Monthly Archive: October 2003

Märta and Einar will be here any time to start the cleaning marathon. However, first I MUST go to the store because we ran out of toilet paper. I’ve known it was coming all week, but was too busy and never near a store to do anything about it, and Anders didn’t remember either. He probably never thought about actually, because he’s a man, and men don’t have running grocery lists in their heads at all times. The sushi dinner last night was good, if a little weird. There was lettuce in all the rolls. It wasn’t bad or anything,...

I thought I was just getting used to it and didn’t hear it anymore, but it turns out the woman that owns the farm behind us has “eliminated” one of her roosters. His constant crowing, 24-7, and egging on all the other birds finally did him in. I can’t believe it took nearly TWO years for her to do something about it. Someone must have complained. It wasn’t us, I swear, even though the constant crowing, starting around 5 a.m., and continuing throughout the day had us daydreaming rather frequently about coq au vin. I saw today as I stood...

Thank God It’s Almost Friday 🙂 Anders and the kids made homemade pizzas for dinner, just as I was heading out the door for social circle at Sigurborg’s. I wanted to stay so badly…but, commitments… 🙁 argh Anyway, it was a nice evening, even though I was the only other member of the AWC there. Sigurborg had invited 3 of her neighbors (1 didn’t show) and another woman from Iceland who is planning on joining. We spoke Swedish the entire time, and each one of them at some point complimented me on my Swedish. I’m really beginning to wonder when...

President George Bush has been complaining about “the filter” of national media, which garbles his feel-good all’s-well-in-Iraq message by reporting on the car bombings, the killed-in-action Americans, the fleeing foreign aid workers, the internal White House investigations and recriminations, etc. So this week, he and others in his Administration will be going around “the filter” to give interviews with local newspapers and small television stations. The idea is that journalists not used to dealing with Presidents and Cabinet secretaries will be more easily awed and deferential. In other words: We’ve reached the point in our Iraq adventure where the President...

(That’s how Anders refers to my LJ 🙂 Anders just sent me this, which engenders an immediate WTF response: Open a Word document and type = rand (200,99) Press Enter Be careful not to click on PRINT.

One of the presents my mother has bought for my daughter for Christmas is, and I quote: a toy motorcycle with a rider that shoots across the room and does wheelies LOL! Karin’s going to love it (as will her dad, I’m sure).

Caught myself reading my friends list and getting incredibly jealous of all the lovely pieces everyone is creating CONSTANTLY and thinking, where do they find the time?! ahem. oh, yeah, now I remember. Note to self: They have all that time to be crafty because they DON’T HAVE KIDS! hahahaha!! Package from mom with 3 books today, too, to add to the good things for today list 🙂 Yesterday, I caught Anders watching an E! TV special about Jennifer Lopez and he tried to deflect my derision by asking me if I wanted a $1,000,000 diamond ring like hers. heh....

MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmassage

I’m so boring. At least tonight. It’s nearly 10 and I haven’t done much at all since getting home. I have at least managed the following, just to bore you some more: pick up milk and apples take the kids to the library to return books and get new ones make dinner run the dishwasher edit and upload pictures to the AWC staging server There was a package waiting for Martin & Karin when we got home, with some more clothes for Karin from her cousin Rachel (yay, sis! thanks!) and books and 2 little crafty things. The crafty things...

Anders and I woke up abruptly at 7:30 a.m. this morning, realizing that the alarms had never gone off (neither one!) and that we were WAY late. 7:30 is usually when I’m dropping the kids off. So we raced around like maniacs, getting showered, the kids up, dressed, fed, out the door. Upon closer inspection, my clock said 19.40!! So, yesterday when we were cleaning, Märta apparently unplugged it and when she plugged it back in she set it completely out of sync. 🙁 I got to work at 8:45 a.m. **** Another gorgeous sunny fall day in Skåne. This...