Luke 7:36-50 – about the sin and things that have a false or true value.
In Romans 3:19-20
Romans 3:19 NIV
[19] Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Romans 3:20 NIV
[20] Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
Many Christians talkes behind other Christians, sadly, but it happens. We need to build each other not the opposite! Are you willing to look in the mirror and see who you are before you criticizing other Christians?
Can you see in the text, that this woman is clean and forgiven?
Earlier in this text, we know she met with Jesus and was forgiven (we can read it and understand it through the text).
Vers 48: [48] Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
We are both sinners and been forgiven. We need to understand that we are free with Jesus.
Everything we been given from the Lord is grace. When we forgive those who has hurt us, Jesus wil help you and me to forgive myself and yourself. We will not be able to forgive and feel forgiveness if we don’t forgive ourselves. 💜✝️.
I don’t know if this notes gives any of you any meaning, but I am going to share it anyway.
Exploring the suburb Lervig with my friend, ex.college and kind of a bonus mother. We have wanted to go for a walk before. We tryed just before my holidays, that day the sky open up for rain 😆. Today we were more lucky! ⛅️ some sunshine and wind +19°C perfect! We walked a short version, a 40 min walk in the suburb of Lervig. Next to the seaside 😊. A suburb that before all new buildings wasn’t nice and didn’t have a good rumor 😔.
Love the architecture.
A suburb for me is a area that is growing and this area has really grown!! And it has started to grow on me 😊.
The first half is the path we walked and the second half back I walked from the grocery store Kiwi.
It’s nearly been a week since I got back from my holiday (July 22nd today).
After I’ve been home for two days I realised I really want to have a family around me. A husband with family. If it’s his growen kids or his siblings it doesn’t really matter as long as its family (person’s). It also means I litterly need to meet people every day, especially when I have a school break. Because when I work I always have people around me and my quote for the social part gets quite high but than when I don’t have a work to go to because it’s Summer, my quote goes down to fast 😔.
Anyway, I have been a bit creative yet not been sewing 😬🤪🙈.
On Saturday (20th) me and my 74 years old neighbour went to a plant store. I bought soil, orchid peat and basicpon to my flowers and 4 new plant pot’s in two sizes. Gave my outdoor plants and my aloe vera basicpon. And new seed soil and clay balls to my indoor flowers. And it looks like they liked it.
Painting a drawer which I’ll use as flower shelf.
Sunday 21st I finally managed to go to Church 😊 on my way I walked on my favourite bridge which also is a roundabout for traffic under. The weather forecast said rain from morning to evening, but we were lucky to not have the rain until during the service. Met a close friend from Oslo after the service, I haven’t seen since I moved three years ago. (It feels like this summer is the summer for meeting up with friends I haven’t seen in too many years.)
My favourite bridge in Stavanger. Because of the colours!
It was raining after Church.
Painting…
This door haven’t I done much with for the past year.
Now I paint it with acrylic turquoise colour to figure out if this is the colour I want. And I think so. So until I can afford the reel paint this stays.
I still haven’t decided if I will have black or white edges 🤔. I guess it has to grow on me as everything else I do 😆.
I chose to paint this too. The furniture I don’t know what you call, but it’s mostly used as a writing table back in the day’s both with drawers and cupboards. And the turquoise colour pop’s more to the black than the red colour did.
Today, Monday 22nd, I haven’t done much 🙈. I have cleaning my mother’s sewing machine and I found a bulb that fit 😍 and giving the machine some oil. I have the luxury to own two sewing machines now. My mother’s sewing machine was made in 1953 and I think mu mother bought it in the 1960’s. So it’s been along quite long time! A good but heavy machine.
The best part with this machine is the sewing table 😍
I haven’t been sewing yet 🙈😆 but I will 😉.
Faith and Trusting the Lord. I still don’t know what or where I will work in August yet I have peace inside me for this autumn. I am Trusting the Lord and have faith he will guide my steps. He has already blessed me to be able pay a bit less next time I have to pay the rent 😍🙏✝️. I gave money to the missionary work my church, yesterday, they are doing in Thailand and trust that God will bless my money for how I will live and pay bills in August.
Thoughts for the future… one of them are if I should save up for a used car (becoming an adult in an other level). I know I need a job to be able to save up money – to realistic brain to think otherwise. I have been looking at job’s but nothing so far fit’s me 🙈😔.
Finally on the 🚆 night train with the end station Stavanger 😍 tomorrow morning July 18th. A distance of 550 km along the coast.
