Author: lizardek

11
Oct
2008

FLICK PICKS

I know I will never catch up on all the good movies I have missed in the last bazillion years, but this weekend I finally got around to March of the Penguins (narrated in Swedish) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding (both of which were okay, but nothing to really write home about). There are so very many movies I would have liked to have seen and probably hundreds more that I don’t even know are out there, since I’m so far out of the loop where movies are concerned. If it’s not a huge blockbuster or a kid-friendly animated...

10
Oct
2008

MEDIC!

I’m feeling a little helpless about one of our fish right now. He smacked into the side of the tank a few days ago during a spazz-out zoom-around-the-tank fit and ever since he’s been sitting down on the bottom of the tank. He can get about, but he’s mostly just holding still and sometimes he’s on his side and almost upside-down although he seems to be managing to stay upright most of the time. I don’t think he’s dying, but he’s definitely injured and from the research I’ve been doing tonight on the web, it sounds like it’s his swim...

08
Oct
2008

AS CHARGED

For some reason, I’ve been musing about guilt lately. When it comes, when it stays, why I feel it, why I DON’T, in any particular situation or circumstance. Some things I feel guilty about but that doesn’t stop me from doing or saying or thinking them. Other things I don’t feel guilty about at all until they are pointed out to me from a different perspective. Feeling guilty is different from having regrets, although the two are sometimes so close as to be practically incestuous. But they’re fundamentally different things, and though I might feel regret about something I said...

05
Oct
2008

PRETTY PURCHASES

Whenever I go to art or craft fairs, the things I have the hardest time resisting are the things that are embroidered or tapestry or have certain animals like lizards (goodness knows why), moose, horses, dragons, cats and roosters. I don’t have ANY rooster stuff and I don’t have a lot of horse stuff either, but I’m drawn to them nonetheless. I’m not allowed to buy moose anymore, but they find their way to me regardless; it’s not my fault, I swear. The art/craft fair that we went to last weekend had over 70 exhibitors showing items in every imaginable...

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...

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