Lizardek

07
Sep
2026

TALKING TO MYSELF AGAIN

Every time I think I’ll be better about posting more often, a week slinks by, and I’m left feeling guilty in its wake. Oh well, no one is reading anyway. Then again, if I really wanted readers, I could return to LiveJournal, or market this blog. I could post that I have posted on FB, but I must not really want readers since I haven’t done it, right? I know my brother reads once in awhile, I know 2 friends read once in a while, and I think my sister does. Maybe my kids once a year? I don’t actually...

01
Sep
2026

A VERITABLE PLETHORA* OF ANALOGUES

This is the way my brain works, and the kind of thing I amuse myself with. In the car on the way home, I was suddenly thinking about the fact that there are so many words for “not straight” and I wasn’t even referring to the ones that have to do with sexual preference. Have you ever realized that? English is SO good at hoarding synonyms. This was brought on, by the way, because I was listening to Christine & The Queens song Tilted. slanted, aslant, tilted, leaning, diagonal, inclined, askew, sloping, offkilter, angled, canted, crooked, lopsided, unbalanced, warped, listing,...

31
Aug
2026

BRAIN DUMP

How is it September tomorrow!? I felt like the year was proceeding at a casual pace, and then suddenly it zippered up and sped into autumn. The sky is a glowing orangeblue over clouds. I made it home right before the deluge, and when I was finished putting groceries away, there was a rainbow arching over Flyinge. Sun on the way in again! After my superslug non-social weekend, it was kind of nice to be back at work today. I only had one meeting, which was excellent because I got a ton of things done and am nearly caught up...

29
Aug
2026

DRESSING UP, THEN DOWN

Toe news: it’s much better, though still not 100%. There is still some infection, I think, because the top of it is still quite red, though it’s not swollen anymore and doesn’t hurt unless I press on it, but I can still tell that there is probably nail pushing in where it shouldn’t be. I can at least wear shoes again, which is a relief. I was in Båstad for a 2-day work event, a Global Sales & Marketing summit, lots of company rah-rah, which I don’t care for, but lots of fun moments as well. We had 3 buses...

22
Aug
2026

TOE MUCH INFORMATION

My toe was not better by Monday. I have been to the healthcare clinic 3x this past week, and have yet another appointment on Monday next. The salt baths and sore salve didn’t help but at least it didn’t get worse, but it was still really painful by Sunday evening. I left a chat message asking for an appointment, and lo and behold the next morning I had a message from them with an appointment time at 11:45 AM. I saw Nurse Annika and she couldn’t do much because the toe was so painful, she couldn’t really investigate, so she...

11
Aug
2026

BIRTHDAZE

It was my birthday yesterday. 62. What a weird number to be. I had a busy day planned so I got up fairly early. Anders is working from home this week, and he had roses and presents waiting for me. A poster of 100 Swedish sights to see that you can stamp off once you have seen them or been there. And 2 gorgeous hanging bird baths. I had asked for one, and he found 2 really nice ceramic ones…one in deep teal and one in off-white. The only problem is that they only have a center hole with a...

06
Aug
2026

THE KEY TO PRODUCTIVITY IS TO ROTATE YOUR AVOIDANCE TECHNIQUES*

It’s only Thursday of my first week of vacation, and I’m already more halfway through my clean/sort/purge list. I’ve done the our bedroom (my stuff at least), study, living room, bathrooms, playroom hallway, dining room, front hall closet, and today I went through all the drawers in the kitchen, and cleaned out the pantry. I still have some of the kitchen cabinets to look through, so I’m not counting the kitchen as done yet. It’s very satisfying: purging. Even when there’s not that much to purge. But the pantry got a MAJOR cleanout, which was way overdue. It’s been a...

03
Aug
2026

STAYCATION STARTER

I went early this morning to have blood taken for tests, in conjunction with my next dose of Zessly on Thursday. It was the first medical appointment that I’ve had since my last dose on June 25. I’ve been so used to dealing with medical issues, that this long in-between stretch caught me by surprise. Hoping it continues this way with big long gaps of nothing happening medically with my body. It’s the first day of a 2-week vacation if you don’t count the weekend. I’m taking it pretty easy today (after having to set that early morning alarm on...

01
Aug
2026

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY

Rabbit rabbit! It’s the first of August and 9 days from my birthday, which isn’t a big one, even if the number is bigger than I’d like it to be. I’m on vacation now, for 2 weeks, and although I don’t have any travel, I have a very long list of things to do: mostly involving cleaning out and purging in every cabinet, closet, drawer, and shelf in the house. But there are fun things lined up too. I have a massage scheduled, and we are all going (all 4 of us, plus Theo and Essie) to see The Odyssey...

28
Jul
2026

ALWAYS THE GOOD THINGS

Last week of July, and it’s already starting to feel a littly autumny, mostly because it’s cooled down, there’s a lot of rain and cloud cover, and the leaves are all falling from the trees (probably due to the heat we had and the drought). I would like it to stay sunny a bit longer, please. Today is my mom’s birthday. She’s turned 85. I’m calling as soon as I get done writing this because that will, I hope, have given everyone enough time to get up and dressed and all. Though it IS 1:39 pm there, so it oughtn’t...

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