Blogging about my life and things that interests me. Like renovation, diets, relationships, music, gadgets, alternative fashion, animals, training, tv-shows, makeup, science and technology.
I think it is stalking me..
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=217982764091678860879.0004c6b3e0efdeca49aaf Opprettet av Spor på Android. Aktivitetstype: Gåtur med spurt Beskrivelse: - Total strekning: 1,19 km (0,7 mi) Total tid: 20:02 Flyttetid: 15:23 Gjennomsnittsfart: 3,57 km/t (2,2 mi/h) Gjennomsnittsfart: 4,65 km/t (2,9 mi/h) Maksfart: 10,89 km/t (6,8 mi/h) Gjennomsnittshastighet: 16,80 min/km (27,0 min/mi) Gjennomsnittshastighet: 12,90 min/km (20,8 min/mi) Høyeste tempo: 5,51 min/km (8,9 min/mi) Maksstigning: 229 m (750 ft) Minimumsstigning: 198 m (650 ft) Stigning: 40 m (130 ft) Maksgrad: 0 % Minimumsgrad: 0 % Spilt inn: 07.08.2012 22.54
Ok, that made no sense.. Anyway, I went for a 20 Min walk with my
honey (whom has a bad knee) and I ran some back and forth to get my
pulse up. I thought the lights were going to be shining on the trail
around the lake, but they were not, so it was very dark. I hope I
did not step on any frogs..
Here is a picture of me after the walk, my hair is a mess, and I got red faced from the running. I need to do this more often, I am SO out of shape..
Here is my outfit for today. I really love these tights, I got them at Lindex a few years ago. I am always on the lookout for different and stylish tights. As you can see, I like to dress casual and comfortable for work, but still have my own style shining through.
Today we went out to a store, and when
we got there, it was raining as crazy and there was thunder and
lightning. It even started to hail! We had of course no umbrellas
with us, and the ground looked like a riverbed. We tried to wait it
out, but after 10 min in the car, we had to make a run for the store
entrance. I ran for maybe 10 sec, and I got drenched!
I have heard a lot about the DUO
eyelash glue, everyone who has tried it says it's the best. I have
been hunting it for some time, but I have never found it. Until now!
I had to try it right away, and it is the eyelash glue I have waited
for all my life! Easy application, sticks on after just 30 sec, easy
to manoeuvre in place, and then sticks like it belongs! It's even
waterproof! I have tested it for some hours now, and I can lightly
pull on them, and it still sticks on perfectly! If you can get your
hands on this wonder, you should never have a problem with eyelashes
falling of in the middle of a party again!
Today's topic is corsets. They are an
essential wardrobe attire for the alternative minded. And they make
your waist go in the most beautiful shape, if you have a real corset
for tightlacing. I usually only wear my corsets when I dress up, and
I usually tighten them just so they are comfortable and snug-fitting
so my waist is reduced about 5-10 cm (2-4 inches). It sounds like a lot, but if you
try to suck your tummy in, you'll reduce your waist a lot more than
that, and the corset makes your back real straight and it is actually
easy and comfortable to sit up straight. It is impossible to slouch
your back in a corset.
I have gotten four corsets so far, and
I plan on getting more. All of them are from Dracula Clothing, they
have a lot of really nice ones, and other alternative fashion items as well.
I am planning to blog a bit about my style. I do not follow any particular style, I just mix and match what I like, and also what looks nice on my figure. I am indeed a plus size, and I find it a challenge to dress the way I like. The styles I love and are influenced a lot by are goth, rockbilly, metal, punk, aristocrat and steampunk.
I will start to post ootd to show you how I dress, both on laidback days and when I really dress up. I have not really found a lot of gothic styling and fashiontips for big girls, so I will just have to make one myself. ;)
Today we celebrated my boyfriends birthday with family and friends! It was a nice and cosy day with tacos and some beers. We ended up playing a kind of pictionary, and these are my darlings awsome pictures! Can you guess what they are? We got the right guesses after some time, we laughed so hard!! I especially love the first guys feet!! Hahaha! Espen has a rare talent to be able to draw so bad, but still understandable.
Leave a comment on what you think he has drawn..
This is the latest update from my kitchen. We finally got up the kitchenfan! I went to the hardware store and bought some supplies, and managed to fix it in place with my own design. The manual for the fan was no good, so I am really proud that I found a way to secure it nice and snug in the cupboard. It has stayed in place and worked like a dream for about a month now. Never mind the ventilation shaft, it is only temporary, it will be my next mission.
I love cats! I have always loved cats.
I also loves dogs though, and animals in general. I grew up with
cats, dogs, and birds, I have owned rats (but became allergic..) and
when I bought my apartment in 2005, I got my first cat that was
entirely my own. Tigris is her name, but we often call her “Tigern”
witch means “the Tiger”, and that is of course because of her
beautiful colours. She has a special type of fur that is really thick
and soft, and people that are allergic to cats tell me that they
react less to her than to other cats. I do not know exactly when she
was born, cause she was born in a barn on a farm. But suddenly the
farmer could not find the kittens, and he thought they all had been
killed by a fox or a territorial male cat. Then after a few weeks, he
found Tigris walking around in the yard, she was a lone survivor, and
he took her in and fed her cat-formula, and when she was big enough
(about 5 weeks) I went to pick her up. She adored me right away by
not being afraid at all, and started playing with my feet after a few
minutes. The Tiger is a suitable name not only because of her
colours, she is a feisty and fun cat. I held her in my arms, and she
almost went right to sleep, she had my heart from then on.
