Tagged: goodthings

06
Jun
2007

NOT A PERFECT DAY, BUT PRETTY DARN CLOSE

Summer turns me upside down, summer summer summer! It’s like a merry-go-round…because I seem to spend most of my time turning about filling up my eyes with green and growing things, with bright and blooming things, with the endlessly endless never-ending blue of the sky. There are pink paradise bushes blooming everywhere, we have dozens of hard green baby cherries on our cherry tree, the swans out by the highway are nesting, and the horse on the street before ours has a little brown skippity foal. We scored super-big at IKEA today. Because it was Sweden’s National Day and just...

30
May
2007

THIS POST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE ENTIRE ALPHABET

A is for the ANTICIPATION of the next good book I will read, having just finished one that made me wish I could read twice as fast so I could read twice as much. B is for the cool BREEZE that flows like a balm into the bedroom when I go to bed and crack the window open. C is for the COLLEAGUES that appreciate the work I do. D is for the DAYLIGHT that is still increasing; light last night at 9:30 as I soared down the hill, with the sun behind the silver-rimmed puffclouds and all the windmills...

27
May
2007

THE YEAR’S AT THE SPRING

Last night after myskväll, Anders and I watched Grabben i Graven Bredvid*, a much hyped Swedish film that came out in 2002 and which we somehow missed seeing then, though it was very highly recommended by everyone we knew. It lived up to its reputation and we both really enjoyed it. I’ve seen the leading man in 3 movies now (Så Som i Himmelen and Vägen Ut) and listened to him lecture live onstage during an “Inspiration Day” I attended for work a couple of years ago, and have been increasingly impressed with his acting. Later, long after we had...

25
May
2007

GOOD NEWS!

Yay! I just talked to my sister and my mom, who is apparently the star patient of Port Huron hospital, is going home today, and best of all, they called the pathology lab to find out what the results of the biopsies were and it appears that she is cancer-free!! It was contained and hasn’t spread, from what they can tell. *BOUNCING OFF THE CEILING WITH JOY*

22
May
2007

SO FAR, SO GOOD

Sometimes you might think that you are alone in the world. Especially when things aren’t going your way. No one cares about your problems or your feelings. You didn’t get that job you interviewed for. You can’t find anyone to go to Weightwatchers with you. Your kids ditch walking with you to play with their friends. Nobody likes you, everybody hates you, might as well eat worms. Inside, not even deep down, but really right under the surface of your suddenly tingling skin, you know that this is not true. In fact, there are so many people who care about...

16
May
2007

LIFE IN BALANCE

On the one hand: Leaving work early yesterday (because the network was down) and taking advantage of a sunny afternoon to go for a walk and leaving work early today (half day before a holiday) with my to-do list whacked nearly all the way down The wonderful breadth of a 4-day weekend stretching out before me, part of which has been kept unscheduled except for puttering about the house, furniture shopping and walks in the sunshine or rain, as the case may be, and part of which has been filled with things to look forward to including a childfree evening...

27
Mar
2007

WHEN IT WORKS

Now THAT’S what a women’s club meeting SHOULD be like. Electric atmosphere, pleasure in seeing friends and smiling new faces, a record attendance turn-out. An inspiring and interesting guest speaker talking on a subject we could all relate to (intercultural relations and how to find your way as an expat), people coming up with ideas, people volunteering for things, people laughing in good spirits, a high-pitched hum of chatter after the official meeting ended and a record-setting profit at the media sale. I bought a game (Lingo…ever heard of it? Ever played it? Is it any fun??) a book of...

26
Mar
2007

FULL SPEED AHEAD TO SPRING

Getting compliments on my hair from colleagues all day long Having to eat sushi for lunch because there were no salads in the vending machine and the lunch-of-the-day selection was nasty Leaving work early while the sun was doing a bang-up job of imitating a summer day Getting the word from my doctor to stop the skin treatment medicine I’ve been on for 4 months because it has done its job Playing hookey for an hour after the doctor’s visit to speed shop: groceries—done! Presents—done! Even going back to work and working for another hour which allowed me to thwack...

01
Mar
2007

AND YET SINGS, KNOWING SHE HAS WINGS

Birds are everywhere here. I suspect I notice them more now because there are so few other creatures out and about in this grey and snow-scabbed landscape. Some days ago, in the space of a short while, birds made their presence known to me in various ways. We were in the car, driving to the home of a couple that live far out in the country, who had promised the kids good sledding in the company of their son. I saw: a fat black-and-white magpie sitting alone in the black branches of a skeletal tree, his shape silhouetted against the...

19
Feb
2007

WHO NEEDS BULLETPOINTS WHEN YOU’VE GOT ASTERISKS?

A link on an art blog that I check in on now and then was recommending a certain ezine: Get lost for hours and hours! And I thought, who has hours and hours? All you people who have hours and hours to sit and peruse the archives or issues of any website, where do you find the time? I mean, if you don’t do it for work? Okay, I spend hours and hours on the computer, but I’m usually in the middle of 3 or 4 projects: website maintenance, newsletter editing, spider solitaire, book editing, inventory updates, music editing, reading...

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