Author: lizardek

17
Dec
2011

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS

Being sick and bedridden for a week and a half does not make for exciting blog fodder. Disgusting blog fodder, maybe, but who wants to hear about that? I have not weighed myself to see how much weight I have lost in the past 8 days of not eating anything because today I ate. Actually I ate yesterday, too, but it was pretty minimal, and it was MEDICINAL and also, full of love vitamins: Anders made me chicken soup from scratch. Wasn’t that nice? There is a little bit left, and since there was also leftover macaroni from yesterday, I’m...

15
Dec
2011

NOT QUITE BACK FROM THE DEAD

In the past 8 days my to-do list has been quite ferocious. One might almost say it has been doing ME. I haven’t been tackling one or two items at a time…I’ve been coping with them pretty much all at once: sore throat head cold stomach flu fever chills aching diarrhea pneumonia (!) hacking cough and as if that list weren’t enough…menstruation Apparently, I even multi-task ILLNESS.

06
Dec
2011

UNINTENTIONAL HIATUS

You may think that managing to post every day in November wore me out so completely that I haven’t been able to manage a post since the 30th rolled by, but you’d be wrong. I actually barely squeaked my last NaBloPoMo post in because our Internet has been misbehaving (Bad Internet! BAD!) since then, and is STILL acting up. It won’t connect, or if it will, then it just as quickly disconnects, and the wireless won’t work and Anders is still traveling and AAAGH. It’s making me crazy. HOW DID WE LIVE WITHOUT THE INTERNET BEFORE?! Thank goodness I can...

30
Nov
2011

OUR MOM

Someone suggested that Martin and Karin write an Our Mom post like the ones I did about them. I will plan on doing one about Anders sometime, but he’s a lot more private than I am so I have to check with him first. 🙂 So, here is My Martin and My Karin about ME! —– Our mom is very weird 🙂 Our mom is veeery *cough* funny 🙂 Our mom embarrasses us by singing when our friends are here. Our mom is loving and caring, most of the time… 😉 Our mom wishes Karin would play Wordfeud with her...

29
Nov
2011

YOUR TURN

Augh! Only 2 days of November to go and damned if I know what to write about tonight! Anders left for Italy this afternoon. Now I have to get up early for 2 weeks to make sure Karin gets to school on time (she leaves before Martin & I do), URGH. I finished another project today and crossed a pile of stuff off my to-do list. Why is it that every time I upgrade iTunes or the iPad something doesn’t work?? I can’t get iTunes to open even though I’ve reinstalled it; it just keeps freezing. ARGH. Anyone out there...

28
Nov
2011

STARRY STARRY NIGHT

I realized a little while ago that I had never posted about the amazing job Anders did on renovating the playroom. I don’t have photos of the whole entire room, because we still have to hang paintings, but that’s not the important thing. The playroom was the first room, after the kids’ bedrooms that really needed an overhaul. It was very much a playroom from the beginning, when we built the house and the wallpaper was very much child-focused with blue skies full of fluffy clouds and green meadows full of fluffy sheep. We had shelves filled with games, lego,...

27
Nov
2011

AFTERMATH

Yesterday was great…everything went well, despite a last-minute cancellation from one family which brought our total down by 3 but ensured more turkey leftovers all around. The food was fantastic, from the main courses all the way through to 2 perfect pumpkin pies and an out-of-this world chocolate cake with candied cranberries on top. This year, people left at a fairly early-ish reasonable hour, which just meant that we were able to get the majority of the clean-up done before we went to bed last night. Karin took photos of the tables: we had 2 set up, one for the...

26
Nov
2011

READY

It’s 2 pm, 3 hours before our guests arrive for our Thanksgiving bash. The last 2 turkeys are in the oven. The entire house is sparkling clean, thanks to the help of ALL of us (Martin windexed, Karin dusted, Anders mopped, I vacuumed). The tables are set up and decorated, and I have nothing do do for 3 hours but write this post, eat a (very) small lunch and RELAX. Aaaaaaaaaaaaah. Life is good 🙂 Happy weekend everyone!

25
Nov
2011

KICKING ASS & TAKING NAMES

I got the rhythm. I am rocking the joint. I am powering through my to-do lists like a champion productivity QUEEN. I am getting things done. As Megsie said, I AM ON FIRE. Yee-ha! In front of me on the desk are 5 little slips of paper. One is the list of people coming tomorrow and what they are bringing. One is the list of people signed up for the cookie exchange on Monday. One is a nearly done to-do list of things that needed to be taken care of this past week: 2 things are not yet crossed off...

24
Nov
2011

HOW I SPELL THANKSGIVING

T is for Typing, one of the primary ways that allows me to easily communicate with all my loved ones far away H is for our House, chosen with care, built with pride and filled with love A is for Anders, without whom I would be lost N is for Nature; this wonderful world that surrounds me with beauty and fills me with inspiration K is for the Kooky Kween of Kuteness: KARIN! S is for Sweden, my adopted homeland G is for the Good Son, my firstborn, Martin I is for the Internet and all the Information it puts...

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