Tagged: beinglizardek

10
May
2017

THERE! THAT OUGHT TO HOLD YA

Gah. Time goes by too quickly. I think about writing all the time, but then I sit down to do something simple and my arm shoots pain and I give up and don’t stay here long enough to write anything. I suspect this is what aging is going to be about for me: falling apart, pain and doctor appointments. And who wants to read about that? NOT ME. Anyway, we bought our tickets to the US for the summer, or for at least 3 very expensive weeks of it. For Karin’s and my round-trip tickets and Martin’s 1-way ticket, it...

15
Jan
2017

VICENNIAL

Last week, I passed a major anniversary. It wasn’t my birthday. It wasn’t even my wedding anniversary. It was the anniversary of the day I moved to Sweden…TWENTY YEARS AGO. I was planning to write a post that day (Wednesday) but work was crazy and I clean forgot when I came home, even though I wasn’t doing anything special that evening. So it went by unmarked. Twenty years ago. When I passed my 10-year anniversary of living in Sweden, I wrote a post about it, because of course I did. I wrote a similar post when I reached my 7-year...

07
Jan
2017

WAY OF LIFE

Sometimes I get frustrated at my writing here, especially as so often it seems to be only a litany of what I am doing and what I have done. It’s not the creative journaling that I envisioned from the beginning and which I managed to do for some years (on and off, obviously). I sometimes feel creatively stifled, but I know that I’m the only one that is judging. And, of course, the one doing the stifling, if that is really what it should be called. It’s like writer’s block of the creative kind. I can still write but only...

05
Jan
2017

STERNUTATION SISTER

How hard do you sneeze? I once worked with a woman who sneezed like a machine-gun mouse…a sort of mini rapid-fire pew pew pew, if you will. When I sneeze, it’s like all my internal organs and everything inside my head are trying to come out, explosion-style. And I sneeze a lot. Multiple times every day. I start the day with a sneeze, in fact, if I don’t manage to blow my nose minutes after I am awake and/or vertical. I think my sneezes have gotten more violent over the years…they actually scare me sometimes. Thanks, allergies. My nose is...

02
Jan
2017

READY SET GO

What a beautiful day! Even though I was mostly inside for it, WORKING, I did get out after lunch for a brisk 15-minute power walk in the bright sunshine. I admired the blue sky, and the frost on the ground and wished I’d had longer to walk. Work is BUSY. Though I actually worked the equivalent of one day during the holidays in order to not have today be super stressful, it still felt pretty crazy. I finished revising a huge important PPT for the two top people in the company, for our upcoming kickoff and that felt good to...

17
Dec
2016

IT’S ME AGAIN

You know, I had seriously good intentions to post more often this month, since I was so lame busy in November, but it appears that I am paving the road to blog post hell instead. I hate just writing catch-up posts of what I’ve been doing, where I’ve been, why I’m absent, because who cares, really? I know I have a few faithful readers, but I really wonder if anyone is REALLY following this journal anymore. I don’t know that I would be, if I were you. Though it’s not like there are a lot of bloggers left to follow...

20
Nov
2016

MY ACTUAL SCHEDULE FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR

For my own logistical record-keeping, or just for posterity, whichever. Sun, Nov 20 – laundry, house-cleaning, call Martin, write Xmas letter Mon, Nov 21 – work, WW, start preparing Xmas presents for mailing Tue, Nov 22 – work, hair appointment Wed, Nov 23 – work, AWC website prep Thu, Nov 24 – doctor appointment, work, AWC wreathmaking Fri, Nov 25 – work, grocery shopping Sat, Nov 26 – house-cleaning, cookie baking, dinner with D&C Sun, Nov 27 – call Martin, call mom, start Xmas cards and finalize Xmas presents for mailing Mon, Nov 28 – work, WW, finalize AWC website...

19
Nov
2016

ALIVE AND WELL, WELL, AS WELL AS CAN BE, CONSIDERING

I’ve only posted twice this month so far, and to be honest, I haven’t had the heart or the energy to post much more. I read the news every day and fall a little farther into disbelief and despair each time. Anders came home late last night from 2 weeks in Italy for work. He worked today, came home, declared he didn’t feel well, at which point all three of us promptly fell asleep on various sofas, and then he got violently ill. Then he told me he was freezing and went to bed. Not good. I really, really hope...

30
Oct
2016

GOING TO PERU? ALPACA YOUR BAGS!

Karin went to Dallas by herself (well, with her soccer team, but none of us) in 2013, for a week and she has been gone for a week up to Gothenburg for the Gothia soccer cup several years in a row. Martin went to Berlin for almost a week last year. My children have spent plenty of nights away from home over the years and I’ve spent plenty of nights away from them as well, during work trips and for other things. But tomorrow morning, super early, he is leaving for nearly 2 months. If he gets his return ticket...

08
Oct
2016

HOARDER’S DILEMMA

What should I do with all my collections of beautiful images? I have folders stuffed with pages ripped out of magazines, virtual desktop folders stuffed with images that I’ve saved to savor, greeting cards that I have bought simply because they are beautiful, which means I will probably never send them to anyone because I am, funnily enough, selfish of beauty. Prints of photos by family members, old calendars that I have saved because I love the images in them, etc., etc., …! What do you do with this kind of stuff? Should I curate/collect them into some sort of...

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