We have had 2 weeks with gale wind off an on but this week we suddenly got winter again 🤪🤪. Not common!
Talk about climate changes!
And today we had just a grey weather until approxy 11am, then it has been snowing non stop… picture below.
When will the Spring come?
Her will I give you some pictures from parts of the process of my 3rd #jeansskirt I’ve done.
This Jeans skirt took much longer time to sew then most other cloths I’ve done. Mainly because of my injuries in my coxxy last January. When it’s painful to sit for longer periods it’s hard to finish a project. But thanks to my seat-pillow (my xmas gift to myself) I have been able to sew so much more lately 😍😍. So now it’s the next project. Jogging pants made by sweaters “hoodies”.
In 2009, living in Norway and earning good money, I wanted to “pick up” my driving school project. So I contacted a driving school in Sweden near by the border, Karlstad so it wouldn’t be so expensive to get there and back.
It started good and I learned fast. Had to take some extra driving lessons in the city area cause I hated to driving in a city and had not so much experience of it. I had been driving with my mother for years and new most of those roads back and forwards ^^haha^^. But driving in a city center with my mother wasn’t fun so I didn’t choose that if I could.
So in 2009, I just had to do it. But with a good driving teacher I fixed it. 🙂 I got so far in the whole “project” that I was signed up to do the written test – the Theory test – but then suddenly the Tax authorities of Sweden said “NO you can’t, because you haven’t lived in Sweden for the past 6 months”. This was wierd for me, cause I knew other people had done the same thing and were aloud to do everything. I was frustrated. So everything I had done felt like I just throwen everything out in the thin air. I was upset, frustrated and sad. I was so close to finish what I started ten years back. Bureaucracy.
So I said “Fine. I put this on the shelf to the Lord and He will show me when it time.”
In 2019 – ten years later – my father told me he had been digging in this issue and told me the Tax Authorities had been wrong oversteped their own rules. Can you understand how much more frustrated I felt then???? At this point I just didn’t want to do a thing more about this license. This has become one of the reasons towards Sweden why I really don’t want to be a citisens of Sweden anymore I am sick of all the lies they tell people.
We got some snow last weekend which I didn’t think would stay.
It didn’t stop snowing!
It has been snowing each day since January 13th. The night between 18th and 19th we got approxy 15cm
And since I walked to work this morning and until I got home we had got even more 😍😍.
I think we, now, have approxy 30cm. That’s a lot to be here! Last time this area had this much snow was the Winter of 2012. That’s how rare it is.
I enjoy every day with this lovely white powder!!
It will rain away in a soon future and the Spring will start…but until then ❄️😍❄️
I have since I got into the perimenopause become even more sensitive to temperature. It’s not just Spring and Summer anymore oh no! It’s all around the year!
If I have a room temperature under +20°C indoors I can catch a cold 🤬🤬but if it’s over +22°C indoors I melt away 🥵.
Last November (2022) I catch a cold because it was below +19°C indoors where I was living and the land lady didn’t tell me it could be so freezing cold indoors during the winter months. Here is the issue that it’s hard to get a eaven temperature in the whole apartment… I have just figured out that, if I have around +21°C in the hallway /corridor it get a bit “warmer” in my sewing room (2nd bedroom) 😊 which is good cause I have chosen to not have any heat on there or in my bedroom (master bedroom). But if I want some heat on in my bathroom I can’t have much on in the hallway…
Earlier this week it felt like walking into a wall of heat when I got home after work. So I tryed to put the heat down, then I catch a cold… it’s excectly a month ago I had a cold 🤬🤬.
I don’t like to complain but this is nuts! And I think it’s the perimenopause. We – wonan – all have different symptoms in this period. And it’s a myth that you can’t hit perimenopause before 45 y.o.! You can! I did and my doctors agree with me.
Here I am, with a cold but mostly fever 1,5° above my normal body temperature, which is the same as 39° C / 102,2° F, if you have 37° C as your normal body temperature.
(The average body temperature is between 36,8 – 37,2°Celsius / 98,6 °F.)
If you as me have lower body temperature then most average people, it’s both easier to catch a cold and feeling you boiling, have hot flashes, night sweats and foggy brain 🥵🥵 when it’s all around the year.
Annoying to have fever again just because of the temperature indoors is hard find a balace on!
Here in Norway the schools starts on the 2nd or 3rd of January. No long Holiday here. I was asked on the 2nd, on text, if I could work those three day’s this week. Which means I have had a good start and fun cauce I have had art & craft with 5th and 7th graders, two full day’s and three different classes each day. Today, Friday, I were with one 5th graders class in theoretic art & craft in the classroom, one English lesson and ended the day with art & craft with a class in 6th grade. It couldn’t have started with more fun! The best part is I will not just *continue to be the teacher in 7th grade, no it is that I will be the teacher that start the re-design project with those pulpils 🤩🤩. *Until the originale teacher gets more information about her situation of where to work will be sattled I will also know which grade I will work with.
While I am the temporary teacher in art & craft I will this Spring apply to a one year studdy in art and craft at the uni (university) here in Stavanger 😊 that starts this coming fall.
Here is some pics from this first week at work 😉.
It has been so cold those three day’s 🥶🥶, today we had -11°C. It might not be so cold for some of you, but if you have south east wind from morning to morning with everything from 8m/s to 19m/s with windcast up to 20m/s then it is cold! If we only had 15cm of snow the cold wouldn’t feel so cold. Maybe you understan maybe not. It has been cold and fresh walking in this wind! And I love Winter, weather and wind so I don’t complain but the pulpils aren’t used to it so they complained.. they are not used to wear wool. Maybe they are better at wearing wool next week🤞🤞🤞 as the cold will continue. (In the area around Kristiansand – the train connetion from Oslo to Stavanger – have had around 100-200cm of snow! Not normal so far south! And the same wind as we, so there (and Kristiansand is approxy 4 hours drive south from Stavanger) have the Schools been closed due this two or three day’s. So this first week of January has had some challenges all over Norway. I heard on the radio that Karasjok have had between -35°C and -40°C, that’s like Sibir ir Alaska! 🥶🥶.
