Tagged: littlemisssunshine

16
Nov
2017

MEH URGH GAH FLUMP

I was going to come home from choir and write a post. A good post. A long one, full of musings and interesting theories and anecdotes about my life. But, 5 minutes after I got home, and got the computer turned on, Karin called and needed to be picked up, and I had to leave again, and it put me in a bad mood (for other reasons than that she needed to be picked up) and then since I was grumping, I thought about other things that have been aggravating me this week, and by the time I got back...

21
Oct
2017

IN MY HEAD, IN MY HEART

Every day as I drive to and from work, or to and from the grocery store in the next village over, I take snapshots in my mind. I even caption them, thinking as I do, that I should take the time to stop the car and take and shoot an actual photo, even if just with my phone. The little abandoned building in Östra Ödarslöv, with peeling paint and pale turquoise doors. The huge autumn-yellow tree with a bare crown and a ring of leaves around his foot (“Balding”) The road through Flyingeby, lined with trees, and the huge yellow...

06
Sep
2017

H’IVE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN

In my seemingly neverendingly-growing list of things that I need to fix about myself, today I went to see an allergy specialist in Eslöv. I have been to many, many allergy doctors in my life, but it’s been years and I figured it was time to get a handle on my worsening symptoms and see if there were new possibilities that might help. I spend so much time sneezing and blowing my nose and having itchy, running eyes, etc.—finally figured enough was enough. I already know what I’m allergic to, but the nurses sat me right down and did a...

28
Aug
2017

PARTY HEARTY PARTY POOPER

We knew what we were getting into, honestly, we did. Allowing our 18-year-old social butterfly daughter to invite 94 people to party at our house in celebration of her birthday. By the RSVP date, the tally stood at 71 people and was up to 74 a couple of days before. Anders and I have, of course, met many of the kids at some point, though not all of them, by any means. There were teammates from the 3 different soccer teams that Karin has played on. Classmates and school friends from junior high and high school. Theater kids from the...

24
May
2017

UP/DOWN

Good things Lilacs, pied wagtails, full-on spring, warm days, cool breezes, a long weekend right now and another one next weekend (!), Late Night talk show hosts that articulate everything I feel about my home country right now, singing Africa in choir Not so good things Pinched nerve, lack of motivation, mixed emotions that threaten to overwhelm me, not being able to sit at the computer without pain, unfriending people on Facebook because I just can’t take it anymore, end of choir term and not knowing if our choir will continue in the fall Looking forward to Midsummer week in...

29
Jan
2017

STRESSBALL

The weekends go too fast. The weeks go too fast, as do the years. I feel as if I’ll wake up tomorrow and I’ll be 80, looking about me with shock and confusion. I don’t really have anything to write about…or rather, I do, too much, but I don’t want to put it here. Much of it is outside of my control and concerns my fears, my shock and my outrage about what is happening in the US. I sincerely do not understand how the people who voted Trump into office can not understand why so many people feel outrage...

24
Jan
2017

WRITING THRU THE GRUMP

I’m in a bit of a grump space right now, and I don’t like posting when I’m feeling this way. Work is really stressful, I’m having major issues with my shoulder (the OTHER one, this time, GAH), I’m finding it very difficult to be a parent right now, and I can’t stop checking the news for the latest political horrors being perpetrated in the US. It’s like watching a train wreck only all the potential victims are us. I got an email the other day that our choir start date has been pushed back at least 2 weeks because they...

19
Nov
2016

ALIVE AND WELL, WELL, AS WELL AS CAN BE, CONSIDERING

I’ve only posted twice this month so far, and to be honest, I haven’t had the heart or the energy to post much more. I read the news every day and fall a little farther into disbelief and despair each time. Anders came home late last night from 2 weeks in Italy for work. He worked today, came home, declared he didn’t feel well, at which point all three of us promptly fell asleep on various sofas, and then he got violently ill. Then he told me he was freezing and went to bed. Not good. I really, really hope...

12
Nov
2016

SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM

I have been mostly without words in public this week. I have spoken with my children, who were devastated by the results of the US election but I had little comfort to give them. At work, I was confronted all week long with non-Americans who were genuinely agape at the circus that has reigned for nearly 2 years and the end of it in particular. I felt myself put on the defensive, and given repeated condolences on the stupidity and wrongheadedness of my fellow countrymen. It is even harder to comprehend when you consider that if all votes were treated...

26
Oct
2016

THIS THAT THE OTHER AND ANOTHER

I cannot wait for the US election to be over. What I am fearful of is that the nastiness will continue; that it will, in fact, NEVER END. Gah. This is the first year in 18 years that I am ordering a school photo of only one of my children. I am in the wrong business: I spent literally 15 minutes at my follow-up dentist appointment yesterday, during which the dentist shaved a tiny bit off a tooth that has been giving me problems, probed around, made me bite on a purple piece of paper and adjusted my bite guard....