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The challenges as a woman in perimenopause – not many talks about. Part one.

Daily challenges in my daily life. To let the Lord be apart of everything no matter what and maybe even more when life changes. To trust and have patience.

The challenges to be a young lady with perimenopause and those challenges. No one of my girl friends has been where I am cause they have had a kid or kids. Mom is gone so I can’t ask her about how it was for her or when it started for her… To understand the “new life” being a young woman with perimenopause.

How a womans life change… with pain, Hotflush, Night sweats, Irregular periods, Vaginal dryness, Chills, Sleep problems (have I had since 2003 cause stress), Mood changes (no change here yet), Weight gain and slowed metabolism (I have rearly notice this), Thinning hair (nothing yet) and dry skin (not more than normal 🤪), Loss of breast fullness (I would think this is more comman for woman who have been pregnet).

The hotflushes … they comes as sudden as everything else in the perimenopause… How I sudden need to lay down in the couch cause I shake and freeze as much as my skin feels like it was burning (the start of a hotflush) in the same moment as I don’t have any energy 🤪😔.

The nauseousness comes approxy 10-15 min after the hotflush and I can be nauseous up to one hour or more. Which leads to I can’t eat breakfast – the really base for me. I don’t get bad every time, which I am really thankful for. Yet, the whole thing is to try to cope with this.

I think I got into the perimenopause becauce of a mix of things in life. One cause I haven’t had kids, an other cause of my eating disorders and the third is probably genetic… I don’t get hotflush or nauseousand every month, just wgen I do it’s changes how l8ng I am… Yet, it’s never fun when it hits you!

Things you have to figure out by yourself and talk to your doctor…is why is the periode late? How long does it “need” to be gone before recieving the facts that ” you got there without warnings”? And how early it actually can start!?! Why isn’t anyone talk about this with us ladies about this? Shouldn’t the suciety take more responsibility? Teach in the schools? Inform us through magazines mm.

Not even the churches talks about it 😔. Why is even the churches quiet about this? Why is this something that is so private?

I have co-workers who got it and they are surprise I already got it. I think that says quite much about “what women knowledge or not knowledge” is about this stadge in life. And that is sad! Therefor will I share! It should be as easy to talk about this any other ‘awkward’ thing. No fuss! This is as important as the knowledge about safe sex, when to have sex, rape etc. It can all happend to us, maybe especially us woman

Just the challenge to have enough energy after work for life isn’t the same anymore past 40. I am 🤞 (crossing my fingers) for more energy today, tmrw and for the future than I have had so far. Because I need my energy every day.

Yet, I am thankful for life, work, the challenges life comes with. And I am burning for facts tha most other don’t talk about.

High lighted – resignation 2022

I have written the e-mail today, my resignation on this aparment 🤪🤪🤪 and now it’s all in the Lord’s hand! And I have to trust him and his way for nxt apartmen. I have been looking since the day I said yes to the job and yet nothing that fits my budget ☹.

My wish for nxt apartment is, under 10k (nok) inclusive electricity, allowed for indoor cat, I am not giving up on Silver, 1 month of deposit, Partly furnished like stove & fridge & dishwasher inclusive. I kind of need a small garden spot, balcony or backdoor garden. Walk distance to the bus or train.

Pls stay with me in this. He, the Lord, gave me a new job and I know he will give me what I need. It just feels much harder this time becauce it’s so little out for rent. Maybe he has a miracle in ” his sleeves” through an other place I haven’t thought about 😉 .

I have to stay positive. I start, finally, work on Monday. 2 day’s from today. 🤪🤪. Looking forward to it!! Even though I don’t really know what I will be doing. And I know from experience that time flies fast therefor, is my prayers for nxt place high lighted. I will also need some hlp to actually move when that time comes.

🙏✝️

The peace I’ve recieved the last few days, June 9th.

I’ve got peace to stay in Stavanger municipality an other year, if that means I’ll stay where I live right now (on the island) or that I’ll move into the city I don’t know yet. What I still don’t know is where I’ll work. The job I have right now ends the 31st of July. Yet I do have peace over the fact I’ll get the job the Lord wants for me.

Does this mean that I’ll keep working with yought? Don’t know. Will I keep working in the School? Hope so, but don’t know.

Maybe I’ll become a substitute teacher somewhere or maybe I’ll get a job with yought like “after school hours”. Just the fact I’ve got peace helps a lot!! Last year I was so stressed about this thing “where will I get a job” and now I am in the same situation and I will just rest in it and see where the Lord is leading me. I am still applying to jobs of interest but no stress. And I have figured out I shouldn’t work more than 80%. Which also helps.

