Monthly Archive: December 2009

29
Dec
2009

REPLETE

I’ve been filling up. Filling up with lovely days and family goodness and the stupified silence of children stunned by the awesomeness of their Christmas presents. Filling up with cookies and turkey sandwiches and clementines and love. Too busy to sit down and write, too busy to take a moment because all the moments are taken: real life, days present and future and full. Friday is a full moon, but it’s nearly there now. Last night it was shining clear and crystal down on the sugar frosting sifted across the grass, the hedge, the yard. I’ve not slept well the...

24
Dec
2009

WHAT A BRIGHT TIME, IT’S THE RIGHT TIME!

Sleeping in, Finished a great book, house spotless, and refrigerator stuffed with all the trimmings for a complete Swedish julbord and ready to go! Anders’ parents got here just after 3 p.m. and the kids watched Kalle Anka until Karin and I left to pick up John & Simone at the airport (on time! smooth sailing!). There is still a ton of snow and there are lovely advent lights in stars in the windows of every house. We had a wonderful evening stuffing ourselves silly on all the good food that Anders and his mom had prepared and then (finally!...

23
Dec
2009

LAME DAY BEFORE THE DAY BEFORE UPDATE

Almost ready. The snow is melting, though we still have a ton here in our village due to the fact that we live in a precipitation pocket where it’s always colder or rainier or snowier than anywhere else in Skåne. Seeing black wet roads and grey/black sludge edges makes me sad because everything was absolutely COVERED with white just 2 days ago. *sigh* …I’ve been told more snow is on the way; hope that is true. I have fallen down on the cookie job this year, but I don’t care. It’s just as well. I’ve already gained a ton of...

20
Dec
2009

IN THE LANE SNOW IS GLISTENING

Look what happens when someone leaves the snow on overnight! 24 hours plus of snowfall and we have over a foot. I threw the kids outside with a camera and told them to take photos. “Of what?” they asked. DUH! Of things covered in snow! When I got the camera back, they had taken pictures of both the cars and the mailbox and some blobs of snow on the side of the house. Anders is out shoveling, the kids are out sledding and I, in a hilarious twist of irony, am about to DEFROST THE FREEZER. Hahahahahaha!! ABOMINABLE! Clifford the...

19
Dec
2009

THERE’S NO FEELING LIKE SNOW FALLING

It’s been snowing all day, going from those fat & floaty puffed-up snowdrops; you know, the showy kind that turn into hyperspace when you’re in the car at night and turn on the brights for a second, to the tiny crystal glitterbits just being flung about by the wind. We have 4-5 inches, not counting all the drifts from the blowing winter breezes and no end in sight. Already I’m sure that the prediction about a white Christmas for the first time in 10 years will come true: there is so much snow already down that even if it abruptly...

15
Dec
2009

BITS OF TID

There were some topics gnawing at me earlier but they have left off and moved on. Instead you get this: bits! Would it be better with bullets? Does it sound weird to say just bullets instead of bulletPOINTS? Did you understand me anyway or do I do too many PowerPoint presentations at work? *** We have 1 present left to purchase for the kids, and Karin has 1 present left to purchase for her grandparents, and we have 1 birthday present left to purchase for Anders’ mom. I don’t know if Anders is done with his shopping for me. He...

12
Dec
2009

DEPTH RESISTANCE & BOOK BOUNTY

Sometimes I feel like I’m living on the surface; skimming surely over the top without ever managing to puncture through and end up submerged. I can go for long periods of time living up here, skating along. It makes it hard to write. It makes it hard to come up with a true story; no description is deep enough for veracity. Maybe it’s the wintertime, the darkness, the sluggish response to everything. Maybe it’s the way my eyes slide along the surface, too. I don’t see things or I don’t stop for them, the way I do in the spring...

09
Dec
2009

COILED

Funny how the year is winding down but we are winding up. I am wound up! The older I get, the faster it goes. And you know what? It’s not like I ever really wind down. I think maybe I’ll just keep on winding tighter and tighter until the end when I suddenly snap and go whizzing right out of the atmosphere, like the rubber bands I used to shoot down the hallway for my cat. The nice thing about being wound up is that a great deal of it is with anticipation. There’s so much to look forward to:...

07
Dec
2009

TURNING TWELVE

What a 10 and a half year old little sister thinks about her big brother turning twelve: Hmm…well…AWFUL ! no..AWESOME..maybe 😛 He’s a good brother i guess, he lets me read his comic books almost always, lets me teach him World of Warcraft, lol, he likes sushi too! He’s very helpful (not sometimes), he’s my lovie dovy bwother. He’s good at playing the piano and watching TV too ! He’s good at making adventures on Spore, he’s good at making paintings, he explains words for me, He’s the best brother you can ever have ! XOXOXO !

04
Dec
2009

SWITCHING SCHOOLS

We spent this past week school shopping for Martin. He had expressed a desire to switch schools already back at the beginning of the year, but we didn’t get off our duffs until just recently, when suddenly realizing that if we were going to make the switch, we needed to do it NOW. As in, RIGHT NOW. He’s in the middle of sixth grade and we live in Eslöv’s kommun. A kommun is relatively analogous to a county, and even though we live right on the border between two counties, in fact our village is split in half by the...