Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Tummy hurts

You know how I aways say that excerise machines look like torture exquipment?
They don't do maximum until the next day.
My abs hurt like hell.

But Boyfriend just warmed the homemade mac and cheese with cauliflower that I made yesterday and I have almost half a litre of coffee strong enough to murder cows with and I am cooking marshmallows over a candle.
Boyfriend takes good care of me.
I heart him^^, 

Monday, January 24, 2011

Disney World on Ice?

I went to Disney on Ice yesterday. And I saved myself a pretty penny, 'cos now I don't have to go to Disney World. Now, wasn't that convenient?
It was really cool and all that, but what's with all the promotion for Disney World? I mean, I wanted to see Disney characters acting awesome on ice skates.
Instead I got huge the usual Disney cast (as in the mice, the ducks and Goofy) emoting just about as well as the Teletubbies, Buzz Lightyear going to "infinity and a little bit further" (what's up with that? It's supposed to "to infinity and beyond") and the Incredibles.
I did get Maleficient (sorry if I spelled that wrong) thou.
The second half, when there was actually a story was awesome. But the entire first half of the show was a frggin Disney Land commercial! Why?!!!!
I never get to go when I was little, and maybe I had it built up too much in my mind, so I was bound to get let down, I don't know. It was really fun, and I got a Mickey Cup, and a Violetta powersphere to show for it, so all in all I am happy.

I feel sorry for my kids thou, I am afraid that when I finally get some of my own, I am going to have used up all my spoiling on the kids I have around me nowXP

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Noooooooooooooo!!!!

Heathran
Shaymin
Deoxys
Manaphy
Mew
Latios and Latias
Jirachi
And Arceus

All Pokémon Wi-Fi events last year.
The Arceus, God of all Pokémon (or something, not too clear on the mythology here), because of the Wi-Fi router laying on a shelf, not in use. The rest because I didn't know Boyfriend has WEP coding on his router.
*crying out in despair* And I really gave it my best shot getting the Jirachi at the end of summer too. But my router was broken, and my new place doesn't allow Wi-Fi anyway. And the only other place I found with a WEP coding had an ø in it's code. Can't read the letter? Neither can my DS.
Oh well. I have managed just fine without these Pokémon thus far. And I DID get the Pikachu coloured Pichu, so it wil be fine.
Plus, I will get the Shiny Legendary Dogs. And I didn't have to travel to Japan to get the either.
I am also buying a dongle thingy, so I will never ever miss an event again=D
I am gonna go play in Plaza now.
Oh, and if you wanna trade Pokémon with me over Wi-Fi drop me a note, and we can figure something out now=D=D

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Pokémon and funny academics

So, I will in fact be playing the new Pokémon games in March=D

Fun thing about the book I told you about yesterday. It's funny. Humour in academic literature is so rare it's almost non-existent, so this is a wonderful book to just relax from the more stone-faced serious books.
I think, but I don't know yet, that I might recommend this book to a parent interested in learning herself the mechanics about her child's linguistic developments. But I am not sure yet

Friday, January 14, 2011

Schedule made

So I signed up for classes today. Most of the classes I wanted to take were full, so I ended up with philosophy and language acquisition.
I have tried both before, but do to my life sucking for most of that semester I wasn't able to pass them. So I am trying again.
There are new books for Language Acquisition, and the one we are covering first is way better than the one we used last year. It's a 1000 subject, meaning that's it's mostly an introductory course, and therefore the fact that this book is way more geared towards beginners of linguistic. Actually it's directed mostly at psychology students. Which makes it easy to understand for linguistic beginners.
The book is Child Language: Acquisition and Development by Matthew Saxton.
I am reading the very first chapter at the moment for my first class on Monday, and I already feel much more confident about passing the exam this time around. Both because I have already done the subject once, but also because the terms are being explained in way that is easily understandable for people who don't have a pre-existing knowledge of linguistics.

Pokémon 5th generation is being release in the US in the 6th of March. I will be getting it sometime after that=D=D
It's like looking forward to Christmas and my birthday at once, I am so excited=D=D I am trying not to read too much about it, but I am kinda failing at that.
And I have said this before, and I will say it again. $35 is cheap!!! Stop complaining. It will be at least $70 when it's released in Norway. Stop complaining!!!!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

School start euforia

The absolute best part of the year is at the very start. When I get to buy the books, and the little study aids.
I would be absolutely hopeless during shopping week at American colleges. (For those not in the know, this is the week at the beginning of the semester where you can sample the classes to find out which you want to take.)
I am going shopping for books tomorrow. I wanna go today, but I can't until I know if I can take the subjects I want.
I have been doing some internet shopping for fun study things, like notebooks and pens and really magic markers and a really cool day planner.
I have been picking out my subjects. This will be a fun spring indeed=D=D
Expect a lot of school talk=D=D

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

I got me #131 of 500

So I had some free books lying around. I mean of course that while I was cleaning my flat I found some of those little stampy cards that gives you every 8th book for free, and when I put them together I had enough for this huge, expensive book. 1st edition and signed. Norwegian knight book, based on a true story.




