Tagged: blabbiterlickum

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...

18
Oct
2015

SLIPPIN’, SLIPPIN’, SLIPPIN’ INTO THE FUTURE*

Oy, where did that week go? Where did all the weeks go? I know, I know, I talk about how times flies all the time; you’d think I’d be used it by now, but no, it’s equally surprising ALL THE TIME. All the time that disappears. It’s been raining and/or drizzling for days on end and my hair is reacting as you’d expect: like a crazy person. It’s not just frizzy. It’s SUPER FRIZZY. If I let it air-dry even a little bit after a shower, it looks like chestnut dandelion fuzz. Good thing it’s not bird-nest-building season because I’d...

07
Aug
2015

TWEENAGER! (DAMMIT)

Edited to say: if my math impairment doesn’t once again trip me up and if that isn’t THE MOST TYPICAL THING I COULD HAVE DONE, I don’t know what is. *sigh* Yesterday, my little Livejournal became a teenager turned 12! That’s right, I’ve been writing here, right here, in this spot for 13 12 years! Back in 2003, blogs were the new and cool thing to do. EVERYONE was blogging. It was Gale, a friend from the AWC, who really got me started. She still blogs too but not so much, and since she moved to Copenhagen years ago, I...

03
Aug
2015

MIND GAMES

We played a game at dinner tonight, one that Martin originally heard via a podcast. It was fun, even if it’s all a bunch of hooey, so here it is for you to play along: Imagine you are facing a desert. A vast, featureless sand ocean. Now, imagine a cube. Describe your cube. What color is it? What size? What is it made of? Where is it in the desert? With you in the desert is a horse. What is it doing? What color is it? Does it have a saddle or any other trappings? Where is the horse in...

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