After almost 3 years of involuntary residence, because of injuries, have I today (18th of January 2025) bought a membership at one of the two biggest gym in Norway 😊. So keen to finally start building up my body again 🤩.
I’ll start today 😊. Start light and easy. I know my limitations.
My goal is still, to have enough energy to go to the gym 3 times a week. And now with my job it will fit to manage Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I am so excited and motivated. I was never at an elite level, but I was involved in athletics as a teenager. So I am used to exercise and love the kick of good energy 😉.
One goal I have is to build up my body so I can go hiking and not get pain in joints. Like I got last summer on this hiking path.
I will be happy as soon as I manage over 60kg again on my knees/ legs. 😊
Last minute skirt which I made in 5 hours 😊😆🤪. I didn’t have a Christmas skirt so at 11pm the 17th of December-24, got I an idea in my head 😆😆. “If I cut a pair of jeans so I can redesign my red wool sweater into a Christmas skirt!” Which I did. I cut the jeans just before I went to bed.
The 18th of December after work I used five hours on sewing the skirt just so I would be able to wear it the 19th at work 😆😆. It got a bit to short to my long legs 😆😆. But I wear it.
The sweater was a bit to see-through so I added thick wowen cotton fabric under.
Just a bit too short to my length 😆
After love used it I made it longer with the neck part of the sweater 😉.
Here is it in full length on little Christmas eve the 23rd 😉. I travelled in it and that was perfect! It hold me warm 😊.
January 2025, more sewing 😊.
While I am finishing the blue cocktail dress which takes a bit longer time than I thought… Have I upcycling another skirt 😉.
In 2012, I bought my sewing machine and started to sew.
This was once a sweater…
In 2012 the sweater became a skirt.
I just cutter off the neck part on the sweater and put elastic band in the waist.
I was never really satisfied with how it sat on me but it was one of my first upcycling- skirts. I have now upcycling it one more time 😊😊.
The inspiration colour to the second upcycling, black and orange.
Since the first upcycled jeans skirt with a sweater or just random fabric, have I wanted a orange skirt. Now I finally have it 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍.
Once I got a pair of jeans send to me from a person I actually never met. I jeans was with 38″ (inches) and didn’t fit the other person. Those jeans has been hanging in my wardrobe for more than a year… So now it’s time to redesign them!
I started with the decorations Friday 17th.
Purple is the contrast colour to Orange.
I tried with other things first, picked it up and now I go for Black in the front.
I’ll continue sewing on my orange skirt this weekend (17th – 19th of January) so I can use it this spring 😊.
I got this dress after some of my old colleagues, last years work place (Bore school) when they had a ‘Change your wardrobe Day with clothes you don’t want but maybe your colleague like’
Which I got for free in June 23.
I took it out of my sewing project box yesterday (1st of January 24) to get some ideas of what kind of fabric could work on it.
After trying the dress on I figured I needed to change the fabric around the arms.
Second fabric… could work even more but…
And they both could work for sure! But it was not what I wanted. I wanted something more fun & crazy like me 😆😆.
And today (second of January) I went to my favorite fabric store to buy new needles 📍 and there it was! The cool fabric 🤩🤩🤩 and enough (2,8 meters) and on sale 🤩🤩🤩.
This will be so fun! I will do it so asymetric as possible. Orange and black is perfect! Playful, crazy and fun!
I bought this fabric in January and still in June haven’t I found the pattern I want 😔🤪 for this dress. I will use the undergown (the inside dress) because it fit’s me.
Then I thought “why not move the shelf” from the livingroom (where it anyway just was filled up with things) to the sewing room where I can use it for a purpose of sewing stuff?!? So I did! 😍
This is where the shelf was standing, now I’ve got a green corner.
The door I want to become my Kitchen Iceland is still just standing in my livingroom, but now where it gives me both Inspiration and a good feeling of interiour. 🤩.
My sewing ✂️📍room is taking the form and with the colours I want. It is still some storage I need and shelfs on the wall or floor-storage. I need to buy colour 🟠🧊🖌🎨 and it all will take time – becauce it needs to feel right. And I am not in stress, and I don’t like to rush and I’m not rich. And this is my project right now & to make sure I have fun while doing it.
[The best time for me to write in this blog is whole I am listening to a preaching from Elevaton Church online.]
This room will have a wibe of orange & turquoise 🤩 the colours that have become two motiovation colours for me to be even more Creative.
I slept good/okay on my stomache most the time. Some painkiller b4 bedtime, normal painkillers. Woke up around 7.30am. Managed both get out of my bed and go to the bathroom with not so much pain 🙂. I also managed to find a position in the couch that wasn’t to painful.
I woke up to even more snow today.
1.25pm was my GP apointment in Stavanger. But long b4 that I had my coffee and breakfast, played jigsaw on my laptop and just tryed to relax as much as possible. I txted my friend who hlpd me the day b4. “I would appreciate if you could drive me to my apointment in Stavanger.” Which she did 💜😊.
Just b4 I went in to the waitingroom at my GP.
So, my apointment was 1:25pm, we were there early because of the weather. And it was lots of people a head of me in the que-system. I finally got in to my GP 1:55pm. My GP, checked my spine, lower back and gave me some strong painkillers I could pick up later at the pharmacy and a urgent referral to an X-ray at SUS (Stavanger University Hospital).
