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I know, I know.. it’s been a while.. again….

Mood: Perfectly fine.
Listening to: Carrie, the movie.. on The Cinemated Man’s movie channel. He’s pretty good. You should check it out if you get a chance.

So.
I have the most awesome father-in-law in the world. As we all know my PS3 got borked when the lightning struck right outside. And we’re still waiting for the money from the insurance. Anyway. He got a PS3 ages ago but couldn’t quite get the hang of it, being used to the PS2. We visited one day to help with some TV stuff and he said I could borrow his till I got a new one. So I did.. got five games in the pack. Gran Turismo (irch), Ratchet and Clank (hmmm), The Smurfs 2 (sigh), Ice Age 4 (…) and Uncharted 3 (wheee). Hang on, there’s a whiney kid on TV. Can’t stand them. So yeah. We borrowed it, and played little. I didn’t want to play any of my other games, just in case I could, when I got the new one, put the old hard drive into the new one. We can try, right?
So, some time passed and we visited again. And suddenly I got his bill of sale that had some insurance thing on it too.. In case it broke. And a few days after that Jan said to me that he thought I might as well keep it, the PS3, because… well… it seemed like it to him. So I made him make sure. And sure enough.. My awesome father-in-law gave me his PS3.
He has also after that gotten a new one for himself… Go figure. I guess he is powerless to resist, like I am.
SO!!! I got DARK SOULS!!! FINALLY!!! =D
And last night we tried to put the old hard drive into the new one. But I guess it got toasted in the lightning strike too. Oh well. So I made a new account and all that. I’m going to play a little bit later on. I’m just gonna finish this first.. or I’ll play tomorrow. I really wanted to get a Roxio Game Capture thingie, so that I could go on Twitch and show everyone just how bad I am at gaming. XD
But honestly, I don’t know how long I will be able to wait. We’ll see. I could just go ahead and play.. and I’ll get to a point where I just can’t continue.. and that’s when I’ll go live and… maybe not.
I still have Dead Space 2 I can play. It’ll scare the shit out of me, but I’ll do it.. some day…
I wish I had the Roxio for when my brother and I played the London Olympics. Man, I wish I had the whole thing on tape. It was so hilarious…and I still laugh at the memory of us trying to do the javelin throw.
So, as I got Dark Souls I also got The Shining, the book. I started reading it and I have to admit I’m expecting scary stuff to leap off the page the whole time I’m reading it. Maybe not the best idea to read it in bed….
Damn, Carries mother is creepy.
I also tried to find a fake leather jacket. I had been drooling over the picture of it for weeks, and I finally got a chance to check it out. It wasn’t as nice as I thought. 🙁 So I got very disappointed. But I’ll get some bike boots instead. I need some winter shoes.
I’ve also finally decided that I really need a drivers license. I just need some money first. It’s not exactly cheap.
What else…
Animal Crossing – new leaf. I think I’ve collected almost all the fossils, I’m missing like 10 bugs or something… and 15 fish.. I think. I’m having great fun being a mayor. I also think the villagers are getting a little tired of me trying to expand my house all the time, which I’m finished with now. I really don’t want all of the suggestions they’ve come with to “improve” Clamydea. Oil pump? Really?? I am getting the dream thingie, tho. I think I’ll start it up today. After I’ve showered.
I’ve also been thinking about getting Beyond: Two Souls. I just don’t know, tho. I mean…. I don’t think I’d be very good at that rapid decision thing. I think I’d get frustrated and give up. I think it’s a game I’ll watch being played by others.
OH! I’m getting my hair done on Tuesday. I can’t wait to get re-blondiefied. It’s getting a little dark at the roots.
And I just realized that the heart on my sweater makes my chest look like a gorilla chest/bold spot. Remind me never to wear the sweater to the zoo. A gorilla might take a shining to me and violate me. And we wouldn’t want that. I think they aren’t the softest of lovers.
I guess that’s about it. I’ve been working and playing, watching movies and sleeping… and eating. I’m making meatballs for dinner today.. in gravy. Haven’t had proper meatballs in ages. Yum.
OH!! My Venus Flytrap is blooming! Or growing. They’ve really enjoyed the flies we’ve been plagued with this year. So much so it’s going to bloom soon. I’ll snap some pictures of it when it does. I’ve never seen a Venus Flytrap bloom before.

