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…
Zzzzzzzz – how to see life on the bright side
Watching a moving late (ending way passed midnight) is not good idea if you want to wake up rested at 05.45 am. I know this but suppress this fact EVERY time. Wise, no, but got me a feeling good when going to bed and on e never knows if will wake up to see the morning.
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
Grandchildren
When I grow up, I hope I get the chance to be the kind of grandparent my parents are. During summer the boys spent a week with them and even if my parents are in their mid 70’s and do not have the same energy level as before, they are still amazing. Making the best with their time…
To spell happiness
Happiness can be spelled in so many ways. Like : “Finding your product-id for your Office software after you needed to reinstall your computer”. (And here was supposed to be a video from the 90’s of a song with the words “Hapappapy …ppy.. Feel when wee’re together..” But now I spent 30 minutes looking for it…
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…
21 cm
That is what he needs, then he has passed me.
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.
Satisfaction
The sense of satisfaction when you realize you have mastered something. The moment when you become aware that you achieve what you wanted to achieve. Backlight. No biggie. Not anymore. I just do. What will be my next step on my development ladder?
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….
My fighter
You know our little drama queen, the minor who loves to be the center of attention and who just turned eight? He, even if he knows how to get his older brother in trouble by forcing the big crock tears to his cheeks, is also a fighter. I have witnessed it on the pitch several…
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…
Why worry?
Remember a while vack, I got pissed at my self for my poor planning? Well, it turned out it was OK for me to arrived late to the client on my children’s last day of school and… I was not needed today (tomorrow I will be), which meant I could home the entire birthday of my…
2.35 pm
2.35 pm eight years ago I realized I was going into labour. I was at Tobias’ cousins doorstep and an hour before I had looked at the watch once before, just because. I was 16 days overdue and had met the doctor previously that morning and gotten an ok to be induced the day after. As…
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…
Gone fishing
The Mr decided today’s activity. Fishing. I did what I love almost the most, take pictures without the need to deliver. But please do not be fooled by the idyllic scenes, we had a lovely time together on our excursion, but before and after we were haunted by the offsprings of satan. Really, think twice about…
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…
Ahhhh Sunday
After a effective day (OK hours) in the garden I took the boys to the beach, while the Mr went to sleep for his nightshift. Oh, what a day it was. I had my first dip in the ocean. We ate Sam’s home made mudcake, drank elderberry juice (also homemade), played Uno, read aloud, built…
Sweden
I am in Stenugsund on the Swedish west-coast. I am here for a wedding which I am going to take picture of tomorrow. It is gorgeous. Actually whole of Sweden is.
Fail
This “having your own business” is not as flexibel as everybody claims. Today I realize, I will miss my kids last day of school (which is something I ALWAYS attend) and their fabulous singing AND I will make the biggest error a parent can do; I will not be home on Fabian’s birthday (well, it…
Once upon a time
Once upon a time there was this boy. A hearty, intelligent, creative and happy boy. He was very keen on following rules and making right, always putting excellence as his goal. One of the last days of the semester of his fourth school year he went to school as usual but forgot one very important thing….
Well, well, well
Writing all day long, leaves apparently little energy to write when you are home. I am still alive. And well. And working. All good signs for an entrepreneur. Just very little energy to write.
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”…
Election and Mother’s day
Today I have used my constitutional right (no, not obligation – I mean right) to vote for the European parliament. As always it was extremely important for me to vote. And extremely hard. Who to vote for? I found some key issues that I think is important that the EU drives, that we need to drive…
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…
Example
This video is a great example of friendship (topic in my last post).
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…
The solution to the problem
So this is how we solve the solution to the problem described in my post “Contempt”
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…
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