Tagged: blabbiterlickum

12
Nov
2025

SPELLING AND SUGAR AND SILLINESS, IN SWEDEN

I’m not normally one to shame people, but 2 different products have recently caught my designer eye attention in the past year, and I’d like to know what they were thinking. We keep our freezer stocked with a small selection of frozen meals for those nights we just don’t feel like cooking or to take for a lunch if we’re in a hurry. I’m always glad to find something new since the selection is slow to change and tends to be the same things in every brand (lasagne, meatballs, pasta carbonara). So, I was thrilled to see a few new...

11
Aug
2025

THERE’S A LIST FOR EVERYTHING

New things I’ve learned lately how to play and appreciate Sudoku, photo editing using neural filters in Photoshop, how to set and disarm our new house alarm Latest downloaded apps BoWelle, Everyday Puzzles, Merlin Bird ID Things that have made me laugh recently This commercial with Samuel L. Jackson for a Swedish energy company’s new snacks, conversations with my family while celebrating my birthday at Åben, a whole conversation about Theo’s love for licorice Things that made me happy recently painting pottery with Martin, Theo, Lisel, and her daughters, having what might have been the last lunch and gelato at...

26
Jul
2025

NO ONE IS YOU AND THAT’S YOUR SUPERPOWER*

I’ve managed a lot of posts this month, and I am keeping at myself to sit down and write something even when I don’t, like right now, feel I have anything specific to write about. I don’t like most of the writing prompts I find online, as they feel a bit forced (what’s your biggest regret? What one thing do you wish you could do better? What superpower do you wish you had? Fuck if I know.) Lots of the writing prompts also seem to be for NOVEL writers, BOOK writers, SERIOUS writers, though I suppose if they need prompts,...

15
Jul
2025

THREE THINGS

I was looking for journal prompts, but thought: O! I can write a list. That is always fun, because I love lists. I wrote “So, without further ado” to precede writing a three things list, but then I had to stop and google the word “ado”. We don’t use it enough! It’s such a handy word! Did you know that it can mean all of these things? Bustle and commotion, unnecessary trouble, delay or fuss; or worry and excitement. That’s a lot of weight for a little 3-letter word to carry. So, without further ado: three things! Three things still...

05
Jul
2025

THINGS COULD BE DIFFERENT AROUND HERE

Yesterday was the 4th of July, but I have never felt less patriotic in my life. Not even when Trump was President the first time. Not even when George W. Bush or Reagan was President. The only thing stopping me from renouncing my citizenship right now is knowing that more than half the country didn’t vote for him and is as angry, frustrated, and overwhelming boggled as me. How have we gone down so far so fast? WHY is there such a need in so many men in power to put hatred, cruelty, and power above everything else decent? I...

16
Feb
2025

THE SHORT LISTS

Things that satisfy me: cars getting out of my way when I’m driving, making lists, crossing things OFF lists, purging unused stuff from my house, finding something perfect at an antique store, reading a new book by a favorite author, RE-reading books by my favorite authors, discovering a great new author, understanding jokes and puns in Swedish, knowing the answers to questions on På Spåret, reading new books with unpredictable endings, the clear signs that spring is on the way, rosebush explosions in our garden, a bumper crop of snap peas and cherries, remembering the exact right word for something,...

02
Jan
2025

NOM NOM NOM

Things have been around a lot longer than you think. One of the links in the last enewsletter of the year from 1440 was to an article about food products and what year they debuted. I found it fascinating, though I’m not sure why. It starts with 1940, the year my father was born, and the year that York Peppermint Patties hit the market. The year after, when my mom was born, Cheerios came out (albeit under a different name at first), the “first ready-to-eat oat cereal made by puffing and shaping the grains”. Cheerios! We grew up with these...

03
Sep
2024

NOTHING MUCH TO SAY BUT I’M SAYING IT ANYWAY

It’s September, the weather is fantastic, though the nights are getting longer and darker. We’ve had gorgeous summer weather all week. In fact, it’s supposed to get up to 30C tomorrow! That’s 86F! In September! Unheard of. That’s climate change for you. I’m perfectly fine with it, as I’m back at work and not sweltering anywhere and it cools down drastically in the evenings and the house stays cool during the day as long as we have the blinds pulled in the living room. Clear blue skies, too. Perfect! I don’t really have anything much to write about. Crazy busy...

20
Nov
2023

REALLY RANDOM

Lately, I keep evaluating songs I’m listening to on whether I’d like to have them played at my funeral or not. Would they send the appropriate message to my grieving friends and family? Are they “pretty” or “mellow” or “thoughtful” enough? Appropriate: Make it Good by Ruut Inappropriate: Gone Baby Gone by Boz Scaggs Appropriate: When You Come Back Down by Nickel Creek Inappropriate: There She Goes by The La’s Appropriate: As I Lay Me Down by Sophie B. Hawkins Inappropriate: Fortunately Gone by The Breeders This morning, I woke up with a disturbing dream still very fresh in my...

15
Feb
2023

MY TWO CENTS*

I’m leaving for the US in, basically, a month. I have a small stack of stuff that is going with me and several reminder emails to myself about things I need to get (mostly gifts) before I leave. Yesterday afternoon, Martin emptied out some container in his room and came in to give me some American change, and ask where he should put the others he had found. We used to have a huge plastic Coke bottle that was about a quarter-filled with coins from all around the world. Every time we were going somewhere, we’d have to empty it...

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