Well, I’ll hang my laundry now and then take a shower. I’ll try to post more often. What can I say.. I’m lazy.

Be utterly excellent to each other.

Lene

Another day, not another dollar…. No work today…

Mood: Very good
Listening to: Bones playing in the background.

It was hard getting back to work. Not really hard, but pretty hard. Luckily I have good costumers and they made me get right back into the game. I have to admit that I did get a little beved up this weekend. As soon as I got home on Saturday I got me a Captain Morgan and Coke. It was so good. We bbq’d our dinner, and we used the party tent, so it felt fitting. On Sunday, before watching the movie, I thought to myself that I’d take a sip of Sambuca every time something stupid happened. After 5 minutes I figured out I’d die of alcohol poisoning if I did that. The movie we watched was “2-headed Shark Attack”. For your own sanity’s sake, don’t watch the movie.
Speaking of this weekend. There was a big to-do somewhere… Yeah, I pay attention. Well, no. Because I don’t care. But whatever happened it plastered Miley Cyrus all over my internet front page, and now I can’t get away from her annoying mug. Is she incapable of keeping her tongue in her mouth? Every photo I’ve seen of her from the whatever, her tongue is out. I think she must have eaten or “eaten” something nasty making her tongue want to run away…. Or maybe it just want to run away from the singing.
How can I make her go away? I don’t want to open my internet again and see her. I’m fed up with all these people who doesn’t matter. Justin Bieber, Cyrus, One Direction, Chris Brown, Madonna with her grylz… IT DOESN’T MATTER!!!
Just.. go away.
So, venting over….
I’m trying to do my nails. After having had a vacation, my nails are somewhat long… and I can finally do french tips and stuff. I already did the french tip, but it got a little uneven. I think I need more practice.
And if you’re a Stephen King fan… read “The Wind Through the Keyhole”. It’s pretty good. Yeah, it’s not like the other Dark Tower books, but I don’t think it’s meant to be. The book before this one, “Wizard and Glass”, was all about Rolands journey to the Mejis, about lovely Susan Delgado, Rhea of the Cöos, about Rolands mother and her affair with Marten Broadcloak. “The Wind Through the Keyhole” is more about how Roland dealt with things after this story. How he was sent to a Debaria to find a “skin-man”, a shape shifter.
I think it’s a good story, but it seems my taste in books is different to most people.
I was talking to one of the security guards last week about books. She said she’s not a big reader and I said I love reading. I wasn’t big on reading before, but I started reading more and it helped me with my writing problem. I had big problems in school with correct spelling. Anyway. I told her she should read “The Godfather” since she likes “The Supranos”. But she was a little meh about it. I told her a little about the plot, how it’s not much different from the movie. Well, except for the woman with the cooch the size of a cathedral. She wrinkled her nose… Understandably.

Well, I’m gonna continue on my nails… so if I have more I’ll give more.
Be excellent to each other.

Lene

Happenings…

Mood: Pretty good
Listening to: Mitch from Gamefront playing Spelunky on Youtube.

