Five ingredients to make a day better. Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, and, well.. Chocolate! Photo 15 out of 365.  A sort of wonky attempt at short depth-of-field there – you see, our apartment is getting dark and I was too busy lusting after the chocolate to get my tripod!

It’s amazing how 5 little pieces of quality chocolate beats giant bars of milk chocolate each and every time. Less chocolate, but the same level of satisfaction. Ah, sweet sugary goodness.

Stores in Bergen are open until 1am today, with sales everywhere, and I didn’t manage to stay away even a little bit. 50% of on lamb wool sweaters at Benetton, can you blame me? I would have walked out of there with three, but they didn’t have  my favorite color in my size. These were also really cute though, and I’m sure they’ll see a lot of wear once summer is over. I also got nail polish (big shock there) and “Ponyo” on Bluray, I re-stocked my favorite MAC foundation.. And bought a pen. Don’t laugh, I am really picky about my writing instruments!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to sit down, pretend I’m a grown-up, and pay all my bills ;)

Like today. On my spending account I had 700kr left to last me till Tuesday. That’s not a lot. What did I do? I spent 200 of them on nail polishes. A huge pink from China Glaze, a matte top coat from Isa Dora, and a perfect sea green from Gosh. Now, I do realize that this one is nobody’s fault but my own, don’t worry. Can’t blame everything on poor Maria.

And that includes this. Now, This has been collected over a longer period of time, don’t worry. But still, I don’t know a lot of girls who can show this level of obsession. When I fall for something, I fall hard. Go big or go home.

And the poodle nail stamps will. Be. Mine! ;)

Glittery French manicure..

And the world’s most perfect anatomical heart necklace. To me, from Etsy.

I also ripped a hole in my gym pants right before spin class (on the bum, no less!) and had to go buy new ones. I like to think of it as the Universe telling me the weather was far too nice to spend the day at the gym ;)

I’ve never been one to resist a good hair flip ;)

Today has been another wonderful spring day. Marius and I went shopping, and he reminded me of everything I would have otherwise forgotten – stores worth checking out, food I needed to buy, he even reminded me to buy wine for the 17th! Celebrating the Norwegian national day without a nice bottle of wine? It would have been a disaster!

I also found the striped top and white cardigan in the pictures above, and I made Marius buy a tie that would match the dress I plan on wearing on the 17th. I think I’ve found the thing I love the most about living in the middle of town – being able to stop buy the apartment and leave shopping bags behind before heading back out again!

We’re home for good now though, I think I’ll make some burritos in a little while, and maybe go out and take some pictures? Who knows. I love not having plans :)

You see, the first part of my Wednesday was awful. I won’t get into details as it’s work related, but I will say that in my line of work, I encounter people every day who are less than happy with something. It’s part of the job and it’s really no problem, because most of the time both parts are able to keep it at a reasonable and polite level. I really don’t mind angry people. What I do mind is people who are unreasonable and rude, and yesterday I got them by the bucket load. I was yelled at and called names, one costumer after the next. A few once in a while I can brush off, no problem, but when you get a good handful in a day, it wears you down quite a bit. By the time I got home, I was ready to slip into my sweats and take a nap.

I look like poo today, so you get a photo of my sister and the dog instead ;)

BUT! I noticed that I had received an invitation to the re-opening of a Lindex store nearby, and decided to grab Maren and check it out. There were promises of pretty clothes to look at and a musician to listen to, so I figured, why not? When I got there, it turned out to be a much fancier event than expected – first of all, there was a guest list. And it turned out, I was not on it. It turned out to not be much of a problem, someone was asked and I was let in. I later remembered that I received the invitation through my blog’s email address, and that my last name can’t be found anywhere my blog. I can’t blame them for not putting down “Maja the Piranha” on the list ;)

Anyway, the event was nice – there were nice clothes and music by Magnet, little canapés to nibble on and free champagne. I felt a little confused  as to why I was invited, but hey, no complaints here. Big thanks to Mammadamen who invited me! Oh and when we left, we each got a little goodie bag containing sunglasses, a scarf, moisturizer, makeup remover and some product samples. Maren and I went to look at bikinis afterward – I highly recommend doing this after three glasses of champagne, by the way, it makes the who thing a lot more pleasant!

Today I feel much better, thank goodness. Work has been back to it’s usual level of pleasantness, and I’m on my way to check out Maren’s wedding dress! I wish I could promise you photos of it, but I’m not allowed to post any photos until after the wedding day in October ;)

Ok. Phew.Time to show you around the apartment some more, I think! Today’s room is my office/girly room.

