For your eyes only...

Found this while looking for a new car. The owners were inside the auto shop and had plain view of me out of the window, which is why I did this as rapid as I could. Resulting in me flipping the finger at myself *LMAO* No,we do it like that here in Norway ;) (Inspired by this site FUH2)



This sticker needs to be transferred from Pea to the new car when we get it. Isn't it the coolest? I haven't seen it anywhere else but where we got it, and that's a long way from here :(



My new *heart* shoes. I'm in love! OK, so it hurts like hell to wear them any longer than five paces, but they're the coolest.



Another shot of the shoe. It has about 10cm heels, I think?



I found him!



Love and a gigant Pooh. This shot and the previous one was taken in one of the coolest toy stores I've ever seen. :D


The car is still waiting for us to pick it up. Because we found a "cheap" car, the interests on car loans will be humongous for us, so we applied for a regular one instead and that takes a little longer. Grrr... So... yeah... Waiting. Lame!

New clonker.

Naw... Totally no new clonker! *big wide grin* New fancy, Hyacint Bucket car!
We went to see the red Rover again yesterday, because I needed to check something.
Love adored it last time we saw it, but I was somehow very skeptical, not having a very good feeling for it. I mean, the car was gorgeous, but there was something weird going on. You know, when your gut simply tells you "watch out"? That was the feeling I was having.
And nothing had changed when we saw it yesterday.
But luckily we had planned on seeing another car yesterday. The second, newer Rover.

Well, we took it right there. It was a lot cheaper, as in 15 000 kroner cheaper and that's a lot of money. Had all services done and the owner was selling it because he had gotten a new Rover.
Of course, we have no guaranties that this car will be perfect, as no one buying a used car can have, but we fell in love with it.

Just crossing my fingers that it's actually in the condition it appeared to be. We couldn't get Simon to come with us to have a look at it, but at that price and with all the services done, it should be a good buy.

So... Anyone feel like buying a 20 year old Fiesta that needs new tyres and brakes? Very cheap for you, my friend!

Bloody hell!

Someone, hand me the biggest mallet you can grab!

Pea bloody fuckin' hell has another flat frig dammit! And we don't have more spare tyres either! Fuuuuuck!

New car. Today! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

(and no, we're not idiots. after the last flat, we checked the air pressure in all the tyres, and it was fine)

Fuuuuuuuck!

(sorry... but I'm so frikkin PISSED OFF right now!)

Car search team.

We make up an interesting team, Love, Simon and I. We went looking at some cars yesterday, and Simon span around the cars, wriggeling stuff, doodling with stuff under the hood and so on. Love fell in love with the first one we looked at, this Rover 400, and compared the others to that one afterwards. "But the Rover had a cooler badge!" "But the Rover looked prettier!"
Honestly, whether Love nor I know anything about cars. I know what I like, designwise, so do Love. And I have a weird thing about how the car sounds, I have to like it.
But that's why we bring Simon with us.
The other cars we looked at? A Ford Mondeo and a Toyota Carina. The Ford (which I was rooting on), was sadly horribly beaten up. Poor thing. And the Toyota seemed very tired, even though they're generally great cars. But it had lousy brakes and wobbled a bit on the road. And honestly, looked like shit. Or, that's unfair, it simply looked... as uttely dull as a car can look. The only plusses with it, was that it was a Toyota and it was very spacey. But it would come out more expensive than the Rover, and would need some immediate maintenance which would be an additional expense of course. And it has cheesy early 90s interior, ick!

We still have a couple of cars to look at. Another Rover 400, one year newer, somewhat cheaper, but more mileage, and an Opel Omega.
I'll see if I can sniff out some other cars to look at also, but I want this new car thing to happen as soon as possible. It's drawing near on winter here now, and I do not want to depend on Pea when the first snow falls. And with me leaving in a little over a week to Germany, it has to happen before that.

Oh, and no... we haven't suddenly turned mega-rich ('cause then I would have gotten a brand new Ford Focus *heart*). But we can manage a small car loan, and we frikkin need a new car!
Although Pea's behaviour was inpeccable yesterday. Too late, Clonky, we're ditching you.

