Bloody hell! (2)

Just done at the dentists. The cavity-removing went fine, he even did two cavities next to each other and gave me the speech about flossing, rinsing and so on... I have bad teeth, unfortunately. "Caries active" as he put it. And I have to cut down on my sugar. But frikkin where? I don't drink soda, and don't eat that much candy.
Now that's not really "bloody hell!". But my other problem is! The other "cavity" which he fixed last year that's been hurting again, it's not the cavity itself. It's the wisdom tooth! It won't come up because it's pressing against the neighbouring tooth. That's what's making my jaw hurt like hell!
So I will have to schedule an appointment to have that taken care of after Christmas.
Going to remove all of them, and it's going to cost me much more than what we got for Pea. Fock! I'll have to take it from my liscence money *cry*. But those bad bad evil teeth has to go, so...
He did try to pull that "let's remove this one while your jaw is still sedated" move again, but I told him I preferred doing two of them at a time, so that I don't have to be tortured FOUR times. So... yes... very much looking forward to it. Dope me up on Valium, I say. No way in hell otherwise!

Picking up my bummed out bum and unbumming it.

On Monday I had a chat with one of my professors. Well, she's an author, not a professor, and an editor, but you get the idea. Nothing bad, though, she routinely talks with all us students.
But oh my... I know I've been in trouble for a while. But no one has really noticed. Love, perhaps, and some of my classmates who depend on me doing my part for our study group... But no one has pointed it out like she did. Without being judgemental about it, just understanding.
So maybe I should tell you exactly what my problem is?
Lack of energy to do anything requiring thinking. Even the dishes require some sort of effort, and I've been really lazy with those also. Well, lazy is not the right word. Yes, it's lazy to not to an effing thing, but at the same time I'm not just plain lazy. I've had this feeling for a while now, of having a gigantic, heavy blanket over me that doesn't let me reach out to do anything. And it has some sort of poison on it that makes me go "but it's so comfy in here anyway... I'll just sleep a little".
So I don't get anything done, my school work suffers from it as does anything else I am supposed to do.
What to do about it? I have for a while now resigned to Blankie, the gigant poison blanket and now I need to beat him up. How? Well, he's big, right? I'm not that strong. But I can be sneaky with him! My professor told me to make lists. Lists over what upsets me, why I'm sad, what bothers me and not to mention: a frikkin to-do list for the day!

I did it yesterday, and... I did everything on it! Paid my bills, finished my analysis paper (about bloody time, it's due today) and not to mention... called my dentist and set up an appointment. I've been needing that ever since he scared the shit out of me. Sooo... I have an appointment for today. Eeep! Going to have my cavity done, prolly get another appointment for having another done that he tried to do last time also, but it still hurts. And, finally, have my wisdom teeth pulled. But not today. I hope I can do it after Christmas, because that's a perfect time for eating soup a whole month anyway. *lol*
And no, I haven't suddenly won the lottery. I'm taking the money we got from selling Pea. We were going to get a washer for that money, but Love is forcing me to finally fix my teeth instead.
Bah... blood sucker dentists.

But OK, the point was that the list seemed to work yesterday. I've made one for today also (no, it doesn't have "bash dentists head with a blunt object and getting the hell out of there" on it), so hopefully this will be the new, bum unbummed me. I'm not saying Blankie is gone, I fully expect him to put up a fight, but I'll try. Maybe I'll befriend mr. Manic Listing instead.

But because I've blabbered on so much now, I'll leave you with a treat. Someone takes their christmas decorations too seriously.

Bulgarian bon bons.

I'm so sleepy I could cry. Wanna know why? (ugh... unintentional rhyming, slap me with a stick please). A four minutes past midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie perhaps? Yep.

(For those of you who haven't seen it yet, you can either stop reading right now or you can read on hoping I won't come up with too many spoilers. I can't promise anything. But if you've read the books, there won't be anything new)

I'm always skeptical to the HP movies. The two first ones really sucked and the last one was better, but not amazing. I'm very passionate about the books, and have probably read all of them enough times to know them practically by heart.
I love the whole concept of the Hogwarts school, and the magical community. And the books are so wonderfully written, with all its inventions and ideas.

