Bon Jovi concert

A bit delayed post on the concert I attended the 18th of June, in Oslo. I also slept in the new apartment, for the first time! And found the way from the apartment and to the “Ullevål Station” without a map (because I forgot it at home, after printing it out in the morning).

Since I’m too lazy to post every picture, I cheated and used fd’s flickr toys, and made this mosaic!

 

while I wait for a flickr upload..

I can post about the things I want (and need) for the new appartment. Mostly IKEA-ish as always..

A reading lamp, for beside the bed. That stands on the floor. I’m thinking LERSTA in black or maybe KVART in red. In addition to this, I need a lamp by the work table. And the GLOBAL work lamp (in black) seems to fit that need.

I also need a bedside table. Since I don’t like any of the tables in the “bedside table”-section, I found out that the MIKAEL drawer unit can work well. I’m thinking in red/white or maybe black/white. It has wheels, which is practical

I really NEED a chair. But I don’t know which. I might go for the BONNY swivel chair. I need one with wheels and an adjustable height.

I also want this:

which is a water boiler, that filtrates the water, and only warms the water it pours out. So it saves electricity in the sense that you don’t warm more water than you need. But it’s quite expensive, at 900NOK, which is 175USD. And when you can get one for 80NOK / 15USD instead, I doubt I really will buy this. It looks good though

 

3rd post today

Just googled “expedit desk”, and found the first picture I’ve seen of an IKEA expedit desk. And it’s great!

Just check out this: (click the picture to see more pictures on the blog I found it)

I just LOVE this kind of craft spaces. Wish I had space for something like this

 

PIT 2008 - “brusteinsball”

Yesterday it was the kickoff of the annual festival that takes place in Porsgrunn, Norway (my town) It’s a festival of performance arts, and is visited by people (and actors/actresses) from all over the world. It’s the one week in the year where the city is full of people, and not people who are heading towards the local mall. It’s the time of the year, when you see all the alternative people in the city, and it’s the start of the summer.

Each year, it starts off with the “brusteinsball”, which means something like “pavement stone ball”. A mix between the rough and poor, and with the glamorous and rich. This year it was “Grupo Puja” an Argentine/Spanish group that completed that opening with the act “K@osmos”. They’re 50 meters up in the sky, and moves weightlessly to powerful music. It was really pretty. I didn’t take many pictures, but I was a bit far away to get good pictures anyway.

(for more, go to www.pit.no. The page can be viewed in english also)

since my video on flickr didn’t work to embed here, I found a nice clip on youtube instead. This gives a good impression of how it was, just that they were high up in the night sky

 

New home

I’m not moving until August, mostly because of my boyfriend who’s still living here, but my Dad and I went to Oslo again on Thursday the 12th to put up the things we had bought last time.

The place is just 183square feet (17m2), and that includes a bathroom, a kitchen and a small storage room. So it goes without saying that it’s not much room.

I was happy though, because with all the things put up, it looked much bigger than when it was empty. So here follows some pictures of the things:

Bed: Ikea; Sultan Svaneholm 90×200cm
Matress pad: Sultan Timan 90×200 cm
Expedit shelf with kassett storage, and a couple of Lekman boxes (not shown)
Sylling extra bed is also shown
And a corner of the desk, which is shown better below:

So this is Vika Amon 150×75cm, two Vika Curry legs, and a Vika Tore shelf unit.
In front of the window,so I can look out of it when eating or doing homework.

(I know I need to get a chair!)

Here you can see the kitchen part. Also the Benno bookshelf, with a phone in it

It’s not very big, but it works, and I have my own kitchen and bathroom. The thing I fear is that I’ll be all isolated, and that a shared kitchen would be better for me. But I’ll get what I can take The place I’ll live is a nice place, with designed greenish areas around the housing units. I live in the 4th floor, which is good. I could choose between this and a couple on the 2nd floor, but they didn’t feel right.

I need a couple of more trips until I can live there, because I still have a lot of things here. All my clothes are still here (I need them here before I move!) etc. But in 4 days, my friend Sara and I are going to Oslo to watch Jon Bon Jovi at a concert. And we’re sleeping here. So we had to get it ready before that

More updates will definitely come later

 

Sunday

I better blog a bit before I go to bed..

