Some blog posts back I said that yoga was da shit. Now, I have now changed my mind. Dance is DA shit. I love to dance. I never got the chance as a child as my mum really is a combination of the Wicked witch of the West, Snowwhite’s AND Cinderella’s step mothers (no she…
Category: Life in general
A little wish
While I was dying of my minor ebola case last Friday night. I heard both the Mr and our oldest feeling for me. I woke up every 30 minutes to rejoin the bathroom. And all Saturday I tried to catch up the lost sleep of the night before and getting my body back to status…
So that’s settled then
It’s clear that our youngest will not work within the medical field. At the slightest chance of seeing blood on TV (or anywhere else) , he has something better to do elswhere. Just like his grandmother then… ;). It is also clear that I am eating up my day in bed yesterday. I am now…
Celebrate good times
The best thing about being self-employed is the fact you (or I) celebrate new assignments. I can’t remember anytime I celebrared the fact I had a job to go to. Maybe I should’ve. Never mind. I do it now.
Yoga
Said it before, will say it again. Yoga is da shit. I guess the Mr says the same about Destiny. Haven’t seen him all night…
Morons
I know that at least one previous colleague of mine knows what I’m talking about. But is it not so, that you, like me, once in a while, find yourself surrounded by a bunch of morons. And, you have to go to the bathroom, stand infront of the mirror and look yourself straight in the eyes and…
Finding the words
I thank my blogger friend Kenneth for putting words to a growing frustration in my world. It has become so clear to me, especially in the world of social media, that people are not able to read ANYTHING that doesn’t correspond to their own belives or order, without getting defensive. I feel like more and…
Happiness on a Friday morning
What is the better moment than now, to feel happiness and gratitude? When I woke up my boys this morning I felt nothing but gratitude for the fact that they are in my life. Great feeling to acknowledge
Been blogging for a while
I started this blog in end of 2007, so for the fairness of it, let’s say 2008. That my friends, is six years. Six years of sharing more or less important widsoms and parts of my glamourous (irony) life. With a try of comic twist and half-bad English I have lens myself to friends, enemies…
A good person
I know it might sound presumptuous. I am well aware that I have a recoccuring (not totally sound) hybris. But do you know, I really, truly do not give a s**t. During the last days I received some really nice feedback. Of who I am. Not what I do (because there I am not quite…
One of those days
I admit, I am not used to working 5 days a week. I am not. Good? Bad? I don’t really care, I just settle for the fact that I am not. Looking at an old photo that I took of Fabian and the Mr when Fabian was only a couple of months old, I felt,…
Curveballs
Life. It is an ongoing process. It happens now and now and now… You make plans, you set goal and usually it (life) just continues. Same, same and maybe slightly different. To be honest, many of us, we like it that way. But sometimes life throws you a curveball. The curveballs you truly, really don’t need….
Accepting what they are not
If you ask me I have together with my husband created the world’s two most wonderful children. Wonderful in every sense of the word (at least when I forget when they are both human and children…) We probably all know that all our children are not perfect, they should not be. They are children and foremost…
Post vacation / pre-work analysis
Hmm… four weeks. After four weeks of absolute nothing and everything, it is time to get up and get dressed before 10 o’clock in the morning. It is clear that I love to be around my children and husband doing “nothing”. That nothing meaning to do whatever we feel like (and this summer we also…
Time
She hadn’t seen it coming. She wasn’t prepared. She wanted someone to pull the emergency breaks because it all went too fast. Yesterday, in his tall statue (she realized he must have grown two inches over the summer) with an ease she herself didn’t get until her late twenties, she new it was coming to an…
Another day another doll…
Vacation continues and before the first rain hit we captured some more rays and crabfish, today we went to Laxvik.
A paradise on earth
I think there are as many paradises on God’s green earth as there are people. We visited one of our’s today – Hallands väderö. Visit Sweden in the summer (a good summer) and visit Hallands väderö. Crab fishing beats any computer game any day.
Vacation
Life hasn’t stopped, we are just on vacation and looking forward to two and half more weeks of it. Beach, soccer world-cup, swimming, head injuries, friends, wine, more friends, ice-cream, biking, sun, movies, books, playing cards, late mornings, parties, dancing, more wine, tennis, jellyfish (the stinging kind), wasps (also the stinging kind), bbq etc etc….
Half year report
In four days, I have for six months depended on my own skills, expertise, experience and persona in a slightly different way than the other 32 half years I have had a full time job. I have worked with three new companies that I had no prior experience with and signed a contract for a fourth. I…
Normcore… really
I am really intrigued by the fact that there is a trend for people to look untrendy. That “these people” need a trend to do allow them to be average. But with the very important twist they are it consciously. I can’t be normcore since I am and always been unconsciously average when it comes to…
Happy midsummer
Happy midsummer from us! Enjoying some tranquile time under our beech tree before the serious party with friends starts. Why No hubby under the tree? Guess who is working the night-shift…?
Music is good for the soul
For me, music is liberating, it goes diectly into my soul and I cry and laugh to it. It doesn’t matter what kind it is, as long as it makes you feel good, it is good. This song makes me feel good, makes me happy: Com’ on peeps, sing out loud and dance!
