Life as seen through the mental eyes ;)

Countdown

2011-08-16T21:07:00.000+02:00

I'm counting down to my holidays.

Today I have 3 more day at work before my 2 week break. My suitcase is out, summer clothes packed, just need to put some more in there, once the laundry is ready. Looking forward to it sooo much!

Ouzo...
Greek salad...
Sun...
Heat...
Wine..
Icecream...
And a happy Lisa.

Because I need to charge my batteries, somewhere without phone reception and restricted internet access. And just a good book next to the swimming pool, with a fully charged ipad boosting into my ears. Bliss...

I don't tan well, but will certainly make up for the lack in tan in charged batteries.

Paradise.

Numb...

2011-07-28T16:20:00.000+02:00

I've been away on a little holiday, and was thinking of putting up a blog to tell about what happened there. Then something else came up. The horrible terror and shootings here in Norway. So all those holiday memories faded like it happened decades ago.

I tried to find a video or song to post instead, but couldn't find any that fitted.

So instead I'll just say.. Rest in peace, all those affected. And my thoughts are prayers are with the friends and families of each and everyone of the victims. No words can describe the sadness.

On this time we're all family.

Expectations of tomorrow

2011-05-09T22:22:00.001+02:00

Again, it's been a long time since last time I blogged.

Stuff happens in my life of course, some things more important, some less. Like, I've gotten older. So now I look like this.

Or was it like this? I can't quite remember.

Tomorrow is a big day in more ways than one. Eurosong wise it's the first semi final, and Norway's up with Stella Mwangi. I hope we'll make it through to the finals on saturday, it has to. I think it will though, have heard the other songs, most of them anyway, and a lot are sooo dull it's beyond belief. If you haven't already heard it, it's here.

Another thing that happens tomorrow, is that I'm going to be an auntie again! And this time I'm gonna be the midwife too. So we'll welcome a little baby boy to the world, on the day 100 years since my grandpa was born. Cool huh?!

The sis in law is already installed at the hospital, and sent me a message earlier, that wouldn't it be cool to send this picture to everybody tomorrow after the baby's come. That would certainly be interesting.. lol

The next thing that happens tomorrow, is that my man's coming over, and he's staying until over next weekend. Haven't seen him for nearly 3 weeks, which is a looong time!
So I hope tomorrow will be an awesome day!

Don't panic

2011-03-07T15:09:00.000+01:00

I'm still alive. Just in a non-blogging-vacuum, waiting for that white stuff on the ground to disappear.

About to go home from work, been a typical monday.

Here's my current view.

Have a nice day.

Merry christmas

2010-12-21T19:45:00.003+01:00

Tis the season to be jolly and stuff.. So merry christmas to all.

Haven't found that christmas spirit yet, not sure if I'll find it this year at all. It's always like that when I'm working through the holidays.

The curse of working where I do I guess.

I've actually decorated my tree already, it looks lovely.

My boyfriend got me the tree. I was pondering wether getting one or not, then found out I'd give it a go, and it was too late to get a normal one. So I got a black and silver tree instead. It doesn't look too bad, I've got plenty of diode/led lights on, home made shabby chic cones and white/red balls. Not half bad, in my opinion.
Even got my gifts placed neatly underneath, all ready for christmas eve on friday.
But still not feeling that spirit.

What do you think? Is it any good?

My big fat greek holiday

2010-09-04T23:50:00.010+02:00

First of all I apologize for the lack of blogs lately. I've had a serious case of writers block.

Well, that and the fact that I really feel like there's been nothing worth blogging about, mostly because I've been worn out from work.

Now I've had 3 weeks holiday, and am partially rejuvenated, so I'll give it a shot again.

First holiday week was spent in Oslo. I had an idea that I should eat more sushi, so off I went. Booked hotels and all, 3 nights in one, 1 at another. Spent too much money, didn't feel very relaxed at all, because the first hotel room was at a noisy street, and the second one was a smoking room, and all night I felt like throwing up at the smell.
Went to the Øyafestival for a day, to see a couple of gigs and pretend to be young again. It was raining cats and dogs that day, and I stood there, mid mud, but managed to get through 10 gigs before the day was over. So was pleased with that.

Then back home for a week. Attended a friends wedding, which was really nice.

Decided it was time to spend some days with my boyfriend, so packed my suitcase and headed to Narvik.

He was still working, so I just hung around there, doing nothing. Then on saturday we got up bright and early, and headed to the airport. Ahead of us was a week in the sun sun sun, which we sadly can't say we have had much of up here this summer.

Destination Crete

The place was tranquil and awesome, I really enjoyed every minute of the week there. Sun, warmth, hotel pool, beach, downtown with restaurants and all kinds of crazy gadgets..

We ate, we bathed, sunbathed, caught a few freckles, a burnt wrist and a few fried shoulders.. (everything quite normal), but most of all, we relaxed and loved every minute of it.
I can honestly say I felt like a new, fresh person after 1 day down there. Exactly what the doctor prescribed.

Will now put a few photos from my trip, didn't take many, but I guess a select few are suitable for blog posting.

Our hotel area

Downtown Chania

Market with all kinds of wooden instruments

Restaurant street and my man

Sunset

The Chania lighthouse in the Venetian Harbour

Nights again..

2010-06-05T06:18:00.004+02:00

My energetic eurosong blogging fell through due to lack of interest, I tweeted through it all instead. I had my favorites, they didn't win, but ended up pretty high in the rankings anyway. Which was great.

Norway didn't do very well this year. Partly because the song was super dull and 10 a dozen, partly because the performance was a bit shaky.
Don't think anybody really was too sad anyway, they were probably happy to not have to dig into the wallet of the state of Norway one more year hehe.

Anyway. One week has passed since the final, and it's all forgotten.

What's next?

Well, currently I'm on another nightshift spree. 3 nights in a row. Even though it's now 6 weeks between them, they seem to come far too often. I don't want to complaint of course, people are far worse off than me, and I have a job I love and cherish. But the nights are what sucks about it.
I've read it cuts years off my life.. we'll see about that. I'm not planning on becoming 230 years old anyway.

I'm not very active in my bloggings these days. Not because I don't have stuff happening nor don't have time. It's just a regular draught. One of those "blast, do I have to turn on the pc again today-draughts".

It might get better, or it might not. Time will show.
At least I'm not blogging to say I've nothing to blog about, like some. Because that's just silly.
Don't you have anything to blog about, then DON'T BLOG! And if you don't have time to blog, don't blog "I don't have time to blog". You're already there! Instead, put something useful in there.
Ok, rant over.

Now offski to find a random pic to put in my post, because every posting deserves a picture.

Another eurosong final approaces..

2010-05-24T19:12:00.002+02:00

Tomorrow it all starts off. One year ago from about now, Norway was extatic, because we had finally won. It had happened only 2 times before. Actually, we're more used to getting the infamous NIL points than winning.

The consequences were of course, that this year the final is in Oslo. This has caused some controversy, because the money to pay the party has to come from somewhere. My boyfriend is especially annoyed, because NRK sold the rights to the FIFA world cup to afford Eurosong hehe. I'm not that bothered, it's not like we can't see fotball on any other channel if neccessary.

Just about every newspaper, online and the street editions, tv and got knows what has Eurosong material more than just a bit.

What makes me laugh, is the recaps of horrible songs through the years. Like this one..

One of the 5 songs voted MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENTS by an expert commentator on an online newspaper.

Some "experts" goes a bit overboard too.. Some aren't afraid to use themselves in the promotion for sure!!

So tomorrow it all kicks off, the first semi final, then the next one on thursday, and the big final on saturday. Will try to watch it all, although the quality of the songs are absolutely varying hehe. There's a chance I might do a follow up blog later this week, if I feel up for it, to recap the semi finals. Don't have much else planned so.. Enjoy! Here's Norway's entry. Not a big fan, but it's ok to not win again hehe.

