Ambitions for the New Year.

When I was younger I never saw the point in these, but nowadays I always seem to have them.

1. I know for a fact that I won't keep to this (wow, what a great optimistic way to start), but I want to TRY and plan my meals every day. I am already sorta good at that, but there are days when I just don't bother. And it works like this: Schooldays I have lunch boxes and (almost) every day my meals are thought through and tasty/healthy, but on days with no school everything just meh and I wind up not eating properly, sometimes not eating at all before dinner. I want to take control of my eating habits. I know, I have observed, that when I eat properly throughout the day EVERYTHING works so much better.

2. I want to draw more. This appears to always be a part of my New Year resolutions, and I always fail to fulfill it. But I love drawing; I can't understand why I forget to do it. I should knit more too.

3. I'll try to be there for my friends and boyfriend more. I tend to keep to myself, which is how I am, I need my space, but I think I do it a little bit too much. For the sake of my friendships that I really don't want to lose, I'll try to keep more in touch with everyone.

Thank you all for a wonderful new years party! I had a lovely time. And I'm much better, if it keeps up like this I'll actually be attending school pretty soon.

I hope 2011 will be a good year for everyone. Happy new year!

I'm sick of this.

I'm coming to believe that, at least in my case (for I know a disease can be different for each individual), the whooping cough is actually a disguised and involuntary version of bulimia.

It's pretty tiresome really.

But I still had a great Christmas though. Thank you for wonderful gifts, everyone!

Critical hit!

Take that evil bacterias!

I got an Antibacterial at the Emergency Department.

It's weird though, 'cause they took the exact same tests as my doctor did yesterday, but this time they were positive. And the doctor there heard me coughing and plainly stated that "that sort of cough needs antibacterial".

I'm so happy.

I don't want a bacterial infection. not at all. But I'd rather have that than some stupid viruses. Bacteria I can kill. This kind of infection there's a solution to.

I feel better already.

So.

I was hoping the doctor would find some bacteria that I could just kill with some penicillin, laugh at, and then be done with.
But no.
bacteria-test negative.

But I've got something that'll help me cough up the nasty stuff at day and then something that'll calm my coughing at night. And then we'll just have to wait and see...

Maybe I'll be able to sleep now with the anti-coughing-mixture-thing. Sleep and BREATH.
I'm tired of waking up choking and gasping for breath because everything is closed.

You would think that after the twentieth or so time you wouldn't be that scared anymore. I always get air in the end. But no, I panic every single time. It's terrifying.

YaY

A little praise and advertising for Imogen Heap.

Since me, Gacha 1, 3 and 4 is seeing her live next week I figured I could start my fangirling now.

Imogen Heap, ladies and gentlemen, is just fantastic. And you would think, at least I used to think, when you hear her music that this kind of music must be boring live. You would think it was just some playback-music and that the artist would stand still on the stage singing. In that case you are wrong. Imogen Heap brings all her equipment with her on stage and builds up the music, sound by sound, then and there. It's just awesome. Sometimes she uses the audience too and it really makes you feel like you're part of something. And on top of it all her music is just beautiful. I'm really happy that I get to see her again.

Most people have heard her song "Hide and Seek", which is a great song, through tv-series and Jason Derülo's song "Watcha Say", but that song is really just the tip of the iceberg.

Imogen Heap live in Oslo, February this year:

Of course the sound is much better when you're actually there than this camera managed to catch.

And she's so nice! She's got this charming, British sense of humor and cute way of carrying herself. So even between the songs the whole concert got this cozy atmosphere.

The studio-version of "First Train Home" and some other favorites of mine:






Funny thing: I discovered Imogen Heap years ago when some random person used a song from her old band, Frou Frou, in a Kingdom Hearts-amv... Proves that "illegal" streaming of music can actually work for the artist's (and record-companies) benefits.

K

Sorry. Tons of unrelated random nerdy rambling incoming. It's ok if you don't understand it all... :

When I was in junior high I used to walk around brainstorming words beginning with the letter K.

It was just a way of passing boredom. But now I have come to understand that I just simply love the sound of that letter. Hence names like Kio (my "real name" online) or Kei (the name of my protagonist amongst my original characters).

