Month: February 2016
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Will the language mistakes never end?
Once again this weekend I told a kid he was going to die. Actually, the last time, I told a kid that his friend died, so this time it was […]
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Mini Metro is the reason for my downfall
I realize that I haven’t written much on my blog the past week or two. Normally, I’m quite good at updating every day. I blame this lack of blog activity […]
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New book coming soon!
When you have around 6 months of winter and darkness here in Sweden, you can do one of three things. Take a vacation to the sun (smartest idea, unfortunately, I’m […]
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This really irritates me
Someone posted this in a Facebook group yesterday. Here’s my problem with this every time I see it in a movie… In most of these movie situations, the person is […]
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Librarian work is way more exciting than I thought
This job ad came up over the weekend. It’s for a library assistant. I think they’ll get a lot of applicants now.
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Why Sweden is awesome
Today’s news story in The Local about police letting a suspect go ‘because it’s Friday’ has inspired me to go back and put a list of other news stories (yes, […]
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Old Timey Days
Our son (11 yrs old): Our class wants to do an “Old Timey Day” at school. Us (picturing frontier times, bonnets): That sounds great! Our son: Yeah, like […]
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It’s semla day!
Today is Fat Tuesday. In Sweden, this is known as the day when we EAT ALL THE SEMLA! What is a semla? It’s pastry awesomeness. That’s all you need to […]
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‘Scuse me while my pigeons die
This was my 8 year old’s interpretation of the famous line in Purple Haze this morning when I played it for him at breakfast. People often mess up that line, […]
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Sure, I’ll join your club!
A letter came yesterday from the pharmacy. There was a letter congratulating me on joining the pharmacy club plus 2 coupons. My husband asked, “When and why did you join […]