Lisa does things you never thought she would

2010-05-18T18:11:00.014+02:00

Everybody who knows me, knows that kitchen is not my area. Sure, I have my safe things I can produce, just because I have to eat. But I'm hardly ever doing anything from scratch.

But for quite some time now, I've been thinking of making this cake. I got the recipe of a friend of mine over a year ago, and not being a top chef, it's been sitting on my fridge for ages.

But finally I got around to testing it. Originally it was meant for a family gathering on friday, but that fell through, so instead I made it for yesterday, our national holiday, 17.mai.

Here's the picture story of how Lisa tried to make something out of something else hehe.

First I purchased a bunch of various ingredients, this is for sure no cheap cake. Think I paid about 300 NOK for the ingredients, or about $50 and then some.
There's creme cheese, 700 cc's of it actually. Organic sugar, eggs, vanilla sticks, cinnamon, vanilla sugar, butter and digestive crackers. That's what I remember.

The first thing I had to do, was to crush 15 crackers. I don't own a food processor, so went to my folks to borrow some of their utensils.
It was easier said than done.

Then I mixed in some melted butter, and spread the dough on the platter. In the oven it went, and after 15 minutes it looked like this

Time for the creme cheese. I poured it all in a big bowl, put in the vanilla sugar, the seeds of a vanilla stick and sugar. Found my old hand mixer, and started blending it all together. Then eggs went in, one by one.

Poured it on top of the baked cracker bottom, and into the oven it went again.

I'm not very tidy, so stuff filled up on my bench while I was doing my "magic" hehe.

When the cake was in the oven for the 2nd time, I realized that I only had bought half the amount needed for the topping. Thankfully the stores were still open, and the cake had to bake for at least 1 hour. So I went on a storm spree.
I came back, still had 15 minutes to wait, and then the cake looked like this.

By the looks of it, I'd went a bit overboard with the butter haha.

Then it was time for the sourcream/sugar/vanilla mix

5 more minutes of baking, and here's the result of the ready baked cake.

So now, just dig into it, you say? Oh no!!
Now it had to cool down, then spend 3 days in the fridge to set. And to wait for may 17th to arrive. I spent the days sneaking on it, trying to remove what's around it, with the result that I kind of wrecked the cake.

I bought some physalis decorative berries, and was finally ready for the big day.

Took the cake with my down to my brother, had a nice barbecue, and then it was time for THE cake.

I made strawberry coulis too, so we could have with the cake, to bring a bit of sourness into the sweet that's in the cake.

Looking nice, doesn't it?

Good times

2010-04-26T04:44:00.001+02:00

Another nightshift upon me, this time last out of 3. Seems that's I only blog on night shifts.. Guess I'm more creative at 4:45 in the morning than any other time of the day.

I was watching the Sectional episode of Glee yesterday before I went to work, and this song at the end stuck in my head. Then I realized I actually have heard it before.. (not only the first time I watched the episode, 6 months ago..)

Because in the video beneath I was in the audience! And we heard the songs numerous times throug the day, as we were hanging out when they rehearsed.. think I actually have it on my mobile cam as well. but that was before my iphone, and whatever is stuck on my old mobile probably will stay in silence there forever hehe.

So the song of the night I first of all dedicate to my travel partner Beate.
but also to someone who means a great deal to me, and who I never see often enough. And he knows who he is :) xxxxx (know it's not your kind of music, but I don't care ;) )

The night is young..

2010-04-08T04:41:00.002+02:00

And I feel old. Head is aching, body is numb.

This could have been the beginning of an awesome poem, but it's just the way I feel right now.
Because I'm working night shifts. One of my least favorite activities ever.. Only beat by shovelling snow, doing dishes and cleaning the house.
Domestic goddess, me? I think not.

My lack of blogging is a symptom of my life, because there's really not much going on there that I feel comfortable sharing with the world.

The days come and go, and I guess these are the days of our lives. Only problem is, it feels like what I do with my life is wait for the weekends. For obvious reasons.

I should make it my task to turn every day into a weekend, so that I'd enjoy it more. But that's not possible.

I hate being negative, but sometimes I can't help myself.

There's is one thing that cheers me up though, and that's looking at utterly weird things on youtube. So tonight I bring you this clip, someone playing the most peculiar instrument I've ever seen or heard of... The theremin. Shaped as a russian wooden doll...

Enjoy. Heheh. Or have nightmares. Your choice!

Perspective

2010-02-17T21:45:00.003+01:00

These days of the olypmics, the press seems to be extremely into every kind of winter sports. Of course, the odd crime gets its share of attention. But they're creating a public storm over the lack of Gold Medals for Norway.

Personally, I don't really care that much. And even less now. Medals are nothing compared to the big things in life.. Like living or dying. Yeah, I'm deep, but this video made me emotional, if anything ever did. Please watch, share with friends, and get the message through to as many as possible.

And, last but not least, remember to live life to the fullest, cherish every hug, every smile, every beam of sunshine into your life. Cause you never know what tomorrow will bring.

How do you rate the morning sun?

2010-02-14T23:24:00.002+01:00

Soon there'll be another single out from mr Robbie Williams. March 15th to be precise. This one is my personal favorite from his album Reality killed the Video Star. It's called Morning sun, and has been selected the official Sports Relief single of 2010. Good choice!

the video seems to be derived from the quote of the song "it doesn't take an astronaut to float into space, it's just a thought". It seems very tranquil and with loads of great shots.

Tell me what you think of it.. Here it is, enjoy!

Merry christmas!!

2009-12-25T22:52:00.003+01:00

Hope all my readers and passing-by-ers have a lovely holiday season, and enjoy it all with the ones you love.

Don't burst on food, but do indulge on loving and caring!!

Until we meet again, take care!

xxxxx
Lisa

RIP Brittany Murphy

2009-12-21T00:29:00.004+01:00

Queen once said (or the remains of them, after Freddie Mercury had passed away) that one by one only the good die young. Flying to close to the sun and all. Whether she was good or not is not for me to say as I never knew her. But this evening we got the news that Brittany Murphy was found dead, due to a cardiac arrest at age 32. The reason? Who knows. I'm not gonna speculate.

But what was strange to me, was that 5 minutes before I read the news I saw her on tv, in the movie Just Married.

I always say, be glad you don't know what tomorrow will bring.

RIP.

Here she's singing Somebody to Love in the movie Happy feet. One of my favorite songs of all times.

Much ado about Norway

2009-12-10T23:27:00.005+01:00

I am on twitter, and last night I noticed that Norway was a trending topic. I figured it would have to be because Obama is visiting our country for the first time due to the Nobel Peace Price. But no. It was because of a spiralling lightning phenomenon in the sky that happened last morning at 7:45 am. I didn't see it personally because I was in my car at the moment, and I tend to try to watch traffic. And sometimes I get distracted by excessive christmas lights. I guess the lights happened when I passed by an area where neighbours compete in brightness.. hehe. Anyway.
Stuff happens here, and today they say it's a russian submarine rocket of some kind that caused the light. So no alien or ufo's anyway.. Kind of disappointing.

Another person who's into aliens is Robbie Williams. He's visiting Norway as well today. As well as Barack Obama, Will Smith, and god knows who. So this is THE place to be.

I'm not watching the Nobel stuff. I never do, it doesn't really interest me. Well done for whoever gets it. But the press is really into it. And I steer clear of anything that's getting too much attention in the media. Call me weird, I don't care. I always end up on Discovery watching ink series, little persons, a bunch of kids from few pregnancies and what not.

