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April 2, 2012#

Week in instagrams #6

Time for another Week in Instagrams post! I seem to have lost a bit of my blogging oomph over the last few weeks, so I am trying to at least keep a quality-over-quantity look at things. But hey, bright side: Easter is coming up and I am sure there will be plenty of opportunities to take pretty, blog-worthy photos during the mini-holidays, right?

1. A bunny costume in a costume shop near where I live. She reminded me of Lola from Jersey Shore (shut up, guilty pleasure).

2. The only way to eat raspberries – Amelie style.

3. Tea with ginger in it. I should show you my tea-cupboard one day, I’m like a hoarder when it comes to tea. I keep trying new flavors and I hardly ever finish a box. (Can’t have every tea?)

4 + 5. I traveled to Voss with a group of colleagues on Friday for a weekend of skiing and “team-building” – I have to put that in quotation marks because it is such a corny expression, but really, we had so much fun!

6. … Although, I never really went skiing. I tried – a colleague lent me slalom skis and I made it some whole 30 meters down a kiddie-sized slope before I admitted defeat and went back to the cabin for candy and quality time with my Kindle. The first rule of the mountains: know when it is time to go home.

7. An impressive pair of pitchers.

8. Hangover food on Sunday from the local eco-bakery. What can I say, I’m classy like that.

9. Snow. Are you kidding me?! I must have jinxed it with my “signs of spring” post.

March 27, 2012#

First signs of spring

The Boyfriend was out of town this weekend so I had to keep myself entertained. After a prosecco-fueled girl’s night and a Saturday where I was fed pizza by good friends, I decided to go for a Sunday walk alone up in the hills above Bergen. I was listening to music on the way up, but quickly decided that the sound of the birds chirping was a much better match for the sunshine and steadily thawing scenery. Intellectually you know that there’s spring after winter, but it still manages to catch me a little bit off guard – at a certain point during winter you kind of forget that there’s such a thing as sunglasses and short sleeves and tights not made of wool, but then all of a sudden it is there and it is the greatest thing ever. Maybe its the tree-hugging hippie in me, who knows. Either way, I hope you enjoy my photos :)

March 16, 2012#

Week in instagrams #5

1. Sometimes, in the morning, your lip tint could get mistaken for brow gel. Beware, because you might end up with red eye brows.

2. Pretty coffee. I really should learn how to make proper lattes of my very own, because this is one habit that won’t get kicked easily.

3. A stack of old broken bikes – not quite street art, not quite land art – tiny island art, perhaps? Either way, it made me smile.

4. I am addicted to Draw Something, and this was me trying to draw Iron Man.  On second thought, the placement of that speed-indicating dust cloud might not have been the best.

5. Mid-week blasphemy with my colleague Ingrid! We stocked up on all things sweet and sugary and watched Life of Brian together. Fun fact: Life of Brian was banned in Norway in 1980 because it was deemed too blasphemous. When the Swedes found out about this they marketed the movie as being “so funny it was banned in Norway”.

6. Sometimes you end up wearing a glittery bow tie and bunny ears at work. It happens to the best of us.

Yeah, only six images this week. I have no idea where my week went, seriously. If someone finds out where it went, make it check in with me asap, because I have no clue. What I do know is that I want my weekend to move at snail speed – I have a brand new issue of Elle and I have just discovered how much more delicious tea is when you put ginger in it, so that is my weekend all planned out right there. Partying it up, grandma style.

March 9, 2012#

Week in instagrams #4

What would you know, it seems we have arrived at Friday once again! I have a bit of blogger’s guilt this week seeing as I haven’t written any “proper” posts in a while, but I have just been so busy. I will try to make it up to you the best I can, I promise! Its not that I am doing all kinds of interesting things either, I just seem to run around a bit more than usual these days. I’m sure things will be back to normal in no time. Okay, onto the photos:

1. This is a sticker I spotted on a lamp post on my way to work one morning. It says “You have no idea how beautiful you are”.