So, a lot has happened since last time I blogged. I can’t even remember what I blogged about last time… OK, so I just read up… and a lot of what I wrote about last time I’ll somewhat revisit now.
I did get my Nintendo 3DS. I love it to bits! I’m a mayor.. I’m awesome! People love me! I get things done! I’ve got over half the bugs and fishes already!
My birthday has come and gone.. with a kick-ass party and all.
Of course family and friends knew it was my birthday, so Jan and I got collaborated gifts. Gift cards and that like. The people from Jan’s work… they didn’t know. So during dinner they got all:
“Eh, Lene? Is it your birthday today?”
“Eh, yeah… Jan even said so when he visited work.”
“We didn’t know! No one told us! We’ve been on holiday!”
“Well, can’t be helped. I know he told people.”
“YOU GET PRESENT! YOU WILL!”
“It’s really no big deal.”
“What do you want?”
“Well, Captain Morgan is always nice… or a bottle of Bacardi… or a Sambuca…”
I’m not holding my breath. It really is no big deal. We had a great party and that’s all that matters.
Also, I was introduced to Sambuca on the first day of my vacation, which I’ve had. We had a party to see if the new party-tent could be partied in. So we invited Asbjørn and Brit-Mari, some friends of ours and she had Sambuca with her. I was skeptical at first. It smelled like Ozou… and I found out it tasted like it too. And it was the kind of drink that sneaks up on you. I have to admit that as soon as I got home from work, made the salad and all that… when I sat down I made myself a drink. I had about three drinks before I tried the Sambuca, and later on in the evening I felt my brain wouldn’t keep up. If I looked around it would like slowly turn with my head. So yeah.. scary drink. Scary good drink.
I got a bottle when I got my pay. That and a bottle of Captain Morgan. I have hardly had a glass of him. I want him to keep for a long time. But I will drink of him come weekend. I also got loads of other things. I got some huge pillows, 70 x 100 cm, because I’ve wanted those for like.. forever. And they are really soft and lovely. And it’s like being at a hotel all the time.
What else…. Oh yeah… Salad.. for the party. I bought salad ingredients for like 900 kr ($138)… and people hardly ate salad…
My brother and I got to play London 2012 on my Ps3. AND I GOT TO BE MARK NUTT! XD
Omg, we had such a great time playing. I wish we had recorded the whole thing. We played it blind, so we had to figure it out as we went. And oh my god how we laughed. Especially at the javelin throw. I went first… and I started running… and kept running… And at the replay we just saw a guy running past the camera… like “hello.. just passing though with my javelin…”
And so the family left for the rest of their vacation on Monday 12th of August. Jan and I were getting ready for our fishing trip. Jan was upstairs getting something, I was hanging clothes up to dry. There had been some thundering in the distance. I was counting and they stayed about 7-10 away… It had been a while since the last lightning, so I went up to help Jan. We were talking for a bit and then there was a sudden pink flash outside.. and I didn’t even have time to start thinking about counting before it thundered. It became pitch black and so we ran downstairs. The UPS was screaming its head off… and of course nothing worked… because of the power out. We waited for like an hour or so before attempting to put the power back on, and it worked. And so… damage control.
The modem was broken, so was the cable exits for the internet..the wall plugs, the blue-ray was broken, the TV tuner was broken, my computer and my ps3. Good thing we have a laptop so I can do normal things while I wait for a new one. I’m really sad about the ps3, tho. All my Skyrim is lost.. I have to start over… and all my London Olympics trophies are gone… I’ll have to wait for my brother to visit again for us to get back to where we were. And I got to be Japan.
At first we were a team, and I picked England… and archery… and Mark Nutt XD
But when we were individuals I was Japan.
And at least I have my 3DS, so I have something to keep me occupied.
I think that was it, really.
Oh, the fishing trip!
Yeah, we went to Gudbrandsdalen, to Heggerud, as we do, and stayed there from Wednesday to Saturday, just relaxing and enjoying ourselves. I got the first fish too, on my new rod. Jan broke my old rod, so he gave me a new one for my birthday. I’m just happy it works. And it’s really cool looking too. So yeah, the first trout. Asbjørn and Brit-Mari was with us too, and Jans sister, Britt and her kids, Christoffer Robin (Robin) and Ida Synöve (Ida) and a friend of Robin’s, Rene. I’ve been in those tiny cabins before with two kids, I can only imagine how much worse it is with three. OH OH OH!!! Speaking of kids. I got a Slytherin scarf, made by the people who made the scarves for the movie, from the kids for my bday.. and a Slytherin mug…. for evil tea drinking. For when I’m plotting.
Now I don’t think there is more… I’m sure if I forgot anything I’ll put it in the next entry.
Oh, and my mother brought the sweater I posted ages ago… I love that sweater. It is so soft, warm and lovely.

Be excellent to each other.
Lene

Just another update…

Mood: pretty good. I’m hungry, so I’ll make some lunch soon.
Listening to: Achievement Hunters off of Youtube playing Loadout.

