Nothing really and then I went swimming

It is almost time for The Holidays, that is back to Norway to do some actual Work, and not Sit On My Butt. My poor body is in for a shock.

Although I did go swimming today, a whopping 45 minutes, and there were lots of youngish men looking at eachother. Strange. For a moment I thought maybe it was the new place to hang out for some quick shower action, but since none of these youngish men followed eachother into the mens showers, that teory went out the window. Also there is something so very unsexy about this swimming pool, but that might be because I'm female. And with hangups on Fungus and hairs on the tiles.. uck-uck.

I'll take my cat with me home, and thus I have to take taxi in barcelona to and from the airport, something of a hit and miss, as in if the taxista will try to cheat me or not. Oh, joy. It's christmas!

I might be getting one after all

I just browsed through smashwords and hmmmm..I might get an ereader after all. With the winnings from my advent lottery of course. I got another parcel and a reindeer.

Giving birth

So I have a week off from uni, and this week is going to be spent in my room, in a chair, studying. How exciting! How glamorous! Luckily my room has windows to the south so I get to see some sun.

For now I am doing normal pregnancy and birth, And it is amazing and fragile and strong...So much happening, so many changes, and then this poor little baby has to force her way through the pelvis, twisting her way, deforming her head...the first breath, where her lungs expand for the first time..

So that is what I am doing this 2. sunday in Advent. Also on the program for the week is Farmacology, Eyes and Otorrinolaringology (ear, nose throat).

What else?

So far I have one wrapped gift (750 nok), one candle (125 nok), one snow-crystal (100 nok) and one cristmas ornament (50 000 nok) and when I get the two other cristmas ornaments I'll go shopping at new years sales as I am having a fashion moment where I actually care about what I wear..No gingerbread men yet, but there are still 20 to go.

stay tuned!

Godterisjuk

My mom sendt me an Advents kalender. Or two, to be more precise: one that is basically a big lottery thingy: each day I scrape forth a little picture, and hopefully by the 24th I will have 3 gingerbreadmen and 750 000 NOK. And then there is the present-kalender. And I KNOW that one of them is two Troika chocolates and one is 200 grs milk chocolate from Freia. And I am seriously candy-sick. (and my english suck today)

TEMPTATION!

(And yeah: I am still 31.)

My "gift" for today was Nemi, a comic that I get every month in Norway: It would have been an even better read with a Troika..

And cheese doodles. And fuzzy beverages. And Macarons. They make the most delicious ones in "Le petite croissant" and it is not that far walking.

Sugar? Chocolate?

Madrid II

After wandering about for some time in a King's version of a summer cottage, we went to Segovia: the home of small barbequed piglets and innumerable cozy streets...I had Cochinillo: asking for anything else would be like..like...eating Pasta in New Dehli. Or something. The Old Town is beautiful, and full of little shops and clothes hanging out to dry from the balconies, and the roman aqueduct is astonishing and elegant and massive...

But it is not enough with an aqueduct; the town also bosts of a gothic cathedral that glows at sunset and Alcazar, a castle that looks almost fairytale-ish...

Again, I'd like to go back, and really explore the town down to its last cobblestone, sit and draw and just look. Especially at sunset. Like most central Spain, the palette is brown, dust, sand..until the sun sets, and everything starts to glow an incadecent golden orange. The sand colored buildings, the earth comes to live...

Weekend in Madrid I

We went to La Granja de San Ildefonso, a small palace constructed aprox 1724 or thereabouts to serve as a retirement home for the Spanish king who had had enough of intrigues and politics and decided to abdicate. He got to relax a whole year before his succesor died, and had to go back to "kinging" for another 20 years. Poor fellow. The garden is beautiful in autum, and I'll definitivly go back in May some year to see the more formal parts of it and the herbal garden..It is very big, and I saw enough to know I want to go back.

The palace it self was a let down. It houses a museum of tapestries and those are incredible, but there is almost no information about the people who lived there, how they passed their days..So you walk in these rooms and there might be a small plaque that says "The bedroom" and then a nice bed, and that is it.

It is that time of the year

ALMOST!!!!!

Uuuhh, only one week left to the first sunday in Advent, and even though the Rule is no christmas music until 1. dec, well, obviously that does not include when the first advent sunday comes in november. Right? Right!

I went to el trastero this morning and got the Advent star, the music, xmas cards and the Advent-light thingy. (I'll take pictures next sunday) (promise)

And we have an entire week off, from the 5th to the 9th and I'll.....

I'll be deep down in my study chair, glued to the books, that's where.

Ah, the hard life of students....

;)