Yearly Archive: 2007

07
Oct
2007

LOVE IS A DECISION, NOT JUST AN EMOTION

After doing the Swedish style thing for 10 years, my sister and her significant other, Tom, tied the knot at the end of last month. I’m so glad I was able to be there and to be a part of the festivities. Congratulations, my beeg leetle seester! To Love and Cherish It’s a Nice Day for a Navy Wedding: Rachel, Sarah, Bryce, Tom Why My Mom Hates Photo Shoots He Cleans Up Nice, Doesn’t He? Lizardmom in Grandma Mode with Bryce and Rachel *** Fine & Flowering Birthday Wishes to beziigebij and a Basket of Belated Ones to gissa!

05
Oct
2007

THIS JUST IN

Who’s on Facebook? And why? What are you doing there? Do we all really have this much time to fart around on the internet? Good lord, what did we DO with ourselves back in the dark ages? Remember board games? I miss those. *** Do you have “pet names” for things in your house or food or stuff that you refer to when your kids or your significant other are around by words or names other than their real ones? The kids call my imported sugar-free cherry Kool-Aid Mama’s Saft (Mama’s juice). And we call summer sausage “pricky korv” because...

04
Oct
2007

UP, UP AND AWAY

Yesterday, it was so clear you could see forever, and when you’re 15,000 feet up in an airplane on a clear day, you very nearly can. It was overcast in Frankfurt when we took off but as we headed north the clouds dispersed until we were flying over Denmark: lots and lots of very flat land surrounded by lots and lots of water. What struck me most about the sun-slathered landscapes was how foreign the land looked. It didn’t look as if it was LAND. It didn’t look, by the edges of the shorelines, as if it continued down into...

03
Oct
2007

AAAH, AT LAST, A POST!

Today, in its loosely defined state of 33 hours awake so far, involved 3 airplanes, 9 hours total of layover/airport-wait time and a train, plus two 50-pound suitcases. I am very glad to be home. Things I boggled at, the short list: The Butt Hut (bwahahahaha!), ketchup-flavored potato chips, THE PRICES, the fact that I spent an hour and a half in the bookstore and came away with ONE BOOK for myself, the amount of strip malls in America, the variety of goodies on the market with Reese’s name on them. Things I wanted to eat while in the States...

23
Sep
2007

A THOUSAND PUMPKIN LIGHTS

The only thing brighter than pumpkins is the smiles on the faces of your children as they are each choosing the biggest and best one in the patch for their very own. I wonder why no one has ever investigated the pumpkin as an alternate source of light? They make the day shine brighter by their very existence! Looking for the Great Pumpkin

22
Sep
2007

OUT AND ABOUT

Martin and I, in the car, driving past a stand of maple trees beginning to show autumn colors Liz: Look, Martin! The trees are turning! Martin: …to the Dark Side. pause Liz & Martin: *giggle madly* Started packing today for my trip, or at least making piles on the dining room table of clothes and things to take with. Dithering about clothing and weather. When I talked to my sister she warned me that it’s HOT there. Hot and humid. Aieee! Summer clothes. I’ve been wearing sweaters and warm clothing here for WEEKS*. Back to dithering and completely re-thinking my...

18
Sep
2007

EATING OF THE FRUIT (AND VEGETABLE) OF KNOWLEDGE

The best way to say the word ‘vegetable’ is like this: veggie-wobble. It’s addictive, beware. Not one but TWO sugar beets were sighted today, outside of Gårdstånga on E22 heading toward Lund. Fall is officially here. It’s the annual I-Saw-a-Sugar-Beet-on-the-Side-of-the-Road-so-it-Must-be-Autum journal post! Yay! New favorite veggie-wobble: KOHLRABI. Like George Martin, this one is all my brother’s fault. Have you ever had a kohlrabi? I bet you have, but you didn’t know it. Sometimes they’re the mysterious white crispy veggies in frozen wok mixes or the pale thin strips of veggies mixed in with the red peppers and julienned carrots in...

15
Sep
2007

THINGS I THINK ABOUT DOING, SOME OF WHICH COULD HAPPEN

learning French adopting a Siberian cat living in Holland traveling to Prague, St. Petersburg and Sydney losing another 25 pounds vacationing in Ireland and Wales doing a “Great Museums” world tour planting trees recycling more saving the polar bears, among others inventing a matter transmitter having another baby …hahaha! NOT! re-decorating the children’s department being the author of a book on amazon.com biting my tongue when something sarcastic begins to fly off of it moving somewhere else for a couple of years reading all the books on my wish list tattooing a tiny, curled lizard on my hip adding more...

14
Sep
2007

CAPTAIN NEATNIK

I am a pathological picker-upper. I can’t abide seeing things that are out of place in my surroundings. Even at other people’s homes during the later hours of a party, I’m the one you’ll see wandering about collecting lip-sticked wineglasses and empty chip bowls and carrying them to the kitchen, because I just can’t stand it any more. If you’re really lucky, I’ll sometimes even WASH THEM. In this respect, having children has been a huge test of willpower and endurance for me, given their tendency to liberally cover the floor with lego or plastic animals or paper and leave...

13
Sep
2007

AUGH

Maybe the only way to stop this horrifying trend is to put HUMANS on the list as well. Because we will be. At the rate we’re going. Read more

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