I went for a 30min walk this evening 😊, not much wind yet -10°C and here are some pictures from my walk.
What a year!
Injury plus sickleave in January and February.
Psycholigical sad health for months and wierd feelings towards work and the staff there ( Bore school 22-23).
Some happiness in the middle of everything. April23. And I got few new friends through the job at Bore.
A good summer 🙂 . Some walks nearby Ganddal/Sandnes. Some day’s inside but Happy.
June was okay and Aslan wanted to stay but Silver wanted to be alone….and I got allergic to Aslan 😦 .
July23 – Summer and exploring Rogaland by bus. 🙂
August was a mix of lots of deny on job’s but I stayed positive and like the flower here bright full of colors and reaching to the sun, I stayed on my feets and
filled my life with more colors.
…but sad September….
October become good 🙂 with the move back to Stavanger, more jobs and more good routines. Good athmospher at work, like I really don’t want to be sick’n’home good! And walking distance!!
Walking in Faith-month! Concussion-month…. = November.
December. Snowy Winter weeks and then rain (which is the normal), a cold but also a lot of good work 🙂
I think I have had more then enough bad luck in one year! So I’ll do my very best to stay on my both feets all the way in 2024!!
Buy I have also been blessed in different ways during the Year which I am thankful for.
I spent Christmas Eve alone with my cat, but have enjoyed it! I bought two gifts to myself this year thanks to the blessing in beginning of December 🤩. One of the xmas gifts was a newer smartphone and the other was a memory foam seat pillow for my sore and often sad back. And how happy I am for it! It helps my back a lot!! I even think I might buy an extra.
With the new pillow I have today, both tryed to sew for more then 30min (and it worked) I was sewing for two hours! 😍😍. And I have almost finished my sewing projects from 2020.
I am looking forward to 2024. I really do. I have plans and I’ll do my very best to keep them come true. I am curious on what the Lord has for me in 2024! I am in a good place and I am planning to stay here as long as the Lord can use me.
Have a blessed 2024 all of you who following my blog. And keep sharing the posts you like or the posts that somehow have helped you forward.
The two 🎁gifts🎁 I bought to myself was just what I needed this Xmas! One was the memory foam seat pillow and the other a newer smartphone with better storage and better camera 😍😍. And this was only happening cauce of the blessing I recieved just before my payment (salary).
And cauce of this new pillow I have finally been able to pick up my sewing 🧵 projects again 😍😍.
It is severel sewing projects I now can fix thanks the my “magic pillow ” that do wonders with my back 😊. So since I tryed it until now I have been sewing as much as I can between being free from work amd working extra this week in SFO. And I am looking forward for get all those projects finish soon.
In 1994 I got my very first driving license – for driving a Tractor – because I went to this Farmers school. But I didn’t continue doing anything with the real driving license until 1999.the Winter of 1999 I went to my first driving school (that how it work here in Skandinavia and it’s a lot to learn nothing like the american way!), started to drive a Volksvagen, TDI 1,6 engine, a nice car, manuel gear just because I was used to the tractor. This was in one of the Northen cities Örnsköldsvik approxy 550 km north of Stockholm along the East coast of Sweden. But I didn’t stay in that city long enough for different reasons to be able to finish the license…
Nexte time I “picked up where I left” was few years later, because of money issues (it’s expensive to take all the driving lessons you need to past!) And my parents didn’t pay a penny for me. I think, now decades later it was because it was only my mother who had money, a payment a job. I think I tryed again in 2002 but I don’t really remember much from that time.
This week started good I thought… but in the afternoon Monday (11th) I got fever… I had to go to the farmacy after work – medication, which sadly led to more fever.
Here I am home today Tuesday (12th) and will be tmrw too. I’ve watched Chicago P.D. and I am tired of that now. I am also tired but can’t fall a sleep 🤐🤬. Hungry but no extra energy 😐😔. Think I’ll be home at least tmrw and Thursday.
I got cold on my feets this last Friday and that was sadly it 🤬 . I can only pray 🙏 this fever dont stay’s in my body for 14 day’s as it has been b4. I need and want to work.
And got a blessing the day b4, and went down town and bought Winter shoes on Saturday. They are good 😊 but that didn’t help much… Annoying situation!
I have had a good two weeks at work (as a subtitute teacher) and during those two weeks we had sn❄w and a good cold period to be here in Rogaland (West coast of Norway) which is unusal! We had not many minus degrees but with the wind grom the South-East, East or North it feels so much colder. And you have to dress for the wind here. If the 🌡temperature said -4°C it feels like -10° C 🥶 .
Anyway this last Saturday the rain 🌧 came… and now it’s normal Winter again without snow, just cold cause of the wind… but the lights outside most houses! 🤩
And I used this last Saturday to buy winter shoes, hobby things and got a cold… I wanted white ornaments in my Christmas Tree which I didn’t find, so I have reused my old once and oainted them this weekend 🤩
I had some gold ornaments I painted black last year, they needed 3 layers of white paint this time. But it’s okay cause I am HaPPy with the result. For some years ago, stillnliving in Oslo, I found kind-of-old-ornaments laying around in a storage. I took care of them, used them. Now I have painted them too, white or grey.
And I have a lot left of the hobby things for later.
