Category: general

12
Nov
2025

SPELLING AND SUGAR AND SILLINESS, IN SWEDEN

I’m not normally one to shame people, but 2 different products have recently caught my designer eye attention in the past year, and I’d like to know what they were thinking. We keep our freezer stocked with a small selection of frozen meals for those nights we just don’t feel like cooking or to take for a lunch if we’re in a hurry. I’m always glad to find something new since the selection is slow to change and tends to be the same things in every brand (lasagne, meatballs, pasta carbonara). So, I was thrilled to see a few new...

11
Nov
2025

CELEBRATION IS GRATITUDE IN ACTION

I was at the skin doctor today who examined my scalp and gave me good news: There is no sign of any terminal hair loss disease or condition and my hair is regrowing, my hair follicles are recovered and looking great, and now it’s just a matter of patience waiting for my hair to regrow. Considering that hair grows at approximately the rate of snail speed, it’s gonna be awhile. But obviously, the universe has a pressing need to teach me patience and since Karin is grown up and now longer holding that position, hair regrowth it is! After not...

05
Nov
2025

HOPE IS THE FEELING YOU HAVE THAT THE FEELING YOU HAVE ISN’T PERMANENT*

What are you hoping for? I think about hope a lot lately. I remember watching Anne of Green Gables years ago (the Canadian one with Megan Follows, which is BRILLIANT, and which I STILL have on VHS, even though we haven’t even had a VCR since years back) and Marilla’s response to Anne saying that she was in the depths of despair and asking Marilla if she had ever been in the depths of despair, and Marilla responded, “to despair is to turn your back on God”. Which shut Anne up, I think. And even though I am no longer...

02
Nov
2025

NO SINGULAR EVENT TO DREDGE THIS DAY FROM FUTURE MEMORY*

Look at this first. It made me laugh out loud just now. Same, crow. Same. I feel the same. The second of November and perfectly squandered. Not because I didn’t do anything. I did. (want the list? It’s further down, because I love lists and I can’t help myself). But I didn’t do anything IMPORTANT. I didn’t go anywhere important. But it’s okay, because more and more I realize that I need as many recharge days as possible right now. Nowadays my ambitions are quite small. And that’s okay. I’m okay. I didn’t even have a list today, I just...

26
Oct
2025

GLAMOUR AT THE GALA

Yesterday, I spent just over an hour ordering Christmas gifts from various websites. One of them wouldn’t accept my card the first time, and I tried again until it did (since I knew there was nothing wrong with the card and figured it was just a glitch). Right as I was finishing up getting ready to head out the door to the Halloween party I got a text message from our bank saying there was suspicious activity on my account and asking me to call immediately. So I did, and found they had put a block on my card until...

25
Oct
2025

CUTTING EDGE

This is me, currently. I took the photo last night. I was really cold, especially my head and neck, so I was wearing a fake fur neck wrap thingy. I never realized how much Barky kept me warm until I lost her. I sent the photo to a friend of mine and he answered “it doesn’t look that bad!” and he’s right…from the front, with minimal lighting, with it all slicked back instead of sticking up like a short-haired troll doll, it looks “not that bad”. But what he couldn’t see, and what you can’t see, is how thin it...

22
Oct
2025

TIME KEEPS ON SLIPPING, SLIPPING, SLIPPING, INTO THE FUTURE

My friend Chuck wrote a fascinating post yesterday about time and history and the movement of man through the ages, and he broke down what exactly AGES means. And I felt kind of ashamed, not because I didn’t know what the words meant, but because I’ve never really thought about them, in-depth. Me! Who loves language and linguistics and can spend hours delving into the fine print of dictionaries. I had never really thought about the fact that these words AREN’T actually interchangeable, although I’m certainly not alone in using them as if they were. Eons are subdivided into, in...

18
Oct
2025

KRIMSKRAMS!

The little girl across the street, who must be 5-6 years old by now (they moved in when her mom was pregnant with her), is sitting behind a little white play table that her dad carried out for her, at the end of the walkway in front of their house. She has a little cloth on the table and various things displayed both on the table and on another cloth next to her on the street. She’s been out there for at least an hour, on a sunny, chilly, beautiful fall Saturday morning. She’s bundled up in a winter coat...

17
Oct
2025

GETTING OUT OF THE WAY

The other day, I was driving from Lund to the new Costco, which is on the outskirts of Malmö. Normally this drive would take me about 15 minutes, but due to the fact that E22 which is the “highway” that runs between the two cities is under construction most of the way through Lund, and that there was apparently an accident somewhere, plus just CRAZY rush hour traffic, it took me more than twice that. The growth explosion of both of them has also not been compensated for in the infrastructure of the roadways at all. Malmö is the fastest...

12
Oct
2025

SUNDAY SCRIBBLES

My weeks are full right now. I don’t know if that’s a good thing (distraction) or a bad one (stress). This coming week alone is a lot, though it’s not what I would call crazy: Mon: blood draw at healthcare clinic in the early AM, work all day, AIC board handover meeting & dinner Tue: Drip dose 4 in the morning, work rest of the day, meet kids at Costco for shopping, then dinner, then home with Karin and Essie Wed: early morning psychologist appointment, work rest of the day Thu: AIC lunch, work all day Fri: DAY OFF, no...

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