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:

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...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. 

After:

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Now everything has it's own place, and the jackets I use the most are on the hangers, not in there at all, as you can see. This gave me more room to play with what hanging clothes are regarded. Another very obvious thing is how the boxes at the bottom now have no mess around them at all. This is because I sorted socks from tights and leggings, and separated my underwear, as well as making place for my work-out accessories. 

• In the boxes:

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I placed my tights and my leggings on their own sides, and everything is easy to grab as I see what I have, in one of the ends of that box I have my box of knee-high skin colored stockings, that I use with capris and pumps or ankle-boots, and a pair of hotpants that I use if my dress is a bit on the short side. 

You do not get to see my underwear one, but it is all organized as well. 

In my sock box I also have sport-bras and my GASP-wrist support-bands as well as my exercise watch and my Better Bodies-gloves. I have veeery weak wrists, so free weights do not happen if I forget my wrist bands. Also, the reason for two sections of black socks is that on one side I have my ankle socks. 

• On the shelves:

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I will try and explain my sorting system to you guys/gals, but it might not make sense at all. I seperate t-shirts from singlets, and then at the back of the top shelf I have a stack of tops that need something put either over them or under them because they are slightly transparent or the back cuts too low or anything like that. Then I somewhat color-coordinate, and fold things so I can see any pattern or print from the front without having to take them out. 

On the second shelf I have prettier tops or shirts, and tunics, sorted in the same system.

Then however, on the two bottom shelves the system changes, here I put one light, then one dark, then one light, and then one dark. This is because the bottom shelves contain first cardigans and sweaters, and then knee-length pants, shorts and pants. Both are things that tend to disappear in eachother of color-sorted, so I contrast-sort instead, haha. 

• On the hangers:

Let is take this from left to right, to make it simple. 

On the far left I have dresses meant for special occasions, then comes my going out dresses and then my day dresses. After that, more or less in the middle, you have my very pretty black-and-white jumpsuit, my skirts, my vest, and then the jackets I do not currently use.

I hope some of this was helpful to you, or at least a giggle. 

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(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.) 

And my picture does not do this justice! It has 5 pockets in total, which, as I am a literature-student, is very important, especially since I need pockets to be organized, or it all just ends up...one big mess. 

This, dear readers, is the Sydney Scoop-bag by Nica, and after hunting for hours the other day, I found it, linked it to boyfriend for approval (he is amazing like that, I probably have the best-dressed boyfriend in Norway, to be totally subjective but truthful. How many 22-year-olds do you know that shows up at a family dinner at the family cabin in a shirt, vest, tie, and Levi 501s? Exactly, 1. My one.) I made up my mind to get it. I have a huge but pretty, yet worn out Aubergine redherring-bag that is ripped through half the stitches in the lining, and it kills me to let it go until I get it properly fixed, but my new bag makes up for it. Seriously makes up for it. 

If you happen to be a student like me, or to be starting at university/college this autumn, or your work just requires you to run between buildings/meetings a lot, this is perfect. The first thing I checked when I found it, was the measurements, as I knew I needed my 13" MacBook Pro to fit in it. And it does. I need to slip it in the "wrong" way, and then move it around afterwards, but it fits. 

More pictures:

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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.

Og TV2.no oppsummerer den fint under en av bildene sine i etterkant, i grunn. Enkelt og greit Hartvig, heter det "Arv og Miljø", som vi alle, i følge psykologiboken min, kommer til å bli skadet av, for logisk nok både arver vi DNA og vokser innenfor en eller annen form for miljø. Poenget mitt her var ikke å henge ut Hartvig for å vanskeliggjøre én setning, men å skryte av Erik Dale, og i hovedsak å spørre hvorfor i alle verdens dager både Norge, norske aviser og utlandet med sine aviser, FORTSATT krangler som lekne kattunger over hvem eller hva som trigget at Breivik mentalt ble dyttet utenfor kanten, for de aller fleste vil bare gi seg med at han ble det.

