It’s official: both kids are sick with colds. Martin’s eye infection has migrated to the other eye, so we’re currently in super goop mode here. Which means he can’t go to his Christmas party tonight, and it’s doubtful if Karin can be in her Lucia procession tomorrow morning. We’ll see. I’ve been adding books to my wish list lately. I found 3 books about time travel that all sound totally cool and I can’t wait to find them: Tunneling: A Novel by Beth Bosworth The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger A Shortcut in Time by Charles Dickinson My mom...

As you know, I stayed home today because of Martin’s eye infection, and you would think, wouldn’t you, that with the crazy schedule I’ve had over the past couple of months, that I would welcome the chance to hang out at home with the kids and pretty much do nothing all day. Well, you’d be wrong. I could have done that. In fact, it was in my head briefly for a short, shining moment. And then I realized that I still had things to do…and now I had the perfect excuse to do them because I wasn’t wasting an entire...

Well, Martin’s eye infection is serious enough to keep him out of school for at least one day, possibly two, so I’ll be doing my web surfing from the comfort of my own home tomorrow. He’s had 1 red eye* with lots of goop for 2 days, but since he was fine otherwise, I didn’t really think anything of it and sent him to school yesterday and today. One of the teachers gave me some flak about it this afternoon when I picked him up so we went immediately over to the school nurse and she confirmed that he was...

Someone at work just came in to ask if I’d like to go with her, for FREE, to see the ice skating gala this weekend and I had to say no because I’m, what else, busy. sob

Don’t you just hate it when you want to be totally hedonistic and think about nothing except that all your input is coming through your skin, and your masseuse just won’t SHUT THE FUCK UP?! argh It seems that all the basketball teams here in Sweden must have 2 Americans on them (cuz, like, we ROCK at b-ball, apparently) and the team in Malmö only has 1 so they’re on the hunt. They get paid somewhere between $5,000-$10,000 U.S. DOLLARS a month to play basketball in Sweden. Which seems like a pretty wide split on the paycheck. My response was...

STOP IT! STOP IT NOW! Damn dog.

Lund had only 18 hours of sunshine for the entire month of November. C’mon December, go go, you can do it! So far, I’ve “wasted” an hour of work time surfing the web. Wonder if I can set a record. I wonder if there IS a record. Guiness, I’m coming for ya, baby!

Conversation during glögg party last night when we were discussing bilingualism in our children and I made a comment about Martin having begun to differentiate languages when he was around 2.5 years old: Barbara: Well, yes, but I’ve always thought that Martin was exceptionally bright. Me: (deprecatingly) Yes, he is, well, he… Barbara: He must have gotten it from you, I bet. Me: Well, um, I wouldn’t call myself exceptionally bright *long pause* but you all can! (general laughter) Conversation with my sister this evening wherein the topic of discussion was children’s birthday parties: Sarah (who is having her daughter’s...

Laughed until I cried after reading this in Mimi Smartypants‘ archives: You know these little capsules that you put in warm water and a foam animal emerges? Do you? Well, get some. And do them inside your mouth, with beer. This was great fun recently, at a bar with Kat I had one in my mouth, almost finished exploding, when a guy sat down near us and said, “Hi” in that I’m-going-to-chat-you-up way. I held up a finger to say, “Wait a minute,” leaned over the bar, and spat a foam brontosaurus onto the bar top. He didn’t stay long....

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