I got abducted for a surprise vacation trip to Finland about a week ago, my family decided we were all going to go visit my grandparents. So off we went. It was quite nice, I hadn’t been there for about four years. They have a little red house right next to a big lake in the middle of a huge forest. It’s far from everything, and it’s a wonderfully quiet and relaxing place to be. I enjoyed it thoroughly! It was a fairly short visit, and we got back home today. Now I’m all rested and relaxed, and eager to get back to recording the remaining songs for my “collection”. 
I set up a little competition on BlogCatalog a while ago, challenging the people there to come up with new and interesting ways of saying “I love you”. There were lots of entries, but at the end of the contest on Friday, I finally picked this one as the winner:
“You are the activated carbon that filters out all my worries.”
In my opinion this is very romantic in a geeky kind of way, and just such an accurate and true description of your loved one. They just make you feel better.
As a prize, I will write a song about the winner, license it through Creative Commons, and send it to her to use in any way she likes. I expect to have it ready in a couple of weeks or so.
