The Polar Express

Thought I'd share a few clips from my favorite Christmas movie, The Polar Express. Fantastic movie!

First Sunday of Advent

Today is the first Sunday of Advent. And in the spirit of Christmas, I have lit the first of the four candles. I thought I'd make this into a tradition, posting photos each Sunday, and perhaps every time I do or come across something Christmassy.

Mom got me the set, and the candles are the ones I made at the Christmas workshop at Bjerkely. The colours of the candles fit perfectly with the set, and the grey-purple sand, and Christmas of course. Purple is the advent colour after all.

Christmas Glee

Christmas is soon upon us. First Sunday of Advent this coming Sunday. I'll be home alone on that day, my parents go on holiday to Germany on Saturday. And though there is this event of lighting a Christmas tree down the road here, I will not go there, because I do not want to risk running in to people from my past.

I think I'm getting the Christmas spirit. I hope I'm not jinxing it by saying it, but it's true. Mom put up the Christmas stars in the windows downstairs yesterday, and Christmas curtains in the kitchen and the dining room. I've got 4 2/5 of 10 Christmas presents planned. Not sure how the actual Christmas shopping will go though, kind of short on money. Or, not short on money, just owe a lot to my parents. About 8000... And I hate it.

But that won't lessen my Christmas spirit.

And neither will the fact that we're going to Lier on Christmas Eve. It was not how I planned it out or hoped it would be. Guess I should have sat myself down the minute the Alternativmessa was over and found out how to focus my LOA. But I failed. But Christmas is not just Christmas Eve, and will try to get the best out of my Christmas this year. That's a promise. Christmas as Lier will be nice, I like spending Christmas with aunt Hanne, uncle Espen and their 3 kids.

But now, I have to go back to watching Glee. Great show! You should watch it!

Gassy New Moon

So I've been smelling gas in my car for a while now. I didn't think so much about it, because it usually was only in the morning. I thought perhaps it was only because I've just filled up the gas tank, or maybe someone near by had spilled some, maybe it's the exhaust that's acting up.

But when I was in Fredrikstad, it smelled a little bit more. I asked everyone about it, if they could smell it too, and yes, they did. But it went away as soon as we started driving. Then, Monday last week, I was home because of my back. But when dad got up to get ready for work, the smell of gas was inside the house. I park my car right next to the washing room window, and that window is always open. So the tank I filled up before I left Fredrikstad on Sunday had leaked out a bit. It smelled awful. Dad checked the car when he got home from work, and the tank had rusted and cracked at the top. I asked if this would cost a lot, and he said it would. So my whole world fell apart. I was afraid of the car, thinking it might blow up, since gas was leaking. I imagined it would cost me thousands and thousands of money to fix it. I cried my eyes out, sat in my room, looking around and wondering what I could sell. With what I imagined the cost to be, it would be cheaper to buy a new used car.

On Tuesday, dad got me a brand new gas tank on Tuesday, for just 2000 kroners, my uncle put it on on Sunday, and now my car is usable again. But I hated the week without the car. That Monday I had a chiropractor appointment, so mom had to drive me. On Wednesday I had another appointment, so I went to my get my grandparents' car on Tuesday evening, drove that on Wednesday, and delivered it right away, and grandpa drove me home. On Thursday I had a hair appointment, but I cancelled it. Didn't think I could give myself a proper cut for 400-500 kroners right now. So some lady at mom's work will cut it for 200. And on Thursday evening/night, it was time for the New Moon premier. Then I borrowed dads car, figured he wouldn't need it in the middle of the night.

Enough of that, the car is fixed now.

New Moon was amazing. Heidi had gotten 2 tickets to the pre premier, and 5 tickets to the midnight premier. Heidi and Marion so the pre premier at Colosseum, and Heidi, Marion, Ragnhild, Karine and me saw the midnight premier at Ringen Kino. I liked the Harry Potter midnight premier better, just because it were more adults there, not so much squealing teens. I remember one girl, across from me in the theater, everytime Edward kissed Bella, or said something sweet or hot, or just had screen time, she sighed and fanned herself. Grow up! I mean, yes, I was a total goner with a certain boy band member when I was a bit younger than her, but I wasn't that insane. And yes, I may be fawning over Hugh Jackman, Draco Malfoy and Edward too, but I'm still not crazy. Whatever, her embarrassment in the long run, not mine.

