STARTING THE HOLIDAY COUNTDOWN CLOCK
Oh my god, did you see what month it is?? It’s SEPTEMBER. September already! How did that happen? Where does the time GO??
04
Sep
2008
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27
May
2008
BULLETS FROM THE BUSY
The pool has sprung 2 consecutive links in the 3 weeks we’ve had it. *sigh* Karin had a fever yesterday, I got the call at 10 a.m. and worked from home the rest of day, battling a crashy connection. She was better this morning, but since the school requires kids stay home for a fever-free day, she was with me at work this morning (infecting the office instead, muahahaha!) and missing the school brännboll tournament. My to-do list will not stop growing. Squishing it does not, just as with my children, work at all. We have new across-the-street neighbors. Young...
09
May
2008
THIS JUST IN
Does jetlag get worse as you get older? Or is it just my crazy life that has eaten away the foundation of my stability and left me unable to balance evenly? Nearly a week since my return and I’m still waking up at 4 a.m. every morning…of course that could be the fault of the BRIGHT SUNLIGHT streaming in at an ungodly hour and the fact that still, after nearly 6 years in this house, the windows in our bedroom remain shade- and blind-less. Wednesday was choir (first practice in 4 weeks—croak!) and yesterday my husband celebrated a birthday. It’s...
06
Mar
2008
THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS
If the sky this afternoon had had flecks of pyrite or been interspersed with dark, spidery limonite veining, I could have properly termed it turquoise. Either way, it was BLUE. Blue to the max. It was an awfully nice feeling to look up into that endless blue sea above me when I left work; not a cloud nor a contrail in sight, after the unpromising morning of pouring rain that the day began with. Things are motoring along here. The week zips by, consumed by work, by sleep, by getting dinner on the table. By running errands and driving to...
01
Mar
2008
OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE
I just don’t know what to say. All my words seem to have deserted me lately and I’ve been completely subsumed by work work work work work. However, today I saw the faintest sheen of green on the trees across the pasture behind us and at the schoolyard on Friday afternoon there were also tiny peridot leaves on the bushes. I’ve seen little slips of crocus: bright yellow, royal purple, and the wavy zigzags of daffodils planted by the city of Malmö are green shoots about 4 inches high. The entire winter, while all the rest of my family and...
24
Feb
2008
NOTHING MUCH TO SAY BUT I’M SAYING IT ANYWAY
It’s a crazy week ahead so I’m pretty glad that today was pretty relaxed. I did some stuff around the house and ran a couple of errands but nothing much, mostly I was reading and recording music and playing computer games. I have something every evening in the week coming up until Friday night: taking Karin to karate tomorrow and walking, AWC meeting on Tuesday, choir on Wednesday and book group on Thursday. We’re done with the Lord of the Rings. We finished the last hour and a half on Friday night; I let the kids stay up ungodly late...
02
Dec
2007
EVERYWHERE YOU GO
Time stretches and compresses and suddenly days have gone by without warning; this is how the year flies, how they all fly, until suddenly you’re aged and wondering where your youth and resiliance went. The house is full of Christmas glitter if not yet Christmas cheer: the windows are full of advent candelabra and golden Christmas stars, we’ve put up the snowman card holder made from felt by my great-aunt, the garlands of red and gold beading, the hand-knit personalized stockings, the cinnamon candles and santa figurines. Years worth of little tomtes made by the children are crowded into a...
29
Nov
2007
TO DO, TO BE, TO GO
My list is so long it makes my head whirl.
21
Nov
2007
CRACKLING WITH JOY DESPITE THE DARKNESS
It is so dark here that I feel I am living in a cave. Dark when I awaken, dim all day, pitch black when I get home. 5 in the evening feels like 10. And there’s yet another month to the solstice…I’ll be a fully-fledged troglodyte by then. Choir tonight: first time I’ve sung (except in the car) since MAY. We have a new choir leader and it was very surreal to sit before her and keep realizing over and over that she wasn’t Eva, our former choir leader. She has a very different style, but I think she’ll be...
04
Sep
2007
COME ON AND ZOOM, ZOOM
Even when I have an evening when I “don’t have anything to do,” I can suddenly realize that it’s 9:41 p.m. and where in the hell did my evening GO?! Out the bloody window, apparently. At Weightwatchers after work I managed a pleased, if slightly pained smile, at the revelation that I lost 4 hectograms this past week. All summer long I have been struggling with the same damn kilo. It will NOT GET OFF OF ME. It’s like everyone’s nightmare small-child tantrum, clinging with a pincer grip around your legs (or in this case, your hips) and shrieking NO...