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I hates my internet

Mood: Kinda pissed
Listening to: Nothing

It’s been like at least 14 days since the whole trouble with my internet started, and it’s still not fixed.
And it’s easter so very few people are working on problems.
It’s working now, but lord knows how long it’ll last. Jan has called the internet provider so many times, and they keep giving him the run around. Well, know we’ve decided to get a tempory internet thingie so that we’ll have a working internet. One that’ll work till we get a new internet providor at the start of May (which we already ordered. Although we have to ok an email they send, but we never got the email so I don’t know… )

And a HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ELLIE!!!
I’m sorry that I haven’t been around much… Have a smashing day.
I’ll drink in your honour tonight.

Lene

At least I have some music…

Mood: Fed up…
Listening to: MUSIC XD Dancing with myself – Nouvelle Vague

The reason I’m listening to this song is… I think I must have a girl crush on Kat Von D or something… lol
On Discovery Travel and Living right now she has a comercial/infomercial thing going about her “new” show: LA Ink… and this is the song playing in the background… and I love the song.
And I have to admit that after having watched an episode of LA Ink where Kat said she was going to stop drinking I had a dream about her, telling her how extreemly proud I was of her for trying to quit.
Yeah, I know… insane… But it was a nice dream.. because I was getting a tattoo… and I really really really REALLY want a new tattoo… (and imagine getting one from THE Kat Von D *fan girl scream*)
I’ve been thinking about getting a dragon, but I’ve been reading about symbolism and stuff too, and I can’t say that I’m very protective… Well, I am.. but not enough, I feel, to get a dragon tat… So I was thinking something more feminine… and flowers… and PINK XD
So I’ve been thinking it over, and I want a flower on my leg. And it’s great timing too.. lol… it seems there’s a tattoo parlor opening up in my town… yay… X3
But of course I’ll have to check out the location to see if they are clean, first of all and to check out if the artist/s are any good… I don’t want a half assed piece on my leg.
And of course I need money for it… hehe… that’s the hardest part, me thinks.. Although, I will be getting some money back on my taxes AND there’s the holiday money… But there are some other things I want to get too… like fabric for my “jacket design” and the maniquin I’m getting…

In other news… the store is totally closed now… I’m all out of a job D=
I really hope I’ll meet the girls.. I’m gonna miss them something aweful! But I did get my retro breadbox, so I’m happy… Oh, and I got my Victory Nox knife sharpener, and after trying it my knife is like woah… I really needed the sharpener… like slicing melted butter…and I’m not kidding.
Meh… I’ve listened to this song long enough now.. I should have it out of my head… for now… Yeah, it’s been stuck there for about a week… I wake up in the middle of the night and hear it in the distance… or sing it to myself… *points to head* in my miiind…
But now.. awshit… I didn’t have the one I wanted, so I’ll go with the opera thing from Hannibal instead.

Nothing really new has happened since last time… well… apart from me making wrist warmers… long ones.. in pink and white.. I finally decided.. lol… I’ll get some photos going and post them when I can be bothered, and post them under projects.
Thing is… I have so many projects in my head right now, it’s scary. But before I can start any of them, I have to visit Bergen and the fabric store there… that’s where they have the maniquin I’m getting… and I don’t think they have posted all the fabrics they have online, so I’ll wait and see..