But tomorrow night I WILL watch norwegian telly. Because of Robbie Williams of course. He's doing Skavlan, a show I normally never watch. It's too much talk and to little interesting stuff for me, I bore easily. Can't wait to see tomorrows show though!! Because as a guest Robbie's far more interesting than many of the other guests who's been there. Oh, and he's got beautiful eyes, and sings really well!

I even got to meet him in person once, and took his picture. He didn't let me take a proper one with him and me, so this is the best I got as a proof hehe.

Anyway, am really looking forward to the interview tomorrow evening! For anybody interested, It's probably gonna be streamed on www.nrk.no

Giggle of the day

2009-11-18T00:53:00.003+01:00

I stumbled upon an old youtube clip of one of my favorite actors Hugh "House" Laurie, Stephen Fry and Dawn French.

As I do what I do for a living, it's important to remember safe sex. Here's their view on the matter.

enjoy!

Another Robbie Williams track

2009-11-01T23:32:00.003+01:00

I admit it, I'm a Robbie Williams fan. And I'm happy he's got a new album coming out soon. Or, I already have a copy of it that I haven't gotten around to listen to, so I'm not as super interested as I used to be be back in the days.. But still.

The new single will apparently be out in december, and is called You Know Me.
Enjoy!!

Here's the video. And I guess I'm obliged to say that I got the code from his web site

You Know Me - Robbie Williams (Official full-length video)

Robbie Williams | MySpace Video

What do you think? Plain weird, funny, or genious?

halloweenesque

2009-10-27T00:49:00.004+01:00

Last weekend we went to the birthday of a friend of mine, and she celebrated it halloween style. I'm again a mad cow, like the blog post that have given me most viewers, only because of the cute pic. So here it is again...

And here is my impersonation of the photo. With wig and fangs.

well...

2009-10-08T01:11:00.002+02:00

I'm in a bit of a blogging vacuum for the time being, not because I don't experience anything, but I can't get around to sitting down and putting my experiences into a story.

So sorry if you keep coming back to a blog that never progresses.

guess it's because my pc is quite poorly for the time being, so I'm trying to keep my web time to a minimum.

Oh, and today is my birthday. So happy birthday to me. Now I'm 34, so if I were a soccer playing man, I would now be a legitimate old boys player. That's a bit depressing.. I don't feel that old. Or, today I feel like a hundred, but that's another story.
All those numbers just keeps adding up, and the alternative isn't that attractive either. To say it in other words, those who've managed to stay forever young are no longer with us.
So here's to aging with pride and staying young at heart!

One of the last things I did as a 33 year old was to play dress-up by myself, I kind of like being a redhead I've realized. Only thing is that it's murder to maintain.. talking from experience. Hooray for wigs!!

Bodies

2009-09-04T19:04:00.002+02:00

I'm just popping in while travelling across Europe, now in Paris France. Tomorrow it's Oslo again, then on sunday Los Angeles!

Todays subject, Robbie Williams. Bodies. Thats the name of his new single, and today it was played for the first time. How does it sound? Slightly average, in my opinion. But not as bad as some crtics claim.
How dare they rate the new ALBUM with a 1 when they only have heard one song??! Give they guy a chance.

Here it is, tell me what you think!!

Never look back in anger

2009-08-29T04:20:00.002+02:00

So, that's it for Oasis I take it. The brain stem of the band, Noel Gallagher has decided to leave, guess he's had that one last row with baby bro'.

Some of those rows kind of puts the conflicts in Afghanistan or Iraq in the shades. At least when it comes to headlines....

Anyway, I'm glad I got the chance to see them twice before they went into history.

And now, here's a few words from themselves, that actually might be needed from now on and the next few days/weeks/years.

The final countdown!

2009-08-23T23:16:00.003+02:00

To get us all in the right mood for this blog, click this link and let it play while reading hehe. I was trying to embed it, but it's disabled, so unfortunately it has to be played in a separate window. Spongebob is fun.. And the song is quite appropriate right now.

Because it really IS the final countdown. First of all to my holiday, it's been an extremely long summer this year. Not a fun long summer, a WORKING and tiresome long summer. I'm not complainting, by all means, I love my job. But now the end is nigh, and in just a week I'm finally starting my 4 week long awaited holiday.

And today, it's a mere 14 days until we leave for LA!!

I start my holiday a bit earlier, I'm going on a short week to Paris first, with a very special friend of mine. So for those who happen to stroll by and who know me and didn't already know, well now I've admitted it lol.

I look immensely forward to getting away from here. I look forward to seeing new things, and just enjoy seeing new places. We'll drink mojitos and g/t's if we want to. And I'll generally just live life without thinking about what time I have to get back in my car and jump into my scrubs again.

There will definitely be more updates from my trip, with pics and all. But for now, it's all about dreaming and counting down. The final countdown!!!! :D

Snapshot from last years holiday, this was in Cascais near Lisbon, Portugal

My Madonna weekend

2009-08-09T22:03:00.003+02:00

It's been exactly a week now since I got back home from my holiday leg 1 this year. I've seen my friends, their kids, who keeps growing in a pace that honestly scares me. I'm getting granny old soon!!
Plenty a coffee were drunk, plenty of sushi was ingested. And actually, not even one unit of alcohol. It's not that I'm proud of myself or anything, it just isn't an option most of the time.

Well, the Madonna concert. We had Golden Circle tickets, so we knew that we'd get quite close to the stage no matter how late we were.

I'd been checking up on weather forecasts, and the prognosis were poor for us, i knew that even before I got on the plane down. Thursday night, the concert night, it said heavy rain. And heavy rain were absolutely no exagerration.

Thursday morning came, I'd brought my 2 rainpochos (for the 2 of us, kindly approved by my mum when we first read the forecast. Had a day of windowshopping ahead of me, before I was to meet up with sis in law and head for Valle Hovin, the concert arena. About half an hour before we were to meet, heaven decided to open up, and let all the excess water out in a huge thunderstorm. So when we got up to the Arena, it already looked a bit like a lake. Because there were no drainage whatsoever on the concrete that the rest of the year is a skating arena.

We were a bit far back in line, but somehow managed to get front row places when we came in. Already soaked shoes, I found a place that didn't have 10 cm of water. And stood put. here's what my socks looked like before the concert even started, but after I'd been on a little walk to find a ladies room.

Notice how sis in law was smart enough to wear wellies. I had on leather strollers from Vagabond, not a good choice.

To make a long story short, Madonna was really fit, already about 600 times more fit than me, and when I'll get to 50, she'll probably be 1600 times more fit than me. We were in front of the bass speakers, so it was hard to hear the music itself, just heard booom boom boom and her voice when the base didn't go. Which was most of the time. So I can't say if she sang great or not. But she had a great show, that's for sure. And it was WET. WET as ...a shower, or a steam shower. Or a massage shower, if you want. Especially at times. Here are a few more shots from the nights, some of us, some of Madonna. And i'll try to upload a video too. The sound isn't good at all, because of the proximity to the bassdrums, but the sight was great. So turn OFF your speakers and enjoy! hehe

Happy to be front row, showing off the bar.

Madonna stratting her stuff in front of us, on the bass speaker that stole my sound.

Here's the clip with the best sound, but still, the bass messes it up half way. Sorry.

Holiday!!

2009-07-27T23:50:00.003+02:00

The title is about 2 things, the first is that it's actually my first week of holiday now. The second thing is, that the time has come for me to pack my things and leave for Oslo. Thursday is the day to see Madonna in concert.
First time ever for me to see her, and first time ever for her in Norway.
I'm looking forward to it, but I look even more forward to hanging out with my friends and family, have all the sushi I want, go to the movies, and do whatever I please, whenever I please.

