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Lots to do this morning and today. Having Friday off and having it be such a lovely weekend has really energized me. I’ve gotten SO MUCH DONE! I love that feeling of accomplishment! The kids are singing at the top of their lungs while they’re cleaning up their designated tasks in the playroom. I have a medium-sized to-do list for today, but I’ve already got several things crossed off…and brownies are filling the entire house with their chocolatey delicious scent, baking in the oven. YUM! Martin licked the spoon, and Karin looked on in disgust because she dislikes chocolate. *boggle*...

Favorite Phrases: Sooo….what’s your point? Liar liar pants on fire! …and then, rub my feet! The sky I can see from the window is blue. Ander is gone for an overnight hiking trip and the only thing on the schedule today is drop off and pick up Martin for a birthday party. My plan is to drag the computer out onto the porch, wrap myself in mosquito net to foil the damned ARMIES OF FLIES, and work. Barring that, since I’m pretty sure the extension cords are only 6 meters long, I plan to take long breaks from computer schtuff...

The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 10 minutes before I left work yesterday, Johan emailed me an opening position at Axis Communications for a Marketing Assistant that might have been written FOR ME. In fact, it was an uncanny description of my current job. I had sent a resume to their HR department earlier in the day on a blind chance, so I shot off my resume and a cover letter to the contact, and went home feeling much better. Keep your fingers crossed or thumbs held!! Friday, Friday, So Good to Me! Anders and I decided that...

Not only has my first Free Friday been good to me, it’s been GREAT. I didn’t get anything done on the AWC directory, and I didn’t stuff the regional goodie bags, and I didn’t get anything done on my so-incredibly-long-overdue-family-webpage-update-it’s-ridiculous work, and I didn’t job hunt, and I didn’t clean the house, but… Karin and I had a lovely, relaxing, stress-free morning We picked up Martin and went to Farmor and Farfar’s and had a lovely, relaxing stress-free afternoon The weather has been absolutely dog-day-summer-perfect all day I got a postcard from the thoughtful and friendly esmecat, thank you Jenni!...

Number of Job-Search registrations: 11 and counting Number of times I have revised my resume and/or cover letters: approximately 1 squillion Number of jobs out there at this point in time that I’m qualified for/interested in: 3 Number of actual jobs applied for: 4 Number of resumes sent out for possibilities: 7 Percentage of chance any of those possibilities will actually turn into something viable: 40% Number of times I wanted to scream in frustration during the all-employee meeting this morning: 3 Answer to question Can you guarantee there won’t be any reductions before December 31st? at said meeting: No...

There’s so much drama online these days. Where do people find the energy? If I disagree with something someone says, I usually keep it to myself and move on*. I don’t feel this massive, pushing, labor-like pressure to vent it out and make someone feel bad or get defensive. I don’t think everyone has to know what I think about everything. As far as I’m concerned, everyone is entitled to their own feelings and opinions and if they’re wrong and backwards and need to get over themselves already, fine, whatever, but I don’t feel it’s my job to tell them...

Summer vacation is over and Mosaic Minds is out with another issue. This time the theme is self-acceptance, be it self-acceptance of the body or the soul. Go check it out, it’s one of our best issues ever! As always, we are constantly in need of excellent writing for future issues. Our next theme should be a lot of fun (Fears and Phobias) so submit early if you want to be sure to have your work included (submission deadline is September 30).

Okay, I’ve stewed enough in my own juices. It was the headache brought on by squinting at the fill-in forms on the job-search websites and the fact that I keep having to admit that I don’t know what the hell I’m doing. When you live in a place for 7.5 years, and you walk the walk and talk the talk, you might be quite naturally forgiven for thinking that you are 100% assimilated and that you blend in like the blendiest of blenders. I was practically BORN here, if you know what I mean. But then shock, caped and masked,...

Everything is shitty this morning. My resume sucks. My Swedish writing skills suck. I will never find another job. I’m totally unmotivated. I’m tired. There are not enough hours in the day. I’m cold and wet and hungry and broke and I swallowed my gum. grump Bonus points to those who know what movie I paraphrased that last sentence from.

I need to translate my resume and cover letter into Swedish. I could swear that I’d already done this not so long ago, but since I can’t find the damn things anywhere, I guess not. argh. Yes, I’m fluent in Swedish, but that mostly means reading and speaking. I can write Swedish, but it’s embarrassing, all my grammar faults and literal translations right there in black and white for people to snicker at, so I’ve managed to avoid it as much as possible since leaving Swedish For Immigrants. Time to suck it up and do the necessary here. Argh argh...