Yearly Archive: 2006

08
Oct
2006

HELP ME, INTERNETS-KENOBI, YOU’RE MY ONLY HOPE

Tomorrow I am working half a day and then taking a flight to Charles de Gaulle airport for an off-site meeting Tuesday and Wednesday in Paris. We arrive around 6 p.m. in the evening on Monday and will also hopefully have some time Tuesday evening to do some sightseeing or enjoy the city. I’ve been to Paris, once, with my family when I was 15. We didn’t have the best experience while traveling there because someone tried to steal my mom’s purse as we were boarding the Metro with all our suitcases, and also because on the train (and I...

07
Oct
2006

PUTTING PEACE IN MY POCKET

A quiet morning, spent doing nothing much. Anders and the kids left early this morning for a weekend Scout trip, they’ll be back tomorrow afternoon. I went back to bed after they left and after finishing my visit with an old childhood friend, Pippi Longstocking, I feel asleep for a couple of hours. A quiet lunch, a quiet afternoon, spent listening to Hayley Westenra, reading, editing, solitaire. Then it was time to head out the door into the early evening and the windy weather as our choir was singing for Lomma Village’s Culture Night. They are building and renovating in...

05
Oct
2006

GETTING INTO THE SPIRIT

I am suddenly craving a Slurpee right now so bad I could cry. Or one of those plastic flat tubes of Freezer Pop popsicles. Grape flavor. WAAH! Anders is going to the States this month for a WEEK and I am not. I am alternately resigned and crazy insane with envy. And yes, I know I am going to Paris on Monday! but I haven’t been home to the States in 2.5 years (going on 3, going on 3.5, going on WAAH!) and he’ll even be there for Halloween and we WON’T. *eats a mini-Tootsie Roll from the American candy...

03
Oct
2006

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

Ways today was not so great: having my colleague burst into tears on the phone due to the personal stress she’s been under lately, with added work stress and jetlag on top worked until 7 p.m. having a really sore neck for the 2nd week in a row. Let GO, cryk!! not having time to go for a walk not having time to edit my book unable to stop thinking about all the truly frightening facts in the book I just finished: An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore Ways today was pretty damn great: FINALLY got my hair cut and...

01
Oct
2006

YOU’RE IT

It will make me sad when my kids won’t hold hands with me anymore. We went for a walk this afternoon, in the soft-as-summer sunshine, or rather, Martin and I walked, and Karin rollerbladed in a teetery, half-confident way. One or the other of them was holding one or the other of my hands nearly the whole way. It’s hard to stride along when you are holding the hand of a child. It slows you down, it makes you match paces and it gives you more time to talk and to see things and point them out to each other...

30
Sep
2006

IT WAS EITHER THIS OR A MEME

It’s been thundering and lightning all evening. And writing that sentence just made me realize that whenever we say that, we are using the word lightning as a VERB, just because it has an ing on the end. Really, it should be lightninging, which I just sat here and said several times out loud to see how it sounded, prompting my husband to say, “what?” in a confused tone from the living room. Last night I had dinner with my oldest girlfriends in Sweden, the women I became friends with first after I moved here, that is…it’s nothing to do...

28
Sep
2006

POETRY THURSDAY

I have always been partial to e.e. cummings although I know he tends to engender either shining adoration or pure-black hatred in people. It seems to me that his poems express joy better than nearly anyones. Joy in living, joy in love, joy in language. I bet he bounced in his seat when he finished writing one. I sometimes bounce in my seat when I finish reading one. Like this one, for example. 🙂 you shall above all things be glad and young by e.e. cummings you shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever...

27
Sep
2006

SO INCREDIBLY BUSY

That spinning sound you hear? The loud, whirring one? Yeah. That’s my head. Also, remember my foot that I busted up on Valentine’s Day last year? Yeah, I dropped a heavy metal chair on it while we were rearranging before the meeting tonight, in the EXACT same place and oh dear, oh shit, OW OW OW I think I really did a number on it again. 🙁

26
Sep
2006

SWINGTIME

Bad mood: tried to order a Clone Trooper costume for Anakarin Karin online yesterday and my card was not approved. Called the customer support in the States and was basically given the following advice: “ummmmmmmm dunno. can ya try again tomorrah?” Which I did, but no dice. Good mood: gave up and called my sister in St. Louis and had HER order it including shipping to me, then bought her 2 bottles of her favorite perfume (at her request, and with the SAME CARD that wasn’t approved at the other site) to pay her back Bad mood: Anders is gone...

24
Sep
2006

READING IS A DISCOUNT TICKET TO EVERYWHERE

859 exhibitor booths, all having to do with books or other printed materials, in a conference hall the size of several football fields makes for a delirious day of giddy joy in a bookworm of my caliber. It actually turned out to be a good thing that the majority of the books were in Swedish because I can’t even imagine what I would have spent at a book fair where all the books were ENGLISH! And as it was I came home with 22 books, including 6 each for the kids (plus 3 original Star Wars film-adaptation comic books for...

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