Yearly Archive: 2007

10
Jun
2007

I’M MELTING! I’M MELTING!

It’s been over 90F/30C here for the past 2 days. Subsequently, I have not really been in the mood to do anything, much less write about how hot I am. All I really want to do is lie on a chaise lounge and have my cabana boy fan me with palm leaves and serve up ice cold lemonade, the kind in a tall glass pitcher with ice cubes and slices of real lemons floating in it. Ohhhh cabana boy! where are you?! Sunny, Still and Sunshine-Filled Belated Birthday Wishes to purrthecat!

07
Jun
2007

BETTER TO SEARCH THAN TO BE SEARCHED

For book group tonight, we read Marlo Morgan’s controversial novel Mutant Message Down Under. I have to say, that though parts of it were valid and interesting, overall I didn’t really like the book. It seemed implausible and simplistic in too many ways. We had a good discussion about the book, though those of us who sat mostly silent were the ones who obviously didn’t like it much, while those who talked a lot had apparently connected with it on a much different level. Anyway, the gist of the book is that a white American healthcare professional in her 50s...

06
Jun
2007

NOT A PERFECT DAY, BUT PRETTY DARN CLOSE

Summer turns me upside down, summer summer summer! It’s like a merry-go-round…because I seem to spend most of my time turning about filling up my eyes with green and growing things, with bright and blooming things, with the endlessly endless never-ending blue of the sky. There are pink paradise bushes blooming everywhere, we have dozens of hard green baby cherries on our cherry tree, the swans out by the highway are nesting, and the horse on the street before ours has a little brown skippity foal. We scored super-big at IKEA today. Because it was Sweden’s National Day and just...

05
Jun
2007

NOT MUCH TO SAY BUT I’M SAYING IT ANYWAY

The twitch in my eye and shoulder, you ask? Where did they come from? From not being able to post this entry on LJ for THREE FOUR FRICKIN’ DAYS. I had to keep changing the tenses with each passing day of aggravation and frustration until my head nearly exploded. Thanks to e11en for reminding me I could post via email. *twitch* *** It’s June. Anders and I had our 11-year wedding anniversary on Friday but we didn’t really celebrate it since I had a work event to go to. Instead we took the kids for sushi the day after. Of...

30
May
2007

THIS POST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE ENTIRE ALPHABET

A is for the ANTICIPATION of the next good book I will read, having just finished one that made me wish I could read twice as fast so I could read twice as much. B is for the cool BREEZE that flows like a balm into the bedroom when I go to bed and crack the window open. C is for the COLLEAGUES that appreciate the work I do. D is for the DAYLIGHT that is still increasing; light last night at 9:30 as I soared down the hill, with the sun behind the silver-rimmed puffclouds and all the windmills...

27
May
2007

THE YEAR’S AT THE SPRING

Last night after myskväll, Anders and I watched Grabben i Graven Bredvid*, a much hyped Swedish film that came out in 2002 and which we somehow missed seeing then, though it was very highly recommended by everyone we knew. It lived up to its reputation and we both really enjoyed it. I’ve seen the leading man in 3 movies now (Så Som i Himmelen and Vägen Ut) and listened to him lecture live onstage during an “Inspiration Day” I attended for work a couple of years ago, and have been increasingly impressed with his acting. Later, long after we had...

25
May
2007

GOOD NEWS!

Yay! I just talked to my sister and my mom, who is apparently the star patient of Port Huron hospital, is going home today, and best of all, they called the pathology lab to find out what the results of the biopsies were and it appears that she is cancer-free!! It was contained and hasn’t spread, from what they can tell. *BOUNCING OFF THE CEILING WITH JOY*

23
May
2007

IT’S NOT HOW MUCH YOU GIVE THAT MATTERS, IT’S HOW MUCH YOU KEEP FOR YOURSELF

Call me selfish, if you will; I freely admit to it. The thought of something happening to my mother makes my blood run cold. It makes me feel like I might faint. It makes my heart miss a beat and then begin again, tha-dump. If something happened to my mother, it would mean losing a huge part of myself. I can’t imagine not having my mom to call and talk to whenever I want to, whenever I NEED to. It’s not just my mother I would lose, you see. It’s my past. My childhood. The memory of my birth, the...

22
May
2007

SO FAR, SO GOOD

Sometimes you might think that you are alone in the world. Especially when things aren’t going your way. No one cares about your problems or your feelings. You didn’t get that job you interviewed for. You can’t find anyone to go to Weightwatchers with you. Your kids ditch walking with you to play with their friends. Nobody likes you, everybody hates you, might as well eat worms. Inside, not even deep down, but really right under the surface of your suddenly tingling skin, you know that this is not true. In fact, there are so many people who care about...

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