I am still applying, and won’t stop until I get something. But I feel more openminded about what I can and maybe want to try than I have been feeling for the last months. 😉 And I still have peace over the job I turned down, that it was the right thing to do.

I have been praying over this “Lord where will I work nest?” Because it is a bit frustrating some days to not know. But now, I just know it’s okay to just trust the one who have it all in His plans. So whatever everyone asks me I’ll answer I don’t know but it will be fine.

And my sparetime, well offcourse it would have been nice and easier to have the driving licence but hay, I take that when I have time and money. I will try to explore as much as possible this Summer by train, bus and ferries! I will not aloud myself to just be home and do nothing just because I don’t have a car!!

Life goes on and I’ll enjoy mosts days. 😉

Small taste of my daily life.

Here comes a small taste from this week so far. Today I ‘m home from work with a bad heavy headache caised by the coming weather change 😔😔😔. And the only thing I can do is to knitt 🧶 not to much for my head.

1st picture; today 24th. 2nd; last night Silver was cl7mbing the wardrobe. 3rd & 4th;we walked yesterday after I was dobe working in a good temperature of +10°C. 5th & 6th; Spring signs. 7th; yesterday’s temperature from the morning. 8th; Mo4ning light.

Saturday, March 19th evening walk back from the store.

Vaccine, work, side effects, quick Corona test.

I had been working for 4 day’s when I had the opportunity to take the 2nd doze of the vaccine. It went well. No side effects in the first 21 hours. …But it came. 😔. It came at work on Friday the 20th of August. 2 hours before I was done. 😔. I got fever. And it didn’t past in 24-30 hours as after the first doze. Oh no, I had it until yesterday, Monday, evening.

So when I woke up this morning (Tuesday 24th) without fever I could only pray & hope that it wouldn’t come back during the day. Which it hasn’t. 😊. So I booked an quick corona test just to make sure I didn’t have any covid virus in my body.

And GOD is good, no signs of covid. ✝️. This was my fourth test in a year and yet no sign of covid. 😊😊 🙌🙌🙏.

I am blessed and protected with vaccine and ready to be back at work tmrw. Do my task there, be a light for the youth, do what the Lord has prepared for me.

April Challenge

Or do you want to stand on the same place becauce it bruings comfort? That’s how I felt when I asked the Lord about this journey.

Yesterday (April 13) I had a chat with God, said that I haven’t found a job of interest in Trøndelag county only in Rogaland county. Therefore, I focus on continuing apply for a job there. & that God will show me what job it will be.

Tonight (nigth between April 13 & 14) I dreamed that I had 2 interviews on Teams or Zoom. 😉
& I have peace. 😊.
So it seems like it becomes Rogaland 😉 on me.

No matter if I have confedence or not in this He will be there with me!

He will help me.

He is my compass, GPS, life.

It is both scary and like an adventure. 🤪😍

I want to be able to live closer ti the sea on the west coast of Norway. 😍.

I just have this smile in my face and the peace og this is the next step.

I don’t have a clue of the future but I am trusting my peace I have. I have made up my mind. Focusing on one area geografic is enough. I just now He helps me hold on to the road or path that will lead my steps to the job that is ment for me. 😊.

He, the Lord will guide my steps and open up the right door. It’s hard some day’s to stay on track. But He guides me in all areas in my life.

I have to trust for both a new home will show up where my cat also can live, will be cheap enough for this year and the years a head and the right new job.

I am moving back to the county, the only place in Norway, I felt at home. The area I have been missing for the last ten years… The area I have told friends I want back to “one day”. That day is getting closer 🤩🤩🤩 every day 😍😍 ✝️.

A new opportunity, a new chance.

And this weekend (23rd – 25th) I have written two applications and need to write a third (!)🤪🤪.

This is my new life at the moment. Hectic but I choose it. On top of this, I was substitute for two teachers this last week at work on top of my regular hours 🤪🤪 but fun!!

What make you smile?

What or whom make you smile so much you just can’t stop?

BiRthDaY? Love? Work? Baking? The guy/girl? Cake? Spring? Skiing? Beach? Childhood? Summer? Friendship? Books? Drive? Drums? Songs? Worships? Flowers? Pets? Family? The sky? Being creative?

I am curious on what makes you Smile! Please tell me.

For me it can be a nice message in social media ora phonecall from a friend I haven’t talked to for a while. It can be to be creative or the buds in the trees. It can be at work, my cat, a seson. I smiles quite often just becauce I have things that makes me HaPPy.

Just look at those selfies, I smile. Becauce my life is good no matter weather.

I am so Thankful for my life. What the Lord is giving me no matter if it’s a challenge or just a regular day.

