Tagged: thisisjusttosay

22
Aug
2021

THE END AND THE BEGINNING

Sunday night and we’re nearing the end of August, the end of summer, the end of vacation. Tomorrow I actually have to get up early because the furnace people are coming to replace something in our furnace. But that’s good because I need to start resetting my inner clock…I’ve moved my work start date up and will be starting on Thursday this week instead of Monday next week. I talked to my manager about it, and told her that I felt like I was wasting my vacation days…home, doing nothing, no plans, etc. I’d rather be working, honestly. I had...

15
Jul
2021

INTERLUDE

Dang. I try to be better about writing and then another week slips by, with all the posts still unwritten and in my head. I’ve been very conscientious about posting my daily good things on Facebook but then I don’t get back online, seated in front of the PC at the desk to write here. I’m home alone at the moment. Anders left early Wednesday morning with a friend, on motorcycles, heading up the west coast of Sweden for several days. It’s their 4th annual trip and they spend it searching for and going to as many little weird museums...

30
Jun
2021

SIX MONTHS, A SECOND SHOT, SOCCER, AND A SHOW

How is it already the last day of June? Why do we let the time fly by without making sure we savor it…it goes so fast. Another year, half down. I got my second vaccination shot yesterday. Camilla had given me a tip, given to her by a friend who knows a doctor: take 2 Alvedon (equivalent to Tylenol) before your second shot and 2 after to avoid the side effects. It worked for me! I took 2 tablets half an hour before my shot and 2 again half an hour after. My arm was slightly tender and “heavy/blocky” feeling...

06
Jun
2021

SORRY NOT SORRY

Don’t apologize. You don’t have to say you’re sorry for not writing. Don’t think people are checking in every day to see if you’ve bothered to write (and thereby entertain them). No one is waiting on the sidelines for your words, your thoughts, your random scribblings. You just write when the muse strikes. When the timing and the motivation line up and the stars align as well. When Mercury isn’t in retrograde (Mercury’s always in retrograde) (Don’t worry about stupid Mercury, it has no bearing on this). It’s not an assignment. There’s no deadline. There are so many moments when...

23
May
2021

YOU HAD TO BE THERE

We watched the entire Eurovision 2021 final last night and in the last half of it, during the voting, the four of us were texting madly in a group chat. Martin, in Detroit, wasn’t able to watch it as he, my mom, and my sister, were in the midst of taking boxes and furniture to my mom’s storage unit an hour away. So he was very engaged in us keeping him up-to-date in real-time on how the voting was going. Karin was watching it at a friend’s place. The following conversation took place AFTER the final results were announced (much...

16
May
2021

NO ESCAPE FROM REALITY

It’s forecast to rain all day and this coming week but the sun has been doing its best to stay out and I went for a walk around the village, enjoying the sunshine (had to remove my jacket!) and the greenery. The cherry trees and magnolias and spirea are blooming. The magnolias, especially the bright pink ones, are such ridiculously pretty pink popsicles of trees. Columbine and forget-me-nots and pansies are everywhere and every field looks carpet-bombed by bright yellow dandelions. Out in the fields, the rapeseed is reaching its neon-yellow heights. And I saw a pied wagtail! The first...

13
May
2021

MOMENT WITH A MAGPIE

Yesterday, we had lunch out on the deck, in the sunshine. Karin was here for a quick lunch for 30 minutes. It was lovely. Later in the afternoon, after I was done working, Anders and I sat out in the sun for awhile again. I had my book and the sun umbrella up and I just sat and enjoyed the green of our yard, our hedge, the trees, the newly planted seedlings in the vegetable garden, the pansies in their pots. I had filled up the birdbath earlier, and while I was sitting there, I saw a magpie alight on...

11
May
2021

HEARTBEATS & BIRDSONG

It’s the prettiest time of the year. All the flowering trees are in bloom: yellow, white, pink, and all the trees that don’t have flowers look like they’re blooming too: bright neon green. I went for a walk around the village and had to restrain myself from taking photo after photo of trees. Trees are so pleasing in their new spring finery. I walked through the pear allé and admired all the white blossoms overhead. Tulips and daffodils and pearl hyacinth are blooming and our yard, along with everyone else’s, is polka-dotted with sunny circles of dandelions. Out back, a...

13
Apr
2021

DON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME)

Man, it’s *crickets* around here…even more so than usual. I don’t think I’ve ever gone this many posts with so few comments. I don’t know if it’s because of the stupid LJ issue with telling anonymous commenters that they are banned (they’re NOT! YOU’RE NOT! COMMENT ANYWAY!) or people’s general malaise or what. I know I’m one of the last diehards out here blogging, but it’s such a marked difference from even a couple of years ago. And I’m just as culpable as anyone else. I read a few last-blogger-standing blogs out there too, and rarely comment. I’m much more...

18
Mar
2021

THINGS TAKING UP SPACE IN MY BRAIN, FOR BETTER OR WORSE

Vaccine envy I am thrilled that my mom is getting hers this week (1 shot) and Martin gets his second dose next week. I’m happy for all my friends and relatives who have gotten theirs or have their scheduled. But I’m aggravated that there’s no knowing when we’ll be getting ours here. Everything is delayed, maybe by as much as 4 months. SUCK. Hate crimes What is WRONG with people? Why are so many people so scared of others who are different and feel the need to be hateful to them? Just be KIND to other people. How hard is...

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