Monthly Archive: November 2007

30
Nov
2007

BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL

Somewhere in the midst of the darkness and the rain, I keep thinking about you. YOU, that I’m so glad for. YOU, that I’m so sad for. YOU, that I wish I could see more. YOU. and YOU. and YOU, too. Mostly, I’ve been seeing the world through a blur. Either a blur of raindrops, pattering down on the windshield before being SWEPT away to the sides and down, zip zop, zip zop as the windshield wipers clear the way. Or through a haze of blurry eyed squinterdom. Or the blur of perpetual motion. I was going to joke that...

26
Nov
2007

GRUMP

What is the point of having a husband around when he won’t let you put your really cold hands inside his shirt to warm them UP?!

25
Nov
2007

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE…

Yesterday was our annual Thanksgiving potluck bash with good friends gathered around the dinner table, where silence reigned for all of 15 seconds during the first bite before everyone starting oohing and ahhing and remarking on how GOOOOOOD the food was. We had so much fun that we actually forgot for the first time in 10 years to take a group photo! *sigh* I enjoyed turkey leftovers for lunch today and baked the first batch of official Christmas cookies: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Squares that may just end up a family favorite. They’re DELICIOUS. They’re also for the AWC cookie exchange...

22
Nov
2007

THINGS I’M THANKFUL FOR

That your doctors caught it early and got it all because I can’t imagine life without you. That you are healthy and happy and funny and so incredibly well-behaved in public. That we had the money on hand so I could fly over to be there when you said I do. That your new job has made you so much happier and that we seem, in so many ways, stronger than ever. That you choose to come and visit us when you have the chance. That you recommend such great books, and movies, and recipes. That you show me in...

21
Nov
2007

CRACKLING WITH JOY DESPITE THE DARKNESS

It is so dark here that I feel I am living in a cave. Dark when I awaken, dim all day, pitch black when I get home. 5 in the evening feels like 10. And there’s yet another month to the solstice…I’ll be a fully-fledged troglodyte by then. Choir tonight: first time I’ve sung (except in the car) since MAY. We have a new choir leader and it was very surreal to sit before her and keep realizing over and over that she wasn’t Eva, our former choir leader. She has a very different style, but I think she’ll be...

17
Nov
2007

EAT, EAT! NO ONE LIKES A SKINNY SANTA!

Anders was gone all week, in Italy on business. He brought home: a huge wedge of parmigiano reggiano cheese 4 packages of pasta a pack of prosciutto ham one small hard Italian salami a package of salsiccia sausages limoncello, nocino and grappa And then he made dinner tonight: a plate of appetizers that included sliced salami, prosciutto-wrapped cantelope and prosciutto-wrapped parmesan slices mushroom risotto with fresh grated parmesan cheese perfectly cooked steaming sausages a bowl of baby plum tomatoes My friend Debbie came over with her son, who checked out Karin’s loftbed and declared that he liked it, and they’ll...

16
Nov
2007

TGIF

A good day of work with much progress made Leaving early; thank you, flex-time! A rare trip to the American store (stocked up for Thanksgiving!) Sushi for dinner with the kids and friends My husband home from a week away Myskväll with the family Some much-needed resolution The middle of a good book A neck and shoulder rub Anticipation of sleeping in tomorrow! aaaaah…and how was YOUR day?

15
Nov
2007

PICK ONE, THEN COMMENT! COMMENT SOME MORE! I LOVE IT!

I wonder what else I could write about besides BREAKFAST that would get so many comments. Candy favorites? Sex positions? Ways to add extra time to your day? The best book you EVER read, EVER? Nah. Bacon and cinnamon sugar toast and English muffins and filmjölk would probably top them all. Total monster drama day today. I’m wiped. I fucking HATE drama. Hate it. With a capital F. Tomorrow Anders comes home and I’m taking the kids to sushi. Also buying stuffing at the American store. Take that, drama! I get knocked down, but I get up again, you ain’t...

13
Nov
2007

MY SISTER CALLS IT BREAKFRIST

Sugar crystal slush cover on the ground, the yard, the car this morning. Slickery noises as the car tires skid and catch even at a snail’s pace on the tight turns in the neighborhood. Halfway through the morning, a glance out my window reveals huge fat white feather-flakes slowly drifting downward; nothing sticks. The only way is through. Through the darkness, the cold, the wet, the dreamtime of winter. Just as everything natural is slowing down, turning inward, hibernating, our calendar and schedules and lives are speeding up: full speed to the holidays. This time of year is always grueling...

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