I really want to know what makes you Smile!!!

Happy Easter to all of You!!!

Open up the Channel.

Open up the Channel to God. Don’t hassitate to do it some day’s or some hours. The Lord doesn’t work that way. Here I am, was eating while God started this post with me and He gave me those words.

Maybe this post will be even more relevante now a year after the big lockdown in many countries around the world. Then when the Lord gave me inspiration in January this year.

To encourage you, to open up the Channel doesn’t happend when you want but when the Lord has something he wants to get out there among all of you. This encouragement happends to you who need a push in the right direction, to you who need to be encourage, who maybe need more of Him or just you are in a situation where you don’t know or understand how to hear His voice.

Maybe extra unencourage with all those mutations we do have around us in March 2021.

In today’s society is it easy to think “I’ll do it later”. And sadly this is also many who do when it comes to God too. But to put God on hold isn’t very good. He will still be there no matter if you “shut him off” or stayed “tuned” with him.

So, where are you?

Do you listen?

Maybe HE wanted you to be connected when you took the break.

Do you know which wave you are on to reach the frequency God is on?

Did you close the door? Have you turned off the radio or closing the bible and maybe even stopped to pray?

The Lord is waiting on you to open up your channel, get on your frequency and be “on air” with Him.

I have to say I still struggle with the reading but my channel is open to the Lord. I talk to the Lord every day. I pray and give thanks in the evening. I catch up with other Christians when it’s possible. I listen to worships and podcast’s both home and on my way to work. And becauce of this, I can feel how He is guiding me step by step towards what he wants. To be open for what He wants.

35th Birthday again 😉

Pictures from my Birthday the 3rd and the continuing celebrating the 4th of May, waiting on and being with friends.

😍

Baking the cake the 2nd of May to my collegues.

Picking wood anemone with some students on my Day to the Basar we had at the School.

On my way back home, I past those beautiful “new born buds”.

A Birthday gift, gift card, cinema ticket 😍

4th of May.

In Oslo, the National Theatret place, eating a ice cream waiting on my friends.

…the National Theatret place…

At my friends place.

Birthday dinner.

Gift and ☕ and 🎂.

Happy Birthday to me 🎉🎈🎉

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.

Gym journey

This Spring has not been easy when it comes to “get to gym”. It’s been and still is a bumpy road. Just the fact that when I wasn’t sick with a cold I had other issues… Headeach or period or feeling like a big big tractor been droven over me…

If you have knowledge about fibromyalgia you know that people with that get real pain in muscles when the weather is changing. I have a light version of that (thanking God for that!) But still I get sick and can’t do a thing.

But it is hope and I have faith and it’s been wores then it is today. This all effects me on when, how often or how not often I hit the gym…the only thing that gives me a physical kick in life and so much more energy then anything else..

I pray for healing and trusting God that one day this shi*t will be gone and I can do what is good for my body.

/Mia-Simone.Svenberg

The Northern wind has arrived.

Some time has flayed since last blog post..

…In the end of September I got the opportunity to start walking beside the night-shift at the Hotel where I have my trainee-time. It was the “dream-moment” I’ve had for a long time in all kind of jobs I’ve had. In the same time everything felt a bit unreal. I mean I was happy I’ve got this opportunity! This was my thoughts: “what will I do when I am awake, will I sleep my seven hours I normally sleep, without any problem?”

img_20161014_155528 — Signs right outside PS:Hotell. Night picture.

And I have to say it’s been like normal time at home. I do things as anyone else it is just an other time on the day then most of my friends “daytime”. The toughest is to go from a free day to start 6.30 am and get early enough in bed to get up at 5.00 am!

I had my first night-shift the 26^th of September. The most of the tasks are the same but I’ve learn some new. During the night you have to send reports to the bosses of the Hotel, and in the Hotel (the different ares like housekeeping, restaurant and reception), which you only do on the night.. An other of the tasks is to clean the barista machine and the coffee Thermoses. You check all the bookings a month ahead and cash settlement.

“..the difficult again is to get to the gym.”

So far I’ve done seven night-shifts and I’m loving it! It fits me more then anything I ever worked with. It takes time to adjust to this too, to see how much I need to sleep and what I’ll have energy to do.

The difficult again is to get in to a good rhythm to go to the gym. I have realized that I have to do the normal monthly work-out payment to be able to get my work-out I need because my work schedule isn’t even close to five days in a row. Sometimes my free-days are only the weekend other times it’s in the middle of the week, and with a normal gym-set-up you go whenever you want any time. But I go through something called “active in the daytime” only during the week 9.00 am to 14.00 pm. It just doesn’t work for me. 😥

20151028_161932 — Winter in Oslo in October.

