Tagged: thisisjusttosay

07
Sep
2026

TALKING TO MYSELF AGAIN

Every time I think I’ll be better about posting more often, a week slinks by, and I’m left feeling guilty in its wake. Oh well, no one is reading anyway. Then again, if I really wanted readers, I could return to LiveJournal, or market this blog. I could post that I have posted on FB, but I must not really want readers since I haven’t done it, right? I know my brother reads once in awhile, I know 2 friends read once in a while, and I think my sister does. Maybe my kids once a year? I don’t actually...

01
Sep
2026

A VERITABLE PLETHORA* OF ANALOGUES

This is the way my brain works, and the kind of thing I amuse myself with. In the car on the way home, I was suddenly thinking about the fact that there are so many words for “not straight” and I wasn’t even referring to the ones that have to do with sexual preference. Have you ever realized that? English is SO good at hoarding synonyms. This was brought on, by the way, because I was listening to Christine & The Queens song Tilted. slanted, aslant, tilted, leaning, diagonal, inclined, askew, sloping, offkilter, angled, canted, crooked, lopsided, unbalanced, warped, listing,...

31
Aug
2026

BRAIN DUMP

How is it September tomorrow!? I felt like the year was proceeding at a casual pace, and then suddenly it zippered up and sped into autumn. The sky is a glowing orangeblue over clouds. I made it home right before the deluge, and when I was finished putting groceries away, there was a rainbow arching over Flyinge. Sun on the way in again! After my superslug non-social weekend, it was kind of nice to be back at work today. I only had one meeting, which was excellent because I got a ton of things done and am nearly caught up...

22
Aug
2026

TOE MUCH INFORMATION

My toe was not better by Monday. I have been to the healthcare clinic 3x this past week, and have yet another appointment on Monday next. The salt baths and sore salve didn’t help but at least it didn’t get worse, but it was still really painful by Sunday evening. I left a chat message asking for an appointment, and lo and behold the next morning I had a message from them with an appointment time at 11:45 AM. I saw Nurse Annika and she couldn’t do much because the toe was so painful, she couldn’t really investigate, so she...

06
Aug
2026

THE KEY TO PRODUCTIVITY IS TO ROTATE YOUR AVOIDANCE TECHNIQUES*

It’s only Thursday of my first week of vacation, and I’m already more halfway through my clean/sort/purge list. I’ve done the our bedroom (my stuff at least), study, living room, bathrooms, playroom hallway, dining room, front hall closet, and today I went through all the drawers in the kitchen, and cleaned out the pantry. I still have some of the kitchen cabinets to look through, so I’m not counting the kitchen as done yet. It’s very satisfying: purging. Even when there’s not that much to purge. But the pantry got a MAJOR cleanout, which was way overdue. It’s been a...

21
Jul
2026

SUMMER DAYZ

I am having ZERO luck luring the neighbor’s cat over to be petted. He’s a very friendly cat…from a distance of about 3 feet. Any closer and he turns and casually strolls away, just out of reach. It’s so frustrating. Pspspsp doesn’t work, neither does mrp, or mrrrp, or scritching at a cushion. I suspect if I could get down on my knees or sit on the ground he might be persuaded, but I can’t and sitting in a chair, or innocently leaving the screen door and porch doors open, hasn’t worked either. Curses, foiled again. Today was simply stunning....

10
Jul
2026

SUMMER SERENITY

I don’t really mind working the summer months, though it’s not fun watching almost all of my colleagues take off for 3 or 4 weeks of vacation at the same time. Because I took 2 weeks early, the rest of my summer vacation doesn’t start until the beginning of August, though honestly, I’m considering changing to taking all the Fridays during the fall off again. Even if I take the 2 weeks in August, I can still probably take off most of the Fridays in the fall as I will still have 2 weeks, plus another week of rollovers that...

11
Jun
2026

SPRINGING INTO SUMMER

Spring has whirled into summer without my permission. We’ve been so busy that I have scarcely had time to catch my breath! And here it is, the 11 of June, and this is my first post this month. To be fair, Anders and I left on May 30 for our roadtrip to Normandy, the day after John and family went the other direction, north a couple of hours in Sweden. We were gone for 9 days, down and up again, and I’ll write some posts about the trip later this weekend (or tomorrow, if I get really motivated). So weird...

20
May
2026

A CONSTANT TO-DO LIST

I survived an earthquake today. To be completely honest, even though at the time I DID actually think “was that an earthquake?!” I wasn’t actually sure I hadn’t just hallucinated the slight shiver the world gave, and didn’t think anything of it until Karin sent a message to our family chat asking if we knew there had been an earthquake. I was walking through the hallway to the kitchen when I felt it, and almost immediately dismissed it, since it lasted literally about 2 seconds. I looked out the kitchen windows as I entered the room and saw the neighbor...

01
May
2026

DOUBLE RABBIT RABBIT RABBITS!

Two days in a row where I’ve had occasion to say “Rabbit rabbit rabbit” …that only happens once a year, if at all. Today is May 1st, a holiday here in Europe (it’s Labor Day) and yesterday was Valborgsmässoafton, or Walpurgis Eve in English, which isn’t a day off, but is cause for a traditional celebration here in Sweden regardless. That makes today a double holiday as it is also the feast day for Saint Walpurgia, who would probably be astonished and gratified to learn that her name is still a part of the calendar and that many parts of...

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