Tagged: littlemisssunshine

18
Oct
2026

GRUMPLEPANTS

I’m tired today. No plans and a long sleep in, and yet I’m still tired. Hard news from within my family is rumbling around in my head, hard news everywhere in the world, it seems. It’s been a tiring year for everyone and it’s not over yet. The sun is shining, the sky is solidly, purely blue, but it’s chilly outside and fall is burning up the treetops, tinging everything with yellow, orange, red, and brown. Leaves are blowing acros the yard and piling up in corners. There are things on my to-do list that I can’t seem to get...

06
Oct
2026

A BUNCH OF ANNOYING THINGS

One of the daily newsletters I get had a short article today about the fact that the US Supreme Court is back in session and a list of some of the big cases it has on the docket. And then it asked “Wondering how the Supreme Court became so influential?” And my immediate response was, “Because people can’t take no for an answer anymore.” If they feel they are in the right, even when they are NOT, even when lower courts and judges have ruled against them, they keep appealing until it gets raised all the way to the Supreme...

23
Sep
2026

IT IS SAD TO GO TO PIECES LIKE THIS BUT WE ALL HAVE TO DO IT*

Is having yearly colonoscopies a thing I have to look forward to now, like having yearly mammograms because I’m a woman between the ages of 40 amd 74? It was the same home test 2 years ago that started me on this health crisis trip to colitis (not really, but it feels like it, and I like having SOMETHING to blame). I’ve had 2 colonoscopies now (and I just had to fucking GOOGLE the plural of colonoscopy because my brain and my fingers kept typing colonoscopys) and I can assert that while having a colonoscopy is no fun, having to...

22
Aug
2026

TOE MUCH INFORMATION

My toe was not better by Monday. I have been to the healthcare clinic 3x this past week, and have yet another appointment on Monday next. The salt baths and sore salve didn’t help but at least it didn’t get worse, but it was still really painful by Sunday evening. I left a chat message asking for an appointment, and lo and behold the next morning I had a message from them with an appointment time at 11:45 AM. I saw Nurse Annika and she couldn’t do much because the toe was so painful, she couldn’t really investigate, so she...

11
Aug
2026

BIRTHDAZE

It was my birthday yesterday. 62. What a weird number to be. I had a busy day planned so I got up fairly early. Anders is working from home this week, and he had roses and presents waiting for me. A poster of 100 Swedish sights to see that you can stamp off once you have seen them or been there. And 2 gorgeous hanging bird baths. I had asked for one, and he found 2 really nice ceramic ones…one in deep teal and one in off-white. The only problem is that they only have a center hole with a...

13
Jul
2026

ONE DAY, THEN THE NEXT

It’s Karin’s birthday today. She’s turned 27. Isn’t that crazy? We spent yesterday celebrating her, and driving around southern Skåne. Anders and I picked her up with Martin and Theo at Malmö C at 11 pm and then we drove out to Kivik and had lunch at Bhures Fisk, which is a well-known seafood restaurant. It was sunny and quite warm but by the coast there was a rather chilly breeze blowing, and I actually wrapped myself up in a blanket as our table was outside and since we weren’t in the sun, I actually got cold. Karin didn’t want...

27
Jun
2026

I’M MELTING, I’M MELTING!

Being this hot this long turns me into a wicked witch. I almost wish someone would douse me with a cold bucket of water. It’s been in the 90s for 2 days (34C today) and I don’t know how anyone stands it in countries where this is the norm or worse. How do people stand it?? I have minimal clothing, ceiling fans, and a regimen of opening and closing windows and blinds as the sun moves, to block the worst of it, and I’m still cranky and sweaty. I’ve managed to do a few things today, but if I had...

11
Mar
2026

I SNEEZE, THEREFORE I AM

One would never know that I’ve been on this planet for SIXTY-ONE AND A HALF YEARS and that ALL of those years have contained a Spring season. This past week my eyes have been itching terribly, I’ve been sneezing my head off and feeling strained and tired and yet it took an embarrassing five full days of this for the lightbulb to finally light up above my head yesterday evening after a bout of itching, sneezing, and rubbing my eyes so severe that I was nearly crying, with the realization that DUH…allergy season is here! Spring is sprung! ATCHOO! As...

03
Feb
2026

THERE, THEN BACK, THEN UP, THEN DOWN

What a mixed bag of a day. I got up earlier than normal but didn’t stress out about getting ready as I knew I’d need to let my morning bathroom routine take precedence as I did not want to be worrying about finding a restroom on my way to Malmö in rush hour traffic. I got disentangled from the sleep apnea test equipment (went fine, no problems, as far as I know, though we’ll see what the results say), showered, and left the house at 7:30 AM confident that 2 toilet visits would see me through. Wrong. Almost to the...

02
Dec
2025

JUST SAYIN’

I keep meaning to post, but never getting around to it. Either I’m too busy or too tired or too distracted or too lazy. I’ve finished all the Christmas shopping, and this week am wrapping presents, both for Christmas and for Martin and Theo’s birthdays. I have about 3 more left, and then have bags and bags of stocking stuffers to wrap. I went a little overboard, I think…those bags are HEAVY. I’ve finished all the shopping for my first family as well, though I’m going to a Swedish julmarknad on December 13th anyway. We’ll see if there’s anything fun...

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