But again, New Moon was amazing. It was true to the book, as much as possible with a movie version anyway. But I suppose that is because Chris Weitz directed it. He did the Golden Compass too, and he really gets into the movie he's making, and he's all about being true to the story.

Taylor Lautner, or Jacob, was hot. I wasn't that sure about him, just seeing the pictures and the trailers and previews, but getting the whole movie, he was bloody hot. So I guess, in the bookverse, I am on Team Edward, and in the movieverse, I am Team Switzerland.

But enough of that now. Will acquire a screening of New Moon, then I will buy the DVD, delete the screening, and have myself a Twilight marathon. So to end this post, here's the trailer:


I'm on the edge of my seat with chills just watching it now...

Weekend #3 of many

It's been a while since I posted now. So long, I have to go check the previous posts, so I don't double post something. Wait one minute while I check...

The last one that mattered where Weekend #2 of many. So instead of making one huge post, I'll post several for each subject. Got lots to update you on, pictures and text...

Weekend #3 in Fredrikstad:

I picked up Marion, Ragnhild and Heidi and drove all the way to Ann-Marie in Fredrikstad. Once there, first we admired Ann-Marie's cat Luna. She is the most adorable creature I've ever seen. Only creature more adorable is my long lost cat Rulle Pedro. Pictures and video at the bottom of the post. Then we had to play Bohnanza, Ann-Marie was almost in withdrawal.

During the Friday evening we argued about whether we should see Paranormal Activity or not. Heidi, Ann-Marie and Marion wanted to see it, Ragnhild and I didn't. Turned out we had no choice, and the damned movie was put on. I did not like it one bit. The start of it was okay, but towards the end, it was just awful. I had goosebumps, and it takes a lot to give me goosebumps. Now, at home, I have to use my night light again. I'm almost over it already, but I wonder what will happen when I'll be home alone from Saturday to Wednesday. Guess I have to manage somehow.

On Saturday we played some more, took Luna for a walk, went to Skeidar and Østfoldhallen to shop a little bit. Heidi left us, and we went home to play some more Bohnanza and eat dinner. Tine came, she demanded we play Rome, so we did. Tine made Luna insane, and Tine sprayed both me and the cat with the water bottle. As if I did anything wrong, where I lied quiet on the floor. See, I have back issues again. But more of that later.

Sunday, we met Tine again and drove to Sweden. I finally got to visit Søstrene Grene, with all the amazing things and stuffs.

And I think that pretty much covered the weekend. Now to my back issues. For the third time this year I got a stiff lower back. It happened the Friday before I went to Ann-Marie. I think it might be something I did wrong when I carried the guest bed downstairs. But it doesn't matter how, what matters is that it stinks. It's a little bit better now, but I've had it for 1 1/2 weeks, and that's 2 weeks too long for me. It has taken me 3 chiropractor appointments, hours of laying straight on the couch, rounds and rounds and rounds of walking around in the house, and 2 days of lost school. Still not enough. Got a chiropractor appointment again on December 7th. I told him it didn't bother me so much, but that was mostly because I can't really afford all these appointments. But the worst part is that my left leg hurts too. Below the knee, there's this aching pounding. It feels like something in my leg is too short, and no position, sitting, lying or standing, helps. A painkiller can numb it for a few hours, but it doesn't work on the stiffness in the back. But thankfully the pain in the leg seems to have lessened some since my appointment yesterday. And thankfully again, we have an assignment at school now, so I can stay at home, and walk and lie and stretch and sigh all I want without disturbing anyone.

Now, pictures from the weekend in Fredrikstad.

^Luna sitting in the window

^Ann-Marie making Luna play Bohnanza

^Tine mistaking me with the cat

So, I think that was it for this post. Next post will be about my car and New Moon.

My wand

Just took the Harry Potter wand test again, and just thought I'd post it here, because:

1. To help me remember it for the day I pull myself together and make a wand.

2. Just to share it with you.

3. And ask a question, what wand did you get?

Your result for The Harry Potter Wand Test...

9", Willow, Dragon

You scored 26 wisdom, 33 bravery, 37 emotional, and 17 martyrdom!

A willow wand signifies that you care deeply about emotions, art, and intuition, and that you have a particular knack for charms. Your dragon's heartstring core makes your wand very effective in hexes.

