Tagged: thisisjusttosay

25
Mar
2010

THIS HAPPENED; THIS, TOO

Two words: Moose sushi That’s what I had for dinner tonight. I met up with my neighbor Catherine and her husband Nik for dinner after working late and before book group, and suggested a new sushi place in Lund that a colleague had highly recommended and it was great! They only opened a month ago, and they have 2 tables plus a couple of counters, and they’ve decorated in Early Swedish Attic and all their ingredients are local or environmentally-friendly. So, no tuna but lots of creative sushi creations which included (variously) moose, duck, apple, horseradish and red onion. DELICIOUS....

18
Mar
2010

:(

My best and oldest friend’s son died yesterday. Just over 20 and gone. She called me today to tell me and I was so shocked and horrified I barely knew what to say to her. She told me a story once, when I was visiting them, and he was still a child, about how she had given him a hug and he had said to her, “Mommy, when you hug me, hearts fly around my head!” I can’t imagine what she’s going through. I can’t imagine anything that will help her or ease the pain or make any difference to...

15
Feb
2010

LUCK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

I’ve been lucky so far—I don’t have a lot of wrinkles and have hopefully inherited the youthful skin my mom and her mom were blessed with. However, having blurry eyes day after day and a job that requires staring at the computer for 8 hours, plus wanting to keep up with my online life at home in the evenings has meant nothing but SQUINTING for what feels like ages. I can’t see a damn thing. It’s a good thing I know how to touch type. ARGH. And I’m giving myself wrinkles to boot! *** Martin and I went to the...

02
Feb
2010

BITS BITS BITS OF TID

It’s been blizzarding all day: snowing sideways roundabout upsidedown. There is snow on half the windows and condensation on the others, which makes it very difficult to see out, when we look to see if it’s still snowing…which it always is. Clifford the Big Red Rock is sitting in over a foot of snow with a whitecap on his head. All my shoveling gone for naught! If I didn’t have to drive 2 kids to school tomorrow and if I didn’t have a Very Important Meeting first thing in the morning, I might be tempted to play the snowed-in card....

28
Jan
2010

SNOW SHOVELING & MENU PLANNING

I don’t feel much like writing. Listening to myself think all the time is dull. I already know what I’m going to say. It snowed sideways yesterday, for most of the day; the blizzard we had been promised. Indeed, it lived up to its fanfare, dumping nearly a foot of snow over the course of the day. It wasn’t very wet snow, despite the speed with which it stuck, and when I went out in the still chill evening after the storm had passed, to shovel the drive and the walkway, it was a double-puff duvet of white sparkling beauty....

10
Oct
2009

MIND GAMES

Martin and I were leaving the house to go for a walk this afternoon, after I got home early from work. We stepped outside the door, and as I was locking it, with my back to the backyard, I said to him, “Martin, go close the playhouse door.” His eyes got all huge and he said, “How did you know the playhouse door was open?? You’re not even looking at it!!” as he started running away behind me, toward the playhouse (aaah, the never-ending pleasure of instant obedience). “I’m a mom! I have eyes in the back of my head!”...

08
Oct
2009

HONESTLY!

What a busy week! It seems only yesterday that I posted but it was Sunday! And now it’s Thursday! Zooooooom. Not over yet, either. It’s been all AWC, all the time. I’m officially no longer the Editor, which is a weird feeling. I went through this several yeas ago, when I gave up the Editor position for a year and took a break from the board work, though I helped out a bit with the web work that time. This time, I’ve just moved positions on the board, and am still 1/2 of the webteam, which probably means nearly as...

01
Sep
2009

DOING MY BIT FOR ECONOMIC STIMULATION

Hi there! I know, I know, I haven’t written in AGES. I have no excuse. Well, actually I do, but whatever. I flew to America on Saturday morning and I’ve been busy playing and working and shopping and shopping and shopping since. And I’m not done yet. Wheee! And every night we come back to the hotel, mom and I, and pretty much just collapse into bed because it is very late and we are very tired from all the shopping. I have been to the bookstore thrice. *happy dance* Nutshell report: Flight delay, hate customs, saw my suitcase go...

20
Aug
2009

LOOK! UP IN THE SKY!

There’s no way to capture the blue that the sky was today. It shifted through a spectrum of blue from power to powder to cobalt. The blue of a sky like today’s sky settles in my skin and warps around all the contours and makes itself a part of me. What is so compelling about a cloud-devoid heaven? Is it the forever falling upwards, the lift of your head, the endless eye? There is another moth inside the house on the wall. I don’t know what kind it is, but there have been several of this particular kind in the...

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