I’ve been an American citizen for almost three years, and yesterday I got a notice in the mail letting me know that I’m needed for jury duty. The excitement! I know I’ll be the only one there with a big smile on my face, trying to take in everything. I can’t wait.
Category: immigrant
tasty stuff
Almost 18 years in the United States and I finally made a traditional Swedish cream cake with strawberries on top. More strawberries inside, along with a vanilla custard. The sliced berries on top are humongous! Note the doily underneath. I made that too.
me? my name is ‘ladda’
Dan and I went to the movies today, and one of the previews was for the History Channel’s series ‘Vikings’. As I was watching it I realized there wasn’t one Scandinavian actor to be seen, or heard. Which gave me the same chuckle as the English language version of the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: English speaking actors playing Scandinavian characters that don’t know how to pronounce their own names. In The Girl, etc. Daniel Craig knocks on a door and says “Hi, I’m Mikael Blomquist”, butchering both his first and last name beyond recognition. It’s too funny, and too unnecessary.
where have you gone, joe dimaggio?
I’ve loved Simon&Garfunkel for as long as I can remember. And, since I was a kid all through the 1960s, I think that’s actually, literally, true. They’ve always been there. They’re part of the image I created for myself of the United States. Simon&Garfunkel, Bobby Kennedy, the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, The Lucy Show, The Flintstones, ice cream and milk in a glass, and a hand-me-down dress I wore until I grew out of it. The dress was made from blue and white sear sucker, and it had red trim. It was American, and had been given to me by a family who had lived in the US for a while. Civil rights and Lucille Ball, a girl’s dress. I was 7.