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Social Media Fasting.

I have been a part of a New Years festival here in Oslo, Norway and been challenged to have Media fasting. I will have it once a month and I am gonna do it from Facebook, Instagram and my blog. I will do it for a whole week every time. I will start the 4^th of January.

For me is it more to be aware of life.

To be still.

To be here.

I will have more over to actually meet friends more regularly, be with God and work out twice a week. And read more good books, eat more fruit and less sugar and probably something more. To be able to have other experiences in life then be more addicted to the social media I have around myself.

It is not one of this New Years Resolutions, no. My New Years Resolution is to not eat sugar at least the first 100 days but hopefully for the rest of the year or at least less sugar and to do more things that is good for my body and soul. To be aware of where the sugar is.

Cutting back on sugar has more benefits than just weight loss.

I actually started yesterday on the 31^st of December 2015 when I went down to one of the sports stores by buying a fitness ball for my back. I will use it instead of a chair. To get my back into the right balance and to build up the core muscles. It actually helps me.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.Oslo.Norway.2016.

My 2015.

Yesterday was it the 28^th of December and here in Norway that’s apart of what they call «romjula» it’s the days after Christmas and before New Years-eve. And for me have those days in the between been days of «getting out in the snow and play» or if it was a bad winter stay inside and play with puzzle since I was a child but as an adult it’s most become «the traveling back to home time» from wherever I have been for Christmas. But this Christmas and all days of December I have been in Oslo, the city I live in. Different but very okay. I have had more then just interesting days! I have had an experience I did not see would come. A positive experience!

I have had time with just myself, do just what I wanted or not wanted to do. It has been a very relaxing Christmas. And we got snow on the 27^th of December – Yay!!

Yesterday was one of those slow days with a surprising cool thing. I went on Facebook just to check one thing and there one of my friends that lives in the state right now, was awake and on her way for work. And she said that the girls would be up at 5:45 am (9 hours behind us in Norway), and that she had told them that also meet her in the kitchen for early breakfast which for me meant Skype time with all three of them. Happy happy happy feeling. Most because I have not really heard much from the other two in a while. It was a good ending of Christmas for me! It is always nice to have the opportunity to catch up with friends especially over Skype when the friends does not live in the same country as I am living in!

The next thing I was doing was one of those things I have done for the last few years in the end of the old year and before the new starts, to write down Goals and Dreams for the year ahead. It is not a necessary to follow it but I am aloud do add things if I am in a situation that reminds me of a dream or goal. And one of my goals is exercising, to do it twice a week and get my body on an other level, get stronger physical and be able to stand against sickness more. And one of my dreams are to be able to travel more.

When I woke up today (not early morning) the snow was and is still here. The light from the snow is indescribable. It means so much for me to have snow during the winter, not just because I “always had it as young” no more because it lighten everything up it does get light with snow because it reflect the little daylight we have this time of the year, which is not much. And something else that reflect is our life, how we live it, how and what we show others. If you and I respect each and other and what’s going on in our life’s it will reflect to those we meet every day. It is the same with family, friends, cow-workers and people we just meet randomly in life. How do you want to your life to reflect on the ones you meet?

To respect a person for what’s going on in the persons life is so important but, yes it is a but here, but if you do not respect a person how will that person be able to respect you? I have been in a situation for some years where some of my family do not respect me in the way of the I am still single, that I have not met someone to share my life with. Those in my family “have been nagging” about “I should get married” like it is the easiest thing in the world… or “have you met someone yet?” like when is it there business? I respect them – those in my family – for what ever they do why can not they do the same for me?

This year that is nearly over… It is only two days left today. As an adult the days runs over to the next fast and if it is December today and January in two days is not the biggest different for me as it was when I was a child. It was such a bigger different then when I was a child. When did that disappeared? 2015 has been an interesting year in many ways. I have learn to be more patient in areas I did not have and I have learn new things from the course I started in sept-14 and ended this summer. I have got new friends, been there for friends that needed me in an other way then the years behind me. My faith has made me stronger. I have had fights I did not wanted but that I can see was good to have. I have learn that distance to my mom and her sickness has not made me weaker but stronger. I have learned to deal with things I did not know how to deal with it. I feel I have grown this year in knowledge, as a person, as a friend and with God in my faith.

I have had time to be creative in the way I needed to be. I have learned to sew after cloth pattern something I never done before. I have had costumers and still have two left that will slide over to the next year. And I will end this year with some sewing and be with friends. And I am looking forward for what next year has to come with! I am curious about next year!

I am thankful for this year.

I am thankful for my friends and my Church.

I am thankful for where I live and where I am gonna move.

I am thankful for life what ever it is giving me.

….here is a mix of picture from this year….

Me as Frosty the Snowman on a costume-party.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.2015.Oslo.

Creative December part 1.

Its been pasting few weeks since last time I wrote here on my blog just because I have been creative. And I have also been on a trip to my mom which took a bit of my blogging-time. We celebrated her on her 75th Birthday. So time has just fly by..

So today I am gonna give you the taste of what I have made so far in December this year. It will be mainly pictures of how I made the Christmas decorations out of things I had home and how easy it can be. I hope you like it. It will hopefully come more from the rest of December that is left.

So enjoy!

I have mainly used paper plates, paper cups and coffee filter, oil color, glitter, glue and thread.

Draw a Christmas tree on the paper plate and cut it out.

Paint the cups white and let they dry a bit.

Sprinkle glitter on the cups and let they dry for as long as the paint need to dry.

Here have I painted a ginger man and a ginger woman on the backside of the paper plate. I have used the ginger forms and oil-color.

Make you Christmas tree as you want them. I have used glitter and glue.

Here I have reused some Styrofoam from what was around my Hub.

I cut out a heart in the size I wanted, painted it red and before the paint dried I sprinkled the glitter on.

A breakdown that made me see new about where I am.

Few nights ago I had a breakdown. I was crying out my fear, my emptiness, my frustration in my life to God. It was good! It helped me so much after.

It helped me so much that I was Brain Storming out in »my garden» the same day (just later) with the sound from the stream we have in the end of the garden.

It helped me to clear my brain and to think new.

It’s like God has given me something invisible I can’t touch but use. It’s like finding new path’s, road’s, street’s of how to find a job, search and think. I have peace. I still don’t have the motivation I had but I can see the light in the tunnel again. I am willing to find my way.

Last evening which ended into late night or earlie morning I was actually on my LinkedIn profile. Reading about «how to make your self more attractive» for the employers. What to write to attract. Very interesting reading!

– That gave me inspiration and hope.

I think a breakdown for me was just what I needed to see clear again and see new light into what I am doing. To explore new paths and enjoy life more. To take one day in the week to just do some fun stuff with a friend. To re-start.

I want to be hungry to learn more about my areas, about administration, find literature in this area. I want to be hungry on God. Trust him. Walk that specific street with him.

This breakdown was an eye-opener for me.

A good one!

Like, what do I want in a job? What am I looking for? Do I put my faith first in life? What do I do with the days? What would be a benefit for me?

So far have I already learned to watch myself from the sideline in a positive way. It have helped me to understand myself more. Good lesson.