I also drooled on some other books I have to get.
I am number four (I think it was called), which is going to be made into to a movie, and I know next to nothing it, but I know just enough to know that I HAVE to read it!
Also there is Return to Jotunheimen (which is my Norwegian to English translation of a title I am not 100% sure of). It's a new Norwegian Viking type fantasy, and way to expensive for me to be going around and buy it just now. But I have it read it. Libraries are good for that sort of thing.^^,

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Entertainment for 2011

This will just be a little list of non-schoolbooks that I am gonna read in 2011.

Sofie's world - Which is really a little of both, school and non-. I am really halfway re-reading as I have half of it before.

A wrinkle in time - Which is a series of children's books that I bought in a bout of January depression. I have read about 20 pages so far and one of the characters is names mrs. Whatsit, so it's looking good.

Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal - To practice my Spanish. Maybe the rest of the series. Hopefully the rest of the series.

Der Herr der Ringe - My parents bought me the most beautiful box of LOTR in German. I am looking forward to that.

Die unendliche Geschichte - Finish it rather. To practice my German.

Any and all books from the Hallows, the Kitty Norville, and the Sookie Stackhouse series that I have not read yet.

Shogun - My boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday and I am reading a little at a time. The way that I read books, I read maybe a couple of chapters and then I red something else and then I read a couple more chapters. I am starting to like it, it has a very slow start, but it's getting very much better.

The Inkheart and/or Tintenherz triology - finish it rather. In either English or German. Or both.

And then maybe finish the crown of stars series.

And then I am gonna finish these games:

Pokémon White and/or Black
Rune Factory, maybe
Starcraft 2
Maybe one of the myriads of unfinished other Pokémon games I have.
Maybe my Kingdom hearts game.

I am gonna finish the wedding present, but I don't think that I will manage the gift for V. It's just too large.XP

So I have a lot to do^^,
And then I have to pass my subjects as well^^,
Happy new years^^,

Monday, January 10, 2011

Single dinner

Whoever said cooking dinner for one is awful?
For dinner today I had a little steak, mushrooms cooked in butter, penne pasta and a cremé fraiche sauce.
And whoever says I am bad/boring cook are all wrong.
I am having a wonderful evening with Gilmore Girls on DVD for the umphteenth time and chatting with my Man^^,
Life is wonderful^^,

On a more academic note: Guess the only book store I have been able to find Sofie's World? The timeless Norwegian classic about philosophy?
The local fantasy book store O.o
But I have it now. I am so passing philosophy this time aroundXD

Saturday, January 8, 2011

I need winter to be over

It's wet. I don't mind the cold so much these days, as there is nearly none, but I am so tired of the wet and the dark. I just want to be a bear and go to sleep until it is all over.
Stupid winter!

Monday, January 3, 2011

New year or something

So, yah. I know I promised Christmas posts. I need to stop doing that every year. I never manage to follow through. Might having something to do with me hating Christmas and all. Awful holiday. Detest it.
I am not a Christian, so celebrating the birth of a guy that in all likelihood was born in April anywho seems kind of.... pointless? Is that a nice way to say it?
All the glory to Christian people. You seem very lucky to me. Actually I am for personal religion. I like the idea of having some sort of god to talk to or turn to when life sucks. It would be nice. But I don't have that.
I go to Christmas mass thou. The priest that did my confirmation training is a wonderful person and an amazing priest, at it has gotten to be a nice tradition with me and my mom. And my sister sings also. It's really nice.
But in the end, with me technically believing that Jesus existed (with the amounts that have been written about him in different places the probability that he actually existed is bigger than the probability that Caesar did), but with me believing that the whole son of god thing can at best be called a gross exaggeration it is basically celebrating capitalism. It has become a whole holiday of buying shit for each other.
And over the last... whole of my life, there has been at least one person who has had a habit of judging the power of out love/friendship/whatever on either the gift I gave them or the reaction I had about their gift. I mean, come on! I that persons gift was not the most awesome thing I had ever owned I must not love them. Waahwaahwaah. God, I am so effing tired of that sort of people.
This year that was a lot easier. People like that have either been forcibly removed from my life or they have calmed down. Presents were pleasant this year.
But with the angst that has built up over the last... 7 years mostly, it was hard anyway.
And then after having been stressed and freaked out over the entire course of  November and December I was so tired by the end of it I wasn't able to enjoy it like I should. And being tired and depressed all the time, Christmas posts sort of weren't the first thing on my mind.

However! It was actually nice. I spent time with my family, and my friends. I devoted some days to the person who have always and will always be the closest to my heart, my little sister. We had a great time running all over town at bookstores, and eating pancakes, and just having some sister time.

I did the traditional Gacha New Years eve. Got ridiculously waisted and almost got shot by some stupid drunk 40 year olds and their non-existing fireworks-shooting skills XP
(And according to the texts I was sending the god told me to drink a lot of wineXP)

So all in all it was good. I am tired. And next year I am not doing the X-mas posts. Remind me of that if I promise you some okey?

Plans for the new year will be moving, getting into the new school, seeing more live concerts, and having an all around awesome time of it all. We are only young once, and I am gonna enjoy it to the fullest.
Happy New Year world