September

Good morning everyone,
I don't mean to be negative here but this month has not started so great...the last week i have been struggling with headaches, not constant but that could be because I have been taking headache tablets almost every day.

So, it IS time to change my life, i have had som many signs the last week that it's just crazy and I can see now how it all fits together.

So from  today I will start a new challenge..if you have followed me a while..you will already know that I always fall off any challenge..but this is only for 30 days and I have a chance to see if I feel any different. It has to do with eating, and today is the first day.

It's arranged by Melissa and I will do my very best to keep this going.

Apart from my no energy and headaches...life still goes on and I still have laundry to do and activities to take Kamma to..and on Mondays this is my waiting view....

 This is where I often spend an hour on a Monday evening..yay!

 This morning when I came back home fromthe school run, I had a cup of coffee in that lovely mug my sister-in.law gave me for my birthday. I guess it will be the last time for weeks that I hae normal milk in my coffee...let's see how we like THAT  :) 

The last picture of the day, my friend posted it on her Facebook page, it's her 35th birthday today and to honour her , her picture comes up here. It's is also going into my smashbook later on today so there..! 

Gratulerer med dagen Rigmor  !

Now I am off to sort out my kitchen, to see what lunchtime will bring me..! 

Monday morning blues

Or something like that.
Last night I was watching tennis again, it was my tennishero Rafa Nadal! He won..and now he is ready for the final in US Open...

Anyway, I was watching and knitting, and here is it in the very beginning...it will take ages to knit because each round had over 500 stitches..but it's really easy tv knitting.

Start of the Kamma bunad

The plan is to actually write the pattern as I go along, and who knows..maybe someone else would like to use this too. What is it going to be you ask? 

The answer is a national dress from my daughter. It should be finished by 17th of may 2014..so I don't have that much time to be honest. As I said...500 stitches takes a while. 

Over to something else...

I had this really weird dreajm, but I think it was just trying to tell me something, and it was all about blue butterflies not unlike this one. 

Blue butterfly from dream

What can I say..it's not the first time that I get some sort of sin through my dreams...and I have always followed my dreams in that way. 

Not all dreams are true though, but I always know which they are..they are the ones that aren't as clear as the others. 

You probably find that as weird as anything, and that is fine. 

So, I am going to take my blue butterfly talk and go for a walk in this fine September weather. 

Have a good day my lovlies. 

Autumn

Right, ladies and gentlemen...
I am horribly sorry that my blog has been so unused this year..I have been very busy doing lots of other things, such as writing letters,  reading books and taking my 9 years old daughter to all her clubs.

But, i have decided to get some life into this blog again..not like it used to be..not only knitting but a bit of everything.

So, I will start with today...

I have been crocheting..a big something...in pale blue, grey and a few more colours..I can't reveal what it is just yet ..or who it is for I should say.

squares

Another thing that was big in our house happened a while ago, a meeting with a celebrity here in UK. Her name is Beth Tweddle and my Kamma met up with her. Pity you can't see the medal hanging around Kamma's neck..but it IS a real Olympic Bronze medal, it's the Medal Ms.Tweddle won in London 2012, Gymnastics of course!

Beth Tweddle and Kamma 

Today it's another busy day for us, the husband is at work, and for us here at home we have been busy..Kamma practising the piano, trying to do some homework...more piano practising, and later on she has gymnastics and she will go directly from gymnastics to her piano lesson with Charlotte.

We do keep ourselves busy indeed! Hoping to finish my secret crocheting..and then to start making a blanket for Nisse's little boy.He's not due until October, so I do have a little time..but better get started..!

By the way, the nailpolish of the day is an old Avon polish...bronze like Beth's olympic medal.

poem found on FB- In Norwegian

Livets strikketøy

Den gang vi kom til verden da fikk vi en presang,
et nøste med vår skjebne, og ingen vet hvor lang.
Da la vi alle masker opp til livets strikketøy,
der vil det stå i mønsteret når vi jukset og vi løy.

Hver maske er en dag, og hver omgang er et år,
og alt vi gjør og sier i strikketøyet står.
Og mistet vi en maske og lot den rakne ned,
det var kan hende venner vi aldri mer fikk se.

Noen har et strikketøy med varme farger i,
det er de gode strikkersker som kjærlighet kan gi.
Men alle må vi strikke med det garnet vi har fått
selv om det av og til kan virke kjedelig og grått.