/Mia-Simone Svenberg

Small grains of gold in my everyday life

Small grains of gold in my everyday life is small things like

Acting as a Bible verse on Facebook,

A phone-call pass from a close friend,

A feedback from a job I applied for or

A trip with my land lady at the store at a distance away.

Or that my brother pay the train ticket my way that I can join to celebrate my mama its 75th day.

Small individual things that makes your day lighter.

Re-posting. Where did motivation go?

Re-posting in English.

Where did motivation go?

This week began with a lot of inspiration, and I sew after joining a Facebook group. And I’ve both gotten and started cutting a pair of pants that are in my length !, which I look forward to getting both to go in one-sided pants but also just because they’re the right length.

20151026_131411 — The old jeans I’ve used for many years are now my pattern. 🙂

But the motivation to apply for a job is not as big. It became even less motivating when I tried to find interesting posts and suddenly there are so many who require Bachler education in administration jobs.

“…last week did I try to use my network without luck. “

I have told most I know that I still have the motivation to apply and get me a job, yes, that’s true. To some extent. But, yes, there is one but here, motivation is not as great as motivation as sewing … Oh, that’s not so good! But then it is and say the individual, I tried it and “use my network” last week. I sent my resume to one in my network and he passed it on to his boss and yesterday I was notified that I was going to interview today. This after searching for more jobs in months without anything back.
So I came to interview today, it went well and now I just have to wait for what’s going on.

20151028_130459 — This picture took I directly after the interview. Oslo harbor in a cold wind.

If I get this job, it’s at the outset that when someone has to go to the doctor, doctors, sicknesses or vacationers need extra help. That she I met at the interview asked if I could work for example during the Christmas holidays, clearly I can. Yes, it would have been nice to meet the family, but earning money is more important than traveling.

“One lovely hour by the sea.”

Today I took a trip down to Sjølyst boat harbor to enjoy the fall and the boats. It was almost like meditating and I had time to talk to God while I was there. 🙂 A pleasant hour by the water. With lots of good cool air, luckily I had the down jacket otherwise I would have frozen too much. Yes, I have just started the down jacket, it’s not super cold, but I’ve got a bit hot than freezing.

“The motivation often goes blank a bit like a battery ….”

But back to motivation ..
To “find” inspiration and motivation is not simple or easy. It will not arrive by mail or by e-mail. It often runs out a bit like a battery, so I’ve run out of motivation. and I do not know how to get or get back to it … But I hope it returns after the trip down by the sea today or that I’m right to get to work soon so I do not have to send more applications.

Now I’m going to sew a little to do something completely different. I’m very excited.

20151026_125147 — Thinking, skirt. We’ll see if that’s it is in the end. 😉

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg October 2015 // November 2017.

Project Wardrobe.

I started my wardrobe project about a year ago in my head, because when I moved in here in my apartment about 3,5 years ago I realized that the wardrobe was build in to the wall like you probably did in the 1950’s. Probably also a man who did it because it was not really a good place to have it or good design or function for modern time. It was at least not what I needed. So i asked my Land Lord if I could demolish it and do something else in that corner. And he said yes.

The time fly by and I started it this Autumn.

The whole project has just been a “breathing whole” between the days of applying for a job. It is one of my ways to be creative. And to finally “grab” this project has also more then just one good benefit after when I’m done. I will have a new sewing-corner and finally a table to sit and write my applications or blog which I have not ever had since I moved in here. And for the one who move’s in here after me will be able to have a Kitchen-corner.

#StepOne. 10^th of September-15. This picture is from the beginning of the demolition. One door is off and the wall in between have I started to saw to get out.

#StepTwo. 19^th of September-15. On this pictures have I finally removed both doors is off and the groundwork with putty all the uneven surfaces in the wall and paper-sanding starts. And with my body (which is not the best right now) this part took a bit longer time then I thought it would take. But in the same time I did not need to stress, I did not have a deadline of when it had to be done.

#StepThree. 21^st of September-15. Is ground-painting with white color for whatever color I could decide to pick. And I did not just paint daytime. No no, I am a night-owl so I do it when I am more “awake” which most the times are after 9 pm. So those days did most of it happen “by night”. And as long as I don not have a day-time work I do most things whatever it is when after 7 pm.

And in between of this bigger project, did I finished a smaller creative project I started in August to a friend-couple. More just because I wanted it out of the way but also because they kind of needed to get before the time was out.

#StepFour. 29^th of September-15. This day was the day when I went to one of the stores were you here in Norway go to buy color. Maxbo is the name. They have everything you need for whatever you do inside or outside on your house. I had decided what kind of color I wanted and took the bus there. It was a very nice Autumn day with sunshine and all the lovely colors in the trees. But when I came in to Maxbo, and chatted with one of the “painting cow workers” this guy told me the color was to dark for the painting-machine to make. Oh no !! What shall I do now? I just could not decide there and then so I had to go back home and think. And time to think I got but I kind of decided on my way back. Got realistic and said to myself “just get the lightest version of the color”. This was a Tuesday. I decided to try to go back on the Friday the same week but I did not manage. And the week after I got fever and could not go…. So there I were, I just wanted to start with the painting.

#StepFive. Two weeks after the first trip to Maxbo, this Monday the 12^th of October-15, was I “back in business” and without fever. So I went there after some other errands in town. I got my color and went home Happy.

#StepSix. Painting-day. Happy. Finally could I start. The rest of Monday 12th of October (after 13 o’clock) did I paint. Luck-ally was the paint dry after 2 hours for a new layer. Times fly by so much faster when you do have something fun to do!

#StepSeven. Tuesday the 13th of October (yesterday when I write this) was all about to put the furniture’s in place. To finally get my sewing-corner on place, make a “TV-corner” that I never have had before either. The only thing I miss now is to have somewhere or something nicer then the chairs to sit and watch the “television”.

I still have some things to fix like the last layer of color on the walls, a new layer of floor, screw up the mirror and drill and screw up the grid on the walls, but I can at least sit and work at the table now.

/Mia-Simone.

To be there for a friend.

Yesterday was a sad day for one of my girl friends.

She lost a family member… She called me right after she got he sad news and I just said, come over to me. You should not be alone. She came and we just were. We talked a bit, watch the television and she slept over. I just couldn’t let her be alone the first night. And I feel so sorry for her lost. I am sad in my heart for her and her family’s lost. And however she feels when she is back in Oslo, I will be there for her. She will need the support and friendship just more to get through the heavy part and be going, do the daily things feel the meaning and be loved.

The lost.

Emptiness.

How important it is to stay close with friends when you live in an other country then your family has been more and more important for me. And especially when a family member dies and you can’t be there when it happens. That just so much more important.

To be there for each other.

Support.

Make sure that your friend feel safety. Let whatever feelings to be okay. Take them in even if you don’t feel you have enough food, space or however you feel.

The friend needs you.

And i realized that I am so thankful for closest the friends I have here in Oslo that has become my family. That whenever my mom will not be a part of this world anymore, I know I have friends that will be there for me as I were there just now.

Family is not just the biologic ones. Family is those you have around you. The friends that support you whenever you need it. Family can be your Church, your closest friends, bonus siblings etc. Take care of them!

/Mia-Simone.

Dreams – goals – visions – good night-dreams…

The word “dreams” means different things for each of us. For you it can be a goal to do something, a daydream, vision or a good night-dream. It says that “to dream” is good for the brain and if you are a creative person you mostly dream more.

