I couldn’t get on to LJ all day and had to…gasp…WORK. Oh, the humanity! I can’t figure out why I couldn’t get on…I didn’t have any trouble with any other websites, and it’s working just fine at home and I’m pretty sure they didn’t block it because they always have a firewall page when they do, so wtf? Life without LJ is so…dull. heh Off to go sing now more later
Well, despite my 4-month-long slide into the bad-attitude pit at work, my performance review this morning was EXCELLENT. I can only hope that will translate as a decent pay raise if and when we ever get them. My boss is in agreement with me on bad attitudes and reasons for them and ways to squash them and made a point of once again offering his complete support in the event that I ever feel it necessary to look for another job and then he hugged me around the legs and begged me never to quit. We have a work party...
Attention span? What attention span? I feel like a hummingbird today. I can’t focus. I can’t keep my mind on one thing. I keep jumping up and down and interrupting myself. I don’t know why. I don’t have anything special going on or anything special I’m looking forward to. I’d eat nectar if I could find it. Did you know that the reason why nothing in nature that can be eaten is blue is because blue means poison? Well, that, and yellow. But not all yellow, just yellow animals. Okay, and not even all of them because hamsters and canaries...
There is probably a chance that I could write a journal entry without talking about what the sun is doing…then again, maybe not. It’s out, but the sky is white. Yesterday it spit drizzle all day long, today it’s at least dry. Anders is working on the roof for the playhouse and Martin’s girlfriend Ebba is here for the afternoon. I’ve been tied to the computer all day because of the AWC website. I had everything under control and nearly ready to go, and last night I got an email with SEVEN new activities to add. They just make me...
The sun was apparently mourning England’s loss to Portugal yesterday as it never again showed its face after a brief peek in the morning. Nevertheless, we managed to have a fun midsommar celebration despite NO maypole, NO dancing, NO flower-picking and RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN. Today, the skies are high and white but not (yet) wet. We have no real plans although we have plenty to do. Anders is putting together the playhouse frame out in the backyard and I have web work and housecleaning to do. Karin and I have to go drive around and deliver her birthday party...
This morning when I woke up at 7:00 a.m. the skies were blue and the sun was shining. I went back to sleep, thinking maybe the weather forecasts were all wrong and we would have a lovely day for our midsummer celebrations. I woke up again at 10 and it was raining. sigh But to all of you who celebrate Swedish midsommarafton, I wish you a day of love and laughter, games and dancing, maypoles and flowers, strawberries and cream, and friends and family.
I’m raising bilingual kids, but I don’t get too worked up about it. I love the English language, it’s one of my passions, and while I hope that my children will learn to love it as well, I don’t see much point in getting all lathered up about whether or not they love it like I do. I know that they will learn English, since we live in a country where English is taught from a very young age and besides, they get it in the home as well. They have had English and Swedish since their birth, and are...
Things That Made Me Happy Yesterday: having a shitty morning turned around by validation and adoration from my peeps even if I did have to practically lie down and expose my belly for it a busy day at work the kids behaving well and doing what I needed them to do all evening singing with Debbie and Sharon watching my kids out the window while singing, as they jumped and tumbled together on the big trampoline seeing the look on Karin’s face as Debbie’s daughter Maria wrapped her arms around her and bounced them together late-evening sunshine after a cruddy...
Ways I’ve Been Annoyed So Far This Morning: being woken up at 5:45 a.m. by Martin who didn’t make it to the bathroom in time not being able to get back to sleep before the alarm went off at 6:30 not being able to stay in bed until 7 because Anders is in Italy Karin dragging her feet and taking forever to eat her breakfast having everything I tossed into the garbage miss and end up on the floor in front of it Martin taking forever to find a toy to take with him a borderline headache a toothache that...
The worst thing about having my hard drive reinstalled is backing up all of my million fonts and non-standard programs and reinstalling them all again, and getting all the menus set up to my specifications, only to discover that, once again, I forgot to save the joboption files for Acrobat. sigh Karin and I power-walked for half an hour in Oxie yesterday. Oxie was planned with a gazillion little paths and wandering ways that wind around the residential areas, through greens and parks and shady groves. We saw several rabbits out grazing in the early evening sunshine, who didn’t seem...