Dr. Darling drove Elsa back up to Halmstad yesterday afternoon, and given that I’m still recovering from my cold (and the fact that we were just up there last weekend), I decided to stay home and get a head start on de-hairing the apartment. Elsa always leaves a thick trail of short coarse black hair …
Monthly Archive: February 2005
Feb
27
2005
Feb
26
2005
Hell hath no fury like a cold ignored…
So after three days of “playing through the pain” I’ve finally given in to it. I’m home today (and not being paid, dammit!), but only because I promised my boss that I wouldn’t come in to the office unless I was feeling significantly better this morning. I wasn’t…in fact I woke up coughing with appears …
Feb
24
2005
I hate having a cold…
And I especially hate having a cold in Sweden. Why would the location possibly matter? I can give you two reasons. One is the paltry selection of over-the-counter cold medicine. (I know a number of ex-pats who have lived here for years and they're STILL importing cold meds from their home countries.) The other is …
Feb
23
2005
So NOT fair!!!
The only thing worse than having a cold is living with someone else who has a cold. Dr. Darling thought she might have been coming down with one last night (while I was absolutely certain that I was) and tonight she’s sneezing, snotting and snorting right along with me. (So much for my dreams of …
Feb
21
2005
Ponder with me, won’t you?
This week is "sportlöv" in the Swedish school system…which is basically the equivalent of "Spring Break" for students here, except that Spring isn’t even a speck on the horizon yet. And because the kids are out of school, lots of families are on vacation this week…which means there are plenty of seats to be had …
Feb
20
2005
So it’s not church…
…but it’s probably as close as I’ll ever get to sharing a religious activity with Dr. Darling on a Sunday morning in Sweden. We’re watching a British documentary that looks at the actual history behind "The Da Vinci Code" and the Holy Grail. This is miraculous on several levels…not the least of which is that …
Feb
18
2005
Why do I rarely blog on Thursdays?
Appropos of nothing really, I’ve recently noticed (courtesy of the little archive calendar in the upper-left sidebar) that Thursdays seem to go entry-free alot here at ShazzerSpeak. I have no idea why this is…it’s not even a particularly good TV night. That little calendar would also seem to indicate that weekends are being neglected as well …
