Finally a blog, after quite a long time. So what are my main reasons for not posting a blog for all this time? Well, first of all, pure laziness, but after a few days another reason came up. See we were supposed to change our ISP to NextGentel, alas that would be not as easy as we thought. First of all, Wilma (my landlord) ordered a new connection from NGT, blissfully unaware of the fact that Tele2 (our previous provider) didn’t accept her order, due to her being registered with her middle name as well in their database, and they couldn’t by that verify that she was the owner of the account… Second of all, tele2 decided it would be clever to close down our connection 3 days BEFORE we got our new stuff set up from NGT, so after 3 days of no Internet, the router stuff from NGT arrived (all tough 1 day later the expected), and to our horror, we had received an defect router!.. So it was back to calling NGT, ordering a replacement and wait for that.
We of course ordered the new router when we figured out the one we received was defect, which was on Saturday. So we probably have to wait until either Tuesday or Wednesday until we will be able to connect the new router back up.
Lots of fun dealing with ISP’s, you never know what problems might occur…

Anyway, right now I’m writing this on my computer, but it will be posted at work tomorrow during my break, seeing as that’s the only place i can seem to get this done. Seems I’ll probably be spending time on the net from work, NAV or the library the next couple of days :s

So what has happened in my life these last days after i came back home from Skien? Well, i came home at around 7am in the morning, after the usual long train ride. Fun part was that i actually met someone i knew on the train. Kim from Outland was at the same train as me, with some of his friends. I slept for the most part during the entire trip though, so we didn’t get to talk as much.
Arriving at the train station i was greeted by a somewhat tired, but very happy Alina, which really put a big smile on my face. It was so good to see her again and i was really happy to see that she actually woke up that early on a Saturday morning just to come and meet me.
After heading back home and getting some sleep, we went to her place, packed the rest of her stuff and went back to my place to prepare for the H-Party. We cleaned my room and made some pizza. Just in time for everyone to arrive. We had a great time and talked quite allot, but after a while i got really sick and had to go throw up like several times during the evening. And no, it had nothing to do with drinking. To be honest i have no idea what the reason for it was, but I’m pretty sure i must have caught something whilst om the train back.
So the next 3 days i was pretty much sick, lying in bed or sitting in front of my computer trying to keep myself sedated on pills and warm drinks. I had a fever and was quite nauscious all the time. On Sunday i did get out and didn’t actually feel that bad. I even managed to help Alina move her stuff to my apartment from her old place. Thankfully Julian helped, otherwise we’d probably have had to work twice as long, but i got sick again later that evening and was in a pretty bad shape that night and the next 2 days.

After getting better i got back to work and managed to work at least Thursday and Friday before the weekend. And by then i was pretty ok.
The weekend i didn’t really do much to be honest. I mostly just relaxed at home and tried to recuperate for the coming week. Seeing as i still felt somewhat queezy.

The previous week (or this week, seeing as I’m writing this on a Sunday) I’ve been busy working every day all week. Monday to Friday. Most the days It’s just been wake up at 7, go to work at 8, back home at 4 (or walk around aimlessly in town), have some food, relax at home with Alina, then back at work again the following morning.
Thursday was fun though, me and Alina went to NTNU Gløshaugen to join a Christmas Workshop to make loorollsantas, braided hearts and Christmas cards. The Online group had arranged it at one of the classrooms there, and there were around 20 people or so there. We had gingerbread cookies and «Gløgg» and had great fun with some classmates of Alina. I made a loorollsanta and some hearts, and Alina made a couple of Christmas cards and 2 loorollsantas.

This weekend there was a new party, the J-Party. Me and Alina didn’t have any costumes at all, and seeing as we didn’t have time to make anything (well, she hadn’t any time, seeing as she was at work all day, i on the other hand did have time, but was too lazy to do so :s), we just went up there.
We still had a great time though, and i managed to actually get a costume as well after a while. I got dressed up as «jente», or «girl» in English. And i was told i looked quite good….Scary stuff.
We got quite drunk after a while and had a great time. At around 12 we went with the rest of the people out to get a buss and get into town. Me and Alina both decided once we were in town that it was about time to get home, so we stumbled our way home which of course took quite allot longer then it usually does, but then again, it always does when you’re drunk :p. Back home we got some food, drank allot of water and tried to get at least partially sober so we could get to bed without feeling too quezy in the morning.

Waking up today (Sunday) wasn’t that half bad. I felt okay, but Alina felt a bit worse. We stayed in bed most of the day and just either slept or relaxed. Got ourselves up at around one o’clock and took a shower and some food. Alina went to work at around 2:30 and I’ve been washing clothes, cleaning my room and doing the dishes.

Now I’ll probably watch a movie and just kick back in the sofa until Alina comes back from work. She’ll probably be back at around 9 or so, then we’ll probably just chill out until bedtime. Seeing as we both have to get up early tomorrow for more work and school.

This week I’ll be working Monday to Friday as usual. Seeing as it’s 50% of taxes this month, i really need to work as much as possible in order to get a decent paycheck the 20th. If my calculations are correct, i will probably receive a paycheck at around 8000kr, which is pretty neat. Most of it will go to either bills, rent, paying back loans and placing on my savings account in order to save up some money for a vacation. I really want to visit England with Alina this easter, so i want to save up a bit of money so we can maybe go to London as well and see the sites. Plan is probably to go there in the beginning of easter, cruise around in London for a couple of days, then head for Birmingham to visit our British friends.

Hopefully, once I’ve got my paycheck, i will try to invite some people to join me and Alina for a little trip to Sweden as well and do some shopping :p Would be fun. I also want to try to get some people to come with us to Pirbadet at one time and have a good swim and maybe pamper ourselves a bit. We’ll see once all the bills are payed how much I’ve got left.

Just so you know, i will try to blog more often. Only the last couple of weeks have been rather busy, and seeing as we don’t have an Internet connection it requires a bit of extra effort to get it done. Our connection will probably be back up some time the coming week though, so I’ll be back to blogging full time again then :)

For now i must say, this blog is really starting to feel like a personal, yet public, diary. And it does feel great to just write whatever is on my mind here, and actually getting feedback on what i write feels quite good as well. Hopefully I’ll be able to do this for quite a long time, so i can watch back and read up on stuff i wrote a long time ago, laugh and think «man, did i really think like that back then?».

Until next time, take care everyon
e! I’ll be back!