Is it ok to be tired and slightly unhappy on one's birthday?

heia allesammen!!!

how was everybody's weekend? did you have a blast? :)

first off, Happy birthday Grandma!!! and Sensei Barb as well, though she doesnt know this blog exists... happy birthday!!!

this weekend was nice! except for the extreme amount of running around.

on saturday I cleaned the upstairs living room and my bedroom, since i was holding a party the next day and Maja was sleeping over :)

as I was cleaning Karro kept talking to me and she asked mequestions about songs, so i went to find one for her to listen to and guro came on skype!!! Happy birthday Guro!!! her birthday was on the 19th! there are so many march birthdays in my host family... Mamma on the 2nd, Ole-Peter on the 4th, and Guro on the 19th :)so weird!!! :D

anyway, it was nice to say hi to her for a little! but then i went back to picking up. I decided to take abreak when almost everything was done, just had some vaccuuming and such left, when Maja called asking if it was ok ifshe came over then because her mom was willing to drive her. it was finewith me, i just needed to vaccuum and get the rest of my stuff picked up... oh, and change the sheets and suchon my bed... i have a bad habit of just letting them sit there... :D now they have an ant pattern on them soo cute XD

thankfully Karro decided that she would help me vaccuum, which was a great help! we managed to be finished picking up right before Maja arrived! we ended up playing Amnesia the Dark Descent, during which Maja and Karro tried their hardest to make me scream... i might have a couple times, but mostly i just whimpered and flinched. XD they were very cruel... they kept tickling the back of my neck and sides... i was already freaked from the random roars and such, but then they would do them from behind me and I would jump! *cries from memory*

then they decided that watching Paranormal Activity would be fun... thank god that it didnt download and when se found it streaming the sound was screwed up! we ended up watching Jennifer's Body, which was more strange than scary... Jennifer is sacrificed by a band so they will ebcome popular, but Jen isnt a virgin so her body is possesed afterwords and she goes around eating boys and driving her bff CRAZY!!! rather strange...

eventually it was time for bed, we kidnapped Karro's fuzzy blanket and waited for Kristin to text back about who was at a party... it took a while and Maja ended up calling her because she was so annoyed that there was no immediate response... XD

the next morning was lovely! there were pancakes and bacon! not the thick chunks of bacon but thin slices that im used to... :] so yummy!!! om nom nom! (i think i have to include "om nom nom" at least once in every post :) ) Maja tried the maple syrup but i didnt get a response to what she thought of it... O.o

then we began the task of getting ready, which was intterupted by early guests... hahahaaa... i had some eyeliner on one eye, one half of one eye... i kept running between theroom with the guests and the bathroom because of the mirror, then i had to run downstairs to get more guests!

we started making pizza pretty soon after Morgana and Aom arrived. i threatened Morgana saying if she couldnt keep quiet while we were making pizza, about how it wasnt really pizza, then i would kick her out of the kitchen, her and her injury too! she fell on the ice and hurt her ankle... :(

I ended up making one of the pizza doughs, morgana made one because everybody could just tell she was itching to do so, and maja made the other :) then i did the toppings when the dough had risen, Weronica and Silje showed up then and they sat there watching me, Aom helped chop the veggies and everybody else was upstairs watching Underworld :)

it took a while, but finally everything was ready! yay!!! and after i convinced my guests to help me clear the coffee table for pizza we all ate some noms :) eventually people began to leave, morgana and aom went first, before we were ableto eat really :( and then Weronica and Silje because Weronica had to work... then everybody else besideds Kristin and Maja left all together... then about an hour or so later Jostien decided to make an appearence. we had fun reading the blabberings of some crazy cultish church... they had one "article" called "10 reasons god hates sweden" then they had the danish flag underneath... REALLY?!?! im sorry but that's just idiotic... :P

eventually Kristin (who gave me a bottle of Vodka Blue for my birthday) went home because she wasnt feeling very well. then Maja's mother's boyfriend came to pick her up at around 9 pm... Jostein decided that he would try to take the last bus from to the city... yeaaaah... ahaha... guess which bus never showed up?! yeah, you got that right!!! we walked back to my house in the hopes that pappa hadn't gone to sleep and that he hadn't had any wine... unfortunatly his snoring was immediatly heard when we entered the house... the last resort was to have Jostein sleep over, but thankfully he called is dad who we had first assumed to have drank something alcoholic, but he didnt!!! jostein was picked up at about 11:30...

i eventually went to bed, but it took a while. i ended up staying up until 00:30-ish before i managed to go to bed. after chatting with my mum for a couple min.

this morning i woke up to a hug and a "gratulerer med dagen!" from mamma, she even hard boiled a couple of eggs for me!!! :D my birthday present from my afs family was a picture of the island that you can see on the way home during mørketida a couple years ago. the picture is beautiful! but apparently she's sending it back because the house that is in the piture is cut off, so she is getting it repainted (its on a canvas so i looks kinda like a painting) so the house is fully visible. :)

school was ok, though i think i might have fallen asleep sitting up while in norsk... :/ gym was really fun! we had dance so they taught us a bunch of dances including the Glow dance... unfortuantly i had to leave early because i had a meeting with Sissel... about grades and lack there of and such.

I explained the whole i dont need grades thing and they wouldnt translate over even if i wanted them too. she immediatly understood that im here for the language and culture so she asked me how i was doing with it. she seemed very impressed with my ability! we ended up talking about what im going to be doing next year, and why i wanted to go to Norway. It was really nice to talk to her!

after that i had bio, after being sang at by Morgana... in italian. such an odd language to hear "happy birthday" sung in.

I learned about the writing project that we are supposed to do for bio. its 800 words about something to do with the genetics. I have decided to do a genetic disorder, i havent decided which yet, but Angleman syndrome sounds fun!

after that i went to the city and on my way to one of the grocery stores i met my dear Maja!!! she was in the process of texting me telling me she had had a bad day and wasnt going to be swimming, but she would still meet up with me after. XD i started walking along beside her and startled her a little :) i have been exhausted all day so i decided to take the day off from swimming too so Maja and i went and hung out, had some coffee and watched some Bones. then it was time for me to go if i was going to get home on time to skype Mum and Dad. I had enough time to go to the grocery store to get a sandwhich thing and came to the realization as i passed the alcohol section i realized that I could buy it... thankfully nothing that i like was there so I didnt buy any... but i can buy myself booze in Norway... O.O

then I went home. unfortunatly it was daylight savings time in Maine... XD so when i thought i had got home with enough time i was really geting my Mum more and more panicked!!! im so sowwy mum!!! :*

it was nice to talk to my parents, though really hard at the same time. normally im greeted in the morning of my birthday by streamers and signs, mum makes pancakes usually and its just such a cozy small comfortable event... it was a little sad to not have that this year, but my homesickness would have been worse if i hadn't talked to them today.

anyway, after that i came here and tried to write this post! or at least finish it.

im sorry its taking so long to upload pics of the ice hotel! i will do it this week! but for now im going to go find something to snack on and go to bed.

natta og vi snakkes!!!