Vehicle inspection

Oh, by the way!

I was at NAF yesterday, for the follow up vehicle inspection. I had fixed the dangerous rust, but I hadn't fixed the lights, but my car was approved, and I can drive for another 2 years before I have to check it again.

I'm gonna fix those lights very soon though. It's issues that have been there for as long as we've had the car, but no one's bothered to fix it. So I'll do it as soon as I can.

(That's TWO posts, Ann-Marie!)

Crooked lenses and X-factor

Ann-Marie told the best joke yesterday. "You should update your blog." (Or something like that.) And that made me laugh. She's one to talk, she hardly updates her own blog.

But, I thought I'd write a small post today, to tell you about my activities yesterday (Friday) and on Wednesday.

Heidi asked me early this week if we should do something together, and we agreed on photosafari by Nitelva on Wednesday. I was looking forward to it, because I haven't been serious about taking photos in a long long long time, and thought I'd really put my heart into it this time.

When I picked up my scarf to get ready to leave, I managed to knock over my camera bag and it rolled off the counted in the hall and on to the floor. I didn't check the camera before I left, it has been knocked down and come away alive before. I went to pick up Heidi in Lillestrøm, we drove to Nitelva, parked, and I was packing up my camera. And then I see it. The damn focus part of the lens was crooked, like 1cm difference in height from one side to the other. It would not focus, and the zoom was hard. Heidi and I tried to fix it, but we couldn't. So I trotted after Heidi, occasionally taking pictures with my phone camera. This didn't ruin my day though, because once Heidi was satisfied with her pictures, we went to her place and played Tekken Tag and had lunch/dinner when her boyfriend came home from work.

When I got home, dad looked at my camera. He dared to be a bit more forceful and managed to force the focus back to equal height, and then back into the tracks so it could go around. The lens isn't what it used to be, it's a bit slower, but it works. And that's all that matters to me, it is my best lens.

Yesterday I was at X-factor. Tine's sister works for TV2 and she got 6 free tickets. So Tine, Ann-Marie, me and a relative or something of Tine's were there. There were a couple of other people who were supposed to come too, but they ran into some issues and couldn't come. But we had fun, there were some okay performances, and some good. But I can't for the life of me understand what's so bloody awesome about this Tommy person. "Oh, he's so cute! Oh, he's such a great singer! Oh, marry me, Tommy!" First of all, he is not cute. The song he performed was boring. I couldn't remember his performance afterwards. Which means my thoughts strayed and like one of the judges said on Idol once upon a time, thought about what to have for dinner instead of the song. Though I didn't think of dinner, but some other boring thoughts. If you have to concentrate to catch the song, it's not a good performance.

Anyway. Ann-Marie, you probably know all of this by now, but at least I posted something :P

Aunt Astra need cosmetic surgery

I had an appointment at NAF today, for a periodic vehicle inspection. The one that has to be done every two years. Some men in dirty clothes check your car to a list, and if you have class 1 errors your car will be approved, but you are advised to fix it quickly. If you have class 2 error the car will not be approved and you have to fix the car within a given time and get it to a second inspection. If you have a class 3 error, I don't know what happens, but since it's obviously worse than class 2, I have a feeling they won't let you drive the car if isn't straight to a mechanic.

This is my second inspection since I got my licence, and the second time Aunt Astra failed. This time I apparently have dangerous rust in something I think is called channels, at the back of the car on the right, a class 2 error. According to my dad, the channels are part of what holds the car together, so I suppose that is quite dangerous.

It sounds very expensive. But I have sent a text to one of my uncles, and dad said he'd ask one of my other uncles, and I guess we'll see who'll accept first. If they can do it that is.

And here's a picture of Aunt Astra, in need of cosmetic surgery:

^Isn't she cute? (Strange, the relationships people have with their cars...)

I had a couple other errors too, but only class 1. The light that lights up the license plate doesn't work, and the parking lights are dead. But Aunt Astra's had those errors for Merlin knows how many years now. But as I drove home today, I thought about it. And why on earth it hasn't been fixed before. I've only had the car for 3 years, mom and dad had it for several years before that. So I will get those lights fixed now, not perhaps in time for the after inspection, but I will have it fixed before October 2011, when the next inspection will take place.

Now I'm off to watch the rest of the video from the online class I missed on Monday (apparently there were more students showing up for the streaming than ever before, and they found out the hard way that the classroom didn't support that many participants, so I was a little bit too late) and after that I'm gonna watch Wolverine! It came out on dvd here in Norway on Wednesday, and I bought it today after the inspection.

Love that movie! And it doesn't hurt that Hugh Jackman is stark naked in it. He even said in an interview that it was all him. Every scene where that gorgeous naked body is shown, apparently when he jumps down that waterfall too.

Okay, I'll leave now, before I drool down the keyboard.

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The message the universe has for me right now

I now know with 99.5 percent certainty why I've been seeing similar numbers on the clock lately, you know, like 23:23, 01:01 and so on. It's going to take a bit of explaining, so brace yourself.