Little Tigris when I got her.
She was so tiny!
She likes to play.
And then, in the summer of 2007, she
was away from home for a few days. I got worried, cause she usually
comes home at least every other day. But after three and a half day,
she got home, and I was so happy. After a few weeks, we could see why
she had been so long away from home, she had gotten herself
pregnant!! This is perfect, because I wanted her to have a litter
before I had to sterilize her. And I had friends and family lined up
ready to adopt. She had four little kittens, three male and one
female. The female (Nala) and the male (Mowgli) had short fur with
blended colours, the last males (Anubis and Buster Phus) had long,
thick fur. Anubis was black and dark brown (only visible in direct
sunlight) and Buster had a darker, but similar colours to Tigris.
They were all healthy and sweet, and my brother and his girlfriend
adopted Nala, my good friend Heidi adopted Mowgli, and my other
friend Heidi adopted Buster. Anubis I had to keep for myself, cause
he had been injured when he still was young (the vet guessed it was
Tigris when she tried to lift him), and he got a wound on his
shoulder. We went to the wet, who stitched it, and gave me
instructions to care for it. I had to rinse it a few times a day, and
Anubis was not as active and a bit sleepy. I was really afraid that
he was going to die, but after taking good care of him, he became
active and vibrant again. And I had fallen in love with him, and I
could not bear to part with him. So that’s the story of how I got
Anubis.
Tigris with her litter, can you spot the four kittens?
Anubis and Mowgli
Anubis is still a kitten, and cuddles with his mother in the window.
Adorable Anubis!
This is taken at the same time as the other, he just looks bigger face on.
Tigris is really photogenic!
Anubis has the same thick and soft fur
like his mother, only much longer! And he has a mane like a tiger!
The fur is so incredible nice to feel, I just want to bury my face in
it. But, after Tigris had all the kittens, I got allergic, and I had
to restrict how much contact I had with them. That means they are not
allowed in the bedroom (this is really sad to me, cause Tigris always
lay down on my chest and purrs when I go to sleep, and that made me
go to sleep), and I have to try not getting cat hair into my eyes.
But I still cuddle with them, and they lie on me and everything,
cause I will never abandon my cats. If I have to take a pill every
day to get to have them, then so be it!
Anubis has started to mimic this, nice and cozy!
Tigris loves being near us, preferably on top!
I live on the first floor of my
building, so I have a cat-flap in the balcony door, and they can
easily jump up and down from my balcony to the ground. My cats can
come and go as they wish. In the winter, they stay mostly inside, and
Tigris is a really indoor cat. She can go outside for short
excursions to look at the scenery from our balcony, but mostly she
stays inside. Anubis is more outside, and when he comes home, he
usually mjaus loud and nagging to tell us that he is home. Anubis
really loves mjauing. Unlike Tigris, witch is quite silent, and if
she mjaus, it is more like a squeak. It is really adorable. My cats
are really nice tempered and have never been aggressive against me or
anyone else. They are wary of strangers, but I take that as a good
sign. I don’t want them to run up to strangers outside, who knows
what kind of crazy people there can be.
I can see! So I guess the surgery went
well. I still can't see perfect, there is still some blurriness and
haze, but all in all I can see better than before without glasses (or
lenses).
The day of the
surgery went by very fast. The surgery itself took about 30 sec on
each eye, and did not hurt at all. There was a mild discomfort when
the doctor put on the eyelid-holder on the second eye, but he paused
a bit when I pointed it out (and my eye went rolling and eye-muscles twitching) and waited a minute more for the anesthesia
to work before trying again. That, and some irritating and stinging
eye-drops before the surgery was what hurt at all (and we are not
talking really hurting, more like getting something in your eye
that’s mildly discomforting). Immediately after the surgery I could
actually see quite well, almost as good as with glasses, just a
little hazed. Then I could go home, and got the surgeons
mobile-number in case something felt wrong. I got pain-killing
eye-drops to use the next two days, and tear-like eye-drops to use
every 10 Min until I went to bed. Every 10 Min sounds like a lot, but
I found that it was almost too long to wait, because after the
surgery my eyes felt sore and dry. The eye-drops really were
comforting, and I just waited for the alarm to ring every 10 Min to
get to ease my sore eyes. I found it hard to keep my eyes open, like
the muscles around my eyes were tired and sore, and I felt like a
vampire when ever I saw light. So home we went, and into my dark
bedroom to listen to the Nightside on audio-book, and drop my eyes.