Og når vi så blir eldre da tenker vi som så;
Hvor mye er tilbake av livets strikketråd?
Vi håper at det holder slik at vi kan felle av,
så tomme strikkepinner blir korset på vår grav.

Og møter vi St. Peter som vokter himmelens port,
vi gir ham strikketøyet med alt som vi har gjort.
Da gransker han det nøye og sier
Kjære barn,her oppe har vi bruk for en mengde opprekksgarn.

Da vasker himmelens engler vårt garn så reint og hvitt,
de glatter det og ordner det til det blir knutefritt.
Det legges så på lager, så mykt og fint og bløtt,
- kan hende det skal brukes til barna som blir født?

Fast turnaround

How can someone's mood turn around so fast? Just under a week ago I woke up feeling great, and today I feel completely opposite.  Can it be that we have booked tickets to go home to my hometown during the summer holidays and I am already thinking about the problems we might face?

The unhappiness and things not said outloud.? I am feeling really down the dumps today/.so I just wanted this off my chest. I am going to put on some music and sing out load..usually helps me feel better.

But, it is still weird what a turnaround my mood has had since only yesterday.  Things will have to change here at home too. So I DO have many things to do over the next 3hours. Wish me luck!!

June

June is here, I have many thoughts about what I need to do over the next few days.
I am hoping I will have enough time to do everything. We have now booked our holiday and I do look forward to going away for a little.

I (my husband) have ordered my new shoes and hopefully they'll arrive before we go. All the busyness starts tomorrow, wish me luck!!!!

27th May

Yes, what a wonderful day. Actually it's pouring down here today, but it IS my little sisters 30'th birthday today so it is a great day.I hope she is having a great day.

I am so far away from her, so I wont be doing anything partying for her lol.

What I have done is 5K on the treadmill, and it was all of a sudden alot easier again. I ran for 10 minutes today without any effort. Very satisfying. I would have been well under 40 minutes today...but my husband phoned and I had to walk the last 200 meters of the 5k. I was still under 40  minutes even with the walk at the end.

I have been on a standstill on the scales for a few days, so I hoping it will move down just a little before Thursday.
So onwards and forward and downwards....!

Lovely weird May

We have already passed the middle of May, I have been knitting a shawl and it took me five days to complete it. All I need to do now is crochet an edge around it and put a fringe on it...is it called a fringe?

I don't even know.

I have many things on my mind, I was hoping to be near or at my goal weight by now..but it hasn't happened.  So now that our celebration of our constitutional day May 17th is over I am back to being in full control. I have come across a blog about a girl/lady with Anorexia, and it doesn't sound nice at all. To be so obsessed with your weight and so unhappy with yourself that you almost stop eating, and have fear for food.

It doesn't sound like a very easy life, and I wish everyone with such problems good luck with feeling good and being healthy.

I don't have that problem, I have the opposite problem...I love biscuits, and I eat them sometimes...and we have had pizza over the weekend..and an indian carry out....and coca cola..and ice cream..! So , as you can understand..I need to get a grip.

I need to LOSE weight, but only in a sensible and healthy way of course. So, i have just finished 30 minutes on the treadmill, didn't mange 4 km in 30 minutes today, but I bet its because of what I have eaten over the weekend.

Now, to have a cup of coffee and watch some tennis.
Have a lovely Sunday!

Help...March already!!!

Oh my goodness, i cannot believe how fast the time goes..HELP it's March already..where did February go?       We had problems with our boiler all  the way up to this Thursday...I have no faith in the boiler anymore and I wouldn't be surprised if it packs inon Monday morning again.

Anyway, I guess it just a part of being a houseowner.
Another part of life that I have never experienced before is a sore back. Sure,i have had a sore back for a few days ...but this has lasted since January and I have two different tablets to take 3 times a day and I am doing stratching excerises at the moment too. I am on the waiting list to get physiotherapy but that could take up to 12 weeks to get an appointment. So,I will just have to wait and see I guess.

Apart from this little problem, I SO want to go jogging again, but I am only allowed to swim for a while now.      
So I will just have to be patient and do my stretching excersises I guess.