The last couple of weeks I've been seeing these times less and less, and the past week I can't remember seeing them at all, until late yesterday (Friday). See, I had this vague idea that perhaps the universe was trying to make me remember Law of Attraction and make me remember to practice it when I saw these numbers on the clock. And I was just downstairs, getting ready for bed, and mentioned to mom that I had started seeing things like this again and I said that I wondered what it could mean. I started thinking a bit, but it only took me a couple of seconds before I knew everything, the connections, the ups and downs in when I see the time in similar numbers.

Before my exam in May/June I had been successfully practising Law of Attraction. I told you about that then, and that there were 3 events proving that it had worked. But during my exam, I focused so much on getting it done well, that LOA just slipped my mind. And after my exam I had trouble focusing enough to make it work. But then, in early September, I started seeing 16:16, 17:17 and so on. I played with the idea that it might be a reminder for LOA. So without conscious thought, I began focusing again, and each time I saw similar numbers on the clock, I thought specifically and very hard. It took me some time to work out my specific "mantra" for LOA, cause repeating a "mantra" of what I want is what works for me, that and having a specific date or occasion to focus on, where my wish might come true. (Though now I think I am managing a bit better without that date or occasion.) My LOA efforts were so good, I stopped seeing these special times of day. But yesterday (Friday) I had what you may call a business meeting, that had taken up a lot of my mind on Thursday and Friday, me going over things in my head, preparing what I would say and how to sell my designing services. But late Friday night the clock kept reminding me again, and all day today. Today and late yesterday I even had slight doubts about my wish for LOA. "Do I really want him? Do I want to go down the path my wish will lead me to? Is he right for me?"

When I first started seeing 23:23 etc and began practicing LOA and began getting that into my routine subconsciously, the clock began acting more and more normal again. But the moment I lost my focus and had doubts about the entire thing, the clock and the universe reminded me. And my doubt is gone for now. My focus is coming back. There is no saying I won't loose focus or start doubting again, but I am confident that if my wish is right for me, the universe will remind me. Because I feel more and more now, that I'm working more and more with the universe and the forces around us, instead of going by next to it, doing my thing. We work together, and work with doing what's best for me, and what's best for the universe.

It feels good to have this certainty about things. Of course I shouldn't just let the universe take care of everything, I have to work and focus on my own, but if outside forces distract me, I will be taken back on path if that is needed.

I guess you all have figured by now, that my wish in LOA is to be with a certain someone. And other that the universe helping me get my wish, is the feelings I have when I think about this person. More and more lately I get this feeling of incredible security and certainty thinking about him, a calm contentness (is that even a word?). And sometimes I go all giddy and schoolgirlish. All when picturing the future. There's even a small smile on my lips as I'm writing this, which turned out to be a long post.

So I think I'll end it here. It's late, 2am, and I should go to bed and have sweet dreams about my happy future. Though it's wrong to say happy as though my future will be nothing but happy. But that's a post for another time. Tomorrow perhaps, while I still am in this philosophical mood.

So, good night all, and sweet dreams!

My girls on the slide

Here's the video I made with our fun on the slide in Årjäng.

Camping 25th - 27th September

It's been a while since me, Ann-Marie, Marion and Ragnhild went to Sweden, to my parents' caravan there. I have forgotten to post anything about it, but here's the pictures. I made 2 videos from video clips too, but I have apparently deleted the files. They're available on Facebook though. But I'll try to get them back and put them here. I have a clever idea that has worked when I wanted videos on Youtube, so I'm gonna try it on Facebook too. But enough of that...


So we arrived on Friday, did some grocery shopping and played Bohnanza and ate dinner. On Saturday we had some fun with chalk before we went into Årjäng and did some shopping. Then we met up with Heidi and Kjetil. And on Sunday we played some games and tried to eat all the chips and candy we bought on Friday and forgot we had.

^Ragnhild inside the caravan

^^Playing Bohnanza

^Ann-Marie's first time to draw with chalk on asphalt

^^^We found a playground in Årjäng city, and had so much fun!
The video I will post later is from the slide.

^Ragnhild trying her best at mini golf

^Ann-Marie was the winner. I hadn't really thought about it being a contest
until Heidi announced the winner...

^Marion, Kjetil and Raghnild. Kjetil came in second place

^Marion, Ragnhild and I kind of sucked.
Here Marion missed the ball, and seem to be close in loosing the club

^Heidi keeping score

^^A playground close to our caravan at the camping site

Post in Dream Journal

I have had the most amazing dream last night, best one in my life! And I've written a bit about in my dream journal, read the post here: The most amazing dream.

I'm so happy right now!

Word count of the day

I can proudly say that I've written 802 words on LTEI today. 802 isn't that much, but I wrote it in about 1 hour, and since I've written 8000 words on it since SCHP and ATL was finished, it's a lot. I might just post a new teaser tomorrow to celebrate.

So, the status of LTEI Part 1 now is this:

The prologue is half way done. Chapter 1 and 2 are pretty much done. Chapter 3 is half way. I'm not happy about the chapter length of chapter 1 and 2, since they're about half of what I wrote on SCHP and ATL, so I'm gonna try and put some more meat on their bones, or just hope that LTEI Part 2 will be more "meaty".

Now, I think I'll go to bed. Will just pop back into Word and write down some ideas for the rest of chapter 3.

By the way, if you have any ideas of what lessons a pure blood witch can have to learn how to be a proper pure blood witch for her beloved husband, let me know.