Monthly Archive: September 2006

16
Sep
2006

AT LEAST IT WASN’T BULLETPOINTS

Since I haven’t had a chance to post since Wednesday, I’ve had hardly any comment emails. My little Yahoo avatar has drooped and her mouth has turned down and she keeps crying from the sadness of it all. It’s a tragedy, it is. Serves me right for being such a slacker. I’ve made my avatar cry! Or rather…hmmm…YOU’VE made her cry! Yeah, that’s it! It’s because no one is commenting on my posts, old or not, not because I haven’t written any new ones. For shame! *** We’ve started calling our daughter Anakarin. That’s how obsessed with Star Wars she...

13
Sep
2006

OVER MY HEAD

Blank brain = blank screen Where my brain is (multiple choice): still at work because I had to leave early to pick up the kids still at choir because I had to leave early to get the kids home at a decent hour remembering sitting in a beach chair on a white sandy beach in St. Thomas, staring up at the Southern Cross and talking to my sister because Martin was asking me all about constellations on the way home from choir still standing outside in the backyard, staring up at the BAZILLION stars with the kids while our breath...

12
Sep
2006

MOOSECELLANEOUS

Today the entire school went to the zoo. They had 3 buses, one of which was an “accordion” bus that drove all the kids and the teachers to the town of Höör (a town whose name is nearly impossible for non-Swedes to pronounce correctly and which always elicits a laugh), which is about 20 minutes away and outside of which is the lovely animal park known as Skånes Djurpark. The zoo houses over 800 animals of over 85 different species in a huge parkland with natural enclosures. Because the park concentrates on Nordic animals, there are no lions or tigers...

11
Sep
2006

GOURD YOU BE MINE?

I’ve never been a big fan of dried fruit, but O! dried pineapple chunks are SO GOOD. They’re better than candy. They’re like MAGIC candy! 30 days hath September…so far 12 of them are still blank on our calendar. eep! My brother reminded my family and I that it’s time to start the familiy Christmas wish lists so that everyone has time to get started. Little does he know I started months ago. muahaha! Massage tomorrow…mmmmm! thank goodness because my neck really, REALLY needs it. The woman who offered to coordinate our annual pumpkin patch field trip for the AWC...

10
Sep
2006

WONDER WHAT MY ORIGINAL 1978 EDITION DARTH VADER HEAD NECKLACE WOULD FETCH ON EBAY?

The head cold had me down most of yesterday, enough that sleeping and editing was about all I could manage, and reading of course, which I can almost always manage. I don’t think it’s fair to be sick on a weekend. I’ve been re-reading the first 2 books of a trilogy in anticipation of reading the 3rd one which my mom had recently sent me. But this morning, when I picked up the 3rd book and opened it, I discovered that it was the SECOND book with a different title and a different cover! ARGH! Apparently, the British and the...

08
Sep
2006

SCOOP: SALMON SOOTHING FOR SORE SWALLOWERS

Both Martin and Karin complained of sore and ticklish throats this week and Karin went through an entire bag and a half of orange and cherry-flavored cough drops…guess who’s got it now? *cough* So, it’s no wonder I was dragging today, pulling myself one step at a time through work towards quitting time and the Tylenol cold medicine calling me from the bathroom cabinet at home. One of the interns at work graduated today and she cooked lunch for a bunch of us. It was one of the most interesting taste-combination meals I’ve ever had, in a good way: salmon...

07
Sep
2006

STEREOTYPES TO THE RESCUE

3 girls in the senior class from the high school that our kids will go to in a few years sent a note home with everyone in Karin’s class announcing that they were starting a handball club for the young kids in Flyinge school. While they are primarily aiming at the 6 and 7-year-olds they made it clear that any child who was interested was welcome. Even better, they’re allowing the kids 3 sessions for free to try it out and it’s only 150 kronor for the rest of the term if they join after that. I asked Martin and...

06
Sep
2006

IT’S ALL UP TO ME NOW

Oh what a beautiful morning Oh what a beautiful day I’ve got a beautiful feeling Everything’s going my way! I wake up singing this in my head every morning these days. It’s been awhile since I really had that feeling, and I’ve missed it. What a bolt of energy this week has been. Things are looking really great for this year, although I’m going to be doing some re-thinking of my palette of commitments and activities in the next couple of weeks as I have to be sure that I have a good balance and don’t take on too much...

04
Sep
2006

LOVE SHINE A LIGHT

I’m feeling the love today and I am so touched and moved and happy that I just had to write about it. I’ve signed up as a nominee for my old position of Editor on the AWC board. I had been dithering about it for ages, not knowing what to do, because frankly the year off had felt both good and bad; good because I really WAS burned out on the job and because I really had MUCH less to do, but bad because I felt like I was letting down my team. I talked to my friend Camilla and...

03
Sep
2006

SJUNG HOPP FADERI FADERALLAN LEJ

This has the been the eatingest weekend in ages. I’m stuffed. We had lunch today at a semi-fancy buffet place in honor of Ander’s dad, who turned 80 this year. (the party was postponed a bit from his actual birthday because they were out of town then). The food was fabulous and I had to FORCIBLY restrain my tongue (I gave it a good talking-to! haha) from trying to run rampant and just keep eating until there was NO MORE. Best pork fillet with rosepepper gravy I’ve ever had. Best apple crumble pie with vanilla sauce I’ve ever had. That’s...

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