Tagged: thisisjusttosay

22
Nov
2010

WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST

I only have one more day of photos from our Italian adventure to edit and post, but I don’t feel like it right now. I’m feeling a bit disappointed (disappointed!) (does anyone else hear Kevin Kline’s voice yelling that every time they use the word?) (No? Just me?) with myself over having posted so very little this past couple of months. Really, I could do better, couldn’t I? I remember the days when I posted all the freaking time. Yeah, glad that’s over with too, but honestly, a LITTLE more effort would be appreciated. Up duff, Slaughter-Ek, etc. It’s just...

15
Oct
2010

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE

What I really want to do at the end of a week like this is collapse, muddy & exhausted. But the adrenaline rush of the last several days…weeks, heck who am I kidding: MONTHS keeps me buzzing long after I should have. The to-do lists have been decimated, both at work and at home, and even though there is ALWAYS something still to be done, it will just have to wait: work, for Monday, and home, for when I get back from Boston. I’ve been so busy this week that I’ve not had a lot of time for noodling around...

10
Oct
2010

PLACEHOLDERISH

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...

19
Sep
2010

SLEEPY SUNNY SUNDAY

The kids forced me to read 3 chapters of The Hunger Games to them today; no hardship since I want to know what happens next as much as they do. We only have 6 more chapters left: we’ll be done long before the discussion date which is set for October 13th. I suspect by then I’ll have been badgered into ordering the next 2 books and we’ll have read them as well. Karin has never been as much of a reader as Martin, but she gets excited by a good story, too. I don’t know that I would call this...

07
Sep
2010

SNAPSHOTS

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...

31
Aug
2010

YES, BUT THEN WHAT?

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....

21
Aug
2010

PASSING TIME

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...

07
Jun
2010

WAITING FOR RAINBOWS

Today, it rained. Relentlessly. The only time it stopped was during the half hour in which my son and his classmate had to walk up to my office after school. I had told him that if it was still raining “like this” that morning, that he could call me and I would come pick them up. So, he was grumpy when he arrived. There was no inspiration on tap for making dinner when we arrived home. Frankly, I’m out of ideas and back to recycling meals and sick of everything I can come up with. My kids answer SUSHI to...

04
Jun
2010

WAY TO GO

When I came home from work on this third of a string of three gorgeous blue-sky-sunshine days it was to find my daughter lying on the trampoline in the sunshine with a friend, my son writing diligently on some extremely involved project he’s working on that mostly consists of lists of clans and names and monsters (much reading of the D&D Monster Manual going on right now, even though he’s never actually played a game), my husband outside in the front yard ripping moss from the lawn with a moss ripper, my father-in-law cosily ensconced in the living room watching...

16
May
2010

SO THEN WHAT HAPPENED?

It’s hard to unwind and relax into a long weekend when you’re as used to go-go-going all the time as I am. I had to deliberately stop myself from checking work email. I had to force myself to stop, drop and go back to my book instead of latching onto a project. But it wasn’t as hard after the first day as I thought it would be. Even with a dog in the house, I managed to sleep in. It actually helped that it was such crappy weather all weekend long: chilly drizzly cloudiness. My hair has been barking all...

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