I hope I’ll be able to sleep more on this train then I did going on holiday. 🤞.
00:18 am good night for now.
Tired!
Somewhere along the way (trail)
A waterfall in the mountains.
I woke up because it was light outside, 05:27 am. But managed to sleep more.
Just woke up, 06:55 am, good morning!
Stavanger 07:14 am 😍.
Got home approxy 07:55 am the 18th.
For some reason I can’t just walk into my appointment when I arrive 😆😆 , I always check my flowers.
Now coffee and breakfast… 😆
And unpacking, watering my indoor flowers, do laundry and relax. It’s so nice to be back home!
Those two days of traveling was and became shorter in time, more direct even though I was blessed with space between the stop. I think I used 16,6 hours compared to when I went to Sweden when it took more than 21 hours.
My goal with those posts from my holiday is to inspire you who read to explore places/ a country you kind of know but travel different to how you normally do it 😉. Have faith in the Lord that he will open up the right doors for you along the way you travel.
My day started 08.00 am when I couldn’t sleep more. Made coffee and placed the clean kitchen things from the dishwasher where it belonging. Had breakfast outside while it was raining 😊, very cozy!
Got packed into the car and a 25 min drive,by my brother, to Borlänge. Where I had to try my bank again while my brother and my nephew got on the train towards Danmark.
Finally done with the bank, yet not totally finished with them 🤪🤬. Walked fast to catch up with my sister-in-law and my backpacker (600 meters).
Had some waiting at the train station in Borlänge (an hour). 14:06 pm I found a seat in the train (the train departure time 14:40 pm). Took the elevator the coolest I’ve seen in a long time! )
On the train it started to rain after one train stop.
We will arrive Kristinehamn 17:05 pm and then the next train departure 17:51 pm.
The train station.
Dinner from a gas station.
Bye bye Kristinehamn for this time.
The first travel way…
Next stop Oslo, Norway. Arriving time shall be 21:24 pm lucky me we arrived 22:15 pm 😍😍😍 happy happy happy! And even more lucky that the train arrived on track 15 so I didn’t need to stress walk through the train station 😊😅.
Waiting on the bus-for-train, 21:33 pm. 🌡+19°C totally okay.
Platform 30 and 31 is for bus-for-train.
Have managed it so far only 550 km left to drag the sewing machine with me 🤪.
On the bus-for-train 22:00 pm – 23:11 pm and 23:43 pm is the departure time for the night train home to Stavanger.
Dala hästen/ the Dala horse is original orange with a special flower design & the symbol of Dalarna county.
The goal for today was four things.
The first thing was to try to fix my Swedish bank account, it went kind of good but not totally 🤪🤐🤬.
Thesecond was to try to open up a new account in an other bank. That didn’t go as planned 🤬. Back to square one 🤬.
The third thing was to meet my childhood best friend Annica and spend time with her. Catch up the last & past ten years. That went well 😊.
We have been friends since I was 9 y.o. and she was 7 y.o. And even if we now live here (she in Dalarna) & there (me in Rogaland, Norway) we are best friends.
After the coffee and before the walk I had to find a backpacker for my trip back home. My suitcase was a bit broken even before I started 😆 and now I leave it behind and hoping it will be through away.
I am happy with a new backpacker, it’s an 65 liter and the one I have at home is 60 liter. (1 liter = 0,26 gal (U.S.)
Walking in streets I’ve walked many times before…
Barbrosgränd. A tipical street in Falun. A street with mixed styles on the houses. I love this area and suburb.
Faluån.
The north side of Falun city.
Faluån.
Just beautiful flowers!
After the walk and because the temperature got warmer we went for Ice cream together 😋. I chose Safron and Annica went for Pear and vanilla.
Got back to my families house and it felt like I was sweated, but I can’t. So resting my foot a bit and then took I my very last dip and short swim in Runn (the lake here).
Time for packing and making dinner with my niece 😊.
The suitcase will be through’d away.
I had to re-pack it twice (the second time was 01am) to fit every thing I brought here & bought to bring back home.
Is it possible to live like Jesus wanted, today and alone?
Romans 12:4-10 – how we are breches to work with each other in this tree (verse 5)
If someone asks to hlp you and you respond “no I don’t need your help ” – this is a mirror of our society. A sad picture but in so many ways the hard truth.
