Okay, I’m thinking of someone. Remember, yes or no questions only. 😀 WE HAVE A WINNER, LADIES & GENTLEMEN! Thank you for playing! purrthecat correctly guessed Aslan! It’s purrthecat‘s turn, go to her journal if you want to play again. 😀
Sometimes it’s very hard to resist ascribing human motivations and emotions to the weather. Plus it makes for such great metaphors. 🙂 This morning, Flyinge was blanketed with fog. The newly sprung green grass had a coating of frost. Everything was grey and white and opalescent. Driving through Flyinge and up the hill toward Lund, Father Sun was obviously trying to pull the blanket off, opening curtains, singing “Oh what a beautiful morning!” while the fog grumbled and tried to pull the covers up over its head. Then, as I crested the hill and came out of the fog, I...
I’m now able to reveal that my design for the new logo of the AWC Malmö won, beating galestorm‘s by a very thin margin. I’m quite happy with the design, and now we can start planning tshirts and such. We had a record low turnout for the meeting last night: 11 people and that was counting 2 infants as one person. So the tone of the meeting was quite different, almost giddy, and we played a game that involves having a sticker put on your back with the name of a famous person/character that you then must figure out by...
Recently someone made a comment implying that I was a bad mom. Even though I laughed it off at the time, it stung a bit, obviously, as it’s still stuck to my sweater like a burr. At the party we were at a couple of weeks ago, a woman with three children asked me what I’d been up to lately, and I responded by telling her that work was a bit crazy, and I had a lot of club stuff going on, plus my new work with Mosaic Minds had me sweating an upcoming deadline. Her response: “When do you...
We walked over to the Congregation House today for a Family Church service because Martin was singing with his little musiklek group. On the way, I discovered a long row of gigantic pussywillow bushes. Snowdrops are everywhere, and little purple and yellow crocuses have thrust out their heads. Tiny green buds tip each branch. The little creek along the snail trail slides like transparent quicksilver over the water-carved sandy bed and soaks the bottoms of the trees. A barely-there carpet of new, neon-green leaves is carpeting the forest floor, pushing up through the winter debris. Spring is sprung! Spring is...
Anders and I rented Catch Me If You Can last night. I could only sit and marvel at the difference in acting between Ben Affleck (whom you will remember I dissed after catching half his performance in The Sum of All Fears) and Tom Hanks…or for that matter, Leonardo DiCaprio, who I found actually made me forget for decent stretches of time that he was Leonardo DiCaprio. Before that we watched most of the Ice Dancing Free Competition portion of the World Figure Skating Championships. I recognized several couples from the Europeans that I saw live last year, which was...
For a short time yesterday, my hair was an afghan hound instead of a poodle. My hairdresser IRONED my hair! 😀 When I arrived at galestorm‘s afterwards for dinner and crafting, her jaw literally hit the floor when she saw my hair. She made me let her take a picture as proof. Crafting at Gale’s was great fun, plus she makes a mean spinach tortellini chicken dish. I feel relatively guilty because I used up ALL her magnets, but I had so much fun doing it and am so happy with the result (plus I paid her for them) that...
Our Human Resources Manager, in the middle of a conversation with me and another female colleague, just asserted that only women get hung up on “ridiculous” details, and then implied that it was an acceptable reason for dismissing our concerns. When we challenged him, he quite firmly continued to say that it was a fact. I cannot believe that I work for a company where the Human Resources manager is so blatantly chauvinistic and sexist. Get me out of here. >:( That steam you see is coming from my head.
Not in the mood to write much lately, not sure why. There’s not even anything going on weather-wise to inspire me. What I can see of the sky is white with infinite cloud cover. Everyone’s shoes squeak. I feel like I’m working in a nest of mice. When I was working at First Chicago, we had an incentive sales trip every year for the salespeople to win. By selling their little hearts out, they got an all-expenses paid trip for a week together. One year it was Sanibel Island, one year it was St. Thomas. And once it was Disneyworld....
Dinner: 3-egg omelette with ham, cream cheese and avocado. Mums fili baba!