During the last week has the Northern wind arrived to Oslo and the winter feather jacket got out of the suitcase for me and more wool cloths out of the dresser. Something I like to try to not do until the middle of October but not this year apparently.. But I rather be warm with good clothing and stay in the fashion mote.

“..alone to many hours, played less and slept more..”

In the mean time of this new experience I had bad conscience for my cat Silver. He was alone for to many hours, slept more and more, played less and less. It was time for Silver to get a play-friend. So I started my “hunt” of a new adult cat to keep him company. And the 10^th of October I got a castrated female cat called Pus (which means cat here in Norway) so I started to calling her Pussi (also normal animal name here in Scandinavia). But an other day this week I received a text msg from the old owner that her name actually is Selma which is so so far away from the name I gave her. So I’ll try Selma and see if she responds. In the mean time I use her nickname.

I can’t say they were friends from the beginning. They have had there fights but now after one and a half week they do play together, have an eye on each other, don’t sleep near each other but they can sit on the desk kind of together with some distance. It took about a week for Selma to “I want to be near you, my new owner”. But since day 5 she sleep in my bed on top of my legs and not besides my legs!

/Mia-Simone.

Clean your home – Clean your heart and soul.

Clean your home.

“Cleaning my home for me, is when I know I can feel the sent of green soap afterwards.”

I grow up with Thursday as the cleaning day at home and it was always mom that did most of if at least when I was a child. As I grow into a teenager I started to help mom and when I moved out of home as 16 y.o. I brought this cleaning tradition with me. It was naturally for me. I have had some “thinking” about it but I kind of never changed it until for few y.o. It’s been cleaning day on Thursdays so many years of my life that it was a bit weird to suddenly clean the house/home, wash cloths an other day in the week. I have just bought a robot vacuum cleaner to safe my back from more issues and I am pleased with it so far. It is so easy that I only need to sit down, help it to no t “run” into the mat on the floor but my cat – Silver – is as skeptic to the robot “Rob” as to the more common one. Today I took the floor, washing with green soap. That the perfect end of cleaning at home.

“Is traditions we grow up with that important? Or is it just that we realizing about those tradition’s as adults and just bring them on?”

My mom’s thinking was this, if you clean the house on a Thursday you will have it clean and nice the whole weekend and you can come home from work on the Friday knowing you don’t need to think about cleaning.

It’s nice. But when you as I work weekends that doesn’t really work. I prefer to wash a Sunday if I am free or a Monday. Most times I wash cloths one day and clean the home an other day. It works for now. And it was during that I started to think more about this of “if we clean our home, then we need to clean our heart and mind and soul too”.

Clean your heart and soul.

It’s not just our homes that needs to be cleaned. Our heart and soul needs it too. I realized that I have been missing to listen to worship for the last week or so, when I started my play-list on Spotify yesterday. I have been feeling emptiness inside. To fill my ears and heart with good Christian music is as much important as to have a cleaned home. In one way I am surprised that I kind of lost track of the good things after I started the work-experience. In an other way I can understand it, because when I get home after a day or evening from the Hotel I am so exhausted that the only thing that is in my mind is to relax in-front of the television, which I do. It is only when I am free for more then two days I realizing that it is something missing. For me it is my way to clean my soul, to listen to worship or sit by the water and just clear my thoughts. It’s the best way to re-fill my soul, heart and mind with good words. It is easier for me to talk to God, to read an encouraging book or pray with Christian worship in the background. I am the girl that loves hard core and instrumentally heavy metal normally. But this year I have forced myself to listen to more common worship to see if I feel different or if God can speak to me in an other way. So far (nine months in to it) I can’t say it’s any difference’s of what kind of Christian music I listen to.

As a Christian I need thing that lift me up. I need a Christian fellowship where I can re-fill. To have a fellowship with Christians has become so much more important now when my week is Friday to Tuesday and not Monday to Friday. When Sunday’s isn’t a church-day in the same way as before August..

But I found my Christian fellowship in June, when I went to Torp, Norway. I have now started to be a part of this group on a more regular basis. I can go to church every second Sunday or join the Christian fellowship group on every second Saturday’s. I will see what it will be, this Sunday (the 4th of September) it’s church-day. When it fits I even manage to join my house church too on Thursday’s. I know I need it and I want it. Since I became a Christian the Christian Fellowship is the most important then go to church on a Sunday. The worship, shearing daily life and praying. Talk about life in a small or bigger group where I feel at home is the thing. Knowing that I have friends that will pray for me when I need it there in the group, when I am in the Hotel or have free and that I can be a part of the prayer for my friends. That’s when God can show us all his power.

