Lolcat of the day

From http://icanhascheezburger.com/.

Live for the sounds

I'm not sure if it's partly that I am hoppety hopped up on very mild painkillers (low tolerance) or the incredibly loud music coming out of my speakers, but I feel good, I feel inspired, I feel like I am going to accomplish something in the near future, and knowing me you should realize this is somewhat of a feat. Sad but true, this fact should not be depressing but exciting, and a celebration of "yay, kari is getting her life back on track" is definitely in order.

I think I shall celebrate with a cup of tea.

Seoul

Seoul is large, Seoul is warm, Seoul is sticky, Seoul is really really Korean, Seoul is awesome.

We went out walking after Kyle left for work today. Vivian discovered that there is a store next to Namdaemun Market with 2 stores of only stationary, so we decided to go there. The whole market is really just down the hill, so I foresee a lot of trips there. Apparently the actual market place is so huge you get lost in it, and I can't wait for that to happen to us. Instead of returning with stationary I came back 100,000 Won (about 500 NOK) poorer, but a Fujifilm instant camera richer. Fuck yes, I always wanted a polaroid camera. It takes tiny photos, like.. credit card size. The film is kind of expensive, but whatever, I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS PURCHASE. Obviously we win at life. Awesome times expected.

Later tonight we're going out at Itaewon, which is like the center of life in the town, or something. It has a market and a lot of places to go out to eat and drink. Kyle doesn't get off work until 9, but I have some work to catch up on, and besides I'm starting to get over the jetlag which was making me tired at like 6 pm. The first day I woke up at 4.30 am, and I had a very grumpy (yet understanding) boy in bed with me, who did not understand why we were getting up at such an ungodly hour. Moahahaha.

I don't know, I guess I'll write more later.

Basically

I moved out of the Space Shuttle, redid my book shelf to fit ALL my books, and now I am trying to finish work and cleaning and a lot of other very tedious and boring activities before I pack my suitcase for Seoul next week. Holy shit, it's like a week from now.

Excited!

I'm not sure what kind of clothes to bring, and I need a haircut really badly (growing out the hair, but the bangs... ahhhh, they look horrible), but I can get all of that done in time, right?

Ofcourse I can! ^_^

But now I better stop writing and go back to working. Even though its boring. Really, really boring.

it's not accidental

how i feel inside.

there's a song called stupidly happy. i would not go so far as saying that's what i am, but lately i've been feeling really really, really-really, really really good. it's strange, all this optimism is making me realize that despite some serious issues and problems needing solutions and resolutions, things are eventually going to be ok.

and i deserve it!

it's light out.

it's still light out, even at 8 pm, and it baffles me. i think growing up where the sun literally does not shine parts of the year makes you appreciate the sun that much more. i love the dark, and i love the moonlight, but when the sun rises over the horizon, or stays up late at night, it soothes my heart.

ok, so enough with the youtube.

i know this is cheesy and set to a bunch of scenes from Grey's Anatomy (which i have to admit i watch avidly - but am not quick to admit this, besides it's totally a guilty pleasure because it has got to be one of the cheesiest shows ever), but when i heard this song again earlier this week, which was probably the first time after downloading this album when it came out and not really taking to it much, it did tug at my heart strings a little (well a lot, actually). it's cheesy, but so are my enchiladas, and people seem to love those.



love you guys.

love love love.

fated to pretend.

i'm cleaning with vivian, or we were cleaning and this is my official break which i am spending writing this blog with absolutely no content. i'm really really looking forward to seeing eva again tomorrow, i haven't seen her since my trip to oslo like a hundred million years ago, and she's just such a special person to be around. i'm sure we'll break out the tea and it'll be like old times, just in a slightly more comfortable sofa.

"Yeah, it's overwhelming, but what else can we do."

message

i've decided to post one entry with something somewhere every day.

this is one of the places things might show up, but not the only one.

Well, hi there

I like your light

I'm sitting here rubbing my eyes because I spent way too much time in bed this morning. A month ago today I got up early because I went to bed early and everything was fine, but during the course of the next four weeks I basically fucked that up. Well not so much me as us, but then again I am a pretty important part of the us.

I felt like the last entry was too depressing to end up at the top of the page until the end of time, and besides I've been itching to write lately so it makes sense that I would put something down. Besides I get to use photos and a fancy font with this blog, so how can I resist it for too long?

So.. I'm an us. Or no, I could not really be an us, but I am a part of one, and it's sort of unexpected in the way that I was expecting it to never happen again, so I guess that says enough. I realize that was a pretty unrealistic way to look at things, but at the same time what else is there to do for a girl with a broken heart? I don't really know what's going to happen in a week or a month or a year but it's quite refreshing to just live in the now and enjoy every minute of every day for a change. This very short term living is really not like anything I've ever done before, as I am a plan-ahead kind of person, but I guess a change of scenery works wonders once in a while. I don't expect it to last though, come Monday I'll go back to planning planning planning. But for now... not.