I dream a lot during the night. Mostly its unrealistic. Doesn’t make sense. But I still do it. I guess my brain has a lot to work with maybe because I am quite creative and have lots of ideas rolling around.

Some of my dreams are true. Like the one I had in the winter off 2005. I was living in Småland on the east coast south of Stockholm, Sweden. There and then it was just one of this unrealistic dreams. I dreamed I was sitting in a garden, didn’t know where I were. It was at the terrasse on the backside of a white stone house. And it was lots of fruit trees there and cozy. I was living there. And to dream this, when it was winter where I were and that I got all the details was in my head “one of those weird dreams”.

Two and a half years later or more was I sitting in that garden. I was living there, as in the dream. Weird! One of the days in May I think it was. I went out on the terrasse and got this “weird feeling” of “I have been here before”. It was there and then I realized this was the dream I had in Småland in 2005.

Most of my dreams are unrealistic but I remember they all when I wake up, and with every little detail, conversation, colors, area, how things are build or the team. I could write it all down but I have never done it because I remember it. Its like my brain has its own life..and just need to work all the creative ideas through hard. Every little idea becomes so big during the night.

But I also have dreams about what I wanna do later in life. I dream about to be able to buy a small house in the forest of Värmland, Västergötland or Halland, in Sweden. To have my own place where I can escape or just go and be alone, to create, to get inspiration and to invite friends for holidays. Or the dream of an old farm-Barn which I would like to change into a workshop for my business. I’m not a big “day dreamer” in the sense of what we as kids most did.

And I have dreams that has become goals in life. Like the thing to get a job and be able to travel more. To see the world.

As most of the friends I have, they like to travel. I want that too! I have started to dream of places I didn’t think about ten fifteen years ago that I wanna see, like New York, Chicago, Boston, San Fransisco, Seattle, Canada and Alaska. Maybe parts of Asia like Thailand or the Philippines – countries that in my head are “to hot” for me just because I don’t really like to much sun. But who says I have to go there when its the warmest period for the season? When I actually can travel when it fits me.

I wanna start travel now before its to late in life. I want to travel for the wish my mom had all my life and she in the end never did because of other things in her life stopped her. I want to see and explore Europe instead of my mom. My mom said many times “When I retired I’m gonna see Europe”. One of her biggest wishes where to see Praha and Berlin. She never got to see those places because of my dad got more then one stroke and she needed to be home with him.

I wanna do this for her and I will keep dreaming of new places.

/Mia-Simone

Re-posting. One hour at Nav.

Today I had to go to Nav but before that I had to make some copies.. (Nav – a member of the government that helps most types of people who lost their jobs for various reasons or who have retired or who have been disabled.) to deliver some papers. When I finally got there, it was a queue as normal. It doesn’t really matter what time you have to be at Nav it’s always a queue, short or long. I came to this location (not “my Nav” I usually go to)

When I entered the room, it was No. 057 desk 3. Ten minutes later it was still no. 057. So waiting without the queue getting smaller or visibly shorter is a little interesting. To sit there without hearing the “pledge” to just see more people coming was a bit odd.

“I have to say that there was relatively good music in the speakers.”

While I was sitting there, I thought they had quite good music in the speakers. Before the first thing my Nav office does not have music for the second, it was one of the few things I heard music inside a Nav office. I was the only one who did something. I wrote blog posts in my notes app. Everyone sits quiet waiting nicely for their turn in the queue system. Some go for a walk in the room, probably just to move about a bit. Someone goes through their papers. Some of those who actually work there come and go. The time now is so much that the people who work here come from the rooms, and speak out to everyone that “now we close about fifteen minutes.” As if we who were there had not realized it. The clock does not stand still!

The majority of all who expected you were from Africa, Asia or Eastern Europe plus me, which is originally Sweden. The women do not sit on the same side as the men. We sit on hard wooden benches modern with a little round table in light wood color. The room is bright and feels open at the same time as it feels empty. Meanwhile, I hear the person sitting on the desk working is being annoyed by the person who asks questions because he who works there does not get the answer he wants. Is it typical Nav? Maybe. Not my opinion but it happens for sure often.

“Now, queue numbers disappear from the queue-board. Is it because the time has been 14:39?“

The queue numbers disappear from the queue-board. Is it because the time has been 14:39? To have patience is the same thing as the letters NAV stands for. Not a problem for me though. At 14:46 does the queue number show up on the queue-board again and start to roll again, and fast. Suddenly it says 062 and then it stops, like it would not start again or ever. Someone push through to get ahead of the queue and ask for how long they should wait when “there are not so many left here and we have No. 072″. How did they think now, was I thinking. I have No. 067, shall I just sit here and wait until my number gets up on the board or should I to let them know “I’m still waiting?” In the meantime I just sat there kept waiting. I had lots of time.

While I’m sitting there, it turns out that there have become many more foreign “at my Nav office” too. Probably in all the offices of Nav in Oslo. And then I think, how many of them are actually receiving help when they get here? And how many of them comes here every day? Are they here all day, to try to get some help?

I have to say I am very pleased with Nav Ullern which is “my Nav office”. I have so far got all the kind of help I needed even if some things takes a bit longer time than it should. But help I get.

One hour at Nav…

/Mia-Simone. September 2015 // November 2017.

Coaching friends – Ventilere med vener.

Coache vener.

I det siste har eg komme i samtaler med noken veninner og rett å slett “coachet” dei i korleis dei bør eller kan tenke utifrå den situasjonen dei er i. Å så tenker eg, korfor får eg ikkje jobb, men er flink til å hjelpe andre til å finne ut av kva slags jobb som passer dei ?! Betyr det at eg burde søke jobb der eg kan coache andre ?

Den eine samtalen handle om å vere tålmodig på privat og i jobb for to ulike veninner. Den eine bur per i dag i Seattle, USA og den andre her i Oslo, Norge. Om å ha tålmodig-het til livet, med vener, jobben, å finne ut kva dei kvar og ein trenger å jobbe med. Om å dele tankar og erfaringar som støtte. Om kunsten å ha tålmodig-heit og kossen vi menneskjer bygger opp våras tålmodig-heit.

Den andre samtalen handle om å finne ut kva ein skal gjere når den jobben ein har ikkje fungerer eller når ein kjenner av stress. Kva veg ein skal gå vidare. Den eine om å finne ut kva «her heart beats for» i form av kva hun vil gjere med livet, kva slags jobb er det hun brenner for og korleis komme hun dit. Imens den andre må finne ut av «korleis komme eg vidare uten å kjenne stress igjen?» Om å ventilere tenkjar med ein veninne. Om å få dele jobb-erfaringar og korleis ein kommer vidare ut av noko som til tider er tungt og ladet med negativ energi.

I begge situasjonane har eg erfaring som eg med glede hjelper til å dele med meg av. Livserfaringa rett og slett.

/Mia-Simone.

All about to apply for jobs.

My life is right now all about to apply for jobs. Which isn’t the most interesting part of life. I can’t say I have applied for thousands of jobs but more then hundred for sure.

“I am to stubborn to give up.”