We’ve been having some problems here with our internet. It’s been playing “Like I care if you really want to go online right now. Well, if you’re gonna have that attitude, I’ll just stop working”, and it’s been going on for a week now. And the internet company says it’s not them, but after Jan got a new thingie for the internet and borrowed another thingie from some guy, we found out it’s not here. Not that it helped much. True, we have internet now, but for how long? It started on last saturday… it just went poof after Espen had played World of Warcraft (PING THAT, YOU SONS OF BITCHES!) and it was out till sunday… monday it was ok, then on tuesday it went poof again and came back wedensday… and it disappeared on wedensday night and came back and went again… then on thursday I think it was ok… but I’m not sure… and gone on friday and now it’s now saturday and we got it back earlier today… It’s been up for seven hours.. and hopefully it’ll be up for a few days so that we can order a new internet thingie from another company.
(Nope, couldn’t shake “Dancing with myself”… still stuck… and I have to listen again…)
But at least I’ve had some movies to watch while the internet was gone… I did a movie review of Red Dragon with Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Fiennes… I’ll be writing it some day…
And I saw a turkey today… “Horror in the Land of the Midnight Sun” I’ll be doing a very short review of that one too… I got some snaps of it that’s hillarious.. XD
One of the more annoying things with not having any internet is that the movie site I’m a member of keeps updating movies even while I’m not there (Not nice, Giant.. XP ) (but then he’s not a mindreader, as far as I know), so I have to watch everything when I get back online. But… I don’t know where to start…
And now… I think I broke the site… the movies wouldn’t load… I thought it was my internet being crappy, but it seems like I broke the server (sorry, Giant). I got a little eager with the movies and started a few to get them loading so I wouldn’t have to wait too long… *hangs head*

Well… that’s about it, I think.
It’s easter soon… and I’ll be making my Peking duck… for the first time. Unnerving, really, but I’m sure it’ll be fine. I’ll put the pizza place on speed dial just in case.
I’ll try to keep you updated on my easter doings and stuffs…

Lene

It’s been days and weeks and months.. and years…

Mood: Good
Listening to: Nothing… the music is still dead…

And I do exagurate.. I know… It hasn’t been that long since I blogged…
I guess I’m not a very avid blogger… lol
Nothing really major has happened… I’m still out of a job, still BETWEEN jobs, I should say, seeing as that’s the correct term, appearently… I learn that at all my course thingies…
I’m still healthy, happy, loving, lacivious, smartish and so on…
And the music hasn’t alltogether died either.
I was watching Norway got Talant the other day, friday, if I’m not too mistaken… although, it has been known to happen… not alot, tho… and one of the contestents, an asian woman, I think she said she was from the Philapines. Anyways… she was cute as a rose and she sang like I’ve never heard before.
I got the feeling that she has done some professional performing before because she was very alive on stage and she knew what she was doing. Anyway. The judges first said yes, and then when the final cut came, they said no.
I was PISSED! Instead of someone with REAL talant that can GO somewhere and spread joy, they went with a  year old kid who’ll probably get fed up with his talant, magic, by the time he hits puberty.

My fear is that the judges chickened out and went with the racial thing. That she’s not really norwegian, and thus shouldn’t be IN the show. Which is really fucked up…
Gina is AMAZING! She got a great voice and she deserved that place.
So.. this is a shout out to you, Gina. Keep singing! You have a wonderful voice. You almost made me not breath when I listened to you. You don’t need that show to prove you got talant… you have it… in spades..

Lene

The day the music died…

Mood: Pretty good, actually
Listening to: Nothing… hence the title…

The real reason the music has died is because my boyfriend has taken the power outlet I was using for my external harddisk, and that’s where I store all my music… so.. no music for me.. *sighs*

Other than that there hasn’t really happened anything exciting here…
OH… I got my new washingmashine.. and it’s lovely… and my clothes smell good again…
I can’t wait to launder my bed things now.. and hang them out to dry… and then store them till winter and take them out and it’ll smell like mini summer in my bedroom… <3

Nothing really exciting has happened since I wrote last time…
All I know is that I have at least two new movie reviews to make.. What they are you’ll have to wait and see XD

In all honestly I’m just writing this to pass the time.. I’m waiting for a movie to load enough for me to have a gander at it without it going all “here you go.. watch all you wan…oh wait… need to load some more… and there you go again.. no wait… hang on… and we’re off again.. no wait… ” etc… very tiresome..

