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15 minutes before Wednesday

I just came home (to my parents house) and it's almost midnight! Again, sorry for the lack of updates.. but I am currently studying for my exam on Friday. But promise, promise, promise to be back on track with pictures and such. In the meanwhile.. Enjoy.







pictures from tumblr.

Sorry for lack of updates..

...But this is what I have been up to lately. Moving my stuff to my parents' house, gone to IKEA, studied, been to YFL practices, sold tee's out in the sun, walks in the park, ate's birthday etc. Good times in other words.

This weekend is going to be hectic as usual. Study for my exam, pre-congress with the YFL & SFL before they leave for Madrid (I WANT TO GO TOO!), maybe go clubbing/dancing, birthday/go-away-party for my cousin and move back to my parents' place. xox night.

Cocaine 80s - Get You Some

I am totally hooked on this song.



Certain people are never to be forgotten. You can leave as many times you want, but every time you come back.. Can't help but smile :)

xox

Sunday is Funday

Good morning dolls! The sun is shining bright, the weather is fantastic and I'm inside. Haha, not for long though. I just woke up an hour ago, got a text from one my cousins to go out and enjoy the weather. And that is what I am going to do! The weather this last couple of days has been amazing, super hot and it feels like we're in LA or something.

Yesterday, my brother and I (and a couple of other friends) stood outside Sole Service and sold tee's for a good cause. The money that we raised are going to the Red Cross who helped during the attacks on July 22nd of 2011. The tee was customized by my brother and we sold 100 tee's in a day. I love it when people come together and support each other. We stood outside in the beaming sun in almost 7 hours. I hadn't eaten any breakfast or lunch, just drank a lot of liquids. And when I came home, I hate half a pizza. The weather is not making me any hungry and I tend to forget to eat. The rest of day I spent on the couch watching Catch Me If You Can and Harry Potter, Facebook and reading blogs. And falling asleep. I have a tendency to fall asleep while chatting with people.. I really don't do it on purpose.. It just happens, haha.

I've decided to make a list of things to do before I head out. Need to figure out when to move and study, meet friends, but this and that before I leave. I will have finished it before I go out. Time for me to go. See you later alligator. xox

Weekend!

Okay, this week has flown by extremely fast! It's already Friday!? In less than three weeks, I will have packed and moved all my stuff from my apartment to my parents' house, packed two or three suitcases which will travel with me to Paris, be settled in my new apartment and absolutely everything will be new. Everything. In the next three weeks I also have to meet up with my closest, finish one or two exams, arrange a little gathering, write a couple of texts which is in the back of my head waiting to scribbled down on paper, etc. So little time, too much to do. Or have just been lagging?

I'm meeting up with Eirill in a bit, then we're going to meet Per. Quality time with the good people. After, I'll have to go to church and meet the youths for a little while. Then, I'm meeting up with Madelyn to go to IKEA together. I need to buy some stuff!

I'm late. TTYL. xoxo mimi

Adonai!

"Glory my Lord, only You will I serve"..

Meeting with the youths today. I haven't seen them in a long time and I can't wait to see them. We're practicing for the Congress in Madrid, but first we're going to have a little session about Friday's tragedies. I've been preparing a small talk since before noon, but it's hard to find the right words and right things to say. I've been doing some re-search as well, and so much information is popping up. I think I'll just have to talk from the heart, use the Bible as my guide. It's a hard time for everyone nowadays but we just have to make the best out of what we have and what God has given us. Let Him give us strength to come thru the day. And have fully rely in Him.

Back to reality

Good morning/noon everyone. How are you? Things could have been better, but we can't let what has happened break us. I have decided to no longer think about it. It doesn't mean I don't mourn or it hasn't affected me, it only means that I have decided to live my life to the fullest, with them in my prayers, live in a way that can make the our world better. I will pray for them forever.

So anyway, it's 12:30 pm and it seems like I can't wake up early nowadays. Probably because I go to bed at 2 or 3 am.. but from TODAY ON, I will go to bed early. I have two exams soon that I need to study for. But it's also 21 days until I leave, which means that I have a lot of stuff to do before that. Meet friends, pack, clean the whole apartment, finish writing some of my texts, finish some paperwork, move to my parents' house, etc. I need to make a list. A long list. ..