It's just one week off for now, but I'll try to make the best of it.

The first 3 days off I've tried to lead a better life than before, unfortunately I've been lazy ever since the work project were over.

So to kick myself in the butt, I bought a card that's sold, where you walk on 8 designated tracks, most of them are to various heights around the municipality. So, the last 3 days, I've conquered 3 different heights around the village. Today I brought my mobile to take pics as proof hehe. So here follows the evidence.

Lobster-Lisa on top of a mountain..

The Andøya mountains seen from Øvergårdsfjellet

My dad posing on what seems to be the edge of a cliff, but we walked down from there. Myre is in the background, my home town.

My dad again, relaxing, making some photographic evidence for himself. The background is Staven/Øksnes Vestbygd.

Exorcism

2009-07-01T22:50:00.002+02:00

My newest little niece is a cute little thing.. But she's turned a bit scary lately. Her parents has this proof that we might have to find some holy water in the near future..

Hearts

2009-06-13T04:44:00.003+02:00

As usual I might say, my blog activity is rather low.

Since april 27 our work has been part of a project called "active hospitals" , where the point has been to compete against other units, and find out who's the most active. We got points every day if we worked out, could get rewarded 1 or 2 points depending on the activity. Well, as competitive as I am, I set of to get full score. The project lasted for 6 weeks, and I actually managed to get 2 points every day. So I actually went from a 0 hour a week workout over the last 8 years to half an hour of aerobics or power walk a day. That showed on my measurements, I lost half my bust during the project (and there weren't much to begin with hehe) All in all I actually lost 25 cm's which is quite cool. But now when the project is over I'm lazy again. Will try to stay a bit more active than before though.. It's nice to walk in the forest, and feels great to be able to jog for 300 metres without having to puke afterwards lol.

Other than that last week or so has been incredibly busy. Started with 2 night shifts last wednesday and thursday night, sleeping friday morning, then at night we had a "blue" trip with work.
A Blue Trip is a trip where a committee of 2 or 3 persons decides what to do, and the rest are in "the blue", not knowing anything. Well, we met up at work at 6 pm, got a starter drink from a urine sample cup (of course, we work at a hospital lol) apple juice. Then we got handed an envelope with a riddle, and had to find out where our next destination would be. It was the local airport, so we got a bit apprehensive, wondering if we actually were to fly anywhere. Got there, had to go through the security check, then got seated, and handed another envelope. That one took us to Sortland, where I live, to a co workers new house. So there was no flight for us, just a security check.
At Sortland we found our co workers house, got lovely lime, mellon and cucumber drinks, these with alcohol. Had a chocolate quiz, then got another riddle. That time it was the destination. Which was a sami exhibition/museum place a few kilometres away.
We drove off again, found the last stop. There we were met by the owners of the place, and shown up to our dining area, inside a Lavvu, a sami tent, like a tipi.

She told stories, spoke sapmi, which none of us understood, and sang a joik. That was pretty cool, actually. We got served a festive traditional meal of some kind of casserole, and had a few more quizzes outside the lavvu. We cheated like hell, and won hehe. The prize? A dried, salted reindeer heart!! Apparently it was a normal snack with the sami people, so we were handed the thing, sliced a bit of it, dipped it in coffee and ate it. Not my favorite snack, I must admit that. But now I've tasted that too... Never in a million years thought I'd actually eat a heart.

Anyhoo.. I left early, because next day I was going to Lødingen to attend the annual seafood festival there. My sis in law is from Lødingen, that's why we go there. The name isn't that accurate, the festival involves more beer, and less actual seafood. But it's a nice place to relax, and the people are nice.

On monday I left to Oslo with a co worker, we were going to check out new beds for our delivery rooms. First we visited Ullevål Hospital, the biggest hospital in the country. We have 300 deliveries a year, they have 7000. So there's a difference for sure. We barely got to talk to the person we had appointments with, and found out that their beds were crappy.
Next morning we checked out of our hotel, got picked up by another bed company dude, and was escorted to Drammen to see another bed. That was quite another story.. Totally hi tech, inflatable cushions in seats and lower back, and could easily be turned into a recliner, if wanted. So I'm rooting for that one. Now its up to the hospital management if they want to spend 104.500 NOK on a bed.

Happy Birthday Norway!!!

2009-05-17T21:00:00.003+02:00

I've been really lazy with my blogging lately, most of all because I don't have much to share with the world.

Well, today is our national holiday, kind of like USA's 4th of july, only a month and a half earlier, less fireworks and more childrens parades.

We celebrated is as we normally do, got up kind of early, put on our bunads (national costumes, to see mine, watch a few posts earlier), and went down to the start of the childrens parade. As my mother works at a kinder garden, we all joined in there. After the parade was done, my niece was kind of worn out. So we carried her up to the sporting arena, where they were selling cake, coffee, hotdogs and icecream. They all had some, and so did I. After we were bored with walking in line everywhere, we went home. My mum fixed dinner, we had oven baked salmon with spices, spring onions and lime, very tasty indeed. The weather was wonderful all day long, and still is. Sun shining from a clear blue sky is rare here on may 17. We normally have a shower of snow!!!

Well, as nice as it was, I'm kind of glad it's done for now. One more year until i have to dress up and iron my flag again hehe.

Another celebration we have here this weekend, is that yesterday Norway won Eurovision Song Contest. It was the first time in 14 years, so it was about time. I've shown the youtube clip of the song earlier too, when they did the national finals. I had high hopes for Fairytale, but I didn't honestly think it would slam dunk the victory like it did!!! Hooray for Alexander Rybak and his Titten Tei looks hehe

Pets and liqurish

2009-04-16T17:30:00.004+02:00

When I was a little girl I never had any proper pets. The closest was a kitten who stayed on our veranda in a cardboard box for a summer (my father is allergic)and some hamsters we babysat for our neighbours when they went to the med on holidays. Their hamsters were always named Siss for some reason.

When I grew up and had finished my nurses education, I had my first proper flat. I then decided I wanted my first pet. With little experience, hamster was the obvious choice. So on sept 9 in 1999 (yeah 09.09.99) I bought my first pet ever. It was a really cute baby hamster, he was bright white, very fluffy, and scared of everything. His personality became apparent in a day, and he loved his little wheel in the cage. So I named him after some of my then favorite men. And they were not few. His full name was therefore Speedy Ricky Martin Andresen Redknapp Gonzales. Speedy Gonzales for short, after the infamous speedy cartoon. Ricky Martin is known, so he needs no further explanation. Martin Andresen was then a hot norwegian soccer player (still is, but he's older now, and not so hot. Here's a photo of him anyway)

Redknapp was first of all because of another soccer player, Jamie Redknapp, but also because Speedy had red-ish eyes that looked like little pins (in norwegian ; knappenål, and "knapp" from that)

Speedy was exactly that, speedy. He was never calm when awake, and ran like a manic in his wheel all night long, every night. So after 2 years I was kind of sick of it. But he was my little baby still. Even if he never was tame enough to stay outside his cage of his own, I had to watch him constantly.

Then I was moving down to Oslo, and had found a 12 year old girl who wanted to "adopt" him. 2 days before I was going, I found him halfway in his little fluffy house, stiff. Speedy had gone to hamster heaven. I was sad for half a day, and the girl who was going to adopt him was devastated. As a consolation, I gave her his cage anyway, and she got another hamster instead.

Since I've never had any pets. Until now. These pets are not by any means any I've chosen myself, and they're increasing in numbers. They're ANTS!.

The first one I discovered a few months ago, it was just a single one. I squished it, and didn't think any more of it. Then a few weeks, as the snow started to melt, I found a few every day. It was one here, one there, but I couldn't find any source. And they were so few that I didn't really care.

