A time you thought about ending your own life.
I'm skipping this one. Because I don't really have much to say about it and it's to depressing in general. Sorry blog challenge, I guess I'm cheating.
NEXT!
30 interesting facts about yourself.
thought. This one may not be published tonight after all.
Hmm... Interesting... iiiiinterestiiing.
I don't know what's interesting about me. It's all pretty normal to me you know.
1. I used to be a bit of a goth. But there wasn't really a goth scene where I lived and, well, I didn't know where to buy clothes and such. So I was more of a mall goth/emo then anything. This was before emo got to Norway though. I used to wear all black, studs everywhere, had black hair with red highlights and panda makeup. I would also listen to my metal loudly on my discman and glare at anyone who walked on the bus I had to take to and from school so noone would sit next to me. Ah, youth.
2. at this instant I am dying my hair red. Bright and dark lovely red. I love crazy coloured hair. Other colours I've had include: pink(in many shades), purple, different blues, tropical green, orange. and they have all been combined in many different ways. I think my favourite colour ever was the "sunset hair" a lovely mix of orange red on top, then a warm pink, then a dark red underneath. Such a nice colour combination. Too bad it looked horrible on me :P
It is now 2 days later. time 02.04 date jan 31st
We try to continue...
3. I used to want to be a musical theatre performer/dancer/singer. I still sing and I used to dance until a couple of years ago. I still LOVE musical theatre. To me it's like the perfect way of mixing 4 of my favourite things in life: Music, dance, acting ad costume/stage design. When I was little I was so obsessed with music and dance that from before I can remember I used to hold shows for my family/friends/the whole bus/the general public. And I was addicted to applause, the Rachel line from glee "I need applause to live!" fit me weirdly well. I would make people clap for me for the littlest thing. I also nagged mum so much she got me in to ballet lessons a year before the we were really allowed to start.
going to an amazing musical show still makes me stupidly excited. Only real ones I've seen on stage though are grease, we will rock you and les mis.
4. This isn't that interesting to most and if you know me you will know this: but I've been a veggie for going on 7 years now. I tried to be vegan for a while, but it didn't work out for me.
5. I'm doing my dissertation on Wonder Woman and feminism. I know it sounds stupid to some but there is a real tie there, and it's really interesting.
6. My earliest memory is dacing around in the living room to the Blanke Ark album with Alf Proysen songs. I used to love that cd.
7. I get weirdly exited by silly things. Specifically good graphic design, and interesting stage design.
these are turning shorter so I'm going to bed now. May continue tomorrow. 30 interesting things is a lot...
19.00 next day
I am going on to less "interesting" things.
8. I have a teddybear called Baba. I've had him since I was born and he still sits in my bed. :)
9. I know how to juggle. I'm quite bad at it but I think its fun. I get really impressed when I see people who are good at it. especially fire jugglers.
10. I have a birthmark. A proper one, not just a mole. I used to hate it because it made me feel different to everyone else. but I've kind of grown to like it because its part of what makes me me. :P cheesy I know...
11. I have had in 10 piercings in total (not all at the same time) Now I only have 3. I also have a tattoo.. I used to be really in to body art and stuff. But I's kinda toned down a bit now. I still love the look of it though. I find piercings and such beautiful. :)
12. My favourite colour is green. It used to be blue. and it still has to be a blueish green
13. I have a fear of hights, and going on roller coasters.
14. I'm really interested in history and archeology. I think that if I wasnt doing illustration I would probably be doing archeology. I got accepted to the norwegian university of science and technology to do archeology the same year as I started Illustration.
15. I love comics and graphic novels. They were the first things i "read", by looking at the pictures and making up my own story, and they still kind of set me back to that way of thinking, but now with added text :P
16. I used to be in the Falmouth fish. as far as we know we were the youngest sea shanty band in England.
17. I love point and click games. They are silly, and I grew up playing them :)
18. I'm bad at spelling. The teachers in school thought I may be dyslexic but they couldn't be bothered to have me tested cause I read to well.
19. I need about 10 hours of sleep. On average I get six, cause I'm quite nocturnal.
20. I'm part finnish, part sami, mostly Norwegian and part mysterious foreigner.
21. I used to be pretty good at archery, for being a noob at least. I can't shoot guns at all though.
22. the summer when I was 12 I spent mostly inside reading the whole "saga om isfolket". thats like 60-70 books. :P oh dear.
23. I would like to have a Tamaskan. thats a dog breed that is a mix of sled dogs and other wolf like dogs and is the breed of dog that most resembles a wolf without having any wolf in it's recent heritage.
