Loving the bedroom nook below that looks quite cozy.
Have caught a summer cold that is racing around town. Have had to stay home but it's given me a day of rest, reading, and naps. Tomorrow it's back to normal!
Norwegian
26 July 2011
04 March 2011
more glimpses into The Good Fairy's home
Crisp, clean, colorful, organized rooms and shelves. That's why I continue to post images from the home of the good fairy. (dang! I keep wanting to type out "the tooth fairy" even though my family never believed in the tooth fairy....oops.. am I spoiling it for some of you?)
If you visit the good fairy's blog, she has some recent posts showing purple accessories for the home which make me want to add way more purple to my apartment's color scheme!
IT'S FRIDAY. yippee! I am getting cable TV again after going without it for one year. Was called by the cable company to add cable TV again for a pretty low price that's guaranteed for a year. What sold me on it (apart from the low price that will be added to my cable interent price) was that I will be able to program my DVR from a website. To get why I'm so excited about this, let's walk through how I recorded programs from 2002-2005: (see way below - under the photos)
+ I had a small tv, a vcr and a stack of VHS videotapes labeled Monday - Sunday.
+ I would then go into the programming mode with my VCR remote and up would pop a blue screen with white text that had columns for the date of the program to be recorded, the start time (you set it yourself) and the end time (you set that yourself as well), and the exact channel number to record it on. (If you recorded two shows and they overlapped by even one minute, no error message popped up to show you the discrepancy and help you resolve it!)
+So after every program (Oprah's show, a few shows each weeknight, movies on weekend) was meticulously programmed into the VCR, I had to pray that no storm would cause havoc by shutting off our electricity at home for even one minute. If so, the VCR programming would be erased and it would be back to square one - a blank screen with a cursor blinking at you as if to say "HA! go ahead, I dare you, just try to remember exactly all the shows you meant to record and make no mistakes!"
+When the electricity would go out when I was away from home, my poor (angel of a...) roommate Karla would stay on the phone with me while I walked her through what should record that very day (until I could go home between work and going out) - so she then had to tackle The Blue Screen for me.
+When watching a show, I might start the videotape and FAST FORWARD (while hearing a whirring sound) to the show I want to watch and if the wrong channel was chosen or if there was a delay in programming due to urgent news, the President's speech, etc. then I was out of luck and would end up with a recording I didn't want or need.
Let's sum up, shall we? VCR + TV + meticulous programming = temporary peace of mind.
Is it a wonder I wanted to leap for joy when I heard I could get a DVR again and program it remotely?! hallelujah!! No more watching shows online on a desktop computer while sitting in a hard, wodden chair at a desk - within arm's reach of the mouse to jiggle it to keep the screensaver from popping up. No more having to be home at the exact time the show is on (hello 1950s to 1980s to see my favorite shows.
If you're looking for me in the next week, just look on the couch. I'll be watching TV again with a blissful smile on my face for about a week or two. TV, I've missed you!
Have a groovy weekend! Be good!
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21 December 2010
bright, colorful norwegian children's bedroom
That first photo - I thought it was a doll's house with a tinier doll bed... and then realized it's really a child's bedroom! How lucky is the little girl who lives in this room?!
It is the week of Christmas. I took a vacation day yesterday and have one more on Monday - and that will be it for the year. I did have a productive morning in that I joined my former gym which I missed terribly and couldn't afford to join again until this month. This gym has a water fitness class I adore - keeps me from having to do aerobics in a studio where you sweat and sweat. Plus I'm addicted to the smell of chlorine. It just makes me smile! So to be able to attend an early morning class in the pool, relax in the hot tub then get ready for work - it feels like a luxury!
I also enjoy using the indoor track to walk miles in a week - because if I walk outside - there's too much ice and snow and I already fell once this weekend. Just have some bruises but that's why I don't walk for my health outside!
The gym also has this family pool area with a water slide - so it's fun to meet my friends there who have kids - and we have a jolly time as if we were on vacation - but we can do it on a Tuesday night or a Saturday morning. Anytime we wish. Such fun.
I do have some Christmas shopping left to do. A few Lego kits to purchase for some nephews and some creative thinking to figure out how to give cash to some other nephews. Must put on my thinking cap for that one.
Are you ready for Christmas yet?
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10 November 2010
[living rooms + Fjeldborg]
via NIB
These living rooms are finalists in a Norwegian online competition. Through the third living room photo, I found a blog with some beautiful interiors of the author's home.
A friend wrote me today saying I've been quiet this week. That's a change. Usually I'm Miss Chatterbox. Guess it's just one of those weeks.....thinking too much, feeling "full" inside of unprocessed emotions, experiences, thoughts - all good things.
I should be back quite soon with stories and "guess what happened?" type of moments!
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05 November 2010
Melissa in Oslo
Melissa in Oslo was interviewed by NIB about her apartment. One of her replies (translated into English by Google Translate) is:
"I feel I have a balanced mix of old and new," says Melissa. Actually, I'm not a flea market type, but prefer that I have of old furniture and objects are inherited. Many of the older stuff I have is from the grandfather, he traveled widely and knew many.Grandma's stuff will also live on here, and I really appreciate.
Rock and the mustard yellow pad is inheritance, and to give the apartment even more of the good charm it deserves."
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21 October 2010
Nora Lill's norwegian home
Nora Lill has a clean, white home with some great ideas in it...like the kitchen above. I would love a lower shelf as she has - for the microwave and a great big basket.
Then there's this cute childrens' play area:
....and some more white rooms.
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