A friend of mine wrote today about having wished on a falling star and then realizing that the wish was her old standard wish and she didn't really even want it anymore and then wondering if there is a five-second rule with wishes like there is with food on the floor (I saw that episode of Mythbusters too!).

Which made me think of a recent wish ( Read more... )

I started a list of 100 Weird Things About Me an incredible FIVE years ago and only managed to complete it through to 35 things. My dear friend Sara sent me an email today in which she mentioned my 100 Weird Things list and I felt a gentle little PUSH. Sure there are more than 35 weird things about me. More importantly, as I discovered during parts ( Read more... )

Carol moved to Sweden from Florida because she fell in love with a Swede. She and her Swede had a daughter together. Their family, complete with a cat, lived in a beautiful big house out in the country. She was an upbeat person who lived her life to the fullest. It was always good to spend time with Carol - despite the fact that she was a Gators ( Read more... )

Yesterday's threat of falling skies and disappearing LiveJournal prompted me to do something I'd been meaning to get around to ever since I got my new laptop: download my journal to my hard drive.

Once the download was done my screen was displaying my very first LJ entry, written not so long after I'd moved to Sweden. I ended up on the sofa for a ( Read more... )

It was a busy, moving-around-a-lot kind of day that ended in a trip to Copenhagen with a friend to visit another friend. An evening of girl talk where one topic led to another and we laughed our butts off all along the way. And we went out to pick up an order of amazingly delicious and creative sushi.

Sometimes when you order sushi your order yours ( Read more... )

On Facebook (as many of you know) one can update one's "status" with a quick sentence describing what you're doing, how you're feeling, whatever...which is immediately broadcast to everyone on your "friend's list" (basically everyone you currently know in your real life plus a handful of people you thought you'd never hear from again plus a few ( Read more... )

I'm going to the states in a couple of weeks to visit my family.

One of the things on my happy list is letting Michele decide what my next haircut will be. I'm giving her total free rein over my hair. She's booking an appointment for me with her hair guy.

But...

The TV commercial in which they use the song "Broader than Broadway" made me curious about ( Read more... )

Sweden has only very recently begun recognizing a national day and hasn't yet quite worked out which traditions are right for the occasion. Björn and I took a bike ride into our small town's park on the big day. A very out-of-tune band played a couple of tradtiional Swedish tunes. A family played accordian and guitar while the young son sang the ( Read more... )

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Sara (my friend in Latvia) told me that one of the things she loves about our friendship is that it's not only "low-maintenance", it's "NO-maintenance". That is to say that she and I can have no contact whatsoever for months at a time and when we do make contact again, it's not all, "Oh, I'm so sorry I've been out of touch, can you forgive me?" It' ( Read more... )