24. according to a chacra test I took tonight my most open chacras are the troat and the third eye. Those are the self expression and intellect ones.
25. My favourite dinosaur is the triceratops. I was quite sad when I found out some scientists think it's not even a real type but rather a young version of torosaurus. I hope they are wrong :P
26. I really like astronomy as well. Stars and other things in the night sky have always fascinated me. I still remember the first meteor I saw.
27. I can't understand people who don't read, because books are really important to me. Just like I can't understand people who say they don't like music. My favourite book ever is Mengele Zoo by Gert Nygårdshaug.
28. I used to play the flute.
29. my eyes look like they change colour. they go from blue to green, apparently that is normal with grey eyes tough.
Ok. Last one.
30. I went to folk high school and did musical theatre. The best year of my life so far. I miss all my Viken friends so much <3 The best choice I ever made was probably to go there, because I really learnt so much. not just about music, but about people and myself as well. And I got to go to Russia
DONE!
mandag 31. januar 2011
torsdag 27. januar 2011
30 day blog challenge. day something, post 04
What are your veiws on religion.
uuuuh. that's a hard one for me to write about so this will be a short one. I have given it a lot of thought but not all of it is stuff I want to post publicly because believes are a quite personal matter.
But my views on religion in general is mixed. I think religion can give a person great strength in times that are hard, and a lot of our societies morals come from our christian history. I also think that it can blind some people though, and sometimes I'm a bit worried that they can make people less curious about things because they pretend to have all the answers. I think that is kind of sad, because if you have all the answers what reason is there to keep being curious? Curiosity drives science, research and the search for answers. And I think that the most important thing is that we keep searching. Once we stop looking for answers development in science will stop. And if you look at some of the scientific theories, for example about how the universe came to be, they are at least as amazing and wonderful as religious explanations. But they have the added bonus of being able to prove right or wrong, and they always develop. We just have to keep looking.
søndag 23. januar 2011
30 day blog challenge. day 03
My views on drugs and alcohol.
I'm a student. You can't really hide that we drink a bit. In fact, I'm slightly hung over right now. so its fair to say that I like my alcohol. lately my drinking pattern has changed though. I'm not out drinking 4 times a week because I realised spending 4 days a week hungover isn't really that effective work wise. My drinking has turned more casual then it was when I was younger. Nothing beats a good wine with a good meal. But I do still enjoy a real piss up now and again. Some alcohol, drinking games and friends, ending up in a silly club or at the beach in the middle of the night, is still one of my favourite ways to spend my time. Long nights at the pub with a few pints, chilling, singing and talking are also quite amazing.
Recreational drugs have never been my thing though. And its not a normal thing in my friend group at home either. I have spent many of my teenage years at festivals and of course I've seen people on different substances, and it just never appealed to me... Too many times they have been completely out of it and it looks kind of scary really. I quite like being in control and knowing what I put in my body. Yes, I know you loose control with alcohol as well. But at least you know what's in it and can make a realistic prediction to how you will react to it. You don't really have that with drugs I think, since you don't really know who made it, where it comes from or it's chemical components. And I've seen people throw their life away on drugs. Not everyone will end up doing that of course, but I just think its safer to keep away from it, it's not a risk I would want to take anyway. But people do become alcoholics as well. So as long as you stays in control, don't let it affect other people negatively and keep things within reason I would say each to their own... What people choose to put in their body is their own choice really. I'll stick to alcohol.
In other news, I finished my fairy tale project. Head over to the art blog and have a look?
I'm a student. You can't really hide that we drink a bit. In fact, I'm slightly hung over right now. so its fair to say that I like my alcohol. lately my drinking pattern has changed though. I'm not out drinking 4 times a week because I realised spending 4 days a week hungover isn't really that effective work wise. My drinking has turned more casual then it was when I was younger. Nothing beats a good wine with a good meal. But I do still enjoy a real piss up now and again. Some alcohol, drinking games and friends, ending up in a silly club or at the beach in the middle of the night, is still one of my favourite ways to spend my time. Long nights at the pub with a few pints, chilling, singing and talking are also quite amazing.
Recreational drugs have never been my thing though. And its not a normal thing in my friend group at home either. I have spent many of my teenage years at festivals and of course I've seen people on different substances, and it just never appealed to me... Too many times they have been completely out of it and it looks kind of scary really. I quite like being in control and knowing what I put in my body. Yes, I know you loose control with alcohol as well. But at least you know what's in it and can make a realistic prediction to how you will react to it. You don't really have that with drugs I think, since you don't really know who made it, where it comes from or it's chemical components. And I've seen people throw their life away on drugs. Not everyone will end up doing that of course, but I just think its safer to keep away from it, it's not a risk I would want to take anyway. But people do become alcoholics as well. So as long as you stays in control, don't let it affect other people negatively and keep things within reason I would say each to their own... What people choose to put in their body is their own choice really. I'll stick to alcohol.
