Tagged: wonderfulworld

20
May
2012

PERFECT REFRESHMENT

The last time I had a 4-day weekend I was super-productive. This time, I’ve been a total slug. A super slug! I HAVE done laundry, because you pretty much can’t NOT do laundry when you’re a family of four, but otherwise? I’ve read and read and read and slept in and watched all of season 3 of The Big Bang Theory and gone for walks and sat on the porch and sat on the trampoline and done nothing much of note. Sometimes the slug just beats the bee. It seems to be harder and harder to find things to write...

13
May
2012

SPARKS DROPPED BY THE SUN*

It’s another short work week for us, made even shorter for me by the fact that I’m leaving tomorrow at the end of the working day for the UK, an overnight trip to visit a big security tradeshow that our company is participating with 2 huge booths at. It’s the first time at this job, in over 7 years, that I’ve had a chance to go to one of our tradeshows and I’m thrilled that I will be able to go as a guest, so that I can see firsthand how all the materials that I/we create are put to...

01
May
2012

SPRING FLING

It’s the first of May! Here in Europe and in a large part of the world, that means Labor Day. However, since it’s a day off, and yesterday, being a “pinch day” was also a day off, in fact for us it was a NON-labor day. It’s been a nice long weekend, with lots of sunshine and walking the loaner-dog. I had a to-do list of about 20 things that I divided up over the 4 days, which meant nothing was stressful and it included things that I’ve been meaning to do for ages, like iron those 3 tablecloths from...

28
Apr
2012

APRIL IS A PROMISE THAT MAY IS BOUND TO KEEP*

Another long weekend; April is replete with them! I’m both glad about it, because aaaaah: long weekend! And stressed because we have so much to do at work and aaah! short week! Ah well, it’s not like I’d get done with the work. It just keeps coming in, anyway. It was raining this morning so I made a long list of household chores and things to get done and have been steadily whacking away at the list, while watching episodes of The Big Bang Theory on DVD inbetween. The sun came out a couple of hours ago, and I just...

17
Apr
2012

A PIEDI

I started walking again, officially yesterday, even though I walked all weekend because we were in ITALY. I mean: going for a walk. One of the really great things about Martin, who is pretty great in lots of ways, is that he always says yes if I ask him to go for a walk. And then we get to talk and laugh and have really great discussions to boot. Honestly, it’s crazy that I don’t do it every day; that’s how rewarding it is. In the midst of all our talk, Martin was telling me Things His Classmates Don’t Know...

21
Mar
2012

HOLES TO HEAVEN

When the sky is clear at night and pitch black, we can see millions of stars. We can make out constellations (though sadly, we only know about 4 of them by heart) and we can practically reach out and touch the moon when it’s clear. It’s so CLOSE. It’s so bright! The moon isn’t full tonight, but the air is clear as all get out, which it was today as well, after the heavy fog cover burned off just past noon. The sky was a translucent robin’s egg blue, all over, with no flaws and no clouds. The flags around...

07
Mar
2012

WAITING FOR SPRING

Being alone makes me introspective; how could it not? I think about things I don’t normally have time to think about, when there’s no pull of constant obligation tugging at my sleeve. I wonder what I’m doing here, what I’ve done, if it was worth it. I’m not done yet, not by far, but sometimes I wonder what exactly I am planning to do with this “one wild and precious life”. (…time passes while I go and read Mary Oliver poems online…) Dichotomy at play: years of experience fill me up and yet there are so many things I haven’t...

10
Nov
2011

STARING AT THE SUN

This morning, as we drove away from the neighborhood, I was completely boggled by the rising sun. This has happened to me before and it’s hard to not drive off the road and instead keep myself concentrated on what I am doing. The sky was fairly clear and the sun was rising just above the horizon line…it moves quickly at that point by the way…only a couple of minutes and it was all the way up and diminishing in size rapidly. But what struck me was not the daily fact of sunrise, or the clear sky and fact that it...

06
Oct
2011

HARBINGERS

Sugar beets on the edges of the roads Sugar beet truck traffic causing the village speed limit to be lowered to 30kmh…ARGH Seasonal satisfaction about not ever having bothered to put up blinds in the bedroom The annual tussle with Karin about why it is no longer okay (read: warm enough) to continue wearing shorts Honking v-formation flights of southbound swans and geese The welcome disappearance of flies and mosquitoes A major disinclination to crawl out from under the covers in the morning Double rainbows over Flyinge thanks to simultaneous rain & sunshine Daily morning ice-scraper use to remove condensation,...

06
Aug
2011

BU-BU-BU-BUBBLING

Several people who had been there, before we actually went to Iceland and saw for ourselves, when trying to describe the landscape of the country referred to it as a moonscape. In the late 1960s, Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew came here to train for their impending moonwalks, so I guess the impression the place leaves is accurate! Our last stop on our Mývatn tour was the Leirhnjúkur geothermal solfatara. It is a very stark area, devoid of trees or much growth other than the ubiquitous lichens and moss on the ancient lava fields surrounding it. A solfatara...

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