Tagged: thisisjusttosay

13
Apr
2024

A RATHER LAZY DAY

Today was sunny for most of it, despite the forecast of rain for the whole weekend. Karin was home (until dinnertime) and she and I spent quite a lot of time hanging out on the deck. It was almost too hot for me, but not quite. I haven’t done much today: 1 load of laundry, took the recycleables out, and sent the US tax forms to myself at work to print because I couldn’t get our printer to work. I also ordered new print cartridges if that counts toward “doing things”. Oh, and Karin and I went to the frame...

06
Feb
2024

IT’S JUST ANOTHER DAY

I am awakened several times in the night by my bladder, as I’ve mentioned before. Last night, the second time I got up, even without my glasses, I could see that it had snowed. Everything was white outside, white everywhere. Blurrily white, since no glasses, but still. It figures because I just put my snowboots away (again). Every time I put them away, it snows. I should know better. But it’s all gone again now, since the temperatures were several degrees upward of 0. And raining instead. Even though we’re all sick of winter, I think I’d rather have snow...

27
Jan
2024

THE DO-NOTHING MUCH FAIRY WINS AGAIN

It’s been a lazy, if productive in its own way, Saturday. Anders left early this morning for a week of skiing up north with his best friend Mats, and I slept in, and then lazed about in bed until almost 11:30 am. What a slug! But I don’t care, because I have no plans to go anywhere or see anyone this weekend, and I’m enjoying it. The sun has already gone down, now it’s 5 pm, and I’m writing a post after spending the afternoon working on my little projects: finishing up getting all the copy into and formatted in...

13
Jan
2024

CENTERING MYSELF IN JANUARY

An old friend shared a hilarious article from The Slate on her FB page, which I laughed out loud about: What kind of Muppet are you? Chaos Theory: A Unified Theory of Muppet Types. The basic premise is that everyone is either an Order Muppet or a Chaos Muppet. I’m pretty sure everyone (including most often myself) thinks that I am an Order Muppet, and they’re not wrong, exactly…but there are definitely days when I am a Chaos Muppet. I identify pretty strongly with Cookie Monster, after all, haha! This is also made me laugh recently, even though it was...

01
Jan
2024

ABOUT LAST NIGHT

I am often terrible at remembering to take photos when things are happening. Last night, New Year’s Eve, we had a lovely evening and dinner here at home, with my two best friends Debbie and Camilla, Anders, Debbie’s husband Ola, and my mom, and the only photo I took was a shot of the menu card I made for the table, because Karin wanted to know what we had for dinner. What we had for dinner: Crayfish soup — Oxfilé served with Potatoes Au Gratin Bearnaise Sauce Roasted vegetables (red onions, cauliflower, asparagus, cherry tomatoes) — Crème Brûlée it was...

20
Nov
2023

REALLY RANDOM

Lately, I keep evaluating songs I’m listening to on whether I’d like to have them played at my funeral or not. Would they send the appropriate message to my grieving friends and family? Are they “pretty” or “mellow” or “thoughtful” enough? Appropriate: Make it Good by Ruut Inappropriate: Gone Baby Gone by Boz Scaggs Appropriate: When You Come Back Down by Nickel Creek Inappropriate: There She Goes by The La’s Appropriate: As I Lay Me Down by Sophie B. Hawkins Inappropriate: Fortunately Gone by The Breeders This morning, I woke up with a disturbing dream still very fresh in my...

13
Nov
2023

MOVING THROUGH MORTALITY

Tomorrow we’re going to the funeral of one of Anders’ friends from high school. He was younger than me. 2 years younger, almost exactly the same age as my sister. He was diagnosed with cancer in April and given 4 months, though he held out for nearly 6. I’ve known him and his wife for a little over 27 years. Their kids are the same ages as ours. The four kids have known each other their entire lives. We’ve gone to New Year’s parties with them, crayfish parties nearly every year, graduation parties, big birthday parties for one or another...

02
Nov
2023

THE WEIGHT OF AIR

Ugh, trying to lose weight is such a pain, especially when you like food. I keep bouncing up and down on the same half kilo, even though I’m pretty happy that I’ve managed to get down 6 kilos (5.5, no 6, no 5.5, no 6, no…SIGH) since the end of the summer, without trying super hard. I read somewhere that most people think that losing weight means you are evacuating it when you go to the bathroom, but the truth is that most of it is BREATHED OUT. Isn’t that weird? How can fat turn to CARBON DIOXIDE? If you...

25
Sep
2023

DOPAMINE FOR A DULLARD

Are you good at procrastinating? I’m usually pretty bad at it. Oh, I can be lazy as all get out, and I can waste time like a champion, but I’m not that good at actually procrastinating. At least about things other than working on losing weight or saying no to cookies. Which, come to think of it, are the same thing. I can spend a good hour or two playing iPad games or scrolling through Instagram posts and reels, but if I really have things to do, especially if I’ve written them down in a list, then I’m pretty good...

26
Jun
2023

LOOK UP TO THE SKIES AND SEE

I can hear thunder in the distance and it’s dripping a bit of rain, though it’s going to have to be quite a bit more before I can leave off watering the vegetables today. I was planning to go walking with Lisel at 5 but we’ve cancelled, which is a bummer. Apparently, the summer weather that’s been non-stop since beginning of May is finally coming to an end and we can expect rain and thunderstorms this week. I wonder if we’ll have the same all the way up north or not. Looks like Karin is getting rained on in her...

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