Is the cup half full or half empty

[martinemonster]

I always like to know that I know my body and the signs it's sending me. Of course, I almost always ignore them, but I like to know that I can notice and recognize them correctly. This time, I knew I was getting a cold 4 days ago, and I bargained with my body to just let me finish my final report before crashing completely. It more or less complied. Too bad that meant I couldn't go on the cabin trip I was supposed to go on, because I didn't want to drive for 1,5 hours to get up to a cold cabin with no showers or running water of any kind with a nasty cold. I waited for as long as I could to make my mind up, since I thought I might be wrong and that I'd get better from the cold and not worse. But of course not. I've been awake half the night woken up by my own coughing, I can't smoke due to the nastiness of my lungs, I keep almost fainting (which, if I was a 90 pound girl would be charming, I'm sure, but when it's me only makes me feel kinda weak and stupid) when I walk around, and I get nothing done.

So, I've gotten a hold of all three terminator movies, I'm all alone in my apartment, I've got freshly made coffee and I've decided to take today off from work to get better. See body? I listen to you and your needs. Get well now.


by dm_hpcrazy

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Martine
2. Pungis
3. Selvkontroll Svanevik (self-control Svanevik)

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU'VE HAD:
1. bella_morte (yes, I know, it's embarrassing)
2. martine
3. martinemonster

THREE THINGS YOU'VE DONE IN THE LAST 33 MINUTES:
1. had coffee and apple bits
2. read my flist
3. watched The Terminator (a movie that came out the year I was born. Isn't that just awesome? It's as old as I am)

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my hair is long enough now that I can have a ponytail, and it's red.
2. No matter what tests I've taken lately people keep menitoning Fred and George Weasley in connection with me, so it must mean I have an awesome personality.
3. My work ethics (though sometimes, I think they're too good)

THREE THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I can't get up in the mornings. Not even with an alarm.
2. I have a tendency to get snappy with the people I love and adore when I'm stressed out.
3. I have a problem saying no to things I can't/don't have time for/don't want to do.

THREE PARTS OF YOUR ORIGINS:
1. Norwegian all the way through.
2. From Holmestrand
3. Lives in Oslo

THREE THINGS YOU'RE AFRAID OF:
1. scars (on me, other people's scars are okay)
2. wrinkles
3. clowns

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. comfy sweater
2. comfy pants
3. slippers

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. coffee
2. the internet
3. morning radio

THREE IMPORTANT OBJECTS:
1. cell phone
2. computer
3. shower (can't get up otherwise)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS:
1. babyshambles
2. Tom Waits
3. Nick Cave

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY:
1. Sex
2. completing an assignment
3. curling up on the couch with coffee and a movie

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. The Pretender, Foo Fighters
2. Read my mind, the Killers
3. Sweet child of mine - Guns 'n Roses

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. Laser Tag
2. I'm thinking of seeing how I'd look as a blond
3. Actually working out at the gym (you know, not swimming, or aerobic, or yoga, but the machines and shit)

THREE THINGS YOU REGRET:
1. saying yes to going on a cabin trip that I then had to not go on.
2. eating a whole packet of chicken yesterday (is still full)
3. going to sleep with wet hair yesterday so it now looks like a complete mess.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. passion
2. great sex
3. some common interests

THREE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU'VE GIVING TO THE WORLD:
1. I'm keeping the coffee farmers of the world going?
2. I'd like to think I'm entertaining the people around me
3. Hugs to whoever wants any...

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in order):
1. I wish I was less messy, and that my apartment was clean all the time
2. I'm hiding under an authentic Native-American blanket.
3. Sam is the hot one of the Winchester brothers

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. eyes
2. muscles
3. pretty noses

THREE EMOTIONAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. Humour
2. sarcasm
3. intelligence

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. give up smoking (apparently)
2. stay mad at someone (I usually get over my anger in about 30 seconds. It's usually too much hassle to stay mad at someone for any length of time)
3. High-level maths (something happened. I blame the history department. I didn't use to be crap at math, but suddenly, I have trouble with division)

THREE THINGS YOU MISS FROM YOUR PAST:
1. My band
2. after-school coffee and homework at "prammen" in Sandefjord with my class mates
3. The crazy parties of 2001-2002.

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE:
1. I'd like someone to make me an in-doors picnic with a blanket and everything.
2. Flowers. I always love flowers, but it feels wrong to buy them for yourself.
3. A massage (my body aches).

THREE REASONS WHY YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE:
1. My family. They raised me and supported me all the way
2. Interaction with other people throughout my life
3. My trip to the US (2 months in a car alone will teach you something about yourself. I learned I was not as nice as I thought I was, but I think I like myself better now.)

THREE OF YOU YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES:
1. Rpg/larp
2. tv-shows/movies
3. squash (I'm crap at it so far, but it's fun!)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. get well
2. clean the apartment and wash my kitchen towels
3. be done with everything I was supposed to get done this easter "vacation" so I won't feel like I'm supposed to be working all the time.

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Evil-corporate executive (what, it's bound to pay well)
2. Ambassador
3. working with aid and development preferably through the government, but private organizations are okay too.

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR HOLIDAY:
1. New York or back to San Francisco
2. Japan
3. Russia

THREE CARTOON CHARACTERS:
1. Sandman
2. minnie mouse
3. spøkelseskladden (what's it called in english?)

THREE BOY’S NAMES:
1. Lucien
2. Fidel
3. Dean (I refuse to list Jensen, since it's a last name nomatter what his sick parents believed. Seriously, naming two of their kids Jensen and Mackenzie)

THREE GIRL'S NAMES:
1. Deidre
2. Aina
3. Victoria

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Have sex with two men at the same time
2. Get married (if for no other reason, then because of the dress...)
3. Do something that will get me written down in the history books (I don't wanna be forgotten)

THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ OR DIE PAINFULLY:
1. aj_stalin
2. sandchigger
3. 45hasle