martinemonster

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.

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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).

*waves at flist*

I don't think I've ever been this excited about Christmas. It is weird, but very time I walk past a tacky fake Christmas tree or light ornaments my tummy gets this warm, comfy feeling inside and I start dreaming about Christmas. The cakes, the food, the gløgg, the snow, the Christmas trees, the presents. I've decided to force my office to partake in this inflated holiday cheer by buying red candles and gløgg and Christmas cookies to serve to the patients.

So how about you guys? Are you looking forward to Christmas? What holiday traditions do you love/hate? What are you most excited about?

I'm spending christmas with my family. My heart is with you guys (limminel) who didn't get home in time! But, more imporantly, my christmas rocks! We're only the four of us (me, one of my brothers, mum and dad) but we're having great fun. All the pressies are opened and we're taking turns listening to the cd's we've got. So far, christmas dinner was awsome, I was eating pork tenderloin potatoes and sauce, officially the best christmasfood ever! I got an Ipod and the new Tom Waits album! And it is awsome! Awsome I tell you! This year's christmas drink (gin and tonic with a slice of cucumber) on the other hand, was questionable. I think I'll stick with aquavite and beer, but still, it matched the enormous amount of posing for pictures we've done...

to the norwegians:

Mens jeg så på "Reisen til Julestjernen" i dag begynte jeg å tenke på hvordan den historien ville vært hvis den var skrevet av Hanne Ørstavik. Her er mitt (skrevet på en halvtime og ikke gjennomleste) utkast til denne novellen.

( Reisen til julestjernen -en julefortelling av Hanne Ørstavik )

Merry christmas everyone!

I've gotten a new passion: Going to conserts with bands I have no experience with! First it was Molvær, which was amazing, and yesterday it was Laibach! It was so cool and the consert was brilliant. THe beer tasted like heaven (or at least not Ringnes), the people were great (grimgram and aj_stalin and Thomas, I love you guys!), and the all over mood was just swee-he-he-heet! Oh, and I found that I like Laibach.

Also, aj_stalin I will love you forever for this christmas present. So brilliant!

Of course I'm all tired now, but that is to be expected...

Signing out to do work stuff. See, I can be good at my job... ;)


( I'm faith I'm faith, I so rock! )

I like Christmas. I'm a sucker for simple things like free coffee and cookies in stores (the mail office had it), and obnoxious christmasmusic. I like the way people smile more when christmas is approaching, and I even like the huge and, to be quite honest, tacky christmas decorations that Oslo provides in wintertime. But when Coca Cola tells me to "Share the Christmas Magic" something has gone very wrong. Now, Coca Cola Company is a company that traditionally is not afraid to stand up for the politically uncorrect way of thinking. They will go out of their way to concretizise their right to steal water from starving villiagers and use child and slave labor in their factories. I don't argue with that, I just don't buy their products when I can avoid it, but I honestly feel that they should refrain from ever using the word "share" in their publicity stunts. I mean, they're all about the opposite of sharing right? Then they should at least stick to what they're good at, being assholes.