Author: lizardek

01
Mar
2014

BIG PLANS

It’s the first day of a new month! That means INTERNET! YAY! But even better, Anders has made the call and placed an order for us to get hooked back up to broadband…no more mobile internet for us, wheee! I’m not sure when that will be in place, but as long as it is, I do not care. I haven’t been able to do anything online for WEEKS. And in the middle of all that, my friend Russell and I were trying to get our BIG Birthday Trip figured out and he basically had to do all the work because...

20
Feb
2014

SUCK

This living like it’s 1999-with-dial-up-modem thing for HALF THE MONTH is for the birds.

16
Feb
2014

RECHARGING

I actually feel pretty recharged at the end of this weekend, which is nice, even though a lot has been going on. I’ve had some good sleep and good relaxation spells as well. Anders came home with flowers for me (pale pale pink roses), a Pandora bead for my bracelet and chocolates. Made me feel kind of bad about the little box of candy he and the kids got 🙂 We were supposed to go to Debbie’s home for Valentine’s Dinner on Friday but late in the day her husband, who’d been feeling worse all day, decided he couldn’t manage....

12
Feb
2014

BRAIIIINS

I’ve got crazyworkbrain. Can’t stop thinking about it, stressing, etc. GAH. I wake up at 4:30 a.m. or 5:30 a.m. or 6:00 a.m. and can’t get back to sleep because crazyworkbrain starts right up. No matter how fast we work or how much we do, the amount that is left to do is the same or more when we leave each day. *sigh* Good thing I love my job, eh? On the plus side, (haaa!) I’m also obsessed with Treadmill Time. Every day when I come home, it’s the first thing I do. 20 minutes minimum and usually up to...

07
Feb
2014

EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY TONIGHT

Conversation at the dinner table Martin: We had a test in French class today Liz. Oh? On what? Martin: Useful words Liz: Aren’t all words useful? Martin: Well, paraplegic is less useful than inside, for example Liz: *giggles madly* true Then the three of us, Anders, Martin and I (Karin is spending the night at a friend’s house), had a long, drawn-out conversation starting from the fact that Martin asked me if I knew what longer word the Swedish word kompis was from. Kompis means friend. “No, I don’t,” I answered. “It’s from kompanjon,” he told me. Adding an “is”...

05
Feb
2014

INSIDE OUTSIDE UPSIDE DOWN

It has started out as a very very bad week. I got the news Monday morning that our graphic designer in the US quit. In addition, one of the freelancers that we really rely on is seriously ill and doesn’t know when she’ll be able to start working again. Work was insane to begin with and all this just pushes my team and I to the brink. URGH. I had planned to take a week of vacation in 2 weeks because I have 6 days that I have to use or lose by April 1st and now, I honestly don’t...

02
Feb
2014

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT

A friend of mine recently told me that she started the Couch25K program and couldn’t understand what had happened in her brain to even make her want to TRY it. This morning, a Sunday morning, a Sunday morning with NO PLANS and a rather late night last night, I woke up at 7:30 a.m. I managed to doze off again, but then I reawoke just before 9 and all I could think about was getting up and getting on the treadmill. WTH? So I did. I speed-walked for 30 minutes, for a total of 2K. Before 10:30 a.m. on a...

27
Jan
2014

WATCHING, WALKING, WORKING

A long week, a busy weekend and here it’s nearly the end of January. Time flies, whether you are having fun or not. I haven’t been online much lately, not least because our connection is so slow right now. I’ve been walking nearly every day, at least 25 minutes, a daily Watch&Walk, while we plow through 10 seasons of Friends. But now we’ve had to take a break and start watching Downton Abbey Season 4 because when we went to start season 6, we discovered that the first disc was missing from the box set. And we won’t be able...

19
Jan
2014

KEEPING IT REAL OR JUST KEEPING IT

Someone saw one of my project pictures and accused me of being a hoarder. Even though the point of most of these projects is PURGING. What’s the difference between being a saver and a packrat and a hoarder? Are they all just degrees of tendency? Mine seems to go in waves, in that case. Plus though I’d sometimes LIKE to, I can’t just throw away stuff in the house that belongs to one of the three other people who live here. I can only gently encourage… Does saving stuff at all make you a hoarder at some point? Or is...

15
Jan
2014

PROJECTILE

I’ve been in project mode since before vacation ended. I have a big long list of things to get done. Some of them have already been crossed off, but the list is long enough to keep me busy for a good long time if I only manage to do one of them a week. So far, I’ve done four of the big ones: Cable organization Putting away Christmas Inventorying and organizing DVDs Pantry clean-out I’m up to October in my 2013 blog book formatting and there are a bunch of other small projects that I’ve already crossed off, too. I’m...

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