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Denne uken har vært superbra! For det første fikk jeg til macen på tirsdag! Og satt inn ny fresh iLife og Adobe-pakke! Hurra! Det har vært så sinnsykt frustrerende å ikke ha utstyret tilgjengelig! :) Nå skal jeg kose meg... (i allefall når Aron sover)

På tirsdag kjøpte vi hus, Anne, Phill, André og jeg. Et koselig leilighetshus med 3 leiligheter og en butikk. En del å gjøre der, men så utrolig fornøyd med prisen!

Holder på med nettside for Traktor Bike Park, www.traktorbikepark.com, (det ligger ingenting der ennå men det kommer)

I går fikk vi endelig ryddet opp i bodene våre. YES! Vi hadde nemlig saker i 3 boder i det gamle huset jeg bodde i i fjor. Selvfølgelig hadde jeg jo gitt fra meg nøklene så vi måtte oppspore den som bodde der nå.. Utrolig godt å gå igjennom tingene i allefall, og få ryddet opp og kastet det vi ikke trengte. Vi har tilogmed fått ryddet vår egen bod! Måtte jo det for å få plass til alt. Så 4 boder har nå fått plass i en., og det er organisert! Jeg blir helt lykkelig i hjertet.

Bloggstart og mac-havari.

Jeg har ikke blogget på et par år. Men jeg fikk lyst til å begynne igjen. Det er tydeligvis trendy å mamma-blogge. Det er sånt de som har mamma-perm gjör, så nå skal jeg bidra til trenden med å skrive om mitt hippe kule mamma-liv. En bäsjende baby på 4 måneder er jo noe å skrive om. Det skjer mye nytt og spennende hver dag, men det er jo ikke like interessant for alle å lese. Men noen oppdateringer skal det allikevel bli. Dette blir göy.

(beklager de svenske ö-ene, vet ikke hvordan jeg fikser det på pc.)

Pc, ja. Det bringer meg til neste tema: Macen min skulle få seg en oppdatering for en stund siden. Begynte vel for flere måneder siden egentlig, med å kjöpe ny intern og ekstern HD. Nå skulle det bli renovering, tenkte jeg. Den gang ei. Den eksterne HD´n var jo ingen prob. Bare å plugge inn. Men intern var en helt annen historie. Når jeg först fikk lös alle skruene så fikk jeg ikke opp lokket. Etter en god del hjelp fra André som ikke kan mac men derimot er fryktelig teknisk kompetent, fikk vi byttet. Heldigvis satte vi ikke sammen dataen igjen med det förste for etter byttingen fulgte en rekke byttinger frem og tilbake (mellom gammel HD med ny i eksternt kabinett og omvendt) bare for å "finne" den nye HD´n. Da jeg ENDELIG fikk det til (den briljante lösningen var å klone den nye med Superduper, og deretter sette den inn som intern. Dette funket bra. )

NÅ, derimot, er situasjonen en helt annen, jeg skulle fölge en lur "oppskrift" for å legge inn leopard- OSet på den nye macen, og deretter iLife-pakken og Adobe-pakken.... Kanskje for store ambisjoner for min lille powerbook g4. Jeg ödela hele den nye HDn. Det ble noe alvorlig feil, og jeg aner ikke hva. Eplehjulet står bare og snurrer når jeg pröver å starte dataen, og, ja, jeg har prövd å boote fra dvd med OSX. Äsj.

Neste på programmet er å ta ut HDn, bruke den som ekstern, sette i den gamle, klone igjen, og så drite i Leopard.
Men da må jeg ha hjelp av André. Sukk. Kan ikke ting bare funke?!

Ps, på toppen av det hele har den eksterne HD´n klikket. Den er helt död, og det er der alle programmer etc ligger.

Så, om noen vil sponse meg med for eksempel en slik en: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features-15inch.html
og en ekstern hd, for eksempel en slik som denne: http://store.apple.com/us/product/TS585VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw&mco=NDI5MzEwOA så skriver jeg gjerne et langt og fantastisk reklamerende og rosende innlegg som takk... jeg lover!

A funny thing...

This post will be continued in Norwegian, because it just doesnt make much sense in English..