In other news, I finished my fairy tale project. Head over to the art blog and have a look?
lørdag 22. januar 2011
30 day blog challenge. day 02
Where I would like to be i 10 years.
That is a really hard one for me. I'm 10 years I will be 33, thats a grown up person age. The last time I did one of these was a school assignment back when I was 13. According to what I wrote then I should now be a rich fashion designer that finished my education years ago. I would be very successful, have several of my own brand stores, be living in a villa in italy half the year and splitting the rest of my time between my house in Norway and my penthouse in London. I would also have two little twin girls and a fiancée. Clearly that didn't happen. But when you're young you're allowed to not be realistic right?
This time I think I'll try be a little more realistic. But I'm still a dreamer so we will see... :P
In 10 years.
I'n 10 years I hope to be well established within my field. Seeing as I'm still not sure what i want to work with lets say I will be a concept/character artist for animations. (uuuuh. working for Pixar or something would be awesome!) Or I will have worked on and had published a few books that will hopefully be quite successful. Or both :P Or I will work as an illustrator while running a cute little indie shop with lots of hand made stuff, comics, books, games and coffee. Basically the kind of place I would love to hang out in. I've also been contemplating theatre design. Best work experience I ever had. I'm not really sure. As long as I have a job I think is fun and that will allow me to live relatively comfortably I'll be happy. I hope I won't have to worry about money. Money worries are stressful.
I will hopefully have traveled a bit more. I hope to have seen at least a few of these: The temple complexes of Bangladesh, great barrier reef, the amazon jungle, matchu pitchu, the sun pyramid, wally of the kings, have watched meteor showers on Hawaii, or have gone to Texas to see the centre of the galaxy.
travel dreams aside. I hope to be living in a nice house with a garden, with a dog or a cat and perhaps a partner. A kind and funny man who can make me laugh and who I feel comfortable with. The house will be simple but nicely decorated with a mixture of natural materials and all my geeky stuff. :P I will have an art room that doubles as a library. Other then that and the garden with trees and the fact that the house has to be by the sea or a massive lake I'm not fuzzy. I'm not eve sure what country I want it to be in. Perhaps one I haven't been to yet. The house has to have a nice kitchen though. Kitchens are important.
Kids? Maybe... I haven't really thought about it yet. But if I decide I want some I will hopefully have had them by 33. I don't want to be one of those old mums.
Hmm this is hard. What else? I want to be dancing and singing. Perhaps in a little band? It doesn't need to be a big thing, but I have to have music in my life. I can't really live without it.
All In all I just want a fun job, art, music, good friends, relative comfort and perhaps a partner/lover/best friend. Really, I just hope the next ten years getting there will be full of fun and good experiences.
Now it's back to dissertation writing for me! Which seems to be all I'm doing lately. Writing, reading about feminism and MAD MEN like Freud. (at least I remember how to spell his name now so I'm learning something! :P)
That is a really hard one for me. I'm 10 years I will be 33, thats a grown up person age. The last time I did one of these was a school assignment back when I was 13. According to what I wrote then I should now be a rich fashion designer that finished my education years ago. I would be very successful, have several of my own brand stores, be living in a villa in italy half the year and splitting the rest of my time between my house in Norway and my penthouse in London. I would also have two little twin girls and a fiancée. Clearly that didn't happen. But when you're young you're allowed to not be realistic right?
This time I think I'll try be a little more realistic. But I'm still a dreamer so we will see... :P
In 10 years.
I'n 10 years I hope to be well established within my field. Seeing as I'm still not sure what i want to work with lets say I will be a concept/character artist for animations. (uuuuh. working for Pixar or something would be awesome!) Or I will have worked on and had published a few books that will hopefully be quite successful. Or both :P Or I will work as an illustrator while running a cute little indie shop with lots of hand made stuff, comics, books, games and coffee. Basically the kind of place I would love to hang out in. I've also been contemplating theatre design. Best work experience I ever had. I'm not really sure. As long as I have a job I think is fun and that will allow me to live relatively comfortably I'll be happy. I hope I won't have to worry about money. Money worries are stressful.