Tilbake til min venninnes spørsmål: Hvorfor traff det oss hardere enn det ville truffet andre? Tror det hr noe med de ungene våre å gjøre. Ikke at de er superkule ariske kids, men at de blir så dullet med. Vi skal jo være best i verden, de skal ikke vite det om pappa har for dårlig råd til den leka, de skal beskyttes fra å klatre i trær, og de får ikke høre Pippi omtale Negerkongen. Stakkars barna, sier jeg da. Jeg lærte utrolig mye av å rase ned fra treet på tunet når jeg var liten, jeg lærte i hovedsak respekten min for andre raser og folketyper via Pippi, er jeg ganske sikker på, og jeg skal love deg at når jeg var fem år, da fantes ikke overpedagogiske barne-TV hele dagen, da var vi så utrolige at vi gikk ut i hagen midt i byen og lekte noen timer. Det er dette som skremmer meg litt, jeg lurer litt på dette med Breivik og Pippi og klatring i trær. Kanskje han fikk feil fordeling av trær og Pippi? Norge konkluderte jo med at det er greit med Negere, eller greit å si Neger. Same shit, jeg tviholder på min versjon av gamle-Pippi, hvor det står NEGER svart på hvitt. Pun intended.

Til deres informasjon, voksen-Norge, (Marie da, du er voksen selv!) har også sikkert 40% av deres egne barn og barnebarn vært ganske nære et sånt stup, men de fleste har én eneste liten tanke som holder dem igjen fra å gjøre noe forbanna dumt, hva enn det skulle være. Hvem sin lille tanke er det? Jo, deres egen. Utifra egen erfaring med mine egne bekjente, er det enten noen nære dem som reagerer og stopper i aller siste liten, eller så stopper de seg selv, muligens med tanken på kattunger som krangler over et garnnøste, men ikke over Breiviks psykiske utvikling. Han er Psyk, og han drepte masse uskyldige mennesker, og det kommer til å plage oss langt inn i evigheten. Ferdig med temaet om Breiviks Psyke, takk.

Jeg er lei. Norge burde spesielt være bedre enn å trykke opp titusenhundrevis av trynet på fyren om og om og om igjen, så ingen berørte glemmer det eller får muligheten, og sånt holdt dere på et år. Jeg blir kvalm både av avisene og magasinene som har gjort det, og også over folket som ikke har sagt at nok er nok. Jeg vil dra en Skram, og si fra meg Norskheten min. 

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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: 

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?

1. Never, ever, post pictures of your bank-statement or bank-cards, ID-cards or passports, it's stupid, and will give you problems when someone steal your identity and empty all your accounts and order a lifetime membership to that porn-magazine that makes you blush. 
2. Don't post information about someone else without asking them first, and accept that people untag pictures of themselves. By information I think about full names, pictures of children with names and/or school and so on. You saw what happened to little Madeleine, then you know why I'm pointing children out. 
3. Try and keep personal conversations to a minimum on status/picture-comments and in your public twitter-feed, not everyone care about your dinner tomorrow or every single shop you went to for that correctly sized bra. 
4. Personally I am rather sick of lovey-dovey statuses, text your special someone instead, it makes the rest of us queasy, and have you thought about your newly-single bestie that was engaged for three years and how that affects her? 
5. Ultrasound-pictures of your adorable child in your or your sister's or your child's tummy. Why? Because usually they have your personal identity number up in the corner, which can be used to steal your identity. Another thing is that not all people are comfortable with seeing such pictures, keep them within your family, I would say. (This one my boyfriend felt I should add, but I totally agree with him.) 
   
