martinemonster: (me pink)
( Jan. 12th, 2009 08:45 pm)
Today has been a pretty productive day actually. I feel very accomplished. I dragged myself out of bed and went training in the morning, followed by a meeting with my tutor who alleviated most of my fears about my masters by helping me narrow down my field of study and source material. Then I met [livejournal.com profile] aj_stalin for coffee before I borrowed two newly published works on North European Aid. I then went home, read 50 pages and wrote a summary of them, emailed my work so far to my tutor, did some weight lifting, updated my schedule and finally crashed on the couch.

Now dinner is nearly done and everything is nice and cozy.
martinemonster: (tinkerbell)
( Jan. 8th, 2009 10:30 pm)
That´s right, I´ve got a nicely used MacBook Air (*squee*) It is so pretty and awesome and I´m posting from it right now.

And it´s so light! It feels like I´ve got nothing in my lap. *hugs it close*
martinemonster: (wtf)
( Jan. 6th, 2009 03:06 pm)
I've been fairly busy these past few weeks and haven't really checked my flist or posted anything. But I'm back now! The new year is here and I'm exited. I'm getting a new computer, I'm selling the old one (if anyone is interested in my lovely HP Pavilion just let me know, I basically just want to sell it to get rid of it so it'll be really cheap!) and I'm getting back to my studies.

To be quite honest I have to ease my way in to it because I'm not used to this student living thing. So far I've gotten a few panic attacks thinking of how broke I'm gonna be, tried to figure out what my curriculum is and worked my way up to making a plan for how I'm actually going to manage to write a book in a year. Oh, and I've contacted my tutors and asked to meet them so they can point the way for me.

In other news, I've gained weight during Christmas (damn you pinnekjøtt! damned you to heck!), but I'm not worrying. You see, I've started a new workout program which is kick-ass and which will hopefully make me so incredibly strong, fast and bouncy that people will mistake me for Rhona Mitra

Anyways, here is my meme stolen from Guri who took it from Aina:

It's all about me. Me me me )
1. My attempted one week off from coffee went spectacularly bad. I got grumpy and tired and ended up eating chocolate to keep going at work. Suffice to say, I lasted one day and then I started drinking it again. I'm accepting my fate as a coffee addict.

2. Today was my last day of work at the clinic. I have a Christmas break followed by (hopefully) my last year as a student. I'm conflicted, sad and confused. My boss hugged me goodbye and I wish I was already done studying.

3. I'm going home for the holidays in one hour. Have not started packing yet. Will miss you all and I hope you all have a very nice Christmas with all it entails for you! *hugs entire flist*
martinemonster: (dean not funny)
( Dec. 23rd, 2008 04:34 pm)
I'm not a great believer in magic. In fact, I believe that most fantastical occurrences in this world can be aptly explained by science. But in the last few months, a series of events have occurred which have given me a sneaking suspicion that there might actually be something else, something unexplainable, at work in this world.

When I'd just started working at Linderud Chiropractor clinic I noticed an ugly ass statue above the kitchen sink. When asked, my boss told me that it was a statue made by a friend of his, a Native American sorcerer who carved statues of great power. That was a warrior, meant to fight off bad energy in the clinic. I always got a bad feeling about this statue, but I chose to ignore it and to keep my lack of faith in the power of it to myself.

Then one day, the statue was gone, replaced by another statue. This one was appealing. A gorgeous feminine shape with flowing limbs, reminding you of rivers and silence. All dark colors and mystique. I loved this statue and after a while I asked my boss what it symbolized. He said he was sad the other figure was gone and he missed it, but it had done it's job and this statue was a female warrior meant to bring feminine power back in the clinic. Nice, I thought and left the statue alone.

Then, throughout the fall, I noticed a change in the mood of the clinic. First, there was an increase in female patients followed by an increase of babies getting treated. Then, I started changing my view on kids. Suddenly, they started looking appealing and the idea of having one of my own started popping into my head. It obviously started popping into Armando's head too, since he started talking about it. Then, the female patients started getting pregnant in rapid succession and Armando got back together with his woman and they decided that they were getting another kid.