I just love those short K-names. And Japan got lots of them! What a lovely language! My latest anime-crush got the lovely name Kida. And with the correct honorific added he's Kida-kun and it just sounds great, doesn't it? Kiiiida-kun~

Speaking of Japanese voice-actors (...?). Kida-kun's voice is the very same voice-actor playing  Kira in Death Note, haha, and Tamaki in Ouran High School Host Club. This is actually kinda funny because Kira (this supercool, smart villain) and Tamaki (this shallow and kinda pathetic "prince") couldn't be much more different from each other.

And on another note: I think I know why I like Kida-kun. He shares some similarities with my Kei. They're sneaky and irregular in the same all-over-the-place kinda way. Only thing is Kida-kun's outbursts are more planned. He does what he does purposely. Kei on the other hand does it more accidentally.

Yes. I speak of fictional characters as if they actually existed and I knew them.

But I created Kei, so I do know him. In some way. And I'm weird so you'll just have to forgive this pathetic reasoning.

Some day.... I'll make something. A comic or a story or... And then you'll all get to meet Kei and his friends more accurately.  I guess he's just some vague thing I occasionally mention. Sorry for confusing you. It's just that to me he is very important (like a imaginary best friend or pet or hobby or idol, I don't know) and sometimes he just jumps out.

I'll shut up and go to bed now.

(Kida-kun is a character in the anime "Durarara!!" btw, in case you wanted to know. So far it's a fairly fun anime.) 

Hallooooo~

It's snowing!
Me, Mom, Lynnie and Tussi decided to go for a little walk in the snow. And when we came back we decided to walk it once more. It was a teeny tiny one.
But OMG there was some mysterious tracks there, like if someone had been there before us! Whoever could it be?
Teeheehee~

Waka waka

I really do not care for football or sports at all. I mean instead of making the whole world watch some sweaty guys running after and fighting for a ball we could just buy 22 balls and give them one each? XP
I mean no offense.

But then again I am pro everything that unites the world in some way. Come World Cup, come Olympic Games, come Eurovision Song Contest.

And I must admit that I like the soundtrack of this year's world cup. Especially this one song that I absolutely LOVE. It's got this cheerful and encouraging rhythms, you can't help but feel better. And the lyrics doesn't necessarily have to be about football:

You're a good soldier
Choosing your battles
Pick yourself up
And dust yourself off
Get back in the saddle

You're on the front line
Everyone's watching
You know it's serious
We're getting closer
This isn't over

The pressure is on
You feel it
But you got it all
Believe it
....

For me, they tell me to withstand life's difficulties and never to give up, but take up the fight. I need that sort of lyrics sometimes.
It's interesting really how important music is to me. Music is my therapy.

And as usual with Shakira; I prefer the Spanish version of her songs.



Apparently "waka waka" is an expression in Fang, a Cameroon dialect, for "Do it" or "Get the task done".

Just when I think I'm king, I just begin.

There's something about these weeks between September and October. Maybe it's the lack of potato-vacation. I do miss those. How do you grown-ups survive without them?

I crashed at the same time last year.
This year I'm gonna surpass it though. Yush.

It's so weird. I love this season's weather and temperature. I love the colors. I love the wind. I love how everyone's in the middle of routines and projects. There's something safe and stable about that.
But for some reason all my silly thoughts pops up. All the evil thoughts. The irritated, slothful, hating, whining, stupid and unnecessary thoughts. All the thoughts that should be kept locked up and hidden.
I think I let most of it out on myself though, I hope I don't throw it at others too much.



["Just when I think I'm king, I just begin" - "Sat In Your Lap" by Kate Bush]

I think I will begin pretending I am a princess

I think I understand now why I love Frances Hodgson Burnett so.
I think I like how her books agrees with my own beliefs about magic.

I believe that magic exists. In our world, in this so called reality.
Only that it's so ordinary that we don't really see it.
Magic isn't shiny sparks turning people into frogs, making pigs fly or any other nature-defying tricks. Magic is your own personal accomplishments. Magic is all the changes. Magic is all the little coincidences. Magic is the strength to turn yourself around. Magic is the way you make someone else feel better.

You know what it's like to stand outside a winter morning freezing your toes off waiting for the next train. How thinking of something warm or fun will make you feel better? It's really hard, but a clever mind can do it.
And that is magic.

Both "The Secret Garden" and "A Little Princess" really are the most adorable books.
I wish for "Little Lord Fauntleroy" for Christmas...