Noooooooooo
Not a good sign. We are getting sloppy. Not regarding the cleaning, we have been sloppy about that for years. Our anniversary! How could we miss it?! More staggeringly, how could I miss it?! Last Wednesday, 21 years and not a card, no anniversary wishes. Probaby a kiss or two and a squeeze on the…
Following your heart
It is cool when you can witness someone else’s happiness in real time. Like yesterday when Sam was on his Taekwondo green belt grading. He didn’t pass, his selfdefense needed some more practice. But if you could see the pure joy in his eyes when they were to sparr with a “red-belt guy”. Gee, he really…
Signs
Today, I have seen many signs that I am on the right track to my happiness. A while back a young girl got kidnapped, raped, partly cut in her face and lower abdomen, beaten half to death and left on a field to die by an ex boyfriend. She got her future ripped in pieces. Her dream and…
Good day
Today I am grateful for our children. They are really good at taking responsibility for themselves when they need to. Today I also got a compliment for my outfit (which NEVER happens for several reasons) from our oldest. The younger one was giving us a private concert when he listen to “Love me, love me”…
The power of development
Change is often foreseen as scary. The usual assessment is: change brought by others are is more scary then the one you inflict by your self. But I wonder. How many times have we not ducked when a chance of change have knocked on the door and we have let it pass with a number of “well-thought” arguments. When you…
40 is the new 20, party people and gratitude
I will share some pictures from a surprise birthday party we went to yesterday. What an honor for us, what a surprise for the birthday child and what a day, evening, night and morning it was. The scenery could not be much better, the party was set at the beautiful Tosterup castle, the weather was…
Mousedog
I mowed the lawn yesterday, the Mr. took care of someother garden chores. Buddy the liondog (ridgeback) sat on the elevated patio observing us and his lands. All of a sudden the Mr. whistled for my attention. I came over and saw the liondog with his nose in the dirt by the lilacs. A MOUSE!…
Today I feel…
… like this (for the big 4 0) is not totally off the charts. Happy week-end all.
WRONG!
Something is totally wrong here. Totally messed up. Week-end over?! WTF. It was so much better to be employed working part time – NOT! Let’s sing it!
Sometime it is better to…
When working as a writer you sometimes have to “kill your darlings”. Sometimes when you are with people you need to…
Friends
What makes a person a friend? The last days I have reflected over my friends. Why are a handful of people extremely valuable for me? It is so simpel, they are people like me who a pretty fine with who they are. They are people with dreams. Dreams and aspirations, but who choose not only lock…
This happy stuff
Currently I am failing miserably at this “happy” thing. I do have short highs, but something brings me down all too fast. This is nothing new. This is how life (mine) is and one gotta continue to live. Personally I need to find some new truths and adjust my world to something that it clearly…
Contempt
It must be some kind of loathe, I can not interpret it as anything else. It almost happens at the exact same time each year, when my husband shows such a unhidden contempt towards me and our children. He must truly despise us. Or why would he otherwise do it? And continue to do it. Year, after year,…
At the top while at the bottom
Even if the header is slight exaggeration of my current status I can not find a better way to describe the man-cold that currently has taken hostage over my body. But even if I am close to death, I joined the rest of the family for a walk in the forrest today. And it was…
Bullshit
I am not that stupid kind of gal. So pleeeeeeease if you can’t tell me the straight up truth, do not communicate with me at all. I really get a rash from BS AND I loose trust in You. Just so we are clear.
Today’s words
I’ll keep it short today. This is how I feel. Darn good song to. Once again, the heck with Jante
Compliment
It is so little that does it for me. Just a few, polite words from a stranger. Who not only like my way of writing (from reading this chronicle, only in Swedish I am afraid) but who also respected me and complimented me on my way of living (and this guy knew what he was…
To change or not
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” ― Charles Darwin I read his quote on a restroom wall in Lisbon, Portugal once and since then it really stuck to me. In my strive for personal happiness I live by it (even if I, at times, am…
This thing called parenting
It is not easy to be a parent. Just as little easy it is to be a kid with parents. During my 11 years of motherhood I have developed and improved my ways. From a totalitarian to more a more coaching approach. And I do find it more intressant, more rewarding yes, better with my “new”…
Cool
I’m watching our youngest at swimming school and I just realized that both sons can crawl. I guess I am impressed as I have never learnt fully myself.
All over the place
A Swedish royal once said: “My feelings are all over place.” That’s is exactly what I feel right now. Exactly.
Goals
Sittning in the couch with our two offsprings watching Madagaskar II. The Mr is off on his soccer team’s training camp in Denmark. This morning I had four goals: 1. Mow the lawn 2. Turn the soil in the garden land 3. Take out the bbq for the season’s first bbq. 4. Fixing the trampoline…
And then the shit hits the fan
Yes, that is life for you after a happy day on the beach.
Every other
Nowadays the Mr’s and my lives are really overlapping. When I am at home, he is away and vice versa. When I fall a sleep on the couch he is awake and vice versa. The evil cause is soccer. And shift work. And starting your own business. I say it is temporarily. It better be….
Mohahahaha
I love being evil. Love it. To be a telemarketer must be the worst occupation ever. Especially if they get my number to call. I am never rude, I only answer their questions (which they never expect ending up with us talking in each other’s mouths). I am always very polite and this manner make…
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