Tagged: goodthings

This week has been full. Stuffed full. Crammed full. Proppmätt, as they say in Swedish, though that usually has to do with your stomach and not your calendar. Life is ALWAYS full, it seems. Remember those long, lovely, boring days of summer when you were a child and there was nothing to dooooooooooo? Yeah, I dont either. Early Saturday morning I’m flying to Boston via Amsterdam (with only a 1.5 hour layover, eek!) for 2 weeks of working at our US office. If I wasn’t able to take this trip for work, it would have been over 3 years since...

I felt totally showered with love and affection all day today. An early morning birthday wake-up from my family with song and hugs and lots of lovely presents including the perfect watch chosen by Anders based on my fairly vague description. Pots of flowers both at home and at work and a colleague singing happy birthday in French to me. A lunch with good friends, cooked just for me with some of my favorite foods: salmon! snap peas! CAKE! that had me away from work for an unprecedented 2.5 hours (!) and a good day at work to boot. And...

Leaf lettuce Romaine lettuce Ruccola Pearl tomatoes Avocado Plum tomatoes Yellow cherry tomatoes Sun-dried tomatoes Kohlrabi Black olives Artichoke hearts Hearts of palm* Snap peas Snow peas Cucumber Red, orange or yellow bell peppers (sparingly) Dried cranberries Cold boiled potatoes Hard-boiled egg Tuna Bacon (real bits) Broccoli Asparagus Pistachios Pine nuts Feta cheese Red onion Scallions Parmesan cheese Croutons** Mushrooms Carrots Lentils Seedless grapes** Chopped boiled ham Couscous A little pasta *YUM! Why is it so hard to find them in Sweden? I haven’t had them in ages! **Once in a blue moon What do YOU like in your salads?...

What’s your idea of the perfect vacation? I waffle between not wanting to do anything at all but sleep in, lay on the sofa and read, and read some more, to making travel plans and go-go-going every day, getting something out of every minute. This week, the first of a 4-week vacation, has been a nice mix of the two, which suits my waffling heart to a T. I had plans every day but not the whole day and some of them fell through or were changed and all of them involved nice things. It’s only 2 days until the...

My stomach was so upset with nerves before my doctor’s appointment this afternoon that I seriously thought I would throw up. All for a little lump! I got there early and the doctor was an older man, a bit bear-like, with a kindly expression. It was the fastest I’ve ever been felt up in my life. 😀 He examined me and then said that he couldn’t really feel anything that warranted worry: “nothing dangerous,” he said. But he’s scheduling me for a mammogram just to be sure. I feel much better, I have to say. Tomorrow is my last day...

I’m not in the MOOD to write. What AM I in the mood for? Glenn Miller songs and convertibles. Summer evenings and those retro lawn chairs made of soft round strips that make lines on the back of your thighs. Backrubs, footrubs, headrubs. Deviled eggs and rice krispie treats. POPSICLES. digression/ I bought a box of Hello Kitty popsicles at the grocery store this evening, partly because they were grape & cherry flavored (!) and partly because I wanted to see the expression on Karin’s face when I handed her the box /end digression I’m in the mood for cleaning...