Tagged: goodthings

27
Nov
2013

LITTLE PLEASURES ADD UP TO TREASURES

Elizabeth put up a beautiful post on the Squam blog about 100 things she’s thankful for and Megsie followed suit with a fantastic list of her own. I could pretty much just swipe everything from both their lists, but in the interest of actually WRITING my own list and not just copycatting others, even if things they are thankful for are also things I’M thankful for, here are 100 things I’m thankful for right now, in no particular order, on this eve of Thanksgiving 2013. alone time :: internet access :: clean water :: a veritable plethora of books to...

26
Nov
2013

LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING UP

The past few days and nights have been below freezing, but that clear chill kind of cold that is perfect winter weather…ice crystals and blue skies and dragon-breath. It’s been perfectly clear, no clouds at all, even at night and the night sky is as black as pitch. The stars sparkle against it like they’re diamonds lying on velvet. Orion is slumped so far to the left that he’s practically somnolent. When I take the dog out for one last round-the-block walk, the grass crunches under our feet and the street sparkles in the light from the street lamps. We...

24
Nov
2013

NOM NOM NOM

Cookies are done! They were really easy to make, except for the dipping in chocolate part, which I would do differently next time. I put the skewers in first, but then they twirl within the dough and come out when you’re swirling the cookie dough in the melted chocolate. So I would swirl the ball first and THEN skewer it. And yes, they are DELICIOUS. The chocolate chips IN the cookies are dark chocolate and the melted dip was milk chocolate. Recipe below 🙂 Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 3...

12
Nov
2013

BITE-SIZED AND PERSONAL*

I don’t think I’ve made it a secret how much I love cookies. But I actually don’t eat them all that often. And I almost NEVER make them. Because if I did, and when I do, I stuff my face with them until they’re gone. Mmmm cookies! I don’t remember that my mom made cookies all the time or that there were cookies in the house all the time, but we were definitely not cookie-deprived. My mom’s mom ALWAYS had cookies on hand, though. Always chocolate chips and ginger snaps. Soft ones. Chewy ones. NOBODY beats my grandma’s molasses ginger...

11
Nov
2013

WAHOOO!!

Guess what!! They just opened up a new floor in our wing of the building I moved to at work 2.5 years ago, and some of the people from our department moved downstairs. Which frees up a bunch of space on our floor, which is great, because we have been really crammed, and struggling to find desks for everyone, and there have been lots of terrible, though creative, attempts to make room or find space or squash too many people into too small areas in order to give people a place to work, and it’s been kind of a drag....

10
Nov
2013

GOOD STUFF NOW AND TO COME

This weekend was another one filled with good things, the things I like best for weekends: getting things done, reading, sleeping in, sushi, meals cooked by my husband…today he made a fantastic American Sunday brunch with hash browns, bacon, scrambled eggs and flapjacks with maple syrup. It was in honor of Swedish Father’s Day, and you might wonder why HE had to make the breakfast but that would mean you didn’t read yesterday’s post. It was delicious. Then he got to open his Father’s Day presents which were comprised of booze and candy, so hopefully he felt it was all...

07
Nov
2013

GOOD THINGS COME IN COACHING, ROLLED IN SEAWEED AND BETWEEN PAGES

I’m so glad tomorrow is Friday. I am working for the weekend. Loverboy references make me seem really young, don’t they? I suppose it doesn’t count that I had to google “working for the weekend” because I couldn’t remember who did that song? Baha. Tonight was bookgroup. In Malmö this time and I was stupid and booked my hair appointment, also in Malmö, about a block away from where I was tonight, yesterday. So I had to drive to Malmö twice in 2 days. On the plus side, Barky looks FABULOUS and I got to go to bookgroup! And before...

12
Oct
2013

AUTUMNAL

Darn it, I swear I’m going to write more, be present, and then time gets away from me and I realize I AM being present, just not here. All year long, people here in southern Sweden have been exclaiming in wonder about the weather. The sunshine, the blue skies, the perfect temperatures. It was a perfect spring, a fantastic summer and now a stunningly gorgeous fall. The leaves on the trees outshine the sun in a revolving spectrum of all the best colors nature’s got on offer. It’s hard to keep your eyes on the road when you’re driving, as...

25
Sep
2013

COLLECTIVISM

Yesterday, as we sat at the kitchen table eating dinner, we counted NINE magpies hopping about in the street in front of our house. That’s surely enough for a tiding. Or even a charm, which is one of the alternative collective nouns for magpies according to a couple of different websites I checked. A charm of magpies seems more fitting to me, since I think they are such charming birds. They’re so flashy and curious and bold. And big! Striking black and white with a brilliant flash of peacock blue that shines out when they spread their wings. They seemed...

16
Aug
2013

NATURE’S ROLLER COASTER

When I was young I LOVED roller coasters, with a white-hot heat. Standing in line for 2 hours to ride a 5-minute loop-de-loop? No problem, let’s go again! Which was kind of strange, considering that I’ve suffered from motion sickness since I was an infant. I’ve never been able to read in the car, and I always offer to drive because riding in the backseat? Not an option. Up until I was in my twenties I was a roller coaster fiend. Bring ’em on Cedar Point! What’cha got, Great America? I’ll see your Space Mountain and raise you one Demon...

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