Tagged: beinglizardek

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...

04
Oct
2016

EVERY DAY IS A WINDING ROAD

Life is just so damn busy all the time! Even when I have days to do “nothing”, I have to wrap it in apostrophes because it’s never nothing, is it? There is always something. And if not for me, then for someone that I have to deal with, help, find time for, whatever. I’m not complaining, actually, it’s just how things are, and I know that autumn is always crazy season. Work is especially crazy right now, and we’re short-staffed this week which isn’t helping. I spent much of my day running around, feeling like a chicken with my head...

24
Sep
2016

FREE TIME, ME TIME

It’s a kid-free evening! I dropped Martin off at work at noon (late start today), where the apple orchard and cafe were already hopping, and he had plans to go to a party this evening and then spend the night at a friend’s house. Karin is also at a party, and won’t be home until around 1 a.m. though I am hoping she’ll be responsible and come home earlier, since she has to get up early to leave for a soccer game tomorrow…though she will be able to sleep in the car for 1.5 hours as it’s an away game....

19
Sep
2016

THINGS I FORGOT TO WRITE ABOUT

Twice recently I drove home in the evening and marveled at the full moon. It was huge and silver and beautiful. When I got out and parked the car, I went into the back yard, where the streetlights aren’t so bright and stared up at the sky. Black and clear and spangled with stars and that huge glowing moon hanging over the side of the sky. We’re supposed to be getting our election ballots by the end of this week. If you are American and reading this, you had better be voting. If you are American and living overseas, it’s...

13
Sep
2016

12 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT ME

I grind my teeth. My parents called me Lisa until I was 5 years old. My fingernails are really strong. I’m an alto. I can type 90 words a minute, approximately. I’m left-handed. Bug legs give me the heebie-jeebies. I’m a Monday’s child. I’ve moved 29 times in my life…so far. I didn’t get my first driver’s license until after I had graduated from college. During an average 7-day week, I eat salmon at least 4 times. I’ve never been drunk. Your turn!

03
Sep
2016

A MATTER OF TIME

All the spiders are coming inside, it must be fall. All the skeeter-eaters, too. And the flies come in, but they’re so slow and lethargic that it’s easy to swat them or blow them back outside. Everything looks yellow-tinged, insect-eaten, wilty. The storks are in the harvested fields, eating worms, every morning in the fog. The leaves aren’t falling yet but it feels like just a matter of time. Everything boils down to a matter of time, doesn’t it? It’s September already. Whether or not it’s officially fall, September heralds the beginning of the end of the year. Out of...

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