Time passes really quick these days and I never get the time to update my LJ, but I read all of my friends updates, so I'm still here almost every day.

Since my last post I've been doing a lot of schoolwork, some partying, and this weekend I went back home to Stavanger to visit friends and family. It was a wonderful weekend filled with a lot of fun! It was also a well deserved break from school work..

Now that I'm back I have a lot of studying to do before my next exam which is in a week. I'm not sure if I'm going to take it though, since I haven't read anything yet and it's a really complicated subject.

About the dog-issue.. I've read a lot about different breeds and I'm finally sure that Rottweiler is my breed. I even think I've found the right breeder as well, I just hope that they'll have a litter ready for the upcoming spring/summer.
I have everything planned out in my head, I've read books, surfed internet forums and websites for information on the breed and on training. I almost can't wait but the timing has to be perfect, I have to have the opportunity to stay home with the puppy the first weeks.. So I just have to be patient :-)

So, I'm not updating this journal as much as I want to, I think about things that I want to write here all the time but I just don't get to it.
Oh well... So far this weekend has been ok.. My boyfriend has a cold now as well, so I try to take a little care of him, since he was so nice to me while I wasn't feeling well. I'm much better now, but not completely well.. I just hope that I'm fine soon 'cause I really need to get some schoolwork done, I'm far behind already and it's november soon.. The horror!

OH! I'm so proud - yesterday I made my first real cheese cake all alone (I've made an other recipe with a friend of mine before) and we tasted it tonight while I had a friend of mine over - IT WAS GREAT! I'm really starting to handle cooking and stuff. I used to suck at it, the only things I could do was tacos and spaghetti but now I'm really good at all kinds of things. So, when my friend Hilde and her boyfriend comes to visit us in e couple of weekends I'm going to make them cheese cake.

Apart from that nothing's really going on. I've been thinking more and more about getting a pet, preferably a dog but I'd love to have a cat too. However, if I were to have a cat here it would have to be an indoor cat since we live on the third floor, and I tend to feel sorry for indoor-animals. Some of my friends say that I'm more of a dog-person but I don't agree, I'm neither a dog or a cat-person. I'm an animal-person. I love all animals! I've had both a cat and a dog before, and I think I'll get a dog again soon, because I really miss it a lot. I miss everything about it.. Yes, I even miss having to go out in the rain, and I think it would do me good because I have my ass in the couch way to much. My favorite breed is Rottweilers, I love them! However, I think I might change my mind, they can be hard to handle and since it's been such a long time since my last dog (which was a small breed) I think I should go for an "easier" breed to handle, and then maybe have a Rottweiler later on in life. So, what breed? I don't want a small dog.. I'm going to do some research on the net, and ask some "dog gurus" I know. I'm not sure though..

It seems like I'm not spending as much time in front of the computer as I used to. Usually that would be good, but lately it's just because my cold has started to act up again and I feel more like watching TV under my blanket than doing anything at all. I really thought that I was getting better but sunday morning I woke up feeling worse in stead. How fun! I tend to complain a lot about it, and I think everyone around me is just as sick of my cold as I am, so let's hope it goes away soon or we'll all go crazy..

Apart from that nothing's really happening. This weekend I enjoyed hanging out with my boyfriend, watching a lot of movies, eating too much and.. well, taking care of each other to put it nicely.
He's such a great boyfriend, I'm really lucky to have him! I guess I'm scared of loosing him, I've had so many bad experiences with boys before and there's this little voice inside my head who's telling me: "It's never going to last" all the time.. BUT he's so nice and understanding, and we never fight, the sex is great, he's a wonderful friend.. I just can't believe it.. I've been in a relationship that actually works for almost two years?? I'm lucky..

I really shouldn't be complaining about my cold or anything else. That's only minor problems.. I know people who have real problems, so why am I complaining?
I guess no body's perfect.

I am so relieved, and I think the exam today went ok.. I don't want to raise my expectations too much though. I don't really know what they're looking for, but I'm sure that I at least won't fail. I fell asleep when I got home and woke up when my boyfriend got home from work. We had some dinner - homemade pizza, yum yum! After that we've pretty much just been chilling in front of the TV and now our computers..
Getting ready for bed soon.. I'm really, really tired.. and the music makes me sleepy...

Ok, I'm not going to make this a lyric-based journal but.. I just HAVE TO post this one. Then I'll give you guys a lyric break or something... This one goes out to all the judgmental people in the world :p

Jewel - Pieces of you

She's an ugly girl, does it make you want to kill her?
She's an ugly girl, do you want to kick in her face?
She's an ugly girl, she doesn't pose a threat.
She's an ugly girl, does that make you feel safe?
Ugly girl, ugly girl, do you hate her
'Cause she's pieces of you?