And the fever I felt earlier today, I’ll pray away so I can work and earn good money this month. ✝️🙏
I am trying to figure out how I can do things easier on my blog 🤪 so you might see a new layout during 2024
I am constant learning how I can do things easier for myself here on wp.
What do we like the best of those two? I would say IRLD! Have it happend me reasonly? No. Have I dreamt about it?Yes. This post is about IRLD. Why? Well because I have taken a break from Dating App’s and I think it will be possible to date someone I eventually meet in real life. I believe it can happend. So I will update you in this area if and when it happends. So just have patience and trust the Lord, he will guide me and you to meet our partner we want to meet.
November 12th to 18th.
I have been laying in my couch since Tuesday 7th (which you can read in the post before this one), been dizzy every day. Got an appointment with my GP on Friday (November 10th) a not so good day cause everything was spinning around. Both at the GP and after when I got home. Yesterday (Saturday) I managed to walk upright around in my home, first time since Monday 6th when I was working, but I had to support myself to walls or furnitures, dizzy every time I turned or turned my head normal = to fast.
Sunday 12th I have just been llistening to preaching from my home church on their podcast (between 11am to 12pm), about miricales when we come with expectations on what God can do when we pray.(while hearing those words I said in my head «I come with expectations on healing here and now»). How I felt God doing things in my head while I just listen to the preaching (I still have concussion when I type this) about healing. When I started to listen to that preaching I was dizzy in my head and I couldn’t whatch a screen and now approxy 30 minutes later am I typinging on my laptop. Doesn’t feel dizzy at all 🙂 . Amen.
How God’s power can touch us wherever we are when we hear about miricales and what God can do. When we believe on what God can do when we come with expectations towards him.
Hear I am in my couch, 12:30 pm Sunday, and the dizziness isn’t so intense as it was one and half hour ago! How God can heal when I come with expectations! I am looking forward to get up, not to fast, just be careful, and believe God has heald my head. That I will be able to walk normal and not feel dizzy or that everything is spinning. I am looking forward to be able to go outdoors for some fresh air, to be able to wear my glasses I haven’t wear since Monday (trying them on right now, I think it will take a bit time for my eyes to adjust. I will not force my eyes with glasses here and now. I will take in small steps during the day).
Monday 13th. The dizzieness is gone. Thank You Lord! From dizzieness to wobbly walking indoors, stumbling on my own feets… but have been able to walk each Day since last Sunday 🙂 . I managed to watch a movie on Monday with glasses on – a really good feeling – some good things has started to happend. But on Tuesday I was tired all day 😦 . Constantly tired. I even reacted on the light outside through the window. Until Tuesday I have had the blinds down cause it has been to light outside, but on Tuesday I wanted to try and get use to the light and get more daylight in.
Wednesday 15th.Today I managed to walk, wobbly, out to my mailbox and pick up the mail. A good feeling. I even went out with garbage. I was thinking to go and grab my cruches just in case I would try to go for a slow walk. But I neither got the cruches or went for a slow walk. I managed to order food from the online store (the only one who has that service where I live) with delivering on Friday. YAY.
Thursday 16th. Constantly tired again… Didn’t manged much. Sat in the couch all day. Watch some movie and series but not much. I did managed eat and drink coffee and juice othervice I was just in the couch. Got in bed around 10pm. Slept bad. We had snow coming down today, it didn’t really stay, but just the fact we had snow is happiness for me. How I “suddenly” could turn my head normally without feeling wobbly in my head – Yay! And how I have been healing in small steps! How the Lord provides for me in small steps! How thankful I am for every new Day with all “new” things I managed to do 🙂 .
Friday 17th a much better day! More productive Day! I woke around 9am, had coffee and breakfast, got food delivered 10.15am. Ran the washing machine. Was creative on the floor – YAY. Went out (Yes you read right), for a slow walk in my neighbourhood. Walked approxy 20m had a break for few minutes and try to enjoy the sunlight but it was a bit to bright for me. Went on walking slowly 20 more meters, a small break counting to ten, kept walking. Repeating my 20m with a break counting to ten. Walked approxy 100m in total, up the small hill (street) from me. Standing there trying to get used to the brightness. Waited maybe 2 minutes before i walked the same hill (street) down back home repeating walking 20m with a break. I was out for approxy 15-20 minutes. Totally worth it!!
Later that Day I got more and more energy to be creative 🙂 . I was creative in my couch until i «fell onto bed» around 11pm. I was finally tired by myself – happiness!!
Saturday 18th has started good! I just had my coffee and will have breakfast just now. And I will go for a slow walk after. Imy goal is to be able to walk to the nearest grocery store, which normally take me 7 minutes one way. Which now probably take me 21 minutes and that is okay. The grocery store in just few minutes from where I normally work as a substitutet teacher and where I will go on Monday. So I have to managed this.
My goal today is to get out and walk at least twice.
During this last week has the Lord showen me he is with me and that all my friends who are praying for me have giving me more strenght every day. I am so thankful for all prayers cause it shows me that when we pray for each other the Lord can help and do miracles we human can’t do. The Lord has been with the whole way! He has healed my head slowly just the way it needed to be healed. He has given med more and more energy each day as I needed to get where I am now. Small miracles aech day to prove he is with me in this part of the Journey.
And he has blessed me with new friendship and food.
He helps us when we ask for help. He is with us when we ask him to be close.
Every evening before falling a sleep have I prayed «Thank you Lord today. Thank Lord for the healing gift, thank you for letting me recieve it and thank you lord for healing me.» And «I come with expectations for healing me, thanking you for what you do with and within me, thank you for protecting my brain, heart and soul. Amen.»
