Tagged: goodthings

21
Nov
2005

THERE IS ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR

A week is too long. I start to stumble and slide. My temper slips, and slithers a bit. I don’t know how single parents do it, I honestly don’t. Anders is home, even if for just a one-night-stand-stop, in the midst of his business trip, and suddenly I’m walking on sunshine again. 🙂 It helped that the SUN was also walking on sunshine again today. How many days in a row is that? I’ve lost count! UNPRECEDENTED! It’s been a magical autumn with all the unaccustomed sunshine we’ve had in Sweden, long may it continue! It makes it so much...

06
Nov
2005

SOMETHING SOFT OR SPONGY OR SHAPELESS

What do you all think about the increasing use of advertising on all kinds of blogs? I find they make sites with good content hard to read and full of distracting ugliness. I can understand why people feel compelled to move in that direction, especially if it’s true that the advertising really does pay for the webhosting costs, or more, but I think it’s a real shame. Some of them I can read on my LJ friends page thanks to their RSS feeds, without the annoying and ugly advertising, but others only give a few lines and I still have...

05
Nov
2005

TO CHASE THE GLOWING HOURS WITH FLYING FEET

I opened the back door and beheld my husband, mop in hand, bucket at the ready, rugs and paraphernalia up off the floor, preparing to scrub. “Mmmm…” I said, “there’s nothing sexier than a man with a mop!” Deadpan, Anders answered, “Are you referring to my hair?” Friday was a halfday, due to Alla Helgonsafton and I had left the office just after one o’clock to speed home and help finish grocery shopping and getting the house ready for our dinner party, to find that during the morning, he had dusted and vacuumed and was now finishing up with the...

03
Nov
2005

GOOD THINGS THURSDAY

1) Whipping through the remainder of my project list at work and finishing up exactly when I had to be out the door to be… 2) Going to the airport to pick up my separated-at-birth-kindred-spirit-friend Kathey and her husband Russell, whom I haven’t seen in 2.5 years (because they live in Sydney, Australia) and… 3) Bringing them home where they are going to be staying with us for a week and later… 4) Making a run to the 7-11 in Lund for BEN & JERRY’s ice cream… Russell: How many should we get? Me: Four. Russell: Four?! Me: Well, there’s...

29
Oct
2005

THE GRAND ESSENTIALS

There is a quote I’ve read that says: “the grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Isn’t that a great philosophy when it comes to happiness? It works for me even when I’m only referring to BOOKS! 😀 I’m torn between the philosophy that anticipation is what keeps us going, and that having things on our to-do list is what keeps us going. Maybe it’s the anticipation of actually clearing everything off our to-do lists (all the different ones we keep, not just the ones that keep our households running) that...

08
Oct
2005

ONE OF THOSE DAYS

Today was one of those perfect days, a day when things got done, a day where no one yelled at anyone else, or made anyone mad, a day before something nice happens, a day with a perfect flow. Today was a day when I had time to relax and finish things and most of all, to gulp down a book in its entirety, to move into its world and breathe its air, and climb completely inside the skin and minds of fully-formed characters who did real and unpredictable things, and a story that brought everything to a conclusion so satisfying...

06
Oct
2005

YOU MAY ALREADY BE A WINNER!

If they sold paint in the color the sky was this evening, I would storm the home stores and buy every can available. When I got home, the hatch of the Volvo bungee-corded down over the bulging shiny cans, I would break out the flat-handled wide brushes and cover every surface until my entire world reflected the pale blended swath of periwinkle-melon-lavender-rose-apricot-palebanana-eggshell-cornflower that lined the sky tonight. Not one cloud. The swath was a band around the world, a ribboned horizon-belt beneath a bowl of blue, highlighted with coral and gold by the sinking sun. I paid too much for...

25
Sep
2005

PUMPED

La la la! Presentation? Done! Calendar? Done! Program? Done! Ballots? Done! Newsletter? Just about done! Website? Done! Done! DONE! And an hour before I go to sleep to read my lovely new book that I can’t stop thinking about, that I don’t want to put down, that I stayed up too late reading last night, that I want never to end because it’s so good, so far, and hurray for reading books that I love by authors that I love! All that, and a morning spent in the sunshiney fields of pumpkins, polka-dotted fields, spotted and dotted fields: orange and...

24
Sep
2005

THE TIME, SHE FLIES, SHE FLIES SO FAST

The last 3 days have been full of good things, almost too much to write about. They’ve also been full of bad things, almost too much to write about. Thursday I worked really hard on AWC stuff all evening and got a ton done, although I still have a ton left it feels like a lighter ton, somehow. I also talked to my oldest and bestest friend, who is dealing with some of the most awful things a mother can deal with and still stay standing. In addition, I talked to my friends Angie and Kristian, who keep getting punched...

19
Sep
2005

FEELING THE LOVE

Being in Oslo for 3 days was a lot of fun, but man alive, am I totally stressed out now at the amount of stuff I need to deal with to catch up. 🙁 I’m just going to rant really quick and then I’ll calm down and tell you about my weekend. Okay? I hope that’s okay. Oh well, too bad if it’s not! My kids are performing in a circus show, taught by REAL clowns from a circus on the same night as our biggest AWC meeting of the year, which includes a Year-in-Review presentation (PowerPoint) that I am...

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