If we take football as an example (mostly because it’s right now are football games) those who play football play as a team and work together and practice on what they all already are good at – we all need each other to be able to how we live as Christians and if we can follow Jesus and live alone.
We were made for something bigger than to earn a lot of money! What is the goal for the Churches?
First Peter 4:10-11 – The love we receive from the lord.
(John 16:7 – about the Holy Spirit. Our guide, our helper when we pray, )
Say Yes to help from those you have around you, where you live.
This morning started with the normal coffee and breakfast. And to drive with a rental car (spaceship) from Falun
09:40 am.
Between Rättvik and Mora went it slow! But forward.
I took a small break in a village called Garsås.
With the view over Siljan, the biggest lake in Dalarna country.
Continued to Mora and Orsa, drove the old road also called the turist road to be able to take a picture of the stunning view, but it was to much tree’s in the way to see anything 😔. And then towards to my father in Våmhus.
Våmhus.
In this area live my old father.
My only reason for this trip was to pick up my mother’s sewing machine 😆😊. Which is heavier than I remember 😆😅🤪. ( And this sewing machine will bring back to Norway 🤪 craziness!! )
My conclusion from this trip is that, it’s boring to drive alone! Even if I had the radio on.
It’s approxy 105 km one way from Falun to Våmhus, Mora.
Church of Våmhus.
Mora & Österdalälven or East Dalecarlia river.
Garsås, on the way back to Falun an other stop. 510km left to Falun.
When I arrived in the Bojsenburg suburb the sky opened up and the rain bounced off the asphalt.
Then I had about 35 minutes to leave the sewing machine with my brother and then drive and return the rental car.
Arriving from the North, left corner of this picture, on road 69.
I was back in Falun 4.31 pm and drove back the rental car and parked it and handed in the key 4:57 pm 😅. And then was the rain over 😊.
It feels like I have been driving much longer and much more than I actually have 😅😆. But I’m pleased with the day and even more I now ca breath normal 😆 .
Today I woke up 08.45 am was out of the place I mostly just sleep 10.10 am. Catch a citybus. Bought a protein shake with the taste of childhood ice cream 😆 pear and vanilla.
The temperature was now already +22 °C. Catched the next citybus towards my family.
Swimming with my niece. I would say the water temperature was around +20°C (the same lake as the day before).
Lake Runn July 13th, 12 pm.
Around 2.30 pm a friend of mine Ferdinand (that I got to know back in the time I lived here in 2002 – 2005) picked me up. We drove into the city centre to pick up an other friend before we drove to a place called Djurås – also a place I’ve lived. But we went to Ferdinand summer house.
Djurås, Överbacka.
5 pm, water temp around +21°C.
BBQ and swimming in a smaller lake, here was the water temp maybe +21 in the evening. Really nice!
Mattias and Ferdinand, my two friends from the time I lived in Falun 2002 – 2005.
To be able to enjoy visiting a city I have lived in, even if it’s more than twenty-three years ago (gosh is it that long time ago?!)? The time runs too fast!
Local city bus stop in Falun.
I went down to the city only to see if I could find a bikini top because I lost one already 🤪. I found two on sale 😍😍 in about 30 minutes.
Needed food b4 doing anything else 1.30 pm. Walked to MAX burger a Swedish burger brandsince 1968.
Ate and walked back to the bus hub.
Signs nearby the busstop near my brothers home, Falun.
Today’s temperature 🥵🤪, but perfect for swimming in the lake! Which was one of the first things I did when I got to my families house. And it was much warmer than yesterday (the 11th).
Water, coffee and fruit.
Between 3.30 pm and 6.30 pm I went down to the lake twice 😍. After dinner my oldest brother challenged me to learn the sup. So hard! And I am stubborn and I don’t give up easily! I did fall off and landed in the water 😆😆😆 but I didn’t give up!
Here 2nd try 😊
Gets better and better…
And I did it 😊.
I even managed to get around the “floating island” for the first time on a sup 😊😊 it’sapproxy 100 meters away from the beach. After I went for my third swim today.
It’s Wednesday the 10th. I enjoy it’s my first day of my holiday.
It’s 11:40ish and the temperature is +19°C some sun most clouds. Just perfect! My friends I am visiting are at work and I enjoying there house and garden 😊
My bonus-bonus babysister and me.
My bonus-bonus baby sister came visiting me while I was in Frövi. We haven’t seen each since 2018 because of corona and closed borders.
We did everything we could to spend time together 😊❤️.
My sister under the water😆😆.
