Author: lizardek

23
Dec
2008

LILLJULAFTON

The children are lying all tucked in their beds. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and there has been too much cookie-eating in this house and not enough carol-singing. I plan to sing carols all day tomorrow except when we are actually at my sister-in-law’s house since I know my kids will kill me dead if I try it there. 😛 Most of the presents are already wrapped and under the tree, except for the super secret Santa ones and the stocking stuffers. Tomorrow is the last (thank the baby jesus and his red-nosed friend) julbord of the year. We are contributing...

21
Dec
2008

LET YOUR HEART BE LIGHT

Well, even though I’M done shopping, Martin still wants to buy something for his father, and even though Anders is going shopping tomorrow (for me!) Martin doesn’t want to go with him, as he doesn’t want Anders to guess what his present is, so I guess I have to go brave the malls again. I also have to go to Lund anyway to see if the optician is open because my eyeglasses broke this morning…one of the earpieces came loose… (they’re very discreetly taped for the moment) to see if they can be repaired. 🙁 ARGH. The sun was shining...

19
Dec
2008

PA RUM PUM PUM PUM

The holidays are now officially in FULL swing! Vacation is upon us and it’s only 5 days to Christmas! Wheee! I stopped by the postal counter after work to mail a late present to my sister and pick up a package, which turned out to be a HUGE box from my brother, and while I was there I peeked in the bargain DVD bin and lo! what to my wondering eyes should appear but a 59 kronor copy of The Polar Express which we’ve never seen, so I bought that for myskväll. Then we all went back into town: the...

16
Dec
2008

TREMORS!

Loud grumblings and groanings shot us both out of bed early this morning as the house shook. Anders said, “Herre Jösses!” and ran for the front of the house, collecting Karin on the way. I stumbled out behind them, exclaiming, “What’s going on?” thinking that a plane had crashed or the garbage truck had run into the front of the house…or perhaps the neighbor had started up his Ducati, though why he would be doing it at 6:22 a.m. was beyond my feeble early-morning powers of reasoning. A few seconds later all was still again and after a few confused...

15
Dec
2008

O! HOW I KNEAD YOU!

I still have the 2 batches of sugar cookie dough in the fridge, as we ran out of time this weekend. They take the longest of all the cookies to do, what with the rolling and cutting and patching and baking and swabbing with sugar glaze and decorating with red hots and colored sugars and dragees and sprinkles and nonpareils. We’ll do them this coming weekend, most probably, along with watching The Grinch. So, because I had limited time possibilities this evening, I whipped up a batch of green Holiday Balls instead and undercooked them on purpose and they were...

14
Dec
2008

FA LA LA!

What a long day this has been! In fact, what a long weekend! I’m really looking forward to vacation now. 5 more days! 5 more days! 3 more choir Christmas concerts today for a total of 7 (I missed 3 others which were during work hours or it would have been 10 total) and now I’m free from choir until the end of January. The 3 performances today were at 2 different elderly care homes in Malmö; the second one we sang in 2 different departments. It’s kind of funny, the reactions we get from the people living there. Some...

13
Dec
2008

YOU’D BETTER NOT CRY, I’M TELLING YOU WHY

I’m pouting right now. Sulking, nearly. It’s not attractive, I can tell you, yet my sad little pouty heart doesn’t care because it is feeling VERY put out. This morning was a leisurely one, what with the waking up early but going back to sleep. Dreams shivered past, helping to erase the disappointing memories of a work Christmas party gone terribly wrong and boring. Got up at a decent hour, had breakfast and then we set out for Dalby and the tree nursery where we met up with friends and traipsed about in the woods, hunting for the perfect Christmas...

11
Dec
2008

STRESSMAS!

Even though I don’t have that much left to do in regards to Christmas preparations, things seem to be zooming ahead and pulling me after them willy-nilly. This is always a crazy time of year. Exhibit A – this week Monday – Actually, nothing Tuesday – Karin karate class Wednesday – Choir Christmas concert and dinner afterwards Thursday – Karin karate class, and kid’s hemspråk end-of-term party (they watched a movie & had fika at our house) Friday – Work Christmas party Saturday – Get Christmas tree, decorate it, bake cookies Exhibit B – next week Sunday – Sing in...

09
Dec
2008

STARTS OFF BAD; GETS WORSE; GETS BETTER

First half of the day was awful, went from bad to cruddy with one thing after another coming at me like javelins. Haven’t had a day like that at work in quite some time so it threw me for a bit of a loop. Managed to regain my equilibrium in the afternoon just in time to go into an 1.5-hour long meeting about our work insurance and pension plans and conditions and by the time that was over, I was ready to wrap the day back up and return it for a new one. I don’t understand insurance and pensions...

08
Dec
2008

ON TOP OF THINGS

Done Christmas letter written Christmas cards signed, sealed, delivered Christmas presents 3/4 done Christmas house decorations up To do Bake Christmas cookies Final Christmas present shopping Wrap gifts Get Christmas tree and decorate it Martin had a good birthday and got lots of things he wanted, including Spore, which he has been playing non-stop ever since. I thought it was an online game and was surprised (and frankly, rather pleased) to find out it isn’t. I know you can do certain things with it online like share your creatures, but so far, he’s happily evolving and eating and ganging up...

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