She's a pretty girl, does she make you think nasty thoughts?
She's a pretty girl, do you want to tie her down?
She's a pretty girl, do you call her a bitch?
She's a pretty girl, did she sleep with your whole town?
Pretty girl, pretty girl, do you hate her
'Cause she's pieces of you?

You say he's a faggot, does it make you want to hurt him?
You say he's a faggot, do you want to bash in his brain?
You say he's a faggot, does he make you sick to your stomach?
You say he's a faggot, are you afraid you're just the same?
Faggot, faggot, do you hate him
'Cause he's pieces of you?

You say he's a Jew, does it mean that he's tight?
You say he's a Jew, do you want to hurt his kids tonight?
You say he's a Jew, he'll never wear that funny hat again.
You say he's a Jew, as though being born were a sin.
Oh Jew, oh Jew, do you hate him
'Cause he's pieces of you?

So there.

I really love this song, but it's sad.. It has such a wonderful but sad melody, and her voice is so sad.. And the lyrics.. Well, read for yourself.

Emiliana Torrini - Gollum's Song

Where once was light
Now darkness falls
Where once was love
Love is no more

Don't say goodbye
Don't say I didn't try

These tears we cry are falling rain
For all the lies you told us
The hurt, the blame

And we will weep
To be so alone
We are lost
We can never go home

So in the end
I'll be what I will be
No loyal friend
Was ever there for me

Now we say goodbye
We say you didn't try

These tears you cry
Have come too late
Take back the lies
The hurt, the blame

And you will weep
When you face the end alone
You are lost
You can never go home

You are lost
You can never go home

I guess that the main reason for me loving this song so much is because of the LOTR movies. I have to see them again sometime soon...

So, I had this semesters first exam today. It went ok.. I guess, but I don't exactly think it's an A but at least I won't fail it. I still haven't failed anything at the university, and I'm quite proud of it since a lot of my friends have failed once or twice.

One thing that really annoys me when I'm having exams are the old people who's supposed to guard us and give us information.. Sometimes they just don't do a good enough job. There were a lot of foreign students at my exam today and they had to ask them to tell them things in english 'cause they didn't realize that there would be english students there... Shouldn't they know? I mean.. the professor, who also came by, is american and all the lectures were in english.. Well.. instead of giving the information in english at the start of the exam they decided to go out to all of the foreign students individually and tell them everything. It was quite disturbing.

So.. after my exam today I've been relaxing and charging my batteries for more studying. My next exam is already in nine days..

Oh, well, enough of the complaining.. I'm going to make some dinner so that it'll be finished when my boyfriend gets home from work.

Every time I have exams I give myself some sort of reward for going through with it. A couple of years ago it used to be candy or snacks but since I'm trying to be a little more healthy these days I'm going for something else. My incentive for my first exams this semester is going to be shopping. I still have some money left that I got for my birthday, I just haven't had the time to go use it, things have been really busy, but after my first two exams I'm going to go shopping! I really need some new clothes.. I want to get new jeans, a cool jacket - maybe leather, shoes, tops.. Well, I could go on and on.. There's a lot of things I want. I guess you could say that I'm materialistic ;-) I'm also going to go to the hairdresser, I really need some new highlights in my hair and I want to cut it a little too. So, that's the incentive for the october-exams, the first one is on wednesday and the second one is on the 13th.
I already have my incentive set for the december exams as well, it is a trip to London with my boyfriend! I've been wanting to go there for ages and he's never been there so a couple of weeks ago we ordered the tickets to go there after my last exam. We'll be doing some Christmas shopping, sightseeing and maybe a musical or something. It's been 5 or 6 years since I've been there, so I bet it's changed a lot. (As I mentioned in my first post I've lived in London for a year.) I really love that city! So the trip there is a great reward for getting through the exams and the semester.
I do this incentive thing because I'm sick of school and sometimes I feel like quitting, but if I complete my bachelor it looks better on my resume, and then I can go do something else after wards.. It sounds like a good plan, but that doesn't mean that I like it.. :p

Lifehouse is my favorite band, I love them because they have great melodies and wonderful lyrics. I like all of their songs, but this one is among my favorites. I think it really fits my mood lately:

Fairytales and Castles

He says he looks in the mirror
And he can't tell anymore
Who he really is and who they believe him to be
And he says he walks a thin line
Between what is and what could be
He's getting closer
To something he can't understand

Cause there's a crack in his plastic crown
And his throne of ice is melting
He climbed his ladder
There was nothing there
And now it's a long way down

Cause on and on and on he goes
Dancing on the grave
Of what he thought was still alive, hey
On and on and on he goes
Dancing in mansions made of twigs
And castles made of sand

He says his head is filled with
Cartoons and fairy tales
And he's trapped inside a dungeon of dolls
With smiles on their faces
He's built a pretty cage
His shows on a beautiful stage
With candy coated prison bars
And chains that look like jewelry

