Tagged: adayinthelife

Behind the darkness it is pleasing beyond measure to know that the season has turned; the solstice come and bringing with it the promise of the resurgence and upwelling of light. Winter here is a dark, damp thing: sodden and murky. Something to be endured under the cloud cover, through long days of watching the propellers of the wind machines turn in the lightless air. The fields have been winter-plowed, the short growth of autumn grass turned under, exposing the clay-rich valrhona chocolate of the earth to the sky, if not yet to the light. 10,000 synapses snap and sparkle...

A good day of work with much progress made Leaving early; thank you, flex-time! A rare trip to the American store (stocked up for Thanksgiving!) Sushi for dinner with the kids and friends My husband home from a week away Myskväll with the family Some much-needed resolution The middle of a good book A neck and shoulder rub Anticipation of sleeping in tomorrow! aaaaah…and how was YOUR day?

What is with the increase in spam? I never used to get spam on my yahoo address and now it’s barreling in. And why does YahooMail feel the need to make me click YES DAMMIT twice by asking me if I’m sure (are you sure? are you? huh? huh?) if I want to delete everything in my Spam folder?! If I didn’t want to delete it, I’d MOVE it, YahooMail…DUH. Argh. Also, I cannot believe I lost a game of Scrabulous despite coming up with the word QUAHOG on a triple letter score. How depressing! Mmmmm…melty Brie. While I was...

Hit the snooze button twice, then drag out of bed and walk to the bathroom with eyes closed to pee. Return to bedroom and dig blindly in bureau for underwear, bra, socks. Detour into closet to choose pants (black again? so boring) and a long-sleeved top. During shower, kiss husband goodbye by sticking wet head out between the curtains. Wake up marginally more while toweling off and dressing. Exchange long-sleeved top which was TOO BIG for something else. Brush wet hair while walking to kitchen where kids are eating breakfast and brush daughter’s hair as well. Admonish children to speed...

Fall is going to kick my ass. I don’t think it’s just me being busy. The whole family is busy! And every weekend is filling up fast, as well. If I went back and looked at my autumn calendars for the last few years I’m sure they would be just as crazy full. This weekend was lovely, quiet and productive, with the kids gone overnight last night to farmor and farfar‘s. I’ve gotten a ton of work done on the AWC website project and recorded 4 cassette tapes to PC, as well as reading most of the sequel to Wicked,...

Just booked tickets home to the States for my sister’s wedding at the end of September! Woot! Twice over the pond in the SAME YEAR! Also, called to get a doctor’s appointment for my stupid blurry eyes. I suspect e11en‘s diagnosis of iritis is correct, though we’ll see what the doctor has to say. I wonder if they’ll even have HEARD of that here in Sweden. First day of work was crazy busy and did not go exactly swimmingly, but I have a new title anyway. I’m no longer a Marketing Coordinator. I am now the (or maybe I should...