We are going swimming tomorrow anyway..did I mention that my daughter is trying out for the school swiming team? She can swim...just...but I don't want to tell her no, so we need to get a few extra lessons in there this week. I am slightly worried about it.

Will let you know what happens! Take care now!

Monday, January 28th

This morning I have started on my house project. Actually, I am as usual doing lots of different stuff and I don't dare to start on something big because I amwaiting for Keir to come and have a look at our boiler that stopped working on Thursday (again). He's an hour late, and I am wondering weather he'll actually come or not.

So, so far I have ironed shirts,hung up washing and taken everything out of the boiler cupboard.
I have also done the daily dishes, but it's quite a bitmore work than usual because I have to boil the water I am using for the dishes. Did I mention that the kitchen sink is slightly blocked?

Yeah, I am having fun :)

What I am going to do, I am going to phone my grandmother, have a chat and drink a cuppa coffee...THEN see if Keir has arrived, and if not I will start on the bedroom wardrobe anyway.

Sounds like a plan?

Saturday

So,  you might know how I function...I go about my daily life and suddenly inspiration strikes.

It has struck again, this time...well once again the inspiration is PludreHanne . She is tidying up her house, bit by bit.

So...I have been  tidying up for over a year, but honestly...I think it will never end. I will be tidying forevermore. But I do like the fact that the house is looking better and we DO have less clutter lying about.

So, starting Monday I will be doing a bit of tidying myself..haven't really done alot of throwing for a few months, and I do feel ready again for a clearout.

 

First week of normality

The first week back to routines is over, back to normality..if you can call it that. We have been super busy, lots of new people enrolling at the Weight Watchers meetings as well and being really busy with Avon.

At school the Princess has been working with the topic Rainforests, and their showcase was yesterday and today.

It was really good, and so interesting. All the children dressed up, Princess was a leopard (or whatever it is) using my old t-shirt and her BF was a parrot wearing a very last minute home made outfit. Really nice!

I was impressedby all the work they had put into it, and the teacher Mrs. R did a fab job!

New year 2013

Well then, happy new year!!

I have started the new year trying  to be very organised, and also reading books. I don't have alot of time this morning, just thought I'd say hello and let you know that I am around, finally feeling ok as well.

I have started excersising, and I have a big plan ahead on how to finally lose all this weight I am carrying around. I weighed in at 81 kilos this morning, NOT impressed by myself.

So, just get on with it Linn!
Big January hugs from Siri-

Nearly over

The old year is nearly over, only one more day and we can all get used to write 2013. I have BIG  plans for the next year and hopefully you will be able to play a part of my plans.

First and foremost I want to wish you all Happy NewYear 2013, hope you had a better Christmas than we had, as we were all ill overthe whole holiday.

May next year be a great year full of success!!

November again

So, not long until Christmas is here again, I have started thinking about it a little and bought the first present yesterday.

Actually, I had some stuff I really had to do yesterday. It all started on Wednesday when the Princess came out from school with large holes in her tights and a HUGE deep scratch in her glasses..yikes!!!

Well, I had to get them fixed, so I took the bus to EK and at Vision Express they bent them back in the correct manner but they couldn't do much for the scratch. So, new lenses and a new frame is on order and I will get a phonecall sometime next week, hopefully telling me I can pick them up.

Princess in away on her first weekend without me...Ahhh, Don't know what to do with myself. She was on my mind when I went to bed, and she was the firwt thing I thought of when I got up.

I know she is having a great time, it's just a bit tough for mum seeing her little baby growing up (Seems it's worse for dad though).

Not yet

Nope, i haven't ye figured out how to empty the camera...I have by the way started using our big Nikon Camera because "my" camera refuses to charge the batteries!

So,if I can just get this working, then I will show you pictures of my very new short sleeved cardiganthat I finished yesterday. I wore it today,andI love it!!

Yes, another thing...last weekend it  was the danceschool danceshow and we were really busy with it. The whole weekend went to the danceshow and also Tuesday evening. It was fun but I am glad it is finished...and it willbe another 18 months until the next show.

Unfortunately, it's time for me to go to sleep, so I will love you and leave you..just for now atleast.

HAve a lovely day!

Busy Tuesday

Hi again,
We have had a few really busy days here at home, the October week has started and yesterday we (Princess and I) were busy cleaning the master bedroom, and wow is it nice!

