Monthly Archive: August 2006

16
Aug
2006

LIKE SHOVELING THE SIDEWALK BEFORE IT STOPS SNOWING*

This morning, driving through the rain on the way to work, I nearly ran into a rainbow. It was right in front of the car, just came out of nowhere! A patch of sunshine had strayed from between the clouds and was blundering about looking for its way out again. After a few moments of sun-bathed sparkliness it vanished once more for most of the day. But! Out it came again to play in the early evening and how did I choose to celebrate? By cleaning the garage. Why yes, I am clinically insane, thank you for asking! Do you...

15
Aug
2006

LOOK OVER THERE! SOMETHING SHINY!

After a year and a half of not updating my website, because well, hello…I am busy, and also, I update HERE with the photos and the daily doings and the blabbiter lickum, so the pressure to update our website seems remote and easily brushed off, I have actually gotten off my duff! Thanks to Anders finding a shiny new flashy photo album generator thingy I have updated our website with lots of pretty, pretty pictures (although not 1.5 year’s worth for which you may thank me). And in addition, when you get tired of photo hopping through the Ek Family...

14
Aug
2006

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTNING, VERY VERY FRIGHTENING

BANG! Sizzzzzz! I’ve read about the smell of ozone that comes after a lightning strike but I’ve never experienced it for myself, until today, and then it was several times in fast succession and through the windows of the car and several layers of sheeting water. When you want to find a metaphor for something that goes fast, it’s easy to say it’s fast as lightning, but when lightning is making the ground tremble and burning split-second forked pathways along your retinas, you suddenly realize that there is nothing to compare lightning TO. It’s as fast as lightning! WHAM! A...

13
Aug
2006

WHAT A WONDERFUL FEELING, I’M HAPPY AGAIN

When a project gets its teeth in me, it’s as if I’m suddenly wearing blinders. I don’t want to pay any attention to things outside the narrow focus of my current obsession. Having to stop what I’m doing for other necessary or pressing demands, like feeding the kids or doing laundry or answering the phone, makes me grumpy. I want to keep on working on my project until I am done or until the obsession suddenly wears thin for a bit and I can slow down and swing aside and do something else (sometimes it’s another project! or 2 at...

11
Aug
2006

WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST FOR AN EXTREMELY SHORT MESSAGE

Rain yesterday, rain today, rain tomorrow and all next week. Be careful what you wish for. A project-fire just got lit under me, so I might be out of commission for awhile. Or else up all night. Heh. Poemy, Pillowy, Olivey and Fantabulous Birthday Wishes to Squeetlelynn Sprigs!

10
Aug
2006

LOOKING BACK ON HOW IT WAS IN DAYS GONE BY

Why do birthdays stick me with earwormy songs about time passing and aging? Last year I wrote about the things I had accomplished between the previous birthday and the one I was having, and I figure that’s as good a way as any to end my nice day today 🙂 Passed my 3-year online journaling milestone a couple of days ago. Celebrated my 10 year wedding anniversary. Fulfilled a lifelong dream of traveling to Scotland. Continued loveloveloving my job, even though it continually kicks my ass. Sang at my baby brother’s wedding. Enthusiastically joined in with the wonderful Poetry Thursday...

10
Aug
2006

POETRY THURSDAY

29 for the, hrm…somethingth time. Awakened at 6:30 a.m. to flowers, gifts, singing, and the smiling faces of my family. Greeted with fresh-baked homemade cinnamon scones and hugs from colleagues. Plans for lunch in town and sushi dinner later. The day is looking good so far! 🙂 A Birthday Poem Ted Kooser Just past dawn, the sun stands with its heavy red head in a black stanchion of trees, waiting for someone to come with his bucket for the foamy white light, and then a long day in the pasture. I too spend my days grazing, feasting on every green...

09
Aug
2006

LEAVING A GOOD FRIEND

I stayed up until almost 2 a.m. last night because I was SO CLOSE to the end of my book I could not bear to put it down before I was finished. Reading in bed never puts me to sleep, quite the contrary, it usually wakes me up, and even when my eyes are blurring and gritty with fatigue I have to literally force mysefl to STOP ALREADY and turn out the light. I’ve been reading Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles, as I’ve mentioned before, and have been totally floored by how incredibly mesmerising they are. Set in 16th century Scotland...

06
Aug
2006

WHEN GOOD DAYS GO BAD

I killed a cat yesterday. Not on purpose and not personally, but nevertheless it has had me really down and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it all day. I wasn’t even sure it was a cat, it was so dark, and there was a moment when it looked like a rabbit* and its eyes reflected in the headlights as it raced straight for the front side of the car, and then it was thumping under the wheel before I could brake or swerve or even react more than to cry out. I stopped but I couldn’t see...

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