Tagged: thisisjusttosay

20
Oct
2024

SUNDAY UPDATE

Apart from the restricted diet I’m on this past week and today, this has been an excellent weekend. We’ve had beautiful, warm autumn weather with lots and lots of sunshine, and a to-do list that has every item but one now checked off. Lots of laundry, cleaning, and yardwork. Anders has harvested the rest of the potatoes and a handful of late carrots and put the vegetable garden to bed for the winter. He took in the porch swing (I put the rest of the porch furniture away last week) and I washed the canopy cover. The house is clean...

04
Oct
2024

FFS

For Pete’s sake, it’s October, and I haven’t written anything in, like, 2 weeks. Despite all the good intentions my road to blog hell is paved with. And who is Pete, anyway? Dear Google, give me the deets. Google coughs it up immediately! According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “for Pete’s sake” came into use more than a century ago and prompted similar sayings such as “for the love of Pete” in 1906. It was a substitution of St. Peter because that was less offensive than taking the name of the Lord or Christ in vain. Interesting. It could also...

24
May
2024

LET ALL THY JOYS BE AS THE MONTH OF MAY, ONLY NOT SO FAST

May is flying by, as is spring, and though I am trying to notice it every day, notice the flowers, the green, the sunshine, the skies, it’s all going too fast, and I can’t believe it’s nearly June. We’ve had nearly 2 weeks of gorgeous warm summer weather, not too hot, but lots of windy days and yesterday it poured rain all afternoon. Which we needed so no complaining. Due to the summer heatwave, all of Sweden is quite dry and that one afternoon of rain wasn’t nearly enough. The lilacs are nearing their end. The 6 lilac bushes at...

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...

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