["'I've often thought,' said Sara, in her reflecting voice, 'that I should like to be a princess; I wonder what it feels like. I believe I will begin pretending I am one.'" - A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett]

Oh my twitchy witchy girl~

So. This morning was just weird. When I finally found my way out of my warm cozy covers and my warm cozy purring cat I couldn't find my stockings. and I couldn't find my socks. And I couldn't find the shirt I wanted to wear. And I couldn't find my water bottle. And after searching and finally finding everything the time was I'll-miss-the-train'o clock, but I went anyways, 'cause then my mam will see that I tried and I wont get her pointless speech.  But I decided it didn't matter, I could eat my breakfast at the station (I always pack it with me, 'cause it takes an hour or two for me to get hungry so I'm never ready for breakfast until I've left home) and take it easy. Today's class isn't really a hard one, so I'll catch up in no time. And I've been to ALL the other ones so far. So I sat there waiting for the next train, but then I decided that this was a silly day not worth the trouble. So I went home and baked cookies instead.

I can make cookies with oat and honey. They're really tasty. ^.^

Would I make a good mam or what? With cookies and band aids and I don't know.

(Not to worry, there's no baby-plans yet, I'm just imagining the future because it's fun)

["Oh my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice. I give you bowls of porridge and I give bowls of ice cream. I give you lots of kisses and I give you lots of hugs, but I never give you sandwiches with bugs in."- Coraline by Neil Gaiman]

Breath out

I got the best job one can possibly have.
Seriously.

I feel so lucky ^.^

I just sit there, surrounded by thousands of books and with just a few clicks on the computer I can summon almost everything (That exists in Norway mind you) when it comes to books, movies, music etc.

And people get so happy when I manage to help them find what they're looking for.
And some of them are really impressed when I fetch rare stuff from across the country.
It's just fun.
How can this really be work? I don't mind it at all.

Of course, I do my share of mistakes. I'm new, it would be weird if I did everything perfect. And I have a tendency to pounder about my mistakes several days after.
But hey, I'm learning.
And of course, I get tired and it is tiresome to please everyone, especially during rush hours when there's lots of people and everyone have some problem or demands weird stuff that I don't know how to get.
But overall I don't mind being there.

I mean really, I get paid for hanging out in the library all day.

Sometimes at school when I'm tired and stupid and can't figure out my cataloging exercises it feels kinda hopeless. So it's nice to discover that I can actually function in a real library.

Make it go away.

There'saspiderintheshowerThere'saspiderintheshower! There is a spider in the shower.

Do you know what the WORST part about spiders are? (Apart from all the other WORST parts about them).
Sometimes they suddenly move really fast and you loose sight of them.
And then
They could be ANYWHERE.

I am convinced that if I loose sight of a spider and then i.e. falls asleep it will sneak up on me and...

--- Rated PG 13 --- 
...crawl trough my ear into my brain and lay it's eggs. Then when the eggs hatch all the thousands of baby-spiders will eat my brain out and crawl out to the world trough my eyes. 
--- / ---

They sure are disgusting enough to pull that off.

I finished my shower though. A bit quicker than planned, but still.

You said you'd lend me anything, I think I'll have your company

Happy Birthday, Mam.

It's time for school again. With (one of) the same subject(s) I started last year. Only this time I'm gonna make it. And I'm gonna make it good! I'll do great.

I'm convinced that I'll do fine this time. I'm more prepared and I'm more enthusiastic.
And it's not just me. I counted six others from my original class. Tah. In a maybe malevolent way that makes me real happy and more at peace with my own "failure".

And this year school will be so much better. So many of my friends will be close by and I feel like I got this safety net around me, knowing they're just around the corner.
I got Tink just a short subway-trip away and Vilje just across the street.

And Boyfriend is just across the street too. I even saw him today. Made the whole "first day"-thing much less tense.

And I got my loyal classmate. We planned our own tiny study-group already. Both ready to study hard and actually reach the finish line this time.

I'll do fine.

oh! And I has job!
The local library wants me to help out every fourth Saturday and maybe on special occasions.
I take that as a huge compliment.

Everything will work out fine. It will work out. It will work out.
I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.

["You said you'd lend me anything, I think I'll have your company" - "Paris" by Kate Nash]

Alouette, je te plumerai

First: I can't get the following song out of my head and I don't really mind.
Second: I can't get over this music video.

