Yearly Archive: 2008

13
Dec
2008

YOU’D BETTER NOT CRY, I’M TELLING YOU WHY

I’m pouting right now. Sulking, nearly. It’s not attractive, I can tell you, yet my sad little pouty heart doesn’t care because it is feeling VERY put out. This morning was a leisurely one, what with the waking up early but going back to sleep. Dreams shivered past, helping to erase the disappointing memories of a work Christmas party gone terribly wrong and boring. Got up at a decent hour, had breakfast and then we set out for Dalby and the tree nursery where we met up with friends and traipsed about in the woods, hunting for the perfect Christmas...

11
Dec
2008

STRESSMAS!

Even though I don’t have that much left to do in regards to Christmas preparations, things seem to be zooming ahead and pulling me after them willy-nilly. This is always a crazy time of year. Exhibit A – this week Monday – Actually, nothing Tuesday – Karin karate class Wednesday – Choir Christmas concert and dinner afterwards Thursday – Karin karate class, and kid’s hemspråk end-of-term party (they watched a movie & had fika at our house) Friday – Work Christmas party Saturday – Get Christmas tree, decorate it, bake cookies Exhibit B – next week Sunday – Sing in...

09
Dec
2008

STARTS OFF BAD; GETS WORSE; GETS BETTER

First half of the day was awful, went from bad to cruddy with one thing after another coming at me like javelins. Haven’t had a day like that at work in quite some time so it threw me for a bit of a loop. Managed to regain my equilibrium in the afternoon just in time to go into an 1.5-hour long meeting about our work insurance and pension plans and conditions and by the time that was over, I was ready to wrap the day back up and return it for a new one. I don’t understand insurance and pensions...

08
Dec
2008

ON TOP OF THINGS

Done Christmas letter written Christmas cards signed, sealed, delivered Christmas presents 3/4 done Christmas house decorations up To do Bake Christmas cookies Final Christmas present shopping Wrap gifts Get Christmas tree and decorate it Martin had a good birthday and got lots of things he wanted, including Spore, which he has been playing non-stop ever since. I thought it was an online game and was surprised (and frankly, rather pleased) to find out it isn’t. I know you can do certain things with it online like share your creatures, but so far, he’s happily evolving and eating and ganging up...

07
Dec
2008

THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW

I can’t remember him so small, he’s so big now. It’s hard to believe I could hold all of him cradled in my arms when he’s almost as tall now as I am. His feet were so small and so perfect, they fit in the palm of my hand. Now his shoes are nearly longer than mine. But he still has the same smile, the same dimple, the same twinkle in his eye, and the same infectious laugh. 11 years old and growing, going, but not yet gone, thank god.

04
Dec
2008

WE NEED NOT THINK ALIKE TO LOVE ALIKE*

Why are we friends? We’re so different! You come from another state, another country, another culture. You’re older than me; you’re younger. You’re religious, and you—you’re political. You’ve made choices in your life that I can’t fathom. You’ve had things happen to you that I can’t relate to. You’ve done things I couldn’t or wouldn’t or wish I dared to do. You don’t have any children. You have too many. You don’t want any. You’ve got a baby; your kids are grown. You believe in things I could never swallow. You believe in things that go against my grain. You...

03
Dec
2008

I SWEAR I DO NOT WEAR A KERCHIEF

Everywhere there are yummy yummy recipes coming at me like zingity fattening yummalicious food bombs. First, I do it to myself by visiting friends with mad cooking skillz and the willingness to share recipes. And I buy Martha Stewart Living magazines just so I can LICK THE PAGES. And then I make it worse by choosing to participate in the AWC holiday cookie exchange which kickstarts the baking of the Christmas cookies. Then ozswede perpetuates the temptation with a string of delicious recipes that have me frantically printing and gathering and drooling, and then she sends me links to things...

01
Dec
2008

TO LOOK A LOT

ozswede says “get blogging” and her wish is my command. Of course, my motto is: Be careful what you wish for! I honestly don’t feel like I have anything important to write about right now…I’m in that holiday zone, finally. Plus I’m deep in the archives of NotAlwaysRight, laughing my head off on every page. All the houses in Sweden have their advent lights and Christmas stars in the windows. We took a couple of hours today at work, 3 of my colleagues and I, and drove to our print-house where our account manager had invited us for a holiday...

29
Nov
2008

IT’S BEGINNING

For the past 8 or 9 years, I’ve participated in an AWC event on Thanksgiving evening. It’s nothing to do with turkey or tryptophan or football or parades because none of that exists in its American holiday form here in Sweden. Instead, our Thanksgiving celebrations with friends and/or family has always been scheduled for the weekend after (or in the case of this year, the weekend before). Because the fourth Thursday in November is just a regular workday here, it’s been a pleasure to have a holiday event scheduled on that evening instead, something that has now become a tradition...

28
Nov
2008

BAHA!

Cracking Me Up: Not Always Right More Cracking Me Up: Craftastrophe

May 2024
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  

Archives