Today I'm meeting up with my best friends whom I haven't seen in over a month because she vacationed in the Philippines with her family. I am really excited to see her again. I also have a doctor's appointment all the way in my parents' town which takes me an hour to get to. YIKES. Hopefully I'll get some studying done tonight because I really need to get my act together.. Summer vacation has literally flown away and I'm not sure what I have been doing for two whole months in Oslo. Oh well, I have to take one day at a time, do one thing at a time and just try to be effective every day..

xox mimi

A nightmare for Norway

Last Friday, July 22nd of 2011, Norway was attacked twice. First, a bomb exploded in the city center of Oslo, second, the same man shot several people during a political youth camp out Oslo. Approximately, 90 people are dead.

I was in Copenhagen when I heard the news. No words can explain the shock, the grief, the fright, my heart and soul were filled with. I thought of my loved ones. Those who work close by the explosion. I thought about the innocent people who lost their lives to a mad man. Then I thought of what if I wasn't i Copenhagen. I could have been in the same area. I want to say I am blessed, although it sounds so wrong to say that. But I was sort of, none of my loved ones were hurt physically. I'm still in shock and I am not quite sure how to react to what has happened.

Today, thousands of people are meeting by the municipal with roses and we are all walking around the city in memory of the ones who are lost and hurt, and for the tragedy that has occurred. If you are in Oslo, meet up at 6 pm.

I wish I had things to share with you from Copenhagen. I had a nice time considering the situation, but I think I'll update it later when things get better.

Pray for Norway. Pray for Oslo. Pray for Utøya.

Look what I got..

Obviously, this picture was not taken with my new baby. My brother and parents bought this little thing as a going-away gift. THANK YOU SO MUCH! #blessed! This my first nice camera and I'm a newbie so bare with me, okay?! I'm learning, but for now all my setting are on auto. Best of all, this baby is coming to Copenhagen with me which just made the whole trip even more exciting.

At the moment, I'm just home on the couch, when I actually should be packing. My head is kinda aching and I'm super tired. I did go to the gym at noon and had a really nice and hard workout, I guess that's why I'm super tired right now.

I won't be blogging from CPH since I'm not bringing my Mac. See you all on Monday (:

xox mimi

The day before CPH

Leaving for Copenhagen tomorrow with Madelyn! It is such a spontaneous trip and I love it. We were both really "sick" of just being in Oslo so we decided that a little trip over the small pond wouldn't hurt our wallet THAT bad. I'm getting second thoughts about how much it's going to hurt my wallet... since I am craving shopping at the moment. The only thing I know is that it is going to be fun to see my friends their again, be with Madelyn, party, shopping, go to the fair, and just enjoy CPH. Who knows.. this might be my next city..?

BUT (a BIG but) before leaving at 6 am tomorrow, I still have today. This week has gone super fast and I can't believe it's the weekend. So what have I done thus far? Worked out, two days of work and I visited my brother in Elverum. I hate that I don't have a camera so I can post pictures instead.. crossing my fingers that I'll get one soon. And today I don't really have a lot planned out, except meeting my mom later today. I should go to the gym because I promised myself to go there at least twice a week. I also need to pack. WHAT TO DO?! I've become a lazy bum every since summer started. NEED TO CHANGE THAT. Haha..

Are you guys doing anything special today?

xox mimi

Started bad, hopefully ending

Good? This day started really bad compared to what I had hope it would start. I planned on working out before visiting my brother.. but my motivation was lacking, someone called me 8 in the morning and 5 times every ten minutes, I woke up several times during the night, and suddenly I didn't have much more time to go to the gym. Lame excuse, I know.. but what to do when the motivation sucks? I think 'eating healthy' today is the clue.

Today I'm visiting my big brother in Elverum, which is 2 hours away with the bus. He's been living their the last 11 months, and I have only visited him once (like a month ago). I'm spending a night there and then taking the bus back to Oslo in the morning. I have to start packing know and tidy my room a bit (it never seem to keep itself tidy..) before I leave.

I'm still working on my design, not sure how I want it and if I have the pictures for it.. gah, time will tell.


xox mimi

Weekend update!

Finally, I am at home after 4 hours of strolling with my lovely ate and 6,5 hours with work! I came home around 11 pm, but I still had to clean the washer and I took the liberty of eating a chocolate bun while sitting on my bed. Work was okay today, nothing awful. People visited me and that usually makes my day. Besides, I only have three more duties left and I'm out. I decided to have two weeks off before moving and I still have two exams to study for before leaving.

