Oh I spent my only study break of the day in an extremely good way :]

Hahhaha.

I managed to get myself into the Top 10 all time best Bubble Shooter high score list. :shady: I am on 7th place. xD

Name	Points
Marit	931440
Anonimus	925500
ks og sg	854840
jurga	761220
Orpheus	667480
elaines	592940
Renate S	478280
david u tina	477260
Hege I	436200
.rfl	413360

Oh man I am such a dork. :P

Must.Think.Happy.Thoughts.

Well, well, well.

I am trying here.

I AM PROUD OF MYSELF FOR TRYING.

Errr. :P

I am so tired. I would go to sleep if it wasn't for the spider in our bedroom. :shady:

I really hope she's going to take it out of there, considering that I spent half an hour earlier putting up another bug net in front of the window. AND another half hour or so doing the dishes.

Wait.. this is turning into another rant. "stops"

We live in a wonderful world where cute little penguins walk around the flakes of ice down at the southern most place of our earth. I suppose that's a nice thing. :]

LET'S COLOR THE WORLD WITH A BUNCH OF LOVELY COLORS AND PRETTY THINGS SO THAT WE'D ALL BE HAPPY ALL THE TIME AND SING IN THE SHOWER AND DANCE AND SWIM DURING THE WINTER AND STUFF. NOT TO MENTION EATING A LOT OF APPLES.

HOLY CRAP, YES THIS IS ANOTHER RANT

I removed this content, for good reason. :]

The 17th of May - Our National Day.

I must be honest and say that it was one of my best in a long, long time. Really awesome having the opportunity to spend it in the capital and see what it's like celebrating it here. And I must say.. it was crowded. o_o

Hahaha. I've been to a soccer game where a hundred thousand people were gathered at once, but I must say, crowd-wise this was far far bigger. Never seen so many dressed up people together in once place at the same time - ever.

My roommate and I spent the night before the 17th at her sisters place. And we were supposed to go with them that morning, in order to get good places for the parade and everything, but because of my roommate's habit of spending 84982903 hours in the bathroom every morning in order to get ready, they had to go without us. So we got ready and took the bus and tube into town (both btw was PACKED). It was hard to move around because of all the people, but we managed to drag ourselves all the way up to the castle. We bought ice cream and I took a billion pics. It was fun seeing the whole royal family standing up there, waving to the whole city. I wonder what the view from up there looked like. I bet it was like one giant carpet of people in red, white and blue.

We were pretty lucky with the weather too. Sunny, bright, warm and nice. Although there was a somewhat chilly breeze that paid us a visit every now and then.

After we grew tired of watching the parade, we headed down towards the harbor after a stop at a very crowded Deli de Luca where we bought ourselves a piece of cake. Aker Brygge was so crowded that we stood still for ten minutes before taking our next step, but because of this amazing guy called Oliver I knew of a "secret" spot down on the edge of the pier next to all the boats. So we walked down there and enjoyed ourselves with the cakes, the slight tanning and all the people in their boats driving by smiling at us. But god knows I wish I was there with a certain other individual.. Dude, there are more nordlandsbunader in Oslo than in the whole Nordland county combined, I am SURE. O_O

Around 2 PM-ish, we took the bus back to her sisters place and I collapsed in bed. I was totally exhausted. About two hours later I got woken up because the rest of the family needed help setting up the tables and chairs and everything outside. We had a giant outdoor barbeque party thingie with some of the other neighbors and it was so cosy it's insane. Amazing food, cakes, strawberries, wine and God knows what else.

After that I collapsed in bed for the second time that day.

The next morning we went back home.

(more stuff about that to follow...)

Things are coming along .

I got my roommate to read through my exam essay, and I feel a lot better about it now. I also reread all my pensum litterature for that assignment, and all I really have left now is to finish the conclusion and I can say that I am done. Fuck, if I don't get a decent grade after all the issues I've had with that thing now, I'll drown myself in the sink. ;_;

Also ordered the greyhound bus trip from Jacksonville to New Orleans now, so absolutely everything about the US trip is finally under control. Not that long left now, it's crazy. o.o; Don't really think it has hit me that I'm going back there. xD

Tomorrow I'm gonna go to school, print out my exam and the rest of the plane tickets/hotel reservations and those vouchers for the Bahamas cruise, hand in the paper, die of happiness, buy some stuff and then hopefully go out on the town with mah mates or head out to some park and do some serious bbq'ing, haha. We're spending the night at my roommates sister since she lives in town.

And then it's the 17th of May. O_O Crazy crazy. Still not sure what I'll wear, always an issue when you don't have your bunad. ;_; OH WELL, I'LL STOP TALKING SHALLOW TALK, NOW YES.

Oh widdly well.

I might be getting a new phone that I'll be able to post to this blog from. O.o

AWESOME NEWS FOR THIS SUMMER, BECAUSE THEN I'LL BE ABLE TO TAKE PICS AND UPDATE THIS BLOG ALMOST EVERY DAY. (:

Picture from that Vestfold excursion. :shady:
And part of the Oslo skyline from the trip on friday. :shady:


AND some old trainstation thingie, and now I promise I'll stop. ;_____;


Okies, better get back to my studying now.

AHAHHAHAHAH.

I don't know what's going on.

Somehow I feel like it's all falling apart. I try, but I can't focus on my schoolwork. The exams are coming up faster than I can blink, and no matter how much I study or write, I don't feel that this is going to work. I can't wrap my head around it enough to actually care, I guess. And it's so sad because I really really want to do this and to do it well.

[insert lots of angry words in here]

The weather is nice and sunny and I'd much rather be outside and not inside in this mess writing this assignment, but I have to. But at the same time I want to hide from the rest of the world, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

There are just too many things on my mind right now, I can't deal with these exams. But I know I have to, so I better straighten up.

