Tagged: adayinthelife

27
Oct
2005

SEEK YE FIRST THE GOOD THINGS OF THE MIND

I’m having a bit of a Sally Field’s moment over here. I swear I wasn’t soliciting in my last post, but 3 generous anonymous lovelies out there in the innernets just earned my undying love for the gifts they gave me in the form of more userpic and paid account time. I shower kisses upon your anonymous heads! Thank you 🙂 I am in between books, quite unexpectedly. I bought 3 magazines to keep me company while dining on sushi alone before the AWC meeting the other night, which was not at all lonely, but perfectly relaxing and nice, and...

08
Sep
2005

SOMETHING IN THE WIND HAS LEARNED MY NAME

Something That Made Me Giggle Today: shazzerlive reading the instructions on a package of Raspberry Chai…”Entice your water to a gentle boil…” Hee! I was interviewed today, by a newspaper! in Swedish! A journalist contacted the AWC last week, wondering if there was anyone in the club who had moved to Sweden “for love” …ho ho ho, only at least half of us, I laughed. So I called her and said, hey! I’m up for it…want to me to call some of my girlfriends? And she did, so I did and they all came today, except for Emily who hurt...

03
Sep
2005

REVIVAL

A morning of sleeping in was just what I needed to revive me. Awakening on my own, with no alarm incentive, rolling over and lying in the bed alone, listening to the breakfast clinks and clatters as Anders and the kids spoon up cereal. I stretch my toes, rotate my feet, feel my ankle pop a bit. The window is open and morning sunshine is slanting across the backyard, illuminating the pines and the far side of the ditch. It’s heating up and the dew has already faded. A last-of-the-season fly is desultorily buzzing about, slow and heavy. He’s not...

28
Aug
2005

JUST DO IT, AND THEN SOME

There wasn’t going to be a lot of action today…the plan was to sleep in, vegetate, navel contemplation, reading, web surfing. Since we didn’t get to sleep until after 3 a.m., I at least managed the sleeping in part…and reading and web surfing almost always manage to get squeezed in somehow. But before brief_therapy could catch me I had already started a load of laundry and run the dishwasher for the first of 2 times. In addition, the printed version of the AWC newsletter, plus Tuesday’s meeting program and calendar handout are finished, and I had a lesson in creating...

25
Aug
2005

SEND TUMS

Interesting but tiring thing about today: All day off-site global marketing meeting (another day full tomorrow) Great thing about today: Surprise fika in the afternoon was 1 quart each of 5 different Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors! Mmmmm! Drag thing about today: the shit weather, which my brother DELIBERATELY jinxed us with Pass-it-on nice thing about today: 3 compliments on the purple-lady-triangle brooch that galestorm made for me Sweet thing about today: making it home in time to see my kids before bedtime with their spraypainted hair and giant “just-been-to-the-circus” grins Crud thing about today: the nausea and upset...

07
Aug
2005

LIFE WOULD BE TOLERABLE BUT FOR ITS AMUSEMENTS*

Why do I feel so much like MY mother when I’m sitting on a bench with a backpack full of rainclothes and sunscreen between my feet, while my children and my husband ride a rollercoaster? My mom rode rollercoasters with us when we were kids even though she didn’t like them much. I love rollercoasters with a love as big as the ocean but I can’t ride them anymore because they make me sick to my stomach. It’s weird that riding in a car has gotten easier as I’ve gotten older, regardless of the length of time I’m at it,...

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