In this period, which started kind of last Autumn in a combination of a course of «office an administration» my focus has mostly been on «reception» or similar kind of jobs. And most of them I got “refusal of job” back. Which hits you. I guess it hits you more in the beginning then after a while. At least that my case. Every time I get “refusal of job” back I get motivation to keep doing this until I actually get a job. I am to stubborn to give up, keep applying and stay positive but to find a new area that might work or might be easier to get into by myself isn’t as easy.

I met a friend last Saturday on the Jesus Festival here in Oslo, she asked me how my life was and how I was praying when it comes to jobs and future. And she told me, if you pray for what your heart beast for, God can open a door even in a job. I thought about that all the way back home. When I came home I said “Okay God, lets see if this works”.

The week started… and Tuesday came, I was doing daily things until the evening which is the time I check for jobs. As normal I went to the most common page here in Norway to look for job (finn.no) to see what was out. Suddenly I came over a page and a job adverts that I hadn’t even thought about but it was an interesting job! In administration. But it was to late for my brain to start the application process (at ten past twelve am).

“Taken a new turn.”

Next day came and after my “morning coffee” picked I up my laptop and started. And during the search of jobs and punching in information to the CV online I came over a third job (in school administration) that I haven’t been thinking of since 2001… I can say, that how I think about what kind of job I would like to have have taken a new turn.

If I think about what my heart beats for, it would be to work in an environment with teenagers. Not as a teacher but in the school office or even as a math teacher, but only math! I believe God has open up a window for me to a new room with clue’s in which I shall look for an other kind of job then what I have done. I believe God has started with something in my thoughts. What my dreams are about. I do not just want to get a job, I want to get a job were I do something for other. That’s have a purpose more then just urn money.

To urn money is good but it is not everything. To fulfill dreams is also good. But I want to something more but not for myself.

I think that what my friend said is logic. If we come to God with whats on our heart he can open new doors and help us with all the other things in life.

/Mia-Simone.

Å sovne ein kjær venninna… eller to…

Å sovne ein nær venninna…eller to…

Eg har ein nær venninna, Lauren, som nettopp har dratt til USA til samen med ein anna felles venninna, for å studere eit år på bibelskole. Hun har forberedt på seg siden mars og eg har fått vuri hennes støtte gjennom mange ting som i begynnelsen ikkje sjå ut å bli så lett. Men som etter mange enkelete bønner har laust seg og no er hun der. Det har og for min del har det vuri kjempebra mental forberedelse. Men så her, no når hun ikkje er her og eg ikkje kan ventilere med henne på same måte er det blitt litt meir vanskelig syns eg.

Når hun og eg møtes har vi «catch up time» å det vil jo ikkje bli på den samen måte no, for nu vil det bli via skype. Og akkurat no kjenner eg på eit sovn eg ikkje trudde eg ville kjenne så snart. Hun har ikkje ens vuri bort ein veke.. Akkurat no, tenkje eg at viss eg hadde fått skype-et med henne dagen etter hun landet hadde eg ikkje tenkje som eg gjer no.

I miss you, Lauren…

Å andre siden vil eg jo at hun skal ha mulegheita å dra på oppdagingsreise og finne sin plass for året som kommer. Eg ønskjer henna alt godt. Men eg vil snakke med henne… høre kossen alt gått kossen hun likar seg der hun skal bu. Ja eg vil bare vite alt !! Nu !! Men eg må ha tålmodig-heit. Eit ord som ikkje alltid er så lett.. Men eg veit at når eg språkast med henne vil eg føle fred og eg vil vere glad.

❤

Eg har og ein anna venninna, Bobbi Jo, som har budd i Norge i ti år. Hun har studert her og ville finne seg eit jobb men fant aldri noe i den rettringen hun er utdanna. Og den einest grunne til at hun kunna ha fått blitt her i Norge fra UDI, var viss hun fekk jobb innan fagfeltet sitt. Hun er no tilbake heime i USA, Seattle. Hun vil tilbake hit men må vente i minimum tre månader. Og ja hun er og ein nær venninna men ikkje på same måte som Lauren. Dei er to forskjellige typar av mennesker og to forskjellige vener for meg. Eg setter stor pris på dei begge to. Men dei gir meg energi på ulike måtar rett å slett. Bobbi Jo er ein nær venn som eg traff hyppig, når hun budde her men vi gjorde mykje av det same samen som meg og Lauren.

I miss you, Bobbi Jo …

Det eg sovne no, med Bobbi Jo, er samtalane og muligheita å ta ein kaffe i byen. For meg i mitt hovud er det sån at Bobbi Jo bare vil vere borte noken månader å sjå kommer hun tilbake og studera eller har fått seg drømme-jobben. Hun er liksom på ein måte heime og finner ut kva hun kan gjere for å komme tilbake. Det er liksom enklare å takle. Men sjølsagt sovne eg hun.

Så, skype vil bli meir brukt !! Å akkurat no håpar eg på å få språkast med dei begge to innatt ein snar framtid ! ❤

/Mia-Simone.

Bus in Oslo.

Its just a thing that hit me..

When I was on the bus 23 to Brynseng yesterday I was started to think about “how clever was this?” It does take so much longer time to take the bus then catch the metro to Brynseng. Why did I think this was smart? Well one thing is that then I don’t need to change more then once on the other hand it takes the double amount of time..

For me, I mostly think its easier to just take as few transports as possible. But there I was on the bus…just waiting to “kill the time”. It could be smarter to just start to think what goes faster even if its more small stops & changes on the way to get from A to B.

Maybe I learn the lesson maybe I don’t… I guess I’ll just have to see next time I have to take the public transport.

The good thing about that I took the bus was I had time to write down my thoughts about this. To re-think about choices i “make & take”. It also made me see whats been going on on the structure side, the road construction, the buildings growing up in Oslo this summer which I haven’t past or knowing about.

This is my thoughts.

/Mia-Simone

What are we looking for in life?

Love? Faith? Job? Satisfactory?

Whatever we looking for in life, most of us have it around us or are going to get it on day. Like love and a job, it will come. Maybe we just need to have extra much patience in life, but for most of us we will find a job and we will meet the person that fits our life.

I am in the job-application situations right now. I am applying for a certain type of job that I really like to get. I am not applying for “what ever random job” just to get a job. I just know I will get the job one day. But yes, its hard and it takes quite much time to be in this faze of life. I am just longing to get the interview and hear the word “you got the job” or “we want to hire you”. I am to stubborn to get lazy and give up but some days are more challenging then other days. And those days I prefer to do other things. To set my mind-focus on something more creative or just hang out with friends.

What are we looking for in a person ?

I got that question yesterday. “What kind of personality am I looking for?”

I would say its a hard question in one way, it all depends on who you are. If you know what you want in life you probably know what “you are missing” and the person you are looking for might “need” to have those personalities so you will complete each other.

I know who I am and what I kind of personalities I need in my partner. In the same time I know the biggest key is to compromise to get the hole relationship to work. I am so used to live my life with my time of when or what I do, that I know I need to compromise a lot when the day comes when I have a boyfriend. In a relation I have to compromise in everything which is fine because that’s how it is and should be. To go from “just me to be with someone” can be a big step for most people, in the same time that’s what most people wants in life.

Will you be satisfy ?

Rosa Elefanter.

