Closet Cleanup

Since I got back to university after my easter break, I have kind of ignored the mess in my closet, as I have been thinking "doesn't matter, I'm moving soon anyways" then, one day (read: two days ago) I realized that this mess contributed to my exam stress, as the mess was there, right in my face every day, and also since I could not for the life of me find that top I wanted or that skirt I knew was there.

So now it is all tidy, and I would like for you all to see the huge difference, and I will share some tips as well, while I am at it!

Before:

...Yes, I am aware of how bad it looks. It was worse right before I left for home before easter, now half of the clothes that used to be in here, are at home in my other closet, safe from this hell. 

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My amazing new Nica-bag

(Ok, first of all, disclaimer: I have very few commenters, but some readers for my blog not being promoted anywhere at all, but I never do a sponsored thing, ever, and I take my pride in being honest with you guys/girls.)

THIS ...almost made me cry of happiness:

(And apparantly I'm becoming quite the girly-girl, even my grandmother noticed.) 

Imag0818

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Kaos i huet/Eksamensnerver: Mitt første og siste om Breivik.

Da kjører vi litt Norsk igjen, i denne patriotismens tid. Sånn når vi først er inne på Breivik-saken, må jeg si at jeg ble faktisk rørt til tårer under en forelesning holdt av en norsk Master-student her borte via Politics Society forrige uke, som en av de andre jentene fra Literature Society dro meg med på.

Erik Dale het studenten som holdt mini-forelesningen, og han gjorde en veldig god jobb i forhold til å forklare nettopp hva venninna mi spurte om i etterkant: "Why would such a, and no offence here Marie, but such a small tragedy if you compare it to all the bombings and attacks all over the world, hit Norway much harder? It seems you are all in a way afflicted." Svaret ga Erik ganske tidlig på, når han ganske enkelt sa at ja, fysisk har Norge nok en del kvadratkilometer å gå på, men sett i forhold til antallet mennesker, er mennesketallet veldig lavt. Derfor kjenner ofte en sørfra opptil flere helt nordfra, og omvendt. (Fritt oversatt og sånn.)

Jeg tror dette er en av de store årsakene til hvorfor dette er et massivt smell for Norge, men selvfølgelig ville ingen utenfra finne på å slå det slaget, ingen slår minstebror i magen så hardt man kan, liksom. Det måtte komme innenfra. Jeg har litt lyst til å skylde på Janteloven her, men det var ikke Janteloven som gjorde Breivik ustabil til godt over bristepunktet, og heller ikke at Barnevernet ikke fikk ta han fra moren i 4-års alderen. Derimot holder den artikkelen litt av svaret, bare på en litt for folkelig måte.

For i artikkelen, heeelt nederst i den, sier Psykiater Pål Hartvig følgende til TV2.no: Dette må være et sammenfall mellom den biologiske disposisjonen han er født med, og noen nokså uforklarlige sammenstillinger med det han har opplevd senere.

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The Traps of Social Media: Part 3 - Moderate your crazy

Everyone has had moments or have quirks that you don't want your mum to know about and don't feel like your boss needs to know, right? Well. Do not think it makes it ok to post or that they will never see it, just because it is online or because they do not at current time have access to your profile, or worse, that they do not know you have that profile. 

Funny example that proves my point: 

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Another point: You are thinking that your grandmother will never be on Facebook ever, so commenting about her bad breath hurts nobody, right? WRONG. Do you know what age-group of people I have taught Skype, MSN and Facebook the last years? 40 to 80. Yup, question then is, was your grandmother one of them? Good, now you see my point. :)

Let us make some social media-etiquette, shall we?

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The Traps of Social Media: Part 2 - Tidy up the keepers

Onto our next topic of this mini-series: When you have deleted the profiles on the pages you no longer use, you need to tidy up the ones you do want to keep. For me, this involves among else Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Last.FM, Posterous (my blog-platform) and Foursquare.

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The Traps of Social Media: Part 1 - The past will bite your ass

Be honest with yourself. Do you have a complete overview of all your social networking pages? Are there some of them you just remembered that you have not even logged into for the last three years, or just the last six months?

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Frokost for de med søt-sug

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Nå er våren kommet, og da tenker jeg automatisk eple og kanel, av uvisst årsak. Muligens fordi noen pleide lage eplekake. I dag laget meg meg en veldig kjapp og enkel frokost, som dreper søtsuget noen timer:
- Havregryn med eple og kanel-
Ingredienser:
Ca. 40 g havregryn
Laktosefri melk
Et helt rødt eple delt i terninger
1/4 teskje kanel

Ha en flott uke.

Book project of forever

I hit 15k words last night, or, this morning technically. It got me to thinking. If I am to ever try and get this published, I'm only 1/5 of the way done. And how long have I been working on this thing? Seven years. Barely written anything for five of them, but still. Seven years. Let's hope it goes faster from now on.

Gaming and social skills

I just had an interresting conversation with my sister, about our gamer-brother, and the rest of them gamers. Since I used to be one myself, with both WoW and SL, I feel more than slighly provoked when she, as I know others as well, think that gamers have no social life or social skills, because that is really not the truth.
Consider this: To make a group, roleplay or any online game function except low level quests work, you need a couple of skills inside the social department of your brain, especially, but not limited to, people skills, social antennas and the ability to do team-work! No online game with respect for itself will make it possible to play through the whole game without interaction.

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How to make long-distance relationships work: A list

DISCLAIMER: Not just talking about the love-kind of relationships now, but friendships, families, and so on. 'Aight?

  • In one way or another, keep in touch. I Skype with my boyfriend all-over maybe 6 days a week, with my mom at least once a week, and with my closest friends as often as I can. Same goes with text-chat via i.e. Facebook/Google+ and SMS. If you keep in touch and talk about everyday crap/fun, you will not necessarily feel THAT far away from each other.
  • I love getting random picture messages from my friends, they tend to make me laugh when I need it, and it brightens my day up, I also try to send something back.
  • Snail-mail might feel old school to some of you, but there is NOTHING that makes me feel closer to someone than a card or a letter that I can tuck away somewhere and read as many times as I feel like it.
  • With one of my closest friends I made a deal before I left for university: We are both writing some type of a journal, and when the year has passed, we will switch and read the other journal while together, so the moments don't disappear. Truth be told, I don't write as often as I should, but at least I do it once in a while, right?

Annikapernillemarie

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