Tagged: littlemisssunshine

01
Jul
2024

MY COUNTRY ‘TIS OF WTF

I started this post by writing that I was ashamed to be an American again. But you know what? I’m not. I’m ashamed of the 7 conservative members of the Supreme Court who have been bought and paid for and made a mockery of actual justice. I’m ashamed of the Republican party and all of those who have kowtowed and worked tirelessly to put the US in the state it is now: divided, corrupt, following a felon, rapist, power-mad lying psychopath who cares about absolutely nothing but himself. I’m ashamed of everyone who voted for him the first time, and...

17
May
2024

WOE IS KNEE

I promised a knee post, but I don’t really feel like writing about it more than what I already did in my last post, especially since I don’t think anyone cares except me. My knee is MUCH better, improving every day. Almost no pain, and I can walk without crutches, or with just 1 for balance. I can straighten it and bend it more than 90 degrees though that is still a little bit of a struggle. I’m continuing with the doctor’s orders until I see her again next week for a follow-up. I am most wary know of overdoing...

13
May
2024

TRAVELER

I’m back! 3 weeks in the US went at the speed of light. It was, as always, great to spend time with my sister and my mom, but a bit disheartening to see my mom’s memory issues up close and personal. Karin was the perfect traveling companion. Thankfully, I was recovered from the stomach bug and traveling wasn’t an issue. Our plane from Copenhagen was delayed and then delayed again, which was fine with us, as it meant we could sleep a bit longer before leaving for the airport and it also meant our long layover in Toronto was shorter...

16
Apr
2024

YOU DON’T PAY TAXES, THEY TAKE TAXES*

For something like 20 years the 1040 tax form in the US was pretty much exactly the same. Maybe even longer, and then, about 6 years ago, someone decided it needed updating. And EVERY YEAR since then, that someone has kept on updating it. It’s different now EVERY YEAR. So you have to read the incredibly confusing instructions every year and try to make heads or tails of it again. Is it simpler? No. Is it easy to understand? NO. Is it better? NO. It’s just different. GAH. It’s that time of year again when my obligations as a US...

08
Apr
2024

PATH OF TOTALITY

I couldn’t decide if I was envious of all the people in America who will get to see a solar eclipse today. It’s already partial as I’m writing this. My friends Kathey and Russell, who live in Dallas, are the only people I know off the top of my head who live along the “path of totality”. I have an online (former LJ) friend who is in the US from Sweden to see it, along with her husband. Both of them are certified eclipse chasers who travel the world to see any kind of eclipse. I read up on solar...

02
Feb
2024

AT LEAST I WON’T SWALLOW YOU WHOLE

Oops, missed writing a blog post on the first of the month or saying “Rabbit Rabbit”. Do you do that? I can’t remember when I first heard about that tradition, but it’s been around for a long time, apparently. It was definitely after I moved to Sweden, though, which is weird, since it’s not something Swedes do. If you click on that link and scroll down to the section titled Other Traditions, it talks about saying “Rabbits Rabbits” to get the smoke from a fire to move away from you. THAT one I’ve done since I can remember, probably all...

16
Jan
2024

BAD LUCK BUG

My sister has a bad luck bug on her somewhere, and I sure wish we knew how to get it off. All her life, if there was an accident waiting to happen, it was waiting to happen to her. Even when we were kids, she was always the one getting hurt somehow. Maybe because she was much more daring physically than I was, I don’t know. Two years ago she hurt herself badly in an electric scooter accident, ending up with a concussion and horrible bruises on her face. We weren’t sure she’d be able to fly to Europe for...

07
Sep
2023

THE LESS I CARE, THE HAPPIER I AM

I can’t get a solid night’s sleep anymore. It’s kinda bumming me out, and it’s not something I could take (or would want to take) medication for. It’s because I have to get up multiple times during the night to go to the bathroom. If I took some kind of sleeping pills, what are the chances I would then wet the bed? Don’t want to know. The diabetes medicine I am taking has “frequent urination” as one of its side effects, which is way better than frequent anything else in the evacuation system of your body, believe you me. But...

26
Aug
2023

IT’S ALL IN WHAT ISN’T SAID

I keep meaning to sit down and write something. I have half-written posts on notes, in emails, in my head. Ideas for posts. Headlines for posts. But they all come to nothing if I don’t actually sit down and write. Today felt like a waste of a day off. Load after load of laundry and then I sat down to work because I needed to spend a few hours keeping caught up with the giant pile of urgent emergencies I have right now, and it turned into nearly 5 hours and I’m nowhere near caught up even though I got...

24
Jul
2023

NOT TAKING IT PERSONALLY

I just had the rudest response I think I’ve ever had in my life to a phone call I was making. I’ve never been a telephone salesperson, thank god, because I can’t imagine having to deal with responses like this on a frequent basis. Karin did it for awhile, working for a company in Lund that did telephone sales for things like magazine subscriptions. She said, generally speaking, that only old people were pleasant, and only because they just wanted someone to talk to. When I get the rare sales call myself (we’re on a no-call list), I at least...

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