Author: lizardek

The shit hammering continues. bleah.

Busy busy weekend which just flew by until it crashed to a stop this afternoon after I dropped jes6ica and galestorm at the train station to go their respective ways home. I returned home and crashed myself, on the bed, for over an hour. I feel like, as jes6ica so succinctly put it not so long ago, hammered shit. I just hope that I didn’t give whatever this bodyslam is to either one of them. Thanks again for dinner, Jessica, and Gale for the yummy homemade chocolate chip goodness. It was GREAT fun! 🙂 Weekend highlights: Friday night’s Social Circle...

Woke up this morning with a migraine and was afraid to move for fear of throwing up. Anders dropped the kids off and I laid in bed until I could get up and fetch medicine. Then I fell back asleep. I made it to work at 10:30 but I don’t really feel up to par and I’m certainly not earning my salary yet. Anders brought me home a huge bouquet of red and yellow fluffy-edge tulips yesterday and we picked up the kids and went to Malmö for dinner at Jensens Bøfhus. Unfortunately their ice cream machine was broken so...

It was Friday night and I was a little nervous, although not so much because Linda and Nick were there. Linda, a colleague of mine, had been haranguing me for months to let her fix me up with this guy, a friend of Nick’s, but I was tired of the dating scene and not at all interested in a blind date. Then, on a work trip won as a sales incentive by our entire department, I met her husband Nick, and he started in on me, too. “You’ve got to meet him! You’re perfect for each other…he’s European and you...

A couple that we know, and that we are friends with, and that Anders has been friends with since he was a teenager, made the startling comment the other night at a party that they are not in the market for new friends. In fact, whenever the opportunity arises to get to know someone new or he, for example, says “We ought to invite that new couple over for dinner,” she panics and immediately squashes the whole idea…or vice versa. Considering that this is the first time we’ve seen them ourselves since February 2003, we can sort of understand where...

Things That Made Me Laugh Today: This blonde joke over at Genuine The spoiler on the back of my husband’s new motorcycle helmet A bulletpoint from a list of “Things That Are Different in Sweden” proclaiming that No salad is complete without grated carrots. It’s so TRUE! What’s up with the giant piles of grated carrots, already?! New blog find: Finslippy Being greeted by my kids with little red plastic lawn chairs upside down on their heads as I pulled into the driveway after work + Anders in motorcycle leathers = rowr! And Hey! Did you Ask Me Questions Yet?...

Okay, I’ll join the crowd. Ask me three questions, no more and no less. Three is the number thou shalt ask, and the number of the questions shall be three. Ask me anything you want. 🙂 Baaaa

thanks for the link, lonita! More Radiograph Flowers

Evening sunshine swung down and is shining low through our windows. Everything is lit and glowing. The horse out back is outlined in fire, limned in a rosy halo. I snuck out the back onto the porch, camera in hand, and he tossed his head and took off to the other end of the field. Camera-shy, I suppose. Anders and the kids went to Maria’s for dinner, mostly because her husband owns a welding torch and Anders has plans for several motorcycle pieces. I opted to stay home and continue my downtime day. 🙂 That’s a good thing, not a...

I got to hear the sound of rejoicing today. It’s a pity that we adults no longer remember those moments of epiphany when we suddenly GOT something for the very first time. When we figured out how to tie a shoe, or ride a bike with no training wheels, or how to say exactly the right thing so that Mommy would let us stay up for 10 more minutes. Martin has the most amazing belly laugh. When something strikes him as funny, he laughs his head off. He doesn’t hold back. It’s infectious and so inviting that I’m willing to...