Cause there's a crack in his plastic crown
And his throne of ice is melting
He climbed his ladder
There was nothing there
And now it's a long way down

Cause on and on and on he goes
Dancing on the grave
Of what he thought was still alive, hey
On and on and on he goes
Dancing in mansions made of twigs
And castles made of sand

Cause he lives inside
A fairy tale sand castle now
And there's room inside
For false expectations and illusions

Cause there's a crack in his plastic crown
And his throne of ice is melting
He climbed his ladder
There was nothing there
And now it's a long way down

Cause on and on and on he goes
Dancing on the grave
Of what he thought was still alive, hey
On and on and on he goes
Dancing in mansions made of twigs
And castles made of sand

( Go here for one more song.. )

So far this have been a typical bad, bad monday.. When I woke up this morning i felt horrible, my throat was acting up again and I didn't sleep very well. I had tons of boring reading to do and I just couldn't motivate myself to do it. I swear I've never read that slow before. But at least I got some reading done, but I'm very far behind and my first exam is in just a little over a week.. I don't care enough about it, I guess. I'm tired of school.. At about 14:00 my driving teacher called me and canceled today's driving lesson because of him being sick.. (Yes, I'm 24 years old and I still don't have a driving license, but I'm working on it, just started taking lessons.) I was really looking forward to the lesson so that didn't really help my mood a lot. We didn't even schedule a new appointment, he said he'd call me back but I'm sure he forgot. I guess I'll call him tomorrow.

Another thing that's making me feel less than happy is that I won't get to see my boyfriend much this week. He's got a lot to do at work, so he's working a lot of overtime and he's also going til work at a computer party from thursday to monday, so I won't see him much in the weekend either. I'll only see him if he comes home to sleep and take a shower when I'm here.. I guess i shouldn't whine about it, I should be happy that I even have a boyfriend, and now that my exams are coming up I should use the time to read and stuff.. But usually when I have exams coming up he's always there to take the edge off when I'm really stressed out. I'm actually afraid that I'll freak out when he's not here. As stupid as that sounds..
I guess I'll call my mom ot something, but I don't really want to bother her all the time.

This has been a really nice saturday. No alarm was waking me up so I slept until 11. My boyfriend made me a wonderful breakfast - he's the best. After breakfast we went down to the mall to get him a sweater, some food and I needed some more pens for my schoolwork. We looked for some dvds too but they didn't have any interesting ones. When we got home i did some reading, and finally it felt like I could concentrate. I haven't really been able to get anything done because of my cold but now I'm feeling better.

We just ate a wonderful dinner AND dessert, so I'm pretty stuffed. We're going to the cinema soon to see "Over the Hedge", I'm really looking forward to it, I love animated movies.

I haven't updated my profile more.. I'm going to do it sooner or later but not now 'cause I really need to get ready to leave.

I'm finally happy with how my journal looks now, though I'm sure I will get sick of all the purple quite soon. I already have a Norwegian journal and I will keep updating it on a daily basis. I'll use this journal aswell, nothing can be more fun than having two journals, right? I also need to practice my english a little, it used to be quite good since I actually lived in England my first year of high school, but that's long ago now and I feel that it's not as good anymore. I don't know whether I'm going to use this as a personal diary or more of a bloggish thing, but we'll se how things develop.

A little bit about myself.. I'm 24 years old, I live in Bergen, Norway but I'm born and raised in Stavanger, which is south of Bergen. I love it here though, I have the most wonderful boyfriend and a lot of great friends here. I'm taking a Bachelor degree in Social Anthropology, it is my last year, and it's ok I guess, but I'm quite tired of school and reading..
I use quite a lot of my free time on computers, I guess I'm quite geeky. I chat a lot on irc and msn, I play with photoshop and I used to be quite good at html but it's been a while now cause I never have time anymore. I love taking photos as well, it is a big dream of mine to become a photographer. I have a wonderful Nikon D70 camera, I love it! It's my baby ;-)
I also enjoy animals, when I was little I used to dream about having a farm with all kinds of animals on it, but now, I guess, I've fallen to much in love with the urban life but I've been thinking a lot about getting a dog and I probably will when the time is right. I love cats as well so I wouldn't say that I'm more of a dog-person than a cat-person.. I'd say I'm just an animal-person (or mammals at least, I don't like spiders or snakes).

I've been having a bad cold the last few days, so I haven't done as much schoolwork as I should have, I'm still not feeling well but I think I'll try to get more done today. The worst thing about Social Anthropology is that there's a lot of reading compared to other subjects..

Well, that's it from me for now, I think I'll update my profile more and add more links later on today.
Btw, my userpic is of me as a baby, wasn't I cute? :-)

So, I've created this account here basicly because I've always been curious about livejournal..
This is just a test-post to see how things look, there's more to come :-)