Tagged: calendargirl

29
Dec
2006

R&R DOES NOT, APPARENTLY, STAND FOR REST & RELAXATION

More like “Rarin’ & Roarin’”…I need a vacation after my “vacation” and I’m not even done with it yet! Zoooom! This is the first evening in 8 days I’ve had a chance to really sit down at the computer and most of it has been frantically whipping the AWC web newsletter into shape for publication tomorrow on Sunday. We have picked up John & Simone at the train station and taken them final Christmas shopping baked Reindeer Poop and Christmas sugar icing cookies and made Rice Krispie Holly Bars gone out for sushi dinner and watched The Commitments, The Curse...

14
Dec
2006

HOW WE SPEND OUR DAYS IS HOW WE SPEND OUR LIVES*

Oh, hey, I KNEW I was forgetting something! *waves* Hi there, little neglected internet! How ya doin’? Are you busy with the busyness like me? Julbord count: 4 There’s been a lot of music in the air this week. Maybe I am hyper-aware of it because I’m a singer. Tuesday evening one of our printing company took a bunch of us out to dinner at Wallmann’s Salong, a big dinner theater place in downtown Malmö. While the singers had good voices and were clearly dinner theater veterans and very good at what they do (which didn’t include their sideline as...

01
Dec
2006

AND I’M NOT EVEN IN A POST-NABLOPOMO SLUMP

Heading into Christmas crazyness and I sit here and feel I have nothing to say that is interesting (even to me) since my life is one gigantic to-do list right now. I did SO MUCH today, I am giving myself a pat on the back for all my accomplishments, and it’s only 10:30! Who knows what else I can get done before I go to bed? This weekend the kids and Anders are going to an overnight Christmas Scout camp, and I am singing in 5 concerts at elderly care homes around Malmö. It’s fun but it sure takes up...

20
Nov
2006

SPINNING RIGHT ROUND BABY RIGHT ROUND

I am rocking the Christmas present buying all over town! Go me! woo hoo! Yeah. That’s what I spent my evening doing and now I am officially half done. Well, maybe more like 2/3’s done, but still. Much closer to done than I was this afternoon. Work is killing me with the busyness. Life is killing me with the busyness. I am so busy that it feels as if my hair is a-crackle. As if my neck vertebrae are not up to par, since they are squinchy and tight. As if my head would spin round if it could, but...

24
Oct
2006

IT’S LIKE A PING-PONG GAME IN MY BRAIN

Back and forth and back and forth I left work early this afternoon and picked up the kids and took them to a big playplace in Lund that was holding an English-speaking afternoon. Turns out the playplace is owned by an American guy and he was looking for a way to meet other English-speaking people so he planned a 2-hour get-together and put the word out everywhere he could think of. One of my first reactions after hearing this, was well, why haven’t you joined one of the 2 expat organizations that are right here in the area? But of...

07
Oct
2006

PUTTING PEACE IN MY POCKET

A quiet morning, spent doing nothing much. Anders and the kids left early this morning for a weekend Scout trip, they’ll be back tomorrow afternoon. I went back to bed after they left and after finishing my visit with an old childhood friend, Pippi Longstocking, I feel asleep for a couple of hours. A quiet lunch, a quiet afternoon, spent listening to Hayley Westenra, reading, editing, solitaire. Then it was time to head out the door into the early evening and the windy weather as our choir was singing for Lomma Village’s Culture Night. They are building and renovating in...

27
Sep
2006

SO INCREDIBLY BUSY

That spinning sound you hear? The loud, whirring one? Yeah. That’s my head. Also, remember my foot that I busted up on Valentine’s Day last year? Yeah, I dropped a heavy metal chair on it while we were rearranging before the meeting tonight, in the EXACT same place and oh dear, oh shit, OW OW OW I think I really did a number on it again. 🙁

11
Aug
2006

WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST FOR AN EXTREMELY SHORT MESSAGE

Rain yesterday, rain today, rain tomorrow and all next week. Be careful what you wish for. A project-fire just got lit under me, so I might be out of commission for awhile. Or else up all night. Heh. Poemy, Pillowy, Olivey and Fantabulous Birthday Wishes to Squeetlelynn Sprigs!

31
Jul
2006

ITS LONG DAYS SPENT AND GONE BEFORE YOU KNOW IT

For one week things were slow, even with dinner out, dinner in, a night at the movies and a family birthday party. Today, suddenly, time coughed, the ignition key of autumn turned and the ticking days of the calendar are already filling up. Work hummed and buzzed and scooted me forward so suddenly it’s a wonder I didn’t get whiplash when I suddenly realized it was already after 5 and the light was mellowing beyond the window. I am ready for fall. I expect the mice and apple cider any day. I am ready for the flies to quit tickling...

08
Jun
2006

BLABBITER LICKUM, INDEED

Thinking: Where does all the money go? ACK! Answering: “That’s the one with the black and white ball, right?” every time someone asks me if I’m excited about the Soccer World Championships that start tomorrow. Planning: A party for 25 people at my house tomorrow evening. oy! That added up fast. Hoping: That the unbelievably wonderful weather (blue sky, sunshine, cool breeze, warm temps) will continue. Wishing: That the photos we took on the trip with the new camera would somehow edit themselves and then post themselves online because I just don’t have time. Recommending: Really Great Writing Out There...

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