The other world of books

Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them.

—Amy Poehler

This was and still is the truth for me. I'm not too fond of being around other persons. I prefer to keep a good distance to them and observe. As I know I do ALOT of stupid stuff and always feel like an idiot when I'm with others. Hence do I love to read, take pictures, knit and think.
Not to talk about the fact that you can learn a lot, it help prevet dementia, you can start to think in new ways and you get higher culturaly educated. ^^ I love books. At the moment I'm reading White Teeth by Zedie Smith. I have to get a what I want to read, what I have read and what I'm reading list up and running in this blog.

Start to quote

I've decided I want to start to collect quotes that I like, find interesting, move me and so on an so forth, so today I'll post the first quote. A quote that's rather important in the world we live where it seem more and more important to be perfect. An important reminder;

Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.

—Laurie David

Shoe

When it comes to myself and shoes I'm kind of picky. But these, Seychelles Ballet Flats, I have to say I LOVE! They are childish and sweet, but yet grown up. Only bad thing is that I don't think you can get them where I live.

Going home and getting a new book

This extended weekend(Wednesday to Sunday) I spent at my mother's place, and had a great weekend. We went to the theatre and saw Frakt under haver (A view from the bridge) by Arthur Miller. On Saturday I was baby sitting my adorable little brother. We saw Hellboy 2 and made brownie, and because the fuse can't take anything, they popped 3 times of something. I'm happy my mother wasn't at home, I don't think it would have pleased her. And I honestly, it is not the greatest thing in the world to have to run across the yard into the other house to replace the fuses all the time. I also got to write a paper on democracy in social subjects, and transfer some handwritten overheads to the computer for my teacher in sociology and social anthropology. This also gave me a chance to start to study for my test in the latter one/subject, even though I was having a calm weekend with my family.
And even though I had to go home on Sunday because I'm going to school on Mondays it turned out going home wasn't such a bad idea after all. Because when I got home and opened my mailbox a packet was waiting for me; Sjarmerende gjenbruk by Ellen Dyrop and Hanna Kristinsdóttir.

DIY gone wild!

This book is definitely a must read, and it has tons of inspiration of how you can give your flea market, garage sale or attic finds a new life.

Among their suggestions you find a old silver tray used as a magnet board (look at the book cover), a lamp shade used for storage as a yarn basket, a wicker basked used as a lamp shade, the list just goes on and on! Below and above you can see some of the pictures from the book.

The book is in Norwegian, but there is eye candy overload, so you definitely don't have to be a Norwegian to enjoy it or to get inspired by all the amazing solutions offered. A picture says more than a thousand words, right? :)

If you want to order a copy, you can click this link, or sand an e-mail to the publisher if you're having problems understanding Norwegian. And if you want the signature of the authors (at least one of them) you just have to mention that in the comment field or say so in the mail.

The book reminds us of the great storage problem solution.

In need of a new lampshade?
A little nostalgia from some Norwegians childhood


Or do you want a "uncommon" yarn basket/bin?
Why not use an old lampshade?

This idea is rather cute/cosy; a woolen hat as a tea pot warmer.
A companied by a wicker basket lined with a equally sweet fabric

serving as a lampshade.

So you can get an idea of the layout of the book.
By the way, did you find the Easter egg and got a getter look inside the book?

Et dikt å huske på når ting går trått

Amor fati

Ikke som en cæsar gjorde,
skal du med et sverd bevæbne
deg mot verden, men med ordet;
Amor Fati - elsk din skjebne.

Denne formel skal du fatte
som din sterkeste befrier:
Du har valgt din sti i krattet.
Ikke skjel mot andre stier!

Også smerten er din tjener.
Lammet, sønderknust, elendig
ser du at den gjenforener
deg med det som er nødvendig.

Også fallet, også sviket
hjelper deg som dine venner.
Dine nederlag er rike
gaver, lagt i dine hender.

Engang skal du, tilfredsstillet
av å bli din skjebne verdig
vite: Dette har jeg villet.
Alt som skjer meg skjer rettferdig.

Si da, når din levegledes
grønne skog er gjennomvandret:
Intet vil jeg anderledes.
Intet ønsker jeg forandret.

- André Bjerke

The future may come

I said I was going to tell you about my super Sunday on Monday, but I have had too much to do lately. So today I can tell you about it, and maybe some about the other days.

On Sunday I had a kind of break though with my boyfriend. I've always had a feeling he didn't see a future with me, not to talk about spend it with me. But on Sunday I finally found a way to ask him that was simple enough for him to understand it and answer it. For a change I actually managed to keep it quite simple compared to normal.
So what I asked him was if he'd ever had a kind if flash of a feeling wanting to move in with me. And guess what he said, he said yes. HE SAID YES! Ok, I know that he said yes doesn't mean that it is going to be the two of us for the rest of the future, but it made me feel appreciated and wanted. In addition to that we have had quite some nice days lately.

On Saturday we went to the theatre with Razumny's parents to Les Misérables at Oslo Nye teater (about the play at Oslo Nye in Norwegian). Though I am rather picky it was a great experience as it was the first time for me to see the play. The things I found quite sad is that

* the brand of Oslo Nye is actors who eat parts of their lines/some of the words in their lines
* it didn't really touch me, it could be that the expecatations were too great as I've heard the audio version of the british production of the play a zillion times.

After the play the four of us went to a restaurant names Nippon art. I've wanted to go there for ages, and have tried to convince both my best friend, Janne and the wonderfull Razumny a couple of times. This Saturday prefilled my wish!

For the rest of the week I've seen my doctor, a work psychologist and fixed some things since I'm going away to Alta next year to attend Øytun folkehøgskole to study Travel Photography. As this blog post is getting quite long I'll tell you more about this and my planes for education in a later post.

And if for you who want to learn something about me;
The reason for him normally not understand my questions is that I have a way of asking about things in rather complicated manners, with a lot of metaphors and symbols. For me the questions are of course all logical and seem really clear with the metaphors. The only thing is that the metaphors are often only mine, and not really possible for others to understand. Anyway, back to what I was talking about.

That's it for now, more to come later.

A wonderfull day

Today I've had a wonderful day. I've grown founder of my fantastic boyfriend and learned some new stuff. Hopefully my mind won't erase everything during the night, so I can write about it tomorrow, as I'm too tired to do anything else but sleep just about now. I'm so happy now I feel like flying. It seems like things are picking up, getting better and that I've finally caught a glimpse of a candle flickering in the end of the tunnel. Maybe it won't be too long for my hair to glisten in the sun and my heart to find a calm pace.

I also got other great news about what my future might hold. I'm actually smiling a lot today. This is a good sign. Perhaps I'll find the fun in attending school again and learn to enjoy myself and quit stressing all of the time.

More to come tomorrow after I've been to the local knitting shop's knitting circle. ^^ I'm really looking forward to go there tomorrow. Finally I'll manage to finish the neck twist I've been making for my grandmother, and learn to crochet picot style.