Tagged: beinglizardek

31
Dec
2025

RETROSPECTIVE

a! I remembered! I was afraid I would forget and not remember to write my year-end retrospective until I got home and that would mean it would actually have been written in the new year. I think it’s happened once or maybe twice before but I’d much rather have it be my last post of the year. We are at my sister’s place in North Carolina, spending the holidays with her and her family, and my mom. It’s 10 days total and we have 1.5 days left, as we fly home on January 1st. We will actually arrive back in...

13
Dec
2025

ONE WEEK TO LIFTOFF

We’re so bound to our bodies, aren’t we? There’s no real way to escape these bags of flesh and bone that we tote about the world, looking out of them with organs that turn and blink and interpret via another organ that steers everything. It’s hard to imagine that the fine-tuned muscle machine we’ve always relied on is slowing down, is corroding, and is eventually going to just…stop. No one told me that after I turned 60 things would just start falling apart so fast, but that has definitely been my experience. I thought I’d have at least another 10-15...

05
Dec
2025

DECK THE HALLS WITH STRESS AND TINSEL

Because we will be away this year for Christmas we are not getting a tree. Putting up a tree basically requires a week’s worth of work: a whole day to go out to the Christmas tree farm which is 40 minutes away, tramping out into the woods to find the perfect tree, cutting it down, carrying it back to the car. Then Anders has to tie it to the roof (something I can’t help much with), then driving home and getting it off the car and on to the porch where it usually sits for 24 hours to give bugs...

02
Dec
2025

JUST SAYIN’

I keep meaning to post, but never getting around to it. Either I’m too busy or too tired or too distracted or too lazy. I’ve finished all the Christmas shopping, and this week am wrapping presents, both for Christmas and for Martin and Theo’s birthdays. I have about 3 more left, and then have bags and bags of stocking stuffers to wrap. I went a little overboard, I think…those bags are HEAVY. I’ve finished all the shopping for my first family as well, though I’m going to a Swedish julmarknad on December 13th anyway. We’ll see if there’s anything fun...

23
Nov
2025

GOBBLE GOBBLE

We had our Friendsgiving dinner last night and it was lovely. I think it was less chaotic due to the fact that we were only 20 people. We were missing 9 from our usual crowd, and it just made it nice and calm and really easy to talk to everyone throughout the course of the evening. Anders cooked one turkey on Friday and 2 turkeys plus 2 turkey breasts yesterday but I think if we manage to keep it around 20 people next year, we could actually get down to just the 2+2 and skip that 3rd or (eek) 4th...

11
Nov
2025

CELEBRATION IS GRATITUDE IN ACTION

I was at the skin doctor today who examined my scalp and gave me good news: There is no sign of any terminal hair loss disease or condition and my hair is regrowing, my hair follicles are recovered and looking great, and now it’s just a matter of patience waiting for my hair to regrow. Considering that hair grows at approximately the rate of snail speed, it’s gonna be awhile. But obviously, the universe has a pressing need to teach me patience and since Karin is grown up and now longer holding that position, hair regrowth it is! After not...

02
Nov
2025

NO SINGULAR EVENT TO DREDGE THIS DAY FROM FUTURE MEMORY*

Look at this first. It made me laugh out loud just now. Same, crow. Same. I feel the same. The second of November and perfectly squandered. Not because I didn’t do anything. I did. (want the list? It’s further down, because I love lists and I can’t help myself). But I didn’t do anything IMPORTANT. I didn’t go anywhere important. But it’s okay, because more and more I realize that I need as many recharge days as possible right now. Nowadays my ambitions are quite small. And that’s okay. I’m okay. I didn’t even have a list today, I just...

25
Oct
2025

CUTTING EDGE

This is me, currently. I took the photo last night. I was really cold, especially my head and neck, so I was wearing a fake fur neck wrap thingy. I never realized how much Barky kept me warm until I lost her. I sent the photo to a friend of mine and he answered “it doesn’t look that bad!” and he’s right…from the front, with minimal lighting, with it all slicked back instead of sticking up like a short-haired troll doll, it looks “not that bad”. But what he couldn’t see, and what you can’t see, is how thin it...

12
Oct
2025

SUNDAY SCRIBBLES

My weeks are full right now. I don’t know if that’s a good thing (distraction) or a bad one (stress). This coming week alone is a lot, though it’s not what I would call crazy: Mon: blood draw at healthcare clinic in the early AM, work all day, AIC board handover meeting & dinner Tue: Drip dose 4 in the morning, work rest of the day, meet kids at Costco for shopping, then dinner, then home with Karin and Essie Wed: early morning psychologist appointment, work rest of the day Thu: AIC lunch, work all day Fri: DAY OFF, no...

10
Oct
2025

IF YOU’RE HAPPY/SAD/WHATEVER, WRITE A POST

When you have things to do, maybe chores, or you are faced with a bunch of choices at once, which things do you do first? Do you choose to get the stuff you DON’T like doing out of the way first? Or do you do the things you LIKE doing before tackling the rest? And why? I tend to get the stuff I don’t like out of the way and leave the stuff I DO like for last, like a treat, almost. If I take my medicine, I get something sweet as a reward, as it were. I’ve noticed that...

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