I believe that the Lord is with me when I pray this, that he is happy I am asking for healing and not just take it for granted. I believe God want us to come with expectations when we pray so he can do more in our lifes and that we can see he is with us when we ask with expectations.
And the goal for tomorrow Sunday is at least one walk and catch the local bus to Church. If I managed that I am really Happy.
Home with spinning head…
Went to work on Monday, was substitute teacher alone in a 5th grade class. Got a bit heavy for me 😔. My brain cooked after 3 school hours 😔🤯. And at my break 11:50-12:20, I couln’t think straight. Lucky me I had an other teacher with me in the last two school hours of gym 😅. But I was by accident hit by 2 handball balls to my front head. I didn’t think much of it when I got home cause my head was still cooking from earlier and I felt on some burnout symptoms. Around 6.30pm, I went to get something to drink from the fridge, and in that moment from the couch maybe 7 steps, my head just started to spinn like I had drinking alcohol 🥴🥴🥺. I had to sit down fast.
I have been home since. The spinning isn’t as intence as on Monday evening, thank you Lord for that 🙏✝️, but it’s still spinning 😔. And offcourse did I have other symptoms like hotflush (perimenopause) and 🤢 which in my head was becauce of the cooking brain.
So today, Thursday November 9th, I called my GP and got an appointment tmrw Friday. And just incase I ordered a cab (taxi) to be able to go and get back home.
But you know what, after that I managed to make and drink a small cup of strong espresso-coffee (I write it lik this cause I didn’t cook it as a normal espresso on a stove, I did it with coffee filter) my head is spinning less and I have managed to type this!😊 Which is the longest in 24 hours I’ve been on my smartphone without been needed to stop after few minutes 😊. I am still laying in my couch typing but yet 😊.
I am thanking the Lord for every hour that I get better and I believe of healing. But it will be good to see my GP and know what’s going on with my head. I hope I can be back working on Monday 13th.
East side of Norway have had snow ussues, which us the same every time the first snow in October or November. Monday was full of chaos in the news. And most of Norways population who doesn’t live in Oslo and the (areas) on the East side thinks “how is it possible to not switch from summer to winter tires?” Well I think they think they can managed anyway 😥.
Here in Rogaland we got the storm with wind guts up to 25m/s abd the trees 🌳🌳 gets ready for winter and I had a big pile of leafs outside my door this morning..
We had two hours of snow🌧 on Tuesday this week. Two hours! Then we got rain 🌧 and the storm. I have to say I enjoy the storms while being home and indoors, lighten a candle light, watch a movie or just listen to the wind. 😊
It has taken me some more years then most people in my age, to figure out what I want to do “when I grow up” which is an expression on what you want to work as or with, for most people it happends when you are between 20-30 y.o. For me, who was 100% burned out in the age of 26, on sickleave for 2 years after and tryed to find my path in what to work with or what kind of education both in Sweden and here in Norway. During 8 years here in Norway taking courses through NAV and for the last 4 years have I actually been working in the school as a learning support teacher hasn’t always been easy. It has been a learning journey, yet I haven’t been able to work more then 80% for the last 10-15 years because of the burnout. Yet I am greatful for every job I have had, and learned from! It isn’t until now I know what I want to do. And for me it has been it’s own journey to figure this out, underestanding what the Lord have in mind. I still have some things to sort out before I can apply to the Univercity, but at least I know in which direction I am going, which I haven’t known before.
I will not let you know yet, the direction, cause some friends are following my blog and I have only told some close friends. I do wonder if my <3Mom<3 knew in which direction my life would turn, while she was still with us without her sickness or if she is happy now when she is in heaven whatching me on distance?
Anyway, every day between the 23rd to the 27th, did I work as a substitute teacher. The first week I had almost a full week! 🙂 Friday the 27th – Had I for the first time lessons by myself, no co-teacher. I was a substitute teacher for a 6th grade class in both English and Norwegian subject. It was fun, and an okay class. You know, back in the day’s when you were in school you probably tryed your limits when you had a substitute teacher and not you normal ones. Offcourse this class did that too. And here is the thing, I think I got this from my Mom, I do not tollerent much noice in a class room. I am from the generation (growing up during the 80’s and 90’s) that wants the pulpils to listen, be in the classroom also with there heads and brains and following on what I talk about so they wont ask me hundered times after when they shall do the task. Which I made clear and the boy’s who tryed to strech on the limits didn’t really work for them. that was a good feeling for me who hasn’t or isn’t a propper teacher. 🙂
I will also be a permenent on-call substitute from now on, which the management likes a lot cause they always need substitutet teachers.
Anyway, I liked to be a substitute teacher on Friday. It reminded me on when I did it back in Sweden long before I moved to Norway. I was young and the pulpils where teenagers then. I liked it then and now. A lot has happend with me during the years, yet the one thing that feels like it is the same is how much I like beeing in a classroom.
I just have to tell you about Thursday 26th. I was a co-teacher in 7th grade in art and crafts with the project “take photo’s” the first two classes we went to a place nearby where I live and after luch we went with the third class to a suburb called Lervig where Stavanger has long traditions within young creative culture such as Tou scene, various artistic expressions within performing arts, visual arts, film, music and other cultural industries. At Tou Scene did they (and I) take pictures of buildings and street art. That day I walked a lot!
Yes, and on Wednesday 25th I was in 1st grade (!). I haven’t been in the lower grades at all before Wednesday. I was so tired in my head when I got home….
I don’t know you guys who are following me, where you come from, what your thoughts are about Halloween or if it’s just a date?! But I know I did change my thoughts about 20 years back when I was working in a yought club in Sweden and Halloween got closer. What the yought thought about Halloween and what they thought was the truth, which it wasn’t. Because what they though was what they had learn from social media at that time and not the background. Where does the halloween fenomen comes from? And how was is it before Americans changed it? Well I asked the youth and told them to search. And learn about the orignial halloween day or weekend when that happends.
