Tagged: littlemisssunshine

I live too far away from my first family. My husband is gone all week. I’m in the middle of a class-A freakout about US tax and bank reports. Yes, again, it happens every year and every year it gets worse. My boss asked me if I’d like to go to the States for a couple of days but it’s right in the middle of the Swedish vacation period and I don’t know if we can make it work, and it might be my only chance this year. Martin and I just had a fight about driving. We’re out of...

It’s been a crap week so far, and it’s only Tuesday. I’ve had it up to here with certain things and I honestly feel like I’m at the snapping point daily, at work. URGH. Just thanks to human nature, and you’d think I’d be used to it by now, but instead I feel like it’s having the opposite effect: I am LESS tolerant of such things than I used to be. And I apologize for being cryptic, but you just never know who is reading. ANYWAY. It was supposed to be sunny all week and yesterday was absolutely gorgeous. But...

Mad Our guest speaker for the first AWC meeting of the year canceled today, last minute. The meeting is TOMORROW. She wasn’t ready to present, and had been expecting me to get in touch with her a week ago, even though we confirmed the date and logistics AND topic FOUR months ago. Now we have no one even though we have been scrambling all day to find a replacement. ARGH. I got in touch with her a few days ago, but because it wasn’t a week, she didn’t feel prepared. Bad While filing a huge pile of home paperwork today,...

If you are American, you DO NOT NEED to capitalize every word of every sentence or bulletpoint. Please stop it. We are not German. You DO NOT NEED to add 2 spaces after every period when you are typing. That went out with the typewriter. Stop it. If you are walking somewhere, anywhere, DO NOT stop in the middle of passageways or doorways or anywhere where someone might want to get through or past you. MOVE OUT OF THE WAY. If you are driving and turning, there is NO NEED to slow down to a complete STOP before you turn....

We just got the results of the book group vote on the next year’s worth of books and I WON MY BET WITH MYSELF, dammit: The Fault in Our Stars got voted in. AND of the ONLY two books that I had already read, guess what? One of them got voted in. And it’s the stupid Satanic Verses, which WHY would anyone want to read now?? Why? GAH. Sadly, only one of my recommendations made the list, though 3 others were one vote short. I don’t care, I’ll read them anyway. Here’s what got voted in, in no particular order:...

Ugh. I’m so glad I’m almost done with this part of the job. As VP Membership for the AWC, I not only have to call new members when they register, activate them and keep track of whether or not they’ve paid their dues but every year when our new season starts, and membership fees are due for everyone, which is the end of August…I have to keep track of ALL the payments (with the help of our excellently patient treasurer) and finally deactivate all those who have moved, are not renewing or who never answer. I put several notices and...