Monthly Archive: December 2004

Awoke to a world of white, we’d been sugarcoated overnight. Just a little dusting but it became a mantle of diamonds in the sunlight. Snow, glorious snow! Bring it on for Christmas! It’s a good thing we had no major plans this weekend, as my cryk invited his friend the sore throat over to stay. I feel as if I’ve swallowed a frog. Because of the cryk, coughing is a majorly painful ordeal both on the inside and the out. The pain pills are not nearly as effective as I’d hoped they’d be, although they ARE helping, and I’ve been...

Anders and I had a pact not to make any plans this weekend, except doing some Christmas shopping, working around the house a bit, and playing with the kids. Unusual, yes…and wonderful. 🙂

It’s been a banner day for packages, cards and presents! A very big thank you and hug to purrthecat & wruf for the 3 Musketeers bars!!! YUM! verian for the awesome book of poetry, which I urge the rest of you to GO BUY! doggereler for the copy of Verian’s 100-track CD project and the cool little toy for my kids My grandma for the gingerbread cookies!!! Christmas cards from LOTS of LOVELY people! My cryk is killing me, and has been getting steadily worse, despite medication, salve, hot bag-o-beans and massage from Anders. I woke up 2 hours after...

I’m a hunchback today. 2 nights ago I strained a muscle or pinched a nerve or just plain slept wrong and got a crick in my neck that is steadily getting worse and causing a LOT of pain. I can’t turn my head easily to either side, and it hurts to do the simplest actions. It hurts to blow my nose, and type, and drive. I brought my heating bag-o-beans with me to work, and am currently sitting with it under my blouse, draped over my shoulder. Advil hasn’t helped and so far, the heating isn’t doing too much either....

True Love is climbing up into the freezing cold attic for your wife to hunt down an errant unmarked box of Christmas items, which contained, ta-dah! the wire hooks, of course. Sneaky little bastards. Amount times which I could completely cover our tree in ornaments: 4 Christmas ornaments purchased so far this season anyway: 8 My plan was to get the tree decorated tonight, because I can’t do it tomorrow (choir Xmas concert and dinner) and I can’t do it Thursday (see below) and I wanted it done this week which leaves Friday. The thing about tree decorating is that...

If you were two little boxes of Christmas tree ornament wire hooks, WHERE THE HELL WOULD YOU BE? *rips hair out* Dancing Birthday Wonder Wishes to cap_killer!

Anders just asked me if he should take more off the top of the tree or the bottom. My preference is to bang a hole in the ceiling, but he’s not going for that option. Both lightbulbs in the computer room ceiling light have now blown and I’m using my decades-old touch-typing skills to write this in the dark. Impressed, aren’tcha? Yesterday’s agenda of finish cleaning, host birthday party for Martin with 12 kids, make appetizer, attend AWC party, bathe children, put up Christmas tree got knocked off base by fatigue after article 4. Bathing and tree are, therefore, on...

Tops on the List of Things I REALLY Didn’t Need to Deal With Right Now: Finding out that the bottle of blackstrap molasses which resides on the top wire basket shelf of the pantry has fallen over and dripped molasses down through THREE wire baskets full of food, ending in a HUGE thick puddle in which several cans and bottles are completely stuck fast.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr is the sound of my head spinning around with the busyness.* The house is cleaned, the christmas cards are written, stuffed, sealed, stamped and ready to mail, the concert program is designed and sent to print, the christmas tree has been chopped down and borne triumphantly home, the groceries are purchased, and Anders is making dinner. We bought a big tree for the living room, and a little one for the playroom (*evil grin,* thanks whoever made that suggestion!) and all the milliions and millions of kindergarten and pre-school ornaments that the kids are producing. The in-laws just arrived...

My company has a tradition of hazing the newcomers. I was hearing rumors of the impending horror right after I started but I laughed it off as just simple ribbing of the newbie. Turns out it wasn’t just a joke. Everyone who was hired in the last 2 years has to provide the Lucia entertainment on Lucia Day, which, this year, is Monday. We have to write parodies of traditional Swedish Christmas carols, dress up, promenade into the lunchroom, and sing. I have been coerced into singing a solo. Thank god I don’t have to be Lucia, at least. I’m...