He is about to find out how serious I am about washing your hands and brushing your teeth after eating tunafish.

Fuck it

Every little thing I do, I do for you
With every little thing, I think a thought of you

And I try so hard not to notice
I try so hard not to care
I try so hard not to know that you're not here
But I'm counting down the hours
And I'm counting up the days
I try so hard not to show this side of me

Jealous of the way they walk, the way *they* talk
'Cause I don't think they know just what they got
I'm jealous of the way they look, the way they are
When I just want to be the way we were

And I try so hard not to notice
I try so hard not to care
I try so hard not to know that you're not here
But I'm counting down the hours
And I'm counting up the days
I try so hard not to show this side of me

Well, I try so hard not to notice
I try so hard not to care
I try so hard not to know that you're not here
But I'm counting down the hours
And I'm counting up the days
I try so hard not to show this side of me
This side of me, this side of me
This side of me, this side of me
This side of me, this side of me
This side of me, this side of me
This side of me

Orly?

Too bad I've spent most of that time sleeping the past 10 months or so.

Rollercoaster

THEY LIED TO US!

Ja, ja. Hva kan jeg si, jeg er en berg- og dalbane laget av kjøtt og blod; det går litt opp; det går litt ned; det går litt rundt og til siden. Dagen i går var en katastrofe, en eksplosjon av dårlige følelser og et brennende ønske om å legge seg under dyna og aldri se dagens lys igjen. I dag, derimot, er litt lysere, litt bedre. Jeg føler at jeg greier å holde tak i sakene mine, jeg prøver på nytt, jeg gjør mitt beste. Og hva annet kan du egentlig be om?

Det er mye å gjøre på jobben for tiden, men det er bra, for jeg har litt pengeproblemer. Skatt fra i fjor og regninger spiser opp lønningene mine, og jeg må begynne å spare opp penger til jeg skal ut i verden. Forhåpentlivis får jeg jobbet en god del mer hos pappa, og i tillegg bør jeg prøve å få meg en eller anne helgejobb. Bortsett fra musikkfestival(er?) og en reise til Edinburgh med Vivian og Therese denne sommeren er jeg egentlig innstilt på å jobbe livet av meg, noe som egentlig er greit for å være ærlig. Skal få besøk/besøke litt folk, men hoveddelen av sommeren blir nok ærlig arbeid.

MEN NOK OM DET! JEG VIL DRA PÅ VAMPIRE WEEKEND-KONSERT. OMG PLZ? GIMME GIMME.

Nå blir pappa glad!

DINE STUDIEØNSKER FOR 2008-OPPTAKET I PRIORITERT REKKEFØLGE

PRI KODE   STED STUDIUM
--- ------ ---- -----------------------------------
1. 217046 UiS  Fjernsyns- og multimedieproduksjon
2. 204454 HBO  Journalistikk
3. 185851 UiO  Medievitenskap
4. 215336 HiO  Bibliotek- og informasjonsvitenskap
5. 215850 HiO  Medier og kommunikasjon
6. 185439 UiO  Estetiske studier
7. 193780 NVH  Dyrepleierutdanning
8. 217200 UiS  Kunst- og kulturvitenskap
9. 223451 HVO  Animasjon
10. 223430 HVO  Media, IKT og design

UiS = Universitetet i Stavanger
HBO = Høgskolen i Bodø
UiO = Universitetet i Oslo
HiO = Høgskolen i Oslo
NVH = Norges veterinærhøgskole (Oslo)
HVO = Høgskolen i Volda

I need therapy.

I'm singing my own song, now.

Etter en veldig fin uke i Øverbygd er livet blitt litt bedre og litt mer vanskelig. Vanskelig fordi når man går rundt og er (dreprimert) litt deppa glemmer man av hvor godt man kan ha det uten å egentlig måtte gjøre så mye for det. Don't get me wrong, jeg angrer ikke på at jeg dro, men nå er alt plutselig litt mer ensomt og tomt. BUT THE UPSIDE IS; jeg har planer.

Først planer for sommeren: Hove 23-27 Juni. Omigosh. Animal Collective, Babyshambles (omg lol), Bad Religion, Band of Horses, BECK (!!), Deerhunter, Familjen, Flogging Molly, Foals, Jay-Z, Les Savy Fav, M.I.A, MGMT, Opeth, Slagsmålsklubben, St Vincent, Stars, THE KOOKS, The National Bank, The Pigeon Detectives, The Raconteurs, THE WOMBATS (!) og Yeasayer.