Now, almost once a week, another female patient will let us know that’s she’s gotten pregnant, or a male patient will mention his wish for kids. I’ve seen the signs and I know what this means: I’m getting out of the clinic before I accidentally become pregnant too.
martinemonster: (me pink)
( Dec. 14th, 2008 12:41 pm)
Here's my year summarized in journal posts. I take the first sentence of the first entry of every month and post it to get an overview of the past year. I'm excited, aren't you?

January
This Christmas has been a time for the bitter-sweet feelings of suddenly realizing that you've grown up.

February
The Cure!!!
De spiller 11. februar.

March
Do you guys ever wake up realizing that the day ahead is going to be really hard to get through?

April
Do you ever feel like your life is so overflowing with stuff you need to do that there is just no way that you'll get through it all?

May
First off, congratulations comrades. I hope you all had a great day and that you filled it with much proletarian-friendly fun.

June
This weekend has been really very nice.

July
Well, I had been getting a cold for a while, and one could argue that the reason why it got massively worse was that I chose to go work out and continue stressing through the last days before the larp I´m attending, but I choose to believe that my body is punishing me for denying it chocolate.

August
So I took this test...the gender test at thespark.com, and it told me I was a man.

September
Do you ever have those moments where you look at yourself in the mirror and suddenly realize your entire outfit is a complete failure?

October
Life is difficult. Last week, I was so tired from work that I didn't know what to do and the bags under my eyes got bags of their own.

November
I made my very first pie yesterday.

December
Ever since I started my new and better life (which includes very little candy and snacks, no smoking and vigorous workouts), I’ve started substituting all my cravings for coffee.

...

Wow, after reading through this, I think my new year's resolution this year will be to learn to relax. I've been too busy this year (again).
martinemonster: (gotta have coffee)
( Dec. 11th, 2008 06:48 pm)
I'm grumpy. I haven't had my coffee today. I realized that I've become addicted to coffee (again). I will not accept this! I'm taking a week off. No coffee for me until next Thursday. Let's see if I make it...

In other news, the lovely [livejournal.com profile] aj_stalin has admitted to loving something so soppy it makes my insides cringe and asked the rest of us, in Christmas spirit, to share something we are ashamed to love with the rest of you.

I hereby rise to the occation:

When I was really little, Absolute Music released a Christmas special (or, to be honest, by the time I noticed them they'd released): Absolute Christmas 2. It's a mix tape of different, more than well known songs that brings holiday cheer. In other words, it's pretty awful. But I was young and tasteless, and I loved song number 4: Frankie Goes to Hollywood - the power of love. That's right, not a good song, nothing to do with Christmas, and yet for me I still cannot decorate a Christmas tree without listening to it.

So there you have it:




I, of course, invite the rest of my flist to do the same. I've shared something horribly embarrassing with you. Now it's your turn.
You know you went wrong somewhere in the planning stages of an event when a cozy, close friends only, movie showing suddenly includes 15 people and (hopefully) massive amounts of alcohol.
martinemonster: (the universe)
( Nov. 17th, 2008 01:23 pm)
I just took one of the first bites of my lunch when my jaw when *clickbreak* and started hurting. Now I can't close or open my mouth properly and eating is completely out of the question. I took one painkiller, but so far it's not helping. All it does is make my tongue feel kinda numb thus making talking difficult.

