Monthly Archive: May 2011

27
May
2011

MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT

Dropping Martin and his schoolmates off at school this morning, his teacher, who is also a friend through the AWC, was walking up toward the car. I beeped the horn at her and waved and she stopped at the passenger door to say hello. We exchanged small talk for a minute and she commiserated on the fact that Anders is traveling so much right now. I said I was hanging in there and that the kids help a lot, nowadays. She laughed and said she’d actually asked Martin just this week what the difference was between having mom home and...

23
May
2011

CAPTURED

There’s nothing nicer than going for a walk in May. The lilacs are blooming, the lupines are blooming, the rapeseed is glowing. The weedy edges of the meadows are leggy and exploding; and wisps float on the sunshine-filled air. A blackbird trills ahead of us; a hedge is filled with sparrows fluttering and busily rustling. Beech hedges shine in the sunlight and everyone we meet is smiling. A new neighbor’s brand-new puppy gambols in the dandelions. At first, the kids didn’t really want to go for the walk, but they warmed up to the idea. 🙂 Do I HAVE to...

21
May
2011

RAPTURE

I think I’m blessed as a mother. It’s a pleasure to me, most of the time, to be around my children, to look at them and to hear what they have to say. As someone who, as a young woman, never particularly wanted children, and was pretty miserable through pregnancy, it’s sometimes boggling to me to look upon my progeny and realize how lucky I am. They’re beautiful. Both physically and mentally. They’re well-proportioned, sleek of skin and formed just right. They’re healthy and strong and their eyes shine, their teeth are straight and everything functions just as it should....

15
May
2011

BUSY BUSY BUSY

Zoomity! Thank goodness I got to sleep in both yesterday and today because it’s non-stop go go go otherwise. *** Sweden allllmost won Eurovision but got shoved under at the end by Azerbajian and Italy. Which was good considering Sweden’s song wasn’t very good. But which was bad since the 2 that beat it were actually WORSE. *** I have had it up to HERE with malfunctioning computer-y things. The router or the wireless or the internet or SOMETHING doesn’t work right and it keeps disconnecting, constantly. We have to constantly disable and reconnect and inbetween restart the router manually,...

14
May
2011

ARGH

LJ isn’t posting any anonymous comments at all, though I GET them as emails and in my LJ inbox. I don’t know why. I haven’t changed any settings and I can’t find any settings to correct! Anyone else having this issue?? Edited to add: I opened an LJ support request and got this response, and now it’s fixed…if anyone else has had the same issue!: This may be related to a new spam related option LiveJournal implemented a few weeks ago. When you visit the entries where these comments were posted, do you see a ‘xx suspicious comments’ link appearing...

10
May
2011

RAMBLING

A jackdaw perches on the corner of the playhouse. I can hear the summer sound of children laughing and bouncing on the trampoline as the sun slides into shadow at the end of the day. A tiny spider dangles by a silken thread from the edge of the porch roof, legs wheeling frantically as it motors upwards. All the greens have evened out, darkened into summer shades; the neon edges of newness no longer vibrant and jarringly alive. Today is only Tuesday. For once, the week seems to be strolling through the days; no frantic sense of time slipping by...

08
May
2011

WHEEEEEEEEKEND!

As far as relaxing goes, this weekend was a bust. Though I DID get about an hour on the trampoline, laying in the sun this afternoon (and the itchy sunburny forearms to show for it), it was go go go from the get-go. We had our company spring party on Friday night at Malmö Slagthuset (the old slaughter-house), which was a nightclub for years, but has since closed down and is used to large events and theater nights now. Our company has passed 1000 employees this year (!) and it felt like all of them were at the party (though...

05
May
2011

BIG BITS OF TID

Every day when I come home after work, I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck: SO TIRED. I’m not tired at work. I just seem to collapse and deflate as soon as I get home, and I can’t AFFORD to: there is still stuff to be done. Example: today, when I came home, I dealt with Karin’s salami selling (yes, again), got Martin off to piano, got dinner on the table, took Karin to soccer practice, went to the grocery store, put the food away, watered the pots and garden, planted nasturtiums, updated the AWC calendar and...

03
May
2011

WILLOW WEAVING

Now that I see my creations in the cold light of the day after (or rather, the 3rd day after), mostly what I see are the flaws. How uneven they are, how the weave is screwed up, how wobbly and unstable they seem. Still! I am pretty proud that I went to the course, and learned the technique and if my creations don’t look as perfect as the ones the instructor with her 20 years of experience turned out, well, so what? The nasturtiums won’t care! Making a bottomless basket Awaiting nasturtiums!

01
May
2011

AND SHE’S OFF!

I didn’t even remember it was the first of May today until just now at 9:16 p.m. This weekend has been full of lilac buds, neon green beech leaves, bonfires, berry cobbler, cheese & bacon dogs, real dogs (4!), and blue skies. Today I learned how to weave willow. We made a bottomless basket which can be used in a myriad of ways: as a raised bed, as a peony support, to hide a cement well cover. It’s as big around as my arms when I hold them out in a circle. Then I made a willow cone: a wigwam...

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