Tagged: adayinthelife

20
Feb
2010

IN JUST TWO DAYS, TOMORROW WILL BE YESTERDAY

This is the 3rd weekend of February. Before you know it, Christmas will be here…that’s how fast it feels like it’s going. It snowed again last night, or this morning: really heavy wet snow. The kind that soaks your mittens instantly when you scoop up a double handful and shape it into a ball and fire it at the nearest person who is ducking to scoop their own. It snowed again this evening: sideways horizontal blizzard snow that clung and stuck to every surface like flocking. We spent most of the afternoon shopping. The kids needed indoor gym shoes because...

20
Sep
2009

WHAT IF FEELS LIKE

Even though I passed a truck piled high with sugar beets the other day on the highway, just as I was driving down the hill where I could see the plumes from the sugar factory smokestacks cottoning their way into the air, and even though the chill in the evening air is noticeable, and even though the speed limit through our little village has been lowered to its autumnal crawl zone of 30 MPH (thanks to those those same sugar-beet trucks), it does not FEEL like fall. It feels like summer. Still. Still summer. What with the endless cloudless blue...

15
Aug
2009

FESTIVAL MOOD

Busy morning after rising late: showered, dressed, made bed, ordered the kids around, cleaned up, laundry in, dishes loaded and washed, recyclables packed up, made rice krispie treats and 40 deviled eggs, finished my book and am ready to start another, uploaded activity changes to AWC site, answered emails, caught up on blog reading, updated book & CD wish lists, cleaned out old emails. We have a BBQ party to go to tonight, but I suspect since the weather is cold and rainy that we’ll be migrating indoors instead. It’s a potluck (hence the treats and eggs) with friends, though...

24
May
2009

THIS, THAT, THE OTHER

It’s Sunday morning, the 4th and last day of a long weekend. I was just realizing that the reason it’s a long weekend in America is because it’s Memorial Day weekend, while the reason why it’s a long weekend here in Sweden is because of Ascension Day. Strange. The sun keeps trying to come out…it’s been up and down and hiding and peeping all weekend. We’re back to the “wait-5-minutes” typical Swedish weather, it seems. I’m really hoping that the sunshine sticks around or at least comes back full force when my brother comes at the end of June, but...

24
Feb
2008

NOTHING MUCH TO SAY BUT I’M SAYING IT ANYWAY

It’s a crazy week ahead so I’m pretty glad that today was pretty relaxed. I did some stuff around the house and ran a couple of errands but nothing much, mostly I was reading and recording music and playing computer games. I have something every evening in the week coming up until Friday night: taking Karin to karate tomorrow and walking, AWC meeting on Tuesday, choir on Wednesday and book group on Thursday. We’re done with the Lord of the Rings. We finished the last hour and a half on Friday night; I let the kids stay up ungodly late...

05
Jan
2008

COMING DOWN

We didn’t know we were trapped until early afternoon when we tried to get out. We bundled up and locked the door, turning to face the wind and chill of the winter afternoon, and promptly slid, all 3 of us, barely maintaining our balance on the ice sheet that had covered our driveway, street, and indeed, the entire world around us. So much for driving to Malmö for an afternoon get-together with friends. So much for meeting Carolyn (Marilyn’s co-worker, grandmother of Taylor Parker and mother of my friend and fellow AWC member Katie). I looked down the street and...

23
Dec
2007

IT’S GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME THIS TIME

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...

17
Nov
2007

EAT, EAT! NO ONE LIKES A SKINNY SANTA!

Anders was gone all week, in Italy on business. He brought home: a huge wedge of parmigiano reggiano cheese 4 packages of pasta a pack of prosciutto ham one small hard Italian salami a package of salsiccia sausages limoncello, nocino and grappa And then he made dinner tonight: a plate of appetizers that included sliced salami, prosciutto-wrapped cantelope and prosciutto-wrapped parmesan slices mushroom risotto with fresh grated parmesan cheese perfectly cooked steaming sausages a bowl of baby plum tomatoes My friend Debbie came over with her son, who checked out Karin’s loftbed and declared that he liked it, and they’ll...

16
Nov
2007

TGIF

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?

12
Oct
2007

DID SOMEONE SAY CHEESE, GROMIT?

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...

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