Tagged: goodthings

01
Oct
2026

THE MORE THINGS YOU DO, THE MORE YOU CAN DO*

This is one of the craziest busiest weeks I think I’ve ever had. Starting on Sunday, and going through until Saturday this coming weekend, I’ve had to drive to Malmö every single evening except Tuesday. All for good stuff, but still: oy. Sunday was the AIC Fire Station tour that I organized again with our firefighter friend (also named Anders). We did it a couple of years ago and it was as big a hit this time. We had 40 people all together and Anders and another fireman named Martin (felt like old home week, haha) showed us around the...

22
Sep
2026

MORE THAN LUCKY

I’m pretty grateful that I’ve never lacked for friends. Even though we moved around all the time when I was young, I was in school and made friends pretty easily everywhere we went. When I started university, I didn’t know anyone, but my years as a military brat stood me in good stead and there was a built-in way to meet people and make friends with all the women on my dorm floor and in my classes. I moved to Chicago after college with a friend, and made friends at the company I worked for. It seems to me in...

19
Sep
2026

THE STUFF I’M UP TO

Apart from the fact that work was crazy busy and I was drowning in PPTs, this was a quiet week and it’s now a quiet weekend. Anders was gone part of Monday expecting to stay one night in Tingsryd but ended up coming home in the late afternoon. I had NO plans any evening so had lots of quiet nights. The only appointment I had was at Malmö hospital on Thursday to get my latest dose of Zessly (my colitis meds). The nurse asked me again about the initiative they are driving to get people to administer their own shots...

14
Sep
2026

BRATBABY DAY AND A PERFECT LONG WEEKEND

This past long weekend was lovely. Macbeth at Malmö castle was great, if freezing once the sun disappeared under the roofline. It struck me that I’ve never actually seen Macbeth. Not sure why not. I’ve seen Hamlet a bazillion times and many of the comedies and romances as well. I knew the gist of the story, and I know most of the most famous quotes from the play. Anyway, the theater group that did the performance were super, though they must have been freezing, especially the woman who played Lady Macbeth; in her mad scene she was wearing a thin...

07
Sep
2026

TALKING TO MYSELF AGAIN

Every time I think I’ll be better about posting more often, a week slinks by, and I’m left feeling guilty in its wake. Oh well, no one is reading anyway. Then again, if I really wanted readers, I could return to LiveJournal, or market this blog. I could post that I have posted on FB, but I must not really want readers since I haven’t done it, right? I know my brother reads once in awhile, I know 2 friends read once in a while, and I think my sister does. Maybe my kids once a year? I don’t actually...

29
Aug
2026

DRESSING UP, THEN DOWN

Toe news: it’s much better, though still not 100%. There is still some infection, I think, because the top of it is still quite red, though it’s not swollen anymore and doesn’t hurt unless I press on it, but I can still tell that there is probably nail pushing in where it shouldn’t be. I can at least wear shoes again, which is a relief. I was in Båstad for a 2-day work event, a Global Sales & Marketing summit, lots of company rah-rah, which I don’t care for, but lots of fun moments as well. We had 3 buses...

11
Aug
2026

BIRTHDAZE

It was my birthday yesterday. 62. What a weird number to be. I had a busy day planned so I got up fairly early. Anders is working from home this week, and he had roses and presents waiting for me. A poster of 100 Swedish sights to see that you can stamp off once you have seen them or been there. And 2 gorgeous hanging bird baths. I had asked for one, and he found 2 really nice ceramic ones…one in deep teal and one in off-white. The only problem is that they only have a center hole with a...

06
Aug
2026

THE KEY TO PRODUCTIVITY IS TO ROTATE YOUR AVOIDANCE TECHNIQUES*

It’s only Thursday of my first week of vacation, and I’m already more halfway through my clean/sort/purge list. I’ve done the our bedroom (my stuff at least), study, living room, bathrooms, playroom hallway, dining room, front hall closet, and today I went through all the drawers in the kitchen, and cleaned out the pantry. I still have some of the kitchen cabinets to look through, so I’m not counting the kitchen as done yet. It’s very satisfying: purging. Even when there’s not that much to purge. But the pantry got a MAJOR cleanout, which was way overdue. It’s been a...

03
Aug
2026

STAYCATION STARTER

I went early this morning to have blood taken for tests, in conjunction with my next dose of Zessly on Thursday. It was the first medical appointment that I’ve had since my last dose on June 25. I’ve been so used to dealing with medical issues, that this long in-between stretch caught me by surprise. Hoping it continues this way with big long gaps of nothing happening medically with my body. It’s the first day of a 2-week vacation if you don’t count the weekend. I’m taking it pretty easy today (after having to set that early morning alarm on...

01
Aug
2026

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY

Rabbit rabbit! It’s the first of August and 9 days from my birthday, which isn’t a big one, even if the number is bigger than I’d like it to be. I’m on vacation now, for 2 weeks, and although I don’t have any travel, I have a very long list of things to do: mostly involving cleaning out and purging in every cabinet, closet, drawer, and shelf in the house. But there are fun things lined up too. I have a massage scheduled, and we are all going (all 4 of us, plus Theo and Essie) to see The Odyssey...

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