My boss, kind man that he is, suggested this was a sign that I should attempt to shut up for the rest of the day (then he gave me said painkiller and told me to be careful and try to move my jaw as little as possible).
Man I hate being sick. I hate it about as much as I hate people who have yet to realize the beauty of lj-cuts, and that says a lot. I haven't even gotten out of bed yet, my head hurts too much. I put clothes on at 1 because delivery guys were coming by with our dishwasher (dishwashing squee) and I promptly fell asleep while the electrician came to plug it in. My day has consisted of answering the phone and pretending to be at work (since the only person who could fill in for me at work is our massage therapist, who doesn't speak Norwegian), and sleeping in-between the phone calls. Really difficult to pretend to know what's going on while waking up 17 times, but at least it's better than being at work.

Food so far today: 1 power bar from the box on the shelf in my room and half a cup of peppermint tea. I'm thinking of ordering in some Chinese at some point. Delivery services deliver drinks as well, right?
martinemonster: (Default)
( Oct. 26th, 2008 11:00 pm)
I broke up with my boss. That´s right, I quit my job. From January I´m going back to school to finish my degree. It was horrible, but even though I´m going to miss the clinic, I think it´s the right choice. Problem is that I don´t really want to study, I just want to be done, finished with my degree and ready to start working.

In other news, I finally got to see the episode of MST3000 with Creepy Girl. Me, [livejournal.com profile] aj_stalin and [livejournal.com profile] 3ff3ct3r are watching it on our new, awesome flatscreen. And tomorrow we´re getting a dishwasher. I´m so established it´s scary (and the scariest part is how comfy it is).
I am one of those people who hate soppy love posts on lj. I feel that if people need to express that level of emotion, they should do so privately, and not spam the rest of us will cutesy and annoying posts. But sometimes even a hard-as-nails woman like myself has to cave and make a post that is solely a soppy love post to a loved one:

ICA

ICA is a grocery store chain in Norway (first based in Sweden I believe, but that is of no importance to me) that provides me with the food I need. It is not the cheapest store, it does not have the charming clerks of my old and beloved Bunnpris Sinsen, but it has a selection of foods like no other store close to my apartment. Today, it provided me with a perfectly ripe mango and a packet of already peeled pistachios. It doesn't get closer to heaven than that.

So ICA, I just have to write this post to tell you that you make my world a bit better every day. Without you I would indeed be a sad panda.
I love my new apartment and my new neighbors!

First, the ones living to the left of us gave us their newspaper for the time they were away. And today, when I got home from KunTao, the ones living to the right of us had given me roses to welcome me to the apartment building.

Flowers everyone! Who says complaining that noone give you flowers on lj doesn't work. :D
martinemonster: (tinkerbell)
( Sep. 15th, 2008 08:41 pm)
There is a lot of good stuff happening in my life right now. So much, in fact, that I can't seem to have enough time to savor it. I'm really happy that I took a year off from studies because I love my job, my boss, my patients, my free treatments and the KunTao that I train in the back of the clinic. At the same time, that leaves little room for anything else in my life right now. I get there before 9 in the morning, and usually don't leave until after eight. So much for my relaxing year off, right? But at least I'm getting healthy.

I missed two birthday parties I really wanted to go to because I was so busy moving I forgot to check which week it was. This should tell you something about how much is going on. On the plus side, this resulted in me fully moving out of Sinsenterrassen (I washed my room on Sunday and when I turned off the light and closed the door I almost cried), but it still means that I didn't get to hang out with a bunch of people I really wanted to meet again. I'll miss casa Hasle-Svanevik with everything it entails of parties and quiet evenings with tv-shows, but I'm very happy that I'm here in my new apartment. It's kinda scary to be sharing a room with someone though. Then again, the boyfriend manages to sit quietly next to me while I blog without interfering or talking too much (*hearts him*).
martinemonster: (Default)
( Sep. 4th, 2008 03:16 pm)
I've been flirting with the idea of giving up coffee. Clever minds have told me it's addictive and unhealthy, and I've found myself agreeing. Of course, I do a lot of other stuff that's much more unhealthy, like drinking every weekend and eating cake, but quitting coffee is much less hassle than the immense lifestyle changes the other two would entail, so I figured I'd start there.