The conclution was, “Oh it isn’t from America!”. No it isn’t. So where does it comes from? Well, the tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain – marked the end of the Celtic year and the beginning of the new one – were people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts, in the 8th century. And November 1 is designated to honor saints. October 31st was known as All Hallows eve and later become Halloween. Over time Halloween evolved into a day of activities like trick.or.treating, carving jack-o-lanterns, festive gatherings, donning costumes and eating treats. October 31st is also marked as the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of the year that was often associated with human death.
So you can choose how or what you do on October 31st! I choose “Harvesting” and celebrating that the summer is over and the winter is coming. I decorate with things that is for me Autumn or connected to harvest. I have been working on farms so I have the knowledge of what we can harvest this time of the year. This year – which is the first for me – I bought a pumpkin and did a very easy carving decoration mostly for fun cause I have never done it before. I also bought a typical autumn flower Heather flower which I have outside my door on a small table. I will put up the rest of my decoration this evening and put a sign on my door tomorrow. “DO NOT RING THE DOORBELL, SCARRED CAT INSIDE & I’M OUT.” because I will be out tomorrow evening. I don’t think that will be popular…
Have a blast October 31st!
For the past week I have been talking a lot to the Lord, after I was asked to come for an interveiew – a job I applyed for in early October. A 50% job in after school club. When I applied I didn’t have many day’s as a subtitute co-teacher which I have now.
On my way to the interview I talked to the Lord. Trying to find pro’s and con’s towards working there if they offered me the job. I didn’t have the peace inside as closer as I got to this school, it was like I just knew whatever I said in there I wouldn’t say yes. At the interview I answered as good as I could. I guess it went fine. I really tryed to point out that I like myself in the middle age of the Norwegian School. And that I’ve only worked one year in the after school club. With not so good experience, which I told them about. (Norwegian School system 1st to 4th grade = lower part, 5th to 7th grade = middle part, 8th to 10th grade = high school)
Talked a bit more to the Lord on my way home, realizing I don’t want this job at all. Sent a snap to a close Christian friend, who asked my why I didn’t want it. My answer was easy. It’s the wrong age. And I know, that it is the wrong age.
I have sent an email to the school, letting them know I am not interesting. And I have Peace. Trusting the Lord in this. Walking in faith. Yet, I don’t know how much I will be working this fall, but I know the Lord will guide my steps to what he wants for me.
The Prace from the Lord is what I lean to. Knowing I am doing the right thing 😊 .
Yet I don’t have a clue what the Lord has for me in the future and that is okay. Becauce I am walking in faith this fall.
I just have to share what I walk by every day when I am blessed to be working as a subtitute co-teacher in 5th, 6th or 7th grade at Nylund school. A ten minutes walk from my place.
This week started unfortunately with some fever from last week, even at work as a subtitute assistant at the school club (sfo), with 1st grade. It was fun! I climb with the young pulpils 😊 in a climbing frames for children and young people. I don’t have a picture which I thought of but never had time to take.
Then I worked Tuesday 😊 in 7th grade. But when I got home I got setback 😔, the fever 🤒 came back for approxy 24 hour. So no work on Wednesday 😔, but this morning was really good! And the rest of the day both in the class I helped in, as a subtitute co-teacher, and the ☀️-shine we got. Like the picture above 😊. The temperature 🌡getting closer to +5°C in the morning. And I really need a new feather jacket!! Which is my goal on Saturday – to buy a new feather jacket.
But first will I work tomorrow Friday. Even if I had a setback this week has it been the best week so far! Awsome pulpils and co-workers!!😊😊 I haven’t liked a school so much since the school I worked at on the East side of Norway- Bekkestua school (junior high) between 2019-21. And I think I like this age more then teenagers.
And one more thing, which is hard to admit is I think I want to work as some kind of teacher one day.
I may be starting this thinking twenty years later then most on my age, but I didn’t have the chance to studdy twenty years ago. Due to an illness – 100 % burnout for at least three years – which has left mark on where I have worked or why I have no education as of today.
We all have different times in life when we studdy and become something we work with later. While the Lord has his timing planned for you and me when things will happend. ✝️ To trust him in all his plans is the key. I know that when I start have the Lord already made a path for me. I just have to try and see where this will take me 😊. I can’t have focus on how many years it is but have focus on the Lord and have fun!
I’m having a break from some social medias – Instagram, and started this the 23rd of September becauce of what happend me. I have to say it was hardest the first week. Now three weeks in it’s nice to only visit Instagram once a week or less.
And my “aha feeling” in this is, is how the Lord using me here in the blog instead. How he has change my focus to where it’s for more use.
My followers keep going up, more and more people find my blog which is cool. I really hope that all of you share it with your friends. Not becauce I want more to following me no no. But to share what you liked, the post that hit you or gave you something new, or that the Lord gave you something through the post.
The Lord has been showing me where he wants me to put focus those last weeks. And it’s on Him and here. Which I am trying on. This blog is my ventilation or mirror of everything that happens in my life, which most of you already know, but I want to highlight it, becauce that is what it is. I don’t share details on things but I am trying to describe it and I share my thoughts.
And this is how the Lord use my gifts. To encourage you in your life. So Let’s have focus on the Lord this fall and let’s come with expectation to what He can and want to do in our lifes.