I could probably sit here for a few hours and rant and throw hateful words around and act like an old bitter woman, but I think I better stop before it gets out of hand. >_<

Although I guess it's nice to get it all out so I can get a fresh start and perhaps force myself into working harder and better.

I guess this is just one of those days. :(

When the night falls around me - all I think about is you. ;_;

Don't even ask how this picture came into existance, it was... well, something. :shady:

WHAT I DO KNOW, IS THAT..

What that sign says is 110% true (and yes, that extra 10% has to be there even though one really can't cross the 100% limit ;_; ) and I really really really really wish you were here.

God, she's not supposed to look THAT happy and crazy and whatnot. o.o





;_;

Medieval babble and things and such

Had a wonderful day today.

My class were going on this walk around medieval Oslo, and it blew me away.

Met up with Johanne, Carina and Kristin and walked together to Grønland where we met next to the park and the police station AND the old jail we all know from Olsenbanden. xD (Fuck, some construction workers make cat whistling sounds to me which scared me. ;_; )Funny thing was, when we were waiting there for the rest of the group, we noticed people with giant video cameras and a horse and a wagon and people in nice clothes and everything. Eventually we found out that they were filming a scene from the norwegian series Hotel Cæsar. I guess my mom would've payed big bucks to see it. x_x AHHAHA. The horse was extremely good looking though.

We started our walk and went through all the pretty 19- and 20th century buildings that are spread around in that neighborhood. We even came across a couple of archaeologist who were working in a trench in the middle of an old road there, so we got to see them at work. AWESOME. They had uncovered old wooden medieval buldings and bons and other finds and whoa. ;_;

We got to visit old ruins of several churches (and one giant cathedral) from the 11th century, and even got to enter a monestery with medieval brick enteriors and hiiigh ceilings, cute little windows and the old smells still intact. We also stopped by and looked around the enteriors of other medieval houses.

Oh man, I am so itching to get my hands dirty digging out some ancient structure. I WANT TO GO OUT INTO THE FIELD... NOW.

Yes, I really do.

When I got home I ate some strawberries and tried to make my face recover from the long day out in the sun, but it sort of failed. ;_;

I'll dedicate all of tomorrow to my schoolwork, and some walking, and ... schoolwork.

One thing I really hate..

.. Is when people make a bloody fucking mess and expect everyone else to pick up after them.

I just finished doing the dishes, which was 95% of my roommates mess. It took me almost an hour, and while I was doing it, the hot water ran out because my roommate decided to take the longest shower in the history of man.

She said she couldn't do the dishes because she got a tiny wound on her finger.

WTF?

BUY A NEW PAIR OF THOSE FUCKING GLOVES THEN, WHICH YOU ALWAYS MANAGE TO GET WATER INTO AND LEAVE TO ROT.

She also managed to kill her computer somehow. I told her how she might be able to fix it, but her head couldn't wrap itself around figuring it out. So instead, I've found her on my computer the last three times I've been out of the house when she has been home. What happened to the good old "hey, can I borrow this?"?

She does the laundry 090290395032 times a day, and hangs her clothes all over the apartment. I wish I could take a picture right now because it looks like we live inside a laundromat two inches away from doom.

I really hope she is going out and taking the computer with her so I can try getting some work done, instead of having to listen to her going on and on about herself for hours (yes, that's all she has to do now that her computer passed away).

/rant over

Yum

Yet another day filled with sunshine.

So on my way home from school I stopped by the store to buy strawberries - which I had been craving all morning.

When I got back home I cut some of them up into pieces, sprinkled a little sugar over and a dash of cream and took it with me out into the sun.

IT WAS DELICIOUS.

Strawberries are superb awesome little wonderful pieces of red yumminess.

I had to assemble a garden table today...

.. Our landlady was kind enough to buy us some chairs and a table so we can sit outside in the gorgeous weather that has graced us the past week or so. It has been absolutely amazing, temperatures above 20 and sun from a clear blue sky.

On the train back from school today I must have seen about 50 butterflies flying around in the sun. All in different colors, shapes and sizes.

I just came back from another one of my walks. Sometimes I just feel the urge to go outside and disappear into the night for a little while. Just to get away from everything, if only for an hour or two. I absolutely love my walks. :)

I walked up to the skijumping tower I took Oliver (omgsuperwonderfulamazingtime<3), and found out that there was a smaller one right next to it. We had to jump over a little gate and climb the tall one, but this smaller one was much easier to get onto. I sat there for a while in the dusk watching the sky go from orange to green to blue. I watched 22:22 come and go. I looked at the cute little bats circling the heavens above me. I could see all the way into Oslo, and funny enough - to Holmekollen, the biggest skijumping tower in Norway. It was almost like these towers stood there through the ages, saluting each other and looking out for each other through time, sun and snow. Hm, yes, it seems like I am in the romantic corner tonight.

I just wish SOMEONE was there with me. ;____;

After sitting there for a while just gazing out into the horizon I finally pinched my arm and said to myself "Renate, snap out of it, you should continue the walk". ;_; And so I did.

Dude, there are lots of beetles (YES, VERY BIG ONES) running around on the roads once it gets dark. They are kind of freaky, and superhuge.

There are so many trees out there that blossom in different shades of white and pink out there now. They smell really nice and look absolutely gorgeous and I wish I had my own.

I suppose I should try and get some sleep soon though. Early start tomorrow, have to get up at 8 AM. Luckily I just have a two hour class instead of a four hour one, like I had today. It's my last "real" class too, so it'll be kind of sad, good, and.. weird, I guess.

G'nite mates.