Eg har funnet ut at eg likar å lese når eg reiser. Det har liksom aldri «hited me before» før eg begynte å lese når eg sat på toget mellom Stockholm og Oslo for noken år siden. Det er nok lang tid for å rekke å lese ein bok og kjøpe ein ny når ein er framme for neste reise. Ein av mine favoritt forfattar er Karin Brunk Holmqvist.

Eg har lest alle hennes siste bøker, die har alle litt rare titlar men utrulig morseomme! Ein av dei beste er nok «Kaffe med musikk» eller «Surt sa Reven om Rabarbra». Dei hendlar alle om Österlen i Sverige. Om korleis livet på landet er. Og alle bøkene er ein egen forteljing om forskjellige ektepar som er pensjonerte og kva dei gjer for at få dagane å gå litt fortare.

Boken eg har lest i sommar het «Rosa Elefanter» . Hun beskriver forteljing så detaljert og med mykje humor. Eg kan varmt anbefale denne boka viss du liker romanar. Her kjem eit utdrag av boka som eg håpar du likar like godt som meg.

Da de senare satt ved kjøkkenbordet, løp tennene til Artur i vann da han så de lekre smørbrødene Selma hadde smurt. Hun hadde kokt egg og lagt det under sardinerne for at det skulle mette mer. Hun plasserte en lettøl på bordet med en dunk og satte øyene i ham. Han skjenket opp og drakk enstor slurk, og deretter satte han glasset på bordet med en heftig bevegelse.

«Englenig» sa han og så surt på Selma.

Men Artur koste seg mens han spiste smørbrødet. Til tross for at det var så mange år siden han hadde spist sardiner sist, hadde han likevel fornemmet smaken hver gang han så boksene i spiskammeret, og virkeligheten levde opp til minnet om smaken.

«Det var ikke så dumt med sardiner; Artur.» Sa Selma blidt.

«Ordentlig gott».

«Det var da bra,» sa han stolt, og ebit egg falt ut av munnen hans og ned på tallerkenen.

«LUKK MUNNEN når du spiser!»

«Men jeg må da svare, for pokker?»

«Svelg først!»

De fortsatte å spise i taushet.

Ein anna stad i boka nennes det om «Thulins kafè». Typisk svensk konditori kafe som finnast rundt omkring i heile Sverige. Eg vokset opp med «Thulins konditori» oppe i nor Sverige men også eit liknande kafe der eg budde som lita jente. Det er noko spesiell med disse kafeane. Det er atmosfæren, korleis dei sjåar ut inne, korleis dei som jobbar der er. Det er litt som å gå bakover i tida å komme inn på eit kafè på 1950-talet. Med kafe-gardiner i vindurene, golv som liknar på flis men som er plastgolv i firkant svart og kvit, enkle glas-disk med skyvedører i glas, små runde bord med tre-stoler. På svensk sei man «mysfaktor» mens i Norge sjå er det nok ordet nostalgi som passar inn å bruke.

Å ja, det er nostalgisk å komme inn på disse kafeane! Det som at komme til ein anna tid epoke.

/Mia-Simone.

Syr igjen.

Etter at eg hadde vuri hos min venninna i går kvell, gjekk eg heim i regnet. Ein delelig spasertur mitt i naten. Eg hadde med meg ein pose med bukte kler som eg fått og ein topp som eg skulle sy om i halsen fordi den passet ikkje venninna min. Så når eg kom heim lita blaut tenkje eg at nei eg gjer det no så har eg det gjort.

Så eg setta meg at med symaskinen (for fyrste gongen på fleire veke) og sydde.

Så delelig å gjere det når det regner og mitt i naten er liksom den beste tide å sy for meg av ein eller annen grunn..

Eg kjøpte ein kjole på UFF for cirka ein og ein halv veke siden for førti kroner, den var liksom i to stykke men samtidlig sat den samen i midje frampå. Den hadde ermer og heile modellen er a la 1940 talle. Veldig pen. Men modellen passet ikkje meg heilt. Så eg tenkje at viss eg tar vekke ermene vil den passe meg betre. Så då var det bare å sette i gong. Eg har som dokker kan sjå på bilte at eg har tatt vekke ermene og begynt å sy ihop kjolen. Og dette var og noko eg gjorde i natt. Men når klokka var 04.00 var eg bare for trøtt i hovudet og måtte bare sove litt. No når eg er våken igjen vil eg fortsett der eg stoppet.

Eg syr igjen. Happy.

/Mia-Simone

Taboo subjects / topics..

I am against taboo. I dislike them. I think it is better to talk about things then pretend they aren’t there. But of course, we should not talk about it where ever. No we need to talk about the subject in an environment that fits for the subject and with people that have questions about it.

It can be about shame, faith, sexuality, gilt, if you look different, feelings, thoughts, act, violence, food, shape, if you have a sickness that is not so common and the list goes on…

My experience from this is from the time when I was working with teen’s on a youth club in Sweden. We picked a subject and talked about it in small groups and let everyone be able to say what they where thinking and let them ask whatever they wanted. Nothing were a stupid question and should not be! One of the subjects with the teen’s, where “what sex can do to one and each other and all those difficult issues that comes with it”. We open the lid of the pot and let everyone say what they felt or what there opinion where. We discussed this because they didn’t feel comfort to talk about this with there own parents. Like most teen’s feel. I’ve been there too. I couldn’t talk with my parents about it. They felt it was okay to talk with me as an adult because I wasn’t a parent. I was an adult in there life who wanted to listen to them and the issues they had. That was the point. To talk about things is important. To talk about taboo’s.

For me is it the same with all kind of taboo subjects. It is important to open them up an be a where of them.

I have a girl friend whom I can be naturally open with about my life, we can talk about everything. We haven’t been close friends for more then a year but we found the tone quite fast. We have both living a life as a non-christian for some years of our life, and in one way that helps me to be open in an other way then I am with other close friends I have. It is not always easy to share private stuff with even close friends.

So when you do find a person that becomes a very good friend don’t hesitate to open up what you feel or thinking.

I saw a documentary few days ago “come out diary “. Its about teen’s that comes out of who they believe they are and not what they are born too. One of the teen’s where born a boy and had felt something where wrong since he/she was about 10 years old. He felt he was a girl but he/she kept it for him/her self until he/she was 18. And he/she couldn’t understand why his/her family couldn’t just respect his/hers choices. In this documentary he comes out as a teenage girl and just wants some respect.

I think it’s sad in the way they are so confused about who they are in the same time I feel sorry for them for what they feel they “have to” keep to themselves for so many years before they let them self’s out.

This documentary show us that, this is still in 2015, a big taboo for most generations in the world.

It has been more open doors about this subject but it is still a taboo-theme. Let us be a where about this and rather talk about it then hide it behind a door.

This is my thoughts.

/Mia-Simone.

Relationship’s

Relationship is….hard, difficult, not easy no matter if it is to your partner or to your family. It is all about to work on it all the time.

I guess it is simulary in most families. I am just so used to not hear complements from my own family. Sad but true. But from my nearest friends and bonus-family I hear more and I am so thankful for that and those people in my life!

What I do hear is *”have you found anyone yet?” or *”you are old enough to get married if you want a family”. Like that is the easiest thing in the world ?!? And why is it so hard to just respect that “everyone” doesn’t find the life-partner early in life ?!? And “everyone” might not want kids or can have there own.

