Monthly Archive: October 2007

30
Oct
2007

NEITHER A PRINCESS NOR A PEA

We bought loft beds for the kids this summer, after checking and re-checking and triple-checking that loft beds were what they really wanted. YES, they declared most emphatically, YES WE WANT THEM. And we thought they would be great, as they would provide so much more space in the bedrooms by lifting the beds up off the floor. Martin loves his. It’s a little fort, a magic treehouse, a hidey-hole and cozy nest where he can lie and read for hours until I come in and yell at him to put the book down, for godsake it’s after 11 and...

29
Oct
2007

STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, THOUGH I THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH

I still sound verrrry sexy, but I actually felt worse today, compounded by unexpected project loads dropped on head at work. Sushi with a friend before the AWC meeting helped though and the new board seems very gung-ho which makes me happy. The kids are going to farmor and farfars tomorrow and staying overnight. My mom is coming for 3 weeks in December and I am thrilled about that. This morning, at work, I seated myself at the breakfast table and someone said hello to me and when I grrrrrrowled hello back, she was taken aback and asked me rapidly,...

27
Oct
2007

MONSTER MASH

67 kids, 61 adults and 3 hours of running around a huge indoor playplace. The only bummer was that the big bags of American candy I had brought were completely forgotten and didn’t get put out for the party. So I’ll be bringing candy to AWC events in the future, until it’s all gone. Karin won first prize for best costume with her “Mummy Karate Kid” that she thought up and planned herself. Martin was a “Boy of Summer” and I? Was a Magic 8-Ball! Whenever someone asked me what I was supposed to be, I said (in my very...

23
Oct
2007

LIGHT TOMORROW WITH TODAY*

Every time something happens to interrupt the flow of words to this journal—vacations, business trips, illnesses, general maniac busyness—I find it harder to get back on track. There was a time, some years ago, when for a whole year and then some I actually wrote something nearly every day. Every day! What perserverance I must have had then, back when I was a young thing, with sparkles in my eyes and a spring in my step.** Then I decided to cut myself some slack and you can see, if you look at my journal calendars, that I began slacking and...

20
Oct
2007

UHHHN

I honestly don’t remember the last time I was this sick. I’ve spent the majority of the past 72 hours huddled in a ball, fully dressed with 2 thick sweatshirts on, under 3 heavy blankets…shivering. If I’m NOT shivering, I’m sweating and throwing everything madly off. If I’m not sweating OR shivering I’m laying poleaxed with a headache and a sharp pain in my shoulders and neck as they try to crawl up around the top of my head where shoulders and neck have no right to be. My cheekbones feel like sharp glass. My throat keeps surprising me with...

18
Oct
2007

EVEN CATERPILLARS COULD FLY IF THEY WOULD JUST LIGHTEN UP

Fighting off a cold makes me want to burrow under as many blankets as I can pile on the bed. The summer-weight king-size thin blanket that really needs to be put away now that it’s so cold in the bedroom The 80’s comforter in teal, burgundy and cream that I can’t bring myself to part with, though it’s starting to look a little ragged. It was the comforter that I bought myself when I moved into my own place in Chicago. The heavy winter duvet that I still haven’t put the duvet cover on because it’s such a pain in...

17
Oct
2007

BLEAH

My stomach hurts. I blew off choir tonight because of it. The first time I could go, and I’m missing it, but you know what? I’m just not in the mood for it, and the upset stomach was the straw to my camel’s back. We finally found a choir leader but she started 2 weeks ago and one of those weeks was cancelled because her kid was sick. It’s 2.5 months into the term and the choir has only met once! 🙁 And I’m feeling like it’s not even worth it to go this term. Maybe I should just wait...

14
Oct
2007

SPOOKING IT UP IN DENMARK

Halloween is just not a big thing in continental Europe, not like it is in the States, though it originated in Britain. It’s always been one of my favorite holidays, though I’d be hard put to describe exactly why I like it better than, say, Christmas, which is admittedly a close runner-up. There’s just always been something magical about it, and maybe it’s just because I like cats and the color orange and full moons and pumpkin pie. Maybe it’s because it falls in autumn, my favorite time of the year. After 10+ years in Sweden, where Halloween is pretty...

12
Oct
2007

DID SOMEONE SAY CHEESE, GROMIT?

What is with the increase in spam? I never used to get spam on my yahoo address and now it’s barreling in. And why does YahooMail feel the need to make me click YES DAMMIT twice by asking me if I’m sure (are you sure? are you? huh? huh?) if I want to delete everything in my Spam folder?! If I didn’t want to delete it, I’d MOVE it, YahooMail…DUH. Argh. Also, I cannot believe I lost a game of Scrabulous despite coming up with the word QUAHOG on a triple letter score. How depressing! Mmmmm…melty Brie. While I was...

09
Oct
2007

IN WHICH LIZ FAKES YOU OUT WITH LOTS OF TYPING

Too much going on which is calling me away from here right now. I’m around—just not very vocal, it seems. I’d write a list of what’s going on this week/month/season but I suspect everyone would just yawn and be all “yeah, you’re busy, what else is new?” If you had just gotten a big wooden sideboard with 2 drawers and 2 cabinet doors on the front with carved apples with leaves in squares in the center of them, what color would you paint it? It’s currently white, which we don’t want. Anders suggested grey (probably to stave off my penchant...

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