Tagged: beinglizardek

15
Oct
2017

IT’S BEGINNING

I don’t know if you are anything like me, but the second fall seems to have entrenched itself, I find my thoughts turning more and more to Christmas. There are always so many things to plan for and anticipate around the holidays. I don’t know if it’s a way of speeding up time in an effort get through the dreary, sodden winter season or what, but it’s something I can’t seem to help. The wish list I send to my family, soliciting their lists to give me ideas and inspiration for gifts, is in the works. Yesterday, I bought (at...

06
Oct
2017

13 CONFESSIONS

Pizza is never on my go-to menu wish list. I really don’t understand people who think gun control will not help with the gun violence problems in America. I fear abandonment more than death. If you are driving under the speed limit in front of my car, I’m probably swearing at you under my breath. My oldest friend messaged me yesterday to say she was coming to London in March and wanted to plan a trip over to see me before or after and I literally squeed (squeeed? how many eeees does that word get?) out loud. I’m a hypocrite...

18
Sep
2017

COMPARING A NON-SLUG DAY

Just so you can see the difference. Turned off the alarm at 6:45 am Showered Dressed Sprunched Barky Checked emails and Instagram Made and packed lunch Drove to work Fetched breakfast upstairs and ate it standing at my desk Sent 25 work emails in response to questions Closed 30 job tickets Designed and delivered 2 web banners Updated and delivered 4 print advertisements Reviewed 5 business cards Updated and delivered another business card Designed 2 flyers Had lunch with my daughter Went for a 20-minute walk in the sunshine Designed and delivered nametags for 2 different internal events Updated design...

17
Sep
2017

NEWS TO ME

Today was meant to be a slug day, too, but I woke up super early in pain (AGAIN), same as last weekend, and couldn’t get comfortable or back to sleep for several hours. I’ve already been this past week to the doctor and gotten a time booked for an ultrasound (in 2 weeks) to have my gallbladder checked, since it happened last weekend and my brother yelled at me, but now I’m just hoping I don’t have an acute episode beforehand. URGH. So, when I finally DID get up, I showered and dressed, and then, thumbing my nose at both...

16
Sep
2017

SLUG FTW

I have been badly in need of a slug day and today was it. Slept in, read, played games, sat on the porch and enjoyed the sunshine and warm temps, read some more, answered emails, started a new book, watched a terrible 70s movie after finding out it existed, based on the book I had started, ate leftovers for dinner (did 3 loads of laundry, scrubbed the bathtub, vacuumed the house) Can I do it all over again tomorrow? WHY YES! YES, I CAN! (although I’ve all but promised Karin I’ll go watch her soccer game in the afternoon…as long...

03
Sep
2017

PRESENT TENSE

Pursuing: tickets to next week’s Cirque du Soleil perfomance in Malmö Targeting: my disinclination to get out and walk Devouring: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Perceiving: faint calls from the cockatoo next door Dithering: whether to continue paying HBO Nordic after the first free month Continuing: never-ending laundry, even with one kid gone Consuming: Anders’ homemade Cheddar & Chantarelle quiche Recovering: from the annual crayfish party last night…fun, but SO tired today! Luxuriating: blue skies, warm temperatures, sunshine, puffy white clouds…last gasp Swedish summer? I’ll take it! Distracting: Two Dots, Instagram, iPad Cribbage Resigning: myself to 18 months in open...

04
Jun
2017

NEVER GONNA STOP, GOTTA GO

Anders is cooking dinner with the groceries I bought after I dropped Martin off at the bus station in Södra Sandby: salmon, new potatoes, spinach and a creamy herb sauce to go with it. I bought three big artichokes, too, but figure we can have those tomorrow. It’s another long weekend and yesterday was simply lovely; it was what I needed in every way. The sun was shining, it was warm but not too warm and I left the house at 1:30 (after practice-driving with Karin to her soccer match and finishing a very good book which made me late...

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...

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