Home and Garden Show

Show people are a straaange breed... personally I feel like I've had my brain drycleaned, and after smiling for 8 hours straight two days in a row I'm feeling quite strange. My job this weekend was to shut up, look pretty, smile and take people's money. It's amazing how many completely strange and useless products that are on sale, and what is even more amazing is how extremely good these people are at selling them! Who would have thought that they ever needed a thing to glue to your phone so you don't drop it? (I guess I could have needed one at some point. ahem..) And bouncing balls on a string, or a thingamadoo that cleans your windows on the inside and outside at the same time... I felt a bit like I was trapped in infomercial tv after tv-hours, but without a remote control. Eh well, bygones. At least now I can pay the power bill.

Det er også stygt å si det, men i det minste har jeg nå bevitnet det meste av Wellington's white trash - befolkning..vil jeg tro. haha. ;p


Not such a bad idea after a weekend at the Home and Garden show... hahaha. Thank goodness they don't have any of these close to westpac. Thanx Feli - I love this picture!

Liontamer (faithless)

If you place a thing into the center of your life
That lacks the power to nourish
It will eventually poison everything that you are
And destroy you

A simple a thing as an idea
Or your perspective on yourself or the world
No one can be the source of your contempt,
It lies within, in the center.
Only with mellow while your thin enough to slide through

Don't let nothing ride you.

If the sun or the moon should keel away to die,
They would immediately go out .

One.

Swallow don't make a sound,
But tomorrow has to start somewhere.

Newspapers entertain,
Lion Tamers die in pain
This Child wise beyond words
Whose tears flow without seize

When there's no where, left to run to
Let me come to you, let me help you down
For when the world, gives you tomorrow
You're gonna learn to live again

we can learn to go,
or learn as we go

Just to live, for the day
I know it's hard, to live for the moment
Just try, anyway

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I guess the only way to move on is to really give up. Face it, I don't have a chance.

emotions

I generally hate having crushes. Nothing has changed this time, I really hate it now too. Basically they're just major distractions, that are never acted upon, and thus lead to a massive amount of self critisism and time wasted on being spaced out, imagining that everything will have a happy ending. (gloomy, me? nooo.. never). I have sort of come to the point where I can see land, though. I know that this one too shall pass, and then life will go back to its normal self. It never fails to disappoint me though, how much of a coward I am, and how little I actually think of myself. If I wouldn't pick me, then who on earth would? All these things just make me feel homesick. And homesick I shall be... with this weather, conditions for homesickness are ideal. It's moist, not too cold, sometimes one can smell the salt from the sea.... home. Excactly like home. Predictions are that by wednesday I'll be running around the botanical garden, hugging trees and being completely delirious, longing for the mountains, the fiord, our apple trees, my family, mum's cooking, the glacier, going for rides on dad's bike, late and bright summer nights (that I won't see again till 2010, probably..) , Hansa beer, football on tv, hot afternoon showers, deneb, the big dipper, porkupines sniffing around for bugs.. ok, this is getting ridiculuos. I'm stopping now. *sigh*

unmotivated, and thinking about rugby

I'm supposed to be writing my essay, the last one for my bachelor degree, about some observation stuff that I've been doing the last week. Guess what: I'm procrastinating.. I'm still a bit surprised by the rugby results this morning, All Blacks lost 18 - 20 to France in Cardiff. But then again, how big a surprise was it really? Every game they have been playing this championship I have been thinking to myself: "wow, if they make mistakes like THAT(clumsy handling errors and bad defence.. etc) against Georgia/Portugal/whatever, how on earth will it go when they meet a socalled worthy opponent?" I guess we found out this morning. I've seen so many sad faces this morning though, and I guess I do feel sorry for them. Even I was pissed off at the ref for about 5 minutes. But then again.. it's just a game. It's not like it's soccer or anything... My team is in the lead by 7 points, with only four matches to go! YAY! Bring home the gold, boys! :) HEIA BRANN!

The Play

It seems like a long time ago now, but about two weeks ago we finished the play.

Yeah... I don't really know what more to say about it now, but.. Well, I'll be doing the next year's play as well, because it was that much fun. I reckon we did well, although we had a few mishaps, and a few distractions backstage (read: foul smelling fart, on stage humour that threw us off, etc). I think approximately 200 people came to see us, which is not THAT bad... at least not for an unknown play, in an enirely foreign language, on the other side of the world from Germany. kudos to all my co-play-people. :)