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busy, busy, busy, but not too busy to stop here for a second and say, HI INTERNET! Was the sun shining when you woke up this morning? Did you get to sleep in at least a little bit? Are you having good friends over for dinner later and a scrumptious meal to boot, plus shopping in the comfort of your very own home? I HOPE SO because it sure does make a nice way to start the day. Must shower, dress, make bed, remove items from freezer to thaw, vacuum, swipe bathroom surfaces, prep dinner, make guest bed so I...

TGIF, indeed. Despite the windy grayness outside, I am so glad it’s the weekend that things seem bright to me.Tonight is prep night and clean the house, since tomorrow reebert is coming down from Gothenburg to hold a PartyLite party at my house. I am expecting 8 people total, including Marie and myself, which I think is a pretty respectable turnout. One of them is very likely not to show and one is not staying for dinner. Speaking of dinner, here’s the menu: yogurt-marinated herb-encrusted baked chicken breasts spinach, cheese and red pepper puff pastry crustados romaine salad with artichoke...

More Halloween Candy Thievery: a tiny little blue packet of M&M Minis. All gone! 🙁 I want more! Made up a bit for the slothfulness of the other night by sorting through my art stuff and organizing it a bit better in anticipation of the new art desk which is STILL in pieces, half-painted in the garage. What? It’s too damn cold out there! I can’t paint with frozen fingers! Then I finished editing verian‘s poems. But that’s it. That’s not really a lot in my souped-up hyper world of organizing go-go-go frenzy. I have SO MUCH STUFF sitting by...

The sugar beet factory in Örtofta is only open and running from about the end of September until Christmas. During the sugar beet processing season, the smoke from the factory rolls over the valley and taints the air with the smell of burned sugar. It’s not sweet, like a candy factory smells, it’s a very earthy, fermented odor. The factory can be seen from the main highway that we drive up and down so many times a week. It’s not that big, but at night when it’s dark and the factory is lit up and the white smoke is billowing...

I’m a couch potato-y slacking sack of laziness. I got nothing for ya today. No thing. Well, if I keep stringing words together here, I miiiiiiiiiiiiiight end up with an entry worth posting. It remains to be seen. At the remains of the day. All that is left of the day that remains. Which isn’t much as it’s 9:18 p.m. already and I WAS going to make every minute count. The laundry is done in the washing machine but I have not put it in the dryer, nor do I envision rising to do so any time in the very...

When I left home this morning the sun was coming up, shining through the morning haze, and the air was crisp and clear. At 4:30 p.m., still at work, the view out my window could have fooled me into thinking it was 10:30 at night. It’s dark out, and lights are on. The company flags are snapping briskly in a row. It could be bedtime for all I know, if I went by my senses, and not by the clock. The weekend was full* of good food, good meals, cooked by other people. Friday night we ate out at a...

Reading the poetry of someone whom I consider to be a talented writer is both humbling and inspiring. I have the urge to write, but the inescapable knowledge that what gems may emerge from my pen do so mostly by luck. Mostly I have the urge to read more. I think, oh! I could do that! I have done that! But not in such quantity or with such quality, and never with such sparkling brilliance. Reading good poetry teases the edges of my skull, inflates it, renders it see-through. It’s rather the same with art. I know I have talent,...

The deadline for the next issue of Mosaic Minds is rapidly, I say RAPIDLY, approaching! The theme is Serenity, but your submissions do not necessarily have to reflect the theme. So, if you have something you’ve written that you think is publishable, whether or not it relates to the theme, send it in! I know you people write, I’ve seen you! Here’s where to send it: poetry@mosaicminds.net

I got to sleep in. The sun has been shining most of the day. The kid’s department has been picked up, organized and vacuumed with a minimum of fuss. My to do list is too long and my brain is blank. I stole the M&M’s out of Karin’s Halloween candy bag and ate them. Someone else is fixing dinner for us tonight. Pretty good, all things considered.

Morning Minus: Having to get up and go to work while the rest of my family sleeps in. Waah! Free Fridays, I miss you! Morning Plus: Opening my e-mail to find that some lovely person has gifted me with 6 months of paid LJ account AND a year of extra user pics. I am beyond moved. Thank you. *** Rain is streaking my window, and the flags are blowing to the left today, straight out, ends snapping and frayed. It’s grey and cloudy but the clouds have a high lavender look to them, making me wonder if it might not...