Tagged: martinbean

28
Aug
2014

FIFTEEN-TWO AND A PAIR IS WAIT, WHAT?

I don’t know why we don’t play more card games here, or board games. We have tons of games, and several decks of cards, but for some reason electronic versions seem to win out on a daily basis. I grew up playing games with the whole family, and constant cards games with my siblings or solitaire when I couldn’t get any of them to participate. I used to know over a dozen different kinds of Solitaire; nowadays I only play the two simplest versions, probably because they’re the speediest, which gives instant satisfaction and keeps you playing. My mom’s family...

17
Jul
2014

PINTEREST

What is up with the tired? I come home from work and by 5 pm I am so tired I can’t keep my eyes open. If I sit down on the sofa, it’s all over: I wake up 2 hours later. If I power through and do things around the house, by the time 8:30 rolls around, I have to prop my eyelids up with sticks and they ACHE with tiredness. I’m not tired when I get up, even though I’m not sleeping all that well (too warm, too bright, gotta pee, whatever) I’m not tired at work. It’s just...

19
Jun
2014

ANTICIPATION

Wheeee! Vacation! At least a week plus 1 day, plus 2 weekends, so altogether 10 days off! I didn’t get everything done that I wanted to at work, but it wasn’t my fault…late responses or no responses from people I was waiting for answers from, and a miscalculation with an IT person that came to fix a problem and ended up making it worse so that I lost nearly an hour and a half of working time. But, whatever: vacation! Martin has to have surgery on his arm. We went to the hospital call-back on Wednesday, a week after the...

11
Jun
2014

SUMMER BREAK

I was so glad for the fact that I didn’t have a lot of meetings today at work…I thought I’d be able to get a ton of work done, especially on a couple of complicated layout projects that needed some extra time and focus. The morning was spent getting the monthly enews (33 different versions/languages) finalized for distribution but after lunch, I was going to hunker down and chip away at those projects until they surrendered. Except, I got a phone call at 1:20, and it was a young woman whose name I didn’t hear at first, calling to tell...

11
Apr
2014

WHAT’S UP

It is such a long time since I posted that I feel like the veriest tyro. A blogging beginner. Again! Today was spelunking day, and on Monday I got sick with a massive head cold. …NOOOO. I was determined that NOTHING was going to hinder today’s appointment so I medicated and rested and took half a day off and another morning, and by today I was fine, though a bit stuffy in the nose, still. Compounded by allergies, I am ALWAY stuffy in the nose, so I figured I could get away with it. Off to Landskrona we went, and...

07
Feb
2014

EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY TONIGHT

Conversation at the dinner table Martin: We had a test in French class today Liz. Oh? On what? Martin: Useful words Liz: Aren’t all words useful? Martin: Well, paraplegic is less useful than inside, for example Liz: *giggles madly* true Then the three of us, Anders, Martin and I (Karin is spending the night at a friend’s house), had a long, drawn-out conversation starting from the fact that Martin asked me if I knew what longer word the Swedish word kompis was from. Kompis means friend. “No, I don’t,” I answered. “It’s from kompanjon,” he told me. Adding an “is”...

04
Jan
2014

WHAT’S GOING ON

2014! I have only worked two days, since last week was a short week, and next week is a short week too, with this 3-day weekend inbetween and the fact that I have next Friday off to go to the hospital and have the you-know-what RETRIEVED and REPLACED. I think all the weekends should be 3-day ones. Don’t you? My first project on my giant long project list is done: cleaning out the computer room closets and organizing the cables. OMG the cables. When I spread them all out, they covered the dining room table. And then I found some...

07
Dec
2013

FIRST SNOW & FIRST BORN

We were a bit worried about heading over the bridge to Copenhagen yesterday evening, joking around that we might have to spend the night there, if the storm worsened. We’d been enduring gale force winds for over 24 hours with no signs of stopping even though the afternoon had seen some sunny spots between blowing layers of clouds. The temperature has dropped drastically, too, but it wasn’t raining that much, thankfully. There were four of us last night, only Angie wasn’t along for the fun, and we met up at the parking garage at the Hyllie train station outside of...

21
Nov
2013

MOSTLY KIDS, WITH A SIDE OF STUFFING

Our Internet was totally spotty yesterday and kept cutting out completely, so with the slowdown, I just couldn’t get up the ork to sit down and write a post. Plus, CAKE BOSS. Martin warned me loudly and vociferously about the slippery slope dangers of The Learning Channel, which I had never previously watched anything on, and didn’t even know we had. “It’s the channel with HONEY BOO BOO, Mom!” he exclaimed, in utter disgust at my naivete. “Ohhhh,” was my response, “but but but CAKE BOSS.” haha! I don’t really care about Cake Boss. I was just filling time waiting...

16
Nov
2013

16 THINGS FOR THE 16TH DAY

1. We are almost completely out of toilet paper. Someone emptied the stock without writing it on the shopping list, prompting an angry harangue from me. Everyone insisted on their innocence, so it was apparently NOTME that did it. 2. We have friends coming over for dinner tonight that we haven’t seen in ages. Anders is making a feasty menu that includes pulled pork sandwiches, spare ribs, American coleslaw and twice-baked potatoes. I am adding a green salad and making dessert: white chocolate & raspberry pastries with ice cream and mini-meringues. 3. I dusted the house and now I can’t...

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