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Sunday, March 7th, 2010

I’m not ready to show you the apartment just yet – we had our last trip to ikea yesterday, so the place is still riddled with half-assembled furniture and empty cardboard boxes. But trust me – it’s starting to look really good. I’ve somehow managed to pick out a lot of lighting, and I thought I’d show you some of it here – my egg-lamps that I got today, some Christmas lights in one of our smaller rooms – and there may or may not be a chandelier in my immediate future. I might have already bought it. Time will tell! ;)

I’ve worked today, so I haven’t had much of a weekend yet. Maren and Kenneth invited us over for brownies, so I’ve basically stuffed my face tonight. The only sensible thing to do, really, seeing as I’m getting oral surgery tomorrow and will probably have to stick to soup for a few days. Damn wisdom teeth, they cause nothing but trouble.

I’m still madly in love with the apartment, by the way. There are crazy pigeons outside our windows at all hours of the day, and because of the slanted walls in our bedroom, I can see both the starry sky and the snowy mountains from our bed. The place is so old that the toilet has it’s own room separate from the bathroom, and there isn’t a single perfectly straight wall or even floor to be found. I plan to live her for many many years :)

Ok, that’s it for tonight – keep your fingers crossed for a non-scary dentist experience tomorrow!

Bridal shop, round two

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Let me first of all say – there won’t be any bride photos this time around. Bride’s orders. The wedding day is getting closer and we’re all getting a bit superstitious ;)

Now, I have all sorts of love for the fact that Maren and Kenneth are getting married. First and foremost because they’re wonderful people and a great couple, but also because I’m learning SO much about weddings from being around them. There’s so much that has to be taken into consideration! Things like: Can we get married in this church if only one of us is a registered Christian? Big wedding or small wedding? Did you know that it can take five months from you order your dress until you get it, for example? I had no idea! And everything costs a fortune!

But it’s also curing me for some of my wedding phobias. You see, I’ve never been that girl, the one who dreams about her gown or her big giant wedding, the one that sits around envisioning “her” day. It has just seemed like a whole lot of work. I’ve worked in the kind of shops that couples traditionally register their wish lists in, and I’ve seen my share of manic brides with apathetic grooms-to-be in tow. “Honey, do we want this overpriced vase or this overpriced vase? This white china or that white china?” Or you get the bride flying solo, the martyr, the one who sighs and tells you all about how she has to do it aaaaall by herself and practically expects you to hang a medal around her neck right then and there. So yeah, I’ve been a bit vary of the whole wedding thing. Okay, very vary. Okay, scared shitless.

I’m also getting a newfound understanding for people who choose to spend thousands of dollars on gowns. Maybe not on wedding dresses, but gowns in general – they’re so well constructed! The fabrics, the boning, lacing, pearls.. I could spend hours just looking at how they’re made! They’re pieces of art, and every trick in the book has been used in order to make sure that you look stunning as hell while wearing them. Oh, if only one could afford couture..

But yes. To sum it all up – weddings = yay, gowns = yay, Maren and Kenneth = yay! I can’t wait for their big day :)

Ready, set..

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

First of all – Happy Valentine’s, Norwegian Mother’s Day AND Shroventide! One Sunday, three holidays. Cards have been exchanged, chocolate has been received, and calls have been made to mothers. Maren and Kenneth made sure we were fed shroventide pastries yesterday (cream and chocolate filled buns, oh my!), so I really feel like I’ve been celebrating properly this year. I’m not Christian, but I do love the Christian holidays and the delicious pastries that follow them!

Besides eating, I have started packing this morning. I have started to realize how many jackets and shoes I own, and of course, how much crap I’ve kept around that I don’t really need. As soon as we’re settled into our new place, I’m taking a suitcase full of clothes to the Salvation Army. Just because the new place is bigger doesn’t mean I have to fill it up with things I don’t use, right?

Boxes have been acquired…

And filled with stuff…

Clothes have been stuffed into plastic bags…

And the only things left in my closet are the things I might wear over the next week.

Things we’ve been given but never unpacked are really looking forward to being unpacked into a brand new kitchen, I’m sure!

And when I’m done, I can eat my V-day chocolates.. :)

She sells seashells

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

I guess it’s time to post something other than google screenshots and youtube videos, huh :)

When I walked home from work yesterday, at 8pm, I felt like le poo. I’d been getting strange people on the phone all evening at work, strange beyond the usual head,-meet-desk slash facepalm variety. We’re talking notalwaysright.com levels of strange. So I trotted home through the ice and slush that covers the streets of Bergen these days, passing passing people on their way out to parties while trying not to glare at the girls in stilettos and mini dresses and thin thin pantyhose. I thought to myself, “I don’t care how hot you may look, it’s not worth getting your bits all frozen!”. Then I realized that I sound like I’m about 50 years old, and felt even crabbier.

It did get better, though. I met Maren and Kenneth on my way home, I got to whine a bit and I got a hug. Aw, friends! Then I got home, where Marius had prepared dinner for me. I had told him I wanted gratinated pasta, and he had completely misunderstood me. I’m not allowed to elaborate on this – I asked over and over again if I could please get to photograph his dish, but no luck. I still spent some good ten minutes laughing, though. Aw, boyfriends. I did give him an A+ for effort.

In other news, I finally received the moonstone ring I ordered! The photo doesn’t quite do it justice, so click here if you’re curious about what a moonstone looks like :)

My dirty mouse mat doesn’t quite help doing it justice, either.

I’ve also borrowed a Nokia n900 from work. As far as phones go it’s a giant and weighs a ton, but I love it. It can do everything and then some. I no longer want an iPhone. Let me put it this way – I haven’t owned a Nokia phone since my Nokia 3410. But now they’ve won me back over.

Ok, time to start the day! The landlord is coming over to inspect the apartment later today, so I need to do a bit of tidying :)

Pleasant surprises

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Things that wait for you on your desk when you get home from work…

Original here.

What a great way to end the workday! It’s too bad I don’t have time to properly dig in to neither the magazines nor the book right now, but I shall do it as soon as I possibly can. I just got home from work (9pm), so I consider myself excused. It is now definitely dinner time, so I have to sign off!

I also have to add published photographer to my resumé, cough cough.