My weekend was pretty chill. I didn't do much. I already told you about Friday, so Saturday was yet another relaxing day! The sun was out so I went sun bathing in our courtyard for almost two hours before I visited my cousins who lives two tram stations away. They're cleaning out they apartments and I was there to help. I love helping them clean because I always end up with some clothes that doesn't fit them or they just don't want anymore or clothes they think fit someone else better, like me! Super thankful though. It took a while to clean my one cousins closet, and when we finished, everyone was so hungry! Nobody knew what they wanted, so we ended up buying a pizza each 'cause it was the easiest. We also watched two of the trilogy I know what you did last summer. I hate scary movies, but these weren't THAT bad, so I survived. Supposedly, I was going to spend the night since it was past midnight already, but luckily my cousin's boyfriend picked her up and gave me a ride home as well! I love spending time with my cousins, either it's a stroll downtown or just doing nothing in the apartment, it's definitely quality time.

Sunday was also a good and relaxing day! The reason why I always mention it was relaxing is because I've been going out almost every weekend this summer. Either Friday or Saturday, or even both days sometimes. So this was the first weekend I stayed in (since we went out on Thursday). It's always fun going out to dance with good company, but sometimes you just have to be home. And that was what I did on Sunday. I went to church at 930 am with my parents and went home with them afterwards. Usually they come to us before or after mass, but I wanted to go home to mom and dad. They were also having dinner-guests, so I knew the food would be extra special today. I spent my whole Sunday in my dad's chair, watching TV and eating food.

Lovely weekend don't you think? How was yours?

PS. I'll get some pictures up soon.. hopefully this week! Today with my cousin, we tried different cameras to see which one fits me the best. I'm deciding between Canon PS G12, Lumix LX5 or Nikon CoolPix P7000. Any comments?

Good night. xox mimi

I love

MONDAYS, although everyone seem to hate them! I like starting over and the beginning of new things, in this case; a new week. I wish I had more time blog at the moment but I'm on my wait to meet up with ate Eve. We're going to stroll downtown, drink some coffee and look at cameras, hopefully my future camera! And after, I have work until 1030! So, if I am lucky, the day won't be a horrible as I usually imagine it as and I'll have a big update later.
Just threw in an old photo of me. Have an awesome MONDAY.

xox mimi

End of the week.

A new Monday starts tomorrow! And I'll a more detail update tomorrow, but for now I'm just testing out some fonts. I work on a Mac and when I use the Webdings-font, everything looks OK. But I used a Windows and the Webdings-font were only a bunch of symbols. Can you read what I'm writing? I would appreciate all feedback! Good night, I'm back in the early morning.

xox mimi

Saturday Sun

Thought I would write a short post before getting ready to head outside in the beautiful sun! Have a super nice day and I'll get back to you later.

xox mimi

Friday Night Off

Good evening everybody. It's 12:24 am and I am home by myself. Which feels like it's been forever since last time. It feels great just enjoying some time by myself, watching movies and eating junk. I just finished watching Definitely, Maybe, have you seen it? And now I'm watching 10 Things I Hate About You. I tried to watch the second episode of Entourage, but again, it failed.

Remember I told you that I had some after-work drinks last night? Well, Madelyn came to my work around closing and we headed to Cafe Sør where we started our night. We had heard that the music would be old school 90s so we just had to check it out. After an hour there, we headed to Stratos. My friend Arif had a concert and we also new that the music would be good. We stayed a good hour before we headed to our third place of the evening, which was Jaeger. We had so much fun while dancing and I love spontaneous nights with clubbin. We stayed at Jaeger another hour before we headed back to Stratos to see if more people had arrived. All in all, the night ended really well! We walked home, bought night-food (kebab and fries) and fell asleep around 5 am.

Today was a rather relaxing day. Woke up, got dressed, went downtown and then met up with the other YfL's. They are practicing for the upcoming congress in Madrid in August and we also had a KfL assembly, which basically are kids between 5-12 and we teach them about God. It was great seeing the youths again, 'cause I've missed them! And I know I'm going to miss them a lot when I move. I'm so sad that I won't be able to attend this years congress, since I've been to almost each one since 2002. But I'm glad I'm able to watch the practice and prepare them themselves for an awesome weekend!

I'm starting to get a little bit sleepy, so I'm dwelling between going to bed or watching the rest of this movie. Anyway, have a beautiful night and morning!

xox mimi

btw, the good news are... I'm going to Copenhagen next weekend!

Happy camper!