Ready-Set-GO

I've been postponing my packing the whole day.
Because it's so boooring.
But now I'm finished I think.

And I hope it's room for the bag in the car 'cause I think it's slightly bigger than I remembered. But I think it'll work out ok. It's not that much bigger.

When I'm traveling, I'm perfectly calm the whole time until the night before departure.
That would be now.
Now I'm stressed out and convinced that I've forgotten something.

But I got my money and my passport, so there's no reason to panic really.

And I'm excited!
I've been wanting to go to Finland for years now, and this year I'm actually going!
YaaaaY

Roadtrip even~
=D

McGyver på norsk :P

Siden det dukka opp et par ganger i går og jeg tror vi forvirret folk.

...in a big big world~

Today at this date (25.june 2010), or actually if you count it by the hour: tomorrow(26.) at 08.30am, I am the exact same age as my mam when she gave birth to me.

That is freaking me out a tiny bit.

I mean.
How could she have a baby herself beeing just like this?
I'm not by far ready for something like that...
In her defence; She had a house, a husband and a dog already... I guess she was ready for it.

Sometimes I feel I don't have time for beeing this old already.
XP I'm only 22, I know, I'm young... But still. Should I have accomplished more than I have by now?
Nah.
My life; my pace.

But it is kinda cool, eh?
I'm the same age as my mother was when she got me. Must mean I'm a big girl now, yes?

Draw with Me

This one is a year old or so, and there's a big possibility that you've all seen it already.
But isn't it beautiful?
Story and Animation: Mike Inel
Music and Sound: Daniel James

Amanda Fucking Palmer

Since I'm behind on my keeping up I googled and youtubed and wikipedied a little.
And I figured I had to post some Amanda Palmer 'cause she is really cool. And I haven't researched her in a while so in addition to old memories I found new things.
(new thing:) She's covering The Cure!:


Guitar Hero, a song from her solo album "Who Killed Amanda Palmer"


She's also the lead singer of The Dresden Dolls, a duo consisting of her and Brian Viglione.


and much more... yup.

Huh?!

I realize that I'm slow.
I guess everyone else already knew this.
But Seriously,
One of my favorite artists are engaged to one of my favorite writers?
Awwwwwww! You have my blessing Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman. Best of luck~

(I knew they were friends, they worked together at "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" and stuff, but I haven't payed any attention lately so I didn't notice the bounding.)

Florence + The Machine - My Boy Builds Coffins

The tale of my computer

IT'S ALIVE! muwahahahahahahaha~

Everything is good. It doesn't run much faster or anything (that wasn't the point anyways) but it runs. Without freezing or crashing. And all my programs that had gone wacko is now running smoothly. And I got a lot more GB.

There was one critical moment during my operation though. One of the screws was stuck and I seriously thought for some hours that I'd never get to fix my computer, all hope was lost, waaaah.
But Daddy came to save the day and it turned out I only needed a better/different screwdriver XP

I really didn't realize how much I've missed The Sims 2 (of all games) until I re-installed it.

Hmmm. Same old name though. I thought adding 2.0 to the name was an awesome idea but it wouldn't let my use . , or space. Later it hit me that I could have added 2000 instead. But too late.

Same old Nira with improvements.

The first butterfly of Summer 2010

Was bright yellow almost white~

^.^

It is time!

...for some home surgery? ...muwahahahaha?

Finally I got in my hands a new hard drive for my poor computer. (500GB, 5400RPM, 8MB Cache)
And I'm gonna insert it all by myself.
I have done this several times on stationary computers, but it's the first time I open a laptop...
But I'm sure I can do it.
I am, after all, a daughter of a Typewriter-mechanic ;D

Now, here comes a pretty weird, maybe stupid, but serious question.

If the hard drive is the computer's "brain"...
Then I will have (soon) a new computer in an old body... Like brain transplantation... So it will be a new "person", right?
OR
Since I have back-up of all my files, it wont really forget anything. The "memory" will be intact, so is it still the same old computer?

The question is. When I configure my computer after the transplantation. Should I rename it?

Siouxsie & The Banshees - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

This song was originally performed by the band Sparks in the 70's, but I love Siouxsie's voice so you'll all have to settle for this cover version.
Isn't it fun? And how appropriate to sit wide awake listening to this on repeat at 2am in the morning before my exam. lol?