My friend, also drove me to the Stavanger University Hospital (SUS).
Hungry. Bought something.
I were to hungry to drop that and b4 I checked the referral, so I found some fastfood to buy & eat while I walked the corridor towards the X-ray. I read the referral and figured I had an urgent referral from my GP 😊😊 so it only took my approxy ten – fifteen minutes from arriving to taking the x-ray pictures 😊.
But then I had to wait in the verdict. And because of my pain I gave myself some time in a couch b4 I asked the girl in the X-ray reception. So around 4pm I got the news, “nothing is broken” 🙏✝️. Thank you Lord for embrasing me & my body!
Snowy weather, traffic chaos, slippery roads, delayed busses, big risk to end up in the ditch for people driving to fast or is taking bigger risks.
I wanted to try and catch a bus, from the hospital, even if I knew it would be a “painful and bumpy ride” for my back. I left the hospital 4:11pm, the bus arrived late but 4:24pm got to Sandnes 4:52pm. Had enough time to drop by a grocery store b4 nxt bus & heading home. And the opportunity to walk a bit 😊😊 and losen up the back. It was more slippety then I had expected yet walked a bit around at the bushub 🙂.
Home 5:30pm.
And the rest of the evening I spent in the couch 🙂.
…walking to the swimming pool with a student in the 2nd grade, I went backwards to talk to the student. Had seen that there was a bicycle along the wall and knew that I had to turn before it, miscalculated the distance. While the bike was there and I tried to put my left foot in the right place so as not to trip, I tripped. I fell. Lay back straight down into the ground. Hit the coccyx and lower back and probably something more. I couldn’t get up on my own, but I told the student (who looked at me shocked) to catch up with the class, because we were far behind the class.
A colleague came, saw me lying on the ground, and asked if she should help me up. I just said I can’t do dey by myself. She helped me up and into the canteen. But before we went in, I had to call my department head, who was also a substitute swimming teacher that day. Let me know what just happened and that I can’t join. She called another environmental worker. My colleague and I entered the canteen, met the other environmental worker. My colleague who helped me spoke to the other woman. Then the school’s “receptionist and office lady” also came to find the other environmental worker.
At about 10:40am I was in the canteen. Tried sitting on the cushions in the window. But it just didn’t work. Slide down on your knees on the floor. It was the only thing that worked. Then came the migraine. The “office lady” asked if she could help me, so I explained where my bag was, with migraine medicine and what it looked like was. She went, I called my manager for sfo (sfo stands for school and leisure). Told her what just happend, the “office lady” came back with my backpacker. We went up together in the elevator, up to the stafs area. I eat, tryed to call my GP.
Around 12:50pm, after 20 min of que I got hold on the nurse of my GP and got an apointment for the nxt day.
A friend and colleague was informed and she was able to come and pick me up around 1pm at work 💜. I left work in huge pain. Not really able to walk. Werepicked up, managed to both get in and out of the car but it felt like I were 85 or something… nearly home we stopped by the nearest pharmacy 💜.
Got home approxy 1.30pm. The migraine came back while I were in the couch. Slept and it hlpd 🙂. I also managed, even if my pain were high, to make dinner 🙂. And I think I can say, I am thankful that I had a good night sleep.
An other thing I’ve been thinking of is this NewYearresolution “everyone” promiseeachother… I made mine in December.
I will eat more fruit and vegetables this year and I have so far compare to last January! 😉 I can’t say the rest is a resolution it’s more about what I want to try to do a bit different from last year.. That is to buy plastic boxes for my things that today are packed in kind of hard paper boxes. I want to beabletosee what I have. To sort things out is easier when you see what’s inside ☺ and they wouldn’t be as heavy as other boxes. 😉
I will be skiing down hill, which I have not done since 2009. I might try country skiing ( just because I now have skies at home). I will start with a monthly payments at the gym, to be able to be more flexible and get a good work out those day’s I’m free even a Saturday. ☺ I will priorities my health and my prayer life.
When you get the cold you know you will be laying in bed🛌 or if you are lucky you have enough energy to get up to the couch…it’s all about dripping nose or headache and the 🤒 fever…
I’m there now. At home from “work” with a blanket over me, a wool sweater and watching movie’s to get better and hopefully get rid of the fever. Tea and water and coffee helps.
💜 The company of my cat’s helps too 💜
I’m thankful for the health system ☤ in Norway! That I can be home and get better and still receive money just a bit less than normally 💜
I thought I wanted to share about 2016 but then I thought “why should I?” I’ve already shared in the blogs what I have done. So I think I will share what I am looking forward this year instead.
I’m excited about what God has for me this year! I know something good will come! 😉
The year has started and I’m still at the hotel but I do more administration tasks and I love it. I didn’t think I ever would like to work more with computers but I do. In August I was so sure I would fit in the reception how wrong your body can show it is. 😁😁 haha. But I’msogladtorealisingit!
I’ve learn a lot! So now it’s time for something new. So I have applied for a trainee job in administration in a office- nothing I thought about six months ago or even two years ago. But here I am and looking forward to see where it can lead me. I’m excited to see what and where God will lead my steps! ☺
mia-simone. svenberg 