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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 :)

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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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Vanity post

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Today I wore a hat that I bought on ebay a few weeks back

It’s fluffy and I love it and I ordered it in black as well.

I also cleaned my makeup brushes, because clean brushes feel really nice

And I tried my new purchases from MAC – Studio Sculpt foundation, Select Moisturecover concealer, and Select Sheer/Loose Powder.

Actually, I’ve had today off from work because I’m working Saturday instead. It was grand – I got to sleep in, watch Oprah, drink tea and read blogs all morning. It was just like being a student again! Then I went to meet up with Maren in town to see “Valentino – The Last Emperor” at Bergen International Film Festival. Highly recommended for anyone who has an above average interest in fashion! Now I only need to get my hands on those two Coco Chanel movies plus “The September Issue“… Maren wanted to do some shopping afterwards, so I tagged along – without buying a single thing. I am saving up for when it’s time to move, after all!

That’s basically it – I have a busy weekend ahead of me, so I don’t expect I’ll have time to sit down and breathe again until Sunday. Got to go enjoy the rest of my evening :)

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Poserific

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Happy Saturday-day everyone!

I worked till 8pm last night, and was pretty much beat when my day ended. I walked home with my friend Ida, who had to stop my H&M on the way to buy a top. I ended up finding this gorgeous blue cardigan there, even though I’m technically not allowed to shop these days. I can’t help it, I love the faux fur :)

I still haven’t got the hang of outfit photos at all. How models manage to make their faces and bodies look good at the same time, I have no idea. I had to censor out my face in that last one. I also had to censor out a roll of toilet paper that we used while cleaning yesterday. (If you mention the fact that the apartment doesn’t look clean at all, I will slap you ;)

I also borrowed a new phone home from work, an iPhone 3G this time. MUCH better than the HTC touch pro, which I hated with a passion. I actually quite like the iPhone. Ok, fine, I love it. Not only does it work fantastically, but all the applications look so good, and I quite enjoy writing texts and emails on it too. I have to hand it back in on Friday, and I think I’ll miss it quite a lot. But till then, I’ll use the hell out of it!

Also, some of you asked about the dry shampoo I mentioned in my last post – Norwegians can buy it in salons, or in stores like Vita, there are a lot of different brands out there. I use the one pictured above. You spray it at the roots of your hair, massage it in, let it work for about a minute, and brush it out. Your hair won’t look as good as it would have if you actually washed it, but much less greasy, and will probably buy you another day before you have to wash it properly. Fantastic for those mornings when you want to sleep juust five minutes longer!

That’s all I’ve got today, my eyes are really tired from some odd reason. I’m just going to sit back for the rest of the day and knit and watch trash on the TV, I think :)

Have wonderful evening!

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