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Next week is my exam. It will not move to a later week no matter how unprepared I am.
I really should prepare myself.

Cue "Eye of the Tiger".

You know what's much more fun than studying?
Being with boyfriend. shopping. Chatting with friends. playing with pokemons. sleeping. cuddling with cats. reading FICTION. watching Bleach. cooking. daydreaming.

CLEANING is more fun tham studying.

["Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten." - Burrhus Frederic Skinner, American psychologist (1904-1990)]

Arachnophobia anyone?

Yeah. I went to bed 'cause it's late and my head is playing explosion.
(a really fun game. -.-)

And I turn out the light and close my eyes, but there's something tickeling my lips.
'Argh, hair in my face', I think and move my hand to remove it.
But when I touch it it feels like something solid with long, thin things sticking out of it.
So I jump up in panic. And now I'm freaking out, listening to my brain telling me it must have been a spider. I try to tell it 'No, it was just hair!', but it wont listen.

So I guess I wont get any sleep tonight.

eldfjall

Because of the hot weather these days I've left my window open all day and now, I swear, the air in my bedroom smells kinda like dirt. Or sulfor as my mother suggested without giving it any deep thought untill later.
It's kinda sick isn't it? It happens miles away in Iceland and it affects my little bedroom in a Norwegian forest. o.o

Speaking of the Nordic countries.
if you hang around at DeviantArt sure you've all stumbled over Humon's comic "Scandinavia and the world"? Isn't it somewhat hilaroiuos? I love it. It's so stereotypical and I actually think Norway is pretty well represented.

You can find it here.

And. At school today I learned that one of the reasons that the Finnish people are so good at school is because of their excellent libraries. Maybe I should go to the library during my visit this summer, for the sake of my profession? XD

Trick or treat

As we watched Cowboy Bebop the movie yesterday we debated this, so:
The movie is originally called Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, so there is a music-reference in the movie's title too, just as the episodes of the TV-series.
AND/BUT the soundtrack for the movie was all written and performed by "The Seatbelts" (This band is also responsible for most of the music in the TV-series).

I kept thinking about this, so I had to research it and I just thought I should share...
:)

Oh, oh! Did you know that
(According to MyAnimeList) The voice actor who plays Faye Valentine is also the voice of Paprika/Chiba Atsuko in Paprika AND the voice of Kitty White in the Hello Kitty anime?
Look: Hello Kitty
lol?

My onigiri fell apart, but were pretty tasty.

Oh, on my way to school today I ran into ♥.
Totally unexpected and not at all planned by any of us. I think both got a little startled.

That's the kind of tiny trivial thing that makes your day. <3

Cosmic Love by Florence + the Machine

I think I'm in love with this song.

oni, oni, giri, giri Oooonigiri!

I made onigiri for lunch! Filled onigiri even. With scrambled egg inside. It's the "wrong" kind of rice though so they'll probably fall apart at some point. But I hope they're edible.

You better eat one, o calssmate of mine. (I'm kidding. If they turn out to taste horrible, you're excused.)

You, sir, how 'bout a shave?

And after that little epiphany described in my last post I made this blog offical.
Hi all, I made myself a blogspot! Yay me!

._.

I'll post on LJ some day too... And then we'll see what will happen to my journals over there.
I wont delete them though. And it would be sad to kill the adventure-journal such short time after it's birth... ...to be continued~

Why so serious? :]

I just realized that once I made this blog that nobody knows about yet I could just play around with it without careing what people would think if they saw it.
And when I'm not taking my blog that serious it gets much more fun.
I even costumized the layout kinda suddenly and easily.

(I must admit that the whole layout-costumize-system here at blogspot is easier to understand than at LJ... =.O )

In conclusion:
I should start blogging more spontaneously without giving it too much thought. I take my old blogs way too serious.

Maybe a brand new blog-start would be good?

I wont even bother to check my spelling this time. My typos wont kill anyone...

Is the grass greener over here?

Not only are my friends joining blogspot, they're abandoning their LJ's...
May it be that I too should move over here? For real?
Hmm.

I can't say I dislike this place thou. Maybe it's the right thing to do...?

So this is blogspot...

Well...

So many of my friends were getting a blogspot so I felt like joining.

Seeing as I already have two livejournals I really have no idea what I'll use this one for...

But we'll see.



I'm sure it will come in handy some way or another o.-