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12
Dec
2009

DEPTH RESISTANCE & BOOK BOUNTY

Sometimes I feel like I’m living on the surface; skimming surely over the top without ever managing to puncture through and end up submerged. I can go for long periods of time living up here, skating along. It makes it hard to write. It makes it hard to come up with a true story; no description is deep enough for veracity. Maybe it’s the wintertime, the darkness, the sluggish response to everything. Maybe it’s the way my eyes slide along the surface, too. I don’t see things or I don’t stop for them, the way I do in the spring...

09
Dec
2009

COILED

Funny how the year is winding down but we are winding up. I am wound up! The older I get, the faster it goes. And you know what? It’s not like I ever really wind down. I think maybe I’ll just keep on winding tighter and tighter until the end when I suddenly snap and go whizzing right out of the atmosphere, like the rubber bands I used to shoot down the hallway for my cat. The nice thing about being wound up is that a great deal of it is with anticipation. There’s so much to look forward to:...

07
Dec
2009

TURNING TWELVE

What a 10 and a half year old little sister thinks about her big brother turning twelve: Hmm…well…AWFUL ! no..AWESOME..maybe 😛 He’s a good brother i guess, he lets me read his comic books almost always, lets me teach him World of Warcraft, lol, he likes sushi too! He’s very helpful (not sometimes), he’s my lovie dovy bwother. He’s good at playing the piano and watching TV too ! He’s good at making adventures on Spore, he’s good at making paintings, he explains words for me, He’s the best brother you can ever have ! XOXOXO !

04
Dec
2009

SWITCHING SCHOOLS

We spent this past week school shopping for Martin. He had expressed a desire to switch schools already back at the beginning of the year, but we didn’t get off our duffs until just recently, when suddenly realizing that if we were going to make the switch, we needed to do it NOW. As in, RIGHT NOW. He’s in the middle of sixth grade and we live in Eslöv’s kommun. A kommun is relatively analogous to a county, and even though we live right on the border between two counties, in fact our village is split in half by the...

03
Dec
2009

BOMBS, MOONS, HOLIDAY CROONS

December is like a ticking time bomb, with giant 7-segment alarm-clock red numbers counting down faster than I can even find wire cutters for, much less figure out whether to snip the red one or the green one before everything goes BANG! The moon was full yesterday: it was hanging out well above the horizon yesterday morning, huge and shining white against the dawning sky, about 3 times as big as normal. If I had only left for work about half an hour earlier, I bet it would have filled my vision until I fainted from the lack of space...

29
Nov
2009

MERRY CRANBERRY!

It’s official! The holidays are here! We started decorating the house today, went to a glögg party and I “baked” the first cookies of the season. Using the term “baked” very, very loosely. My friend Debbie served these at a book group this past year and I’ve been badgering her for the recipe ever since. I decided they would be the cookie I’d take to the AWC Holiday Cookie Exchange, and when I called her a couple of weeks ago to remind her, she said, “Darn! I was hoping you’d forgotten about them, because I was going to make you...

29
Nov
2009

NOT ONLY TO UTTER WORDS, BUT TO LIVE BY THEM*

Year after year, the things I am thankful for remain much the same. They’re so obvious, they almost go without saying. And yet, to go without saying them is unthinkable; I can’t take them for granted, and yet isn’t that what we do, so much of the time? We go through our daily lives and we can’t fall down on our knees every moment. There’s lunch to be packed and homework to be done and beds to be made and meetings to go to. There are cookies to be baked and children to be hugged and dogs to be walked....

26
Nov
2009

THERE’S SO MUCH

There’s so much to be grateful for and to give thanks for that I don’t even know where to start. Family, friends, health, work, …EVERYTHING. I am blessed with goodness. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone reading this! Mwah! *** Clean bill of health at the dentist today. I am completely and totally amazed at how dental technology has changed and improved since I was a child. I don’t think I’ve had anyone stick a needle in my gums in YEARS. I had a check up and cleaning today, and told the dentist that I’ve been worried about one of my left...

24
Nov
2009

LOOSE ENDS, FOR A MOMENT

I got shot in the arm this evening. I have to say, I’ve been sort of dreading getting the H1N1 vaccination…I never get flu shots, I have always just taken my chances, but I guess something about a) the fact that if I did get sick with it, it would be 2-3 weeks of illness versus (hopefully) 1-2 days of potential side effects from the shot and b) how can you say no to getting a vaccination that the country you live in has bought for every single one of its residents? Not only did they do that, they also...

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