Today’s been nice. Was at my boyfriend’s place tonight, and since the weather still was lovely (it’s been super sunny for over a week now) we went out to Sottil again. It’s so pretty there! Stayed there for a while, but unfortunately it started to get cloudy, so I didn’t feel like jumping out in the water. Since it was still quite warm, we just sunbathed and relaxed for quite some time. We had the place all for ourselves, and that’s the great thing about it! I don’t like all those crowded beach places. I don’t like to show off my body (it’s not something to show off) so I tend to like those remote places better. PLUS; this has fresh water, which is so much better than the salty sea.

We saw dragonflies laying egg while flying in tandem. So cute little things. And lots of fish jumping in the water. Birds in the trees. So powerful and relaxing. But since I’m blogging from bed now, the computer is getting a bit too hot, and I have to go to bed. So I’ve added a photo from Sottil. And good night!

 

Long post - IKEA

Okay, so I was at IKEA yesterday. First we drove to Bjølsen student housing, and got the keys. The apartment was smaller than I’d imagined, but it’ll be okay Then we drove to IKEA and bought a LOT of things

Benno white cd shelf

expedit bookshelf + capita legs.
(I’m gonna flip this 90degrees)

lekman box x2 for the expedit

Sultan Svaneholm mattress

Sultan Timan over mattress

Sultann feet 20cm

Vika Amon 150×75cm

Vika Tore shelfing unit for one side of the table.

two of these Vika Curry legs, for the other side of the table

Sylling extra bed.

Fniss paper basket (just to have something, it cost next to nothing.

Fira shelfing thing

Jäll drying thing

2x this kassett magazine holder

kassett mini shelfing, one of each

kvot - thing.

I also bought a lot of small things, that I don’t bother putting up here, because it’s not really interesting AT ALL. Things like plastis ice cube trays, an egg divider thing, bread knife, dish towels, regular towels, whisks+++

This all cost me 6700NOK, which is $1300 or 840€
The bed was the most expensive thing, and was about half of the expenses itself. But a nice bed is important.

We didn’t get to do anything with the boxes after carrying them up to the apartment. Just drove home, because it was really late, and a working day today. This means we might have to go to Oslo again on Saturday to put things together. I was also stupid and dint’t take any photos. I’ll do that when we put things up. Now it’s just in boxes and plastic

 

Early morning; busy day.

Yep, so this is me this morning. I’m very tired, so I just made a really strong batch of coffee.. I guess the other coffee drinking people in the house will toss it out because it was too strong. But I managed to drink a large cup. Felt I needed it.

Got to bed at 23.30 yesterday but didn’t fall asleep until after midnight. So getting up at 06.00 today felt very early. But I did promise my mom, and she had to go to work. I would just have gotten one more hour of sleep anyway. Because in 15 minutes, I have to get out to the car and drive to work myself. I start at 08.30 today, so I can get out the newspapers ++ before the store opens at 09.00.

So I guess it will be a busy day, Saturdays usually is. And I always feel I have to have control over everything. But I pretty much do, hehe Then I’ll end at 16.30. Which leaves me just 40 minutes before I have to be ready for being picked up for the BBQ. It will be okay though, I just have to wrap up everything at work a bit early. And I just have to put on some regular clothes and a bit makeup. So it will be good. We’re playing paint ball, so I guess I’ll get sweaty anyway And when that’s over, we’ll drive home at 21.00. THEN I have to take a shower before taking the bus downtown to do some partying I won’t be that active, but since I just have a month left at work before quitting, I feel I have to participate. I’m slightly afraid I’ll fall asleep on the bus down to the city though, lol.

Well, I better quit now. I guess I won’t be on the internet more today

 

quick post

I’m currently lying in bed, with my new laptop computer! I love it

I’m getting up in just 6,5 hours, to drive my mom to work, then go to work myself. So I need to sleep now.

Tomorrow it will be a summer party at work, so I won’t be able to use the computer at all during tomorrow. Just maybe in the evening. We’ll see.

Good night, Internet!

 

walking on water