Why is it like this, “you” are somehow a load ask about sore subject to me but if I ask the same question I am rude ?!

Why is it okay to “assume” that a couple wants kids just because they are engaged or married ? Or why is it okay to ask “aren’t you gonna have kids?” What happen with the private frame, “this space is my – that space is yours”?

Who says everyone wants kids? or for the matter want to let you know? Why is it okay to ask “the question” more then once?

Where is the respect for one and another choices today?

I can’t say I saw myself being single in 2015 few years ago, but that’s how life is. And just because I am single I get *the question every time I meet my family and it is more then just enjoining! All I want is respect and non questions about who or if I have met someone.

If I would tell someone about my private life, I do it to close friends or my two bonus-sisters. Before my mom got sick could I tell her, well I guess I could do it now too just knowing she wont even remember it after ten seconds.

I do dream to get married. And I have realized that when that day come it will not please my family. But in the end it is my life, my dream.

/Mia-Simone

I bakhovudet viste eg om avtalen eg hadde seinare samtidlig som eg stekte proteinpannekaker inne og spraytelakkerte eg ute.

20150724_172427 — Sjablonar kjøpt på Panduro.

20150724_172049 — Orginal fargen var vær-bleket av sol og regn. Her er den spayet med turkis for å passe betre inn ute.

20150724_172037 — Sprayet inne i flasken.

20150724_172032 — Believe – på salg på panduro. Eit ord eg likar og som passer inn i livet mitt.

20150724_172035 — Flaske sprayet på utsiden.

20150724_172218 — Kjedelig blomsterkorg i ny farge.

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Når eg er inne i ein hobbybutikk som Panduro, så tenkjer eg ofte at «når eg kommer heim skal eg bare prøve litt og sjå koss det sjå ut». Det ender ofte opp med at eg gjer meir enn eg tenkje fordi eg er i gang.

I går var det akkurat sånn. Eg var innar Panduro kjøpte spraylakk og sjablonar. Kom heim å skulle «bare» sjå koss det ville sjå ut viss eg spraye ei potte. I bakhovudet viste eg om avtalen eg hadde seinare samtidlig som eg stekte proteinpannekaker inne og spraytelakkerte eg ute.

Å sjå når eg sat meg ned ein stund…fått ete litt og måtte straks etterpå, tenkjer eg på alt dette.

Tide rekker liksom ikkje te når eg «bare» skal gjere ting.

Korfor kan eg aldri lære meg? Korfor må eg alltid gjere alt når eg kommer heim? Korfor kan eg ikkje bare vente te neste dag å sjå koss det blir?

Eg blir så ivrig når eg har kjøpt noko som eg vil teste ut. Det spiller ikkje noko roll om det er tekstilar eller spraylakk. Bare det og tenkje ut kva eg skal gjere, ta meg tid, prøve litt og vente. Det liksom eksisterer ikkje i mitt hovud. Og eg veit at eg alltid har vuri sånn.

Som lita jente var eg enda meir utålmodig. Då ville eg at alt skule skje med ein gong. Vente var eit ord eg ikkje likte.

Men no er eg jo voksen. Burde ikkje det hjelp på ?

Tydeligvis ikkje.

Det virker som som at sånn eg var som lia jente fortsatt er der når det kommer til å teste nye ting…

/Mia-Simone

To inspire others and find inspiration.

A friend of min told me she got more inspired to pick up her writing after I told her about my writing. I like to hear thing like this, that my creativity inspires others.

I got more inspired to write after that.

When my friends tell me that they get inspired of my creativity in life or small things I share with them about life. My first though is “how do I inspire you with my life?” then I think “well I guess that is a good thing”. And when I talk to my nearest friends about this, most of them says “its just how you live that inspires me”.

How do we get inspire in life and what inspires us? Well I know that we all find inspiration in thing we like. Like colors, cars, flowers, interior, houses, garden, music, words, life, nature and more. But how do you make that as a part of your life?

When I, like yesterday was on the beach and read one of my favorite books I had the sea on my left side where I was sitting, heard the water moving and made waves. I got inspired to go and find “floating timber-wood” along the water edge and bring home. And there I was walking around to find those good “floating timber-wood” and I got inspired to pick up some blue shells lying on the beach and bring home.

I get inspired of a lot of different things in life. It can be like yesterday, by the water or to walk into a store full of colorful fabrics or interior store. Its rare that I buy something, but I get home full of ideas in my head with everything I’ve seen and I most the time make something out of what I have home.

And I think its the same for most people. You all get inspired of something in life and you try to do something else out of it. It can be to write about it, paint it, write music, to sing or something else. And I wish you all find your way to be creative in the way that fits you.

/Mia-Simone

Summer holiday is the time for books.

For me has summer holiday as long as I can remember been to enjoy reading a good book when it is a rainy day.

Me and my mom was small teasing about whom of us who would lie of the kitchen couch and read when we where in the cabin. My mom has been a teacher whole my life, so for her it was a mix of read a book to relax and get away from work except for those books she really needed to read for work. So every summer brought she at least 20 books of reading and there I were with maybe 5 books to read for the whole summer holiday..

It sometimes felt like I was competing with her, because I have learned from home that as more you read as bigger vocabulary you get. So I wanted to read as much as I could. As older I got as more books I brought with me to our summer cabin. But it was also here, where I started to write.

(heritage center -hembygdsgården Örträsk)

Summer holiday for me is contacted with our summer cabin in the northern part of Sweden in Västerbotten. A good size of a house. Not so big kitchen but with a iron stove, a small bedroom inside the kitchen. A good size of living-room with both a couch-corner and a big dinner table and a play area and the loft where we slept. But still big enough for us. Those days when we just didn’t want to anything and it didn’t rain, we went out on our veranda or where lying in the grass in the sun and read a book.

From day to day, life was easy going but we had always something to do and we still have when we comes there.. But the point is, I don’t understand this “haste” about traveling to see as much possible during the summer. I have never understood that part. Maybe I am “to much of an northerner” and just that thing that I went to the cabin and where there all summer. I don’t say I don’t like to travel. But for me summer is the time of the year when I relax, don’t want to so much. Catch up with friends over a coffee or a dinner or BBQ that’s okay and fun.

But read and write is relaxing. And summer should be just like that.

Like the picture below. I wish you will be inspired of the picture and do something you like to do when you have summer holiday!

/Mia-Simone.

It starts somewhere…

This is my thought, since I went to elementary school I have liked writing short stories and novels- but for the last ten years I have not been writing as much as I have wanted to. I love to read books where I get drawn into the the details at once and watch tv series where the details are in place and describe the events with drama.

I like this, what Elizabeth Gilbert writes. It fits in to who I am. I did start to write but I had a break. A bit of a long break. But I’m back. I have started to write again and I hope and wish you will read it. I never thought I would write a book but writing helps me get my thoughts out of my head instead of analyzing everything as a lot of people do.

I love to write as a way to give the thoughts wings because I am not that kind of long analytic person. In that case I am not very “girlish”. I have a realistic brain that loves structure and routine and having things in order, numbers and multi-tasking.