All credit to Mike Newell for being able to put this into the film. Visually, it was gorgeous, and another thing, you could recognise the whole exterior of the castle from the last film. But it was breathtaking, and the special effects were much better this time.
The underwater scenes from the second triwizard test was great, and the appearance of the Durmstrang ship also. All in all, a lot of eye candy that put me right into the world of Harry Potter.

"Harry Potter and the goblet of fire" is the longest of the books so far, which means a lot of stuff had to be cut out. Where you can keep several "threads" going at once in a book, doing so in a movie will often be confusing, especially in a movie with the targeted age group of this one.
But it didn't really give me the feeling of missing out on anything. The only place it felt akward, was in the beginning when the kids are going to the Quidditch world cup. They're all of a sudden there, we get to see their tiny but big tent and get to see the teams of Ireland and Bulgaria fly in over the stadium. Then all of a sudden there's panick and every tent is on fire.
It felt very "oh no, we have to cut out some parts because the movie is too long now".

But the rest was amazing. A perfect blend of scary and hilarious.
For those of you who's going to see it (females), look forward to the entering of the Bulgarian Bon Bons. That was seriously ass-kicking. (But how come Krum was so good looking?)
And bring some kleenex. I'm not a bawler, and I can count on one hand the movies I've bawled to (Romeo + Juliet, Fahrenheit 911, Titanic when the mum reads to the kids while the ship sinks). But I bawled at this.

All in all I had a great movie experience yesterday. And paying for it now by being so damn tired... sleeepy!

Oh no, I've been tagged!

I've been tagged by Barney-supporter Karla, so I guess I better obey. Barney is scary!

8 Firsts.
First Best Friend: Tine
First Kiss: I don't remember his name, but the story is kinda funny. I was 6 and chatting with my best friend (see last Q), sitting on the fence parting my garden from hers. Out of the blue this bully darts up to me, kisses me square on the mouth, making me fall backwards over the fence. And he runs over to Tine, who was sitting on her porch, trying to do the same, but she bitch-slaps him.
First Screen Name: Missy. This was back in the early days of internet. I'd say 1994. I was the coolest kid in my class because we had internet access waaaaay before anyone else knew what it was, due to dad's work.
First Pet: An old english sheepdog named Zappa. I was just a baby, and it got to be a little too much for my mum, so they gave him away. I also had a belgian gigant rabbit who was larger than me. called Hoppel
First Piercing: Ears, when I was four. Mum told me it wouldn't hurt, but it did!
First Crush: Børge in 1. grade. It was either him or a guy called Stian for all the girls. We were very devided there. Stian was a twat anyway.
First CD: Actual cd? "Always" single by Bon Jovi. I had some cassettes though. Hello, child of the 80s here! :)
First Car: Pea. Red 1986 Ford Fiesta that disliked cold weather and rain. Kinda like me.

7 Lasts.
Last alcoholic beverage: coffee and baileys, a week ago.
Last Car Ride: today, went shopping with Love
Last Kiss: an hour ago
Last Movie Seen: Haven't seen movies in a while... well, none since Sunday anyway. "Sweet Home Alabama" It STINKED! I was seriously pissed off by it, 'cause I was looking forward to a nice romantic comedy to just put my brain aside and 'lapse in front of the telly with after working all weekend. But nooo... that's the suckiest sucky movie I've ever seen. I mean, I can dig certain romantic comedies for the pure entertainment, they don't have to be awardwinning movies with braintwisting plots. But this? It didn't add up at all! Bad bad BAD film.
Last Phone Call: Mum. I talk to her every day on the phone
Last CD played: Moulin Rouge soundtrack in the car

6 Have You Evers.
Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Friends: Nope
Have You Ever Broken the Law: Well, there was this one time at band camp... Nah. I did fill my waterbottle with wine the night before May 17th the year I was RUSS though. And claimed very loudly that it was my right to drink it in the middle of the street. That's the only time I've drunk a whole bottle of wine actually. I don't think I'll do it again.
Have You Ever Been Arrested: No. And Karla, WTF?
Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: Not since before preschool, no.
Have You Ever Been in love: I am in love *sigh*

