Lizardek

21
Jun
2013

UPDATEY

First day of a 3-week vacation and my brain wakes me up before 7 am. WTF brain? Couldn’t get back to sleep no matter what I tried so here I am to talk at you. Just realized that I haven’t posted for ages. I’m a little tired of how time flies, wish it would slow down just a bit. I worked until nearly 9 pm last night, long after the last warriors had fallen, the day before the midsummer holiday. Because I was on a training trip to Germany on Wednesday, I lost a day of getting things done that...

13
Jun
2013

ANOTHER (SCHOOL) YEAR GONE

I can’t even look at my children sometimes without boggling. They’re both taller than I am and it’s happened so fast. Martin will be 16 in December. I just asked him how old he was and when he gave me a very sarcastic, “I’m FIFTEEN”, I said, “That can’t be right.” Time flies, yes, it does. They both had their last day of school yesterday and when I said I was probably going to go to Martin’s if they were at the same time, Karin got all upset and said no one loved her. So I was relieved to find...

08
Jun
2013

SPOILED

We’re getting spoiled over here. Spoiled with summer. Spoiled with sunshine. And spoiled with long weekends. There are a lot of them right in a row during May and June here in Sweden. The weather has been fantastic and even though I’m not necessarily out in it all day, I’m enjoying it so much in my own way. It’s nice to feel like the zoom button on my life has been turned to low for a bit, even though I know it’s only temporary and part of me was freaking out completely just the other day over the fact that...

03
Jun
2013

TODAY IS THE TOMORROW YOU WORRIED ABOUT YESTERDAY

OMG two posts in a row! Apocalypse! I figure I can’t get bummed out and upset about the fact that no one blogs much anymore if I am just as guilty. Plus, I feel like writing, and whether or not I have anything to write about: here I am. I have to tell you a story and you have to promise not to laugh. Because I am really, really embarrassed about it. In fact, I think it’s good enough to possibly bump one of my top three most embarrassing moments off the list. Go ahead, go click that link and...

02
Jun
2013

SITTING, SPECULATING, SINGING, SHOPPING, STYLING, SPROUTING

There’s a dove perched on the ridge of the neighbor’s garage. He looks cold. It’s windy and grey, a high white cloud cover, and the air coming in through the window I opened earlier is chilly. Yesterday was humid, so despite the bleakness, the temperature drop is actually a welcome one for me. Not that I want to wish away summer, but if I could have my sunshine and cool breezes year-round I’d be a happy camper. It’s a quiet, uneventful weekend. Karin was sick last week again so she’s not playing in the soccer matches going on. Martin is...

26
May
2013

IN THE CITY OF LIONS*

I’ve always considered myself to be somewhat of a traveler, but I never really considered myself a WORLD-traveler because so many of the major continents have been excluded from my reach…I’ve been all over the United States, of course, thanks to an military-brat upbringing and a road-trip-filled childhood, and we covered Europe rather extensively, at least western Europe, in our 6-year stint abroad when I was a teenager, which actually included a day-trip to Morocco, though I don’t think that’s enough to really count Africa in my checklist. Altogether I’ve been to 24 countries (that’s a lot of silver charms...

21
May
2013

TIME DOESN’T CHANGE THINGS, YOU HAVE TO DO IT YOURSELF*

I don’t have to be anything here. I don’t have to be myself, behave, be all that I can be. I can just write and then decide whether or not I care whether anyone reads my words or cares. If no one reads a word in a book, does that fallen tree in the forest that was cut and planed and milled into paper still make a sound? Some days the effort of writing is beyond me. In the grand scheme of my writing life, it’s more like most days. So, those days when I actually DO write, I feel...

16
May
2013

BLOGILICIOUS

OMG, how good do these peanut butter brownies look? NOMNOMCITY! I had to confess to The Things I Don’t Drink again today, this time to 3 colleagues during a training course I was at. They all boggled at me. I couldn’t decide which one each of them was boggling at me most for which beverage…as they seemed to be equally divided, all three. Yeah, I don’t drink coffee. I don’t drink tea. And I don’t drink alcohol. “For health reasons?” …no. I just don’t like the smell. Or the taste. Here in Sweden, most Swedes can’t decide which is worse:...

12
May
2013

BABY, IT’S NICE OUTSIDE

It’s true I love my job. I’m good at what I do and I like doing it, and every workday when the alarm goes off, I hop right up (albeit a bit more slowly than in younger years) ready to start the day…but after a long weekend like this? Retirement sounds pretty good. It’s nice to relax, spend the day doing the things I feel like doing, getting things done at my own pace, having time to set chores and projects down and just read for a while. Time to sleep in, go to bed late, plan excursions and enjoy...

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