Tagged: thisisjusttosay

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...

04
Oct
2025

SLUG START, ACCOMPLISHED AFTERNOON, UNEVENTFUL EVENING

A major storm has swept in over Sweden and down here in Skåne we’ve been having high winds and a total downpour all day. It’s supposed to continue through tomorrow as well, so I’m quite glad that a) we have no plans that require leaving the house and b) I have an excellent excuse to be a slug all morning, which is what I did today, after falling back asleep at some point around 6 and sleeping all the way to 8:22 am! Highly unusual these days. I stayed in bed and read and played iPad games and such for...

11
Aug
2025

THERE’S A LIST FOR EVERYTHING

New things I’ve learned lately how to play and appreciate Sudoku, photo editing using neural filters in Photoshop, how to set and disarm our new house alarm Latest downloaded apps BoWelle, Everyday Puzzles, Merlin Bird ID Things that have made me laugh recently This commercial with Samuel L. Jackson for a Swedish energy company’s new snacks, conversations with my family while celebrating my birthday at Åben, a whole conversation about Theo’s love for licorice Things that made me happy recently painting pottery with Martin, Theo, Lisel, and her daughters, having what might have been the last lunch and gelato at...

29
Jul
2025

WHAT’S GOIN’ ON

Soft start is apparently over. Came into work this morning to find a whole pile of job requests had come in over the evening, over 20 of them. I managed about 6 quite quickly, and then Elin and I had a meeting to go through the rest and divide them up. There were at least 3 that are waiting for one of my colleagues still on vacation, but we managed to delegate most of the rest to either her or myself, and then I kept an eye on the queue during the day and took several more as they came...

09
Jul
2025

HUMDRUM DATES AND PLACES

My entire sick leave/vacation has filled up with appointments, lunches, dinners, and other events. There is something scheduled for every day of the calendar next week! And I still have to wash all the curtains! haha! It’s nice to fill my days with fun things to do. I’m even going to Copenhagen next week TWICE. On Monday, Anders and I are meeting one of my second cousins and his wife for lunch, and on Wednesday, Camilla and I are going to the Gauguin/Degas exhibits at the Glyptoteket. We’re having dinner with Barbara and Paul on Thursday, and Saturday is a...

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