Monthly Archives January 2007

katrina brown

I just love this smile so much; I wanted to share it with you.

money?

I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. It’s been one of those things that has been on my mind for months, but I haven’t really done anything about. I’ve been wondering about how I live. I’ve been wondering about how I spend money. I’ve been wondering what I value and how my spending reflects [...]

back home

I am back in Madison and my laptop’s power cord thing is busted. Or so Adam tells me. (note: I am so grateful for my Madison boys: Adam who knows how to fix things and the definitions to obscure words and Eliot my little warrior-mouse-catcher-man and purrbox. What would I do without them?) This [...]

my last night

It’s my last night here in Norway. I leave this flat (you know, the one above the H&M underwear store) early EARLY tomorrow morning. I feel like I’ve learned a lot here- I didn’t expect to; I thought I was just going to have a really good time. But I did learn a lot. I [...]

shopping

Karl Johans Gata- The big shopping/walking street in Oslo. It’s like State Street, but it’s much bigger, has a three story H&M and not many crazies. I miss the crazies.
Yesterday, I took some time to go shopping for gifts for my family and Adam. Naturally, I went to Karl Johan’s Gata because I know how [...]

tåran makes great waffles

This is my dear friend Tåran. I’m staying with her in Oslo- you know, above the H&M underwear store. She makes the most amazing waffles. (They have a Sunday night tradition here: after church at 19.00, people come over and drink coffee. This time, Tåran made waffles. Delicious Weegie waffles. And we laughed. And laughed. [...]

emily would be proud

After waking up at 2:30pm and watching that sitcom with Pamela Anderson and an hour of Laguna Beach:
Tåran: Hmm…My Super Sweet 16 is coming on.
Me: (with a note of sarcasm) Ooo. I’m excited.
Tåran: (with a note of sarcasm) Oh yeah, me too.
Me: Actually, I am a little bit excited.
Tåran: I know. [...]

oslo

Oslo is a city full of streets with rows of five-story yellow houses with steep metal roofs and large white windows. I’m staying with my dear friend Tåran in the apartment she shares with three other guys. It’s on top of an H&M underwear store and they stay up late talking about life and belief [...]

shoot.

So, I didn’t actually mean to chang my theme.

today i went skiing