What I really love about London

July 18, 2011

are the green spaces that pop up seemingly out of nowhere, and are perfect for mini-picnics.

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Pondering from an airport

July 18, 2011

I wonder if those people who are allowed to go in doors that say “Autorized personell only” enjoy it the first time they do…

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Eating at work

July 14, 2011

When I got back to work after a two-week vacation, they had started renovating the cafeteria closest to my desk. For the past two days we’ve been trying out the other cafeterias in the building – they serve the same food, which is made in the same kitchen – but somehow it is not the [...]

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A bit of reorganization

July 1, 2011

here and there, as I contemplate how to move forward with this blog, and Blog Royale.

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Cucumbers

June 3, 2011

In these cucumber-scary times, the best thing is growing my own.

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The Eurovision menu

May 14, 2011

Having an Eurovision party is an excellent time to try out the recipes I’ve collected from other blogs. Norway isn’t in the finals, which didn’t come as a huge shock, but the food should be good anyway. Currently in the oven is the Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart bread. Earlier today, I made Lemon Poppy Seed [...]

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New car

April 13, 2011

Since I moved home to Norway from Denmark, I’ve wanted to have a car. In Denmark – at least in inner city Copenhagen – a bike is usually more than enough transportation, when supplemented with a decent offering of buses, metro and local trains getting you pretty much where you need to be.

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Chocolate Raspberry Tart

April 10, 2011

The picture is really not doing this tart justice. It tasted delicious, and as I said as I was making it – there are very few ways to make this go wrong. It is chocolate and raspberries, for Heaven’s sake… I used the wrong size of mold, so the pie crust was a bit too [...]

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Banana Cake

April 3, 2011

We had some bananas that were turning brown, and rather than cut them up and freeze them for smoothies – we decided to make banana cake. When I was growing up, we had this neighbour who had the most amazing banana cake. It was soft, moist and incredibly tasty. This isn’t her recipe, but it [...]

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Biggest loser

March 10, 2011

The danger of watching The Biggest Loser, in all its different forms, is that you keep expecting to drop the same insane amount of weight in a week– and unless you have the time to exercise several hours a day… it’s plain just not going to happen. Baby steps. But it is great for motivational [...]

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March

March 9, 2011

It’s so nice to be able to bike to work in the mornings. The sun is up earlier, and it’s getting warmer. Although that last part is relative; it is still Norway. This week is winter break in the schools, which means I don’t have to worry about crashing into kids on my way to [...]

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Wednesday morning mean Yoga time

February 23, 2011

My work place has a lot of sports groups that we can join, if we want to do so. Most of them compete against other work places, so it kind of sounds like you have to be at a very advanced level in order to join the more specific groups. But there are a lot [...]

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Running

February 22, 2011

I have been trying to teach myself to jog for a while now. I frequently see people jogging outside in all kinds of weather – and while I do think they’re slightly crazy for running outside in the winter, I also admire them for working out, and being so into it that they would subject [...]

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Advent calendar, December 21

December 21, 2010

“This is the worst Christmas ever. I had thought it was the one when our parents bought us hamsters and forgot to poke holes in the boxes, but at least that had a moment of suspense.” said by Brian Hackett on Wings

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Advent calendar, December 20

December 20, 2010

“In the pre-Christian era, as the winter solstice approached and the plants died, pagans brought evergreen boughs into their homes as an act of sympathetic magic, intended to guard the life essences of the plants until spring. This custom was later appropriated by Northern Europeans and eventually it becomes the so-called Christmas tree.” said by [...]

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Advent calendar, December 19

December 19, 2010

A fat man, trying to squeeze through a narrow chimney, and I taunt him with Oreos and whole milk – Said by The Biscuit on Ally McBeal

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Advent calendar, December 18

December 18, 2010

In my quest for Christmas-related quotes from movies or television series for this year’s advent calendar, the time has now come to this one. “Vampires probably not that big on Christmas, now that I think about it.” said by Buffy Summers aka. Buffy The Vampire Slayer No matter how many glittering vampires come along, there [...]

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Thesis writing

December 18, 2010

I was reading through my LJ entries from when I was writing my thesis 1.5 years ago… And I’m beginning to miss the process of it. I make it sound so cozy, heading down to the coffee shop with my laptop to write… Being able to sleep in whenever I’d like… But then I remember [...]

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Advent calendar December 17

December 17, 2010

“Okay, let me get this straight. You don’t just celebrate Christmas… you actually believe in Santa Claus?” said by Cristina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy [2005]

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Advent calendar, December 16

December 16, 2010

I really only started checking in on Psych because of Gus, but I kept going for the sheer craziness of it all. Pineapples and everything. “Alright! Who keeps telling people I want snow globes for Christmas?” Said by Carlton “Lassie” Lassiter on Psych – Season 1 [2006]

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Advent calendar, December 15

December 15, 2010

“But really let’s face it, all other days bow down to the 25th: Christmas. It’s the only religious holiday that’s also a Federal holiday. That way Christians can go to their services and everyone else can stay home and reflect on the true meaning of Separation of Church and State.” said by Samantha Bee on [...]

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Advent calendar, December 14

December 14, 2010

“Who gave you permission to tell Charlie there was no Santa Claus? I think if we’re going to destroy our son’s delusions, I should be a part of it.” – said by Scott Calvin in The Santa Clause [1995]

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Advent calendar, December 13

December 13, 2010

Happy December 13. It is the day of St. Lucia, and all over Scandinavia school children started the day wearing white shirts or sheets… and had Lucia buns. Here is today’s quote: “I love “White Christmas” and “Silver Bells” and “Puff the Magic Dragon”, but I found out when you sing those old holiday standards, [...]

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Advent calendar, December 12

December 12, 2010

It’s not easy when your parents are divorced, and your spouse’s parents are divorced… It can add up to a lot of Christmas celebrations. Unless you devise a method of escape, (but end up caught on national television…) “We just gotta get through these four Christmases as quickly and painlessly as possible.”  said by Brad [...]

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Advent calendar, December 11

December 11, 2010

In very few years, it has managed to become a Christmas classic that my friends drag out when they name the “must see” Christmas movies. With its lobsters in the nativity play, the Prime Minister going from door to door with his driver, singing carols… how can it not be a Christmas movie? “Christmas shopping, [...]

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Advent calendar, December 10

December 10, 2010

This is one of those movies that I think have a greater tradition abroad than in Norway. When voting for the best Christmas movies, or rather the more traditional ones, the Czech Three Nuts for Cinderella tend to win, every year. It’s shown in the morning on Christmas eve, on the state-owned televisions channel, and [...]

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