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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...

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...

26
Aug
2007

STUFF TO BUY AND STUFF TO DO

I awoke to the sound of pouring rain this morning and felt awfully sorry for the Flyinge Sports Association who were probably cursing the weather as they tried to set up the flea market tents and tables over by the soccer fields on the other side of the village. By noon, however, the clouds had lifted and there was blue sky showing around all the edges of the towering cumulus skybeasts, when the kids and I set out. For safety’s sake, we wore our raincoats tied around our waists, and we were glad we did as a last sudden shower...

19
Aug
2007

HOW IT GOES

This last week has gone by in a blur and suddenly today is the last day of vacation. Since I was a teenager, and possibly before, I’ve always been enamored of sleeping in. It’s a treat, a comfort, a blessed extra rest, but I’ve been able to take it too far, and even in college was able to turn my days over: sleeping in so late and staying up so late that eventually I exchanged night for day and vice versa. Since I’ve had children, though, I’ve been less and less able to sleep in. Not at all when the...

25
Mar
2007

ONE THING OR ANOTHER

Suddenly, it all starts to catch up: the amount of things I’ve done in the past few weeks, the amount of things still to do before we leave, the phenomenon of Spring drowsiness, the additional fatigue engendered by daylight savings time ending and the fact that I didn’t get to sleep in…I mean, REALLY sleep in at all this weekend. But the translation project is nearly done. My part is finished, now it’s only the proofreading from Anders and I’ll be able to deliver the project this week. And Malmö Redhawks won the hockey game in overtime yesterday; despite a...

21
Mar
2007

NO STARS ON THEIR BELLIES

Equinox, schmequinox…you couldn’t tell by the temperature the past couple of days that Spring is just around the corner. It is, isn’t it? Just around the corner? I might have to go find it and DRAG IT BODILY HERE. Regardless, walking in the crisp air is invigorating and each time I go the faster I get. The past few days have got me to the point of realizing that my hard work is beginning to pay off: feeling that my pants are getting baggy, putting on an outfit for work the other day only to realize that the shirt was...

31
Jan
2007

SKIMMING THE SURFACE

The wind has picked up again, it roars once in awhile like a dragon or a locomotive. Driving on the highway to town and back was an exercise in rebuff: the wind against me, shoving at the car; me against the wind, firmly flexing my fingers around the wheel and correcting my course after each punchy puff. The kids didn’t even notice, they were headbanging in the backseat to Computer Blue and Crocodile Rock and snapping their fingers to Supertramp’s Old Brown Shoes. Martin crooned “disssssssssco, dissssssssssco night” over the music when Games People Play came on…and we haven’t even...

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