We’ve had such a lovely stretch of lovely weather here that I’m getting completely spoiled. Apart from one day of part rain, it’s been beautiful sunny, blue skies, but still COOL breezy temperatures. Even when it’s down to 9C I am still not wearing a jacket because the sun is warm enough for me. We have onion sprouts already coming up in one row, so it’s enough for them as well! Hoping to see more sprouts soon, though the potatoes always take forever to start. I need to go buy cucumber and tomato plants, but Anders said there’s no rush since it’s still getting down to nearly zero at night.
I sat outside on the deck after work with my back to the sun and soaked the warmth into my shoulders while I did my exercises. My knees, which haven’t been hurting at all today because I took an Advil this morning to ward off a headache, are twinging. Twinge is such a weird word, isn’t it? The nice thing about writing this on my computer browser is that I can simply pop open a new tab and look its origin up! Old English twengan ‘pinch, wring’, of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic twangijaną. The noun dates from the mid 16th century.
Twangijaną is a magnificent word!
I’ve been a bit down regarding health issues, thanks to my stupid knees, though the left one IS better, but also some stomach/digestive issues that have been plaguing me for a week. Quite tired of always having something wrong. Especially my legs: feet, knees, hips. UGH.
Thankfully, I don’t have a lot going on this week, as I have quite a to-do list for things to be done before Julie and Benny and their kids arrive on Saturday. They are staying until Wednesday morning, then taking the train from Lund to Stockholm. They’ll be there until the day before they fly home and are taking the train back directly to Copenhagen. We’ve seen them several times when we’ve been in Michigan, but because the chances of our getting to Michigan again are so slim, I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be seeing them again, so I am completely delighted by their sudden decision to finally come over, and the quick couple of hours we had in North Carolna last month when they stopped by in their RV on their way down the coast (after tooling over from Michigan to see me).
When I was going through photo albums a couple of weeks ago, I pulled out a few that had a lot of photos from our college days, so that her kids can see them. I have stacks of photos on the dining room table that need to be set aside, and then the project continued later as I’m going to do a serious rehaul of all the albums. There are 2 big envelopes each for Martin and Karin that contained most if not all of their school photos. I laid those all out on the table the other night and then called each kid to ask if it was okay to pitch all the little ones and the duplicates. Both of them said YES, GOOD LORD, PITCH THEM. hahaha!
What’s sad is not only all the photos in piles and notebooks and albums, but all the millions we have on DVDs. We never look at any of them, so what’s the point in keeping them? Honestly. I have at least 30 photo albums and they’re aren’t really organized at all, apart from the one for our first trip to Sweden, the one for our honeymoon, and the one for our wedding. And that’s not including the 2 huge albums full of outtake photos from the wedding AND the official wedding albums. Ugh.
I hope my kids appreciate all the work I’m saving them someday.
Mood: nostalgic
Music: Aneiki—Superhero