Monthly Archive: June 2005

11
Jun
2005

MINUTIAE

Lazy Saturday. Slept in. Ran a couple of errands. Rented some kid movies. Didn’t talk to my brother on the phone. Had a yummy dinner consisting of delicious grilled pork, potato salad and artichokes as big as Karin’s head. Watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind after myskväll. (NOT Band of Brothers, JOHN. Pbbbb!!). Our comments after: Anders: My head hurts. Liz: Yeah. That was a hurty-head movie. Came to the realization that I have had nothing planned, no activities, for over 7 days. Cannot decide if I like it as much as I think I do. Really Great Writing...

09
Jun
2005

SAINTS AND POETS

I’m an addict in search of my next hit. The substance I’m addicted to isn’t hard to find, but it can be elusive and you have to keep an eye out for it. I suffer when I can’t get me some, and I have been known to spend money and time searching for it. Luckily, there are so many forms of the thing I crave that I don’t usually have to go too long inbetween highs. It never gets old, that blast of euphoria that sets me spinning, that raises the hair on the back of my neck, that dilates...

08
Jun
2005

SUMMER SUN SOMETHING’S BEGUN BUT UH-OH THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS

Summer was so long when I was a kid. I’m pretty sure they’ve shortened it. And they’ve definitely made it colder. THEY’VE got a lot to answer for. Althooouuugh, they may have shortened the LENGTH of it, but the days! Wow, are THEY long! And this! Sunshine makes me so happy, especially after a couple of weeks of unseasonably cold and grey weather. This was the sky a few minutes ago, at 8:30 p.m. in the evening. Then I walked around and took some more photos of things green and growing and things lilac and lovely.

07
Jun
2005

DISCERNING MINDS WANNA KNOW

Man, I wish Livejournal had run their special on permanent accounts a month ago!! 🙁 poo. Saving for summer vacation and puppies must take priority, however. I’m very boring today. Work has eaten every brain cell I had left, and chewed them up and spit them out. Grey pulpy brain cells lying wadded up in the bottom of my mental spittoon. HAHAHAHA!! EW. (hee!) You would laugh if you could have seen me just now. I wrote that, then I sat here and snorted giggles through my nose until my eyes watered. Then I had to put my head down...

06
Jun
2005

GROUNDED

Liz: Go pick up your rooms, there’s not that much and it won’t take you long. Martin & Karin: *much grumbling, whining, moping, dragging of feet* Liz: *from the other room, yells* Okay, pick up everything that starts with P! Martin & Karin: *perk right up, begin rushing around muttering to themselves* P, P, pens! P…pokemon! Liz: *breathes a sigh of relief* Martin & Karin: P…P…pärlor! pictures…P, P… Liz: *comes in playroom* …paper! people! Martin: *sternly* WE’RE doing it, Mama. Liz: *leaves* *pause* Martin: Okay, we’re done. Liz: *comes back in* um, no. You forgot the most important P thing...

05
Jun
2005

STALKERS, TAKE NOTE!

Places I Do Not Live: Fly or Flyvbjerg, Denmark Fly, Flybacken, Flyeboda, Flykälen, Flymen, Flyn, Flyeryd or Flygfors, Sweden Flyford Flavell, England Flying Point, Flying Mountain, or Flynns Lick, USA Flyugovka, Russia Flyverfjord, Norway Other Places on the Same Latitude: Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia The Bering Sea Ketchikan, Alaska Hudson Bay, Canada Glasgow, Scotland Things You Might Not Have Known About Sweden: It’s the fifth largest country in Europe It’s roughly the same size as California or Japan* Since 1814 and the Napoleanic conflicts, Sweden has not actively taken part in any wars** The average temperature in Malmö during...

04
Jun
2005

DO, OR DO NOT, THERE IS NO TRY

We’re on a roll here. A Star Wars roll. We watched the second fifth Empire Strikes Back tonight, and the kids are DEFINITELY too young for these movies, judging by the amount of questions we got peppered with ALL THE WAY THROUGH. Believe it or not, Anders has never seen them either, so it was quite the learning experience around here tonight, in a manner of speaking. We also had a pronunciation lesson on how to stick your tongue out correctly and blow while saying the th sound so that the guy in the black helmet isn’t referred to as...

03
Jun
2005

THE MONKEY THOUGHT ‘TWAS ALL IN FUN

There’s a classic board game in America called Trouble. It’s a fairly ordinary advance-around-the-board-first-one-to-reach-End-wins game. The thing that makes it so cool is the Pop-o-Matic dice roller in the center. It’s a little plastic dome enclosing 2 dice, and when you press down on the dome, it somehow “pops” the dice, automatically rolling them for you (and keeping them from ever being swiped to use in another game whose dice have gone missing, thus causing them to go missing, too). This post kind of reminded me of it. pop! Back before I dislocated my jaw I used to be able...

02
Jun
2005

RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY

I’m very sad about this weather. After 8.5 years in Sweden, you’d think I would have grown used to this sort of disappointment, but to be honest, the weather here has such a hold over people’s lives and moods, it’s hard to get away from it, and after last weekend, with its sunshine and warmth and buzzing bees, it’s doubly hard to deal with WINTER WEATHER IN JUNE. Again. A 3-day weekend is looming, since Monday is a holiday here. Sweden’s National Day, which they finally gave themselves OFF after nearly a hundred years. June 6th has been Sweden’s flag...

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