Yesterday the Princess' schoolbooks arrived, and we got really busy doing homework as we are several weeks late now. She attends Norskskolen.com , where she learns to  write and read Norwegian. You have to be Norwegian living abroud to attend this course.

Today we have been really busy again, this time clearing out Princess' room. It took ages, and we are actually not completely finished. But tomorrow we will tackle the playroom and the bathroom, as well as going to town.

I need some more wool for my current project, what I am looking for is Stylecraft DK, and I think the colour is Bottle green.

I don't have that much left to do on my cardigan and it feels really good to finish something again. Last year I joined a "saving money" project, but it really didn't turn out very good for me at all. Seriously dissapointed , I only knitted 22 balls of wool in one year.

I have of course started this same project over again, and I do hope to have more than 22 pounds to show next October. Good luck Linn...!!

Think I might be back...!

I have really been pretty absent here on my blog, but I have FOUND my camera and I feel inspired again so I might actually manage to pop by and write a bit more often.

I am even knitting more often and feel utterly inspired by that as well,soi am pretty sure when I figure out how to get the pics out of the camera you will see some moe photos from this end of the world.

I have also decided to not measure my knits for this year and I willl just wait until Januray  1st and then start with the new years knitting.

The weekend is here, and this is alsothe tart of October week,so one  full week of  holiday for us...we are just staying  home though, nothing special going on.

Are you keeping busy, tell me your projects!
xxx

Autumn nails

Pictures taken with my mobile just doesn't show up as very nice at all.-So sorry about that. The camera is lost and it didn't work that well anyway...butI am going to try to use another camera and try to upload some more pictures this week.*i might have a bit more time on my hands that usual.





I have been quite busy trying to tidy up the house...sofarI have had two whole days and still it looks nearly as messy as ever. I am trying to do it the FLYlady way.

It is taking time, but atleast the bathroom is clean and the dishes are done. New bedding on all beds as well..guess I should be happy that I managed to do these things.

I also finished my letter to Monika, Aaron and got started on my letter to Torunn!
We are busy as always ,and the days just fly by. Last month we were on DAY TRIP wo Southern Norway, to celebrate my Grandmothers 90'ieth birthday. God bless that wonderful woman!!

Nails

Here is my latest, an Avon Arabian glow nailpolish called Turkish delight with the newest Avon nailstickers on. I love them. I will show you all the new polishes I have!

P&L Challenge

I have joined a challenge, and that means I will be taking some pictures starting on Saturday

The challenge consists on taking a picture a day (per participant) according to the list topics:
1. Stamp
2. Decoration
3. Mailbox
4.Handwriting
5. Paper
6. How you store your letters
7. Clipping
8. Card
9. Pen
10. Stickers
11. Post Office
12. Stationery
13. Drawing
14. Travel
15. Colour
16. Envelope
17. Favourite colour
18. Bluebelle Postcards
19. Marker
20. Organizer
21. Collage
22. Glue
23. Gifts
24. Pencil
25. Writing place
26. How you store your materials
27. Tape / Washi tape
28. Box
29. Rubber stamp
30. Scissors
31. Camera

Each day you should post a pic according to the topic requested and you should title your pic as well as adding the corresponding number on the picture text: #1 Stamps, #2 Decorations... etc. The challenge begins next Saturday August, 11th and ends on Wednesday September, 12th.

A year

A year has gone since something terrible happened in my country..77 people were murdered, and it should not have happended.

This year has been a bit of everything, but most of all I feel for the parents, siblings and friends of the many people that died.

You will always be remembered.

20.july: Happy birthday mum,hope you had a lovely day
22.july: HAppy birthday uncle,hope you have a better celebration that last year!!
22.july,I memory of the ones that lost their lives

Glasgow

We had a day out in Glasgow today, went to lots of shops, got most of the school uniform sorted for Princess and I also bought some writing paper, so now I can write for another few months and still have nice paper. Yes, satisfied with the day. Not so satisfied by the fact I have spent a huge amount of money, atleast it feels that way.

But I will be back with my letters, and I will post them tomorrow I believe. I love writing and receiving letters! It is fantastic to be able to meet someone in a letter, and learn about their lives.

