Author: lizardek

29
Mar
2018

THINKING ABOUT THINGS

All afternoon I’ve been watching the snowflakes whirling madly in a spiral wind dance around the house. We had a half-day today, the start of the Easter holidays here in Sweden, and I’m quite pleased with the result of my day as I got a ton of things done in the 4.5 hours I worked, plus 2 loads of laundry and some other small chores once I got home. Despite the fact that it’s a week past the vernal equinox, we’re still experiencing snow squalls every other day as the temperatures dip below zero and back up again in a...

18
Mar
2018

RECIPE SCHMECIPE

I made a yummy dinner tonight, if I do say so myself. I don’t cook all that much anymore, because the amount of people that I need to feed has drastically reduced itself to…mostly me. Karin is so rarely home and Anders and I tend to just grab something simple for ourselves: soup, a sandwich, hotdogs (in his case). Some years ago, I got tired of cooking, too, and basically stopped. The kids were old enough to get their own damn dinners for a change and Anders cooks better than I do, and likes doing it, too, so I just…quit....

15
Mar
2018

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE

Not writing is habit-forming. Not reading probably is too, but I’ve never done that. Of all the things I used to do, but no longer do (with the caveat that I still could do them again someday…), writing is the one that I tend to miss the most when I don’t do it for any length of time. It’s been, give or take a couple of days, a month since my pinched nerve started acting up again, and I am still struggling with it, though this week has a seen a turn for the better. I had at least 3...

17
Feb
2018

OW AGAIN

Welp, after months of no issues whatsoever, my pinched nerve shoulder/arm pain is back with a vengeance. Constant pain and it hurts EXTRA to sit in a straight chair or lean forward so posting will be light until I can get treatment…hopefully it won’t take months to go away like last time. 🙁 I have an appointment Tuesday morning with a new naprapat, so wish me luck. GAH.

11
Feb
2018

HOPING FOR SNOW: SHNOWPING

The sky is white, wide and wild. It seems snow-laden. Snow-burdened. But you never know. It’s been known to disappoint. Snown to disappoint. The wind is shaking the honeysuckle leaves in the trellis, still green from summer. It’s swaying the bird feeder, bereft of birds. There was a small yellow and blue tit hunched there earlier, but he’s nowhere to be seen now. There is still snow on the ground, a patchy white blanket tufted with the too long grass, also of late summer. There are rose hips scattered on the deck. I am glad to be inside, out of...

06
Feb
2018

HUBRIS (BLESS YOU)

What do you think is a defining characteristic of being human? I don’t mean bipedal, tool-using, opposable thumbs, I think-therefore-I-am, human. I mean what sets us apart from the instinctual, animal, get enough to eat, mate, sleep, human? Today, it was a sense of obligation. I say human because I doubt rabbits with a head cold give a shit about their responsibilities. Or bears. Do animals get colds? They must, since we’re essentially animals, and we get colds. Despite being REALLY sick with a whopper of a head cold that has been battening on me for days, I felt OBLIGATED...

31
Jan
2018

MAKING UP MEMES, I VERSION

I am really glad January is over. I’m not comfortable sharing really personal stuff online. I will always prefer reading books over watching television. I won’t try to change you, but I’ll probably judge a little bit. I want losing weight to be easier, and exercising to be more fun. I wouldn’t trade much about my life, except for the part where I can’t have a cat. I shouldn’t think so much about cookies. I couldn’t vote for someone I have little respect for. I can’t understand how some people think. It’s so hard to relate sometimes, even when I...

28
Jan
2018

I NEED ANOTHER WEEKEND

I didn’t even go outside today, not even to take trash out, and I don’t regret it one bit. This month has been hell on wheels work-wise, and yesterday was busy and long, so I took today as a much-needed down day: sleeping in late, reading, lazing about, watching a movie, doing a few small things about the house, and bird-watching from the couch. I even took a late nap, and now I just have Bron to look forward to in about an hour, and then it’s back to bed for me. Hopefully that will go some way toward recharging...

24
Jan
2018

ADULT POINTS

My teammate brought in a half-eaten box of Aladdin chocolates today, one of the chocolate box staples that Swedes tend to grab off the grocery store shelves and give as a hostess gift. She brought it in because her family only eats the milk chocolate candies, which is approximately half of the box of 50 chocolates. “Oh yum!” I said, and made a beeline for my two favorites: dark chocolate with strawberry cream and dark chocolate with lime cream. “I love dark chocolate! Don’t you guys eat it at all?” She said she’s never learned to like it and neither...

23
Jan
2018

BITS AND KIBBLES

Still buried at work, but at least can see the light at the end of the tunnel, as one of my teammates is done with her monster project and back to normal workload. The other one is still out of the office, but we are hoping she’ll be back by the end of the week. I got my printed blog book for 2017 and I was right: it was the skinniest yet. OY! It’s, like, just over a quarter of an inch thick. Considering that most years it’s closer to double that if not more, it was a lean year...

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