I will hopefully have traveled a bit more. I hope to have seen at least a few of these: The temple complexes of Bangladesh, great barrier reef, the amazon jungle, matchu pitchu, the sun pyramid, wally of the kings, have watched meteor showers on Hawaii, or have gone to Texas to see the centre of the galaxy.
travel dreams aside. I hope to be living in a nice house with a garden, with a dog or a cat and perhaps a partner. A kind and funny man who can make me laugh and who I feel comfortable with. The house will be simple but nicely decorated with a mixture of natural materials and all my geeky stuff. :P I will have an art room that doubles as a library. Other then that and the garden with trees and the fact that the house has to be by the sea or a massive lake I'm not fuzzy. I'm not eve sure what country I want it to be in. Perhaps one I haven't been to yet. The house has to have a nice kitchen though. Kitchens are important.
Kids? Maybe... I haven't really thought about it yet. But if I decide I want some I will hopefully have had them by 33. I don't want to be one of those old mums.
Hmm this is hard. What else? I want to be dancing and singing. Perhaps in a little band? It doesn't need to be a big thing, but I have to have music in my life. I can't really live without it.
All In all I just want a fun job, art, music, good friends, relative comfort and perhaps a partner/lover/best friend. Really, I just hope the next ten years getting there will be full of fun and good experiences.
Now it's back to dissertation writing for me! Which seems to be all I'm doing lately. Writing, reading about feminism and MAD MEN like Freud. (at least I remember how to spell his name now so I'm learning something! :P)
fredag 21. januar 2011
the 30 day blog thing. day 01
Yup. I'm doing it. Perhaps not in 30 days. perhaps in 90, or a year. we will see. but they will all get done.
I stole this from the lovely Cap'n Bex who found it on tumblr I do believe. Aaaaand here we go.
I stole this from the lovely Cap'n Bex who found it on tumblr I do believe. Aaaaand here we go.
day 01. Your current relationship, if single discuss how single life is.
Well. I am in deed single and I've been single for most my life. I used to be one of those people who would run away from any sort of serious thing. and that was fine when I was 15. But at 23? not so much. I guess I'm growing up a bit. So I am kind of getting bored of being single to be honest. Especially seeing all my friends that I grew up with finding themselves in long term relationships. Still being the single one when all your friends are coupled? Not so great at times. That whole cliche about couples parties and being set up with people... I mean, being single does not mean I am desperately looking for ANY man I can find. I still believe in finding my own man. Hopefully it won't take me too long. And In the mean time I'll just try and have fun.
One thing I don't like about being single is how life in our society seems to be centred around couples. It's pretty annoying... It is getting better since more and more of the population choose to live alone till later in their life. But the world still seems to be very much set up for couples when you get to my age. I dread to think what it's like for a single 29 year old. Those films about desperate singles in their late 20s (always women) seem to make more sense now. But I really think that is unfair. I think it is possible to be happy on your own, and people shouldn't feel pressured in too looking for a relationship just because it's the norm. If you choose to live life by yourself, or in untraditional living situations that should be ok too. But when you are single there are reminders everywhere that you "shouldn't " be. Even from those coupled friends I mentioned earlier. It seems like one is not supposed to be happy if one is alone. Come on! some people really are better off alone, and single is better then a dysfunctional relationship any day. I was reminded yesterday that biggest couples day of the year is coming up pretty soon too. Valentines day. The shittest day a year for a lot of us singles. I had completely forgot it even existed. But I plan to celebrate it like I did last year and the year before that. With some single friends and good wine. I'm kind of glad v.day isn't a big thing in Norway, but now I'm in England and there will be hearts, balloons, flowers, chocolate and lovey duvey couples everywhere. So will probably be hiding from that :P
Don't get me wrong. it's not all bad and I'm not desperate to find a relationship. I do quite enjoy being single too. Being the kind of girl that really need my own space and a lot of alone time it suits me quite well at the moment. I'm in my third year of uni now, so it is nice to not have to feel guilty about shutting myself in my room for days at an end and staring at a screen, painting or writing the dreaded dissertation with only msn/facebook/twitter for company. I't doesn't bother me and I have no one else to worry about so that is good. I also quite enjoy having the possibility to go out and do whatever I want whenever I want, and make decisions only for myself. I've seen too many people give up on their dreams for a better half that they are not even with a couple of years later. Right now I can think about the future and dream as big as I wan't without having to worry about another persons reaction to what I want to do. Witch is pretty nice since I hope to travel a lot more. You know. see the world, reach for the stars and all that. I know not all relationships hold you back in that way. But I have seen too many (especially)girls give up on their dreams for their boyfriends. But if I found someone to chase those dreams with me that would be fun to. Sharing adventures!
So I guess those are my views on single life today. I am ready to stop running, but not too worried about relationships at the moment. I guess we will see what the future brings.
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