Tagged: goodthings

I’m feeling the love today and I am so touched and moved and happy that I just had to write about it. I’ve signed up as a nominee for my old position of Editor on the AWC board. I had been dithering about it for ages, not knowing what to do, because frankly the year off had felt both good and bad; good because I really WAS burned out on the job and because I really had MUCH less to do, but bad because I felt like I was letting down my team. I talked to my friend Camilla and...

Oh, so busy, so busy!! What a lot of good things this week, which helped to overwhelm the few bad things that popped up here and there like evil moles before I whacked them down with my loud laugh and BIG ATTITUDE. What else can you ask out of a week than sushi, a massage, a decision definitely made, a good book that keeps me from falling asleep when I ought to, a busy and interesting (albeit crazy) work week, dinner with someone who is becoming the best kind of good friend, phone calls from my sister and my brother,...

lots done and lots to do, with some glowing praise sprinkled over it, at work being forced to go shoe shopping because my little black suede slippers finally came apart at the seams and realizing that all the shoe stores in town are having half-off sales! DOUBLE SCORE! Excellent sushi for dinner (despite the overly long wait) with a gaggle of girlfriends getting to read a very well-written paper about Pettson & Findus book translations by one of the Mosaic Minds staff members drooling over this lovely gallery of travel posters, which makes me want to plan another trip still...

Don’t you wish you were having dinner at my place tonight? LE MENU CHEZ LIZARDEK Herb-encrusted Pan-fried Chicken Fillets Oven-baked New Potatoes with Olive Oil, Thyme and Black Olives Aromatic & Colorful Couscous Salad with Red/Orange Peppers and Ruccola and THIS for dessert: Fruit Pizza! Chilled fresh berries and fruit on top of a layer of cream-cheese frosting on top of a giant chocolate-and-butterscotch-chip cookie! Say it with me: MMMMMMMMMMMMM! The Biggest Birthday Wishes to the Best Lizardmom in the WHOLE WORLD!

After a bus (1 hour), a ferry (45 minutes), a frantic dash around Oban for the last promised souvenirs and lunch (1 hour), a train ride (3 hours), a bus (15 minutes to the other station across town), another train ride (40 minutes) and a night in a hotel that has seen better days, we resumed the trip home this morning with an airplane flight (1 hour, 40 minutes) and a car ride (3 hours). After we landed and began driving through the sunny Swedish countryside, I found myself thinking, over and over, how great it felt to be coming...

I am quite possibly the only person in Sweden right now not watching the soccer game. I felt this sudden compulsion to get up and come write, even though I honestly have been thinking for over a week that I don’t know what to write about, how to get started again, what even sounds worthy of putting up here. Writing about not knowing what to write is so last year. But, there it is. And here I am. It is nearly midsummer. Tomorrow is the longest day, and it’s all downhill from there, round the sling of another year…zip! It...