Not a whole lot has been going on lately.
I can’t believe it’s August 1st already. Just 9 days till my birthday…and a huge ass party. I’m actually really looking forward to it.
I’ve also decided, after we had a visit from Camilla, that I need a new Nintendo 3DS. Well, I have a Nintendo DS, so I need an upgrade. The buttons are really bugging me on the DS. And I want the new Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
Yeah, yeah. I know I just got a PS3, but I don’t have the PS3 in my bedroom, so yeah…
It’s also the season of thunder here. I really wish I had charged my camera up so that I could take fantastic pictures. But there are other days. I have so many plans with that camera. Like I want to try and take pictures of the night sky.
Also the family is coming to visit next week. I’m really looking forward to that. I haven’t seen them since Easter. Should be lovely. And I get to play video games with my brother XD
I remember when we were young, he got a Commodore something and one of the games he had was an Olympic game. So I got London Olympic 2012 for my PS3 for us to play. I haven’t played it yet.. I want this to be as fun as possible. Of course I’ll be England… I want to be Mark Nutt in the archery contest. All other times I’d be Japan.

But now I want food. So stay excellent to each other.
Lene

Minecraft entry, update…

Dear Journal.

I had heard news about a new type of creature entering my realm. Something called horse. It was supposed to be about the same size as a cow, but more regal in stature and you could ride on them.
I wanted to find such a creature, make it my friend and bring it home.
I looked for a long time on the nearby plains, but there were none to be found.  I finally decided that maybe they hadn’t come to my realm after all, that maybe I would have to move to a new realm for them to appear. Disheartened I went on with my normal life, planting wheat, potatoes, carrots and so forth, making new buildings. One of them turned out to be a stables. Maybe, just maybe, if you build it, they will come.
One day I wanted to have a walk. I picked up my compass and headed out the door, walked in one direction as far as I could and then headed back home. Somehow I missed my house…and I eventually got lost. For days I walked around in the wilderness, finding monster houses with crates, finding saddles and horse armor. I found villages, jungle dungeons and desert dungeons. I experienced more on those days and weeks than I have in such a long time. But after circling around the same snowy peak five times in ever increasing circles, I decided that I needed to get home. I walked onto a plain and found what I had been looking for. I finally found a horse. It was majestic!  It became my friend and I rode it into whatever direction I thought was home. On the way I somehow blacked out and when I came to the horse was gone with my saddle. I walked back to the plain and found a village…and more horses. Elated I made a chest and put all my things in it. I decided to jump of a cliff so that I would teleport home. It worked.
I then found my map and looked for the huge H I made outside the village. I wasn’t really that far from home. It would be easy to get back to the village, find a horse, tame it and bring it home.
I found a lovely gray steed, jumped on its back and.. he threw me off. I tried again, and again he would have nothing to do with me.
I tried and tried and eventually he loved me. I broke his will, but he will be loved, treated with all the respect he deserve. And I brought him home.
I then started to make him a run. A horse like him needs to be out in the fresh air all day, and nice and snuggled up warm at night.
After the run was done I decided to give him a mate, so I went back to the village and found a nice brown filly. When I brought her home they seemed to like each other very well.. after I gave them golden apples. And they made a tiny foal. It is a male horse and he looks exactly like his father. I have been thinking about a name for him, and I have decided I will call him Man (A Horse named Man… from the movie A Man named Horse).
I am happy with my expanding family, but it has also come to my attention that there are things out there that looks like horses but are called mule. They are able to carry great weights. I hope I will find one of those one day.
All I need now is a cat…

No more exciting nights…

Mood: I’m good.. just really, really hot.
Listening to: Youtube. I’ve got Most Haunted on. It’s quite entertaining in a “wow, they can really peddle horseshit” type way…

So, it’s been a week since my nightly visit. I haven’t turned into a vampire yet, not have I turned into Spiderman..since I was bitten by one a few years ago… A spider.. not Spiderman… But I wasn’t bitten by a bat either. I also read in the news that I’m not the only one having visitors. In the middle of Norway someone heard calls from the attic, went up and found a bat in a plastic bag. It looked totally different from the one I found. It had a lot less hair than mine.. and it wasn’t as cute.

mine…
It also said in the article that it was no big deal to have bats in the house, that whatever droppings there were could be vacuumed away or brushed up.
I can’t even find anything about people getting infections of the airways from bat droppings in Norway. I know some people would worry about that. I guess the most important part is to let the authorities know.. or the Norwegian Zoology people.
They did end up calling me.. but I had already let the wee one go. I think I’ll make a bat hotel, just to keep the away from the house. I’ll have Jan help me.
Other than that no new news. Except for Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton had a baby boy yesterday. Congratulations!

Be utterly excellent to each other!