6. As mentioned earlier, I prefer to see my friends in sober versions, and your friends prefer to not have their drunk faces all over the internet, so don't upload it. 
7. Yes, I'm glad you had a lovely breakfast, lunch and dinner, but get a food-blog, and put up the recipes as well, that way you can share it with the people that care. :)
8. Try and write in a language you are fluent in, and don't make every spelling-error in the book, please, the only reason for not being able to do this is dyslexia.
9. Anything that happens in the bathroom you keep there, your doctor is the only one fairly interested in your shit.
10. It's great that you want to share with the 200 people on your friends-list that you had a horrible day and the details of it, but get a psychiatrist, the chance is that 2 in those 200 you know on Facebook/Twitter can help you.
11. Do not ever write about how much you dislike someone, make threats and/or bully people online. Want to know why? It takes them five seconds to make proof of this that WILL hold up in a court-room, and it's your ass that burns, also, if you get enough complaints on such behavior the administration on social media sites will ban you for a good long time. And it IS bad manners. 
12. "What's happeniiiiin?" Does not make me feel like talking to you. Get out and get some fresh air.
13. Hitting the "like"-button on a message about someone passing away is not funny, not cool, and if I was your mother I would smack you for doing that. 

Do you feel like there are rules I forgot here? Put them in the comments below! 

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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.

On Facebook you need to go through those 500 friends and cut the friendlist down. If you do not get why I tell you this, consider what you actually publish on Facebook and who currently can read/see this. The way I see it, you make four categories when planning this: 

- Close family and friends.

• Some of these you might want to consider to categorize into a family group and a close friends group so you can manage what they see/how you want to recieve information about them in your privacy settings.

- Friends and colleagues that you actually talk to or need to keep in touch with.

• Try to narrow this list down, yes, keeping your bestie from your childhood on that friends list is ok, but not those 15 of that crowd you used to belong in high-school.

- Acquaintances you still want around/children in the family.

• Again, group these up. The great thing about Facebook is that you can give certain groups certain permissions, and also customise special pictures/status-messages to showing only certain groups. So you might want to not let the children in your list see the pictures from last weekend where you are pissed drunk and have groggy eyes, or those sexually related jokes. 
• Acquaintances don't necessarily need to see any of your pictures, or that you are online on the chat, for that matter.

- People you have not talked to/seen/don't know/dislike.

• Delete them, it will not make them cry or feel unloved, but Facebook is a big thing for most people nowadays, and you don't have to share the world with everyone, right?

Other Facebook-tips:

• Don't ever add people you don't know, if you are in doubt of the know/do not know-issue, send them a polite message.
• Try and limit the drunk weekend-pictures and at least untag them, if you would not let your mother or your friends mother see it, do not upload it, and respect people for untagging it if you do.
• At least try and have decent grammar in your info-boxes. 
• There are privacy-regulations on Facebook so not everyone see everything on your profile, use them. 

Think before you Tweet. As an example, I might be a bit conservative here, but I do not particularly want to know the details of your bikini-wax or how stupid your ex-friend has acted. This tip also goes for Facebook. Another Twitter-tip is to not use your full name or your most used nickname/alias on Twitter if you would not let your parents read what you tweet, and to tidy up your tweets from time to time. Also, if your twitter contains personal details of your life or of your friends, consider locking it. 

LinkedIn is a job related/professional social network, so posting on the wall there about what bikini your contacts think you should use on spring break is not a good idea.

Rule #1: Think before you post, and keep private things private.

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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?

The first advice I am going to give you is: Track them down and delete them. Why? Because the probability of you updating them ever again or using them at all = 2%, and what if, say, your future date decides to google you, finds your old profile somehow, and has to be assaulted by all the crazy crap you wrote at the age of 14? or what about future employers? 

If you are one of those people that lives in the bliss of now thinking "Huh, no worries, my future dream workplace does not know about that old MySpace-profile, and will not ever find it." You are wrong.

The brutal truth of life in this age of technology is that anyone can find you anywhere. If you would prefer, as me, to control who sees what, go tidy up your social media monster closet. :)

Check by Saturday for a new post on social media fixes for your personal safety and stress-levels.

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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.

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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.

