Tagged: blabbiterlickum

16
Apr
2019

TELL ME WHY

It’s partly because I work on the computer all day long at work 5 days a week and my shoulders hurt by the end of each day and the last thing I want to do when I get home is sit at a computer again, even just to post. It’s partly because I’m often convinced that I have nothing interesting to say or write about, and some things that ARE interesting aren’t things I CAN write about. It’s partly because I get busy with other things, like meal preparation and consumption, like house cleaning and chores and things that must...

27
Mar
2019

FOMO YOLO DIEM

Are you familiar with FOMO and YOLO? YOLO stands for You Only Live Once and FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out. I never subscribed much to YOLO because I don’t believe that’s the case, but I find as I age that my feelings of having to enjoy things or try things or do things now is increasing because well, even if I DO live more than once, the *I* that is *ME* this time around is not going to be the same later or remember it. Plus, I ALSO subscribe to the theory that we’re all the same as...

05
Apr
2018

BEYOND RANDOM

Is there a word for thoughts so random that they defy the category of randomness? I feel like I have butterflies in my head. Not surprising, since my brain is basically full of either work (oh god, work work work) or TwoDots. I can’t do much at home most evenings and forcing myself to sit here for 10 minutes or more is an exercise is zoning out about how it starts hurting worse immediately. Onward to randomnicity! Randomopolis (where I live)! Randomalooza. We had 4.5 days off work for Easter. My daughter had a week off school. We had dinner...

31
Jan
2018

MAKING UP MEMES, I VERSION

I am really glad January is over. I’m not comfortable sharing really personal stuff online. I will always prefer reading books over watching television. I won’t try to change you, but I’ll probably judge a little bit. I want losing weight to be easier, and exercising to be more fun. I wouldn’t trade much about my life, except for the part where I can’t have a cat. I shouldn’t think so much about cookies. I couldn’t vote for someone I have little respect for. I can’t understand how some people think. It’s so hard to relate sometimes, even when I...

31
Dec
2017

RETROSPECTIVE

very year, it goes a little faster, the swing from beginning to end. The seasons march past, the sun rises and sets, the things we do and say and experience, all flying by, to become a memory, a happening, something to look back on. This was a hard year for me, watching from afar as my country’s leadership opened its coat and exposed itself to the world. I’ve been learning how to live without children in the house, since Martin has been gone since July and Karin is basically never home. It’s been a year of adjustments, for sure. I...

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...

17
Jan
2017

THREE THINGS, PRIDE VERSION

Fashion items I once wore proudly and for far too long: bat-wing sleeves, clogs, scrunchies Words/phrases I am proud of knowing the difference between (and which I am not afraid of judging you for if you use them incorrectly): hilarious vs. hysterical (if something is really funny, it’s hilarious; hysterical means “marked by extreme, uncontrollable emotion”) jealous vs. envious (if you have something and are afraid of losing it, you are jealous; if you don’t have something and want it, you are envious) bored BY or bored WITH vs. bored OF (just stop it) People I rarely see in person...

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!

07
Sep
2016

CRASH BANG NAP

Trundling along. The weeks zip by and I zip with them. Zippidee doo dah, that’s me. At least not zippidee dodo, eh? haha! On Monday morning, when I was driving to work, I made the turn from our big roundabout onto the highway entrance ramp and immediately regretted it. Traffic was backed up onto the ramp, and the highway was dead stop, packed. GAH! No way to turn around. And once you are on the highway, you can’t get off until you’re all the way to the first exit in Lund. Some idiot several cars ahead of me was stopped...

03
Apr
2016

THINGS PEOPLE SAY

A young girl, in a book that I am reading, uses the phrase “sprung clent” and then explained it like this, when her listeners don’t understand her, “They washed the floor and they dried and polished…” and one of her aunts exclaims, “Oh! they spring cleaned!” That’s what I’ve started doing and by the time I’m done (probably in time for next spring), I want to be able to say that I have sprung clent. I told the kids that we are starting Operation Deep Clean and they have to help, as they live here too and contribute to the...

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