Me in the water 😊
Coffee outside on the porch waiting on the thunderstorm 😊.
Table games – ticket to ride.
We spent approxy nine hours together, coffee, swimming, dinner and table games with my friends, before she had to drive back home.
July 11th;
I woke up 06:30 am just couldn’t sleep more. Coffee alone in the kitchen 😊 and a bit later breakfast and bought my tickets for today’s journey.
I didn’t have the peace in my body to sit and wait in my friends home … walked down to the train station and waited there instead.
Frövi train station. 10am.
This train is very nice and fresh!
10:43am, train railway issues… waiting on a station to go forward to the next station. I don’t mind I have a ticket for the bus but the bus departure time is not until 12:25 pm which I really hope I make. This train arrival time was expected to be 12:09 pm. Let’s hope we make it 🤞🙏. We arrived 12:40 pm still good time to catch a bus towards Falun 😊 after a short walk from the train station to the bus hub.
Geografic museum in Borlänge, Dalarna.
Walked 5 minutes from the train station in Borlänge to the bus hub and waited on bus 152 towards Falun 1:10 pm
In Falun it’s a tiny walk, straight ahead from the bus hub to the pedestrian street. I arrived 1:35 pm.
The start of the pedestrian street in Falun.
pedestrian street and the square nearest the bus hub.
Approxy 1:40 – 1:50 pm. In this square, in one one the shopping mall it’s a farmacy and there I was going to meet my friend (this friend, I got to know when I was living here back in 2001 – 2004). I am staying in her place despite the fact that she won’t be home this weekend 😆😆, approxy 1:50 pm I was picked up by my oldest brother and heading towards their home.
This is Lake Runn.
It was +18,9°C in the water/lake 😊. Swimming temperature 😊.
This view is Summer for me! I have spent many Summer holidays here when the kids (my niece and nephews) were small 💜😍. Now two of them are young adults and the third is a teenager. It’s here I love to swim and hang out 😍. And today it was them, a family of five, and my 2nd brother and his wife there too (they live in Trøndelag Norway). And later on this evening friends of one of my nephew came. On top of that my head started to ‘boil’ and spinning – to much impressions for me 😔🤪. The positive side is that I know I will sleep heavy tonight 😊
The holiday started with an accident while walking Saga 😔.
And instead of waiting to catch a city bus 9.15pm I choose to catch a bus 8.15pm so I could go to the farmacy and buy things to clean my sore elbows before my night train departure 10.15pm
On the train
Arriving Kristiansand approxy 01:45am and leaving about 02:15am.
Slept approxy 3,5 hours on the train 🤪. Wok up 06:03am. Out in the morning sunshine but chill morning!
A cool bus! (From one of the villages not to far from Stavanger)
Arriving Kongsberg 06:12am, here it was bus for train departure 06:19am. Now on the bus towards Oslo my first destination on this holiday.
The library of Oslo.
It’s a distance of 550km, from Stavanger to Oslo (north east).
A really good breakfast at the train station in Oslo with a friend from my church network from when I lived here.
Fancinated that it took me three years to get here again! After I moved away. And even if I am not really in Oslo, I just had breakfast and changed buses 😉 here. I’m here for a short while.
Off to Örebro, 4 hours drive with the bus and I am gonna sleep what I didn’t sleep on the night train! A distance of 340km east from Oslo.
The border of Norway – Sweden
Årjäng.
Karlstad.
Two more hours on the bus from Karlstad to arrive to my second destination (but first where I’ll stay for 48 hours) 15 hours later from when my journey began 🤪😆🙈.
I arrived 2:25pm toÖrebro. Been very careful with my elbows all this journey! Managed anyway to hit the right elbow 😔 and then I tryed to lock my suitcase in a locker but oh no that didn’t work 🤬🤬🤬. I have than the second time today been a customer to Espressohouse 😆😆.
This time a Chai latte and a very fiber rich sandwich. Even if the best for me after 17 hours of traveling would been propper food like a pizza, kebab or a burger. If it hadn’t been for my elbows 🙈 I wouldn’t care.
The very fiber rich sandwich actually worked 😊
But my journey isn’t done yet 🙈😆. I will meet with my friend I’m staying with 4:30 pm, catch the last train for today towards Frövi a smaller village 200km north of Örebro.
Örebro train station.
Örebro train station from track 4 where we waited for our train.
Frövi.
After dinner and catch up time with the family I visit (which I haven’t seen in ten years! ) we played some table games.