I know some of my better friends through online communities, be it games or discussion boards. And I am sorry to every café-person and bar-crawler and party-animal out there, but my friends tell me more from the start, because there are IP-adresses involved. ;)

Stop judging the g33ks, they will end up as your bosses one day.

Jeg har forresten presentert bloggen min på Bloggurat og på .

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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?

• All the people at home that I miss have my number in the UK, so they can get to me any time, and of course it goes the other way around, also, my pay as you go-sim has some kind of international twist on it, so I don't pay THAT much for texting them. :)
• Did you have a movie night going on before you left? Keep at it! Watch the movie at the same time, and Skype while you are at it, I promise, the difference is barely noticable. Same with listening to music together, reading the same book, and so on.
• Make the times you actually meet up mean something, make real memories out of them, even if it's simple things as taking a walk together. But don't forget to see other people at the same time, go out, have fun!
• Remember that trust goes two ways.
• I made a album before I left home with the most important people in my life in it, and also a couple of those classic "fun" pictures, from my 20th birthday-party, from I was 14 years old and a goth-kid, and those places I knew I would miss. Yes, it's boring and "old school" to actually have pictures on paper, and it kills trees, but I like it. Or you could frame them up and hang them everywhere.

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For those of you not aware of what NaNoWriMo is, read more on their website. Basically it is a organization of creative people, for creative people, that likes to write, or try to write a whole novel during November each year, as a type of competition. With yourself. It is a great thing to try if you like writing stories, and can also be used if you would like to see how productive you can be during a month, or how creative you actually are.

However, I tried NaNoWriMo this past November, and I must say it hits you with a couple of challenges as a Student, yes, even as a student, students who have so "flexible" schedules, and so on.

You see, I kind of forgot about the three essays I had due around the end of November, so right around then, I had to stop writing on my novel-to-be, as I had no time to spare for anything that was not tagged "essay" or "necessary to live."

But if you are a student, with some planning, even with a lot of essays during November, you CAN make it happen. Just plan early on, and expect some dry days both for your essay-writing and your creative blast (aka NaNoWriMo), because if you are anything like me, you have days where you can barely get an appointment into your planner, just because your head does not want to cooperate.

Also, expect that you will need to be social from time to time so you get a bit of inspiration from your surroundings, I am not one of those that believe things like NaNoWriMo should keep you from being social, neither should new game-releases or anything other, really, but this also depends a bit on your personal preferance. :)

There you go, my ten cents on NaNoWriMo, hope you got something out of it. ;)

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That quote is a lie. Like the Portal-cake, it is.

Why? Because well, in the straight forward way of reading it, it is probably true, but you can pick what family members you keep in touch with, so therefore it is a lie. The problem shows up when it comes to your closest family, the ones you are told you NEED to keep in touch with.

I can say from my own experience that from time to time, you have to choose not to keep in touch, and just not talk to them, because some people, even people you are related to, will act as a black hole and suck all your energy and love and happiness away.

If you are blessed with a great family and everything usually works out with you guys, then keep them close, by all means! But if you are like me and have certain people in your family that just...breaks you, over and over again, go radio silent on them.

I can try and explain him, but it might be difficult to understand... He never finishes something, be it a job, a plan, a project, a relationship, a meeting, or painting a wall. I have no idea why this seems so hard for him to do, but it apparantly is. He just never finishes. And this would be OK, because some people are not made for finishing things they start, I guess, but this also goes for promises to people who happen to care. "I'll be there for your birthday." "I am building you a new computer for your birthday." "I PROMISE to show up at your confirmation." ...Riiiight, no, he never did. He never does.

Whenever he keeps his promises, is when he is forced or when something is in it for him. Like he allowed us to celebrate my 20th birthday at the hotel he ran at the time, because he earned on it.

He could not manage to drive 2 hours to see me before I left the country for my studies. He threatens family members, he acts like a child not getting his way.

