Author: lizardek

The sun was well up this morning, and shining directly into every crevice, sparkling and gleaming on the Kävlinge river and highlighting the mossy curves of trees. It worked hard yesterday melting the remaining snow, and all that is left are a few holdout patches clinging to ditches and shady spots. I think it will finish the job today, as the skies are a uniform bright blue. We’ve had more than our fair share of lovely winter days lately. 🙂 Still feeling under the weather, however, but made it to work today. Not sure I’ll stay the whole day, but...

Left work with a scratchy throat and a flattened feeling yesterday, which developed over the course of the evening into full-blown sore throat and head cold. 🙁 Thank God for Tylenol cold medicine imported from the heavenly land of superior over-the-counter-cold-remedies. I stayed home today so as not to infect the rest of the office, even though it’s probably too late as they say you’re most contagious before you show symptoms. It’s a gorgeous day today and the sun is doing aerobics on the remaining snow that is left in our yard (Feel the burn!). I slept until 12:30, held...

Today marked my 4-year anniversary of working for Ericsson. It’s been a (mostly) fun ride of ups and downs, creative challenges and some boring stretches. Seems my job is always either feast or famine: too much or not enough. I do better with the too much side of things. At lunch today, after Johan admired the salt & pepper shakers the restaurant had, Bodil suggested he steal them by stuffing them down his pants, and I said, “Is that a pepper shaker in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?” I didn’t know he could turn that...

This morning makes the second time I have driven to work, and on auto-pilot, gone straight to our old building. I can blame the Oscars for it this morning, though. I completely forgot that they were on last night and heard the news on the radio this morning on the way to work. My boss’s boss is back from his business trip, and has arranged his desk so that he’s basically peering over my back when he’s at his desk. I feel like I’m under survelliance. Plus, he and the woman on the other side of me have already started...

The best party card game in the world is one I learned in college from Nancy Kuhn, called Colorado Crazy Eights. It NEVER fails to get people hyper and excited and is easy to learn and hilarious to play. It’s based on Crazy Eights, which is a fairly simple card game, but it progresses to insanity and speed card-flinging rapidly. The table must be completely cleared of EVERYTHING, especially drinks, as the risks for knocking things over increases as the game progresses. After one round, people are hunched forward, as close to the center of the table as they can...

I’m virtually surrounded by kind, caring, truly NICE people. Special thanks from me to travelertrish re my book list jes6ica re music shopping my wonderful husband for the lovely, lovely sleep-in this morning galestorm re magnetty bits my beeg leetle seester for the box of Girl Scout cookies and other goodies referred to last night and the handknitted scarves 🙂 It’s a sunny, gorgeous morning, but because the sky is white and we still have a thick cover of snow on the ground, the effect is blinding. Anders didn’t play hockey today because his sore throat is still bothering him,...

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Be Afraid: Build Me Up Buttercup is apparently available as a mobile phone ring signal, but not yet for the Z600. Curses, foiled for now. The outside of our building has metal blinds that react to the sun and automatically close when the sun is shining directly on them. Which means that when the sun is shining, we don’t get to enjoy it. It’s as dim in here as if it were a regular cloudy February day. I’m tired of talking. Today I just want to be quiet. I don’t want to be social and make conversation or small talk....

We awoke to a house snuggled under a snow duvet. It snowed for hours, transforming the winter-grey world overnight. The moon last night was a perfect, storybook crescent. It looked like a paper cutout laid against the black backdrop of the sky. It’s still snowing, the air is filled with frozen down. It’s been snowing all day. The sky is a watercolor wash from white to pale grey to darker grey and back again. I’ve gotten so much done this morning, although little of it was for work. My teeth are clean and sparkling, no cavities, although I did get...

Last night, while I was at my AWC meeting, Anders triumphed over the Karin-refusing-to-remove-her-clothes-and-put-on-pajamas-thing. He said he’s tried ripping them off her when she goes into refusal mode and it just makes it worse and she completely locks down. So, when she started last night, he managed to distract her by turning it into a game. For every piece of clothing she removed, she had to run laps around the house (we have a built-in circle through the little hallway and around into the great room). Sweatshirt: 2 laps. T-shirt: 2 laps. Pants: 2 laps. Laughing and howling like a...