tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166162692769296962024-03-05T22:11:29.192-08:00Sick Since 86adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comBlogger504125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-90330912635452229972012-01-15T21:54:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:55:58.755-08:00Un look retroOh man, what a crazy long weekend it's been! Thanksgiving turned out great, then visited the Brooklyn Museum and on Satuday did a walking ghost tour with some friends in the upper West Side. Have you ever done a ghost tour? They're a really great way to learn a little bit of history. Well, that's why I do them it's more about the creepy NY history than finding out if there are any ghosts adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-26389887735860061812012-01-15T21:49:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:53:45.769-08:00This was first dayDay 333: I have been getting behind on posting my projects! This one I made on New Years day on the drive down to Albuquerque to visit some friends. Don't worry, I wasn't the one driving. I found this picture of a girl walking in the rain. I tried to give it a rainy kind of feel by ripping the paper into long strips. Day 334: I cut out a pair of scissors from a magazine page. This was adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-75766284906381462022012-01-15T21:48:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:49:09.955-08:0010 Tips for Surviving Sick Days at HomeI haven't been sick since June *knocks on wood* and so as we come into cold and flu season, it's granted that I'll get a least one cold. In which I'll stay home from work because that's just how I am. I don't want to get other people sick and when I am sick, I can't do anything but be sick. My mind doesn't work, my body doesn't work. It's pointless. I came across this post today on Apartment adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-43257724907004716782012-01-15T21:46:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:47:14.004-08:00"Jen Cusick" Sick Since 86'Jen Cusick has been busy this winter. Here's an excerpt of an email she recently sent... "So I just got back from a little 1 1/2 week spring break snowboard adventure. So much fun! Started at Moonstone and learned back flips into the airbag. Now I just got to man up on the snow! Then competed in the you look good riders cup, had a solid sweet run but only got fifth...o well :) O and I met adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-23114278150256232442012-01-08T13:02:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:49.483-08:00Sånn er detOften when I question things here in Norway I do not get a proper answer. More often than not the answer is, "Sånn er det" which means "thats the way it is"So when I ask "why is everything closed on Sunday?", "Why is everything so expensive?" "Why don't norwegians use their indicators or car horns?" "Why do norwegians all eat taco's on Friday?" "Why is there a crap choice of food in the adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-72504115742120229752012-01-03T12:04:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:49.599-08:00WinterThis is my street at 3.15pm today. That is sheet ice and it's a bugger to walk on. This winter is crap. Wet,icy,dangerous. Give me last winter instead. Snowy,friggin freezing, but dry (and it's the dryness that makes the difference)Sunrise:9.19amSunset:3.21pmThere are on average 20 weeks til we have some warmth here, and I am counting down!adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-59945682050332284292012-01-02T14:12:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:49.623-08:00changesBack to work today. This day last year I began norwegian lessons and now I'm fluent enough to function in norwegian society (well, in my own funny little British way) and have a job. I'm pretty proud. I don't actually like speaking norwegian and spoke very little over the christmas holidays (which suits me just fine) so today was pretty difficult to switch the norwegian back on, especially when adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-33610353937693708342012-01-01T00:15:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:49.648-08:00Happy new year!We woke on this first day of 2012 with huge amounts of snow and no hangovers!We spent the last day of the year in a costly Oslo clinic with me having costly throat swabs done only to be sent away with super strong antibiotics and a case of Pharyngitis and told not to drink alchohol!So we celebrated NYE on the sofa,watching lots of good films,drinking Pink Lemonade (me) and eating Panettone.Henrikadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-75994670387127303182011-12-29T00:26:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:49.754-08:00Quiet timeHope you all had a fantastic christmas! I love the time between christmas and new year, it's so relaxing and cozy, there are good things to eat (bubble and squeak from all the leftovers is possibly my favourite meal ever) and lots of feel good films to watch. I have been sick since boxing day with a sore throat,hacking cough and my asthma is shocking (I developed asthma when I was 19 and moved toadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-88423922193606959362011-12-23T11:57:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:49.773-08:00Seasons greetings!My mum and stepdad are in Norway for the first time since we moved here (mum has a fear of flying so it's taken a while to get her here!) and we are looking forward to spending christmas with Henrik's folks. Thanks for visiting my blog this year, and all your comments. Merry Christmas! See you on the other side!adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-59735718292315014852011-12-12T11:06:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:49.865-08:00Gløgg&pepperkakerThe weather is my least favourite at the moment. We have snow which partly melted, iced over at night, melted again during the day and froze over again when the temps dropped at night causing the worst bumpy ice that is impossible to walk on and very stressful to a non norwegian who attempts to waddle like a penguin, taking baby steps whilst the norwegians expertly whizz past me!I have a strong adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-86612973832011115042011-12-10T00:41:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:49.895-08:00We have butter! We shopped in Sweden last weekend and managed to track down 3 packs of the creamy goodness! Insane that the butter shortage still continues here.... Norway is a strange,strange land. People are now selling butter on Finn.no (a kind of norsk e bay) for 250kr (£27) per pack!I'm off to England on Wednesday to stay with my best friend, do some christmas shopping and become blonde adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-66079704734592374372011-12-07T05:17:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:49.992-08:00It's here!Winter arrived last night and it took just a few hours for us to be totally blanketed in the white stuff! I do love snow at first, but ask me again in 5 months and I'll say the opposite!All this snow has got me wanting some christmas tunes- Im liking this.