Tagged: thisisjusttosay

16
Mar
2026

JUST SAYIN’

(Warning TMI ahead) Welp so much for my long stretch of not being sick…the last time I was sick with something that WASN’T colitis was the stomach bug that hit me last April, and was the bug that kicked off the whole colitis debacle. I was sick Friday night, started about 1 am and I wasn’t sure if it was food poisoning or what (ate sushi with Martin and Theo around 8 pm earlier)…stomach cramps, then retching and vomiting, and then, oh joy, my old friend diarrhea. It’s Monday now, and still having that though the rest of it was...

11
Mar
2026

I SNEEZE, THEREFORE I AM

One would never know that I’ve been on this planet for SIXTY-ONE AND A HALF YEARS and that ALL of those years have contained a Spring season. This past week my eyes have been itching terribly, I’ve been sneezing my head off and feeling strained and tired and yet it took an embarrassing five full days of this for the lightbulb to finally light up above my head yesterday evening after a bout of itching, sneezing, and rubbing my eyes so severe that I was nearly crying, with the realization that DUH…allergy season is here! Spring is sprung! ATCHOO! As...

14
Feb
2026

LAZY, BUSY, WORRIED, CHILLY

I was so lazy most of yesterday…had the day off and really needed it, apparently. I didn’t sleep in, but I basically didn’t do anything of use the entire day until I had to leave for dinner at Camilla’s with her and Debbie. So it was a day full of leisure: reading, playing iPad games, working on a crossword puzzle AND a jigsaw puzzle, watching the birds, having breakfast and lunch. I stayed in my pajamas until well into the afternoon. I thought about working in the morning but I managed to restrain myself. 🙂 Today, I made up for...

03
Feb
2026

THERE, THEN BACK, THEN UP, THEN DOWN

What a mixed bag of a day. I got up earlier than normal but didn’t stress out about getting ready as I knew I’d need to let my morning bathroom routine take precedence as I did not want to be worrying about finding a restroom on my way to Malmö in rush hour traffic. I got disentangled from the sleep apnea test equipment (went fine, no problems, as far as I know, though we’ll see what the results say), showered, and left the house at 7:30 AM confident that 2 toilet visits would see me through. Wrong. Almost to the...

24
Jan
2026

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

It’s Saturday just after lunchtime, and I am determined to write something here, so here I am. The whole week got away from me (again) even though I thought about writing a post several times. Winter has a grip on us and work has turned crazy already so my mind has been elsewhere. It’s a month past the solstice and I would like to feel that the light is returning, but it’s still so dark and cold and wet. We HAVE had snow and several very sunny beautiful clear days but they’ve been bookended by the usual cloud cover, and...

07
Jan
2026

A VACATION FROM MY VACATION

There’s something so wonderfully monotonous about the slowing down of time during vacation, if you’re home and not traveling at least. The way your sleep clock slowly turns itself over and you find yourself staying up until the wee hours and sleeping until 11 (or at least that USED to be the case). I still see it happening a little bit but because I wake up so much during the night, it’s not as easy to turn my internal clock upside-down anymore. But time slows down generally if you don’t make plans. My plans are little ones that involve home...

13
Dec
2025

ONE WEEK TO LIFTOFF

We’re so bound to our bodies, aren’t we? There’s no real way to escape these bags of flesh and bone that we tote about the world, looking out of them with organs that turn and blink and interpret via another organ that steers everything. It’s hard to imagine that the fine-tuned muscle machine we’ve always relied on is slowing down, is corroding, and is eventually going to just…stop. No one told me that after I turned 60 things would just start falling apart so fast, but that has definitely been my experience. I thought I’d have at least another 10-15...

10
Dec
2025

DECEMBER DELIBERATIONS

I was trying so hard this year to post more, and I can’t tell if I’ve succeeded…I think so…? Will have to see how fat my printed blog book for 2025 turns out to be when I’m done with it in the beginning of the new year. It’s crazy that it’s nearly the end of another year. I went to the mall after work and picked up the very last Christmas present that I needed. So now I am totally done. I hope. haha ha I even got the secret santa gift for work, and some tissue paper and pretty...

02
Nov
2025

NO SINGULAR EVENT TO DREDGE THIS DAY FROM FUTURE MEMORY*

Look at this first. It made me laugh out loud just now. Same, crow. Same. I feel the same. The second of November and perfectly squandered. Not because I didn’t do anything. I did. (want the list? It’s further down, because I love lists and I can’t help myself). But I didn’t do anything IMPORTANT. I didn’t go anywhere important. But it’s okay, because more and more I realize that I need as many recharge days as possible right now. Nowadays my ambitions are quite small. And that’s okay. I’m okay. I didn’t even have a list today, I just...

17
Oct
2025

GETTING OUT OF THE WAY

The other day, I was driving from Lund to the new Costco, which is on the outskirts of Malmö. Normally this drive would take me about 15 minutes, but due to the fact that E22 which is the “highway” that runs between the two cities is under construction most of the way through Lund, and that there was apparently an accident somewhere, plus just CRAZY rush hour traffic, it took me more than twice that. The growth explosion of both of them has also not been compensated for in the infrastructure of the roadways at all. Malmö is the fastest...

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