Tagged: beinglizardek

24
Apr
2014

MUSIC SO NICE

I’ve been obsessed with Spotify lately…I went through the million lists of all the songs on all my mixed tapes from college and after (80s! 90s!) and added all the best stuff. Since then I’ve been haunting the Discover and Browse functions and the app We Are Hunted which finds trending music mentioned on social media. Lots of good stuff out there. Still, several artists that I love aren’t on Spotify or only have limited selections of their work available. I’m looking at you, Peter Gabriel. Where is General Public? And Grace Pool? And Loey Nelson?? And why isn’t Vienna...

11
Apr
2014

WHAT’S UP

It is such a long time since I posted that I feel like the veriest tyro. A blogging beginner. Again! Today was spelunking day, and on Monday I got sick with a massive head cold. …NOOOO. I was determined that NOTHING was going to hinder today’s appointment so I medicated and rested and took half a day off and another morning, and by today I was fine, though a bit stuffy in the nose, still. Compounded by allergies, I am ALWAY stuffy in the nose, so I figured I could get away with it. Off to Landskrona we went, and...

22
Mar
2014

SPACE CADET

This past week was pretty intense. Anders left last Sunday for a business trip to Italy all week and one of my team members went on vacation, which meant that there were 2.25 of us handling all the Marcom requests that come in from the entire company (plus 2 people dealing with video and illustrations, but I’m talking about EVERYTHING ELSE), and the .25 is an untrained temp who is filling in for the US graphic designer who quit last month. But my other teammate wasn’t able to pull her usual weight as she was trying to finish a huge...

16
Mar
2014

SWINGING BACK

I know what my problem is. I keep focusing on the negative. The negative LOOMS and it’s ZOOMS IN, and it kind of takes over if you let it. it’s really, really easy to let it, I’ve found. So, today, I spent some time focusing on the positive. I saw a huge hawk with beautiful markings on the undersides of his wings hovering in the air over the road as we drove by. I saw the look of terrified delight on Martin’s face when he realized he was up to 60 on a country road when we were out practice...

03
Mar
2014

NEAT FREAKISH

This doesn’t happen to me so much outside of my own home, but it’s starting to drive me crazy. When I walk into the house, I immediately see the things that are out of place. The things that need to be cleaned, or put away. Today when I came home, the first thing I notice when I walk into the laundry room (aside from the blinking red light on the washing machine announcing that the load I put on a timer when I left this morning is done) is that Martin’s backpack is on the counter, along with his hat...

16
Feb
2014

RECHARGING

I actually feel pretty recharged at the end of this weekend, which is nice, even though a lot has been going on. I’ve had some good sleep and good relaxation spells as well. Anders came home with flowers for me (pale pale pink roses), a Pandora bead for my bracelet and chocolates. Made me feel kind of bad about the little box of candy he and the kids got 🙂 We were supposed to go to Debbie’s home for Valentine’s Dinner on Friday but late in the day her husband, who’d been feeling worse all day, decided he couldn’t manage....

05
Feb
2014

INSIDE OUTSIDE UPSIDE DOWN

It has started out as a very very bad week. I got the news Monday morning that our graphic designer in the US quit. In addition, one of the freelancers that we really rely on is seriously ill and doesn’t know when she’ll be able to start working again. Work was insane to begin with and all this just pushes my team and I to the brink. URGH. I had planned to take a week of vacation in 2 weeks because I have 6 days that I have to use or lose by April 1st and now, I honestly don’t...

27
Jan
2014

WATCHING, WALKING, WORKING

A long week, a busy weekend and here it’s nearly the end of January. Time flies, whether you are having fun or not. I haven’t been online much lately, not least because our connection is so slow right now. I’ve been walking nearly every day, at least 25 minutes, a daily Watch&Walk, while we plow through 10 seasons of Friends. But now we’ve had to take a break and start watching Downton Abbey Season 4 because when we went to start season 6, we discovered that the first disc was missing from the box set. And we won’t be able...

19
Jan
2014

KEEPING IT REAL OR JUST KEEPING IT

Someone saw one of my project pictures and accused me of being a hoarder. Even though the point of most of these projects is PURGING. What’s the difference between being a saver and a packrat and a hoarder? Are they all just degrees of tendency? Mine seems to go in waves, in that case. Plus though I’d sometimes LIKE to, I can’t just throw away stuff in the house that belongs to one of the three other people who live here. I can only gently encourage… Does saving stuff at all make you a hoarder at some point? Or is...

15
Jan
2014

PROJECTILE

I’ve been in project mode since before vacation ended. I have a big long list of things to get done. Some of them have already been crossed off, but the list is long enough to keep me busy for a good long time if I only manage to do one of them a week. So far, I’ve done four of the big ones: Cable organization Putting away Christmas Inventorying and organizing DVDs Pantry clean-out I’m up to October in my 2013 blog book formatting and there are a bunch of other small projects that I’ve already crossed off, too. I’m...

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