Vi var på marked i Vänersborg her om dagen, og Anne og jeg fant ut at vi hadde fryktelig lyst på fotballsokker av en eller annen grunn. Så vi gikk til boden til mannen som solgte fotballsokker (sikkert kjempelønnsom business) og gravde gjennom haugen. Kjøpte 3 par, blant annet disse. Det jeg lurer på er hvordan i alle dager disse sokkene havnet i Vänersborg?! Heia Åsane!

hey girls!

Mmmm...! check those mountains out!!!
So I am going to Bulgaria this winter, with a few friends. As of now it looks like we´re gonna be 9 people, 8 guys and me...
We got a really cheap deal, because Bulgaria is a really cheap place. Bansko appearently has the best mountains and snowboarding in the country.
It would just be awesome if another girl decided to join too! Come on! Can´t get it cheaper than this!

Living in Sweden

I just felt like blogging again. Sweden is good. I havent found a "real" job yet, but I´m trying out the whole freelance designer thing..
It´s working out ok, I have quite a few projects going on.. probably not the best payed ones, but thats fine. Still living off my last Shell payment. haha.
This week I have completely changed my homepage Crowpoint because somehow I deleted my old files...
I have been working with some graphic design for the dance project Skrætsj, a project run by Sigrun and Maria
And.. I started taking dance lessons again.. the course is called advanced Hip Hop. haha. It´s great.
André and I went skateboarding the other day with a couple of friends, David and Maria. They were pretty good, and I realised I really suck.(I mean who gets into skateboarding when theyre 24..) But I learned 2 new tricks, so... heres a picture of me skating ramp. haha.

Leaving for real now...

So here´s the news: I am going to Sweden tomorrow morning. Im driving to Hamar in a station wagon with broken locks, and all my stuff is in the back of it. I cant believe how much things just heap up during the years...
Anyway, I´m starting up my career in Sweden as a freelance Graphic Designer, and hoping that projects will just land in my lap, as they have been doing this far.
Other than that I will need to brush up on my business English skills by finishing up a course I started on a couple years ago.
Besides all that I am planning to apply for schools in canada, and possibly England and Australia for my last year of school.

My new swedish phonenumber is:
+46 735 128 735

My new swedish adress is:

Kilbäcksgatan 40b
45130 Uddevalla
Sweden

Please send postcards.
And enjoy this movie... (I know it has been out for a while, but it´s just too great!)

leaving town...

So, time has come to get moving again. I have been living in Bergen for most my life, and have stayed in this appartment for almost 3 years! Crazy really... I´ll be leaving family, friends, work, my whole network. At the moment I have a new furnitured appartment waiting for me in the center of Uddevalla Sweden. All I need is a job. So Im putting together my resumé and all my experiences from all the weird jobs and schools I have done in the past to hopefully get a great job in sweden. Theres a few jobs in Gothenburg that seem interesting and I might just get a job there if everything works out. I mean, the appartment really did. It pretty much went like this. I was riding in Andrés car with a bunch of people, Jochen from Belgium being one of them. I basically just heard him say he wanted to move out of his appartment, but only if someone came knocking on the door asking for it. All I really had to say was "Knock knock!" Later that same day I talked to the house manager and everything was arranged. I´ll be moving by the end of august/early september.
I am really excited and a little nervous about my work situation. I might even be done working at Shell. wow. I mean, you never know. After all I have worked there 7 years, and quit....hmm 3 times I think. But I might not be crawling back this time....
Time will show.

The mysterious Bagnapper

I was skateboarding in the streets downtown the other night/early morning... and for the sake of going down a hill, I placed my bag on the sidewalk by a streetcorner. The next second I´m watching my buddy fly down the street on my board... and within 2 seconds my bag mysteriously VANISHED!! I vaguely remember seeing a drunk dude pass the street corner behind my bag... but anyhow, I turned around, and both the dude and the bag was gone. So me and my friend started running up and down the streets looking for what seemed to be a lost case. After talking to the 3 only people around, except for the one passed out at the bus stop, I decided to call the police and block my credit card and all that, but sadly enough both my house keys and my cell phone was also, of course, in the bag...
And here comes the plot twist.. Im heading back towards the street corner, and I ask the first guy who comes along if he has seen a white bag. He says he has no idea, but there were some stuff in the street a few yards back. I arrive at the corner, and BAM! There it is. The bag is thrown back, for som reason all the zippers are now closed, and not a single object of my belongings are missing. I was stoked! I mean, who steals a bag, then zips it up and returns it?!
And, what did I learn from this experience? DON´T LEAVE YOUR LUGGAGE UNATTENDED!