I have now throughing myself out there to be more outgoing and find new friends. Twice, two day’s in a row. And totally worth it!
I met two women yesterday (Thursday July 4th) that I probably will meet again for a chat over a coffee or similar. But it wasn’t contacting on how we are as personality or maybe it was hard to get to that level 🤔 when one of us spoke broken English and the other floating English and me also floating English. We didn’t got deep enough to explore hobbies.
Today (July 5th) I met Amber, just me and her talking. And we had the contacting 😊. We talked like we been knowing each other much longer! And we will stay in touch so that we can meet again as soon as the summer holidays are over and start to ‘hang’, talk or do things together 😊.
Thankful is was is left inside me right now.
I feel I have had lost my outgoing side of myself for the past years but I am getting closer to whom I once was 😊😊. This is promising! To challenge yourself can be so good for yourself!
Thankful to the Lord showing me what I need in life.
With an ex-colleague, she is also like an extra mother because she reminds me of my mother. We went for a walk, but when we actually started to walk it also started to rain like the sky just open up 😆😆😅😅. But we did walk! Approxy 4 km. And it’s a very long time since I was so wet after a walk 😆😆.
Home’n drying up before I heading out again a bit later to get to know some new ladies in Stavanger 😊😊
I just realised I don’t have close friends here in Stavanger. I kind of choose it when I started on my driving licence. And then have had a good job this last nine months 😊. A blessing job! But here I am, alone. And the only thing I have done so far is sewing. I haven’t taken the time to get in contact with anyone, haven’t forced myself to get to know any new people.
I have to do that!
Life should be more about get to know more people! I am an outgoing person and like to get to know new people, but I have been hiding myself. Not good!
It’s probably easy to release it in the evening when most people are at home… yet I will now start to look for new friends. Friends I can catch-up with over a coffee or just talk to. I don’t need many just some few knowing we have something in common 😉. If it’s through church or through other gatherings I guess we’ll see.
I am tired to be single and alone! Changes needs to be done!
So far (4 days) this week has been an eventful week!
First, Monday (24th) migraine and pasting the driving test.
Second, Tuesday (25th) did a super bargain on sale.
2 top’s for 60nok.
Thirdly, Wednesday (26th) could enjoy the temperature outdoors and painted the outdoors pots with colors my style 😊.
Acrylic colour.
It will hold as long as it holds 😊.
I have now those and six orange pot’s.
See in the background, the orange pot’s 😊. This went from gold to turquoise 😊.
Fourthly, Thursday (27th) on adventure with Saga the grand danios and Hilde (Saga’s mom), got migraine with auora again but this time I had it for a record time of 15 min! And around 6:30 pm went for this years first time dipped me in the sea! Also first time in three (!) years.
Freezing cold water!
Freezing cold water but perfect for me and my body after the top temperature of +28°C – the sudden heat we just got and you know me I just don’t cope above +15°C 😆.
The only thing I did after that was actually sewing 😆😆😊.
Just wanted to finish it. Not that I thought I would need one more 😆😆 but, I do need more than one bikini. Therefor will I sew a matching bikini buttom to this green top.
I started on this in 2020.
Wanted a bikini buttom that matched the bikini top. Here have I used what was ment to be a summer dress but I used it to sleep in during the summer.
I am between sizes, the sizes you find in the stores 🤪 . Their for it’s easier to sew something that fits my body. Their for adjustment is nessesary. Try it on my body to know it fits and I dislike to go shopping and trying things on.
I sew to challenges myself to become better but also offcourse to be able to have clothing that fits my tall body!
I found another bikini top 😆 and going to finish that too, but this one will have a twist 😊.
To be 6’2 ( or 189cm) doesn’t come with just happiness just because I am tall, as most people are jealous on. No it comes with a lot more challenges. We who are taller than 5’10 have the challenges to find clothes long enough or fit all the other curvers, weight, longer upper torso than legs or the opposite. Not something we find in a normal clothing store! (It is easier to be shorter because you can shorten clothes than make one item longer!)
Most of my tall friends buy clothes in online stores that has started their own business just because they never found clothes for their body or in online stores that has been approached to get clothes for tall people. I do too, mostly for Jeans and sweaters.
Sewing is not just a hobby for me, as many of my friends and students asks. No it’s more than that! It is mostly to be able to get clothes my style and learn to sew 🧵✂️my wardrobe 😊. But it also is to save the planet. If we sew, we can choose the fabric. Use what we already have and redesign it into upcycling or choose naturally fabric we know is good for the environment!
