NEXT TIME IT WILL BE MOOSE ANTLER HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD!
First things first:
02
Oct
2008
Author: lizardek
01
Oct
2008
ON MY MENTAL POST-IT NOTES
2 weeks is too long for my husband to be gone. 3 weeks is not long enough for my mom to visit. The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas blew the top of my head off yesterday. Note to self: wear hats. Went to see Mamma Mia! tonight. Pierce Brosnan doesn’t look comfortable singing, and Meryl Streep kind of weirded me out. Best part: the boys in the swim flippers dancing on the pier. I think I’ll double that 20-clove garlic chicken recipe for the dinner party on Friday night. Marie!! Thank you for the pumpkin carving set and...
28
Sep
2008
WHY ORANGE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR
Even though I decorate my home with a peaceful palette of pale greens and tend to wear black and chocolate brown and other dark and dusty colors like forest green and eggplant purple, it’s orange that is my favorite color. Orange with its bright unexpected blast of color, orange that brightens a day immediately like an adrenaline shot of sunshine, orange that makes you smile and lifts your mood and shines out with a reverberating vibe of energy. It’s the color of pumpkins and Japanese lanterns and clementines and salmon nigiri. It’s tiger halves and tabby cats, tiger lilies, monarch...
26
Sep
2008
DOING THE BUSY
Mom and I started scouring photo albums yesterday, to collect all my old school photos, and I’m afraid the school-photo-project is going to have to wait a while…turns out of the 13 years I was in public school (K-12)…I only have FOUR of them. How did that happen? I can’t even find my senior picture and I have a bleached spot in a photo album where it once resided…what the heck happened to it? Why would I have removed it and then never returned it to its spot?? Very strange. So, now mom has to hunt them down at HER...
24
Sep
2008
A LITTLE BIT OF THIS GOES A LONG WAY
Maybe I should try iron supplements. I am soooooooo tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired. Or maybe it’s just hibernation time. Whatever. *plops down* I read the BEST book yesterday. Haven Kimmel’s The Used World. I can’t stop thinking about it and now I want to go back and re-read all the rest of her excellent books. So far, I have not been disappointed in any of the 6 used CDs I ordered a couple of weeks ago on Amazon, except for a few songs on one of them. Considering that, with one exception (not the same one), I bought them all on the basis...
21
Sep
2008
TOGETHER TIME
It’s been a bit of a game-playing weekend, which has been really nice, since I grew up in a game-playing family and miss it quite a lot. My husband didn’t, though he plays sports (which is not the same thing at all), and in this particular area, his background is winning, since we rarely seem to play games as a family, even though we have an awful lot of them. Yesterday we went in to Malmö to the castle and toured the museum which is a combination natural history / art / historical museum. Some of the art was fantastic...
18
Sep
2008
PRACTICALLY PERFECT IN EVERY WAY
♥ Waking up leisurely, realizing that I didn’t have to get up for work, and then reading for an hour before finally arising ♥ Having breakfast with Lizardmom ♥ Sweater weather ♥ Walking through the shopping district of Lund’s old town center and finding an absolutely beautiful sweater at Kriss and splurging ♥ Eating at one of my favorite restaurants that never fails to have excellent lunch entrees: chicken filet baked in pastry with potato terrine, sauted vegetables and tarragon creme. ♥ Stopping by Press Stop to pick up some American magazines: Martha Stewart Living and Real Simple ♥ Receiving...
17
Sep
2008
THIS POST HAS NO TITLE, JUST WORDS & A TUNE
My mom’s here for a 3-week visit, so expect posting to be lighter than usual…(as if it could be, you say). 🙂
15
Sep
2008
SLAVE OF THE GOLDEN CAP
Not too long ago, Marilyn linked to a really cool site that allows you to make word maps of text that you upload or that exists on a website: Wordle. So, of course, I popped this journal’s URL into the engine and came up with something that surprised me, though it shouldn’t have. The 2 most frequently used words on this here journal, on that day*, were Liz (no surprise there, perhaps) and KARIN. Her name was many times larger than both Anders’ and Martin’s and it took me a bit aback for a moment, and then I laughed since...
14
Sep
2008
THIS, THAT & THE OTHER
What’s your idea of a perfect weekend? Going away somewhere, away from the daily routine or the familiar surroundings and taking in new sights, new surroundings, new experiences? It certainly has its attractions: the chance to get away, if only for a couple of days. Or staying home and making plans: having friends over for pizza, or throwing a dinner party or filling the days with activities and errands that you never otherwise have time to do during the regular hamster-wheel of your week? Or, even better, staying home and just enjoying yourself with no definitive plans? Sleeping in, doing...