Stavanger

Heres just some pictures from the surf trip with no surf. I just wanted to post some fun pictures, but my flickr account was full already, so here goes :) As I said, no waves, but hey, why not just surf the beach?!

Traces

As I have mentioned earlier, Mari and I are showing a photo exhibition at Base, everything was finally up and running yesterday, on the day it was supposed to start. Heres a little teaser for the show, and... sorry its written in norwegian, but I dont expect any of you foreigners to come anyway so... :)
Ekstremsportveko at Voss is next in line, June 23 - July 3.
We were also inteviewed by the local newspaper, you can read the article here (if you know norwegian that is...)
ps: just click on the image if you cant read the text!

My superstar friends

I had the chance of hanging out with Maria and Anne in Oslo this weekend, and see Maria dance in a real professional dance performance! She was the best dancer there, no doubt, and Im not just saying that because Im her friend! It was a great show! I got to see her school too, and take some pictures of the dancers there. Quite a contrast from shooting pictures of skateboarding 2 days earlier..
I went to Annes school of skin treatment as well, and got a great (not to mention cheap) massage, and my eyebrows fixed. Appearantly I am not very good at shaping eyebrows..
After my little hangout in Oslo I went to Sweden (of course) and chilled with André and his family. Michelle (Andrés little sister) played one of the key parts in the musical "rent", which we all went and watched. I was seriously impressed by the performance these kids delivered, it was awesome! I nearly cried towards the end..
I also figured out how to shoot better stage pictures with my digital camera, so here´s a few from the musical!

Mari x2 travels around Norway

Little Mari and I are working on our final school project, and here´s a picture from our latest shoot in

Hemsedal

We were running around in the slopes shooting at a contest called

Burton Glory Daze

The speaker even introduced the two of us as photographers from a Cambodian snowboard magazine, or something... wonder where he got that from...
anyways, we got some good footage, although we had some minor techincal difficulties, such as ripping one of our films...and wrecking a couple of films from our first snowboard shoot at Myrkdalen.
I´m not going to post pictures of the riders, since we are saving the goods for our exhibition :) Come see!
Thanx to BASE boardshop, and

Burton

we got to meet awesome people and got sweet deals on liftcards and a place to stay for the weekend!
In a couple of weeks we are going to Stavanger to shoot surfing and possibly skateboarding. This is definately the best and most exciting school project I have ever had!

PÅSKEFERIE

means: Easter Break
Sitting in my apartment at the moment. André is practising playing the guitar. He knows two chords now, and can play "he´s got the whole world in his hands". Great song. It´s pretty great not having school or work for 3 whole days.. haha. But it´s back to Shell tomorrow. At least I get paid extra because of the holidays.
Hmm, I should post a picture too, pictures are fun. Which one... hmm. Hard to decide. By the way, after the break "little mari" and I (we go by the names little and big mari) are diving back into photography, more specifically, we´re using analogue cameras with black and white film and some pretty cool lenses to shoot skate-snow-surf pictures. Its part of our final school project, and Its a pretty dope thing to do for a project. I mean who gets to go surfing for their final project?! haha. So, for the end of this we´re having 2 exhibitions at a couple of strategic places for the surf-snow-skate crew in the area.. we´re decorating a wall at the local shop

BASE boardshop

and

"Ekstremsportveko"

at Voss is the other exhibition location we got. So, we´re pretty psyched about them letting us do this.
anyway. Wish I had some photage I could post from a skatesession I shot the other day, but it isnt developed yet.. so I´ll do that later. :)
or... just come to our exhibitions in may. haha.

Picture time

Heres a bunch of pictures from this last month... The berlin class trip, Newcastle school trip, sweden, and Oslo...
Im not going to write a whole load of stuff about the trips, cause it would probably take a while and most likely not be very interesting unless you were there.. so, just enjoy the footage!
The only not-so-fun thing about Berlin is that our extensive walking resulted in a tendon inflammation in my foot. (and yes I know thats probably not the right term) so I cant really walk or run or dance in a couple of weeks. For me, that spells handicapped.

Travelling Month

This month has been really hectict and a lot of fun. At the moment I am in Sweden, during my winter break. Its nice to chill for a while, Ive been working at Shell every single day this last week to make up for all the money Ive been spending lately. One of my work buddies from a few years ago recently was promoted, and is now the boss at one of the gas stations I work at,(yes I work at 2 now)so its been fun working with him again.

