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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...

02
Oct
2022

THE EARLIER IT GETS LATE

Already October. This year is, like all of them, flying by, at the same that I think this particular one has been going at a decently slow pace. I wanted to be posting more, and writing more, and caring more, but I find all three of those to be difficult just now. Karin moved the rest of her stuff home tonight, fixed dinner for us, and then promptly took off for Malmö. I guess my vision of cozy family evenings with all 4 of us hanging out talking was a pipe dream in my own head, haha! She leaves for...

07
Jul
2022

IT’S LIKE 2003 ALL OVER AGAIN!

I can’t remember the last time I was this excited and satisfied about blogging. After the debacle with LJ, I talked to Russell (my all-things-tech-guru) and decided it was time to move on up the road. I’ve been writing on Livejournal since August 6, 2003…nearly 20 years. I suppose I could have waited until next August to make it an even 20, but I am nothing if not impatient. Because commenting wasn’t working for people without LJ accounts, which is many, if not most, of my friends and family, and no info on when or if it would be fixed,...

01
Jan
2022

RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS

The first day of a new year. I haven’t even been outside, but that’s fine. We didn’t get home until after 2 am last night, and I slept hard, waking around 9:30, though I didn’t get up right away. When I did, I got a lot of little things done before settling down on the sofa to read. Martin is at work, and Anders had to drive back to Mats & Annelott’s this afternoon because he forgot his phone at their house last night. Hard to believe that tomorrow is my last day of vacation (even if next week is...

29
Dec
2020

ALL OVER THE PLACE

Almost no one is writing anymore. Apart from John and June, I seem to be alone out here. Even Chuck has disappeared. I hope it’s temporary; there are already so few people blogging these days. It’s the holidays, when people are living life and not hanging out online, plus the pandemic has, I suspect, left us with nothing to write about. At least nothing happens to write about. But that just means there should be more time for writing about what one THINKS and FEELS and CARES about. We watched David Attenborough’s documentary A Life on Our Planet yesterday. It...

15
Nov
2020

FINDING MY WAY OUT

While I was watering the houseplants today, I found another butterfly sitting in a window. There’s no telling how long he’d been inside…we haven’t had doors or windows open in weeks, but he was sitting very still, hidden behind a succulent in the living room window. All summer long I’ve been catching and releasing butterflies who have flown inside and then batter themselves around the windows unable to figure out why they can’t get back outside. After Googling, it turns out some species of butterflies live, on average, up to a month, though there are a few who have an...

16
Sep
2019

IT’S A POST

God, I’m lame. I can’t seem to get a post up to save my life, though I’ve thought about it several times. Mostly, I’ve been reading, re-watching Glee with Anders and Karin, working like a crazy person because work=crazy, trying to avoid shoulder issues, perusing art on Instagram and various and sundry other small things that go into making up a day. None of which are earth-shattering or all that interesting. I read a fantastic book last week, the latest by Bryn Greenwood. If you haven’t read any of her books, do yourself a favor and go get them now....

12
Jul
2019

I WRITE BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW WHAT I THINK UNTIL I READ WHAT I SAY*

When I get a little miffed that reading through my friends list and RSS feed takes me about 10 minutes these days, I have to stop and remember that I am part of the problem. It’s July 12 and I’ve posted only twice this month so far. This post, if it makes it up, will be third. Granted, it’s summer and and the weekend now, and everything slows down when it gets hot out, but really, that’s no excuse. If you want to read what’s out there, maybe you should be setting an example and encouraging others by writing something...

28
Apr
2019

WHAT LIFE IS LIKE AROUND HERE

Ahhh…what is there to write about? My life seems to be sliding along. It’s already the end of April, and I continue to boggle at how quickly the time goes. I had dinner with my two best friends yesterday and all of us were kind of feeling the same way. Every year goes faster and the time spent getting from one event to the next seems to disappear. None of us could really articulate how to slow it down, either, so I guess you just enjoy the ride, in that case. It’s all the usual here, with little bits of...

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