Oooh I'm leaving town

I'm just about to get my things together and leave now, I really need to get away. So I got myself a cheap flight down to Oslo.





Tomorrow morning (earlier than I want to share) I'm heading down, today I'm going to a nearby motel, so I don't have to get up at 3.30 am.
So this time tomorrow I'm probably having sushi, shopping, fretting in line at Ikea or just sipping a Latte at some coffee bar. Can't wait!!!!

What would happen?

What would happen if men were in charge of everything??!


That's what a new series, that was filmed this fall, is about.

The women of the island Husøy in Troms, in the north of Norway, was sent on a 10 day vacation to the Med, while the men was left in charge at home. Sounds like a fun concept.. Might watch it for sure!

An example of what happens; Not being a big fan of doing laundry, one of the men tossed the dirty underwear in the garbage, and bought new ones instead! My idea of a fresh start!

Monty Python's got a Youtube Channel now

I haven't really reflected upon the fact that they never had,up until now. But being able to watch whatever we want of their material, whenever we want to is a real treat!!

go Monty Python!!




And my all time favorite is there too..

The final countdown

I've got this little cute piggy bank penguin sponsored by Minolta where I've put all my spare currency from when I've been out and about in the world.

Well, tonight, I decided to go looking for the key for it, and check what I've actually got on there. And to my surprise there were quite a bit..



The final score was:
In Norwegian Kroner: 4,50
In Swedish Kronor: 47,50
In US Dollars: 11,00
GB Pounds: 18,28
Czech Koron: 0,20 (this currency doesn't even exist any longer...)
And a guitar pick with the logo Warpigs.

I was certain I had some euros as well, but seems like I've hidden them somewhere else!

At least I've got spare change for wherever I'll decide to travel! hehe

O come all ye faithful

Christmas isn't that far away now, and I've even bought 4 christmas presents already. Which isn't half bad for me, I tend to buy most about 1 week before christmas.

But this year christmas has been cancelled here. Because I'm on the work schedule from hell. They've come to a decision that every person at work will work every other christmas and new year. And I start at the christmas shift.



So this is my christmas week; monday the 22nd working a dayshift, 23rd off (yippee kay freakin' yay), dayshift on the 24th, evening the 25th, night starting the evening of dec 26th and another on dec 27th. Then one day off, and another day shift. And by then the christmas is over. Ok, I'll get 5 days off at new years, but who gives a **** about new years.. I for sure never did. I eat turkey, watch last years highlights on tv, see the fireworks going up, then I go home and sleep.

Call me a Grinch if you want... But I'm no happy bunny right now.

Everybody wants a bosom for a pillow

The song "Brimful of Asha" says "everybody wants a bosom for a pillow".. but that was a while back. Now the bosoms has to be firm, pointy and preferrably size 36 DD. Not everybody has that to begin with. That's why plastic surgery do so well. And companies like Victorias Secret, who simply create an illusion that you have what you really doesn't have. Or, make the best of what you've got if you want.




Except now Victoria's Secret has been sued.

A few women claims that one of their push up bras has caused swellings, rash and redness on the skin under their bras.

One even have done tests, to discover formaldehyde in the fabric, apparently used to keep the fabric neat and straight. But I must say it's a bit far fetched.

The red swollen, tender to the touch "rash" is other places in the world called NIPPLES!!

The decision's been made

And our hospital got the short end of the deal. But we just have to learn to deal with it I suppose.. They had a petition going, and had over 15.000 signatures all in all. But it was no good. They're trying to take it to the next level now, and see if they can make any impact on the minister. We'll see what will happen..

Save our local hospital!!

I live in a fairly dense populated are of the world, and works at the hospital for our area. It's not like we have a dozen hospitals, it's just this one, and even if only about 40.000 belongs to this hospital area, it's a big area. At the most, some will have to drive for over 2 hours to get there. So we in the district are desperately in need of a decent hospital nearby. The standard of the building is far from respectable. It was built some time in the fifties, and from the look of it, nothing's been done with it ever since. There have been plans of building a new hospitals for quite a while now, from the late seventies actually, if I've understood right. And they've spent millions on planning. But the plans have never come through, and today, 30 years after the inital start of the plans, they're said to start building in a little while. But keep changing the drafts, so no building is in sight.

In the meanwhile there have been re-organisations over and over again, both local and national. So we're now part of a bigger establishment, with 2 other hospitals, one about our size, and another bigger one. And now the biggest of the hospitals in our establishment has got a bit of megalomania, and the latest re-organisation draft wants to move every clinic leader to them, and get rid of our hospital management altogether. Which is insane!

Our fear is that all the operation units, intensive care and general surgery will be transferred to the biggest hospital. Which in the long run will make all our jobs more insecure.

So today the people in our area has stood up for our hospital. 700 persons showed up! And hoping this will send a message to the government, and the central administration, that we don't take crap from nobody!!

To support us, please sign this online petition:

http://www.underskrift.no/vis.asp?kampanje=1869

Allegitimi Non Carborundum

Feel like I'm working for customer control tonight... First I was at the store getting a soda. And read the expiry date label, saying it was best before September 16 2008! Having one of the staff around I told him, and his response was "no, that must have been the production date!" yeah right.... that's whay it says "best before!" Twat. After a few minutes studying the bottle he decided I was right. So he went away. Mission 1 accomplished.

Then I went over to the candy and videostore, thinking of renting a dvd. But decided against it, instead I just ended up getting some candy. When weighing in, I found the scales already up 250 grams, and saw that the atm online machine partially leaning on it. Then the young boy behind the counters put my bag on there, and it was already half a kilo! He didn't even react.. Told him to please remove the atm online visa thing of course, and it was half the weight. Mission 2 acc0mplished.

And back home I was watching Miami Ink, seeing a girl getting a tattoo saying "Allegitimi Non Carborundum", or, Don't let the bastards get you down. So that's the word of the day.

A giraffe miracle

This little giraffe baby was born in Kristiansand Dyrepark a few days ago. The guardians didn't even know the mum was pregnant. How that is possible, is beyond me. But the baby was the first one born in 17 years or something.

Of course the story isn't all bright and shiny. Her mother didn't want to have anything to do with the baby, so the guardians have to teach the baby to suckle. It still doesn't and it's been touch and go for a while now. But now she's started to lick the face and ears of the guardians, so that is progress. And she's started to swallow the cowmilk that's fed her.

Just hoping it's working out well, she is still really young. But oh so cute... gotta love babies!!

I'm alive

For those who wondered, yeah I'm alive and kicking. But incredibly jet lagged these days. Had an extra night shift saturday night, evening shift yesterday, day shift today, and 2 more night shifts, starting tomorrow night. So between the rather rotating day rythm I've got, I don't really have much to do online. Because I'm too tired to even think..

And if you wondered, and miss me dearly, i'm the one on the right. Looking at the snow. Because today it's been hailing.