Daily Archive: October 30, 2003

Why am I still up, again? Oh, yes, because I do this TO MYSELF! However, I’m officially, if temporarily, de-poodled, so I’m feeling pretty good. Had a BA* at work today and it was showing, but guess what, I don’t care! *sings I don’t care I don’t care I don’t care!* I vegged at the beauty salon and read most of Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland, which is excellent. Got home at 6:30, ate dinner, talked to my brother and then my husband on the phone (plane delayed, argh), popped the kids in the bath and then into...

Nothing much happens in Sweden. Which I’m grateful for today when reading what’s going on in California. The wildfires have destroyed an area the size of Chicago, one paper said. Chicago!? The mind boggles. Things to be grateful we don’t have here: earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires that eat entire states, gigantic mudslides, drought, famine, military juntas, Richard Simmons. I had a 2-minute intense mindcramp this morning when I was thisclose to staying in bed and blowing off EVERYTHING for the next few days. I’m pretty close to crashing and burning and am having to run a little refrain in the...