As far as my title goes, here is why this month has been travelling month:
5 weeks ago- weekend trip to sweden, quality time with André :)
4 weeks ago- Boat trip to Denmark with shell
2 weeks ago- Boat trip with my school to Newcastle, England. Gotta love the british!
Now - Back to sweden, chilling out with André and friends for a week
Tuesday- Going straight to Berlin, Germany for a class study trip thingy, to visit museums and galleries and such.

Good thing I love travelling so much.. Except that I am a little short on cash, and my web-project money hasnt come in yet.
so, thats whats up with me.
Its been a while since my last post, so I thought I should be updating :)

and.. isnt this a cute picture!

The joy of resembling a celebrity...

Hi, and happy new year, and all that. I think Im starting the year with saying this:
This is going to be a GREAT year. And I wish that for all you people who read my blog too. The exciting part is not knowing whats gonna happen next, who we're going to meet, what new friends we'll make, and even where we'll live. Lovin an exciting life!

I celebrated newyears at Anne's family cabin in Trysil, a great place full of snow. we went snowboarding, good times, it took a little while to get the feeling back like it always does early on in the season, but the last day we finally didn't hesitate at the bigjumps, and had a jolly good time. Phil got majorly trashed in the slopes, and that kind of put a damper on things, but him being ok after a day at the hospital, just made his memory loss kind of funny instead of tragic. haha. (now he's completely fine, by the way)

check out the pictures at Marias blog!

At the moment Im at school, working on a project for one of my dad's coworkers Its a website, and I'll post the link soon, but it needs to be done first.

At school today, the guys in 3d found this picture of an actress, Rebecca Gayheart (great name, i bet she never had any name issues) and they all said she was my twin. So. Im posting a picture of her. I sort of disagree about us looking alike, but I dont know, maybe a little. haha

Posting from a foreign country

Actually, Im only in sweden, but it can pass for a foreign country I guess.. Well it kind of is, really. It´s not Norway, but at least people understand norwegian. Mostly. so, that helps. Theres a few sweet things about sweden.. the language is really cute, and the people are really awesome. The food is good, and a lot cheaper than norwegian food... and they have these really good porridge thingys, that comes in a little plastic roll, sort of like a sausage. mmm.
So, whats up with me? Well, my parents just got back from california, where they had the time of their life, they ate at a redneck trailerpark place which they thought was so funny and they got to handshake an american cop, which my mom was pretty stoked about. It was kinda cool to see how much fun they had, and you know how you sometimes think of your parents as old and boring. Well, theyre like young people inside, im pretty sure! haha. anyway..
2 days ago alot of my friends got together for Tronds new DVD release, they´re 4 guys and they call themselves ANTI-bikes. But surprisingly they´re not against bikes, they´re pretty dang good at riding them.
we watched the movie, Amulet had a rocking consert and as a sum-up, we had a great time. Maria and myself even got to wear silly little tshirts with the ANTI-symbol on them, and walk around promoting the DVD.
check out the ANTI-bike-site here..

click here to get to antibikes site

and now Im spending a couple of days in sweden, and keeping my blog up to date while André is at school.
If Im lazy and dont update my blog... have a very merry Mari Christmas!

Renates Hawaii-party!

Last night I got invited to a Hawaii party, and I was told I didnt have to wear a costume if I I didnt want to, so I went with a pretty mellow, not all out, Hawaii outfit with pants and a shirt. But I realised that was a huge mistake when I got there and everyone was chillin in bikinis and boardshorts. Man, I wish I had a moo moo. Anyway, this girl had a "dance Revolution" playstation game, and that turned out to be great fun, even though some people showed some scepticism.
After David and Daniel had tried both the "work-out-session" function, and the regular dance-off mode, they decided to invent a new sport: Hand-dancing. (just look at the picture..) haha. Well, it was fun, and after the nights grand dance finale going wild on the chairs, we chilled out maxin, relaxin all cool with the infamous 80s movie North Shore. You gotta love "Turtle". haha.

some recent happenings

Well, Ive turned 24 since my last post, and I must say, Im starting to feel OLD. But I guess its ok to grow up too. It was pretty awesome to have Hannah here for a week, and we had tons of fun and laughs just hanging out, catching up and talking about old times. Here are a couple of pictures from the days she was here...