{"id":10345,"date":"2026-09-07T19:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/?p=10345"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:53:32","slug":"talking-to-myself-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/talking-to-myself-again\/","title":{"rendered":"TALKING TO MYSELF AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I think I&#8217;ll be better about posting more often, a week slinks by, and I&#8217;m left feeling guilty in its wake. Oh well, no one is reading anyway. Then again, if I really wanted readers, I could return to LiveJournal, or market this blog. I could post that I have posted on FB, but I must not really want readers since I haven&#8217;t done it, right? I know my brother reads once in awhile, I know 2 friends read once in a while, and I think my sister does. Maybe my kids once a year? I don&#8217;t actually know, and I don&#8217;t really worry too much about it. It gives me something just to keep my writing irons in the fire. And it&#8217;s fun to print it up as a book at the end of each year. I always print 2 copies. One goes to Martin who has all of his copies with him in his apartment, and one stays here, to eventually go to Karin. So there, posterity! You&#8217;re taken care of!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, my kids will also have to deal with all my stuff at some point. It&#8217;s not all about neatly printed copies of my blog. It&#8217;s all the crap that I&#8217;ve accumulated in my lifetime that fills every drawer, shelf, closet, and room of our house. Anders&#8217; crap, too, to be fair, but I seem to have weighted the scales rather too heavily (there&#8217;s a metaphor for you) in my own crap favor. The vast amount of STUFF in our house is mine, for better or for worse. Most of it is books. Heh. <\/p>\n<p>I just realized that I never removed all the books I have put into bags for the media sale in January from my online Library inventory. I just stopped and got the 2 big bags out of my closet so I can do that when I&#8217;m done writing. This means there is a chance I might regret removing something and pull it out of the bag and put it back on the shelf. According to my library list, I have 1678 books. Minus all the books in the bags, I might be down to 1640? A new project! I should do a new inventory and update my library list thoroughly. <\/p>\n<p>One project was just finished&#8230;I got a gift certificate from Debbie and Camilla for my birthday, for Onskefoto, which is the site I&#8217;ve been using to create and publish photobooks of our trips. I had been thinking it would be good to make a couple of photo books of older trips, where all the images are gathered on CDs\/DVDs which we never look at. At least a book would be more likely to be picked up and leafed through? So I did that over the past weekend: family trip to Scotland from July 2006. Karin turned 7 while we were there. That was 20 years ago. How crazy is that? We&#8217;ve taken lots of family trips over the years, so I certainly have enough photos to make a dozen more books if I&#8217;m so motivated. We&#8217;ll see. <\/p>\n<p>Anders is gone again, for work this time. He just got back on Saturday evening from 11 days away hiking up north in Sweden and Norway with a friend. They did a similar trip last year on a different part of the mountains in the very north of Sweden. I suspect they&#8217;ll do it again as long as they both feel physically up to it. He&#8217;s only gone until Wednesday this week, which is nice, since originally he was going to be away the next 2-3 weeks. The service they were supposed to do got cancelled or postponed or something, but then his boss asked him to go anyway for a few days to do some machine calibrations. <\/p>\n<p>This week is a short one for me as well, in the sense that I&#8217;ve actually taken off both Thursday and Friday. I took off Thursday because originally Debbie and Camilla and I had made plans to go see MacBeth in English at Malm\u00f6 castle in the afternoon, but the plans got messed up: when Debbie went to get an additional ticket for her sister, she found out it was sold out, so I ended up selling the 3 tickets I had bought for us to someone in the AIC, and Debbie got us all tickets to the evening show instead. So I could technically work that day but I need to use up vacation days anyway, which is why I had also originally taken Friday off. But now my kids are planning some fun for that day, as my birthday gift from them. I don&#8217;t know what they have planned, just know that I have to be in Lund at 11:50 (and have already eaten lunch, so it&#8217;s not lunch plans!) and I know that we are NOT going to see the new Spiderman movie (which I&#8217;m kind of bummed about actually, because I want to see it, and it&#8217;s already been in the theaters so long, it probably won&#8217;t be there much longer). <\/p>\n<p>And Monday is now almost over, so only two more work days and then an extra long weekend! Yay! Everybody say Yeahya! <\/p>\n<p><em>*crickets*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mood: just fine<br \/>\nMusic: Charlene Kaye &#038; Darren Criss\u2014Dress and Tie<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I think I&#8217;ll be better about posting more often, a week slinks by, and I&#8217;m left feeling guilty in its wake. Oh well, no one is reading anyway. Then again, if I really wanted readers, I could return to LiveJournal, or market this blog. I could post that I have posted on FB, but I must not really want readers since I haven&#8217;t done it, right? I know my brother reads once in awhile, I know 2 friends read once in a while, and I think my sister does. Maybe my kids once a year? I don&#8217;t actually&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,14,21],"class_list":["post-10345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-beinglizardek","tag-goodthings","tag-thisisjusttosay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10346,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions\/10346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}