My challenge last week was to sew a bikini that fits my tall body. A challenge I took. And it took me six days to finish. I am pleased to finally feel good in a bikini that looks different and good on me.
Before I started.
This is the first step to find out what size I would need. A stretchy material but not good enough for swimsuit.
An old training top I haven’t used much.
An other traning top I only used few times.
Both training tops was perfect for upcycling and make the bikini buttom.
The process.
This is more for myself if I sew another 😊.
Finished bikini top.
Bikini buttom. And yes I wanted to have a higher edge infront.
Here you see I’ve used the fabric from the apricot colour top’s on both pieces.
This is the front side of the bikini buttom, just like I wanted them.
As you may know I am 6’2 and it is hard to buy clothes that actually fits my tall body! A bikini isn’t any difference. As the fashion is everything “shall be as little as possible ” well that doesn’t look good on all bodies!
And I am not super pleased with every curve I have, not uncommon for any woman around the world. Yet I have found my style and therefore I sew 😊. Exploring in different pattern that hopefully will fit me and also look good on my tall body 😊.
Hope you will be inspired by my sewing to challenge yourself 😉. Good luck! And thank you for reading my blog@
I was looking for a new bikini but didn’t find any good colour or size but I did found 2 top’s on sale 🤩. In perfect colour! And what did I think? Well, I can use those 2 top’s to sew my bikini 🤩🤩.
After this bargain on sale, I met a friend and celebrated with a dessert (read about it in the post’s Driving Licence part 1 – 7) down in the city.
My dessert My friend’s dessert.
And after that I bought a whole watermelon 🤩🤩, got home sewed a bit and while doing that a friend from my house church came by with a flower as a congratulations greeting
24th of June. It didn’t start good 😔 oh no it started with migraine with aurora 05:50 am. Took my medicine and ate breakfast. Texted my driving school teacher, to inform him. Did all I could to get it away. My goal was to do the very last mandatory driving test without migraine.
Catched the planned bus. Got to the driving school before meeting up time (06:58 am) as was 07:10 am.
Went through the car and all that I need to on what is what and where I found it.
Driving off to the traficstastion (where it all starts), drove some nessesary streets incase of if that’s where I would be driving with the sensor from the traficstastion.
I have to say, I have never before, been driving with my migraine medication. So this was wierd and I wouldn’t done it if it wasn’t because of today’s task!
The driving test itself is an hour long,and in three (3) parts.
When we got back an hour later, this very nice sensor, told me I had past. A bit of a chock! But a good chock! I have worked so hard for this in the end!
May 29th. Reflections from today’s driving. In total 36,11 km. Lot’s of practice on the feedback lately 😊. Driver with the L in the back of the car, for a good course. Driving with the thermoses of coffee also svela – a very Norwegian dish/ thicker pancake – around to the charity group during day 3 of Goodness Week in Stavanger.
Private driving Wednesday 29th of May, 3 hours in and around Stavanger.
Private driving 1st of June went much better even if I got lost and didn’t find the right road to drive off to the European motorway at once 🤪. But I managed to read all the signs without stress 😊, even the roundabout went fine today (even if I had lost of pain in my lower back). I am a bit worried that my back won’t be good enough for the next mandatory part 😔.
I am thankful for my neighbour lady (age 74 that dare to sit beside me and having Saga🐕 in the car, while I’m driving) and thankful for the protection from the Lord!
Stretching the back and let Saga 🐕 out for a small walk, in Ganddal my living place last year.
Private driving June 4th tunnel practice not so much about how to drive in a tunnel, no the focus was on where will I end up? So I could update my gps in my head. Unlucky I didn’t drive there at all the 7th when I had my 3rd mandatory part, 2nd driving over 2 hours. I had made a plan that would have worked perfectly with my brain but after half of the mandatory driving the teacher asked me how much time we had left – approxy half – so instead of driving where I in mind and be able to stop and eat a bit, the teacher forced me to change my plans, drop out of a break. I drove with the same teacher May 24th and than it was okay with breaks. I just don’t understand!
Sadly I now, since the last hour of the mandatory driving lesson, have fatigue symptoms. My ADHD doesn’t work well with driving more than 2 hours. I hope it is something I can practice on! But I can’t have a life with fatigue symptoms as soon as I am driving with someone. This driving school teacher also send me unconscious stress – which is the reason I now since approxy 1 am Friday the 7th have had fatigue symptoms 😔.