But the other day I'd had a glass of lemonade, and I left it on the sidetable by the sofa. Then, when I went to collect it and put it in the dishwasher, I looked into it. And there were about 7 ants, crawling about!! It freaked me out a bit, so yesterday, long overdue, I went to the gardening centre, and bought one of those ants-away devices. It was just a green box, like a little lid, and in there were some ant poison, sweet and proteine rich for them to catch the bate, and doesnt kill them instantly, so they can take it back to their queen. And today I've been watching their, work, and found out where they come from. It's a tiiiiny space between the floor and the wall, and they're squeezing themselves in there, or most of the time they're just knocking the wall, trying to get in. The now somehow appear drunk, so I'm now the owner of half a million junkie ants. Isn't that just nice... They're supposed to be all gone within a few weeks, so I hope the dope is potent. I'm tired of squishing ants now, I feel like a mass murderer.. And I don't want them crawling all over my floor either.

On another note, I saw this funny commercial at work today, and I'm putting it here. It's for IFA, salty liquirish lozengers, which apparently loosens you up a bit. The lady in the beginning is complainting about how boring her hubby is, and then he takes a lozenger...... Say no more hehe.

Today I crave.....

2009-03-25T23:55:00.001+01:00

No additional need for comment is there? :)

How many blondes does it take to switch a lightbulb?

2009-03-23T19:51:00.002+01:00

Happy new week my friends and stray blog readers.

I'm not going to start telling blonde jokes, they're not for me. But I've gone from not so blonde (but with random blonde highlights) to even less blonde today, I've had a touch up on my hair from my hairdresser, who happens to be one of my best friends. It's good to have a personal hairdresser in time of need hehe.

And I don know how to change a lightbulb. The problem sometimes is to figure out how to detach the light covers. Like yesterday, I found the bathroom to be darker than usual. Turned out to be a dead lightbulb. Still have the main light over the sink though, so it's not completely dark. I've never claimed to be tall and lean, so I had to find my extra stairs, climb up towards the roof, and detach the cover. It was by no means easy. Was trying to not break anything, so after about 10 minutes I'd figured out a little switch on the side that made it possible to get to the dead bulb. Today I had one task at the grocerys; to get a new bulb. Guess who forgot??! yeap, me. So the bathroom is still semi-dark. But I'll live, there's always tomorrow :)

Yesterday my niece Stella was 3 years old, coincidentally the same day that Twitter was 3. I like Stella better than twitter, but other than that, happy birthday to both! We went to celebrate her, and had a lovely time. We were blessed with a beautiful sunny day, so the kids were playing in the snow, we were sat by a campfire and grilling hotdogs, and everything was kind of easter-ish. Which is nice, cause easter is just 2 weeks away. Other than that we had loads of cake, a play was brought to life by the kids (Karius and Baktus), currently Stellas favorite story.

The kids all had handknit wigs in red or black, red noses and painted-on freckles. Even Leona, 1 month old today, had a little red wig, she looked adorable.
The grown ups had white hats and were the teeth. My bro narrated, and it was great fun.

All in all, it was a lovely birthday party, Stella was super happy, especially because of all her gifts. A bike, cd player, trolls, dolls, puzzles, clothes, and loads of toys. I'm sure her 3rd year will be a wonderful one for her!!!

Friday the 13th.....

2009-03-13T19:19:00.002+01:00

I'm not that superstitious really. One month ago we had another friday the 13, that day came and went without anything happening at all. No such luck this time.

Last night I had my final of 2 night shifts, and had brought some shrimp sallad that I purchased earlier that day. Finished it, and after that I randomly checked the lid. Expiry date: january 23 2009..... Oooops. Didn't feel anything after, so didn't think more of it.

Then I went home this morning, had a morning snack, went to bed. Woke up a few hours later.... Something was cooking. Literally. The taste of sulphate while burping gave me an idea what to expect, and I weren't wrong. It sucks big time, because I had planned on going away for the weekend. Had a movie planned, and a concert tomorrow maybe. Don't know what will happen now, I'll just try to not get dehydrated while fighting off the germs or whatever it is that's rummaging my body at the moment.

So friday the 13 sucks, if anybody wondered!!!!!!!!!!!!

happy weekend.. sort of.

Yet another week of our lives passed by

2009-03-08T14:30:00.004+01:00

Sounds a bit depressing, but it's not really. Just lacking titles at the moment.

Cause there's not much going on here these days.

Last week I worked 3 days, and I'm slowly recovering from the cold/flu/whatever episode that's been going on for the last 1,5 weeks. Strange how it is, when we're sick we want to go back to work, but when at work, we sort of wish we were more sick. Not because I don't like my job, I really do, but I'm just tired a lot these days.

The days at home I watched too much tv, to the extent that it bored me. Even dodgy bug-eating shows on discovey amused me a bit.. And old Americas Next Top Model- shows. Guess that's what I'd do if I didn't work at all... just watch tv all day long.

To be honest, over the last months I've increasingly grown more and more tired of even turning on the pc, think I've gone into a internet reluctancy phase of my life. I start to write something, then it just turns on me, and I get sick of it all, and try to do something else instead. Maybe I should take an internet break for a while, and see if it comes back to me, and instead start working out, knitting more, read books or whatever. But I don't really know what to do instead, everything is sort of boring to me these days.

We'll see what tomorrow brings.
Oh, and best of luck to Julia and Rex for tomorrows operation, fingers crossed that he'll be ok :)

Take care

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Here's the 7 o'clock news

2009-02-28T19:05:00.003+01:00

This last week's been filled with ups and downs for me. Instead of babbling on, I'll make a list of good things that's happened, and another with not so good things hehe. So here we go

The Happy List:
My niece Leona was born on monday :)
I still have money left, and it's not that long until my next pay check
I'm progressing on my knitting project
My flat is fairly tidy still
Frank Sinatra singing My Way on VH1

The blah List:
Fever
Snot
No voice
Had to call in sick at work tonight.

But that gives me another note on the happy list, cause now I have saturday off work, even if it's my working weekend. Would of course prefer to have a voice and less of a cold but hey.

To sponsor this weekends post, here's

Tomorrow's a new month, here's to March turning into a wonderful month for all of us!!!
Cheers
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Not exactly mojito madness... more like mad cow disease

2009-02-18T15:22:00.004+01:00

Ever thought about getting something exciting, phenomenal, out of this world to drink?? Well, search no more, now the best product ever has come to a place (relatively) near you!!

In India a new beverage has been produced, with the extracts of -------------- wait for it----------------- Cow urine!!!

So, why not switch from lemon/vanilla/cherry/whatever to Urine Coke!!

As delicious as it sounds I presume... Moooooooooooooo!!!

Article from the daily telegraph HERE
And if you want the article in Norwegian like me, press HERE

Copycat??!

2009-02-14T21:36:00.004+01:00

Another saturday, another round of Eurosong 2009. This time I'm wondering if one of the songs has been ripped off and altered slightly from another quite popular song actually...

What's your opinion on it??!

The "original"

The "copy".. or eurosong from another band

Articles on yesterdays MGP in norwegian here and here

the soundtrack of my life

2009-02-14T18:01:00.003+01:00

Here's how it works...
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc).
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For the first question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button TWICE.
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...just type it in man!
7. Tag 20 people, and they have to do it too!

