Category: general

17
Feb
2006

I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP

A month of Mondays would be too much for me, I’d topple and collapse, judging by the week of Mondays I just crawled through. Working until 7 p.m. yesterday saved my bacon today, though. I got enough done in those 3 extra (uninterrupted!) hours that the panic could recede to the point of letting me deal with the usual crazy busyness of a workday without feeling as though my head was going to spin around and around until it finally twisted right off and flew away, still revolving. “saved my bacon” What a weird expression. I wouldn’t have thought that...

15
Feb
2006

TIME EXISTS SO THAT EVERYTHING DOESN’T HAPPEN ALL AT ONCE*

It keeps adding up and piling on and never-ending. Do I have a task magnet stuck on me? *swipes at clothing* Doing my own work, plus half the work of a missing colleague is beginning to take its toll and its only been 2 weeks, though there’s no near end in sight at the moment. Right before I left the office, running late, 2 people discussing and arguing and NOT GETTING OUT OF MY WAY so I could leave made me feel as though my blood pressure was actually surging and starting to short me out like a freaky fuse....

14
Feb
2006

VALENTINY

Roses are red, violets are blue, Blogs are read, livejournals, too. O dear internet, how I love you! XOXO Lizardek Cracking Me Up: Why Should Cupid Have All the Fun? More Cracking Me Up: Nothing says I love you like a skull and crossbones

13
Feb
2006

I CAN SEE SPRING FROM HERE

There’s vaseline on the winter lens, everything is airbrushed in a vaporous and peripheral veil, a shadow fog teasing the eye. The fields down the long hill are mottled, a snowmelt, no-melt zone of loamy chocolate earth, frozen-in-motion sprouts of rapeseed, sugarbeets, alfalfa green against the spangled white of the snow crisps. All along the edges of the roadways, exhaust has pitted and etched a poisonous lace pattern. It makes me literally sick to my stomach to think too hard about that black sludge seeping down into the earth, into the water, into the grain. The snow is only momentarily...

12
Feb
2006

VACILLATION

Whoa, Nellie! Why suddenly now do I feel that there is no one at the reins? The image of myself as a runaway horse makes me laugh, but I’m not so sure this cutting down, trimming back, saying no thing is working out so well for me. I feel totally at loose ends. It’s starting to stress me out. HAHAHA *snort* It’s not exactly stressing me out, I admit, but I DO feel at loose ends, at least a bit. Every weekend that we have few or no plans finds me teetering back and forth: Sleep in…NO! Get things done!...

11
Feb
2006

MORNING GLORY

The sky was completely clear this morning when I woke up at the godforsaken hour of 7:30 A.M. ON A SATURDAY. *raises clenched fist, shakes it* The kids got up at the exact same time foiling my evil plan of keeping them up really late last night in the hopes they’d sleep in this morning and proceeded to bounce into our bed to welcome Daddy home. 🙂 A few hours later, the sun is doing a smackdown on all the snow scabs that are still holding on, and the sky is new blue, spring blue, with wisps of cirrus veils...

10
Feb
2006

SPORTY OBSESSIONS FOR NON-SPORTY GIRLS

Anders’ flight was cancelled and he was already coming in late to Copenhagen, which pushes his arrival home tonight into the wee hours. I am wiped out from a long week of work and single-parenting, but am determined to stay up and make sure my mindpowers bring him safely home. If I fell asleep who knows what would happen? The kids and I watched (nearly) the entire opening ceremonies of the 20th Olympic Games. I don’t even know what you call the thing they did to make the ski jumper figure out of people on the stage, and then the...

09
Feb
2006

JUST WHAT I NEEDED

You really are the best innernets a girl could ever have. I have a few friends who are chronic cancellers and I have to admit, I’ve grown tired of pretending to be okay with it when it happens…AGAIN. And the thing is, I’m sometimes guilty of the very same thing, although not with these particular friends. I can think of at least 2 people (although I wouldn’t go so far as to call them FRIENDS. Not like you. YOU’RE friends. And you’re pretty, to boot. Did you lose weight?) who could probably pick the very same bone with me. It’s...

08
Feb
2006

STONED

Every time you take me for granted my heart hardens a little bit more. One day soon when you come calling I might be taken for granite instead.

07
Feb
2006

INTELLECTUAL DEFEAT

I’m a little grumpy tonight, because Anders left for Italy today and won’t be home until Friday, and considering that he was gone for 9 days just 3 days ago I think I’m entitled to a little grumpiness. *sigh* Things I Really, Really Need to Get Off My Butt and DO: Get Karin’s passports renewed; at least the Swedish one, and soon Learn the song I am supposed to be singing at my brother’s wedding in May. I suspect my non-motivation has to do with the fact that I don’t really like it that much, and that it’s not really...

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