Lene

Bored Lene is bored…

Mood: BORED!!!!
Listening to: Faith no more – epic

What can I say… I like them oldies… *sighs*

Speaking of oldies… My favorite movie site finally reopened, and the magnificent Giant has dazzled the lucky few members with loads of great old movies.
What? No, you can’t join… you’re not awesome… *hairtoss*
The thing is.. you have to be a memeber to watch the movies, and his list is full at this time… He had to do it like this. The old way wasn’t working out because.. well.. he got all streamed out… or something..
Anyways… it’s like oldies heaven… <3
Tarantula, THEM!, This Island, Earth, Forbidden planet and loads more..
Hoping he’ll add “Terror/Horror in the Midnight Sun” at some point too… I haven’t seen it in ages, and I’d like to see it again.. however… I think I remember that it sucked… *shrug*

Oh, I didn’t yet tell you that I got a bonsai tree XD
It’s adorable… so… now I’m miss Miyagi… wax on, then cotton strip, wax off… scream… and instead of painting fence, you paint nails!

Ugh… I’m still bored…
Oh, but my smoke quitting is still going strong… I’m now 49 days “sober”…
And I can feel my creative juices flow…
The bad thing is… my mother directed my attention to a website that sells fabric and shit online.. and there are SOOO many cool, groovie, nice and awesome fabrics there, and I can’t decide what to make and what fabic to use…
And I can even start making my own clothes…
And I have been thinking about a new knitting project. I’m making, I think, sleve/arm warmer thingies… but I can’t decide what colors I want… black/gray, black/white, black/red, white/pink… I think I’ll go for the pink/white first and see how they look… then make black gray for the oncoming fall… and I have to make holes for my thumbs… and I might make holes at the top for a ribbon or soemthing…. we’ll see…

And in other news…
The store I work at… well.. the whole company… is bankrupt…
so they are having a massive sale now… well…not that massive… they started at -30%
And I’ve stashed a few things so when they get to -70% I’ll buy XD
I just hope I get a little more working done before the very end… The girls there is the best bunch of girls I’ve ever worked with. They were so passionat about their work, they really loved what they did and I just know it’s killing them to leave the store at the end of the day…
As for me… well… I guess I have to get another job…

Lene

Happy Lene is HAPPY HAPPY!!!

Mood: HAPPY!!!!
Listening to: NOTHING!!! I DON’T NEED MUSIC WHEN I’M THIS HAPPPYYYYYY

Ok… so I guess you understand that I’m happy..
The reason, I hear you ask… I just got a call from the unemployment office.. the money department, and the lady I spoke to said that the money I got, that I wasn’t supposed to have, I CAN KEEP  XD
She said that it wasn’t all that much money, so it wasn’t that big a deal…
And of course I asked if I could get that in writing… seeing as… I don’t want to get a call later on saying that I owe them money… and she understood that…
And now… I’M HAPPY!!!!!!!!

Lene

A quiet sunday…

Mood: Very good…
Listening to: Pink – So what

Actually… I’ve been addicted to Pink (So what) and Katy Perry (Hot N Cold) lately.
That’s where my latest art work came from… That’s what happens when you listen to a song for the first time and not pay attention….
“What? Rock Mousse??? I didn’t know there was a special brand… ”

I’ve also dabbled in other drawings… Actually… I found a drawing online ages ago and saved it because it’s really cool… I cannot remember where I found it or who drew it… So I’d really like to give whomever you are the credit, but alas I cannot seeing as I can’t remember who you are… sorry…
But my drawing turned out stellar because of your inspiration.. ^_^

