Yearly Archive: 2006

21
Sep
2006

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

I think my books-to-read pile has reached unwieldy proportions. It’s listing to one side. It’s spreading. The trouble is, finding the time to sit down and them all! Not that this stops me from buying more books, or using my mom as a procurer. And damn, I’m reading as fast as I can!, I swear! I have dreams about being able to do nothing but read all the books I want. Also, why didn’t anyone introduce me to Josephine Tey any sooner?? I just started reading The Daughter of Time and I may be up all night now. Partly because...

20
Sep
2006

SO FAR AND NO FURTHER

Dear Week 38, What’d I ever do to you? You’re killing me and I’m only halfway. Cut me some slack, will ya? Kisses, Lizardek In Sweden, a lot of things are reckoned according to what week it is. I don’t know if that’s a common thing elsewhere in Europe or if it’s peculiar to Swedes. All I knew when I first moved here was that there were 52 weeks in the year, but I have no mental calendar to figure out what week it is on any given workday, after about week 12 or so. Thankfully, awhile ago I discovered...

19
Sep
2006

SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT DAY

Lather, rinse, repeat. Except I slept better last night. And am in a better mood. I wish I could stop this compulsion to write down everything I accomplish during the day. I know that no one really cares except me. I do it at work, too. Even though no one ever wants to see it, like my boss for instance during salary reviews, I keep a list of all the projects I’ve completed, for my own record. Even if I don’t impress anyone but myself, that must count for something, right? Other compulsions I wish I could stop: DOING SOMETHING...

18
Sep
2006

A CASE OF THE MONDAYS

Don’t sleep well. Worry about everything that needs to get done at work. Get handed multiple last-minute projects the minute you log on to your computer. Nearly get into a screaming match with the colleague responsible for most of them, but manage to just barely restrain yourself. Shut office door and ignore passersby. WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK. Mentally sigh while smiling every time the door is opened and someone says, “Can I just…” Eat a 15-minute lunch. WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK. Manage to get most of the last-minute projects done. You hope. Worry about...

17
Sep
2006

ONLY 2 MORE AND WE’D HAVE A COMPLETE SITH BASEBALL TEAM

I feel like everything in my head is so disjointed. When I sit down to start writing, it all tries to shove out past my fingertips in staccato sentences and bullet points: bang! bang! There doesn’t seem to be any flow in me right now, no story, no form. Martin and I went berry-hunting today at the schoolyard. All the rowans are ruby-dotted with huge clusters of bright red berries. We figure the birds have more than enough and no one will miss half a bag full for us to use as table decorations for the Halloween party. We still...

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...

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