Devyn's Week, aka The Discovery of Christmas Dinner and Halloween Visits Heggen

HEIA!!!!

some interesting things to note. I found something that makes me giggle and at the same time make me feel slightly uncomfortable... can you see it?

no? well even if you can I'm going to show you a close up. (btw the pic above is of our porch)

Yep, you guessed right. that's christmas dinner... if I understood correctly it is ham and/or lamb and lamb ribs... And they were strung up over where my snowboard way lying until I decided to take it in out of the snow. It is resting against my wardrobe now... and no, no matter how many times I have checked Narnia still isn't letting me through there... :P

Any way! How was your tuesday devyn? Unsurprisingly I can remember... bugger. but I do remember that I got a very importnant and thrilling message from a fellow geek! the better of the local book stores had recieved an accidental order of Robert Jordan's and more recently Brandon Sanderson's 13th Wheel of Time book, Towers of Midnight! Due to this happy happy accident/message I immedialty sent Mum an email explaining that I could expidite my reading process by buying the book here instead of waiting for them to recive then mail it to me... I hope that the title of the email didn't make her worry, but I needed to know. (the title of the email was something like: I HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION THAT REQUIRES A RESPONSE AS SOON AS YOU READ THIS EMAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) :D due to that email with hergiving her blessing I am now the proud owner of a wonderfull copy of the early sent book... thank you Tor publishing!

And now from page 188 a small quote that I find very humorous, though only my fellows will understand.

"Three days," Nyneave sain. "Three dayshe's been gone! The Last Battle loms, and the Dragon Reborn is missing." tee-hee! I can just picture her in my head, yanking on her looooong braid yelling something that starts with her usual insults and ends with "the bloody Dragon Reborn is MIA! I am going to box his ears when next I find him!!!" :D

you guys are lucky i didn't write Mat's letter out for you guys... but I dont think I could have stopped laughing long enough to actually type... ;D have I made you frustrated yet Jostein and Dad? I HAVE THE BOOK BEFORE YOU!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and I should be done before the release date!!!!

okay, so obviously I have the book now. I practically ran to the book store during my free period on wednesday to buy it! well after I went to talk to Ulf, the advisor... He will tell me what all the higher-ups decided about my dropping or switching History classes on wednesday... fingers crossed! And I would have run to the book store, but the hill was too dang slippery/steep... I almost fell a couple of times walking very slowly... While at the book store I also got something that will require lots of work on my part, but really I will be happy if it is used... if not I will be kidnapping this gift and taking it with me to college... unless I get it for a present or something... I can't explain in more detail because the person who I am gifting it to reads this blog sometimes so... sorry!

I got back to school in time for me to work on the gift a little, then give up and read my book. Then I had math, so I decided that I should at least try to do the work... I tried and failed, so I started playing dino puzzle on my calculator so that it would appear that I was working. I don't think it worked since my math teacher came up behind me and looked over my shoulder to ask if everything was okay. I esd slightly abashed, so I turned the game off quickly, responding that yes everything way okay. then realized that we have a test coming up and I couldn't do the stupid thing we were being tested on... so I quickly revised my answer and asked for help.

Really, it's quite humorous, at one point we needed to use a function on my calculator, but neither of us knows how to use my type of calculator so we sat there pressing buttons hoping that one of them would work for what we wanted... eventually we found something along the lines of what we wanted, but not exactly... :P

Then I was free! I took a bus to Rimi to get another bus, and sole cola... the first bottle in 2 weeks I might add! I'm very proud of myself :] I stood and listened and mumbled the words to the Decemberists... they are addicting and their lyrics fit the gloomy clouds all too well... I did get talked at by a couple of little girls, and surprisingly i could understand what they asked me and some of what they said otherwise! I must be getting better at this norwegian thing :)

I got off the bus and walked back home with my neighbor and only fellow (in my age group) in this little neighborhood, Kristin. prounounced Christine. :) She invited me over to hang out and eat dinner, I accepted and took my back-pack home just to get rid of it and tell Karro where I was. :) It was really fun! We had a strange dish that neither of us seemed to be able to identify... and watched a japanese drama called Last Friends... She called dibs on Ruka... :P It was fun, and a bunch of the other younger girls kept popping in and out.

Thursday we had Operasjon Dagsverk. I got up and went to one of Karro's cousin's house. Her name is Marte, and she has 2 adorable children and her husband is really nice! I cleaned all the windows... or most of them. and supposedly they look like new now. Marte took Agnette (who will be 1 soon) out with her when she went training so I was left alone with the dog for a couple of hours. I got the windows cleaned in about an hour. so I read until Marte and Agnette came home! Oh, a note about the dog. when I got there origionally the dog wouldn't let me move without growling or barking at me, and if I even moved towards Aksel or Agnette she would do the same while putting herself infront of me. it took a while to convince her that I wasn't going to hurt her kids, then a little while more to convince her that I didn't need to be petting her the whole time I was there...

But, anyway. after Marte got home she gave some lunch to Agnette, and got some for herself. I had already eaten, so I talked with her and watched Agnette, whos facial expressions were darling. she seemed to have mixed feelings about the bread and jam... By the end of her meal I was she started putting a had against her cheek and looking like she was leaning on it without really doing so. Marte laughed when she realized that she was doing that because I was leaning against one of my hands! I hadn't realized I was doing so... it was cuuuute!

After lunch I decided that just cleaning the windows couldn't be enough to earn 350 kr. So I found another job washing the walls in the entrance so that they could be painted. :) after I was offered a weekly cleaning job, I will be going there every thursday so I can clean some of the house. the bathroom and the kitchen mostly. I will be getting 150 kr per hour! that should help me out :)

Then Marte drove me home in the hopes that Agnette would fall asleep (a trick my parents used on me too) and I got to hang out alone (except for the pain in the butt) for a while :) Over all a very nice day!

I was aprehensive about this morning. I woke up at 6 am as opposed to my normal 6:40 so that I could get ready for the last school day before Halloween!!!!! I wore my lolita dress that was supposed to arrive in time for prom but never did... I felt very cute, and many people complimented it! here's a pic of me and Silje!

She decided that she wanted to try on my apron thing! The pic cut off the "over-kill hat" as Mum called it, but you get the picture! please dont zoom in on my face, I have a double chin when I look down while I am smiling...

So, I was waiting for Bente to come in when I learned that she was not at school today! or at least, not coming to this class! I was thrilled, and even more so when Weronika and Silje decided that we should go to get Weronika breakfast! it was really funny, on the way out of the grocery store/department store restaurant I turned back to see why Weronika was taking so long only to see everybody sitting at the various tables around the place was staring at me. I looked at them figuring that they would stop and pretend that they hadn't been staring but to my surprise they didn't. It made me laugh!

as expected quite a bit of my dark chocolate got eaten, though I did get 1/3rd! Everybody really liked my outfit, and the horribly long fake nails that I had applied helped in disecting the shrimp in bio! ewww... shrimp. So all in all my self induced halloween was a sucesess, and on reccomendation of my bio teacher I will share this last pic before I go to Yngvild's birthday party!

yes, that's a shrimp's head.

Ha det bra! ha en fint helge!