Lilo update

Took Lilo to the vet this morning. She's on antibiotics now, hopefully it'll help.
Poor piggie... I hate having one of them sick. I go around, being constantly worried.
Of course, I have to. They're my babies.

Sick pig, carrying bricks and looking for new wheels.

One of my piggies, Lilo, has a weird wheezy sound to her breathing. Not wheezy as in asthmatic wheezy, but it sounds like there's snot in her nose. It's perfectly clean on the outside though. And at the moment, she's still active and eating normally. The wheezy sound has also decreased since yesterday. So far I'm not deeply concerned, but of course I don't like the situation. When piggies get sick it can go downhill terribly fast. When Monster got sick, he was just skin and bones after two days, when he originally was quite porky.
But Lilo isn't showing signs of loosing any weight. So as long as the noise keeps decreasing and she acts normally, I won't take her to the vet. Finding a decent piggie vet around here is hard and they often simply prescribe antibiotics, which sometimes messes up more than it helps.
But I am of course keeping a close look on her. Poor piggie...


Took my new laptop to school for the first time today. Mostly to get it hooked up to the wireless network at school, but also to test out how the whole taking notes on computer works.
Unfortunately the taking notes part worked better than I imagined. I don't usually take notes, because I feel I'm not fast enough to write things down and then miss out the next part of the lecture. But on computer I'm quite speedy, and managed to take notes without it disturbing my listening to the lecture.
So what's unfortunate about that you say?
My "new" laptop with the bag and accessories weights around 6 kilos. It's a beast! *lol* I need to get a laptop backpack thingy for it, 'cause otherwise it's too heavy.
I had fun sitting at the computer support office with three other people, sporting tiny laptops. Well, poo for them. Mine happen to probably be twice as fast and powerful. And has a great screen also. Except it comes in a bulky, large package. It's not really a big problem for me, 'cause I intend on using this one mostly as a desktop computer.
So... either I need to start serious workout in the hopes of becoming strong enough to lift it with one finger. Or get one of those laptop backpacks. Which is probably easier.


Pea is getting the pink slip. As soon as possible. The flat-stunt was the last drop for me, so Love and I agreed on looking for a new one. Now. Preferrably before I leave for Germany. I don't trust that rusty clonker one bit, especially not to get me to the airport, which is a two and a half hour drive. And I can't frikkin' have anything happening to it on my way to the airport, that'll make me loose my flight. Arrrgh! I feel I'm tensing up just typing this. GRrrr!
So... will find new car, hopefully get a loan and try to sell Pea. Will buff her up and make sure she looks as good as she can, and then see if someone will pay for her. No mercy anymore, sorry.

Five things meme

Snatched from FoFuSa. :)

High Five

5 years ago:
I was just starting my second year at music school. I didn't even know if I really wanted to continue, because I felt so talentless and unable to cope with things. But I did continue, and that second year proved to be the most interesting of them all.

5 songs I know all the words to:
--"Mein Teil" by Rammstein (although I wish I didn't)
--"Complainte de la butte" Rufus Wainwright, from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack
--"Dirty little secret" by Sarah McLachlan
--"99 Luftballons" by Nena
--"Funny Honey" from the Chicago movie soundtrack.

5 Snacks I enjoy:
-- Chilinuts
-- Veggies and dip
-- Dark chocolate (as in 85% cocoa solids)
-- Tiny marshmallows in my hot cocoa (found some in Sweden last time, they're hilarious!)
-- Any Haribo candy.

5 Things I'd do with $100 million dollars:
-- Buy myself a seaside house here.
-- Buy a big brick house with garden in Germany so that my auntie and her family could live there and I could have the second floor or something.
-- Pay off my parents mortage.
-- Buy a new car, frigdammit!
-- Establish a charity fund and hand out money to those who need it.

5 places I would run away to:
--at this moment... Yeah, warm places are a big hit with me at the moment also, FoFuSa. (Don't need to put Germany here, seeing I'm going there in two weeks)
--if I had to stay within Norway... The DVD sale I'm going to afterwards.
--if I had unlimited money.... A tour around the world.
--if I were taking Love... Dublin.
--if I had to walk... the library.

