Author: lizardek

28
Apr
2012

APRIL IS A PROMISE THAT MAY IS BOUND TO KEEP*

Another long weekend; April is replete with them! I’m both glad about it, because aaaaah: long weekend! And stressed because we have so much to do at work and aaah! short week! Ah well, it’s not like I’d get done with the work. It just keeps coming in, anyway. It was raining this morning so I made a long list of household chores and things to get done and have been steadily whacking away at the list, while watching episodes of The Big Bang Theory on DVD inbetween. The sun came out a couple of hours ago, and I just...

22
Apr
2012

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE

What happens to a place like Venice when there is no one left but the tourists? Anders read an article about Venice recently that said people were moving out of the city in droves; that they couldn’t afford the price of groceries and that there is no business left there except tourism. I wonder how many of the buildings along the canals are empty; abandoned. There are only 60,000 people residing in the city, though the total population including all 118 islands that make up Venice is 272,000. That’s not very many considering the amount of tourists averages 50,000 A...

17
Apr
2012

A PIEDI

I started walking again, officially yesterday, even though I walked all weekend because we were in ITALY. I mean: going for a walk. One of the really great things about Martin, who is pretty great in lots of ways, is that he always says yes if I ask him to go for a walk. And then we get to talk and laugh and have really great discussions to boot. Honestly, it’s crazy that I don’t do it every day; that’s how rewarding it is. In the midst of all our talk, Martin was telling me Things His Classmates Don’t Know...

12
Apr
2012

AT LEAST I DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT GIVING THE BIRDS & BEES TALK

We have been watching Season 1 of Game of Thrones on Swedish TV, and it’s on at 10 p.m. on Wednesday nights. I read all the books (except the latest, which I JUST got) ages ago, and remembered very sketchily what happens. I was all excited to watch it and I figured the kids would like it too, because well, the books were really good and they both like fantasy stories and it’s quite engaging what with all the interesting characters and what not…and why in the world would they put this acclaimed series on at 10 p.m.?! Crazy. It’s...

09
Apr
2012

RELAXING, WITH EGGS

I had a half-day on Thursday, Friday off, and today as well. A 4.5-day weekend: JUST what I needed. The only bummer is that I am tired and in bed by 10:30 p.m. and awake around 8 a.m. What gives? I used to be the queen of sleeping in. I can’t even get BACK to sleep. *suck* Easter was sort of perfunctory around here, I’m sorry to say. We did color eggs, which I’m happy about. Karin had a 2-day soccer camp overnight yesterday and today, so the kids got their Easter baskets and lame-o egg hunt a day early....

04
Apr
2012

SKILLZ

There’s a new book out that I just saw going by as I was skimming my RSS feed. It’s titled You Are Good at Things. I didn’t stop to read anything more about it because it sounds suspiciously like a self-help book and I can’t be bothered. I have never been interested in self-help books; mostly they strike me as a bunch of glurge aimed at ridding your gullible pocket of several dollars that you could have saved by using your head. Self-help snob, much? Anyway, in that split second that it took the title to register in my brain,...

03
Apr
2012

THIS IS JUST TO SAY

Sweden had the last word on April Fool’s jokes with a full-fledged blizzard a day late. Thankfully, it didn’t stick, but it is COLD out there. FREEZY BREEZY cold. I will come back and write some more soon, most likely about pie night, because I just realized I never wrote about pie night! but I have to go pick up Karin from soccer practice and then, possibly, go to bed early. Why am I so tired? I am REALLY tired. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

01
Apr
2012

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

Muahahahahaha! No more boring existential wah-wah poor-me mutterings from my mom. In with the new, out with the old! Consider this your wake-up call for AWESOME BLOGGING AT ITS BEST and bow before the beauty of Karinek!

31
Mar
2012

SVENSKA

It’s been a blah week, so I was really looking forward to Friday and a chance to relax a bit. I had promised Karin I would drive her to Sandby after I got home from work, since she was going to a disco with classmates and spending the night with a friend. She had brought in the mail and there was a slip for a package on the table addressed to me. I was pleased, as I thought it was the birthday presents and other items I had ordered last week. So I dropped her off and stopped by the...

29
Mar
2012

SLOUGH

I haven’t been wanting to come here and write. I haven’t been wanting to write anywhere. It’s spring, and the sun is shining nearly every day and the sky is blue and the crocus are up and the daffodils are coming and I don’t know what is wrong with me. I’m lethargic and grumpy and full of something that smells suspiciously like despair. It’s completely idiotic, and I know it, but for whatever reason, it keeps overpowering me. I feel old and slow and uncool and worried and tired and fat and helpless to make others happy. So. Here’s what...

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