Let’s have expectations on what the Lord can do in our daily life, at work, if you travel or work in a office doesn’t matter for the Lord. As long as you stay tuned in to His channel he can use you whereever you work! Be open to His way of talking to you. Do what He ask you to do, cause you will feel so much more peace on the inside after! Let Him be in charged in your life no matter how it feels or looks like becauce it is when we, you and I let Him be in charged he can use us the best way.
Be Obedient to Him when He ask you to take a risk in your life for Him, becauce then the Lord can use you the way he want not the way you think he can use you. What is in your heart for your life? For the Lord? For the Holly Spirit? Be Obedient and Trust the Lord. He will lead your steps where he wants or need you, not necessary where you think your future are becauce you took the risk he challenges you to take and you listen.
Isn’t it tipical that when you finally have the opportunity to make extra money, to get a cold with fever 🤪🤧!! Well that’s life right now for me. I managed to get a bit cold on my back on Wednesday this week and I also forgot to take my D-vitamin 😔.
And here I am. Home with the cold and fever. When I get a cold I get the fever in about 24 hours, and the shit stay longer in my body then all the other symptoms. 😔😔. I have past having sore throat and when it’s hurtful to talk. I am in the stage of sneezing and chouching and I am on day 4 today with this cold.
Yesterday Saturday I forced myself to the nearest grocery store to buy 🍯 Honney and the most nessesary of food. The walk to the grocery store was fine but in the store I started to sweat 🥵🥵🥵 due to a lot of wool on and the walk home got even werse 😆😆. I felt like I was melting away 😆😆 and zero energy. I spend the rest of the day in my couch watching internet-TV.
Why am I sharing this now you think? Well my wish for this weekend was to relax, explore my new neighbourhood and go to Church. That didn’t happend 😔. The next wish I had was to be able to work extra – that will not happend with fever in my body 😔. I might be able to visit a friend and be a bit crafty with her and her two young adults/teenagers.
I think the Lord want me to enjoy life as it comes even if that includes a cold. He has given me this wonderful apartment to rent, to enjoy life in, to relax in, to do want I have been wishing for outdoors for two years and a cold will not stop me live, it will only put things on hold. Something I have to accept and try to enjoy my best of.
I did, I was a bit creative both Friday and Saturday in the couch 🙂 . I used yarn to sew those pieces together by hand.
On Friday I found my “poncho” I started on last year, where I never figured out how to fix the arms. So on Friday I thought okay, let’s just re-design this to something I actually can use. So I am now ripping the small squares apart from each other and sewing by hand, them on to the bigger pieces of the blancet 🙂🧶. Actually very nice and easy thing to to while I am doing my best to get well soon.
We’ve got to week 40 now, and I have lived in my new apartment a week! If you want you can start to count down to Christmas or Thanksgiving. I prefer to live on the moment.
Double Prayer answer this week… First; cause I recieved a positive answer from NAV (NAV is a public agency under the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs which is responsible for organizing and financing labor market measures, social security benefits and social assistance.) Second; I was asked to work as a co-teacher and subtitute teacher more then once 🤩🙏✝️.
I was Substitute teacher in Arts and crafts (A&C) today Wednesday in 4th grade and by the day was over I was asked to be a Substitute teacher in 7th grade Thursday 5th in A&C. 🤩 It’s both a prayer answer 🙏🙏 and fun working with this age, which I never done before. I really enjoy it!
And just when I headed out & home after work today, the principal asked if I could come Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in two weeks, after the Autumn break, so they could use me as a teacher. So so thankful for work!!
If they need me somewhere they call me the same morning around 07.30am, othervice they text me the evening before 🤩🙏✝️.
The Autumn rain🌧 is here again. It’s burtal, a lot and windy but yet so lovely!! But we also have few day’s with sunshine like today Thursday the 5th. It’s chill air but sun just like it should be in October 🤩🤩.
Curtains makes the different and it gets more cosy, comfy, snuggly and homely…I finally found my curtains after a week 😍. Less ecco in each room 😍 and more color and both pair goes in white and orange 😍.
I have to say I love this apartment it is cosy, big enough for me and Silver-boy🐈 , it’s easy to move around, lovely view throught the windows 🤩, and yes the small garden part that makes even better for a cup of coffee all the year around. It just need some tlc of colors and lightning 😉 . I am hoping for a good amout on my pay date for decoration and outdoor flowers 🤞🤞🤞 . I don’t want to move in a long while cause I love this place!! It’s such a Blessing living here!🙏✝️
By exploring a bit on the other side off my suburb I walked past these two street art painted pictures on Tuesday this week;
Last week was it all about the move even if I went to work twice, my mind was at home and how to finish packing. I really tryed to not stress to much, but you who have moved, you know it almost always get stressed in the end and you pack things that shouldn’t be packed. Thursday (the 28th) 5:15pm came two helpers from my old House Church last year, with a locked hanger :-). As we filled twice mostly with furnitures and big boxes I got two more helpers caring it out in my new apartment :-). So Yes we had an Efficion evening!! So on Friday between 09:30-11:30 I got help from an other from my old House Church, we managed to empty the old apratment 🙂 in Sandnes. We got all the flowers, food and I packed all “left things in the couch” which also inclued the router that belonged to the apartment 🤪🤪 😆😆.
So I have been trying to find all Kitchen boxes this weekend and I think I am almost there 🙂 . My bedroom is okay but the guestroom has until today Monday the 2nd of October been just a bug chaos of boxes and some furnitures 😆😆 . But today I did some good work there 🙂. I found the floor 🙂 cleaned it and sorted empty boxes from sewing and creative ones. I kind of moved the chaos.
I will take it as the energy comes back.
I will not stress. Things has to take time. Like my sewing area. I made up my mind last night that I rather have the letters “Creativity” on the wall then “have fun” which I had last year. Creativity because I will probably do more things then just sew.