To my point now, done being depressing. Even with the lack of a dad, I have grown up OK, I have a amazing mum, and a great uncle taking on the place as some sort of a daddy-figure for me when I was a teenager, as well as the boyfriend of my mum being there for me whenever. People can be replaced, even the closest family you have. You will be fine without them, from time to time it will hurt like hell to deal with it, but nobody are impossible to replace. Be strong, fight on, and you will end up fine in the end, just never allow them to take whatever they are struggling with out on you, because it is most likely not your fault. Deal with your own head, ask them to stay out of your life, and move on being awesome.

Welcome to 2012 people, make it epic.

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The past couple of months I have had a hard time writing anything at all, might be because of the differences between living at home and studying in the UK, might be because I am settling in and so my mind is somewhere else. However, I wrote quite a lot during the start of November, as I signed up on NaNoWriMo, but since I had a lot of essays to write in the end of November, and I was jumped with personal things in the middle of the month or something, it slipped away into...well, crap. The last pages I forced out was really bad, and well, that just does not do it for me.

But as I sit writing now, I'm in "the middle of nowhere", more correctly, I am staying with a friend of mine at her house for a couple of weeks (minus christmas dinner and such family things) since my mum is working most of my winter break from university anyways.

Nowhere is a good place to be when you write. I think the noise and constant things happening and such might have been a contributing factor to the troubles for me to write at my flat in the UK. Out here, however, I get more or less silence, and it does AMAZING things to my writing! Clear head and such things aren't that bad, it would seem. :)

So that is that for now, I want to get back to my not-put-on-the-shelf-anymore NaNoWriMo-project.

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Another one, just because I feel the need to share what an amazing thing Whittard's Pink Lemonade flavoured instant tea is! It tastes SO good as iced tea that I haven't even tried it as a hot drink yet, but I might if it goes any colder outside. Box looks like this, and is adorable.:

It works perfectly with my days hiding in my room writing an essay or two or studying something, keeps my eyes open, but not in a caffeine-shocked way.

Also, as an additional thing, the only thing on the ingredience list that is sciency in any form, is the coloring! So you people preferring the non-processed to death things of our universe, cannot really dislike it either, right? :D ...And they ship to most countries.

Ok, I will go back to bed now.

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So it's late, and I have admin nagging me to post, because "This is when you should have something to write", so let us make a list, just so people can giggle. These are the things my twitter and facebook-walls will probably never show, but I am truly addicted!

• Gossip Girl

Yes, I knoooow. However, I love it, I can't wait to watch a new episode, I love the clothes, the pretty places and the nuts issues.

• The Vampire Diaries

It does not make anything better, but Ian Somerhalder, and that I am addicted to anything including supernatural-modern-fantasy-drama, and Ian Somerhalder.

• Glee

I have always ignored Glee, it did not exist in my head, I would just never see it, I figured. Teenage glee-drama? Seriously? YES. I love to see songs preformed, and I adore the ridiculous love dramas.

• Cir.Cuz

For you UK people: Check the link, even if it is in Norwegian. To the Norwegians: Det er Cir.Cuz og Steffen Hissingby som har musikk som får meg til å skrive uansett humør.

• Hawing foam-pipe swordfights and going crazy with it.

....with my flatmates. B&Q have these...probably cable icolating thingies? They work very well as sword, and we run up and down our hallway with them, screaming and playing pirates. It works really well for relieving stress. IT DOES, try! THESE:

• Dancing to techno and dubstep, even if I really dislike both usually.

This probably only makes sense to you not-so-stuck-up-in-your-image rock, punk, indie and metal-fans out there. From time to time I looove it, just cannot help it. Haha.

• Lindsey Kelk's "I heart" series.

As with Glee, this is something one of my flatmates introduced me to, the books are just SOOO chick-lit, but about a girl who writes for a living, and that, and the fact that the guys in the series, and her crazy roommate, makes me addicted. Some of the English Literature-people in my classes seem to never ever open a non-classic, but I firmly believe that a girl needs her chick-lit as a bloke needs his random crap TV-series, FIFA and Football Manager, you know?

