Rabbit rabbit! It’s the first of August and 9 days from my birthday, which isn’t a big one, even if the number is bigger than I’d like it to be. I’m on vacation now, for 2 weeks, and although I don’t have any travel, I have a very long list of things to do: mostly involving cleaning out and purging in every cabinet, closet, drawer, and shelf in the house. But there are fun things lined up too. I have a massage scheduled, and we are all going (all 4 of us, plus Theo and Essie) to see The Odyssey at the Imax theater in Copenhagen on Friday. Saturday Anders and I are going to a housewarming party. Sunday I’m having lunch (or dinner, not really sure) with Debbie and Camilla, and on my birthday I have a lunch with my Axis friends and dinner with the whole family (again, plus Theo and Essie)! And the day after my birthday we’ve scheduled an AIC lunch at Malmöfestivalen. Right now there are only 4 people signed up (plus 2 kids). And Karin and Martin and I are trying to find a day to go secondhand shopping in Copenhagen as well. That’s a lot of things on the calendar. When will I have time for cleaning out and purging??
Tomorrow I’ve invited Debbie over to hang out for however long she likes, but she hasn’t answered about whether she will come for lunch and the afternoon, or the afternoon and dinner. Anders has offered to grill chicken and serve it with our potatoes, carrots, and onions, roasted in the oven. Yum! I made a big batch of my summer pasta salad yesterday, and today I made another batch and divided it up in 2 big containers to give to Debbie. 🙂
The last time I did a big purge was during the pandemic, so I’m overdue. I also want to do a Big Dust of everything in the house. Today I did 3 loads of laundry, cleaned the bathroom, and went to the store, plus bought 3 more round rugs for the bathroom. And I finished and published a new crossword puzzle. 🙂 It’s been a lovely day, lots of sun, but not as hot as it was yesterday, and the blue blue skies of the evening are making me very happy. I love this kind of day: 72 and sunny! Perfect.
This blog has degenerated in quality…(see info about 3 loads of laundry above). I think about writing but don’t. I am just not super motivated right now. I wonder if it’s because I know no one is reading this, apart from the occasional drop-in of my brother or one of two friends who check in once in awhile. Would I be more motivated to write more often if things were more like they were back in the good old blogging days, when everyone was reading and writing, and commenting in long back-and-forth threads? You had real incentive to write then. It was exciting to find great writers and interesting writers and new friends that shared similar interests. There’s a lot of great writing going on, on Substack, at least, but I haven’t felt the pull to do more than read a few posts and subscribe to a couple of newsletters. Everything nowadays seems monetized, and I’m not interested in being a Patreon, or a patron, or a paid subscriber so that I can get access to innermost important thoughts, or a sticker set, or a podcast episode. Ah well, c’est la vie.
Even social media is blah…all I see on Instagram are suggested accounts, instead of all of the great accounts I actually follow. Probably because people aren’t posting there, either. Going, going, gone. How boring.
2 weeks is going to go super fast, considering all the events I listed up there. I bet I won’t think about work a bit!
Mood: relaxed
Music: ili—In Your Head