5 things I would never wear:
-- Leopard print
-- Only pastels
-- Laced underwear
-- Spandex
-- My old 80s sweaters.

5 favorite tv shows:
-- Gilmore Girls
-- Lost
-- Monty Python's Flying Circus
-- the news
-- Mythbusters

5 greatest joys: in random order
-- cuddling up to my Love when it's cold out (well, when it's hot also.)
-- drinking my morning capuccino while reading the online newspapers
-- getting in the "zone" while writing
-- seeing a movie at the cinema all by myself
-- travelling

5 favorite toys :
-- my laptop :D
-- my Love, he's such a fun sqeaky toy. He makes cute noises when I push his nose or tickle him.
-- my mp3 player (256mb) which I got dead cheap and has been inseperable from ever since.
-- my naughty Stitch stuffed animal
-- my Kinder Surprise Eggs toy collection

5 people I'm tagging:
-- Co-evil minion, Eileen the Jellomonster
-- M
-- karla
-- Cy
-- Eileen
But only if you want to ;)

Google trick.

Google "failure" and push the "I'm feeling lucky"-button.
I'm not going to tell you what it does, but it's hilarious. "Weapons of massdestruction" is also a classic, as is "axis of evil".
Go on, have fun! :)

Kickin' the habbit.

Me this morning: "Dum-dee-dum... Coffee coffee yumm..." Picks out cappu from cupboard. "What the f*ck, the yakblood's empty!"

My cappuchino (powder-stuff) was empty. And I forgot to buy a new one last time we went to Lidl. Oh no! (I don't drink regular coffee, it's too bitter.)
So, today is as good day as any to kick the habbit, huh?
Yeah, right! The throbbing headache I'm sporting at the moment tells me that's not an option. Ow... Methinks Love and I need to go to Lidl when he gets back from work.

Important life lessons #3

Having a flat really means having a flat. Damn, I had no idea tyres could get that FLAT! We couldn't even roll it when we got it off.

Well, at least Simon is always on duty when it comes to Pea-rescue. Good thing we had a spare tyre also.
Now we need to buy new tyres. But we need both winter and summer tyres. So the big question is, maybe it's better to buy a new car rather than shell out a fortune on tyres.
Bah...


Saw "Charlie and the chocolate factory" yesterday. I love Tim Burton! And the film was just what I had expected. But I will be having nightmares about little men in latex suits now, arrrgh! Gotta love Willy Wonka though, even with the creepy likeness to Michael Jackson.

Seven things meme.

I'm a bit miffed about not being tagged with this, karla, but I'll just steal it instead, like the evil minion I am.

Seven things I plan to do before I die...

1. Publish at least one novel.
   
2. Visit Egypt.
   
3. Get to know Berlin.
   
4. Learn to stand up for myself and give a rats ass if people think I'm loony.
   
5. Pierce my navel.
   
6. Live a year or longer in Germany.
   
7. Have a kid or two. Maybe get married.
   

Seven things I can do...

1. Make great "pepperkaker".
   
2. Curl my tongue.
   
3. Play through the entire "Zelda, The Windwaker"
   
4. Speak German, Norwegian and English relatively fluently.
   
5. Tell a good story.
   
6. Build one kick-ass piggie pen!
   
7. Sing high notes.
   

Seven things I can not do...

1. Stand on my head.
   
2. Cartwheel.
   
3. Convince myself that I really can write.
   
4. Drive (working on that)
   
5. Stand people smoking, unless I volunteerly stand next to them. Waiting for the bus is especially annoying.
   
6. Shake "what my mama gave me". Dunno, I just don't get the hang of it.
   
7. Figure out why a man's p*nis is the way it is. When it comes to life and ect. It's just a big mystery to me, really.
   

Seven things that I find really attractive about the opposite sex...

1. Humour
2. Hands
   
3. Eyes
   
4. Nose
   
5. Kind
   
6. Non-machoness.
   
7. Ability to do common household tasks.
   

Seven things I say the most...

1. "Why does it do that?" -Any technical thingy.
   
2. "How does that work?" -Again, technical do-dahs.
   
3. "Was that sound/smell there earlier?" -When driving around in Pea.
   