Yet I am so thankful for both friends helping me and that I don’t need to stress about that everything need to find it’s place right away. I am trying to put all empty boxes in the outdoor storage. And I am really thankful to a girlfriend who did a thorough cleaning of the old apartment <3. I will pay her for that, cause she is worth that. She used 6 hours! My body can’t do that kind of cleaning anymore so I am so so thankful!
This new apartment in Stavanger is such a blessing!! It’s cheaper then most in this suburb, I’ve got a parkinglot and a small terrasse inluding the price and size – which isn’t common!! I have walking distance to the nearest train station (I tested it on Saturday 30st of September) and down to the city :-). I have maximum 10 min to the school I’ve got some jobs at. 8 min to the nearest grocery store 🙂 I have near access to Columbus city bikes – as part of the offer from the county’s bus company Columbus. I live 3 min walk from Ramsvig – suburb next to the coastline 🙂 and the hiking trail Strømvig – Breivig (see picture)
On the opposite side of my apartment is a fotball area and some kind of leisure club for children between the age of 9 and 12 years and youth between 13 and 16 years, I think. Friday evening – night was the trafic of youth high outside there – that’s why I figured it out. But I don’t mind, just good to know about it 🙂 . I am looking forward to go for walks in my new neighbourhood and explore, enjoy the nature and the wheater Stavanger have.
The best part here is the view through out my windows! The leafs 🍁🍂🍃 in the big trees 🌳🌳🌳🌳 it is so calming 😍 . Hard to find something more calming I think in a suburb. And with the short walk down to the hiking path along the seaside!! 😍😍
My goal right now is to be happy and singel and enjoy life and see where the Lord takes me. I’ll be moving tmrw and on Friday 🤩. The date is finally here 🤩🤩. Yes I have got some issues to sort out but I trust the Lord! I am gonna breath in what’s around me and become active in the Church I feel is my spirital home here in Stavanger.
Life is to short to be angry, to analyse things that just such energy!
Singel sounds good for now and a good periode forward. I don’t want to stress to find my future husband! So I am going to live! And try to enjoy every day now. No matter how painful it feels. The lord is my life!
I feel on this frustration over the fraud-people, they who knows how to trick us and convince you and me to become the victums 🤬🤬 often through high manipulation and nagging until you or me do what they want. They don’t care how or what you actually don’t like or don’t agree with, as long as they win 🤬.
The irritation of why they looking for women above 40 and above and singel?
Cause I have been attacked twice in a month! Four times or more in a year! And it’s not just me, I have singel female friends who also been attacked like me lately 🤬🤬. Why would we be so much more attractive? Not everyone above 40 how a lot of money. Or is it becauce we are singel? Are we more attractive becauce “no one can help us to see the signs?”, or is it something totally different?
They are sadly good on manipulation those people 😢😢😢😢🤬🤬🤬.
I were unlucky that I had some money they could trick out of me 😢😢🤬🤬. Not much and luckly All places I tryed to apply for a mastercard deny me. Thank you Lord for that!!
The enemy really trying to be strong and do sabotage!!
I been feeling it off and on this last year. How the Enemy have tryed to destroy a lot of things for me. Both through work and through internet 🤬🤬🤬. It doesn’t get easier, no no the opposite! So how can we singel women above 40 stand against this shit that really is sabotage one way or the other?? Is it more common in Europe or is this *shit* then around the world? Have you, who following my blog, man or women been attacked by the enemy reasonly? And how?
Do we share this with our Church? Or just close Christian friends? What is your experience of fraud? Please make a comment 😉 not just “like” the post.
I have never been in a battle like this until now in my life as an Christian. This situation where I become a victum of fraud is a battle between my faith on the Bible and what I live after. What is my Faith and how big the enemy trying to be. That’s the only thing I can say for sure. The world are for sure tougher today then it has been for us Christians. It’s an ongoing fight on who is bigger and who is the true and who will win this fight. And we Christians needs to be even more careful of what we do and not do. How we respond.
This is a new fight for me. But I’m not alone in this. Amen!
I am listening to Evelation Church right now while I am typing, the headline for the preaching is “Now Turn North” – the preaching text is about the man at the pool, who has been there for 38 years. Where the Lord say’s “pick up the mat and walk”. The Lord picked this man because he could use this man from his experiances. And the words “Now Turn North” is about where you are in life, have you turned South? Have you lost your way? But to Turn North isn’t just about geographic it’s about where you are on your path with the Lord. I can see I were walking South those day’s I have had, but I am now turning North!
To Turn North is about if you will confess with your mouth and believe with your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved. (That sounds like turning north to me – preacher.) The word repent does not mean to feel bad about what you’ve done; it means to turn and change your mind. It means to come back to your Father. For somebody who has been going south today, and God is turning you in a new direction. I want to remind you that the cross is the turning point of a human history. the resurrection was the proof that Jesus was God’s Son, and today will be the defining moment of your new life in Christ. And the prayer is a connection point with you and God. And if you mean this with your heart today, God will hear from heaven, heal you of your sin, forgive you and redeem you for your wrongs, and give you a new beginning.
I have to say – this was just what I needed to hear! The beginning of this preaching didn’t give me much. But this!! Thank you Lord for speaking to me like this!!!
I will be able to move forward in this havey mess I’ve been a part of ❤ . Only because the Lord Loves me and want me the best. ❤ .
When you thought you really had stop this! And suddenly someone respond to one comment on social media!! And you really and literally don’t know how to respond.
THAT happend me.
It was both surreal, exiting and scarry in the same time in the beginning.
But it is for sure the most Sad, Awful, Painful, Terrifying and surreal that ever happend me!!