2. My workplace is doing promo for the Hunger Games movie and I got my grabby paws on a mockingjay pin! I have to admit I know very little about the series – I have the books on my Kindle but I haven’t read them yet. I thought I’d try to get through the first one before I watch the movie, at least. Have any of you read it?

3. Green grass! There’s no denying it, spring is right around the corner.

4. My boss turned 30 the other day and I made him these cupcakes. They’re chocolate covered in chocolate (of course) and have little chopped up pieces of a crispy corn/chocolate type candy called Smash both on the inside and sprinkled on top. Delicious and completely over the top.

5. A gift card that was given to me from my temp agency. You see, for the last few months, every Friday after work has been about running. A few people arranged a running group that meet up at ten past four to run a lap or two around nearby lake. I didn’t participate, partly because I hadn’t run a single yard in ten years and partly because I was convinced it would be awful to run during winter. Well, when my lovely temp agency contact heard this she challenged me to run eight weeks in a row. If I did this I would receive an undisclosed reward. I took the bait and started on the first Friday of the new year, and I have run every single Friday since then. On the 8th week I ran my two laps 5 minutes faster than I did the first time, and I now love to run. Today was my 10th week, and I will keep going until my allergies force me to run on treadmills instead!

6. Two giant bags of the previously mentioned candy named Smash, given to me by a co-worker because I made him a poster. Being paid in candy is awesome.

7. Curling my hair with my Holy Grail Curling Method!

8. My wonder woman arm cuff. I wore a similar one on the other arm, of course. They make me feel like a superhero.

9. This is how I’ll spend my weekend – Game of Thrones on Bluray combined with copious amounts of junk food. First we shall watch the entire 1st season, then all the extra material. I will be wearing all my fake fur and demand to be addressed as Lady Stark of Winterfell by Saturday evening, mark my words.

That was it! I wish you all a lovely weekend :)

March 5, 2012#

Monday nostalgia

This weekend I decided to have a look at my old photo albums. I can honestly say that I haven’t browsed through my old photos in years and years – we are probably talking once or twice since I moved here more than 7 years ago – but on Saturday I started turning the pages and decided to scan some of my favorite photos. I remembered how I saved up my money and bought my first camera when I was 10 years old in 1995, how I had no idea how film worked but just bought what looked like what my dad used, and how I often didn’t get my film developed until months after I had finished it. I also remember how annoyed I was at how my photos never really turned out the way I wanted them to. I suppose that’s what fueled the Interest in photography that I have today!

This photo was taken by my dad. I don’t remember where it was taken, but I do remember the place being just as mountainous as it looks! Notice the skillful color blocking that I have going on – teal socks, yellow sweatpants and a pink jumper.

In this one I’m probably 10, and in the middle of my awkward tween phase – sort of chubby, a head taller than everyone else my age, and in desperate need of braces. I do love this photo though, because my dad and I were about to go hunting, hence the camouflage jacket. I was a pretty useless hunting partner I think, as I pretty much just sat around and ate chocolate, but we had a good time.

This is about as retro as it gets – a Polaroid, both signed and dated! The photo is taken in my parents’ living room, and I have no explanation for the air humidifier. Do people still have those?

I must have taken this photo at around age 11 as well, as we were about to leave for a trip out on our boat – the little house is where we used to dive and sunbathe when we were kids. It was pretty much the perfect place to spend a summer day.

This is one of my absolute personal favorites: I was 11 when I took this so I suppose that makes my sister 3 years old. She had just had her bath and I had wrapped her up in towels, and as always she looked cute as a button. Do you know how awfully annoying cute-as-a-button little sisters are when you’re a freakishly tall, kind of chubby 11 year old? And then she pulled this face and looked even cuter! What a little bitch, right? Way to rub it in, sis! Oh who am I kidding, I loved her to death then and I still do. And I am so having this photo made into a giant poster to embarrass her when she one day gets married.

That’s it! I hope you didn’t find this too boring and/or self-indulgent. I often love these posts when other bloggers do them, but it is so hard to tell if you are stepping over the line that separates “nostalgic fun” with “here, look at these completely uninteresting photos from when I grew up”. Either way, I hope everyone had a lovely Monday :)

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