4. "Ni!"
   
5. "Honey, will you fetch me..." -I'm lazy at times.. *sigh*
   
6. "I'm cooold!" -Hey, I live in Norway, I have an excuse!
   
7. "I wanna go to Germany!" -All the time.
   

Seven Books I love...

1. "Lillelord" by Johan Borgen
   
2. "Mengele Zoo" by Gert Nygårdhaug
   
3. "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien
   
4. "The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran
   
5. "Pride and predjudice" by Jane Austen
   
6. Can't help it, but the "Bridget Jones" books by Helen Fielding
   
7. The Harry Potter books.

I'm tagging my co-evil minion, the Jellomonster and M.

One year blogiversary!!

Today is my One Year Blogiversary!
I feel I should be celebrating by doing something interesting.

But then again, getting a new computer is rather interesting. And typing on this laptop keyboard is also interesting. I tried to type in Zonealarm to find where to download a new firewall, and had to have four tries. Yikes!

But anyway. Yay for me! Been bloggin' for a year. Oooh! :)

Photos, especially for you!

The laptop arrived today. Been installing and fiddling all morning, and managed to transfer photos from my cell phone as well. And figured I'd share with you! :)


Here's the result of my playing with Love's hair. Bad cell phone photo, but you can see it's sorta blondeish. Looked awful, to be honest.



My colleague found this in the pick'n mix candy. Naughty, huh?



"Verdens Ende". We go here every now and then because it's so gorgeous.



These f*ckers live in our apartment. Little ones I can handle, but not this size!



Perfect parking on the ferry. To Love's defence, the guide-man was confused and sent us mixed messages. Litterally.



Milkshake I had this summer. Very sinful indeed. And really yummy.



Here's from when I met Yoda. He was cool, and asked me if I used shampoo.

Whoa, update!

Where to begin?
First off: I'm going to Germany in October. For two weeks, with mum. She asked me if I wanted to come with her and of course I would. Even though Love and I had originally planned to do "something", and I feel really bad about that. But he's the one urging me to go in the first place because of the situation with my Oma and all. And it's my only chance to go this year anyway.
So yes, tickets are booked.
And I had to go to Oslo today to arrange with getting a new passport because mine is expired.

Well, I really do dislike Oslo. It's too big. I only get lost. But I did find the embassy and everything went fine. I also met up with some friends I haven't seen in a while and had lunch.
Then Eileen showed up and needed something for lunch as well, so we went to Bacchus. Yummm-ee! They have the best coffee mocha I've ever tasted. It was such an near coffee-heaven experience, it was amazing.
And it was great seeing Eileen again also. Having a little girl to girl talk. :)

There were frightfully many kilts in Oslo today. Me, not paying attention to anything sports related, had completely missed hearing about the soccer match between Scotland and Norway yesterday. But I got the giggles everytime I saw a kilt. Bad idea to wear those, really. It was kinda cold today, so shrinkage much? And I really felt like checking if there was any undies underneath there. I'm naughty.

Anddd... Getting my own lap top tomorrow. Hopefully. I've purchased a second hand one, which was sent today. Not to shabby, if it is what I was told. But I guess I'll see tomorrow. So excited! This means I can finally play Sims2 :D *lol*

Thingy.

Borrowed from Cy. Very shameless, actually ;)


1. What time did you get up this morning?
Slept in late, 9:30 am

2. Diamonds or pearls?
Well, neither! Or, pink diamonds are pretty. But also for rich people only.
I don't need diamonds, really.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
It's been a while now, because they cranked up the prices. Don't remember.

4. What are your favorite TV shows?
Mythbusters, Gilmore Girls

5. What did you have for breakfast?
Haven't had any yet.

6. What is your middle name?
You wouldn't know how to pronounce it anway.

7. What is your favorite food?
Salmon.

8. What foods do you dislike?
Beef and lamb

9. What is your favorite chip flavor?
Salt & Pepper

10. What is your favorite CD at the moment?
Depends on my mood.

11. What kind of car do you drive?
I don't. No liscence. Yet. But our car is a 1986 Fiesta

12. Favorite sandwich?
Uh... huh? We wegies aren't big on sammiches.

13. What characteristic do you despise?
Arrogance, closedmindness, intolerance, ignorance.

14. Favorite item of clothing?
My new jeans! :D

15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?
Germany. It's been too long now.