Lene

Excitement in the night…

Mood: Tired and my throat is out… well, my voice doesn’t work too well.
Listening to: an coughing.

So, yes.. Excitement in the night. I’ll explain. I went to the bathroom around 2.30 am last night and was attacked by something. I couldn’t see what it was. I thought it was a moth and figured I’d kill the sucker when I get back. I had seen a huge one the other night and figured it was that one. I finished up my business and went upstairs only to stop halfway, looking for the darn thing. I was thinking “Where the hell is that motOMG!!!!  A FUCKING BAT?!?!?!?”
Yes, a bat was flying around, and I realized it had fluttered all around me. Suddenly I was wide awake. And I realized, again… that there were TWO FUCKING BATS!!! I needed a battle plan. I couldn’t kill the poor thing. Bats are protected in Norway. I grabbed the carpet puncher

and opened the window. The carpet puncher was for my sake, to wave in front of me so that they wouldn’t fly up in my face and freak me out, hurting them. And I waited. They did not seem to want to leave. They landed on the curtains and everything, but nope, didn’t want to fly out. About 30-40 min later I started hearing creepy noised from the attic and all of a sudden I saw a bat-wing stick out from a tiny hole between the attic ladder thingy and the ceiling. The poor thing thudded to the ground, unable to do more than scamper to safety, in a hole in the wall, where wires from the kitchen comes out. I told it it couldn’t stay there and eventually it started to try and fly. Poor thing couldn’t get off the ground. So it scampered into the other room and I could hear it flutter about in there. Meanwhile the mother was on the curtains calling it, walking back and forth. I’m guessing 20 min after that the baby was on the wing and flew into my stepdaughters bedroom. The mother was crawling down the curtain and jumped out the window. I have NO idea where the other grown up was. I have no idea if it flew out or if it’s still in my stepdaughters bedroom, cause that’s where it flew in. But they did that.. they flew in there and I waited for them to come out and then suddenly they came our from our bedroom area which is not connected to her bedroom. I’ll check it later. If it’s there I’ll just open the window and let it out tonight. About 20 min later the baby started moving and then it flew out the window. I quickly closed the window, closed the door into the other bedroom and went to bed.
I really hope it was a one time thing. If all else fails I’ll make them a bat-box.
Needless to say that I was too jacked to sleep. I slept for one hour and got up around 6am. I slept on the couch, but it wasn’t a good sleep. Not the kind I need. So work today will be fun, but it’s only for 5 hours.
I really do like bats. I like that they kill loads of bugs, especially mosquitoes. I just don’t want them in my house. *sighs*

Lene

I’ve been busy….

Mood: blaish…
Listening to: TheRadBrad playing The Last of Us. It’s a pretty good looking game.

So I’ve been busy, which is why there hasn’t been an update in a while. I’ve been working and all that.
Earlier this week the new bus ride time thingies came out, and they suck. Basically they’ve screwed me over big time. Of course I don’t think they did it to screw me over. I am aware that they want to save money and that cutting some of the rides will help them do that. What is the point of having a ride on the streets if no one is taking them. However, how they managed to cut out every bus I’d possibly take is like a… I don’t know. I think they used a magic lamp to figure that one out. So it means, this summer, I won’t be able to get to work in the mornings. But that’s fine… Except for the weekends, which they also cut out. No buses at all during the weekends…pure genius!!!! So I won’t be able to get to work on Saturday unless Jan drives me…. or I can get someone to drive me. I’ll talk to one of my coworkers and see if we can’t change the Saturdays we’re working. She can get a car… I can too, but I can’t drive it. 😛
I also really need a drivers license. I really do… *sighs*
Speaking of work… I get some days off in between. That’s actually very good. It means I get things done at home too. There are a lot of things we need to get done. Paint one of the walls outside. Oil the new front porch. Or wood stain it. I think we’ll go with wood stain. I’ve found a color, Burmateak, which is really nice.
Yesterday while I was having a little breather in the backroom at work I had an epiphany. What if we threw out Espen’s bed and made his room into a walk-in/walk-through closet. The room doesn’t have a window anyway so it’s unfit to be a bedroom. I mentioned it to Jan and he seemed to like the idea. Use the room for storage rather than having it stand empty.
I’ve also not played too much Skyrim. Since I’ve been working and that I don’t have the time. Which is fine.
I really do love playing it, but on the other hand.. I hate meeting dragons. Which kinda sucks since I’m a dragonborn and it’s my job to kill them. One thing is for sure, though. I need to get my levels up. I’m at level 8 now.. and the Dark Brotherhood just recruited me. I’m sticking with the Brotherhood till I kill Tullius. At this moment I’m on a mission for them. Some chick wanted us to kill her ex, and I got the job. I’m on my way there now, to talk to the woman. I saved the game outside a mine that’s been overrun with draugr, apparently. I was debating with myself weather I should do that first or not… but I kept walking, met a woman who attacked me out of the blue.. and she killed me. So I was thinking I’d do the draugr first and then take on her. Maybe I level up some before things start to happen. The area I’m in is really dodgy too, so I just know I’ll met up with a dragon. I’d already killed one… I was hiding in the bushes the whole time, having fishermen and hunters attack it. It took me ages before I finally got it, but I got it. But yeah.. I hate killing dragons… I get so stressed. 🙁
I think I need a game that’s relaxing and fun. I think I need Little Big Planet 1 and 2. And I’m getting London Olympics 2012. But first I need money.
THEN, when I get used to playing and the controls and all that, THEN I’ll get Dead Space and Dark Souls.

