My entire sick leave/vacation has filled up with appointments, lunches, dinners, and other events. There is something scheduled for every day of the calendar next week! And I still have to wash all the curtains! haha! It’s nice to fill my days with fun things to do. I’m even going to Copenhagen next week TWICE. On Monday, Anders and I are meeting one of my second cousins and his wife for lunch, and on Wednesday, Camilla and I are going to the Gauguin/Degas exhibits at the Glyptoteket. We’re having dinner with Barbara and Paul on Thursday, and Saturday is a party at Mats and Annelotte’s (with the kids in tow). Sunday is Karin’s birthday (she’s turning 26!!) and we’re having dinner all of us in Malmö. I also have a lung X-ray on Tuesday and the second dose of my superdrug on Friday morning.
Only 1.5 weeks left before I go back to work. I was actually in the office for a short time this afternoon. Camilla and I went to lunch at a garden center/café place outside of Staffanstorp today, which was lovely, though I had a caesar salad that was not very caesar-y, and way too expensive. We walked around and admired their greenhouses and glassed-in follies and garden stuff, and then walked through their huge boutique full of both garden and home accessories. I bought a couple of fancy napkin packs and gave one to Camilla. Then she helped me go through the apartment queue website/app, as I have signed up for the queue finally. This means that WHEN Anders and I get to the point where we might actually be looking for an apartment when we want to downsize and move, I’ll have been in the queue long enought to have a good “queue placement”. Sweden is weird. And then she and I went through my entire complaint document that I will be sending in to the medical authorities and rewrote and adjusted several sections. She’s going to talk once more to a friend of hers that works with such complaints and then I’ll be able to finally send it in.
After lunch, I drove to the office and dropped off bags of snap peas for my teammates that were working. We have so many snap peas that I can’t keep up. I gave away almost a full 3-liter bag to my neighbor the other day, and now 3 almost full 1-liter bags, plus I have at least that much in the fridge and there are MORE COMING. It was nice to see them and get huge hugs, and have a little catch-up. I’ve been working a little bit as stuff I was waiting for has come in that I wanted to take care of, and then I can never leave it alone: I check the ticket queue and take a few quickies and just handle them. I don’t care that I’m supposed to be on vacation/sick leave. I love my work and it gives me a lot of satisfaction and fulfillment, so I figure if I have the time and energy, who cares? It won’t affect me later, in the sense that I WILL be recharged when I officially go back. And just because fall is a busy time and we are sure to be slammed again when everyone is back, that doesn’t mean what I do now makes a difference for then. I’m a big girl and I know my limits. 🙂
I’m struggling sometimes to find things to write about here, and I feel like I often just talk about what’s happening like this, with no real “writerly” focus. Does that matter to anyone but me? Does it matter to my 3 readers? 😀 Do I care if it does? I’d like to write more posts that are philosophical or whatever, but if I can’t come up with ideas, then a list of my accomplishments and plans for the week it is! It’s all for my own posterity anyway.
“What could you do better for your children and your children’s children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.” Spencer W. Kimball
Mood: relaxed
Music: Milky—Be My World