I have had some day’s to process this. A long story short; and it is sad that the whole thing started so positive and harmless. Which I guess it most the time does. But after few day’s of chatting he asked me to help him and he shared ( stuff I would never share, but he isn’t me) out of a desperate situation he was/is in (if he really is who he say’s he is). This stuff he shared with me is something I am SO AGAINST!! To transfer money!! I really tryed to tell him I didn’t want to do this (and at this point I should have just blocked him! But didn’t see it…) I was only interessted to get to know him as a person. He didn’t listen. My life has been turned up-side-down and I become a victum of online fraud. I thought I had learned the signs… And I really tryed to stand against him and his nagging. But he managed to convinse me 😦 . He convinsed me to get an app for bitcoin and actually buy bitcoin (just writing about this part is so painful!!) If it is anything I always been skeptical to, is it things I don’t know a shit abou like bitcoin (probably something he is used to). Every part of my body said NO!! And I tryed to talk sence to him but he didn’t listen. (I am crying inside of me writing this, it is so painful!!). I hate myself and him!! Dissapointed on myself for not reacting faster… And why didn’t I just block him? Well, I have to say this was more of a fight between the enemy and me… who would win?
You should know I have been through almost every type of feelings here. Hate myself and him. Frustration. Irritated. Sad. Crying. Wanted to screem. Wanted to melt away. But I texeted a friend who saw the whole thing from the outside and told me I had been a victum of fraud. When you read that from a close friend who care you know you need to act. So I have reported him to the Norwegian Police for online fraud. Called my bank and got everything blocked. I have made a copy of the whol chatting and saved it as a pdf-file. It’s been few turbulent day’s and will because of this take a break from social media. But I need my blog, to vent through as I always do.
Maybe because of this whole shit have I had brain fatigue, exhaustion symptoms – difficult to fall a sleep in the right time and my back crashed. It has been locked since Wednesday – the day when the big sad shit happend and I lost almost all my money.
But the Lord has his ways of encuragement!! And the Lord has been with me through it all I know. It’s the enemy who tryed to be bigger. The enemy who destroyed it all!! It’s like the enemy want to disrupt everything right now but he will not win!
And I thank the Lord for everything he has helped me with in this sad situation! The Glory goes to Him who is Bigger then everything!
If a person online asks for pictures of you don't send until he/she has sent it first!! Then google this person, read as much you can about this person!! Go on a concert or a place this person say's he/she normally are!! Don't trust everything the person say's!! Ask for a video meeting where you can se e/she is moving normal or do it live, meet somewhere public nothing else!! And never ever pay a penny!!! NEVER!! Be skeptical!!
*You should just know how many times I have been editing this text.* 🤪🤪🤪
Lucky I have my 💙Silver boy🐈💙 to calm me down when I needed to cry out. And good Christian friends that stand with me in this and in prayer 🙂 And helped me see what I didn’t see ❤ in the end. How desperate I got to figure out how to help this guy. It’s scarry how easy it is to become a victum of this!! And hard the enemy try 😦 .
I was Curious and really just wanted to get to know this guy. Now after this I don’t want anything from him ever!! I really hope he doesn’t ask any other person for this!! And I am curious if it actually was he who he said he was or if someone hacked him. But I will not check. Everything is now in the hands of my Lord Jesus. And I will move forward.
I have had all my cards from my bank blocked so no one can’t damege more.
Worship is the thing now. Lot’s of good input is just what I need.
I am still sad inside and angry on myself but I know if I focus on that nothing will be good. So I will fill my life with good things from the Lord, Bibleverses, other Christian blog’s and try to do some sketching that actually helps my brain to relax.
After I was done writing this text yesterday – Saturday the 23rd of September, I read some encurageing text from a Christian blog post from the Inlight Church, I recieve on my email. Here is the biblevers; “So do not fear, for i am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 (NIV).
I think I need to emthy me more… I don’t think I’m done yet with the whole thing of “I have become a victum of fraud” as you can read in ‘Online dating (Annoying or not) Very Painful this time – Part 12’. But I wrote it there bacuse it was for sure some kind of online dating feeling there!!
And I have taking a Break from Social Media because of this situation I just been a part of. Awful and Painful situation!! But my blog is my ventilation! It’s the only place I feel I can write what’s on my mind. The only place where I can clean my brian and also the place where the Lord can use my experience and share it with you all.
Whatever comes out here is my sanctuary. It’s Saturday the 23rd of September right now. And I am going to dig deep into an other blog post in few minutes. Encouragement is just what I need now. I have been listen to worship for the last 2 hours also something I just needed. My life has been turned up-side-down for the past 13 day’s. Thing I for sure rather had been without! But we always get stronger by failing and we learn what we never shall do one more time. But it is also getting harder to stand against the enemy in certain areas!! Like the one I ended up in. But with faith on the Lord, and by his grace we will be able to walk forward! Amen!
In the post ‘online dating…’ I talked about how I got tricked to do thing I really didn’t wanted to do – and that was for sure the enemy!! The nagging and convinsing that “yes you have to do this”. And I will hate myself for this for a long time!! But I can’t focus on the negative it’s not who I am! But I need to get it out here. Sorry if you don’t like it, but I need to. It has been so many different thoughts in my head lately. Thought I haven’t recognized being me. Which scarred the shit out of me – who had I become because of this chatting? Why is it so hard to stand on what you know is right when someone ask you to do something you know is so wrong??
I am so thankful for the peace the Lord has given me after all this shit!
To continue believe. To continue my path with the Lord, to Breath, to stop and think. Life can be good I know and we all have our “bumpy roads”, mine was more like with a big black whole in the ground!… But I got up and out of it. ❤
mia-simone. svenberg 