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” 
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Different types of feelings

Through one day I can go through an enourmos ampount of feelings, deep feelings of love for people I have never actually met such as all my penpals, sadness over what some people are going through, such as Mirka the mum of 11 kids..she is just such an unbelieable inspiring woman and when sad things happens to good people, I get sad.

And today I discovered Anais Nin...she has a hugs amount of fabulous quotes, and I am going to read a bit about her. I am happy I found her.

Then, looking at how my diet is going, I get angry with myself for not having more will power so I can resist the biscuits my Princess get s me to make, resist that bagel in the evening, when I am just slightly hungry...and annoyed with myself..and I aldo get determined that I AM GOING to do this.

I was hoping to be at goal around Christmas time, so I better behave.

One thing that makes me happy :I have only 6 letters to reply to, which means I have nearly cought up! Yay
And another thing that makes me happy: I am knitting again and I am almost finished with a new top..just another few days I think, and I will be able tp use it!!  Hurray!

I will finish with Anais Nin..

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” 
― Anaïs Nin

Lately

I have been writing alot of letter, now I really need to post them. I will only take half of them tomorrow, and then the rest on Saturday.

I am so in love with writing letters, it's amazing, but I have to relax slightly about it and make sure I enjoy the writing...I get overexcited and it ends up with me getting very little sleep because I am only thinking about writing..or knitting.

Now, I am taking it easy and enjoying it. I have recently started writing to another few ladies...Almante, Vigdis and Jannicke. Three very different women, and I am super excited.

Great to have so many lovely friends worldwide.

Have a lovely day , my friends!

Jogging or running

Doesn't really matter what you call it, but I ran or jogged 5.2 kilometers today, it took me 50 minutes, but I am amazed that I actually did it in one go. So that just means I CAN do it.

And if I can do it, then anybody can. The point now it do be able to do it a second time, but I will staop at 5k next timed and try to get my time under 47 minutes...hopefully 45 minutes, That would be good. I don't know what it will do to my weight, butI have to start tracking again.

So I better log on to Weight Watchers again, and get started.
C ya later

Daughter

My 8 years old daughter made us a strawberry drink each. It tasted lovely. Thank you princess! 

Rapid

Yes, it was nice to come home but not so great looking at the weighing scales the next morning. Every time I go to Norway I ALWAYS put on alot of weight..and this time too...but something weird has happened...!

On Saturday (*or was is Sunday) morning, I weighed 80.8 kilos, and over these next few days I have lost alot of that weight...nearly 2 kilos in 3 or 4 days...!

This morning I weighed 78.9 kilos, and my theory is that...at my fathers houxe we get alot of stodgy food..bread for breakfast, hotdogs or burgers when we bbq, and we did that two out of three days before we came home...!

So I think maybe all the weight was just lying around in my gut, waiting to pass (sorry if this was a bit too much info) and now I have only one kilo to lose and I am back to the smallest I have been in a very long time.

I am very happy about this, because this was always my problem, to lose the weight I put on when being in Norway, but this time it seems I have cracked it. Yaay!

Norway

Hello my friends,
I am back from Norway, but this trip was not so nice as I had hoped for.
We arrived late on Wednesday, and Thursday we were relaxing and resting from the travel, as well as going for a swim in the pool. The very next morning, we got a phonecall, my grandmother was not feeling to well and she was going to the hospital...and the very same day my cousin was getting married and my auntie and uncle was getting rather stressed about getting her to hospital as well as their son's wedding.

It all worked out pretty well, although we visited my granny every day until she came home on Thursday. She has now got a oxygen tank constantly churning in her dining room, and she needs to have oxygen pumped in her nose about 20 hours a day. Yesterday when we left she said she feels like a prisoner in her own home. She felt so lonely she said, the loneliest she had ever felt in her entire life.

My lovely Grandmother, she will be 90 years old in a few months, the wonderful Maria.!
I have even named my daughter after her:)

The wedding was nice, good food and lovely cakes. I have put on a couple of kilo's , and I guess that is not too bad, as I am straight back to the narrow path of healthy living now that we are back home.

inspired

I read this article in an online  newspaper, about this young girl that has lost 40 kilos over three years, and she is looking so incredibly healthy.  I don#t have 30 kilos to lose, not anymore, and besides I tend to work in stones and pounds these day, since I am a member of Weight Watchers.

Things are going pretty well, and tomorrow I am starting a new week.