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

Opening Credits:
Cheap love song, Robbie Williams

Waking Up:
Might tell you tonight- Scissor Sisters

First Day at School:
I know him so well- Chess soundtrack

Falling in Love:
Something Beautiful- RW

Losing Virginity:
Knocking on Heaven's door- G'n'R

Fight Song:
Till dom ensamma- Mauro Socco (sw: For the lonely)

Breaking Up:
The 80's- RW

Prom:
Don't let the sun go down on me- George Michael/Elton John

Life:
In the lap of the Gods- Queen

Mental Breakdown:
Fat bottomed Girls- Queen

Driving:
The other Side- Scissor Sisters

Flashback:
Book of Days- Enya

Getting Back Together:
Argument- Chess soundtrack

Wedding:
Dancing Queen (Techno remix)- Abba

Birth of Child:
Gör mej lycklig nu- Mats Ronander & Kim Larsen (sw/dk: make me happy now)

Final Battle:
Save me- Queen

Death Scene:
Suspect-Daniel Powter

Honorary Mention:
Too much love will kill you- Brian May

hehe.. some appropriate, some not so much. And yeah, my music library is a bit lame haha.. It's from my ipod, that's been connected to my dad's pc. My lappie is too old to even dowload itunes.. how sad is that lol

Happy valentines my friends!!!!

She's Madonna

2009-02-10T00:21:00.004+01:00

I'm a big admirer of Robbie Williams and his music, everybody who knows me, knows that. I've been to his concerts a few times, travelled continents and what not. And i've met him. But that's not what this blog is about.

It's about the coincidence that he has a song about someone we're going to see in concert this summer. Madonna.
She's actually never been to Norway, and as I've mentioned in a previous blog, I have people around me who really want to see her.

The idea of witnessing her has grown on me too, and I decided to take part of it. So my sis in law, who's 9 months pregnant, was up really early this morning, as the tickets went on sale. Our target was golden circle tickets, even if they're ridicioulsly expensive. I'll just live on noodles and water for a month instead haha
And she got tickets for the pair of us!

So now all left is to get time off work, as it's mid summer holiday. Exciting!!

And now, for the best part; Robbie Williams singing his song about... Madonna!!

Link

Eurosong and stuff

2009-02-08T18:26:00.003+01:00

These days we have to suffer through endless lines of horrible songs. Every saturday a new pile of horror is presented to us on tv, if we choose to watch. 'Cause in 2 weeks we're presenting Norways 2009 contribution to the Eurosong finals in Moscow. I haven't really paid any attention to any of the finalists so far, but last night I watched. Some songs were absolutely ghastly, some quite awful, some boring as hell, and then a few catched my attention. Like this one.. It awoke the Britpop loving Lisa anno 1995.

This one actually made it through to the finals, and it's not that bad either. Think it's gonna win the whole thing.. not internationally of course, but at least in Norway. We'll see!! (or stay away from the tv heheeh)

Article here

Beware!

2009-02-08T17:51:00.002+01:00

Was goofing a bit around with my extremely sucky mobile cam, since I was wearing my facyschmancy bunad. Thought I'd share my ugly gob with you lol

...embrace yourself :p

Is that so? (and The Godmother)

2009-02-07T05:02:00.008+01:00

I used to work with a woman a while back. I'm not gonna spill out her name, but whatever I used to say to her, she responded with "Is that so?". At that time I tended to zone out a bit about mid shift (we did night shifts together), and if I had a laptop near, I'd be chatting away on msn, commenting on whatever Isthatso used to do.

Well, we've had changes in our work schedules, and I no longer work nights with Isthatso. She was a nice lady, but she often got on my nerves, so now I'm just happy to have a bit of variation. Like tonight, I'm working with a really great sub who'll be working here for quite a bit.

Other than that, what's new? Not much really. I managed to get hold of 2 Madonna tickets through pre-sale yesterday, so if I get my holiday week when I want, I'll get to see her. Beate wanted to know how I could afford it, planning the LA trip and all, but it's all a matter of priorities :) And, if I didn't have anything planned for this summer, I'd go completely bonkers. Cause September is a long wait, when you see people starting their summer hols in mid june.

On sunday I'm going to a christening of the son of a good friend of mine. I already have 7 godchildren, but when she asked if I wanted to be the godmother I couldn't refuse. (yeah she made me an offer I couldn't refuse... pun indeed intended) So now I have 8 godchildren!! Who needs kids of their own huh?!
And this night I've watched a bit of the Godfather movie, and it's sort of the same with me.. Only with less horses heads in beds and shooting, and more giving expensive gifts for christmases and birthdays. So from now on you shall all refer to me as Don Lisa hehehe

What to do next summer

2009-01-30T18:43:00.005+01:00

Last night I got a call from my sis in law. She asked me what I was doing on August 3. As I don't quite know what I'm doing tomorrow, I had to respond that I had no idea.

Well, she wanted me to come with her to Oslo, to see Madonna in concert. Madonna has never ever been to Norway before. And because it seems like this'll be her last tour ever, she's doing all those never before visited places. So here she comes.

But instead of august 3 she'll be here on july 30 (a thursday??!), and even if the tickets stay off the black market (like that's ever going to happen), you'll have to cash out 1100 norwegian kroner, or about 100 GBP. A bit harsh imo...

And today I got a message from another friend, wondering if I wanted to go to the concert with her. Guess it's just me who never was much of a Madonna fan... I had a thing for Bon Jovi back then I think. (or Italian footballers, depending on which era you're thinking of haha)

Hard to not go though, I'm sure it's gonna be a show to remember. And if she retires, at least we'll have seen her last concert ever!

(image nicked from Perezhilton via Google images)

for article in Norwegian, press here

Hello did you miss me?

2009-01-30T15:15:00.003+01:00

I've been on a near one week long trip now, and haven't been able to keep up with anything online really. Except a couple of quick drop ins on the hotel computer. Didn't feel like publicly blogging about anything really... Or, i don't mind it coming out into the public through here, but my "creative process" goes on inside my home.

Well, what happened while I were gone? I've spent time with my nursing school besties, had a nice meet up, reminiscing about what we used to be up to 10+ years ago. Time flies, in many ways it's just like it happened yesterday. But meanwhile it was soooooo long ago. Starting families, moving to new towns, starting new jobs and so on. Loads has happened, but we stick together anyway. It's good to have friends like that.. Those 3 years as students made more inpact on who I am now than anything else in my life.

Other that we did a bit of shopping, saw a junkie set a shot of heroin (always charming...) I went to see Oasis in concert, and visited Ikea.. Twice. And had sushi. Loads of sushi.

Oasis was ok. I saw them in 1997 as well, and don't really remember much, except getting really sick afterwards. And that it was really loud. This time I had aged a bit, As had Oasis. They had a nice stage show with videos in the background, and the songs were good, especially my favorite Masterplan, and an a capella version of Don't look back in anger.

But they're no entertainers. Think Liam peaked shouting out "thank you Stockholm" after one of the songs. (he was in Oslo) hehe.
And the only proper convo between the crowd and the band was through Noel, commenting on the young age of the crowd, and introducing the new drummer, Chris Sharrock (Robbie Williams' ex drummer from his last concert). So I sort of knew about him. Noel made a little joke about Chris, asking if anybody had seen Lord of the Rings, making people giggle... Then adding he was Gandalfs body double..
That was a bit fun. Other than that it was all music and no talk.

Ikea was ok too, what you can't find at Ikea, is not worth having.
I even went to the bathroom, to find a dispenser of this

I misread it, and had a little giggle. What I thought it say was "moist sperm wipe" hehe (when it in reality read Moist seat wipes.. in Danish)

Who doesn't need that when in need... :p

That's all for now, I'll probably return with other stories soon. Take care for now!

xxxxx

Paper cuts and other annoyances

2009-01-18T04:28:00.003+01:00

I'm sitting at my work desk, it's 4:29 am (yes you read right), and my eyes are itching, it feels like if I tried to close them now, I'd fall asleep sitting upright.

Another night shift..