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-16565426466388262512011-12-02T00:49:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:50.090-08:00pølse/pose/pauseMy norwegian is improving now that I'm working but I'm still making the stupidest mistakes. Sometimes I lie in bed at night thinking about all the cringe-worthy things I said at the barnehage that day (whilst Henrik pisses himself laughing)There are three words that I often mess up:pølse (pronounced pulsa)= sausagepose(pronounced poosa)=bagpause(pronounced powsa)=break, as in half an hour break adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-24012805671969122462011-11-27T08:56:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:50.117-08:00The weekendI've been battling a crappy cold, aching body and sore throat for the last three days, so much of the weekend has been spent sleeping and watching the amazing series, "Breaking Bad" but late on Saturday afternoon we ventured out to the christmas market at Bærums Verk to get some christmas cheer (plus a delicious elk burger)Winter seems to have gone away again and we are having lovely, mild adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-4902965596040048232011-11-23T11:51:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:50.220-08:00WednesdayTrying to speak norwegian all day at work is the most exhausting thing I have ever done in my entire life, and to top it off I'm not sleeping well at the moment as I think my brain is having a hard time switching off at bed time and I'm finding myself wide awake at 3.37am. Uff!Today it was so dark that it felt as though we never passed dawn which does not help with my tiredness. I need sun but adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-82527959758056362052011-11-19T02:12:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:50.247-08:00Winter arrived this week and the mornings were -6c. We'd been pretty mild so it was a shock to the system at first but now I've accepted winter is here, unpacked all my winter gear and I'm embracing it!My first week at my new job went very well, I'm loving being back at work. It's funny but I always quite fancied being a lady of leisure and not working, but in reality it's no fun. Having a job isadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-3006246221977506602011-11-14T00:11:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:50.343-08:00Happy MondayI woke up today and we have internet (we have been piggybacking off our landlords wi-fi, with permission and payment for the last 15 months but something changed and the signal stopped reaching down to our flat) Today it's on. Good, I missed it!I switched my camera on yesterday and after 9 months of not working it came on and worked perfectly. Hmmmmm. What's going on? Am I having a bit of good adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-52004701116769248682011-11-09T06:35:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:58:50.463-08:00A catch up We are still internet-less at home which is very irritating (there is only so much you can do on a small iphone screen..) so I'm now sitting in the library as I need to see things on a bigger screen!So, whats been going on lately?*Today was my last day on the norwegian course. I have finished 5 weeks early as, wait for it..... I have a job!!!! I shall begin working (for real money!) next week atadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-34650412889015584372011-10-23T11:47:00.000-07:002012-01-15T21:58:50.573-08:00BygdøyMy best friend has been here for a few days and as usual it has been soooooo nice to see her! My life in Norway would be just right if I could only convince her to move here.....We are now in Gøteborg for a few days of better shopping, better food and friendly Swedes!(My blogging is non existent at the moment due to a terrible internet connection which we are trying to change but if you are adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-81730599555840128992011-10-19T13:04:00.000-07:002012-01-15T21:58:50.686-08:00Autumn nightsadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-5358949959217417942011-10-08T03:13:00.000-07:002012-01-15T21:58:50.796-08:00The weekend, finallyMy two weeks at the barnehage are now over and I'll just be going on Thurs & Fri from now until christmas. Back to the norskkurs on Monday for a well earned rest! I have spoken sooooo much norwegian for the last 2 weeks but I still get to a point where I hit a wall and have to revert to english. Will I ever get over the wall? It also suddenly hit me this week that this is my life now. A adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-44509575243446633992011-10-01T01:10:00.000-07:002012-01-15T21:58:50.898-08:00Hello OctoberHow on earth is it October already? Only 11 weeks til christmas!So, I've just finished my first full week in the norwegian workplace (unpaid,of course!) and I had a fantastic week! I was scared witless on Monday and could barely breathe as I walked into the barnehage that morning but I really had no need to be so afraid as I was welcomed with open arms! I have learned so much norwegian this week adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-44066011156973701242011-09-25T11:54:00.000-07:002012-01-15T21:58:50.998-08:00A new chapterDon't worry, the weather has not changed just yet but I guess this picture shows what I should be expecting pretty soon! I did see on the front page of the newspaper last week "Ekstrem Vinter" (extreme winter!) emblazened in huge letters and felt slightly scared. Speaking of being scared I begin my språkpraksis tomorrow morning at a very nice local barnehage and I'm terrified. Terrified, I tell adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116616269276929696.post-46732429239233759622011-09-18T11:45:00.000-07:002012-01-15T21:58:51.109-08:00The weekendWe have had a lovely weekend. Friday night we celebrated Henrik's 36th birthday with our friends, Saturday we visited three fleamarkets, picked apples & plums and today we took a trip to Sweden and now I've just finished my norwegian homework (the least favourite bit of the weekend) Autumn is certainly here and I'm trying to embrace it but I'm still not ready to give in and get all our adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686918243961526595noreply@blogger.com