Yearly Archive: 2010

30
Oct
2010

REMEMBER ME?

Oh HAI! I haz a blog! Drrr… So, yeah, that happened! And lots of other stuff, too. Two weeks in Boston, working like a maniac and shopping/eating/playing every evening with a maple-syrup-drenched Vermont weekend which involved a much-too-short visit with Christina and my aunt & uncle went like a FREAKING FLASH! I literally cannot believe I am already back in Sweden. As the plane was taxiing to the terminal after a very smooth landing in the dark dark morning of Nordic a.m., I thought, “I just did this in reverse, like yesterday!” Only it was two whole weeks ago! We...

15
Oct
2010

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE

What I really want to do at the end of a week like this is collapse, muddy & exhausted. But the adrenaline rush of the last several days…weeks, heck who am I kidding: MONTHS keeps me buzzing long after I should have. The to-do lists have been decimated, both at work and at home, and even though there is ALWAYS something still to be done, it will just have to wait: work, for Monday, and home, for when I get back from Boston. I’ve been so busy this week that I’ve not had a lot of time for noodling around...

10
Oct
2010

PLACEHOLDERISH

Happy 10 10 10! I said that to Martin this morning and he said he was looking forward to 1 1 11 🙂 It’s a sunny day now, but it was freezing cold and foggy up until just a couple of hours ago. I wasn’t feeling well yesterday and did a lot of sleeping. Still feel a tickle in my throat but hoping I can stave off the worst with copious applications of chicken soup and Tylenol Cold medicine. Since we’re supposed to have dinner with friends tonight, I’d prefer not to be spreading any contagion. I was going to...

05
Oct
2010

THUMBS UP THUMBS DOWN

Like: Sushi lunch today with brief_therapy Dislike: having a million meetings booked this week and next week at work. What gives? I NEVER have meetings! Like: my new boss seems pretty okay Dislike: except that I found out today she’s 10 years younger than me.* sigh Like: that I’m DONE calling, emailing and confirming all of the AWC members and can start finalizing the directory Dislike: the way LJ keeps acting up lately Like: Third Rock From the Sun reruns on Comedy Central Dislike: how many of my photos bounce when I try to upload them to Flickr Like: the...

03
Oct
2010

ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER

UGH. I would like a weekend do-over, please. Except for the party I attended last night which was really fun and a huge success, this has not been a couple of days I’d like to keep. I’d rather hand them back in and get new ones, please. I’m the membership officer for the American Women’s Club and come September one of my responsibilities is to chase down membership fees for the new season and determine whether or not members are renewing. If they are, then I need to update their info in the printed directory, which I also handle (not...

29
Sep
2010

CIRCULAR

It’s colder out than I want it to be. Not window-scraping weather, yet, but I can feel it’s coming. Geese are flying in v-formations low across the sky. Recently, there was a lazy circle of storks flying over our neighborhood. They looked so weird, alien, almost. Then they turned in unison and flew north. The storks we have here were supposed to be raised and then released to migrate to Africa each winter. Instead they stay. Every stork I see reinforces a feeling of wonder about where I live. It’s crazy season. Can you feel how fast everything is going?...

26
Sep
2010

AUTUMN BOUNTY

This has been a lovely, busy weekend. Karin had a soccer tournament in Halmstad all day Saturday. They played 7 games (short games of 16 minutes in several cases) and came in 3rd. She spent the night with one of her teammates, though I doubt either of them got much sleep 🙂 Martin and I were supposed to go to the Gothenburg Book Fair as part of an AWC event but the other 3 members who had said they might go backed out, so instead he and I ended up going into Malmö. We hit two bookstores, and found several...

23
Sep
2010

THINGS YET TO DO

I have lived in Sweden for nearly 14 years. Is that right? Did I count correctly? I moved here in January of 1997, so if I take my gloves and shoes and socks off and wiggle my toes and ignore Mr Numbers’ malicious grin and start on my pointer finger with January 1998 and add 99, 2000, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11…it means that when January 2011 rolls around 14 years will have gone by since we moved to Europe. We’ve done a lot of things since we moved to Sweden. We’ve been to...

19
Sep
2010

SLEEPY SUNNY SUNDAY

The kids forced me to read 3 chapters of The Hunger Games to them today; no hardship since I want to know what happens next as much as they do. We only have 6 more chapters left: we’ll be done long before the discussion date which is set for October 13th. I suspect by then I’ll have been badgered into ordering the next 2 books and we’ll have read them as well. Karin has never been as much of a reader as Martin, but she gets excited by a good story, too. I don’t know that I would call this...

15
Sep
2010

A SUDDEN & UNEXPECTED CLUTCH OUT OF THE DARKNESS*

hen I lived in my first apartment in downtown Chicago it was on the 3rd floor of an old brownstone with no elevator. We had a stairwell in the front with 2 apartments off each landing and a rickety wooden contraption on the backside that opened off our kitchen and led down to the laundry room and storage rooms in the basement as well as up to the roof access. It doubled as a fire escape but the landing was too small to use as a balcony. I lived there for a couple of years with various roommates: 2 friends...

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