16. What color is your bathroom?
Unfortunately, pink.

17. Favorite brand of clothing?
I don't have one. I've never been a brand wearing girl. I'm more of a "ooo that looks nice, me want it" girl.

18. Where would you retire to?
Germany

19. Favorite time of the day?
Morning, when reading newspapers and enjoying my cappuchino.

20. What was your most memorable birthday?
I dunno if I've had one. I remember my 3rd birthday though. Mum made me the car shaped cake from her cook book and I was seriously disappointed that she hadn't put such silver thingies on it like the one in the book.

21. Where were you born?
Norway

22. Favorite sport to watch?
I don't watch sport.

23. Coke or Pepsi?
Neither. I don't drink soda.

24. Are you a morning person or a night owl?
I can be both. Not at the same time though...

25. What is your shoe size?
40. Dunno what that is in US sizes. 7 I think.

26. Do you have any pets?
Four piggies :D

27. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with your family & friends?
No. And I'm tired of people asking me that. People, if I get married, you'll know, OK? If I do get preggers, I'll also let you know. So STOP asking!

28. What did you want to be when you were little?
A firelady.

29. Do you have any children?
no

30. What's your favorite holiday?
Halloween and yule

31. What's your favorite day of the week?
I kinda like thursdays

32. Where do you work?
At work.

Sometimes they're just too cute for words.

Yesterday Love had to work all night. The school he teaches at was doing a start of term special project and doing it as a sleep over thing. So, when he got back from work at 4 p.m, he had to be back at work again at 7 p.m.
So, he took me out to dinner those hours he had off. Japanese.
It's always fun to try something completely different. But it was hot! And I thought I was used to that, with all the hot spices I usually use. Oh well... it was delicious anyway.
And very lovely weather also.
Unlike today... bah! Woke up sometime early this morning because it was raining so hard. Noisy much? Not at all.
But Pea behaved anyway. Good girl. I think she's worried we'll junk her.

Visa... gay edition.

No, it's not a joke (I think).
PayGay Visa.
My goodness, this is hilarious... Unfair, I want a purple visa card too!

Self discipline, me?

Self discipline, me? Apparently not.
I was just going to pick up a book I had put on hold at the library and get Love's neffypoo something for his birthday.
Yeah, well, I kinda... swung by my local crafts shop also. Bad idea.
They had new beads. Purty beads. Big packs of various lampwork/two-tone beads in matching colours. Which I had to get, naturally. Not just one pack, but four.
Hey, have to start making Yule pressies, you know! And mum's birthday is coming up also.
Well, that's my excuse. I'm unfortunately of the human specie "oooh pretty must have!". I almost bought a big Cheer bear Care Bear (that's the one with the rainbow! weeeee!) today also, but well... I don't need it. I just want it, and that's something else.
I also feel absolutely rich when I get my paycheck and always end up being puzzled about where the money went when they're gone.
Like I said, self discipline... But the only completely unneccesary selfish purchases I made today was actually a book I had been looking for. "Erotic norwegian folk tales". They're the ones that weren't fit for the PG collection collected by Asbjørnsen & Moe. It's not p*rn (trying to avoid the worst google hits here), but cheeky jokes and generally lousy humour. But still fun. And a lot of cutting off "fellows". And making them larger at will.
And dayum, I had no idea that rude norwegian words like "kuse", "fitte" and "kukk" were that old?

Another discipline issue... I should be writing on my short story. It's due wednesday, but I haven't gotten into the "groove" yet and that makes it hard writing. Besides, my story takes place in London, where I've never actually been. So I need to do research. I've picked up a couple of travel guides at the library and will look into them tonight or tomorrow.
What do I know of London already?
There's a big clock named Big ben.
The Tower of London bridge can open up and has huge counter-weights underground.
Harrods supposedly can get you anything.
If you feel like ranting, go to Picadilly Circus.
The busses are red.
And the taxies have extreme moveability.

Yeah... I think I need to do some research.