Last night I managed to get a paper cut while watching tv on my index finger. And just before I started typing here, I did the same on my middle finger, same hand. Soon my hand will look like an arm of one of those youngsters who self mutilate. It's just that not even those kids are stupid enough to hurt their fingers. It's too visible. And it's getting bigger, my index finger looks like it's been through one of those pirquet tests they used to do before, before we got anti tub shots or whatever they're called.

When I typed my last name just before, my fingers were in the wrong position on the keyboard. And instead of Jakob it came out Hajib. I'm pretty sure that's a name as well, but I might be wrong. Might confuse it with Hijab, which is that scarf thing that certain work places have banned. Can't see why though.. I'm all pro showing who you are. As long as nobody denies me my pink socks, I won't deny anybody to wear whatever they want on their head.

Don't know why I blog about this at all really, it's not something I've been thinking about at all, guess it's my jet lag setting in.

Next weekend I'm going to Oslo again, can't wait to meet up with my old time besties! They keep reproducing themselves, and I don't hehe. I just are there when others do, and make sure they come out of the reproduction as healthy as possible.

Think that maybe the fancy name for my job should be Reproduction Manager, sounds a lot cooler than midwife, doesn't it??!

This gadget will change your life

2009-01-15T22:14:00.003+01:00

Are you one of those who never get tired of movies like Grease, Hairspray, or Mamma Mia? Then this new thing will make your life perfect. It's called Songsmith, and is developed by Microsoft.
Put on the programme, start singing, and the computer will belch out the exact chords to accompany your voice!
It'll be like you're living in a musical!!

Think I'll settle for the odd Singstar session, think this would make me crazy after a while though heheh.

For article, press HERE

Say cheeeeeese!!

2009-01-11T23:55:00.006+01:00

As you know I have very irregular work hours. And working days, nights and evenings in a scramble, pretty much permanently leaves me jet lagged. And because of that, I've started to drink coffee. Not the lattes I prefer to sip while chilling at a coffee bar, but black, horrid coffee. It doesn't taste particularly good either, but it wakes me up a bit.

This has left marks on my teeth. My teeth's always been quite white, and having the pastiest complexion known to man, my teeth needs to stay white. Just so I look like I'm not dead hehe.

And I've found the solution.. the cheap one. I bought tooth whitening goo online! It's the same as the dentist use (hydrogen peroxide or whatever), just way cheaper. Most of all because the tooth guard things arent custom made for me, just generic plastic ones. But there's a procedure to make them suit my teeth perfectly. So I must say I'm really pleased!!
So far I've just tested them 30 minutes, and haven't noticed any difference, but I felt a cooling sensation on my teeth.

Hope that at least I'll have a Hollywood-esque perfect smile in time for September!!! (hehe I wish...)

Done complainting about the weather for now..

2009-01-09T17:50:00.004+01:00

The last few days it's been snowing non stop. But after all, I live in the north of Norway, so it's sort of compulsory with blizzards in early January.
But what I'm grateful over is, that after all, I never even thought of going away in search of the sun.

When Nordics look for sun in January, the place to normally go is The Canary Islands.

This year that's no good idea... It's pretty chilly there too!! 7 degrees Celsius as a low is not a good temperature if you want to show off your pasty skin in a bikini!

Instead, I'll just get myself a nice warm cup of tea, a warm blanket, and dream of the summer. After all, it's just 2 weeks until we can see the sun again here....

For article in Norwegian, press HERE

Young love...

2009-01-06T00:29:00.004+01:00

The german kids Anna-Lena(5 years old) and Mika (6) wanted to elope to Africa at new years.

They had it all planned out. A 7 year old sister was going with them as a witness.

They chose Africa because it's warm, and had even packed swimwear and sunglasses. Mika lured the sisters by telling tales from their recent trip to Italy. And they wanted to get married under the sun. The young ones were very much in love.

Early new years day the 3 kids snuck out of the house, got to a nearby train station, and headed towards Hannover Central Station. There a guard got suspicious, seeing the 3 kids with no guardians, waiting for the airport express train. The guard contacted the police. The police took the kids to the police station, where they rejoined their scared parents.
So, the dream of Africa ended up as nothing but exactly that, a dream.

Isn't that just sweet... Time will tell if their super strong puppy love will last!

ps. Picture is just an illustration

For article in norwegian, press here

happy new year :)

2009-01-01T01:40:00.002+01:00

That's it for for the year 2008, welcome to the new one!!

hope this will be an awesome, eventful and blissful year for all of you!

Virgin Mary gave birth to baby Jesus on christmas day

2008-12-28T03:15:00.002+01:00

A woman in Peru named Virgen Maria, gave birth to a baby boy on christmas day. The babys name is Jesus. And the baby father is a carpenter.

20 year old Virgen Maria Huarcaya Palomino wasn't due on thursday, but had to deliver the baby by c-section. Originally the baby was supposed to be named after a soccer player, but due to the circumstances, they changed their minds.

And the father, Adolfo Jorge Huaman, has the same profession as Joseph, he's a carpenter, according to BBC news.

Jesus was born 8.20 CET, in Lima, Peru. His birth weight was 3320 grams.

"I'm happy to give birth on such a special day. I didn't think my baby would be born today, but now when he's in my arms, I'm really happy" States Maria.

Virgen Maria means Virgin Mary (noooooo :p )She told a local tv station that it was her grandfather who'd decided her name. And she's been teased about her name quite a lot.

(then why does she inflict the exact same on her son???!)

For article in norwegian, click HERE

Another night in Paradise

2008-12-28T03:06:00.002+01:00

This nightshift is the second one I'm on this christmas, and it seems like babies in my area has decided that being born in the latest week of December is totally uncool, so they just stay "home" until January. And that suits me just fine. There's plenty of christmas goodies to finish off... So I do.

So the list of things ingested tonight is;
6 rice chocolate cookies
1 apple
2 bowls of potato crisps
A bottle of Pepsi Max (0,5 litres)
2 cups of tea
1 cup of oatmeal soup (don't ask... somebody had written that it was really good, so I had to test it. It wasn't)
2 cups of coffee
halv a cup of champagne flavoured soda
2 christmas cookies
1 wheat bun

And that's what I recall. And there's still 4,5 hours left of my shift.. Wonder if I'll fit my jeans when my shift is over heheh.

Merry christmas!!!!!

2008-12-25T20:30:00.001+01:00

Hope you'll have an awesome celebration, filled with everything you love and enjoy!!
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The ideal christmas gift for the person who has everything!- Part 2

2008-12-20T21:01:00.001+01:00

I guess no more comment is needed here.. Except pmsl :p

The ideal christmas gift for the person who has everything!!

2008-12-18T19:02:00.003+01:00

Scarlett Johansson is selling her handkerchief, complete with snot, lipstick and the works. It's put out on Ebay, and the profits goes to the ideal organisation USA Harvest.

The auction goes until monday, and currently the top bid is on $2.050

A good deed, but kind of discusting in my opinion...
Knock yourselves out!!

For article in norwegian, press here

The closest thing to a pet Overdose ever...

2008-12-18T05:13:00.002+01:00

Yesterday vets saved 1500(!!!!) parrots from a 1 bedrom apartement in Berlin. According to the neighbours, an elderly man has been breeding parrots, until he filled his entire apartement. By then the neighbours had enough of the noise and foul smell of the flying pets.

But today the animal rescue centre saved the lot, capturing them all by net. It took about 7 hours...

So next time you think about buying a parrot, just go to Berlin, looks like they'll be giving them away by the dozen!

The season of joy

2008-12-14T17:56:00.003+01:00

As I've mentioned before (and I suppose people are aware of it anyway), the christmas is here soon.
It's dark all day long here these days, and many use candlelight to light up the darkness. And other lights as well. Plenty of light! It's beautiful, but remember to blow out the candles when you leave the room, shut down all lightning if you go out, and otherwise be extra careful. Because most of us have a drink now and then, and it's easy to forget. That can be fatal!!