5 Things.
5 Things You're Wearing: my make-my-ass-look-good jeans, lime green cotton sweater that's more comfy than pretty, red panties, socks and soon my Gryffindor scarf
5 Things You Did Yesterday: shopped for an advent calendar for my mum, bought a flashing stick with sort of engrish on the back that makes me think of kinky stuff, I went out for dinner with Love and had great pizza, enjoyed the butt toaster in Hyacinth and found old fashioned Yule tree decorations.
5 Things You Can't Live Without: my Love, my laptop, my coffee, my family and my music
5 places You've Been: Münster, Enschede, Göteborg, Molde, Dublin


3 People You Can Tell *Almost* Anything To (in no particular order).
1. My Love
2. Mum
3. Eileen

2 Choices.
1. Black or White: Black
2. Hot or Cold: Jeez... Hot! It's freezing out, and it's so bad even Love has cold hands. Now where do I get to warm mine? *whine*

Hmmm... gotta go. Show on the telly about some people who grow too much skin. Probably interesting to see.
And then it's off to the new Harry Potter flick five minutes past midnight. Weeeee!

Hah! Take that!

How evil are you?


See? I'm evil. No Barney for me, Karla. Muhahahahaaaaa...






Errr... Santa? I was just kidding, right?

Dear Santa.

I've been very good this year, in fact better than last year, and since you brought so many nice presents last year I hope for good results this year also. This year I've been a good student and have gotten good grades. I've refrained from arguing with my siblings and I haven't bugged my Love to an extent worth mentioning (tickling is more cuddling, isn't it?). My guinea pig babies haven't suffered either, they're fat and happy like piggies are supposed to be. That I've happened to scare the shit out of them a couple of times (pardon my french) is not because I'm evil, but because they're a bunch of skittish wimps.
At work I've been very good. I've flashed smiles at customers with stupid questions, like those who ask, after I've offered them a bag, "Yes, do you have one?" I mean, I could've replied "No, but I like messing you up", but I didn't. Because I'm good.
As you probably can see, Santa, I've been very, very good this year. I know you see everything and write down bad people on your bad list, so I hope you were looking in another direction that time I sprayed the daddy-long-legs with the degreasing spray that had sculls on the back of the bottle, making the spider curl up, twitch and roll over dead. I didn't mean it like that, I was just curious.

With love,
Kjersti
ps: here's my wishlist for this year

Espresso and milk creamer set from Clas Ohlson (This is brilliant. Got mum one for her birthday and you can make great cappuchino in no time)

Gilmore Girls season 1-5 on DVD (I love this show to pieces! I'm watching the reruns for the third time, jeez!)

Green Creative Zen Micro mp3 player, in case Santa wins the lottery.

Sims 2

Black & White 2

A Cheer Bear Care Bear plushie. It doesn't have to be big, but very soft.

A Jakers Piggley Wink plushie. Looks like this

There you go, that was my wishlist. BTW, this was for Santa only, I'm not begging. Well, I will be begging Love to convince family to buy Gilmore Girls, but that's another thing. Teehee.

'Nother Quizzie

You scored as Paganism. Your beliefs are most closely aligned with those of paganism, Wicca, or a similar earth-based religion. You may also follow a Native American religion. Paganism 92% Buddhism 71% Satanism 63% atheism 58% agnosticism 50% Hinduism 42% Judaism 33% Islam 29% Christianity 25% Which religion is the right one for you? (new version) created with QuizFarm.com

Bye bye, Pea!

Pea is gone. Sold for a couple of kroners and a cup of coffee.
Poor Pea. I hope her new owners treat her right.
Even though she misbehaved, I did love her and pat her gently every time I walked by. And at least she was spared from the chop. Poor Pea.
People haven't exactly been running down the doors here, eager to see her, and Pea's new owner was actually the first one to see her in person. She behaved like a star, she did. Toured the island and impressed the buyer. Well, maybe not impressed, but she ran perfectly. Until we got under the lights of the gas station and noticed she was leaking in front. WTF? Called rescue patrol Simon who came right away. Turns out a hose was leaking and needs to be replaced. But she was chosen anyway. Maybe because I lowered my price by two grand (kroners, people!). It's a steal, but at least we got to sell her before it got REALLY cold and she would be troublesome to start.
But oh... Poor Pea. I'll kinda miss her classic 80s shape and cute front.

