Tagged: adayinthelife

The light is lying low over the fields, bathing the back of our house in gold and pink. There’s a line above the horizon demarcating a nimbus edge just before the blue starts. We had giant puffity clouds today, looking like a line of rounded marshmallow mountains, one an Ewok for a split second before it morphed into just another heavenly cottonball. There are fat little buds on the cherry tree but no blossoms yet. Everything is just about to burst…we had a couple of days of rain and you could really see the effect…hedges went green, the fields went...

There still seems to be a pull for me away from the computer and away from writing; I’m not 100% sure what is causing it. I know that part of it is because of sitting at a computer for 10 or so hours nearly every day, intensely working. When I come home, I still check emails and a few other not really essential things on the ipad or PC but to sit down and write seems to take more effort than it used to. Whatever…I’m prepared to fake it ’til I make it. The sun has been shining nearly every...

Anders and Karin left at 5’ohgod in the morning to drive a couple hours north for an all-day soccer tournament. They JUST called (at 9:00 pm!) and are finally done with everything, but Karin still has to shower before they jump in the car to come home. Which means they won’t be home before nearly midnight on a school night. Horrors! Their team came in second and they played great…Karin scored the only goal in the final and they were tied and into sudden death before the other team managed to score again. Martin and I started the day out...

The rain is turning everything dark, grey, beige and green with mold. I’m finding and trying all the various ways of doing nothing that I can while my family is out of town. Motivation? At an all time low. Personal productivity? Lower, if possible. Who am I, when I’m not being organized? When I’m not being creative, responsible, busy? I see my face in the mirror but it’s not recognizable. I’m caught up in the unfathomable horror of tsunami videos out of Japan. When that overwhelms, I play Pumpkin Xplode on my iPad until equilibrium returns. I’m reading a book,...

Woke up at 7:42 a.m., went back to sleep for TWO HOURS, got up, showered and dressed, dusted the whole house, windexed all the glass surfaces, tidied, vacuumed, cleaned out the front hall closet, watered the plants, started laundry, went grocery-shopping, ate lunch, read 3 chapters of the book group book which I’m finding more more engaging and interesting than I thought I would. Then I fixed lunch for the kids. In the meantime, kids cleaned up, dusted & vacuumed their own rooms, emptied garbages in the whole house. Martin helped me take out recycleables. Karin went to the grocery...

I had lunch today with the one club member out of over 180 people who expressed interest in taking over one of the THREE board positions I’m currently handling. 184 members, I just checked. This sort of thing boggles me still, but no longer surprises me, after 13 years. Who turned off summer again? It’s COLD. Also grey, windy and wet. Brrr! Eyjafjallajokull, was it you? Bad volcano! It’s a busy weekend, heavy on kid activities, both of which are outside and the forecast is for more of the cold-windy-grey-and-wet. *sigh* A soccer match tomorrow morning for Karin and Martin...