Tagged: thisisjusttosay

Happy 10 10 10! I said that to Martin this morning and he said he was looking forward to 1 1 11 🙂 It’s a sunny day now, but it was freezing cold and foggy up until just a couple of hours ago. I wasn’t feeling well yesterday and did a lot of sleeping. Still feel a tickle in my throat but hoping I can stave off the worst with copious applications of chicken soup and Tylenol Cold medicine. Since we’re supposed to have dinner with friends tonight, I’d prefer not to be spreading any contagion. I was going to...

A tractor plowing a field, turning under hay stubble, turning up loamy chocolate earth, a line of sentinal storks on either side waiting for their worm buffet. The sun, flat behind them, hiding their red beaks, their black and white bodies, their spikey gangly legs in a flare of brightness; stork silhouettes. The French teacher at Martin’s school, speaking in Swedish so fast with such a thick French accent that I understood maybe 1 word in 10 of what she said at the parent meeting tonight. The English teacher grabbing and shaking my hand with a hearty introduction and a...

Conversations in the Car: Seasons in the Sun comes on the radio just as we’re picking up Frida, Martin’s classmate. Liz: Happy Monday, Frida! Frida: Unnnh Liz: *laughs* I feel the same way but at least we have good music to make up for it! *giggles madly and turns up the volume* Martin: You crack yourself up, don’t you? Liz: *still laughing* Yep! If I relied on everyone else to supply humor I would be a sad, sad puppy. *** Why didn’t I go walking today? What is stopping me? Fatigue, grumps, The Busy. Whatever, my excuses are wearing thin....

Darkening days, rainy & grey, a most-welcome burst of sunshine at the end of the week…suddenly it’s been a handful since I’ve posted, a week, more. Time flows like a snapping ribbon, winding me along with it and even during the dragging moments it moves as fast as I blink. Blink! Another one gone. Each day a precious snapshot of time now past that wasn’t captured or appreciated nearly as much as I would have liked. I sleep a more solid sleep when Anders is gone: I’m not half-awake for hours waiting for him to come to bed and I...

Blah. That’s how I feel.

I’ve had terrible insomnia this go-round with Anders gone. Haven’t been able to fall asleep, keep hearing noises, can’t get comfortable. I usually read until I’m tired and ready to turn out the light, but then I just lie there. And lie there. And lie there. Well, tossing and turning, not really just lying there. How boring. 3 nights in a row so far, and I really hope that’s an out. The sun has been shining for what feels like a week, even though it probably hasn’t actually been that many days. It fills me up and makes my toes...