The last 2 days 2 horrible fires have killed 10 people here in Norway. So take care of yourself, remebmer to blow out that candle!

The weekend is here

2008-12-12T00:15:00.002+01:00

Hooooray :)

But got a busy schedule though.
Hairdressers
Dust flat
Vaccuum flat
Clean flat
Do laundry
Make choc muffins
Change bed linen
Tidy flat (looks like an atomic wasteland ...)
Buy dress
Maybe buy shoes

And that's just for tomorrow..

Then it's the rest of the weekend.
Saturday the only christmas party I'm attending this year
Sunday probably sleeping, and praying to whoever is in charge that my headache won't return ;)

But I've got time off, yayyyy to that

Another night...

2008-12-07T02:15:00.003+01:00

One done, doing one, and one more to go. Wish the weekend would pass by as quickly as those non-working one does.. But no.

I had the weirdest dream today, a woman came to me and told me to come and fly her jet. I did, it was kind of like a helicopter, but at the same time I had to hold on to it like it was a flying carpet. And we were quite a few sitting there. We saw all the familiar places, the aerial view was awesome. Then it came to a stop, at a strip like it was a normal plane.
And before I knew it, I was in a tent with 3 or 4 rooms. And it was work. One room had a grown man dressed as a baby, kind of like one of those fluffy pink rabbit suits, and he was chubby and very blonde. I sort of recognized him as an actor I've seen in some sitcoms, but I don't know his name. He kept trying to snatch babies... And my job was to stop him from doing that. It scared me a bit, but at the same time it was too weird to be scared. Then I woke up.
Anybody care to interpret this dream??

Personally I think I watch too much weird stuff on tv.. god knows haha.

For the special people in my life :)

2008-12-06T02:52:00.000+01:00

If I lived to be a thousand years,
If I ruled the word – it’s hemispheres,
I could not repay the love you brought my way,
So, I want to say it now
To thank you for each day you gave me.

Thank you for the Mondays,
Saturdays and Sundays,
Everyday, the whole year through;
Thank you for the fun days,
All those number-one days,
Battles-to-be-won days, too;
I just want to say it,
Thank you for each day with…you.

We have just one life to seize the day,
We only have what time there is to say…
‘n’do what we must do, express our gratitude,
So, I whant to say it and sing it now to you.

Thank you for the Mondays,
Saturdays and Sundays,
Everyday, the whole year through;
Thank you for the fun days,
All those number-one days,
Battles-to-be-won days, too;
I just want to say it,
Thank you for each day with…you.

At the close of every day,
When I close my eyes to pray,
All I need to do, is just to think of you…
Then, all I need to say…is…

Thank you for the Mondays,
Saturdays and Sundays,
Everyday, the whole year through;
Thank you for the fun days,
All those number-one days,
Battles-to-be-won days, too;
I just want to say it,
Thank you for each day with…you.

Poor Poor me

2008-12-05T20:59:00.002+01:00

Because I have to work 3 night shifts this weekend.

Am leaving in 5 minutes...

Just had to whine a bit, sorry.

Have a good weekend, those who can :)

Walkin' down Memory Lane..

2008-12-04T16:54:00.004+01:00

For Beate, in memory of Gothenburg, July 1 2006 ;)

Words and music by Freddie Mercury

Tonight Im gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world turning inside out yeah!
And floating around in ecstasy
So dont stop me now dont stop me
cause Im having a good time having a good time

Im a shooting star leaping through the sky
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
Im a racing car passing by like lady godiva
Im gonna go go go
Theres no stopping me

Im burning through the sky yeah!
Two hundred degrees
Thats why they call me mister fahrenheit
Im travling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you

Dont stop me now Im having such a good time
Im having a ball dont stop me now
If you wanna have a good time just give me a call
Dont stop me now (cause Im havin a good time)
Dont stop me now (yes Im havin a good time)
I dont want to stop at all

Im a rocket ship on my way to mars
On a collision course
I am a satellite Im out of control
I am a sex machine ready to reload
Like an atom bomb about to
Oh oh oh oh oh explode

Im burning through the sky yeah!
Two hundred degrees
Thats why they call me mister fahrenheit
Im travling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic woman of you

Dont stop me dont stop me
Dont stop me hey hey hey!
Dont stop me dont stop me ooh ooh ooh (I like it)
Dont stop me dont stop me
Have a good time good time
Dont stop me dont stop me ah

Im burning through the sky yeah!
Two hundred degrees
Thats why they call me mister fahrenheit
Im travling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you

Dont stop me now Im having such a good time
Im having a ball dont stop me now
If you wanna have a good time just give me a call
Dont stop me now (cause Im havin a good time)
Dont stop me now (yes Im havin a good time)
I dont want to stop at all

Wednesday...

2008-12-03T18:31:00.002+01:00

Middle of the week, it's been a while since the weekend, and there's still a few days left until the weekend starts. Kinda depressing really.. But I'm just tired. But at least I've got tomorrow off, a "warm up" for the weekend, a working one. 3 night shifts.. blah.

Maybe I just need a nap to cheer myself up, but I dont know really.

All i can say is...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Happy December

2008-12-01T18:50:00.008+01:00

It seems like christmas is coming closer, even if I try to live in denial. The stores are filling up with christmas stuff, lights, music, and everything else that reminds us that we are at this part of the year.

Last weekend the traditional christmas trees were lit in my town, as well as the illuminated streets. Or, traditional... This year my town the "blue city" had decided that they wanted something new, so a few women got together, and somehow produced a new lightigs system with BLUE lights! not just a few lightbulbs either... 18.000 of 'em!! The results wasn't that bad, all things considered. But it reminds me of radioactive waste, that's all.. And tanning booths haha

Take a look and decide for yourselves!!

Oh, and in one of the roundabouts some creative souls has created a rather peculiar masterpiece.. Yesterday 2 snowmen were found there, anatomically correct and all!! One is a lady, well built, and the other a man, were absolutely well hung hehe. The con was that this morning the weather had changed a bit, and it's started to rain. So certain parts of the man has gone a bit limp....

Oooh I'm leaving town

2008-11-27T17:18:00.018+01:00

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?

2008-11-26T11:33:00.008+01:00

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

2008-11-24T19:31:00.004+01:00

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

2008-11-19T23:02:00.004+01:00

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

2008-11-18T17:15:00.002+01:00

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

2008-11-15T18:08:00.004+01:00

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

2008-11-13T23:18:00.003+01:00

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!!

2008-11-10T20:45:00.005+01:00

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

2008-11-09T21:40:00.006+01:00

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

2008-11-04T17:05:00.005+01:00

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

2008-11-04T16:32:00.004+01:00

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.

First posting ever..

2008-10-30T15:27:00.004+01:00

And I'll write about what interests me. These days pretty much nothing that keeps me interested for more than 3 minutes.. Can't say why that is, it's just a fact of life.

I've got a bit of e pet peeve though... CARS!! blasted rubbish cars, why do they have to be so flamin' expensive to use?

Stupid me had to put my trusted car named Georg in on a regular service to change oil filters and stuff the other week. And they told me it needed a lot of work.
I'm not familiar with the car terms in english, but one is one of those register strap things in the engine, that needs to be changed every now and then., had to be changed. As well as the 2 front break blocks, 2 winter tires (the back ones), and an air condition strap, or whatever it's called. Then there's the charge of the "party"... A mere 12000 norwegian Kroner.. Or around 1820 Dollars. For 2 days without my car. Everybody I know needs to embrace for getting... AIR for christmas from me!!