Just a picture of Stavanger.
Yet I have to be apart of the last mandatory part tomorrow Monday 10th of June, 3 pm. I feel like someone been driving over my head. And screens (laptop or smartphone) are less good than other things in life right now. Fatigue symptoms 😔.
Perfect weather for driving! June 22nd.
June 22nd. Today I have my last private driving. So today I am going to repeat things I know I can do better, poking on the driving in and around and out of a roundabout and get to know the suburb where the trafic station for the drive-up (or driving tests) starts.
Backed into the parking lot where it is always tight.
And what do I do? For the past years haven’t I done a thing 😔. I think I have been on one maybe two St.Hans bonfire during my soon 17 years in Norway. I totally miss my Swedish🇸🇪 traditions! Not all of it but a lot. And this midsummer I am nauseous 😔 been eating and drinking blueberry 🫐 which is the only thing that helps.
I went grocery shopping (just got home) and thought “why not at least buy some strawberry 🍓 as some kind of feeling of which day it is.
But it isn’t the same!
To be sick on such a big day and single isn’t fun! But at least I know it comes more 😉 and hopefully with a driving license 😊 in the future.
The Swedish 🇸🇪 traditions is herring, potatoes, family, schnapps (for those who like it), pick 7 different flowers, Midsummer dance with folk-dress, folk music, barbecue, bring in hay (for those who live further north, and Christian festivals.
The Norwegian 🇳🇴 traditions haven’t I got into yet. And I would say it’s a mix of that I don’t have a driving license and no Norwegian man or any Norwegian family whom has adopted me in to their family and traditions.
My midsummer 2024 is a sad mix of frozen pizza and blueberry and maybe strawberry…
I am not the person that go out and buy a gift therefore I had figure out what to sew on Tuesday (June 11th) so I knew it would be done on Thursday (13th).
I found some jeans fabric in two different sizes and sew them together with red thread.
Made the pattern myself, just thinking what do you need when you’re cooking.
Found an old shirt to make ties for the apron. The apron is size XL.
It was hard to know if the tie around the neck would fit so I saved some length to be adjusted if needed.
All the pattern have I made by sewing forward and back to make the letters. The pocket is also a rest-pieces of jeans fabric.
The giftcard also upcycling. I used one side of a coffee bag, glued it on thicker paper and used it as a giftcard 😉
In total the Birthday man was happy for the gift. I am looking forward to see him use it even if he said it was too pretty to use.
The Birthday party was yesterday, Friday June 14th.
Why am I sharing this? Well I am learning more and more about this every day. Because this isn’t something we woman justwillgo through it is a part of life!
And the sad part is that too many doctors still believe that a bloodtest will show if you are in one of the stages.
Which is sad! Because you can start symptoms of being in one of the stages with other symptoms than can’t show on a blood test!
Read more about it – if you are a woman!
You can have the same type of symptoms as if you are depressed or have anxiety and maybe it actually are more naturally things like less testosterone in your body?! Make a reaserch about those stages, find a podcast about it and newer books in this field! Talk to your doctor and be a bit stubborn so you get answers. The body, our bodies ate changing!
I have learned so much more about this theme by listening to my favourite podcast with The Dr Louise Newson Podcast, she works in the field, interviewing women in all different fields who are in one of the 3 stages.
Perimenopause is the first stage and and be in a period between 2-10 years and in this stage you still have the period.
Menopause is the second stage and you have now been without the period for one full year.
Postmenopause is the third stage and this is where you will be for the rest of your life.
This is not just for us women the more men knows about as more will they understand not just why we “go though it” but hopefully also why it will be easier to understand “why some women wants less sex or be less intimate” in this time of life.
Please share this to your friends if they don’t understand what they should do or don’t understand what’s happening with their body 😉.
All of us who has ADHD knows what I mean! So my next sewing project is an empire dress in full length. In a light fabric with wider sholders for warm summer days. I am “a bit allergic” to long sleeves 😆😆 in the summer.
My challenge is to get it floor long and sew an under skirt.
Here are the start of my summer dress.
While I was cutting out the fabric I realised I wouldn’t have enough fabric from one curtain so here am I using 3 curtains. And instead of sewing an undergown (skirt under) I am testing to sew the nice fabric on the inside of the dress.
Sewing June 1st in the evening, after a “bumpy-ride-day” (lots of back pain). I started with the turquoise fabric the only fabric I hadn’t done anything with so far.
