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Why I should never bake

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

When Marius and four of his colleagues helped us move last Tuesday, I promised myself one thing. I should thank them properly. Words were not enough, oh no! I should thank them in the shape of cupcakes. Pink cupcakes. With hearts on them. Of course! Big burly men need pink cupcakes, and now was the time to make sure they got some. So tonight, while Marius assembled his umpteenth piece of Ikea furniture, I put on my apron and set to work. I emptied bags and mixed in water. I got out the special muffin cups with roses on them. I made pink frosting. In my head, I was making this:

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While in reality.. Oh god, I can’t believe I’m showing you this:

Now, I can explain the burned bits. It’s the first time I’m using the oven in this apartment, and it seems to get a bit over-excited. I used to correct temperature, darn it! The wonky shape, however.. That one I can’t explain. One minute they looked fine, the next there had been formed some kind of batter-volcano in each muffin, resulting in wonky growths. Which again explains the uneven frosting-application.

I am going to be the laughingstock of big burly men tomorrow.

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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.

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Freebies

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

I thought it was time for some pictures again, after the sparklee of the last post. I know, I know, a sparklee. It was unavoidable, though. My happiness could not be expressed in any other way. A lot of new stuff has come my way today, so I thought I’d show it to you! Like I need more stuff, less is definitely more when it comes to moving. But I’m also a sucker for freebies, so what can you do. First item up:

New earrings. I had a gift card left over from Christmas (Thanks sis!) that I had to use, and found these pretties after work yesterday. I went straight back today and got them :)

A rubik’s cube. I don’t know why my workplace wants to hurt me, they must not know how  scared to death I am of any kind of IQ-type game. I can do colors, I can do words, I can hit notes and draw a mean giraffe. Puzzles leave me sweating and angsty. I still haven’t started twisiting it, because once it’s messed up, it will never look this way again, ever.

Nokia sweeties! I guess my job don’t want to hurt me after all. I must say, of all the phone manufacturer sweeties I’ve tasted so far, Nokia’s knocks everyone elses out of the ballpark. If the whole phone thing ever collapses, they should start selling these!

Nokia backpack. Supported by my foot, because I’m classy like that. Only the hallway had proper lighting, shut up.  Notice the lack of huge logos. Love it!

Another freebie – more snow than I’ll ever know what to do with. Spring is right around the corner, right? … Right?!

In other news, we’re going to see our new apartment again tomorrow, and I’ll ask very politely if I can take a few photos to show you. Sunday is contract signing day, and on Tuesday we’re having the first person to come over who might take over the apartment we live in now. Things are moving so fast, I absolutely love it. Only thing left to figure out is who’s available to help us move – we don’t have a car at all, we’re not muscle men, and we have tons of stuff. I have a driver’s license, but I’ve never driven in Bergen before, so that’s out of the question. I have a feeling we’ll have to whip out some serious bribes :)

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Creative blogger award + things that appear out of nowhere

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

I have received a creative blogger award from the lovely Gudrun of hodetmitt.no! Thanks a bunch hon! I now have to write 7 things you didn’t know about me. I’m not sure there’s much left by now – the archives go 6 years back in time, after all! But okay, let’s give it a go.

1. I’ve written two bachelor papers – one on the use of Medusa in art, and one on the land art movement. I didn’t have to write two, I chose to :)

2. I still own a Furby.

3. I hate robots.

4. I used to play the flute and sing in choirs.

5. I hoard perfume, I’ve got way more bottles than I’ll ever empty. I currently switch between Chanel’s Chance and Boss Orange.

6. I LOVE note books.

7. I’ve watched the movie Mean Girls more times than I’d like to admit.

Phew! Ok, on to part two of the post:

Things that appear out of nowhere.

What’s that big black square in the corner..?

I came home one day after work and THIS was in our apartment. I had to give back my borrowed Intuos 3 before Christmas (BIG thanks to my brother-in-law Tom for lending it to me!) and was very sad to see it go. So imagine my surprise when this thing appeared out of nowhere! Marius has decided to pick his drawing hobby back up, so he bought himself this baby without telling me. I’ve been assured that I’ll get to borrow it as often as I want. Whee! <3

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I love the mailman

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

This is a good day. It’s a Saturday, which means that I don’t have to set a single toe outside the front door if I don’t want to. I’m not a hermit, but it’s minus 10 degrees celcius outside. If I can stay inside watching trash on the TV while sipping my favorite tea, well then that’s exactly what I shall do!

Marius, however, has set a few toes outside, which enabled him to get today’s mail. And there was something there, something for me! But first, let me show you a present I got from Sofi of yarrkarping.com last week:

It’s a necklace! Can you see who it is?

Watch my fins. Watch them!

It’s Fiskulf!! New readers might not know who the hell Fiskulf is – He was my Siamese Fighting Fish, whom I often blogged about when he was alive. So often, in fact, that he had his own tag! Sofi is the nicest :)

So yes, both mailmen and Swedes in Scotland are awesome. And so is moo.com!

I felt fancy one day before Christmas and ordered my very first business cards! And not any old cards, no – these are 50 cards, each with a different favorite photo from my flickr photostream on the back. I get to be fancy, give away my contact information, and show off my photography at the same time! Delivery was kind of slow, it took three weeks from the cards were shipped until I had them, but I’m willing to let that one slip seeing as they were shipped right before Christmas. The cards weren’t expensive at all (160 NOK if I remember correctly) and the quality is pretty great. Moo.com gets my seal of approval :)


Have a good weekend, everyone! Got any fun plans?

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