Tagged: littlemisssunshine

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....

01
Sep
2016

BMC*

Good day at work. Lovely choir practice for our concert tomorrow. Still: tired and grumpy and headachy now Everyone driving in front of me is stupid and slow. All our money is practically gone and it’s the FIRST OF THE MONTH. WTH. We have plans every day this weekend…no downtime at all: URGH. That is all, I remove my grumpiness forthwith. Carry on. *Bitch moan complain

15
Jun
2016

CATLESS

We had the perfect cat. She belonged to the neighbors and they found her as a stray, took her in, fed her and cleaned her litter box, and took her to the vet when necessary, and kept her in at night, so she’d be safe. For us, she was a sometimes cat, a loaner cat, a daily visitor who brightened our days. She was curious and friendly and social. She followed behind her owner Jessika, trotting down the street, when she was taking their two dogs for a walk. She came over nearly every single day (that wasn’t snowing or...

14
May
2016

FULL OF FLOWERS

It’s been so beautiful here, sunny, warm and blue skies, a bit of a breeze (it is Skåne, after all), birdsong and bee buzz, and still chilly in the evenings so you know you will sleep well. It’s spring in all the best senses of the word. I was going to go take photos of the dandelion hill earlier this week but I was too late and they’ve all blown to seed now. The rapeseed fields are glowing neon yellow and the lilacs…the lilacs are here! Unfortunately, these are not OUR lilacs. These are the lilacs I WANTED. When we...

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