Wegie joke

Snatched from Dagbladets funny pages:

+15°C / 59°F

This is as warm as it gets in Norway, so we'll start here.

People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves.

The Norwegians are out in the sun, getting a tan.

+10°C / 50°F

The French are trying in vain to start their central heating.

The Norwegians plant flowers in their gardens.

+5°C / 41°F

Italian cars won't start.

The Norwegians are cruising in cabriolets.

0°C / 32°F

Distilled water freezes.

The water in Oslo Fjord gets a little thicker.

-5°C / 23°F

People in California almost freeze to death.

The Norwegians have their final barbeque before winter.

-10°C / 14°F

The Brits start the heat in their houses.

The Norwegians start using long sleeves.

-20°C / -4°F

The Aussies flee from Mallorca.

The Norwegians end their Midsummer celebrations.

Autumn is here.

-30°C / -22°F

People in Greece die from the cold and disappear from the face of the earth.

The Norwegians start drying their laundry indoors.

-40°C / -40°F

Paris start cracking in the cold.

The Norwegians stand in line at the hotdog stands.

-50°C / -58°F

Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole.

The Norwegian army postpones their winter survival training awaiting real winter weather.

-70°C / -94°F

The false Santa moves south.

The Norwegian army goes out on winter survival training.

-183°C / -297.4°F

Microbes in food don't survive.

The Norwegian cows complain that the farmers' hands are cold.

-273°C / -459.4°F

ALL atom-based movent halts.

The Norwegians start saying 'Faen, it's cold outside today.'

-300°C / -508°F

Hell freezes over.

Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest.

Huh?

Enrique Iglesias is supposedly fronting a new condom brand, size extra small. Huh? Dude, that doesn't make it any better. Shut up about your pecker and buy a hummer instead!

Mum's birthday and redecorating our mess.

Mum turns 50 tomorrow (I tell her it's not that bad, 'cause if you add up 5 and 0, you only get 5). But we celebrated it this weekend, 'cause I mean... mondays? What idiot came up with the concept of having birthdays on mondays? It just doesn't work. For anyone.
Anyway, suspecting that my dad wouldn't know how to, I offered to bring the cake.



It's marzipan with cherry and chocolate filling. Not so bad, it turned out. Pheeew!
I also made a pumpkin pie, something I should have done last weekend, but had no time.
And the pumpkin?



I carved out a portrait of my mum from an old photo. And oddly enough, even though I brought cake (mum's the original Cookie from Sesame Street, I swear! Although a very tiny Cookie), this was what she was all crazed about. OK, so carving pumpkins like this isn't that big here in Norway, people just cut out two eyes, a nose and a mouth and that's it.
But I think she appreciated it. Both the pumpkin and the cake.

Other news: Love and I redecorated today. Our dining room wasn't working out the way it was basically because of a corny room design and... we tried something different. We switched the "library" and the dining room. Still not perfect, because both those rooms are a bit stupidly designed, but at least now we can light up the fireplace without worrying it will damage our gorgeous table that was placed right in front of it (the only place it could go in the "old" dining room). So now I can sit in our "new" library, fireplace lit and read while drinking a hot cocoa this winter. Mmmmm....
Only problem now is we need more light. So I sense a trip to IKEA coming up soon. We should get a small coffee table for the "new" library also, to have some place to put down my cocoa. *lol*

And one last thing before I jump to bed. A photo of Love who's been very cute today.

Thursday cheer up

Today has been another gray and dull day. So I thought I'd cheer you up by sharing some funny web findings!

The Guinea Pig Way. If you have or have had piggies, you'll recognize this. If you haven't, it's still pretty cute.

The hobbits, the hobbits, the hobbits to Isengard-gard-gard. Huh? Well, click the link. Here's a flash version also, although the first one (wma file) is better.

Move along people, there's nothing to see here.

Except a really funny choir.

Had a very frustrating day at work on Sunday. A Hummer parked right outside TWICE, and there was NO way I could flip the finger as there was tons of customers, including one tiny-peckered dipshit owning the junkmobile. But that's life, I guess.