I woke a lot in the night, feeling dry
and sore, and my eyes were clogged together with dried stuff, so I
had to really blink and drag my eyes open. Whenever I woke, I would
use the eye-drops to ease my dry eyes, and then just go to sleep
again. I was really afraid to rub my eyes in my sleep, so whenever I
felt like it, I actually woke up! After a week I can finally rub my
eyes again, I cant wait!
The next days my muscles improved and
so did the light-sensitiveness, and by the third day after surgery I
could finally watch my computer screen and TV. I had to really reduce
the brightness of the screen, or all black letters on white
background would get too blurry. I had spent my dark days listening
to audio-books and sleeping a lot, I tend to get sleepy when I get
bored.
Today is the fourth day after surgery,
and I feel I can see fine, but still a bit blurry and hazy. I have
extra large pupils when it is dark (over 8 mm) so I will get a bit of
hazing around lights especially at night, but this is something I
have noticed from using lenses also, so this does not bother me much.
My eyesight will improve the next month or so, but usually it is good
enough to drive within a week after surgery. I don't have much
dryness either any more, but I keep the drops handy in case I feel an
itch, since I still cant rub my eyes.
I hope this was informative to you, if
you are planning to get eye-surgery, I know this is a bit different
than if I was getting Lasik. I had my surgery at Synslaser in Oslo. To have a helping hand around the days
after the surgery is invaluable, since being tired in your eyes makes
cooking and finding things a bit tough. I have to hand it to my honey
Espen for being a real trooper with doing a lot of the chores around
the house, and being an excellent cook and butler for me. Thank you,
honeyboo! <3
I will be the first to admit, yes, I am a youtube-aholic.. I
really enjoy watching all the entertaining, funny, strange and
educational videos you can find there. I subscribe to some of my
favourite channels, and I will give you some tips to great
youtube-videos.
Wow, it has been a year since my last blog post. I guess I have
not had as many blog-ideas as I hoped. Or the will to write my ideas
down. I will try to change that.
I am writing in english, so I get to practise my english, since I
don't often write any other language than norwegian. Do you prefer to
read my blog in english or norwegian? I guess I don't have many
non-norwegian readers, but I do hope to get more, so I will try to
stick with english.
Today's topic is eye-surgery. And the fact that I am going to have
one. OMG! I have been dreaming about having it done for years, ever
since I found out I am near-sighted and started using lenses. I guess
it's been over 10 years since I had to get them. But I have been
using day- and night lenses that you only have to take out and change
once a month, witch is no hassle at all, and I therefore did not mind
using them. But since I got allergic to my cats and other things, I
have not been able to use them any more. They just cloud up in matter
of days, so for the past year, I have been using day-lenses that I
throw away at night, and use fresh ones in the morning. To be honest,
I love to sleep in and use minimal time in the morning, so to be able
to cut out the fumbling with new lenses every morning is going to be
awesome! And taking a nap in the middle of the day, even for just a
few minutes, really dries out your eyes if you are wearing
day-lenses. So yes, laser-surgery!
The type of surgery I will have is called c Ten. It is the safest
and most high-teck laser-surgery you can get in Norway. I have been
reading about different types of laser-surgery for many years, and at
last I have decided to get this type. It differs for LASIK (the most
common type of surgery) by not creating a “flap” on your cornea,
witch is usually what causes problems if you are unlucky and get
complications from your surgery. The c Ten uses just the laser-beam
to remove the top layer of cells, and then goes on to correct your
vision. It takes usually just 20-30 sec. It is usually more painful
and it takes almost a week before you can see clearly, because the
cells need to regrow over your outer cornea. With the flap in LASIK
you don’t have to wait for this, and you usually can see clearly
within the first days after the surgery. But then you can get
problems with the flap moving, get regrowth under the flap and so
forth, that’s why I stick to the c Ten
If you are not squeamish, here is an intro to LASIK (the one with
the flap):
And here is the surgery I will take, c Ten, and you will see the
difference:
So now I have been using glasses since Tuesday, because you cant
wear lenses the last 7 days before the surgery. And I have been
taking 1000 mg of omega 3 and C-vitamin every day for a week before
surgery and two weeks after to boost healing and the immune-system. I
am also going to take doses of ibuprofen from Monday to Friday next
week, and also a whole regime of eye-drops I will start with just
after surgery. And the surgery-date is on Wednesday 30.may! The 2-3
days after I will have to spend resting my eyes, so I can't read,
watch television or use the computer! I will almost get bored to
death, I think! My only rescue is audio-books. Espen has recommended
Nightside, so I hope it's a very entertaining series.
Finally, here is a picture of me with my glasses, hopefully I will
not have to use glasses until I am older and greyer and have to use
reading-glasses.
Ok, that made no sense.. Anyway, I went for a 20 Min walk with my
honey (whom has a bad knee) and I ran some back and forth to get my
pulse up. I thought the lights were going to be shining on the trail
around the lake, but they were not, so it was very dark. I hope I
did not step on any frogs..
Ok, that made no sense.. Anyway, I went for a 20 Min walk with my
honey (whom has a bad knee) and I ran some back and forth to get my
pulse up. I thought the lights were going to be shining on the trail
around the lake, but they were not, so it was very dark. I hope I
did not step on any frogs..