I get inspiration from crime books and TV-series like Castle, NCIS and Law and Order and similar series. One of my favorite series is Sex and the City – with the writer Carrie Bradshaw ( Sarah Jessica Parker). For me its all about how she writes, her thoughts in life.

I have some journalist in my family and I think they have inspired me too in some way. They write daily and I can read some of it online and learn more. I have quite close friends who works with media and they also give me ideas. To write for me is not a problem I have so much in my head I can write about so no, that is not my issue. As long as I have my computer and a good cup of coffee I can write until I fall a sleep. I get inspired by words from my friends, what I hear in the store or on the train. I get influence from everywhere. Its just to get it down. Mostly I write it down on paper and than here on my computer.

I’ve just started to write about summer memories from my childhood, maybe it will be something more than just write it down at home who knows. But the things I will share here will be shorter stories and novels.

/Mia-Simone

Summer rain and reflectations from a preaching.

Today when I woke up I thought this day will be nice maybe some clouds and maybe maybe some sun. Now its this light rain – summer rain. The sound is lovely. I wish I was inside an caravan and not sitting in my bed. Its so much more cozy in a caravan! Well well.

I went to a meeting in an other church then I normally goes to yesterday. FCC – Philippine Church in Oslo. As normal as any other Church I’ve been to the last 8 years of my Christian life. The preaching was in English (also normal for me) and about Submission in our Christian life.

1.Submission is about to honoring others (Romans 12:1) – Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Are we honoring others? If not, why? The preacher said, “we are all rebellions inside” we want to do it our way first. If not my words or will goes first am I not willing to change just so your will gets through. That’s maybe how most people thinks and acts today. How sad if we can’t honoring others.

2. Submission is about putting others first (Philippians 2:4) – not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. How often are you putting others first? – serving others sincerely.

If you working in a office or some other place, do you putting your colleges first in order to do your things first? Do you serving others sincerely ? I like to help other people first when I know I can. I would love to be more awake about this in my life because it is important. I don’t need to put myself first. I know me but mostly I do not know the others need i life as long as they do not tell me.

In my church I serve others first, I have been doing the same task for years and sometimes I think I want to something else so I can grow as an person and to be able to serve God in something else. But I am still doing the same. What do I try to say here? Well I think it can be a challenge for other people in church to see or maybe even understand when its time to move on to other tasks. They think you doing such a good job and don’t see why a new task would be good. I think its human to think like that, so maybe we Christians need to seek God more on this part. To serve others does not always mean do the same thing every Sunday year after year.

3. Submission is about denying ourselfs (Mark 8:34-35) – hindrance in discipleship is making myself first. “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

Do you deny yourself or just other? Have you picked up the cross? How do we deny ourselves in our daily life? I can deny my sins every day and ask for forgiveness but I think its hard from day to day. I want to. I have taken up my cross and I really trying do what God wants me to do.

I don’t know if its easier to get closer to God if you have a job with routines or if you just have to decide when you take time with God. I have been struggling with “PT” – private time with God since I got saved. For me is it easier to talk to God all the way during a day, pray on the bus on my way to work and read the daily verse online.

A month ago when I still had a good routine every day, I did my things to get up of the bed and catch the bus. My routine was to read the bible-verse on the way to my work place. So when I then didn’t have that routine any more it slipped out of my life.. I know I need routines to get around in life including to read the bible. So my daily life today is not as I want it. I applying for jobs a struggle itself. But I do have a positive mind and hope and faith of a new job soon.

Kamera – Utfordringer.

(Det er ikke den samme kameraen jeg har men samme merker)

Kunsten å ta gode bilder med et speilreflekskamera der objektivet er ikke god nok for det jeg trenger for å ta bilder på, er det en interessant utfordring !! Men det er moro !! Jeg gleder meg hver gang jeg har mulighet til å ta bilder. =) Endelig har jeg en som det ble kalt på norsk, SLR – digitalt system kamera som jeg liker å si.

En søndag for en stund siden hadde jeg planlagt å ta ein tur rundt Aker Brygge for å ta bilder på hus, bygg, naturen, sjøen ja og kanskje og litt folk men nei då dødde batteriet (Grrrrr!) jeg klarte å ta et bilde… Den dagen hadde jeg sett foran å ta en del bilder på veien ned til Skøyen, før jeg møtte opp med en venninna. Det blir liksom ikke alltid som man tenkt seg.

Nå er det lenge siden jeg brukte kameraet, mest fordi linsen er så dårlig. Men jeg håper på en god jobb der jeg kan spare til et bedre kamera.

Sewing projects during the the spring and summer …

I know very well its been a long time since I wrote anything here. I have been in both a course and work experience and not enough energy to update. Life is not always about the blogging sometimes its just to be able to get the feet on the floor and do what necessary to do.

I have been sewing a bit here and there since last blog-post, so I will this time share the pictures of whats been started and some of it also finished.

This project is a homemade purse, as far as I have done..Inspiration of the one I have but off course with more colors. The fabric is both bought and printed in Dalarna, Sweden.

This is my terrasse, cushions with re-sewed covers from an old bed linen.

How to sew a skirt out of an sweater.

This is pattern to sew, something I never used before mostly because I have never ever been sewing cloths not even during the school-time. So I have to start somewhere and I don’t have such big apartment so I have to use my kitchen floor.

I will try to blog a bit more about my experience how hard it is to sew cloths without any kind of experience of that field.

/Mia-Simone 😉

Sygleden fortsetter når Nye ting skapes med retro.

Januar og februar har vuri gode månader med kreativitet i mitt heim. Inspirasjonen har vuri her veldig ofte til motsetting til korleis det var i løpa av sein hausten. Eg koser meg masse når ideane kjem. Her har det gått i alt frå veske til grytelapp i ny design og ein lita pose for minnepinnen. Det bleiv ein dørskilt med JOY – bokstavane og inspirasjon-kvell og Brainstorming for meir inspirasjon utifrå stoffogstil og Pandurokatalogen.

Symaskinen min er definitivt min gode ven når det kjem til å kunne skape nye ting.

Eg får ofte inspirasjon frå ein eller anna ting eg sjåar på i ein butikk eller på nettet å sjå vil eg prøve det ut om eg klarer å få det til like bra. Så er det jo enda meire gøy å lage meir enn bare ein test eksemplar.

Dei siste to bildane er “lommebok” eller “purses” som eg settet å koste meg med i går og i dag itte at eg har vuri sjuk i ein veke, kom lysten til å sy og for meg er det bare eit godt teikn – då er eg frisk igjen! Den fyrste større modellen var nokre eg hadde eit bileta i håve itter ein tur innom ein bruktbutikk for over ein veke siden. Dei kjem jo i så mange modeller og farger, men eg ville jo ha min egen.

Så eg fant posen med stoff-bitar for å sjå om eller kva stoff (tekstil) eg hadde lyst på og begynte sakte å tenkje, måle, passe stoffet (tekstilane) mot kvarandre og så måtte eg finne ut om eg hadde fiber-vadt som fôr. For å finne ut av det måtte eg ein tur ut i boden min, å ja, det betydde jo og at eg måtte rydde litt, men det er jo alltid lurt å vite kor man har sine ting, som her bare handlar om kor eg har alle tekstilar. 😉

Lysten til å sy finnast hos meg meir eller mindre kvar dag, spørsmålane går mest i kva skal eg testa no og kva treng eg ? Men bare det å ha mulegheitene er jo heilt nydeleg ! Eg gleder meg masse kvar dag eg har energien til å sy.

