Monthly Archive: March 2007

15
Mar
2007

LIKE A WHIRLPOOL IT NEVER ENDS

Whirly wheels of mind mechanics, my brain is spinning, it seems. This whole week has been crazy busy, punctuated by a one-two-three punch of anger/disappointment/resignation. I’ve worked late 2 days, tonight until 7 p.m.. With only 2 weeks left before I leave I’m feeling the pace start to increase and threaten to overwhelm. Today at work, I: finalized a 24-page product guide re-sized an ad layout re-sized and edited photos found things, sent things, uploaded things, transferred things, archived things, proofread things, showed people how to do things delegated 3 HTMLs, 4 datasheet layouts and a content extraction brainstormed about...

13
Mar
2007

WE CAN’T ALL AND SOME OF US DON’T. THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO IT.

This is not PMS, it can’t be. What IS this weird sorrow that settles on my back, just below my skull and wraps its wide warm paws around my head? It comes and goes, and no way to tell which day will be the one that feels heavy, which will be the one that lightens and brightens with joy until everything is loud and snapping rainbow. Recently it seems to me that the grump bucket runneth over. I am not by nature a grumpy person, though I surely have my moments like anyone else. Yesterday, and today, if I had...

12
Mar
2007

CANINE CLARIFICATION

Just to clear up what seems to be some confusion on the part of my readers: We WANT a dog. We BADLY want a dog (well, I would rather have a cat), but see, here’s the thing…I had cats my whole life, but grew to be allergic to them over time. I was taking pills while I was in the States, but that wouldn’t have stopped me from continuing to have cats. When I met Anders I had 2 cats. He was not allergic to cats when we met. We loved the cats and they were a part of our...

08
Mar
2007

PULLING A MEG

Come one, come all, even you lurkity lurkers out there! What hot-button topic gets your blood boiling? If you could travel to any one famous place/sight/attraction RIGHT NOW, where would you go? How many online friends have you met in real life? Were any of them internet psychos? Which kind of lizard do you like best? Iguana, chameleon, gecko, skink, or GILA MONSTER? Do you speak more than one language? If not, which one would you like to learn? What’s your favorite foreign word? Quick: chocolate desserts or dough-and-fruit? How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?* Which gives you more...

06
Mar
2007

DOGNABIT

I always show Martin and Karin the photos of my online friend’s cats and dogs, and of course they can’t get enough of Cute Overload. So, when I saw that the pretty pretty Bluepoppy, who has been in a marvelous frenzy of daily posting lately, quite unlike her usual practice of making us sadly refresh and refresh and refresh wait a few days between nuggets of bloggy goodness, and MUCH APPRECIATED by her adoring public, had posted this scrumptious photo of her darling Daisy pup this evening, I immediately, of course, called Karin and Martin over to the computer to...

05
Mar
2007

NO INTERPRETATION NECESSARY

Wasn’t gonna write tonight because my brain is in translation mode and I had to literally tear myself away from my work in progress (almost half done! woo! I rock!) and my scanned PDF source file and the Swedish-English dictionary and the Stora Ordboken and the SAOB and PUT THE KEYBOARD DOWN. I pictured myself whirling about the room in a long white lacy nightgown while the maidservants turned down the bedcovers and hung up my robe, hugging the keyboard to my breast and crooning I could have worked all night, I could have worked all night and can’t decide...

04
Mar
2007

IF I HAD A DAY THAT I COULD GIVE TO YOU

Today everyone is better, the sun is shining and spring seems just around the corner, though the temperatures are still a bit chill. I want to fling all the doors and windows open, and put music on and turn it up. Martin and I went for a walk in the sunshine. We saw ladybugs, lots and lots of ladybugs! And smiling people. And barky dogs and inquisitive cats and flirty chirpy birds. And lots of people out working in their yards. It was such a nice walk that we think we’ll go for another one in a little bit. Martin...

03
Mar
2007

IN THE COMPANY OF SLUGS

Martin called his father from fritids (after-school daycare) on Thursday to announce he was running a fever. Anders picked him and took him home, where he slept from 1 p.m. until 5 that evening. He had a fever on and off the next day, home from school, and slept a great deal of that day away as well. By Friday night Karin had picked it up, and even Anders was dragging and not feeling himself. They got up at a decent hour this morning, though Martin was restless and awake until well past midnight and had breakfast at 8. I...

01
Mar
2007

AND YET SINGS, KNOWING SHE HAS WINGS

Birds are everywhere here. I suspect I notice them more now because there are so few other creatures out and about in this grey and snow-scabbed landscape. Some days ago, in the space of a short while, birds made their presence known to me in various ways. We were in the car, driving to the home of a couple that live far out in the country, who had promised the kids good sledding in the company of their son. I saw: a fat black-and-white magpie sitting alone in the black branches of a skeletal tree, his shape silhouetted against the...

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