Tag: Swedish

March 3, 2016Uncategorized

I’m gonna need more cannons

The big news in Sweden today is that the Crown Princess gave birth to a boy during the night. One of the coolest things about this is that when a […]
February 29, 2016Uncategorized

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 […]
February 4, 2016Uncategorized

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 […]
January 22, 2016Uncategorized

Swedish problems

I like that I live in a country where this story has dominated the headlines the entire week. Someone drew a penis on a frozen stream in the snow in […]
January 18, 2016Uncategorized

Garden & Gun?

One of my Facebook friends posted an article about Matthew McConaughey the other day that discussed his love for the New Orleans Garden District. All of the comments were on […]
November 11, 2015Uncategorized

If we all just chip in…..

I live in an apartment complex. We have an incredibly boring middle space between our two buildings with nothing on it because the building company decided to “keep the nature,” […]
November 3, 2015Uncategorized

The airport in Sweden – what else did you expect?

I took this at Arlanda airport in Stockholm last week when we returned from our trip.
October 31, 2015Uncategorized

A Swedish Halloween

Happy Halloween all! We had a Halloween dinner last night at a friends’ house and the kids got to go trick-or-treating. That’s right – LAST NIGHT, October 30. But this […]
October 2, 2015Uncategorized

Stock Footage Man, you will die!

News from Swedish researchers today claim that tall people are more prone to developing cancer. All I could think of in this article was this poor tall man in the […]
June 25, 2015Uncategorized

More language mistakes

Why do Swedes have to make the word “to hear” (höra) and “whore” (hora) so similar? This is really bad when I’m writing about something that happened. “You should hear […]
June 16, 2015Uncategorized

Riddle: What do all Swedes do when it rains?

Answer: They go to Ikea of course! (ok, not really a riddle… more of a question…. and pretty lame, I know.) We made our bi-annual, required by Swedish law, trip […]
June 15, 2015Uncategorized

A distaster of Swedish proportions

This headline is in The Local Sweden online news today. Once again, if this is the biggest disaster Sweden faces, I’m glad to live in this country.
May 6, 2015Uncategorized

Idiots on a plane

A very loud and annoying Swedish woman was sitting in my aisle on the AIR FRANCE plane back to Stockholm. (Safety announcements given in Swedish, English and then a recording in […]
February 26, 2015Uncategorized

My husband – Mr. Synth Pop

If I haven’t mentioned it before, my husband sings in 2 synth bands – Art Fact and Sine City. He has a concert for each coming up soon, plus a […]
February 11, 2015Uncategorized

Abba reuniting?

C’mon. I can’t be the only one who thought that when they saw the headline.
February 6, 2015Uncategorized

A magical word

“förnämliga” That is the word I had to translate the other day (I work part-time translating documents from Swedish to English). As you see, it can have vastly different meanings. […]
January 22, 2015Uncategorized

It should be against the law….

The Swedes know he rest of the world would never define this fusion of substances that were never meant to be served together as "cake.
January 15, 2015Uncategorized

Please remove this creature

I wrote the doctor here in Sweden to make an appointment to have a mole removed. I may have mis-translated.
January 2, 2015Uncategorized

Your friend died. Go play some Xbox.

I may be getting better at Swedish, but I still make mistakes. Our kids each had a friend over this week. One of the friends went home early and the […]
August 22, 2014Uncategorized

Parliament (Not featuring George Clinton)

My 9 year old asked me some questions about the upcoming Swedish vote, so I decided to take him on a tour of Parliament. Sometimes it pays off to live […]