You have no idea how I struggled with the hair… and I know there are some shading issues…
Anyways…. it’s a drawing inspired by my avatar on Gaiaonline.com… I’ve been a member there since 2005, and I don’t regret joining. I’ve met a lot of people there that have touched my life and made some good friends.
So… this is Cora…
Cora actually started out a blond. She was also based on the story I’ve been writing for… an eternity it seems. Her origin is from the Harry Potter series. I really love the books, but I felt it was about time someone wrote a fanfic focusing on the dark side of magic. Most often the fanfics are either focusing on how that person would be perfect for Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape etc…
Cora Dearborn started Hogwarts before Harry did, so she’s older… she’s a Slytherin, shape shifter (into black panther… in one of the chapters Cora roamed the English countryside which explains a lot of the large black cat sightings made throughout the ages), Lucius Malfoy’s mistress (of course..duh) and so on…
Anyways… That’s how she started out on Gaia… blond… but eventually she (me… who hated pink with a passion) fell in love with pink and changed her haircolor to pink… hence why she got pink pig tails <3  No no.. it’s true.. I really hated pink… I’d rather wear nothing than pink… and I really can’t remember what changed it.

Yes, I drew that… XD
I’m actually very pleased with this drawing… *nod nod*
But yeah… the story… I’ve had a  long, long break.. after Order of the Phoenix it was really hard to predict what was going to happen… same with after Prince of Space Halfblood Prince… So I’ve been writing loads of endings for my story. I’ve been trying to write as close to the books as possible, but somehow it seems I make both Snape and Lucius far too nice, really. But then again, she is friends with them… it would be odd for them not to smile at her.
But after the last book was done and I read it, I lost my motivation to write. Not because Voldie dies or because Lucius loses almost everything and everything turns up roses for the “good guys”… I just don’t know… I guess it was too hard to wrap things up for me. She is a bad person, after all, and for her to end up smelling like roses is hard. But I think I’ve figured out a way now… Which means.. I’ve started to write again. XD
Yes, I’m excited. Mind you.. it’s a bloody long thing, so I don’t know if I’ll post it here…
Not that a whole lot of people visit my tiny site… I think I have a record of at least 2 people visiting…

Anyways… Back to the drawing board :3

Lene

I’ve (almost) had it!!!

Mood: Annoyed
Listening to: Jason Mraz – I’m yours

So yeah…
I’ve really had it with NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service)(which I’ve been calling the unemployment office). They are pissing me off… and I’m not the only one. There are people all over Norway not getting what they need because they (NAV) are slow to take action.
Everyone (who has read my blog) know what problems I’ve had with them, and I’m still waiting for them to clean up their mess. Over a month I’ve waited now…
My boyfriend is paying child support every month, and not too long ago his work didn’t take enough out of his paycheck to cover the whole amount… NAV was pretty quick in sending him a letter, yelling at him for not paying 100 kr.. which was the rest of the amount… They seem to get pissed if people don’t pay… but when they have to clean up the mess they made, giving me too much money, they don’t seem to care at all…
I guess I’ll just have to keep the money. I wonder what the reaction would be if I told them “Oh, I spent it all… I got fed up waiting for you to get back to me… ” The next thing, I bet, would be a court case…

As you might have notised I’ve posted my Lord of the Things play… s…
I hop eyou enjoy reading it half as much as I enjoyed writing it… and “acting” it on tape…
Yes, my step-children, their cousin and I acted it out, with music and everything… and we had a blast. We spent two days recording it on a crappy tape recorder, but we had fun.

I also, finally, finished my spa wrap AND my pillow…
I feel kind of lost now, because I don’t have anything to sow or do with my hands anymore…
Well, I do, but I don’t know if I can be bothered to make tiny baglets for lavander scent just yet. But I know I have to make them, so I really should. Why I have to make them?
I bought a dresser last summer, and it smells of varnish… so I’m hoping the lavender pouches will help combat the smell… although I doubt it… It’s worth a try, anyway…

I guess that’s it for now.
I’ve been holding this NAV thing in for a long, long time.
Everyone is picking on them at the moment… and with good reason. People who should get unemployment money have to wait up to three months for money… and initally NAV said it would take about three weeks.
Why can’t they just admit they are fucked and ask for help… is that so hard???
People shouldn’t suffer for their ineptitude..

Lene

*dances*

Mood: Very good
Listening to: Nada..