A new journey has started in my Christian life, to found out what fits with work, what is the next step about my Christian fellowship and which church is mine? And I know God has a plan that fit’s my life!

I am as curious now as before the 1^st of August or even more about what God has for me the rest of this year. 2016.

Do you remember to clean your heart, soul, thoughts and mind?

/Mia-Simone.

August – Prayer answer.

August Prayer-answer.

Time flies fast, when you have fun or have something to do.

It was first of August just now, well at lest in my head, life, world. But it is the twenty-first! That’s more then half the month. Where did those days and weeks go?

I started as a trainee in a hotel here in Oslo the first of August and I love it! It is a big prayer-answer! Friends have been with me in prayer for this for so may years! It has been a journey with God, where he has tout me how to trust him on 100% and not less. How God has provide my life, financially, with food, with getting to a doctor when I was to sick to catch a bus and a friend drove me. It is so much God has shown me and how great it is when I trust God.

It has been my journey I needed to learn to trust God more.

To understand that this is my foundation for my faith in life. Most people would maybe get mad or crazy to not have a job over five years. It has been a journey with tears, joy, struggles, “whys”, many prayers of “open the right door” and “close those doors that shall not even show some lights”. But I have to say, I have always something to do, one of the things is my customers and secondly is every project I start where I live. And I have been taking some courses during those years, but manly I have trusted God to get into some-kind of work-experience where God wants me, can use me. And here it is. The answer.

As I said above, I have started as a trainee in a Hotel here in Oslo. I love it! It’s fun even those days when we do not have so much to do. Even if my wish was that it would be more that happen during those days I guess that in one way it is good to be here as a trainee in Oslo’s smallest Hotel in the way that it does not take long time to get in to the Hotel-routines, but and yes I have to say but. But I wish it was more going on manly because I need it. I am the kind of person that need the “busy time” to refill my battery (energy) I get energy of meeting and helping people, and here at this Hotel does it feel like everything goes in s-l-o-w-m-o-t-i-o-n or a better description is that when the guests are arriving do they not come everyone in the same time (which is normal) or not even close to each other. A normal day few guest comes maybe around 3pm when we start the in-check and then its a long gap (more then an hour) until next group of guest comes, it can even pasting more then two hours before next guest…

In the same time these days going so fast and I only do four hours per day.

I will start with eight hours next week, which is a bit scary for me. Manly because I have not been working for the last five years, have had back-issues since the summer of 2000 and the worst pain the most recently in the last two years.

But I am to curious to start on those eight hours per day. I am curious and anxiety in the same time about how it will go. And I am to stubborn to not try.

The 17^th was my free day – off work. A day I priority to go to the gym, for my health. A routine I got out of during summer, a routine I now struggle to get back into. I miss it so much! But I guess it is normal with new routines in life whatever it is a new job or studies, to get the time to reach to do those things that makes you happy or build up your life in a long term. I guess it is normal when your weeks looks different.

Anyway… I am looking forward to get into a work-routine my body manage.

I received a message from a friend through messenger on Thursday this week, where I had told here about my struggle to get a new routine in my life. And she answered that “it’s normal before all new things get into routines about everything in life” It was just so nice to “hear it” from someone I know and someone who has been in the situation quiet recently.

An ironic detail happen on Thursday.. I managed to get off work thirty minutes before I was suppose to get off. I guess I just was just tired in my head or that I had an other day in my mind. I realized that on my way to the bus so I called the Hotel and talked to the guy in charge. Which in my mind made it normal to think I will start thirty minutes earlier on Friday. Something weird happen there, I can still not say what happen.

During those days at the Hotel have I learn out-check, in-check, double-checking the booking system the hotel is using, where all the rooms are, how many it is, how many conference rooms we have, overbooking, where the fire signs are and some more. How close everyone in the hotel is working together no matter if you are in the housekeeping or in the restaurant. Which also means that “your routine” is not always the original routine, it can be to help someone else in an other ares. Quite many new things, I have got to know around twenty-five new colleges and started to walk much much. All good things in life.

Today is it Sunday, laundry-day and relaxing, charge my energy-day. I have realized that when I am at the Hotel I do not have enough energy when I get home to do more then necessary like eat, maybe check my email, maybe order things that I need (that other people rather buy in the store) to keep up in life. But it is okay for me. Life is to short to think about what other people think I should or could do so I do not do that.

For the future, I really hope and wish I will be able to start to go next to the night-shift worker in a sooner future then I had in mind when I started three weeks ago, and that the night-shift will fit me as much as I think it will. Because that has been my dream so many years now…

/Mia-Simone.

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