If my back is better today, June 2nd, I hope to managed to sew all the insides so I can sew it all together. And start on the top part soon. Because I really want to be done before my holiday so I can bring it with me and wear it.
I am taking Holiday the 2nd week of July, the first propper Holiday in 8 years.
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.
May 10th 07.30-09.00am had I the first part of the last mandatory part through the driving school.
Then it will be two different types of mandatory driving – one part is countryside driving for 3-4 hours the other is planing-gps-driving for 2,5‐3 hours. And then it’s a last part where you reflect on what you learned during those driving school lessons.
Safety course on the road, theory.
Norway are making all new drivers extremely alert on absolutely everything they think is important when it comes to driving. Instead of learning more along the way, everything must be learned at driving school and it is expensive! And all mandatory parts are not adapted to people (like me) who have practiced driving a lot or have had a driving license for something else before. No, everyone must do this regardless of what you already know. This type of mandatory came in 2005 because the government saw how many accidents it was among new drivers.
Instead of adapting to your background and possibly age, they extend the lessons and instead of compressing the lessons to make them more efficiently 🤪 they do the opposite. Tipical Norway.
Between May 10th and May 24th, I have had good practical 🚘 driving with my two friends my age that taking time to help me with this 🤩🤩
Sorry this is in Norwegian. One of many rules for driving in Norway.
Next driving with the driving school, May 24th countryside driving are done (after an a bit rough morning with hotflush 🤪) . The driving itself went well. I am now driving automatic (started with stick) and I love to drive an automatic car! This mandatory part – countryside driving for 4 hours(!) was so intense for my adhd-brain and I had so much pain in my wrist after 🤪.
My day wasn’t over just because I past this. [More thing would happen after this.] But the Lord was with me all 4 hours 😊✝️.
17th of May least we can’t say it was cold! We have had above +20 degrees Celsius the whole week. And today wasn’t it any different except that we have had mire wind. Last year was freezing cold.
My school, Nylund skole Flags everywhere 🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻Nylund school yard decoration Just a normal decoration in the street’s 🇧🇻 on 17th of May 😊
After I’ve seen the 17th of May celebrations I walked back home. A walk in total of 4 km in mostly 🌤☀️…
Got home and had late breakfast out on my terrace – a place I really enjoying because I haven’t had a terrace for the past three years . I’ve been sewing and picking up what I sewed 😆😆 off and on the rest of the day when I haven’t been eating.
Here I picking up seams on a small backpacker Sewing on the re-used straps.
The 18th of May, and Pentecostal weekend, I picked up half of what I sewed the 17th 😝🤪😆.
The morning of 19th I figured that I could start on the inner lining or the inner bag for the backpacker. Much more easy!
I have also managed to walk with Saga 🐕 and her owner Hilde, for more than one hour. Sewing some more and got one hour of a practical run 😊.
May 20th …
Some fixing on clothes that I thought was done and wasn’t when I put them 😆.
I was happy for few minutes when my overlocker worked, but than after unpatienced when I didn’t manage to get the the one thread in place 🤬🤪.
But 😊 I am almost done with my new backsack/ backpacker 😊. Just few seams left 🤩. It actually starts to look like something 🤩.
Innerbag with pockets, made by Rest-pieces from other sewing projects. Which even one more time have to pick up the corner-seams 🤪 or move the smartphone pocket 🤪.
The front of this project. Rest-pieces from jeans and decorations of a rosehip.
The backpacks inside. Inside pocket.Decoration: “Normal is boring”.
I am getting there in small steps 🤪🤪. But I am so so pleased with it!
I love when I have time and energy to fix what has been laying and waiting for some time!
Fixing and repairing Jeans. May 8th.
New earnings from upcycling paper clips & safety pins with beads from the floor in the art&craft room at work.
I am thankful for work, life and sparetime! The Lord has both showing me things in life and in dreams of my future and I keep trusting him in what will come that I yet don’t know. I enjoying every moment if I have more or less energy! Those last day’s has been a mix of both and yet I am smiling because life is good and I am trying to embrace it as much as possible.
Happiness. Finally I know what colours I have 😍 on all my threads 😍
The Lord keep guiding my steps, give me inspiration to new things and ideas 😊. And even after a tough work day I have energy to be creative at home 😊. And interesting enough it feels like I have more energy to be creative now than when I had Silver 🤔 🤪 … maybe I was more allergic ti him than I thought…?
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