Monthly Archive: September 2023

25
Sep
2023

DOPAMINE FOR A DULLARD

Are you good at procrastinating? I’m usually pretty bad at it. Oh, I can be lazy as all get out, and I can waste time like a champion, but I’m not that good at actually procrastinating. At least about things other than working on losing weight or saying no to cookies. Which, come to think of it, are the same thing. I can spend a good hour or two playing iPad games or scrolling through Instagram posts and reels, but if I really have things to do, especially if I’ve written them down in a list, then I’m pretty good...

22
Sep
2023

3 THINGS

3 things I’m looking forward to pottery painting again, things slowing down a bit (hahahahaha), art and handicraft fair in Malmö next weekend 3 things that were good about today talking to my mom while I was out walking, a quick backrub from Karin, getting out of Sandby ICA in under an hour on a Friday after work (though not under 1000kr) 3 things that I have to do this weekend install a new docking station for my workspace at home, buy more prosciutto manchego sticks for dinner tomorrow because I keep eating the ones we already have, pay bills...

17
Sep
2023

THE BUSY, IT’S HERE

It’s already crazy at work and busy with AIC obligations before the annual meeting in just over a week, but now my social calendar has exploded too. During the next 3 weeks, starting tomorrow, I have 7 days with no plans. 9 with no EVENING plans. 7 AIC activities. 1 massage. 1 hair appointment. 4 dinners (2 that we are hosting and 2 that are elsewhere). It’s busy time, that’s for sure. And because it’s already mid-September, my thoughts are turning to end of year events. I have Friendsgiving on my mind: need to nail down a date that both...

09
Sep
2023

DINNER TABLE CONVERSATIONS

There’s a writing prompt that I’ve seen kicking around for years, that I’ve never really thought too hard about using. I think it was just one of those conversation starter questions that teaches you things about yourself before that, because it was certainly a question I read or heard long before people were blogging or needing writing prompts online. It’s the one about who would you invite to dinner, if you could invite anyone, living or dead? I find it as similarly useless as the question about what one thing would you bring with you to a desert island if...

07
Sep
2023

THE LESS I CARE, THE HAPPIER I AM

I can’t get a solid night’s sleep anymore. It’s kinda bumming me out, and it’s not something I could take (or would want to take) medication for. It’s because I have to get up multiple times during the night to go to the bathroom. If I took some kind of sleeping pills, what are the chances I would then wet the bed? Don’t want to know. The diabetes medicine I am taking has “frequent urination” as one of its side effects, which is way better than frequent anything else in the evacuation system of your body, believe you me. But...

03
Sep
2023

THE BUSY STARTS NOW*

Hello September! It’s the start of a new AIC season and the busiest time of both our AIC year and work, so things are a little crazy at the moment. We kicked off the new AIC season with a monthly meeting that wasn’t really a meeting at all: mini-golf at Ribersborg in Malmö. We had a lovely evening for it, sunny and warm, and a decent turn-out of 17 people, which included the manager of the golf venue and kiosk. I can’t remember the last time I actually played mini-golf. I suck at it, but it was fun, and surprisingly,...

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