Yup, that is me! OR at least almost.. this day has been great despite the fact that I woke up at 1130 am. I hate waking up late, especially when the sun is out and it's probably 24 degrees in the sun. But I woke up, ate a quick breakfast, went to the gym, had an excellent work out (tired as heck!) and now I'm sitting here blogging for you:) It's soon 2 pm and I have work in two hours. Oh joy! I think today is going to be a great day, quiet at the mall since everyone is outside enjoying the sun, and then after work I'm going to meet up with Madelyn and Synne for some after-work drinks. Maybe go clubbin later? I don't know, I'll go wherever the wind takes me. Haha.

Before work I need to tidy my room since it looks like a disaster and then get some sun before being stuck inside a mall for the next 6,5 hours. I got some good news to you, which I'll come back to later!

xox mimi

Another day off..

Hello everybody (as if I have plenty of readers..duuh ). Another day off and it feels great! I'm slouching on the couch, watching TV and trying to figure out how this blog-thing works. Google-ing about CSS and HTML-codes, which makes no sense at all. Anyone care to help a newbie out? As soon as I get a hold on how-a-blog-works, I'll also post some pictures and have some creative writing here as well. I'm also waiting to get my camera from my brother!

I was suppose to meet up with my cousin ate Eve today, but something came up and she couldn't hang out after all. It's still early, so perhaps I'll see her later. At 6 pm, I have a sushi-date with a friend from elementary school. It's going to be fun to catch up again as it has been quite a while since we last hung out! Then, at around 10, my roomie will be home after three weeks vacation in her hometown and Turkey. I enjoy having Mimi-time, but it's gonna be great seeing her again. We've lived together for a year now, but never hung out just us as friends and roomates, so I'm pretty excited to see her as well. I just love having time off and doing whatever I want to do!

BUT.. I have to tell you about yesterday.

Yesterday was such an amazing evening! My two best friends since elementary school and I met up around 6 pm to have a little get-together. We've been best friends since 3rd grade - which makes 13 years of amazing friendship with ups and downs, so I knew we were going to have a blast. I had hung out with mom earlier, so when dad picked her up after work, I went with them since we were all meeting at the grocery store in our old neighborhood. Even the grocery shopping was hilarious. I think we were all super hungry for sweets because we left the grocery store with so much fruits, ice cream, candy and chocolate, and headed to Stine's house. I wish I had pictures to show you and you could see all the food that we prepared. it was SO GOOD and a huge sugar rush! I truly love hanging out these girls. We talk about everything that passes our minds, so many random talks and laughs. Can't wait to hang out with them again, and best of all, they're visiting me in Paris at the end of the month! So we are definitely meeting to plan that visit.

I wish I had my camera so I could show some pictures, and you wouldn't get sick of reading all this. But soon, soon it will be here.

Have a great day lovelies!

xox mimi

Waking up in the middle of the night..

Good morning people! Did you sleep well? I can tell you this, my sleep was awful. I decided to go to bed early last night, around 11:30 pm, since I've been going to bed at 3 am almost every night the last week. But when I was lying in my bed, I could not fall asleep! Neither sleepy or tired. It was quite frustrating because I knew I had to wake up early today. After an hour, I finally fell asleep but woke up after just two hours and it didn't even feel like I had slept at all! When I woke up, I felt super awake and I had trouble falling asleep again. I was up for an hour, fell asleep and had to woke up again around 8 am, like I planned to. I spent 8 hours in bed, awake for two and halfway asleep for six.

Now, I'm off to the gym! Trying to work out at least twice a week, I lost my motivation during the month of finals. Hopefully it won't be as dreadful as I am imagining it will be. Have a great morning!

xox mimi

Good Morning Everybody!

I woke up at 10 am and been slacking all day! I finished some of my packing today though, my winter-clothes and clothes I don’t wear anymore. It feels great emptying my closet. You’d be surprised by what your room consist of when you start packing things. Geeez.

I’m off to work in 2,5 hours and just wanted to wish all of you an amazing day in the sun. Enjoy. And feel free to stop by my work and say hi.

xox mimi.

WELCOME!

Welcome. So, I guess I’m a part of the blogworld now. I love to write and I’ve been writing anonymously for three years or something. Maybe it’s time to get some feedback?

Anyway, this blog will consist of my everyday life. I’m a 20 year-old-fashionlover-schoolnerd-Catholic-party-gal. Born and raised in B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L Norway but lived in the US and soon Paris throughout my life. I stand close to myfamily. I thank God for blessing me with them. I don’t really know what I would do without them. My girls are the greatest, through ups and downs. My friends are unforgettable. In three simple words: I love life. And yeah, I also love God. He’s amazing.