Tagged: goodthings

26
Nov
2017

MAKING MERRY & GIVING THANKS (PLUS EATING STUFFING)

Would you believe that the ONLY photos I have of the 2017 Thanks-Friends-Giving-Aganza are a montage of my antique mini silver salt and pepper shakers being filled? SO EXCITING. Back in the day, we used to record our gathering for posterity, posing on and behind the sofa, which children in our laps, etc. Nowadays, we just wait hungrily for everyone to arrive already, throw things in the microwave to heat them up, and stampede to the tables to stuff ourselves. Nary a photo in sight! No one even lifts a camera, ’cause their hands are full of forks and knives,...

08
Nov
2017

SWINGING THROUGH STOCKHOLM

Oops! Forgot I had a blog. Heh. We had a really nice trip to Stockholm, though we missed Martin. Karin, unfortunately, was sick with a really bad cold the entire time: fever on the way up, coughing, sore throat, stuffed head, the works. We drugged her up and made her go with us everywhere though 😀 The weather couldn’t have been better. Friday was bright and glorious sunshine with blue skies and chill temperatures. Saturday it was cloudier and felt colder though it actually wasn’t. It only drizzled on us once, but we didn’t care because we were having fun....

03
Sep
2017

PRESENT TENSE

Pursuing: tickets to next week’s Cirque du Soleil perfomance in Malmö Targeting: my disinclination to get out and walk Devouring: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Perceiving: faint calls from the cockatoo next door Dithering: whether to continue paying HBO Nordic after the first free month Continuing: never-ending laundry, even with one kid gone Consuming: Anders’ homemade Cheddar & Chantarelle quiche Recovering: from the annual crayfish party last night…fun, but SO tired today! Luxuriating: blue skies, warm temperatures, sunshine, puffy white clouds…last gasp Swedish summer? I’ll take it! Distracting: Two Dots, Instagram, iPad Cribbage Resigning: myself to 18 months in open...

25
May
2017

A DAY TO RELAX IN

It’s another long weekend in the middle of the Swedish spring. We have a glut of them in April, May and June every year and then pretty much NOTHING until Christmas. This one is for Ascension Day, which is today. My company is great about holidays…we always get a half-day the day before and if the holiday falls on a Tuesday or a Thursday, we get the Monday or the Friday off as well. Next week is a regular 5-day work week but then we have another long weekend and a 3-day work week following. And then it’s only 2...

24
May
2017

UP/DOWN

Good things Lilacs, pied wagtails, full-on spring, warm days, cool breezes, a long weekend right now and another one next weekend (!), Late Night talk show hosts that articulate everything I feel about my home country right now, singing Africa in choir Not so good things Pinched nerve, lack of motivation, mixed emotions that threaten to overwhelm me, not being able to sit at the computer without pain, unfriending people on Facebook because I just can’t take it anymore, end of choir term and not knowing if our choir will continue in the fall Looking forward to Midsummer week in...

18
Feb
2017

AND SO I WAKE IN THE MORNING AND I STEP OUTSIDE

My daughter just commented on the fact that the very nice, expensive, wide (genuine) leather belt that she appropriated from me is a “really good child-beater belt”. For the record, she has never been beaten with a belt or anything else. Tempting. But no. So many things that I mean to write about, to remember to write about, to record for your amusement and for posterity*, and yet, the time goes and there is another huge hole in the calendar of my journal. I have a package to mail. I have a letter to respond to. I have pants to...

31
Dec
2016

RETROSPECTIVE

he last day of 2016, hurrah! Normally, I would be a bit sad about the end of the year, but I am really hoping that, despite the orange-frosted muffin going into office in my native country, things will get better *pastes bright smile into place* instead of getting worse. After all, things are going well for me and my family, so despite the debacle of the US election, and the loss of so many people I admired: Gene Wilder, Carrie Fisher, Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Harper Lee, Richard Adams, George Michael, Anton Yelchin, Prince,…(oof) among many many others, I am...

25
Dec
2016

HO HO HO

I actually had to roust both kids out of bed today at 10 a.m. with Christmas carols on full blast, since there was no sign of either one of them moving, despite Karin’s threats last night to wake us up at six a.m. HA. Teenagers are lame. It rained all day today…super boring weather for Christmas except for the fact that water drops hanging from the honeysuckle creepers looked like diamonds. Two days ago was my mother-in-law’s birthday; she turned 88. She had a knee replacement operation a few weeks ago but is home and recovering well, despite still having...

04
Dec
2016

ALL UP IN THE BUSY

Oops, my crazy week got away from me and I had no chance to post anything. But! Everything this week has gone very well, and I am here on a Sunday feeling pretty good about things. Christmas cards are all mailed as are the overseas packages, and I ordered my niece’s birthday presents today (though they will be late). I’m ordering Christmas gift and birthday gift for John’s boys in a few minutes and then all I have left are presents for my family (some of which are already done or ordered). Anders’ mom had knee replacement surgery on Tuesday...

06
Nov
2016

TRAUTES HEIM, GLÃœCK ALLEIN

Sunday after a trip: I did a load of laundry, stripped and made our bed, went grocery shopping and read most of my book. Anders drove Karin to work, emptied the dishwasher and is putting the winter tires on my car. We talked to Martin, who is in Arequipa, for awhile…all’s well and he’s having a great time. He still hasn’t sorted out his return ticket though, so I admonished him, as I am his mother and that is my job. We got home after 11 pm last night and I was so tired. We made it to the ferry...

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