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16
Oct
2016

THERE I GO AGAIN

It’s been another crazy busy weekend in the string of crazy busy weekends that make up my life. On Friday, I had another (!) Wonders dinner, this time without Angie, at Kelly’s home. I joked the since we were missing “won”, we were only the Drrrrs. It was not the most fun evening, since we mostly talked about our anxieties over the upcoming election and divorce/custory horrors. The next time we’ll see each other is Thanksgiving here in Flyinge, but that’s not until the beginning of December (our date is late this year due to Anders’ work travel schedule). Last...

04
Oct
2016

EVERY DAY IS A WINDING ROAD

Life is just so damn busy all the time! Even when I have days to do “nothing”, I have to wrap it in apostrophes because it’s never nothing, is it? There is always something. And if not for me, then for someone that I have to deal with, help, find time for, whatever. I’m not complaining, actually, it’s just how things are, and I know that autumn is always crazy season. Work is especially crazy right now, and we’re short-staffed this week which isn’t helping. I spent much of my day running around, feeling like a chicken with my head...

01
Aug
2016

WELL HELLO THERE!

Did you miss me? I missed me! I missed you, too! It’s hard to believe that it’s been a month away and now we’re back. It was full on summer in the States but back home in Sweden, I feel we’ve landed in the early onset of autumn and I have to say I am SO GLAD. I never do well in heat and humidity and we had enough of it this past month to last me a lifetime. There’s a lot of reasons why I love living in Sweden, but cool weather and no humidity trumps just about everything....

02
Jun
2016

ALL AT ONCE

I am the lamest blogger that ever lived. Okay, not really. There are lamer bloggers out there (naming no names). I guess when you are a blogger who is no longer really blogging, you are an epilogue. There have been lots of things to write about, but they are all happening at once which makes sitting down and finding words harder than you would think. This past weekend was Swedish Mother’s Day. I was given flowers (peonies!), a Pandora bead for my bracelets of a lion with a crown and a little bag of my favorite dark-chocolate-covered cherries. In the...

17
Jan
2016

BUSY BEE BEATS SUPER SLUG

Aren’t you glad for weekends? I am. It’s so necessary to have a couple of days of downtime, where I can do what I need to do, whether that is relaxing and being a total slug or getting all kinds of things done and being a busy bee or some sort of mixture of the two. That is often the case, actually. Today was beautiful, sunny and blue, but very cold. I was productive all weekend; the last load of laundry is in the dryer, the house is clean, the advent lights are down and put away, the plants are...

20
Dec
2015

THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART

1 day until the light starts returning. 3 days until vacation starts. 5 days until Christmas (4 if you’re a Swede). 5 days until the very last episode of Downton Abbey. 6 days until we leave for Germany! 11 days until the end of 2015. 25 days until Martin stops annoying me with detailed playback of AHS Hotel episodes. 39 days until choir starts. 48 days until the first Melodifestival competition. 82 days until Pie Night! 164 days until our 20th wedding anniversary. 171 days until Martin graduates high school. 194 days until our summer celebration trip to the US....

04
Oct
2015

OPPOSITE OF SLUG

If I was away from LJ for several days some years ago, it could take me hours to scroll through and read everything on my friends list and RSS feed. These days, it’s a matter of minutes. Nice on the one hand, but sad on the other. It’s been a busy weekend in the middle of 2 busy weeks at the beginning of a busy month. On Friday I went to see Top Hat at the Malmö Opera House with my friend Debbie. She and the Wonders had given me a gift certificate when I had that big birthday a...

20
Sep
2015

BUSY BEE

Crazy season is starting. I can feel things revving up. I have a full day tomorrow that includes meetings at work and outside of it, plus a doctor’s appointment. Tuesday is a goodbye party for an American colleague who is moving back home, and Wednesday Barky gets beautiful again (thank goodness). Friday, Camilla is spending the night as we are leaving super early in the morning to spend the day in Gothenburg at the Book Fair where we have tickets to see Laini Taylor speak twice! I hope she won’t think it’s weird when I come up to say hi...

03
Sep
2015

ALL THE BUSY

I’ve been rather neglectful of my online life, but I’ve been so BUSY. Work is back to crazy-level, and we just moved offices. Our new space is really big and full of space and light and we are all pleased with it. The only bummer is that only a few of our teams are left from Corporate Marketing on our floor. All the rest of our department has moved across the street. I haven’t even been over there yet to check it out; will have to make time for that ASAP. Anders is in Italy for 2 weeks…well, it’s already...

06
Jun
2015

WHEW!

Crazy week from hell is finally over and I can enjoy the sudden summer that has been visited upon us. Monday was our 19th wedding anniversary…next year is 20! TWENTY YEARS. That’s crazy. We didn’t do much, and didn’t even exchange gifts, but Anders cooked a delicious dinner 🙂 Tuesday and Wednesday were high school graduation parties for the sons of friends. We all went to the first one on Tuesday but it was just me on Wednesday at my friend Debbie’s, whose son Jacob is only one year older than Martin. Next year it’s our turn: EEK. Nearly everyone...

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