Arna's First Blog

I was gonna write something now, but I've got to go and make highlights in Mita's hair. A bit scary as it's permanent colour, but it should be relatively fun.

The following is what I went to post yesterday, when the internet became caput:

I tried on more wedding dresses yesterday. I had a whole gang of spectators and helpers: Mita (my sister), Ingvild (my friend), Mum and Margaret (my mum's friend). I must have tried on about 20 different dresses, none of which were nice until I tried the last one. That was a really nice dress, kind of similar to the one I tried in Liverpool. They were all oh'ing and ah'ing, but I stood there wishing I was wearing the Liverpool dress, so I think I might have to go for that one.

Last night I finally caught up with some of my friends. Thomas came over and later on Brita came down as well and we all walked around Vikanes together. That was really nice. Thomas came home with us afterwards and watched Desperate Housewives. Second episode of the second series. Looking forward to the second series starting in the UK. A larger gang of friends are coming to my place tonight at 7: Brita, Thomas, Bjørge, Kjersti and Astrid. Anders might come as well but I haven't heard anything yet. Can't wait to see everyone again!

Amit, Mita, Craig, Randi and I made gingerbread cookies yesterday. Probably made a few hundred. They tasted pretty good even though mum had put too much flour in the dough. She always puts too much or too little of something...

The apartment in Neasden seems to have been sorted out, so we are moving in in early January. We're meeting up with the landlord when we get back to the UK on the 27th, and hopefully it will be free for us to get the keys etc then. I really hope there will be no more problems or uncomfortable situations...

Today Craig and I will make pizza for dinner for the whole family so I better stop now as we have to go to get the ingredients...

Craig and I are back at Stord, taking things easy. It's been really good to sleep and relax for a couple of days.

Amit celebrated his 9th birthday on Friday, man that was a loud three hours. Still, the kids behaved better this year than last year, a sign that they are growing older I guess. Craig was a big success as the exotic foreigner, they begged him to ask them questions in English and basically hold an English lesson for them. Craig was a bit surprised and taken aback but managed well.

Today is actually Amit's birthday so we gave him our present today. He got the second spiderman movie and a knights' kingdom lego figurine. Unfortunately he already had the figurine so we are a bit worried now as we have bought another one (plus a Manchester United bag) for him for Christmas and it is very likely that he has already got that one too... So we might try and exchange the one we've got or else buy him something else. What a shame.

We're going for dinner at grandma's today, looking forward to it! Tomorrow I am working which will be quite nice I think, except I have to get up at 6.30am Norwegian time which is 5.30 UK time... Phew... It'll be painful...

Anyway, if any of my friends are reading this please contact me when you guys get home for Christmas! Looking forward to seeing you all.

Back from London after a whirlwind tour of the north western suburbs... Looked at approx 13 different places, from about 600 to 700 pounds per month. Man, it is so expensive there, and the apartments are generally pretty crap. However, we found one really good one in Neasden, which was also the cheapest one we looked at. We are really interested in it, but it almost seems too good to be true... We have told the guy we want the place and he said he's stop advertising it and let us have it, but he wants two weeks rent deposit this week. The thing is the contract has has not been written yet and nothing is signed and I don't feel we should hand over any money before we have signed a contract... I'm a bit afraid we're getting scammed and that he will just run off with our money if we give it to him. We don't know anything about him except his name although he seems like a nice guy... Hmmm, tricky situation. Anyway the place will not be ready until the end of the month / beginning of next month, which is perfect for us. So I just hope that everything will sort itself out. I really hope it's not a scam, cause we really, really want the place. Its location is perfect, and the size of the apartment is good for us... Keep your fingers crossed for us....

We're leaving Liverpool again tonight to fly back to Norway for Christmas tomorrow. Can't wait to get home again. Amit is celebrating his 9th birthday on Friday afternoon, so I'm looking forward to attending his birthday party. They're usually pretty crazy, and he's invited his whole class this year! Should be fun.

Going to work as a carer a couple of days while I'm home, for the little girl I used to work for before. Looking forward to seeing her again, she's so sweet!

Poor Craig only slept around 2 hours last night as he had to stay up and prepare his lecture and also mark all the essays for his students. Poor guy, I felt so bad when he got up and I just laid there sleeping... He's finished his lecture now, so I hope he comes home soon. I'm going to force him back to bed cause he really needs his sleep to be able to handle the overnight bus trip back to London again... Man, I really hate those overnight trips. When we went to London on Saturday night I had this guy behind me who kept talking so loudly that he kept everyone around him awake. We had all been sleeping before he got on the bus, but I didn't sleep at all after he got on. What a fuckhead. He also made me put my seat in an upright position because his girlfriend (who sat directly behind me) thought it was too cramped. And putting the seat up of course made it even harder to sleep. When they finally dozed off I put my seat back down, and they woke up soon after and started making comments about me. Man, I really wanted to tell him to shut his stupid mouth and tell him just how insensitive he was behaving towards the other passengers (some of them hushed him a couple of times, but he still kept talking), but I didn't. Regret that now.

Just sitting here waiting for my boy to come on home with a huge block of Galaxy chocolate. Yummmm... Can't wait. Oh, I hear his keys in the door! Better get go!