• Using the gym as my personal anger and stress-management fixing facility.

I want to thank certain family-members, certain drama-queens, and especially some of my ex-boyfriends for feeding me with bad feelings, as I work through them, I also get through that set with those weights I never thought I could even lift.

• 250 kg kärlek

Again, to the ones UK and other English-speakers out there, Spotify-link. I will explain if you want me to! I know people, not the most famous, and not the most meaningful music in the world, but it makes me giggle, and makes me remember memories I would otherwise try my best to forget, those bitter-sweet ones you all know you have.

• Nikki Phillippi's YouTube channel.

An amazing youtuber, I adore her beauty-channel, and I am usually not "one of those girls." But she makes me smile, and feel more girly than I usually am. Great girl!

• Taylor Swift

Yeeeeees, cute country-songs. But I swear on my very nice, new purple bag: I have some hilarious, really cute memories of a car full of the geeky, really good guys I used to have in my ICT-class, Taylor Swift on the stereo, on our way to the last social thing as a class - paintball - and them all singing along LOUDLY on the highway, with windows down. From that point onwards, her songs really make me smile every single time I hear her voice.

• Smirking over home "enjoying" snow and a bit of thunder at once, while I can still walk outside in shoes without tractor-tire-pattern-soles.

Facebook-statuses on my news-wall today - or technically yesterday - from home all showed a rising amount of people pointing out that it snowed AND they had a tiny thunderstorm outside their doors. I still see the sun on the sky, I still have not seen a single snowflake that is not on my christmas decorations around the flat. Good times to be here, and not there. Yes, I am now ignoring the fact that I will be home thursday-sunday because of my grandmothers 70th.

So that is that!

I will go back to bed and try to get some sleep again now, silly me fell asleep around 9 PM and woke up again at 2 AM, wondering why in the world my flatmates were silent.

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I just got my last Amazon-delivery a few days ago, containing two books I ordered that I now love, even before I'm at university, as I see how I will love them when I get to actually use them.

Both of them took me some hours to find, as I knew what I wanted, but not what versions I would like well enough to not throw them away.

The first of my newly arrived books is "Smarter Student Planner 2011-12" from Pearson. The only type of people I don't recommend this one for is the ones out there with big handwriting, as it really won't fit in their a-bit-too-tiny writing slots.

It looks like this

Reasons for loving it

• It contains a few pages for all those contact details you will find useful to have at hand as a fresher, like slots for your emergency contacts, key university numbers and room numbers, names and contact info for your tutors and essential service numbers.
• Along with that they also have pages put in there for key dates, like term starts and endings, registration, vacations, examinations, and all those birthdays you tend to forget about.
• And they have pages with already done checklists for the first week, for before you leave back to school, for planning and reviewing coursework and exams, and on and on.
• They also have pages between every single month containing tips for what you should be thinking about right then, and tips on the weekly planning pages for students.
• In the back is a ton of pages for personal and academical development and basic spelling rules, as well as simple conversion charts.
• Before every month you got simple monthly planners. On every day of the week they have short to-do-lists, and after the whole month a longer to do-list.
• The PRICE! £4.55!
  

Amazon UK link

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Nå har jeg bestemt hvem forsikring jeg går for, hvilken bankkonto jeg skal åpne, og hvilken ekstra-modul jeg aller helst vil ha.

Den 3. Oktober flytter jeg. Til England. For å studere Engelsk Litteratur. På University of Essex.

Detersåmyeåtenkepåførjegdrar.

Før vi drar. Siden mamma drar med meg for å gi meg noen kilo ekstra å drasse med over, og siden MacBooken blir med, og dere ikke-eksisterende leserne av Mirea.no blir med, enten dere vil eller ikke. Hoho, dette skal bli skøy!

Mellom stressing over hva jeg kan og ikke kan ta med meg, og alt det forbaskede papirarbeidet, gleder jeg meg som en unge!

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