Choices...

How come there are so many choices to make? I'm really struggling with some of them. Wish I'd know the consequences of my choices before I made them... Oh well.

Had a week with a lot to do at work last week. T flew off to Seattle, so had the flat to myself. Used the opportunity to catch up with some friends which was good.

The weekend I spent in Lillehammer, celebrating Ann Mari's birthday on Saturday night. Other than that I've been to see my parents and a couple of other friends. Glad to be back in snow-free Oslo now though! I'm dreaming of outdoor climbing, bbq in the park and hillwalking. Not long now! :)

Back to work!

That's Easter over and done with, and I was back at work yesterday.

Had a great Easter though, with a trip to Dublin. We did all the obvious stuff like visiting Guinness, Jameson, Dublin Castle etc. We were also lucky enough to experience St Patricks day in Dublin. It is what you can call a buzzing city on the 17th March. We saw the parade and experienced the life with live music in the pubs which was great!

Over the weekend we took it easy. Took a few walks around Oslo, made nice dinner and took some geocaches.

Now Torkjel has flown off to Seattle (I hope...). They left Oslo yesterday morning, but hadn't made it further than Amsterdam in the evening as they missed their connection flight. They were taking the rest of the journey today.

Busy busy busy

Just realised I haven't updated my blog since 1st March. Well, that doesn't mean nothing has happened in the meantime. In short I have been working, seeing friends, had girls night with Irene & co, and last but not least been to Dublin.

I am now enjoying relaxing days before work starts again on Tuesday. It's fantastic weater in Oslo, and we're now off to do some geocaching up akerselva in the sun. Got to do something when I'm not out skiing with the rest of the Norwegian population.

I'll be back with photos from Dublin shortly. :)

Enjoy what's rest of Easter everyone! :)

Spring soon?

Well, it's first of March and February is all over. Does that mean we can expect spring yet? Guess not, I do live in Norway after all.... I'm sure we've got to expect some more snow before it all disappears.

Realised I haven't written here for a little while. It's Saturday night now and we've had a good day. Been for a long walk up to Frognerparken and roundabout other places. Then we went to the Cinema to see Sweeney Todd before heading for Sushi. Great fairly relaxing day.

Tomorrow Irene and co are coming to visit. Looking forward to a day spent with them. We did however see them last week too. Went iceskating with them, Laura, Russ and MO on the Saturday before we all headed to Peppes for dinner. Had the twins and Laura's 2 month old daughter with us too. On Sat night we went to a party at Torkjel's x colleagues house. MO's friend Heidi turned up there which was odd, as we didn't know we both knew the guy having the party. Sunday morning was spent in bed before we went to T's parents for Goose dinner.

The week gone has been busy with climbing at Torshov twice, and MO, Russ and Laura for dinner one night. Work is not as busy now, but still more than enough to do. Looking forward until we get the three new people working for us!

But now I'm gonna enjoy the rest of the weekend before work starts again on Monday.

Korketrekkeren = madness!

The video explains it all:

Work party

Another period has passed, and a lot has once again happened. Last week went by with usual stuff like working, climbing etc. At the weekend we had my work party in our flat. About 12 people from work came, and everybody brought some food. We had tapas and drank a lot of wine. It was a great night with a lot of entertainment. A quiz was made, and in teams they had to guess stuff about our colleagues. They also had to build IKEA furniture blindfolded. All good fun!

On Sunday we got up at 12 and went out for breakfast. Torkjel and I walked to Grünerløkka to eat breakfast. After that we did a two hour walk around Oslo in gorgeous weather. When we got home, Anniken came to visit, and helped us eating some of the food from the night before. Generally a great day.

The last few days has gone by with climbing on monday and yesterday. Tuesday we went to the cinema to see Juno. A really good film. Yesterday I spent the day with Irene and the twins. Had a good time there, chatting a lot, and playing with the girls. They are 10 months old at the end of the month.

Working on Saturday, but looking forward to Sunday now, sledging in Korketrekkeren!

Kids party and skiing

Another busy weekend has gone by. Managed to fit in quite a lot once again.

We were supposed to go climbing on Friday night, but when it got to it we were too tired from the week at work so we stayed in.
Saturday we took the bus to Vollen go celebrate Kassander's 2nd Birthday. It was really nice weather so we had a wonder round Vollen centre before going to the party. There were a lot of kids who seemed happy playing with each other. Kassander seemed to have a great day! His favourite phrases for the day was "Ja" (with a big smile) and "Min" (mine) when the other kids borrowed his toys. Hehe.

In the evening we went to Cafe con Bar and met up with Lene and Russ. It wasn't an overly late night, but a good one. One of the reasons we didn't stay too late was because we wanted to go skiing today. And we did! It was snowing a lot when we got up in the morning, but stopped by the time we started skiing at Tryvann. It was a bit foggy though, so sometimes it was a bit hit and miss with what you were skiing on. Couldn't always tell until you hit it - hehe. Russ and a girl from his language course came too.

Since it's fastelaven today (no idea what that is in English) I've made fastelavensboller. Basically buns with cream and jam in them. Nice :) We also went out for a sushi. Really not ready for another week at work tomorrow! How come the weekends go so fast? Anyone up for three-day weekends instead?

Off climbing in the evening tomorrow, so here comes another busy week!