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Hot Gossip

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Today was harsh. Work on a Saturday, minus 5 degrees celcius outside, and it was cold inside at work as well. And I was hungry all day because of lack of proper breakfast. Okay, it wasn’t harsh at all, I’ve had three days off after all, and the lack of breakfast was made up for by eating chocolate eggs (in February! Can you believe it?!). However,  please don’t disregard the whine, because the cold and the hunger was my excuse to treat myself to a little something at MAC. A new lipstick!

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.

Posted in Photo-Narcisissm, Retail therapy, Review, Vanity | 10 Responses »

January summary

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Inspired by SuperKayso and Siljereise :)


Happiest thing that happened: Getting a photo published. Whee!

Worst thing that happened: Discovering that I’ve ruined one of my favorite pairs of shoes, my perfect grandma victorian-ish lace-up boots. Wearing them was like walking on clouds! Also, spending a small fortune at the dentist’s.

Biggest annoyance: Our wireless Internet connection. It has a life of it’s own! Thought you had the Internet, huh? WRONG!

Looking forward to: Spring, and seeing my photo in print!

Favorite food: Chicken breast, veg and rice. I’m easy to please!

Pampering: Body butter, and not leaving the house without perfume.

Favorite workout: The elliptical.

Favorite TV-show: The big bang theory.

Favorite thing: My daily planner. I’d be lost without it! Forget digitalization, nothing beats pen + paper. I like to doodle.

Favorite person: I can’t pick one, you’re all awesome. Seriously.

Discoveries: When your visa card refuses to work, it’s usually because you’ve spent all your money. Who knew?

Best buy: Business cards! Not that I get to hand them out very often, but they do look very good.

Worst buy: Black tooth paint. I bought it for my witch costume, but never used it. Now what am I supposed to do with it?!

Wish list: As always – a bigger apartment, a holiday, a toy poodle and a fancy handbag.

Best blog: I’ve really enjoyed Too Many Tights this month. I’m not really a leggings kind of girl, but I really appreciate James’ cool designs!

Best blog post: This post by Hartesmil’s boyfriend

Blog annoyance: None that I haven’t fixed :)

Tips for myself: Draw more, read more, take your camera with you!

So that when I for example meet a teeny weeny dog and a giant dog at the same time, I can take better photos than this one.


All in all: January has been a very good month. Cold, tons of snow, which means very little rain. I haven’t been very good at visiting friends, I need to work on that. Haven’t done any shopping besides that moonstone ring, pat on back! I hope the rings arrives soon, I can’t wait to see it :)

Posted in Confessions, Review | 6 Responses »

Review – The Polar FT60

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Today I have been at the gym. There’s nothing new about this, but I thought I’d take the opportunity to tell you a bit more about one of the Christmas presents I’ve received – my Polar FT60 pulse watch! I don’t do reviews all that often, but seriously, I love this thing. Also, I know a lot of you have included workouts in your new year’s resolutions, so it’s the perfect January product to review, no? :)

Here’s the actual watch. It’s not bad looking, I’ve seen far worse-looking sports watches! It comes in four different designs. Yes yes, I know, we’re not supposed to be vain at the gym. Tell that to the concealer that resides permanently in my gym bag.

Included in the box you’ll find the chest strap that tracks your heartbeats. It’s actually really comfortable to wear – I managed to forget I was wearing it today, until I had to do strength exercises laying on my stomach. Big plus!

The watch can help you set targets, and it will help you reach them. It will tell you if you’ve got room for improvement, if you’ve been improving, or even if you need to take a week off. If you want to lose weight, it can keep a weight diary for you. If you want to improve your fitness, or maximize it, it will help you with that as well, telling you what you’re doing right and what you need to do differently. And of course, it keeps track of your pulse, calories, intensity AND – wait for it – it can tell you what time it is.

As you may have noticed, there’s also an USB-sensor type thing in this picture. This is not included when you buy the watch, but is sold separately, at least with the FT60. If you get the higher-end model, the FT80, it is included when you buy the watch. So, you might think, why even mention the USB-reader if it’s not included? Because it’s really really cool, that’s why! Or at least if you’re nerdily inclined, like I am. See, if you place your watch on top of the USB-reader after a workout, it will download all the data from your watch and upload it to polarpersonaltrainer.com.

And it will give you all your workout statistics! This is an example of one of the things you can choose to view – as you can see, I’ve only worked out twice this week, as I got my pig flu shot on Thursday and my arm felt like someone had punched it for two days afterwards. On the website, you can also pick training programs, study strength exercises, keep track of your progress, or join the discussion forum. I really like this feature, as reading your statistics on the watch interface can be a bit fiddly. And I like graphs. And the Internet.

To sum it up, I love my watch. It’s easy to use, it’s fun to use, and it appeals to the nerd in me. Two thumbs up!

Posted in For Science, Nerdiness, Review | 27 Responses »

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?

Posted in Presents, Retail therapy, Review | 10 Responses »

Link love

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Today I’m going to do something I very rarely do on my blog – I know I should do it more often, but pff, I’m starting now! Better late than never.

Uh, where was I. Yes! I was going to show you three blogs that I really like. Really really like. I hope you’ll like them too :)

1. The complete truth. Swedish photoblog filled with gorgeous photos. Finding out how old the photographer is depressed me for a second – He’s 17! I smile every time there’s a new post from this one in my bloglovin’.

2. Underbara Clara. Another Swede, as I’m quite fond of Swedes. (I don’t think I’ve ever met a Swede I didn’t like.) Clara posts beautiful photos of the Swedish countryside, and writes about anything from religion to cookie recipes to feminism.

3. Hjartesmil. Hjartesmil is a Norwegian girl living in Oslo. She likes dresses and bows and her wonderful dreadlocked boyfriend. If you can read Norwegian, she’s definitely worth a read, or you can just get lost in her wonderful photographs.

In other news, I’m really looking forward to the day when I can wear one pair of tights instead of three. I hear rumors that there are people in the world who can wear no tights at all, but right now I find that very hard to believe :)

Posted in Links, Photos, Review | 8 Responses »

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