Until, this morning, as I headed off for work and passed the open bakery right by my flat. The moment I smelled the coffee I was enticed and I found myself entering the bakery (which was a good idea since I hadn't had time to eat breakfast and there was no food at work). I bought a morning cup of coffee even though I wasn't supposed to be drinking coffee in the mornings anymore and from the moment I held it in my hand I knew. This is something I don't want to give up. The smell of it. The feel of the warm paper cup in my hand as I rush to work. That first sip of the perfectly brewed coffee. It's heaven. I think I might give up chocolate before I give up coffee. Hell, I'd probably give up alcohol for coffee.

*bliss*
Do you ever have those moments where you look at yourself in the mirror and suddenly realize your entire outfit is a complete failure? I had one of those today. I was looking good at work: my hair accidentally stylishly messy, my baggy 90s pants hanging from my hips and my sweater understatedly showing off my tits. And then I got home, had sex, took a shower and decided to put on comfy clothes before bed. Tha-ta: instant failure. I put on a comfy shirt and a long, dark blue skirt (no bra). Happily walking around, the boyfriend not mentioning my outfit at all, I suddenly look in the mirror and see that I've gained about 500lbs, my tits seem to be sagging down to my stomach and my hips have magically disappeared, mostly because my tummy seems to have grown outrageously.

This needs to be remedied. Only problem is, I don't even know where to start looking for sexy yet comfortable clothes. Somebody has to help me here. Help flist?
martinemonster: (me pink)
( Aug. 17th, 2008 03:27 pm)
Every year fall hits me suddenly in the face. This year it was at 8 o'clock as I was walking to work and realized that it was too cold to walk around outside in a t-shirt, short skirt and no pantyhose. Suddenly, I noticed that there were leaves on the ground, the wind was making me cold and everything smelled differently.

This means that summer is over and it's time to start figuring out what I want with my life. I've spent the summer thinking and learning a lot about myself, and I've discovered that I might not be as jaded and disillusioned as I wanted to believe. I've discovered that I don't think I can choose merely a high paying profession. I want to work with something that matters.

Of course, knowing that doesn't actually help me choose a direction in my studies, so I'm still sticking to the plan of working at Linderud Chiropractor clinic for a year. This year I'll spend on my mental and physical wellbeing, getting in shape and preparing myself for whatever I choose to spend my life doing. This is going to be an interesting year.
So I took this test...the gender test at thespark.com, and it told me I was a man. In fact, I was so manly that 92% of the people who took the test before me were less manly than me. Tell me truly: Am I a man? Do I seem manly to you?

In other news, me and my boss oogled the same hairdresser on our way out of work today. It seems we share a taste in women (but come on, her tits are fabulous).
This is a very slow Saturday. The boyfriend is coming home from vacation tonight and I blame my lack of focus today on that. I'm proud to say that actually woke [livejournal.com profile] 45hasle and Trine with eggs and bacon for breakfast this morning, but sadly I must admit that my day have been less productive after that. Basically I've re-watched Dexter, tried to work out and realized that the training center closes early on Saturdays and not cleaned my room.
I had a sad moment today. I was at work and one of the patients mentioned that they had a sale on roses in the local flower shop downstairs (the clinic is inside a mall). Oh, I thought, I can buy roses for myself and put them in my lovely vase in the living room. And then it hit me: In my wee goth-days I never bought roses for myself. I got long stemmed red roses, black roses, even a blue rose once, but nowadays, nobody buys me flowers. The only flowers I've received for years were the ones I picked out of the local grocery shop garbage disposal last year.

Is it because I seem like the type of woman who would frown upon getting flowers? Or is it because people have stopped buying flowers for each other? Or maybe I've just lost my charm...

When I was little, I wanted to be a public speaker just because every time my mom had held a lecture or a course for someone she'd get a bouquet of flowers and I was always dead jealous. I hope people don't view me as someone adverse to flowers. Believe me, I'm not.
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