Yearly Archive: 2009

09
Mar
2009

WHAT I DID TODAY

Today was moving day at work, so I didn’t feel like I contributed very much to the bottom line today, though I did finalize 3 brochures that I was waiting for miscellaneous bits & pieces of, and slapped together a HTML invitation and proofread a convoluted translation of a case study that was originally in Korean. There was a bit of a holiday atmosphere both on Friday and today as people packed up their stuff, so I don’t think I was alone in the decreased contribution factor. 🙂 I had already packed up everything else in my office last week,...

08
Mar
2009

WAITING FOR I KNOW NOT WHAT

Reading travel books about exotic places is a stimulating torture process. Even though we have vacation plans that actually involve travel this year, they are not, sadly, to somewhere we haven’t already been. After finishing the travel book that has taken me much longer to read than any book has a right to, I’m now yearning to explore European destinations I have yet to visit: Prague (yes, I know!), St. Petersburg, the Italian coast, more of Greece, Ireland, Wales, Portugal, France (when all I’ve seen is Paris). And that’s only grazing the surface. Poland! Croatia! Budapest and Zagreb. I’m not...

06
Mar
2009

BOING!

Has anyone ever read Colette? Her work was intriguingly and lovingly described in a book I’m reading and I’m wondering if she still holds up and if anyone can give me an off-the-cuff recommendation. I’m in the middle of Frances Mayes A Year in the World which is making me want to travel and to eat, and to read. So many places to go!! It’s the weekend and I’m oh so glad. I skipped out a little early this afternoon from work, egged on by the party atmosphere of a workplace that is packing up and getting ready to move...

03
Mar
2009

IT HAS TO BE LIVED

I’m so focused on other things (work, mostly) that I’m continually surprised by the promise and the preparation that the Earth is making for the return of spring. Driving up the hill, out of the corner of my eye, my mind registers a patch of what can only be snowdrops. Another garden, caught in peripheral vision, seems to be polka-dotted with tiny yellow bulbs…surely not crocus already? The sun has been shining inbetween times, but with my head bent to the cyanotic glow of circuitry, I keep catching only the tail-end of it, as I leave the office. It’s not...

02
Mar
2009

WHO NEEDS HAPPY PILLS?

*happy mail dance* A new pair of pants and a card from my mom. Thanks, mom! A box full of orange-flavored tic-tacs from my brother.* Thanks, John! A card & a photo of a park in early spring from a friend. I’m continually flabbergasted and touched by the thoughtfulness and generosity of people, especially and most mindbogglingly, from those I have never met. Last week I posted about the cruddy mood that had rained all over my parade and was threatening to eat me alive, and today in the mail I got a card prompted by that post from Bethany....

28
Feb
2009

WHERE WORDS FAIL, MUSIC SPEAKS*

Just the kind of day I needed after the week I’ve had. Waking at my own pace to frost and sunshine, puttering about, reading a bit here, cleaning a bit there, not really doing much of anything. Looking through Lego boxes with Martin to find all the different Lego people heads we have (41!), and having a delicious dinner of sushi out and then Melodifestivalen LIVE at Malmö Arena! There wasn’t anyone on the line-up that I cared all that much about, so I could relax and enjoy the show without thinking too much about it. It was quite different...

26
Feb
2009

SHE’S MAKING SURE SHE IS NOT DREAMING

Little stories, little loves. Little things we say and do. Small moments in the day that add up to a storied whole. I can’t think of anything to write about. Wait, that’s not really true. I CAN think of things to write about, but I don’t seem to be motivated enough to do the actual writing about them. I was going to gather my thoughts and write something about the discussion our stand-in guest speaker at the AWC meeting the other night sparked after her presentation on Social Media (or How Not to Waste Your Life & Ruin Your Reputation...

23
Feb
2009

DUCK & COVER

My rilly rilly good mood of 2 days ago seems to be evaporating. Fizzling out. Going slowly up in smoke. You have been warned.

21
Feb
2009

SUCH A FEELING’S COMING OVER ME

What a perfect day this has been! Anders got home last night from Spain, ending my 3 weeks of husband-less-ness and it just got better from there: ♥ sleeping in (no better way to start off my day!) ♥ being in a really good mood ♥ sparkly sparkly snow and sunshine ♥ whizzing through 3 loads of laundry…mmmm, clean soft clothes! ♥ several really productive hours catching up on the overload at work ♥ a half-hour walk soaking up sunshine with Martin: we saw geese in a V, a horse, 2 poodles (1 big & 1 small) and a pheasant...

19
Feb
2009

OVERSIZED BITS OF TID, WITH SNOW & HOMICIDAL MANIA

It’s snowing like crazy outside. Fat white fluff-flakes floating dreamily down, down and around in the white light of the streetlights. The street is filled up with snow. Clifford the Big Red Rock has a sparkly white skullcap. The plants are hunkered down, puffed up with the white stuff. We’ve had snow on the ground for almost 2 weeks now, though really it hasn’t been that much; it keeps melting down to a thin covering and then freezing. All the footprints in the yard: kid, dog, neighbor’s cat, are softening at the edges and filling in. They’ll have to stomp...

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