Monthly Archive: August 2005

18
Aug
2005

SUMMER PUTS HERSELF TO BED, SWEET DREAMS OF SUNSHINE IN YOUR HEAD

All those crappy crap days are worth it when Sweden pulls out all the stops like she did today. I think of Sweden as a ‘she’ probably because her name is Svea, at least that’s what I call her (she calls me Lis, or sometimes Elisabet, whistling the s between her teeth. Swedes always seem to soften z sounds, it’s so cute). How does a people decide whether the land that birthed and nurtured them is a motherland or a fatherland? Or is it just different for each individual? Or for each sex? I never really thought about this before,...

17
Aug
2005

HIBERNATORY

I’m going to assume the lack of comments lately means you’re all busy working on your pages. You are, aren’t you? Working on your pages? Hello? *** The in-laws called yesterday. They want to take the kids tomorrow night (Thursday) and keep them until Saturday. I boggle at their generosity. Am I a bad mom for the first thought passing through my mind was WOO! SLEEP IN! Just wondering, but not really caring, because WOOHOO! Heh. I begin to think this week, this month, will never end. It’s like a wave pulling at me, tumbling me along. I’m still paddling...

16
Aug
2005

HI HO HI HO

I worked until 9:20 p.m. tonight. But you don’t have to feel sorry for me because I left at 12:15 earlier in the day and went home to have lunch and pick up the kids (releasing Anders to go to work) and then went to Angie’s to hang out for a couple of hours, and then after dinner I went back to work at 6 p.m., because jeez louise do I have a lot to do, and I can’t get it done when there are 42 million people coming in asking me if they could please, please? just add one,...

14
Aug
2005

JUST ANOTHER MANIC SUNDAY

Damned Aggravating: Having the power go out at midnight, and holybatcave batman, it’s DARK in here. Fumbling my way through the house to the far end of the laundry room only to find that ALL FOUR of the flashlights are dead as doornails. Even with new batteries (fumbled back to the kitchen, fumbled from the fridge, fumbled into the stupid dead flashlights)…DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD. #¤”%¤#! Double-Damned Aggravating: Leaving the stupid dead flashlights on the kitchen table and fumbling my way to the cabinet where the matches are kept only to realize with my fumbling fingers that there ARE NO...

13
Aug
2005

MIND GAMES

I must admit that, while the jury’s still out (obviously), there is something very appealing about the idea of reincarnation. The idea that we return after death for a new chance to learn lessons or right wrongs, or just to live again, is a hard one to deny ourselves. Especially if you are not convinced of the idea of heaven either, at least in its most popular conception of a place where only good Christians get to go. Reincarnation, quite literally, means rebirth, and it’s assumed that the life lived before was in the linear past. But if it’s possible...

12
Aug
2005

IN WHICH I BEG YOUR INDULGENCE

Something cool about having your birthday on August 10th: It’s celebrated by the HEAVENS every year!* But this year, I can’t even watch because, well, if you looked out my window and saw how THICK the cloud cover is…sigh You know what I would like to have? A book, a handmade book, with each page contributed by one of YOU. A page that you sketch, draw, paint, write, doodle, collage, a page of wonderful whatevers that represent YOU. A friendship book, sort of like a slambook, but much nicer. Wouldn’t that be cool? I would treasure it, I would. Would...

11
Aug
2005

GO LONG

A fall full of things to look forward to: The AWC season starting up Choir starting up A trip to Oslo! The last time I was there bell-bottoms were in style…for the first time. Pumpkins! It’s nearly time to pick pumpkins! Singing in a televised 3000-member choir concert at Globen in Stockholm A visit from my mom and my cool Aunt Judy My first-year anniversary at my job 🙂 A visit from Kathey & Russell! A possible trip home to the States for Thanksgiving! And I’m looking forward to the annual ski-trip week in January that my family takes without...

10
Aug
2005

ANOTHER YEAR OLDER AND WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Stopped freaking out quite so badly about my age. Ended a job I loved, then liked, then hated. Started a new job I could happily retire in. Lost some friends, and gained some. Learned how to walk on crutches. Wrote 348 journal entries. Forgot my wedding anniversary. Made a tough and major decision to give up my Editor position, at least temporarily, for the AWC. Finished a productive year as Poetry Section Editor for Mosaic Minds. Gotten my hopes way, way up, only to have them crushed completely. Gotten really, really angry. Been really, really happy. Learned that I can...

09
Aug
2005

THANKING, THINKING, AND SOME LINKING

Wheeee!! Happy-package-dance times 2 today! And it’s not even my birthday yet! 5 books from my mom (thanks, Mom!!) and the coolest, niftiest, wowsiest gift from my brother and Simone: 2 strings of handmade paper flower lights. Did I mention that Simone is the absolute queen of cool crafty things? I can’t wait to put these up and kitsch up the room to an unbearably cool degree. She had hers up around the balcony while we were visiting and I admired them and told her I would love something like that, and she went and made me not 1 but...

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