Author: lizardek

27
Apr
2013

THINGS, SOME GOOD, SOME NOT SO GOOD, SOME GREAT

The light is lying low over the fields, bathing the back of our house in gold and pink. There’s a line above the horizon demarcating a nimbus edge just before the blue starts. We had giant puffity clouds today, looking like a line of rounded marshmallow mountains, one an Ewok for a split second before it morphed into just another heavenly cottonball. There are fat little buds on the cherry tree but no blossoms yet. Everything is just about to burst…we had a couple of days of rain and you could really see the effect…hedges went green, the fields went...

21
Apr
2013

WALKING ON SUNSHINE

The sun is shining, though it’s still a little chilly out, and for some stupid reason I am inside. I have a bad headache, which is part of the reason, because I know if I go outside before the headache is totally gone, the sun will pierce through my eyeballs and my brain will spontaneously combust. I was out in the sun a bit yesterday…you have to ease into these things when you’re a troglodyte homebody like me. Karin and I whacked down the dead long grass in the front garden and removed the pine branches from the bed under...

15
Apr
2013

WEDDING PLANS & GARBAGE CANS

In the interest of helping my daughter be more organized with her homework, school books and papers, I promised to give her a large plastic case I had up in the back of the closet. It’s bright blue with 10 or so pockets and a flap that folds down over the front and closes with elastic bands. The pockets were all neatly labeled and there was an index card in a pocket on the front listing the contents of each pocket as well: ceremony, flowers, reception, catering, photographer, etc. I bought the case in 1995 and used it to hold...

13
Apr
2013

THE URGE TO PURGE

The dining room table is covered in Lego again, but I swear this is the last time. My mom sent 5 pieces home with Karin from Dallas and now they’ve been added to the kits that were missing them and labels are ready to be printed. Now we just need to decide what we actually want to do with it all: sell it? or stick it up in the attic for posterity? There is also a stack of old comic books on the table that Anders needs to go through; Karin and I did a number on her room today...

07
Apr
2013

PLANNING IS BRINGING THE FUTURE INTO THE PRESENT*

You’ll be surprised, I’m sure, to hear that I have a crazy week ahead. ALERT THE MEDIA! Something every day! Something every night! This kind of thing NEVER happens. Heh. We went to see Oz the Great and Powerful tonight with my cousin Cate and her daughter, whom we haven’t seen since forever ago. It was a last minute decision, but I’ve been wanting to see the movie since I heard about it, so I was excited, and the opening credits were quite clever and I was thrilled and then: meh. Terrible acting, stupid side bits, glurge and ridiculousness. SO...

05
Apr
2013

COMPELLED BUT NOT COMPELLING

There still seems to be a pull for me away from the computer and away from writing; I’m not 100% sure what is causing it. I know that part of it is because of sitting at a computer for 10 or so hours nearly every day, intensely working. When I come home, I still check emails and a few other not really essential things on the ipad or PC but to sit down and write seems to take more effort than it used to. Whatever…I’m prepared to fake it ’til I make it. The sun has been shining nearly every...

31
Mar
2013

TAP TAP …IS THIS THING ON?

That lasted longer than I planned or liked, but it felt necessary. And to be honest, one of the major reasons for the break was that I felt like my head was crammed full of work with no time or room for anything else, and that is STILL the case, but I can’t keep radio silence anymore. I MISS this place. And if I don’t start now, I may never be able to get started so … Karin is in Dallas. She’s been there for a week playing soccer and having the time of her life in the sunshine, despite...

21
Feb
2013

SLEEPLESS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE

What a crazy week. Do you know what word I realized this week I over-use? Crazy. Reflection on my life much? Heh. Landed in Madrid on Sunday night and had no problems getting to the hotel or the office and the trainings went really well, but the flight plan didn’t. Iberia Airlines went on strike and our flight from Madrid (actually we were in Tres Cantos which is on the outskirts of the city) to Turin on Tuesday was cancelled. We ended up having to stay an extra night and take the red-eye Wednesday morning to Italy via Munich instead....

13
Feb
2013

SIZZLE AND SIGH

Feeling the burn, but not the one I should be. More the burn of going down in flames. The searing sound of burn-out headed my way if I don’t look out, brake hard, turn this bus around. Teenage drama at home is definitely not helping matters. Heavy sigh Paris was a whirlwind one-day zoom in and out of the office. Which is actually in Antony, which is quite some ways from Paris itself, so I never had a glimpse of anything remotely Parisian, though there WERE macarons in the airport, which I restrained from. The plane was delayed an hour...

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