Hey!!

It’s now been two weeks without smokes, and I must say I feel fine *twitch* and that I no problems what so ever…
Ok, so I’m not twitching and being all gaga… I do miss it, of course, but it’ s not like its life or death if I don’t get it anymore.
I was planning on writing later today, but I had to do it now because I have to work later today…
Actually I don’t mind at all.. XD
It’s just too bad someone had to be sick so that I could work… but that’s how the ball bounces…
And it means I won’t get to bake scones… again…
At first I tried, but I didn’t have any baking powder, but I baked them anyway… didn’t turn out that bad, but they didn’t look like scones… so I tried again, this time I had baking powder, but alas, no butter…
Now I have everything I need, but alas… I’m not at home..
So, if I don’t have to work tomorrow AND I can actually be bothered to do it, I’ll make scones… and I’ll have  a lovely lunch ^_^ with tea and everything… :3

Nothing has happened, really… I haven’t heard anything from the money people at the unemployment office, and I think that if I don’t hear anything when it’s been a month since I was there, I’ll go to the local newspaper and tell them my story… It seems like that’s the only way to get things speeded up around here… which is a bitch…
I talked to my mother yesterday, and she’s going to have her tonsils out.. I’m guessing her’s got too hard to chew with or something… *shrugs* She’s not going in till the 13th, I think.. And it’s a good thing I’m not superstisious… the 13th is a FRIDAY!!! DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUN…
And even though a young boy just died having his out, I have every confidence in the doctors.
Even though it’s a tragic thing what happened to the boy, I guess he was just one of those freak things that happen…
An otherwise perfectly healthy boy suffers complications and dies. It’s horrible, but it does happen.

AND… I’ve tried my bamboo steamer… I love my bamboo steamer… but I think I’ll steam my veggies for for 10 min, and not 15, like I did yesterday… they were good, but a bit soggy… So yeah… 10-12 min…. and no more…

Other than that my life is pretty boring… OH, BESIDES ME BEING PISSED OF AT THE HISTORY CHANNEL!!! >.<
I was so looking foreard to watching Monster Quest yesterday.. it was supposed to be about Stalin trying to make an uber mench by crossing humans with apes…
And instead they sent a boring documentry about CROP CIRCLES!!!!
They had better make amends for that fuck up…

Anyways…
Take care… I’ll get back to you soon.. I hope…

Lovles..
Lene

…. I’m good …..

Mood: Quite good…
Listening to: NOSSING!!! (nothing)

Hey…

I’m still not smoking… I have to admit I broke down last night and had a puff, but it didn’t taste good at all, so I had like half of one… and to be honest, seeing as I didn’t like it, I don’t see it as a major setback. And I won’t put the “days without” back to one… seeing as I didn’t smoke a whole one.
So that means 8 days without… and I’m proud. But I do see that my food intake is getting larger… I’ll have to monitor that and do something about it. Maybe I’ll start eating sugar free candy or something instead.

A new feature on my blog is Blogroll… even though it says Blogroll it IS THE AWESOMEST SITES EVER MADE… well, not really… but they are cool… and seeing as Camilla helped me yet again, hers was the first up :3
I have planned to link other sites, but there are a few owners I want to ask first. Maybe they don’t want to be linked or something. So yeah… more links coming, hopefully… If not then… well… I tried…

Other than that nothing much has happened, really, since last time.
Well, there is this really cool site I found which has LOADS of b-movies. I absolutely love it. One of the reasons is because it had one of the movies I’ve been searching my ass of to find. But I have it now, and pretty soon I’ll, hopefully, be watching it on my tv. And OF COURSE I won’t be selling the dvd.. that would be wrong, and I don’t do wrong things. Well, not anymore… seeing as smoking is directly linked to human trafficing and slavery… How? I have no idea… ask the american people who made the anti smoke ad…

Anywho… I’ll be seeing ya..
Take care…

Lene