Author: lizardek

05
Jan
2015

COMING DOWN

One more day of freedom and possibility. One more day to do whatever I want. One more day to fill up on relaxing, reading and lying about. The trees are bare but for the lights. Anders is in charge of the lights, so I will nag him to do them tomorrow. All you have to do is look hard at the tree and needles shower to the floor. Several branches are completely bare where the pull to remove an ornament left only the stick in its wake. Sad trees. The dining room table is COVERED in ornaments. It always take...

04
Jan
2015

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY

I think, because I’m on vacation and I mean REALLY on vacation, not doing a damn thing, pretty much, except turning my nights into day and vice versa, what with the staying up until all hours and sleeping in late, that it’s causing me problems on the writing front. When you barely leave the house (except that I DID leave the house, multiple times, today) for days on end, it means you don’t have all that much to write about, except the inner workings of your weird brain, and good god, who wants to hear about that? I mean, I...

02
Jan
2015

THINGS I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT

How great my husband is How great my kids are How much I miss my family What I do for a living Why I write here This wonderful world Things I like Things I dislike Things I think about a lot Funny things said in my hearing Pictures from my past and what they mean to me Books I’m reading Stuff I have to get done Friends and what they mean to me All the things I’m looking forward to Lists that are meaningless to anyone but me … Oh, wait… I’m already writing about all these things. What do...

01
Jan
2015

WHAT A WAY TO START THE YEAR

I know some people believe that you will spend your year basically the way you spend the first day of it, but if that’s the case, I might be in big trouble. My day, so far, has consisted of: sleeping late, playing games, reading, listening to music, eating, watching DVDs with Martin, talking on the phone with my brother and calling emergency services to send an ambulance because I thought I might be, maybe, having a heart attack. Yeah. So not fun. I’ve been having really stabby chest pains for the past couple of days. They’re intermittent…they come on when...

31
Dec
2014

RETROSPECTIVE

ust went back and checked and it seems I started writing my year-end retrospective in 2007. Seven years of looking back at my year and seeing what I’ve done and read and listened to. It’s nice to have a record for posterity, don’t you think? And since today is the last day of 2014, this week I can start formatting 2014 into a book for print. One more green-spined book to add to my collection of printed obiter dictums! Family & Personal Highlights of 2014 Being promoted to Senior Corporate Graphic Designer at work Martin breaking his arm Karin being...

30
Dec
2014

CHOCOLATE RESURRECTION

One of the things I really miss about the time we spent in Belgium when I was a teenager was the food. Not everything, of course, but it was our first experience with European cuisine and I’m sure any Belgian and Dutch friends of mine will be horrified to hear how much I miss frikandels. It’s a taste I can still conjure up in my head. Mmmmmmmm! I still eat mayo with my french fries pommes frites whenever I can. Ketchup is for you vulgar Americans who don’t know any better. I missed Napoleon lemon balls too, for years, until...

28
Dec
2014

MUSICALLY INCLINED

I never listen to the radio nowadays. I never listen to the more than 500 CDs we own, either. And since last year, the only tape player we own is a small boombox that is up on the top of a shelf… so I never listen to any of the mixed tapes that I made or received long ago, and haven’t for years. But I listen to music all the time. All day long at work and whenever I’m in the car. I’ve built a Spotify list with over 2000 songs on it and that’s what I listen to. It’s...

27
Dec
2014

ALL THAT’S LEFT

Guess what? Only 362 shopping days until Christmas! HAHAHA! Megsie, that was for you. (sad part: how fast that will go) We woke to a white Christmas, which made all of us very happy, especially since it was just a dusting. It was a very family-filled, present-filled, FOOD-filled week around these parts. We had Anders’ mom over on the 23rd for her birthday. Anders made raclette. She’d never had it before and really enjoyed it, and we had, surprise, leftovers. Märta spent the night as the next day was Julafton, the day that Swedes celebrate Christmas. Anders’s sister and her...

23
Dec
2014

EK FAMILY CHRISTMAS LETTER

2014 is nearly over and the holidays are upon us! As all the years seem to do, we zoomed through this one as well and it was full of ups and downs, though thankfully, mostly ups! We didn’t have nearly as much traveling this year as last, at least for work, which was kind of nice. Anders went to Italy and Liz to the US, and we had two vacation trips, plus Anders had a ski week with friends in the Czech Republic in January and Karin went to Gothenburg in July for the Gothia Cup soccer tournament. Martin, who...

17
Dec
2014

MIRROR OF THE MIND

I know, I know, using my blog to write to-do lists is the ULTIMATE in lame. And yet. Who else should I share the most important things in my life with? You think my husband and children give a rat’s ass about my to-do list? It’s short. Or at least it is from this end, when I haven’t actually started it yet. Write Christmas cards Buy stamps Mail Christmas cards Post online Christmas letter Bake Christmas cookies Check gift pile status…are the kids’ presents balanced? If not, remedy Clean the freaking house Buy Christmas food, Swedish and American style Work...

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