I better try and get that sorted. Just need to figure out how 😀 Anyways that will be sometime after Christmas holidays are over.

Speaking of Christmas, is it normal to be stressed out with all that need to be sorted? Above all we’re in the midst of some renovation, that should have been done by now. A couple minor setbacks got us delayed a bit though. No matter if I get done or not, Christmas eve is on Monday. And here in Sweden where I live Christmas eve is the “big” day for celebrations. We’re getting some folks over for a late Christmas lunch (or early dinner if you look at it that way).

Did a bit  of the food preparations today. I’ve cooked red cabbage, pickled the Atlantic Herring (it was half way done sort of, I got it canned ready to flavor). If you wanna do it from the beginning you need to get a hold of salted herring. They say it’ll taste better, but it takes more work and longer time to be ready to serve.

The red cabbage is usually prepared by my grandmother, this is the first year I do it on my own. I hope it’ll taste good when it’s time to eat it. It’s a dish ment to serve cold, I did try it while still warm and that was ok. According to my grandmother warm cabbage has a different taste compared to cold though, so we’ll see laters how the final result turns out.

For tomorrow I got plans on cooking the ham, sorts itself pretty much in the owen for a couple hours. Also I’ll make meatballs, that’ll be a bit more timeconsuming. After that the food preparations I’m supposed to do is done 😀

Of course I’m gonna decorate my christmas tree tomorrow as I traditionally do the day before Christmas eve 😀 I know a lot of the people do it earlier, but for me it has always been that way.

I think I’m ready for Christmas celebrations this year as well… Strangely enough things always seem to come together in the end 😀