Monthly Archive: November 2022

27
Nov
2022

IT’S BEGINNING

Martin and I decorated the house today. That was 3 boxes and 3 huge paper bags worth of indoor decorations. We still have two huge boxes full of decorations just for the tree. I went through all the Christmas decorations a few years ago and got rid of an entire moving box full of stuff (some of it was Martin and Karin’s things), but it kind of feels like I should do it again. Then again, we do live in a big house, and it’s very mysig to have it all decorated for the holidays. And I only decorate the...

26
Nov
2022

ANTICIPATION GLITCH

All morning I was looking forward to the things I had planned for this afternoon and evening. Even yesterday, when Anders and Martin and I were eating dinner, I mentioned that I’d be gone the second half of today so that they knew about my plans. There is a maker’s market that we went to in the early fall that was happening again as a Christmas market over the weekend and then Debbie and Camilla and I were going to meet at Camilla’s tonight for dinner and to exchange Christmas presents. Only all that was on the calendar for December...

20
Nov
2022

GOOD STUFF and GOODBYES

What a weekend! We had our annual Friendsgiving dinner potluck yesterday and it was a smash success. I was quite worried to begin with because I invited too many people, or rather, I invited so many people that we weren’t at all sure how we’d manage to set up the tables and chairs so that there would be space for everyone, or even if that many people would fit. But we did, and they did. I should remember that inevitably there is always someone who cancels last minute and sure enough, 3 people on the invite list weren’t able to...

07
Nov
2022

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS

Today was such a Monday. I realized late last night as I was finally going to sleep that I had scheduled myself to hold a training at 8:30 this morning for new colleagues in Asia. So I had to get moving and be to work by 8 so I had a little time to get things in order beforehand. I had meetings all morning, and then immediately after I was done eating lunch, I had to run over to the bank office on the next block to get a new “dosa” which is the little device that allows you to...