I suck at being a gamer girl.. XD
I think I need more practice. :p It was a lovely thought in theory, but actually playing it isn’t as easy as I thought. Which is also a reason why I want to level up tons before continuing. I don’t want things to be hard. Yeah, go figure.
Of course there’s the lovely sense of accomplishment when you’ve done something great on the first try…. or not so many tries as it took before. I won’t give up, though. I won’t give up.

Not just Skyrim is going on in my life…

Mood: Good…
Listening to: Burnie Burns and Ashley play “Flock” on Youtube.

So I played more today, even though it’s before work. I got my dragon shouts, some of them. The Greybeards were very nice. I was nervous about the Frost Troll before you reach the place, and he did kill me once.. The second time I sneaked passed and I was almost home, there, when he spotted me. But I found out which button makes you sprint… and that’s what I did. So I made it indoors safe and sound. After learning the shouty thingies they wanted me to go to a place and get a jug or something. I met a dragon when I was almost there. I’m sure I spent like 45 min trying to kill that fucker… and I almost had him SO MANY TIMES!!!! *sighs* So I eventually decided to go get stronger before I take him on. I think I have to be at least level 5 before I take him on, and I’m almost there. I’ll just do some side quests or something. I also got a horse. I feel bad for my companion, Lydia, for having to run everywhere.. oh well. I’m sure I’ll get over it. I’ve already been a bitch to a lady who was being hunted by some people. So on her wish I went to kill all those who wished to get her. I found the cave, got to the guy and he was all “oh, she said she was the victim? Please. She’s a bitch and she deserves to be taken into custody.” So basically I went back to her and had her run away… but at the stables the guy was waiting and he stunned her. I got 500 gold for it… Totally work it XD

In other news. Well, not a whole lot.
Yesterday I got carded when I bought smokes for Jan. I was stunned. I, by no means, look 18 or younger. But I heard from good authority that he was probably somewhat hitting on me. Kinda cute, but yeah… ineffective.

But now I have to get ready for work.

Be utterly excellent to each other. :3

Sunday update

Mood: Pretty good.
Listening to: Some asshole announcing shit at the track across the road where there’s a motor rally thing. Very annoying.

So, I finally had the time to play some more Skyrim today. I think I did well in not playing before work. All of a sudden 4 hours had sped by and I was shocked. But I am a lever 4 now and on my way to see the Graybeards.
I am not looking forward to seeing the ice troll. I kinda want to go on a wander for a bit, just to up my experience and that so that things won’t be so hard for me. But then again, where would the challenge be?
You should have seen my take down of my first dragon. That was stuff legends are made of. No wonder I’m the Dragonborn.
But yeah. I had to stop now cause I’m starving.. and I had to shave my legs… and I’m going to attempt self tanning gel. Should be fun.. hehehe.. with all the success I’ve had in the past.  😛
And I should eat something. I’m hungry. So I’ll update you later. I might play some more tomorrow before work. If I start early I’ll get it out of my system while Jan sleeps.
Toodles.