Yearly Archive: 2006

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...

02
Sep
2006

DOORS THAT OPEN, DOORS THAT CLOSE

Good news, bad news: there’s always something happening, somewhere, to someone. Sometimes it hits closer to home than others, and sometimes it lets you live vicariously for a moment, re-living or anticipating or struck suddenly dumb by the awful and visceral realization that things can happen at any time, out of the blue, for reasons completely out of your control. 2 weeks ago, a friend got a job that might have been written expressly for her, and coming as it did after she had thrown caution to the winds and made a leap of faith to abandon her previous corporate...

31
Aug
2006

ALONE AGAIN, NATURALLY

A few years ago, at my previous job, I was forced by circumstances to move from an office of my own into an open landscape cubicle environment under very crowded conditions. I hated it. I hated it so much it colored everything about my day, my week, my life. It made me grumpy and sad. After about 7 months in hell, our company closed down and we were all thrown on the job market where I, happily, was extremely fortunate in finding not one but TWO jobs that were perfect and ended up having to make a choice. The only...

30
Aug
2006

PEDAL TO THE METAL

Oh, so busy, so busy!! What a lot of good things this week, which helped to overwhelm the few bad things that popped up here and there like evil moles before I whacked them down with my loud laugh and BIG ATTITUDE. What else can you ask out of a week than sushi, a massage, a decision definitely made, a good book that keeps me from falling asleep when I ought to, a busy and interesting (albeit crazy) work week, dinner with someone who is becoming the best kind of good friend, phone calls from my sister and my brother,...

27
Aug
2006

PAGING STUART SMALLEY

When did I stop thinking that what I had to say was worthy of writing down? Somewhere along the line I veered off into feeling that if what I was writing about wasn’t scinctillating, profound or humorous, it wasn’t worth posting. This makes it harder and harder to want to post anything, to write ANYTHING, for fear it isn’t good enough. For who? For me or for my audience? The idea that writing about the mundanities of my day, the things that happen to me, the funny things my kids say, all those little things—isn’t good enough or exciting enough...

26
Aug
2006

GIANT STEPS INSTEAD OF BABY ONES

I think I’m ready now. I’m saying yes to things again. Edited to add: Talk about baby steps! A tiny little frog no bigger than my thumb just hopped past the doorway of the computer room where I sat working. Anders has returned him to the wild now. 😀

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