Yearly Archive: 2006

11
Nov
2006

MAYBE IT WAS MORE THAN JUST A SMALL PART

I love the feeling of fullness and satisfaction that comes after you’ve finished reading the final sentence of a book that you anticipated for a long time and which turned out to be completely worth the wait, when you slowly close the cover and hold the book in your hands, sitting still for a moment while your brain reluctantly returns to the present, leaving a small part of itself forever among the characters and events you’ve been so deeply involved in and with for the last however many days ago it was you plunged in and knowing that it will...

09
Nov
2006

WISE WORDS

I may be rejoining the living, as things were looking distinctly up, if not perky, today, throat-wise. A few days ago I actually thought I was having a panic attack at the office, mostly brought on by being sick and strangly, what with the not being able to swallow thing, but also because my workload has been towering over me and getting higher and higher like a swaying skyscraper of project-child’s-blocks, teetering creakily this way and that, just stopping short of tipping over with a crash and the wild bonking of blocks on skull by the fact that I am...

08
Nov
2006

UNDER THE WEATHER

I think my body is trying to hibernate. It keeps leaning toward sleep, dragging me down early, and making it hard for me to climb, sodden and groggy, from my bed each morning. It’s no help that it’s so dark out when I rise and so dark out when I come home. Each day, the longing for light gets a little harder to live with. This morning I was handed a prescription for antibiotics, a course of twice a day for 10 days to help beat the sore throat back with a big medicinal stick. It still hurts to swallow...

06
Nov
2006

GRUMPY McGRUMPERSON RIDES AGAIN!

Reasons the Universe is UNFAIR: Someone my age should not have a) ear infections, b) acne I have a painful sore throat for the THIRD time in 4 weeks. What gives?? Anders is going to be gone Thursday this week and ALL of next week. sigh I took Advil when I got home, after eating chicken soup for dinner in a futile attempt to soothe my throat, and laid down on the couch to try and rest a bit. I woke myself up snoring. TWICE. Now that it’s reasonably late, late enough to retire, I doubt seriously whether I will...

05
Nov
2006

BLEARING MY EYES WITH BOOKS

I could not possibly be (or have been) any less motivated to do anything today but read. Not even writing holds much allure, although I’ve been thinking about writing all weekend, and couldn’t. Friday I couldn’t because I was gone all evening having dinner with girlfriends, and Saturday I couldn’t because LJ was down. Well, I suppose I COULD have written, but I wasn’t really in the mood, so I read instead. I read all day yesterday and all day today. I finished a 1443-page book a couple of hours ago and have just started another one. I wonder if...

02
Nov
2006

WEATHERBEATEN

This work week is wringing me out like a washcloth, twisting just tight enough to make my shoulders cram up against the small bones where spine meets skull. It’s been a week of breathless galloping through projects, and then galloping back and forth over my tracks, reined in by the wishes of others. Still, I’m satisfied. I’m getting things done, although I’ve had to say no twice to people, something I hate having to do. No, I’m sorry, I can’t take your project although I know there isn’t anyone else that you can ask, there isn’t anyone else who can...

01
Nov
2006

YOU CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH OF WHAT YOU DON’T NEED TO MAKE YOU HAPPY

Everything’s good and it snowed all damn day and it’s colder than cold here. Brr, it’s cold. I guess my days of wearing moccasins with no socks are over for this year. Such a bummer, that. Anders is home and O! I am glad. He also brought me one of these: So, yay! We’re a 2-camera family again. I expect we’ll find the missing one any minute now, since that’s how these things work. We have: 2 cameras* 2 cars 2 children 2 cheese slicers 2 colanders 2 printers 2 calendars We need the 2 cars, sadly. We need the...

31
Oct
2006

COUNTING MINUTES BY SENSATION MAKES EACH MOMENT A DAY*

Hallowinners: The weather today was miserable, raggedly grey and rainy drizzle. Around lunchtime I began to despair, thinking that the kids would be wet bedraggled rats during the evening festivities, but then, just as I was leaving work, it cleared up COMPLETELY and the sun spread like butter across a washed out blue sky. There were maybe a handful of houses or so that didn’t participate, one with a sick child, and a few who weren’t home, but otherwise we had an excellent turnout for our first Platanvägen trick-or-treating Halloween, with around 30 kids and some parents who tagged along...

28
Oct
2006

SPOOKTACULAR

Well, that was fun, but I am totally wiped out now! We had the big AWC Halloween costume party tonight, and wow, what a difference it makes with activity coordinators who are committed and hard-working and most of all, THERE. The kids and I got there at 4 p.m. to help set up the table decorations, which we brought with us: dried maple leaves in yellow, orange and red, dried rowan berries and papery orange japanese lantern seedpods. The rest of the decorating and setup committee had been at the restaurant the evening before setting up halloweeny stuff all over...

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