I haven’t been able to figure out which photo to put in that frame yet. Any ideas? :)

This is my little closet nook. Clothes in the closet, boots on the floor…

Shoes on top of the closet! Speaking of shoes, see the brown ones in the back?

I got them today! 220kr, 50% off, real leather. Hooray! Now I just need that pesky snow to melt. We’re nearly at 3 months of snow now.

I looked like this today. I think this cardigan might be my favorite from the Rykiel collection :)

In other news, I went to visit the Mulberry Alexa today. I was THISCLOSE to buying it, I’m not even kidding. My heart started racing and I didn’t want to leave the store. I think I might have to get it a little sooner than I initially planned. At this rate, I’ll be surprised if I’ll even be able to wait until May!

Oh, one last little tidbit. I pre-ordered this baby right here. I got a really nice discount through my job and I just couldn’t resist. it’s the brand new HTC Desire. I can’t wait to get it!

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!

Happiest thing that happened: Moving into a new apartment. It’s big and the location is great and the rent isn’t bad at all and I LOVE it! I also got to see one of my photos in print in a book.

Worst thing that happened: I don’t think anything bad has happened. It’s been a great month for me.

Biggest annoyance: All the crap we’ve accumulated over the years that we had to take with us to the new apartment. What were we thinking? And why, WHY did we ever buy the guitar hero drum kit?!

Looking forward to: Spring, as always! I really miss the sun.

Favorite food: I’ve eaten a lot of crap this month. A lot of chinese food. Yum!

Pampering: None. Lets put it this way – you do not want to see me in shorts right now. Just call me momma bear.

Favorite workout: None. I’ve been preoccupied with moving and packing and cleaning of old apartments and buying of furniture. Getting back in the saddle this week :)

Favorite TV-show: None, I don’t have TV at the new place. Pout! But Marius has been downloading Chuck and Better of Ted, and they’re surprisingly funny.

Favorite thing: Our neighbor’s unprotected wifi <3

Favorite persons: My parents. I wouldn’t be living in a new apartment right now if it weren’t for their help! Also, the four guys who helped us move.

Discoveries: I can’t bake muffins. Not even the just-add-water kind.

Best buy: A lot of new furniture. We have a dining table now! We’ve never had a dining table before!

Worst buy: None. I’ve been a good girl. All good buys :)

Wish list: I can’t mention a single thing, that would be kind of greedy. I am perfectly content right now.

Favorite blog: Unhappy hipsters.

Blog annoyance: I’ve been too busy to reply to a lot of comments. I promise I’ll get better!

Tips for myself: Start working out again. Seriously.

All in all: February has been fantastic, despite the fact that we’ve passed the second month straight of snow. Oh, and I fotgot to show you this little ebay find.. :)

Now, I’ve done my best to photograph my new things, but outfit blogging is hard and I don’t know how you outfit bloggers do it. From one angle I looked pregnant, from one angle I had wonky legs, and in some my head looked tiny! AAAH!

Stripy sweater, Sonia Rykiel for H&M

Glasses, Bik Bok

Face, madatory

Shorts, Sonia Rykiel for H&M

“I am so blogging this” T-shirt, Cubus

Dress, H&M

Stripy Cardigan, Sonia Rykiel for H&M

Peach skirt, H&M

I’ve been trying very hard to kick my H&M habit, honestly! But this time I just found too many nice things in there. In my defense, I stayed away from the flimsy cotton things that will be unwearable after three trips to the washing machine – I think these clothes will actually last a while :)

So, what do you think?

Now, I’ve always been a lip gloss girl through and through. Whenever I try to wear lipstick, I somehow end up with a perfectly colored upper lip and a completely colorless bottom lip within minutes. But it’s cold and windy outside, and desperate times call for desperate measures. Wind means goopy lipgloss in my hair, and the cold turns my favorite lipgloss (Lancôme’s Juicy Tubes) frosty. No joke, after some minutes outside it looks like something Ice Princess Barbie would wear. So, it was time to turn to lip stick. I love MAC, I’ve never disliked anything I’ve bought from MAC, so I basically showed up at MAC and went “HAI, TELL ME WHAT TO BUY!“. And it worked!

Lip stick feels so deliciously grown-up. You never see teenyboppers with a lip stick in their hand. The name of the shade? Hot Gossip! For me it’s a perfect everyday shade :)

In other news, I’ve been boxed in and might not find my way out of the apartment. If I don’t show up for work on Monday, send a search crew.