Until we meet again.

I suddenly got a message saying I'm out of GB here on my blog, so I can't upload any more photos..... SUDDENLY! Pisses me off, considering there hasn't been any mentioning of this earlier. I need to pay to get more space, and according to blogger.com I can only get 1GB anyway! Don't get it. Does anyone know something? Ok, so until we meet again, dear blog. I'll get to the bottom of this...

Vikingsummer.

Good evening. 

I'm busy these days, with studies and all. Started examen facultatum and examen philosophicum this autumn, plus doing mathematics R1. Working on my text in ex.fac. now, final hand-in next Friday. Then I've got two school-exams at uni., and one in maths before Christmas. Yey! I'm trying to work atleast one day a week aswell, but that's proving to be quite difficult... Would've been so much easier without the maths ;)

I thought I'd share some photos from this years vikinglife and summer-holidays! We went to Bjørgvin (NO) in the beginning of June, then there was Bukkøy (NO), Borre (NO) and Moesgård (DK). The movie is from Moesgård. Im good at hiding from the cameras, but you can see me walk by right before 4:00min into the video. WE WON! 350 warriors at once is much. 

Bjørgvin:

Bukkøy:

 Borre:

Moesgård and the rest of the holidays will come rrright up in a new post ;)

What Kind of Book Reader are You?

Hello! 

It's definitely been too long this time. As I don't really feel like writing much today (and haven't in a while), I just wanted to post a link to this article I came upon, posted by Anne Rice on her facebook-page. 

What Kind of Book Reader are You?

I think I saw myself in these two:

Delayed Onset Reader #1. You are without a doubt a book lover, and when you walk into a bookstore or any place books are available, you can't help yourself, you buy one or many. When you get home you put them aside, often reverently, as if they were art, displaying them on a bookshelf or propping them up on your bedside table, pages ready to meet your eyes as soon as you have the moment. But you're very, very busy, and days, weeks, or months may go by before you actually crack open one of these books. It's not for lack of trying! When you finally do, you will be overjoyed by all the learning and emotional depth and humor and writing quality that exists in this book that's been sitting within reach all along, and you will be amazed that you waited so long to ever open it. Suggested delayed onset #1 suggestions: The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman; The Princess Bride, by William Goldman; Lolita by Nabokov; Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery

The Bookophile. More than reading, you just love books. Old ones, the way they smell, the crinkles and yellowing of the pages; new ones, the way they smell, too, the crispness, running your hands over a stack of them at the bookstore. You like books rescued from the street as much as signed first editions; you like drugstore paperbacks, you like hardcover new releases, you like it all. You just like books. To you, they are an object of beauty, and you would never, ever hurt them in any way. Suggested bookophile reads: Anything you can get your hands on. God, that's gorgeous, isn't it? 

At the moment, I'm reading George R.R Martin's A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4), and How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran.

Photos: spiderweb in the sunset.

Soft kitty, warm kitty..

Hoy.

It's been an interesting day! I'm at mum's now, and when arriving she told me about this stray-kitten living under our neighbor's terrace. Tinytiny kitten! Probably no more than 6 weeks old. I called the animal rescue, and they stopped by my house with a humane trap to catch it in. I talked to the neighbors and put the trap next to the terrace with some sardines mixed with cat-milk inside as bait. A couple of hours later when I happened to glance out the window, I noticed the trap had been re-arranged! Went over to check it out, and   found some cheese in there that neither me or the neighbors had put there. Some of the bait I'd put there was gone too! My first suspicion was that someone had managed to catch and "steal" the kitten. I was so worried! We put the trap someplace better, and put in some more bait, and a few hours later; MIEW! ^^ So happy, and relieved! She/he was so scared, after probably not ever being that close to a human before. She's been taken care of by the lady in animal rescue now. She seemed nice, and they already had a foster-home, she/he'll be going there tomorrow :) 

I also went biking today! Haven't been biking for 9 years or so, was quite amazed (and relieved) when I figured I could still do it. I know they say you can never forget how to bike, but I was pretty convinced I'd managed to do so anyway. Went so fast I nearly got sick in the store though, might've taken it abit more chill.  (Was there to buy cat-food, so it felt pretty urgent!).

Kjell Midtun

Caused some havoc today aswell. Just entered mum's sewing-room to get some needles, and just as I was about to pick them up from the shelf, the entire thing came crashing down! Needles, thread, buttons, magazines, boxes, hats, flutes and everything just flew EVERYWHERE! Shelf broke, so I had to repair it and put it back on the wall, using plasterboard wall-plugs and solid screws instead of those terrible nails that kept it up to start with. Hhaa. Also got some exercise mowing the lawn with an old-fashioned, manual lawnmower. Love those things, only disadvantage is having to re-mow every spot several times to get a good result.  

Will soon post some photos from last trip. Going to Denmark on Tuesday :)

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So it was my birthday yesterday. :) About 100 people congratulated me on facebook, which was cosy, unexpected and weird, all at once. And Rein was here during the weekend, which was nice. He brought me presents from his parents, and from his grandparents on both sides of the family. I got a book about Gudbrandsdalen, a beautiful porcelain platter, two mugs and 500nok. I got two presents from my friends aswell; a giftcard to be used at Lush and a glass of "natrium" ;p Haha. Rein had made me bricks for my newly-learnt tablet-weaving (based on the Oseberg-findings) and a needle-holder made from  reindeer-horn. <3

Yesterday we went to the art-gallery to look at some Astrup & Dahl-paintings.

J.C. Dahl - Valley in Valdres

Nikolai Astrup - Kari fra Sunde

Nikolai Astrup - Marsmorgen

Photo from the gallery, don't remember. JC Dahl.

Photo from the gallery, don't remember. JC Dahl.

Photo from the gallery, don't remember, but it's the old Bergen. JC Dahl.

Nikolai Astrup - Revebjeller

Other artists worth checking out from the Norwegian National-romanticism includes i.e. Theodor Kittelsen, Hans Gude, Adolph Tidemand and August Cappelen.

Soria Moria - Theodor Kittelsen

Theodor Kittelsen - Svartedauden

Theodor Kittelsen - Sjøtrollet

Brudeferden i Hardanger - Hans Gude og Adolph Tidemann

Hans Gude - Vinterettermiddag

Afterwards, we went to Inside and ate dinner, and then we had chocolatefondant and wine at Spesial. A friend stopped by to say hi, before Rein & I continued to the cinema to watch Prometheus, which was awesome.



And I'm looking forward to going to Høvringen with Rein next weekend! :D