Tagged: blabbiterlickum

13
Oct
2005

BRAINDUMP

NO ONE tried to guess the puzzle clues??! I’m shocked and disappointed. Okay, they WERE really hard, but STILL! Not THAT hard! I’ve edited the last post to include the answers for you. Use them at your own parties to amaze and confound your friends and family! *** I’m leaving, on a jet plane at six o’clock in the yawning to get to the place where I’m rendevous-ing with the bus. That is WAY too damn early. I have to make some sandwiches and pack a cooler and my weekend bag as well. After we arrive in Stockholm we will...

01
Oct
2005

CAN’T STAND THE EXCITEMENT

It’s a dark day today. Even though the sun was shining when I woke up, and when I fell asleep again, and when I woke up the second time, it’s been cloudy and raining most of the day. A migraine has been sneaking around the back of my neck and I’ve been doing my best to shoo it away…asking for a neckrub from Anders who obliged even though he’d just played hockey and his hands were sore, and taking 2 ibuprofin and then 2 again awhile later when the migraine got cockier, and drinking water and then pepsi max in...

22
Aug
2005

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

I thought about writing a big ol ranty rant but, no. I thought about writing a scholarly treatise on a subject about which I know much and you know little, just to enlighten the world a little bit but, no. I thought about writing a zany, knee-slappingly funny anecdote (true story! WAHAHAHA!) but, no. I was going to give you a blow-by-blow account of how my day went from a bad start to a crazy center, gooey like a cream-filled chocolate, only not nearly as good, to movingatthespeedoflight to crisis center action to okay I can’t do anything about this...

04
Aug
2005

GOOGLE LETS ME DOWN

Knock, knock…is this thing on? Hey lurkers! I know you’re out there. *waves to Kathey* Do they still make Wacky Wafers? I loved those things, especially the watermelon ones. Yummmm! Hmmm…seems the answer is no. How sad. I feel a little bit as though I have rabbits burrowing in my brain. I mean, I can’t seem to hold on to a thought. I use up all my concentration at work and when I come home it’s as though I was (were?) a balloon that someone filled up with air and held pinched shut all day,* and as soon as I...

03
Aug
2005

DISJOINTED

How tired do you have to be in order to be diagnosed with chronic fatigue? Cinnamon roll pop-tarts spread with butter and nuked in the microwave for 30 seconds are divine. Some days I’d just rather be reading blogs. This made me laugh out loud, though: What everyone should know about blog depression (thanks to cottontimer for the link!) O Brother Where Art Thou? was on TV tonight and I actually sat down and watched nearly all of it. I really like this movie. And it’s the first time I’ve ever considered George Clooney to be acting and not just...

19
Jul
2005

A VACATION IS HAVING NOTHING TO DO AND ALL DAY TO DO IT IN*

I feel like I’m cheating every time I do a photo post instead of writing. And since I did 2 in a row, I definitely have that hands-on-hips, stern-look-over-the-eyeglasses, slight-shaking-of-head thing going on. Any minute now, my mental teacher will wag a warning finger at me as I hang my head in shame. Aja baja, fuskis! as my daughter would say. Being on vacation at home feels very slothful. Reducing the world’s population of flies one THWACK at a time does not make for interesting journal entries, and neither, I am sure, does anyone want to read about my ruthless...

01
Jul
2005

THWACK THWACK THWACK!

Anders climbed up the ladder to take the central vacuum cleaner on the laundry room wall apart and find out what the matter was only to discover that the bag, apparently too heavy with ick, had split and dropped away from the hose output, filling the canister around and under the bag with filth and disgustingness, including PINE NEEDLES, our major indication that it’s been this way since at least Christmas. He managed to heave all the crap out, re-bag it, and use our old portable vacuum to clean up the resulting mess. When I got home I vacuumed the...

14
Jun
2005

ANTICIPATORY

I don’t have anything pressing to write about tonight, but I can’t stop the compulsion, regardless. Luckily for me, and sadly for you, I don’t feel the pressure to be scintillating and interesting every damn day. 😛 Haaa! I keep finding good writers. I keep adding blogs and journals to my list. I need an INTERVENTION. Mack the Knife is playing on my playlist right now, and I want to get up and dance, but there is no one here to dance with. What a bummer that my Uncle Mike and Uncle Sam live so far away, and that my...

11
Jun
2005

MINUTIAE

Lazy Saturday. Slept in. Ran a couple of errands. Rented some kid movies. Didn’t talk to my brother on the phone. Had a yummy dinner consisting of delicious grilled pork, potato salad and artichokes as big as Karin’s head. Watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind after myskväll. (NOT Band of Brothers, JOHN. Pbbbb!!). Our comments after: Anders: My head hurts. Liz: Yeah. That was a hurty-head movie. Came to the realization that I have had nothing planned, no activities, for over 7 days. Cannot decide if I like it as much as I think I do. Really Great Writing...

04
Jun
2005

DO, OR DO NOT, THERE IS NO TRY

We’re on a roll here. A Star Wars roll. We watched the second fifth Empire Strikes Back tonight, and the kids are DEFINITELY too young for these movies, judging by the amount of questions we got peppered with ALL THE WAY THROUGH. Believe it or not, Anders has never seen them either, so it was quite the learning experience around here tonight, in a manner of speaking. We also had a pronunciation lesson on how to stick your tongue out correctly and blow while saying the th sound so that the guy in the black helmet isn’t referred to as...