HUM HUM HUM. It's gonna be good. En god del fantastiske (!!!) mennesker skal være der også, så det skal bli et par uforglemmelige dager, tror jeg. I tillegg planlegger jeg en tur til Trondheim noen dager før sammen med Vivian, for å gjøre alle de tingene vi ikke gjorde mens vi bodde der. COULD BE GOOD TIMES. (strike the could).

Det er litt vanskelig å sitte her mutters alene, men nå har jeg noe å se fram tid på korttidssikt og langtidssikt, og det hjelper, tro meg. På et lengre sikt planlegger jeg å flytte til Edinburgh til høsten. WTF? Ja, Srsly. Nei, nå må jeg jobbe. Spare opp slik at jeg kan kjøpe mange fine paraplyer, liksom.

Newsflash for you all: ALL IS FULL OF LOVE.

I'm listening

TANKER PÅ EN MANDAG

o Jeg sitter her og jobber mens jeg ser fram til lysere tider, og husker plutselig jeg ikke egentlig liker lys. Mørketiden passer meg egentlig fint, jeg har alltid vært en nattugle. Ikke det at jeg ikke liker sol, og midnattsolen er vel den beste type sol uansett, men... men ja. Lys liksom? Jeg er ikke lys, jeg er en mørk og sart sjel, eller det var iallefall det en fotograf fortalte meg en gang i tiden. Tullemannen.

o Jeg har vondt i hodet. Jeg har lyst til å plastre et mummiplaster på det, men det vil jo liksom ikke hjelpe, plaster funker bare på utsiden.

o Jeg har virkelig lyst til å tro at verden ikke er i ferd med å gå fullstending i dass, men det blir egentlig vanskeligere og vanskeligere å overbevise meg selv om at dette er faktum. Jeg lever litt i en boble, men selv det funker ikke helt. Vi ødelegger oss selv og jeg tror ikke noen vet hvordan vi skal stoppe det. Bortsett fra kanskje de folka som går rundt og gir ut gratis klemmer. Tror de er inne på noe, de.

o Jo eldre jeg blir, jo mer vanskelig blir det for meg å stole på folk.

o Den enste grunnen til at jeg lager en punktliste er at jeg er lat og ikke orker skrive en fornuftig tekst.

MAYBE, LIKE SERIOUSLY DUDE, I DON'T REALLY WANNA KNOW HOW YOUR GARDEN GROWS? OK! BECAUSE I JUST WANNA FLY, RIGHT?!

..argh.

Le Sigh

[Luke and Lorelai's first real date; they have just read a long story on the back of a menu, hence the menu line]

Lorelai: Hey, do you remember the first time we met?
Luke: What?
Lorelai: I'm just trying to remember the first time we met. It must have been at Luke's, right?
Luke: [nods] It was at Luke's, it was at lunch, it was a very busy day, the place was packed, and this person...
Lorelai: Ooh, is it me? Is it me?
Luke: This person comes tearing into the place in a caffeine frenzy.
Lorelai: [happily] Ooh, it's me.
Luke: I was with a customer. She interrupts me, wild-eyed, begging for coffee, so I tell her to wait her turn. Then she starts following me around, talking a mile a minute, saying God knows what. So finally I turn to her, and I tell her she's being annoying - sit down, shut up, I'll get to her when I get to her.
Lorelai: Y'know, I bet she took that very well, 'cause she sounds just delightful.
Luke: She asked me what my birthday was. I wouldn't tell her. She wouldn't stop talking. I gave in. I told her my birthday. Then she opened up the newspaper to the horoscope page, wrote something down, tore it out, handed it to me.
Lorelai: God, seriously. You wrote the menu, didn't you?
Luke: So I'm looking at this piece of paper in my hand, and under Scorpio, she had written 'You will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she'll go away.' I gave her coffee.
Lorelai: [grins] But she didn't go away.
Luke: She told me to hold on to that horoscope, put it in my wallet, and carry it around with me -
[takes a piece of paper from his wallet and gives it to her]
Luke: one day it would bring me luck.
Lorelai: [teasing] Well, man, I will say anything for a cup of coffee
[reads it, grows serious]
Lorelai: Um... I can't believe you kept this. You kept this in your wallet?
[sees his face]
Lorelai: You kept this in your wallet.
Luke: Eight years.
Lorelai: [emotionally] Eight years

SINT

I dag føler jeg meg skikkelig, skikkelig sint. Om jeg satt en tekopp på hodet mitt ville den begynt å koke. Det har egentlig ikke skjedd noe, men følelser med stor F preger livet mitt for tiden, så jeg er ikke så overrasket, for å si det sånn.

FAEN, altså. FAEN.