/Mia-Simone

A new year is here !

Happy New Year everyone !!

The last year went past fast and a new year heading us with thing we may know but also a new adventure. I see this year in Positivity terms with a lot of new things I just gonna ENJOY. I am trying to just LIVE LIFE and ENJOY everything that comes along.

For me, this year started with a good feeling and as the days goes I feel it more and more. 🙂 So far has the missing creativity coming back more and more and that I have decided to do some changes in my life has only been a positive effect.

Yesterday was the end of the week at the course I take and my body was tired but when a friend of mine text me ask me if I wanted to go to the Prayer of Oslo I felt this is hat I am lacking right now. And it was just hat I needed. I needed just to come and be and listen to what was saying and listen to the music. Out of this has I now got more energy and inspiration to be more creative in all different ways. One of the things I am gonna fix or I am gonna end a project I’ve started in… September maybe.. I am also gonna see what I need to do about the vintage dress I bought in last August. I have always ideas in my head what to do or fix and that’s who I am. For me that’s normal, but what’s not normal is to not have any creativity.

This year I am gonna try to end my projects I start, to have my own deadline on things. I am also wishing for a good job soon, and that I will be able to go visit my mum who is sick with Alzheimer… I wish that this year will be a year with lots of adventures in my life in a good way and in different directions.

With this comes also that I will try to write here more often than last year and that who ever who reads this will get inspiration of what is happening in my life or out of what I am doing.

/Mia-Simone 😉

What can we do for those who don’t have good memories of Christmas? -2014-

Desember har no vuri her i noken dagar og her i Oslo har det vuri ein interessant start på vinteren, det har vuri isete gater og noken dagar med regn og kalde netter.

Reposting in english.

Maybe not the best start of this month but we can try to do the best we can. Isn’t that true?! So where is the snow?? No, not any snow so far… We can only wish for snow to this Christmas.

Is it the temperature switch? Or is it just something we have to live with for the future? Maybe. Well at least no snow is better than rain!

I struggle to accept this, maybe because I love snow, or maybe because ” as an adult you just have to accept life and weather” ? No I can’t think like that. Sorry. I live in Skandinavia and we have had so many good winters since I grow up, I kins of need snow in December. You might think I am crazy, well you are aloud to think that.

It’s not just about the snow. No it’s more about the feeling, the light, the temperature. Low, cold, nice memories, sparkling snow, December, advent and later Christmas. 🙂

But hey, it wasn’t suppose to be about me. I have a question I want to ask you. How many people, folks, friends, none knowing people do you know about that son’t have any good memories about December and Christmas and New Year? And secondly, how can we help them? Are you thinking money now? Well if, don’t. Can you meet up with a neighbour, chat, eat togehter? Play table games?

mber til og med februar. Det er jo ikkje bafopå alle barn som voksar op

I was knitting a lot this year, and my plan was to give it away to anyone who, sadly, lives on the streets so they can be warm.

In Markus church in Oslo, they have (had in 2014) a gathering to celebrate Christmas. ❤

I wish you all the best Christmas!

/Mia-Simone 😉

Kor singel er ein når ein er singel ?

Dette spørsmålet kom opp på ein lunsjpause på kurset eg går. Praten gjekk i «korfor kan ikkje ein jente bli samen med ei fyr i venne kretsen?» Eller “kor singel er ein når ein er singel?” Kva verdiar har vi med oss i sekken? Og kor går eins egne grense på kven ein blir samen med? Eg fekk spørsmålet om eg er singel og viss eg skulle bli samen med noken kva verdiar ville eg løfte høgare?

Eg begynte å tenkje litt på det der. Kva verdiar har eg som kanskje dei fleste i klassen min ikkje har ? Kva er viktig for meg ? Kva forventar eg meg frå ei fyr for å bli betre kjent ?

Dette er interessante spørsmål.

Personlig tenkjer eg at, ettersom eg tenkjer konkret, treng eg konkrete handlingar. Viss det er ei fyr som er interessert i meg, må han kunne sei meir enn «hei» for at eg skal forstå kva han vil ha ut av situasjonen. Så «treg» er eg… Å bare tilby seg å kjøpe ein kaffe er ikkje nok for min hjerne å skjønne om han legger noka meir i det.

Han bør vite kva han f.eks. bør spørje meg om. Men viss han bare er hyggelig skjønner eg ikkje noka. Dette har nok å gjere med at eg blitt «dumpet» og såret å ikkje tørr å ha trua på at «noken kan vere interessert av meg». Derimot er eg flink på å gi komplement, og eg begynner å bli betre på å ta imot og. Eller så har dette å gjere med at eg over lang tid i mitt liv bare hat “gute vener”..

Har eg «meir krav» på meg sjøl og på den eg møter? Eller lærer vi dette noka stad etter vegen ?

Kor singel er ein når ein er singel?

Men korleis vil han vite korleis eg tenkjer å ikkje tenkjer viss han aldri spør ? Korleis vil han vite korleis han bør gjere for å «nå fram til meg» viss eg ikkje klarer og kommunisere med han ? Kor “finner vi vår partner” viss det ikkje er i venne-kretsen ?

Viss eg blir stille å ikkje har noka å sei, pleiar eg å vere interessert i ei fyr, men det hjelper jo ikkje særleg mykje. Det er ingen «vinn-vinn situasjon» der, nei det er rett inn i ei vegg vil eg påstå.

Korfor blir det vanskeligare jo eldre ein blir ?

Kven er det som sei at det «blir verre jo eldre ein blir» ?

Om å vere singel… Eg har vuri singel ei lang periode i mitt liv. Mange grunner til det og eg har hat det både greie og flotte periodar, men det kommer alltid ein dag når eg ikkje vil vere singel lenger. Men eg kan jo ikkje bare «ta fyrste beste» det fungere jo ikje sån heller. Korleis gjer eg det då ? Korleis kan eg få ein kjærast ?

Korfor skal det vere så treg mannfolk her i Norge?

Eg har erfaring frå fleire forskjellige chatter og «treff den rette her» uten hell. Korfor, Jo fordi mannfolka ta så lang tid på seg å bestemme «kven den heldige er». Eg har vuri på altfor mange dater for å vite kva ein ikkje skal sei eller gjere. Alt for mange til å forsette på den vegen. Eg ga opp. Mitt mål er å treffe ein «In Real Life», eg håpar bare at det ikkje tar lika lang tid framover som eg allereie har vuri singel !

Eg har slutte med å forvente meg ting. Dumt? Ja kanskje. Men korfor skal eg bruke tid på å gruble «på om han er interessert i meg» ? Når «han» ikkje sei noka eller ikkje viser noka konkret. Kva vil han då? Eg skjønner jo ikkje «den normale måten» … Viss eg skulle klare ein date med ei fyr i min smak, så er min erfaring at han er ikkje interessert på same måte og vil bare bli venner.

Eg treng ikkje fleire «gute vener», eg har nok !!

Eg vil ha ei kjærast som vil bli min mann !!

Kor singel kan ein eigentlig bli ?

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