Take The Harry Potter Wand Test at OkCupid

Weekend #2 of many

I have had quite a busy weekend. On Friday I got up a bit earlier than usual and got ready to meet Ann-Marie and Ann-Kristin in Fetsund. There I parked my car for the day and went to talk to my aunt at her job. I was trying to help her fix her work computer a few weeks back, but it was unsavable. She managed to find a new usable laptop and I went to check that everything was all right, and get the address that I will send my first bill to.

After that Ann-Marie, Ann-Kristin and me drove to Lillestrøm for Alternativmessa (a fair/expo with all things alternative, supernatural and so on). It was great fun, we went to many lectures and learned a few new things. One of the lectures were about Rainbow Reiki. And after that lecture we went to the Rainbow Reiki stand and got a free 5 minute Reiki healing session. It was amazing. I had been having a minor headache all day, one that had lasted for days and days and days, all because of my neck and that stupid shit. Well, after that healing session, it gradually went away in about 60 minutes. It was amazing! When I got home that evening, I felt inside myself, at the pain that wasn't there, and I don't think I've been that pain free in years.

Anyway, we met up with Ragnhild, and then Marion, during Alternativmessa. Marion had coloured her hair dark! It was great!

The last lecture we went to was about auras and clairvoyance. There was some talk at first, with a Danish man, and I understood about 30% of what he said. But he arranged a task for us. We paired up and were told to feel each other's aura. I clearly felt Ann-Marie's, but she had some trouble feeling mine. The Danish guy tried to help her, and said that I have a good aura. And apparently it was orange, which means happy.

On Saturday I got up at 7am to go to a meeting in Lillestrøm. It's this job/project/thing I think I've talked about before. He had some updates on production and design ideas, and I had some sketches for the design. So we discussed the progress, and what comes next, and I was done there about 10am. I was supposed to maybe take the train straight into Oslo after that, but found it wasn't really necessary, so I went home, played on the internet, tried to take a nap, and then got ready for dinner in Oslo. I took the 5pm train in, bought a Father's day card, met Marion and Ragnhild, then Heidi, then Tine, Ann-Marie, Ann-Kristin and Ida and we went to Jacob Aall at Aker Brygge. Dinner was great, but expensive, service was bad.

After dinner several people were off to see a show with Raske Menn, but Marion, Ragnhild, Heidi and me sat down at Deli de Luca and after Ragnhild left, Sir Winston.

It's been a great weekend! Bit busy, but at least that made me sleep very well last night. I want to talk about some of the things I learned on Alternativmessa. First, the colour of my aura. The guy said it meant happy. I'd have never thought happiness would be something dominant in my aura, but apparently it was. And when I came home last night, I understood why. The aura is layered and ever changing, it reflects your current mood, as well as personality. I am very happy when I am with my friends, so that would explain why it was orange that day. I don't think it's so very orange right now. But I just did a google search of orange aura color and got this:

ORANGE AURA COLOR: Relates to reproductive organs and emotions. The color of vitality, vigor, good health and excitement. Lots of energy and stamina, creative, productive, adventurous, courageous, outgoing social nature; currently experiencing stress related to apetites and addictions;

And I guess that's just as good as happy!

Another thing I learned was about Law of Attraction. We went to a lecture about the Silva Method and one about hypnotherapy. Both relates to Law of Attraction, and I learned that I need to find a different "mantra" for my getting my man. I've been trying to do it like I did that time back in May, but I guess I've done it wrong every time I tried to start over. So I'm going to work on it, think hard, find something to visualize, something to focus on in my mind, and get it right and get it good!

So that was my weekend. Every weekend is busy now. Last weekend I was at X-factor with Tine, Ann-Marie and some girl Tine brought with her, Nadia. That was fun too, especially at Peppes later, when we tried to teach Nadia about babies, life, love, and holding out on sex (Nadia is 12). This weekend was Alternativmessa and Oslo. Next weekend Marion, Ragnhild, me and maybe Heidi go to Fredrikstad. The weekend after that, Marion, Ragnhild, Heidi, Karine and me are going to see the New Moon premier, and there were some talk about a Christmas party. The weekend after that my parents go away and get the house to myself. Maybe I invite someone for some fun, who knows? And the weekend after that Marion, Ragnhild, Heidi, Ann-Marie, Tine and me are having a Christmas workshop. Hopefully the 2 weekends left before Christmas after that is busy with fun like that too.

Sadly, I've got no pictures, didn't take any. But I expect to take some next time!