Happy Valentines!

Have the most delicious-wonderful-fantastic valentines day!

Chocolate crumbs

And the other day (actually that was today, earlier today, just a few moments ago) I experienced that my chocolate was leaving crumbs all over. And I think "Oh! A Chocolate crumble!" but it's not. I know what you're thinking, it wasn't mice poop. I know you have rather low thoughts about my lodgings, but please...

Anyway, you are doomed if you get chocolate crumbs on you. Because when you try to pick it up - it melts right away. Right into the fabric. It truly is hopeless.

And I am faced with these situations on days like these when I have postponed this extremely awful assignment to the last moment and punish myself with chocolate. Because I deserve it.

Chocolate crumbs!
fml.

I tell you about your Lifestyle

I got this in the mail from my sister. I like it.

 This woman is 51.

She is a TV "health guru" advocating a holistic approach to nutrition and health, promoting exercise, a pescetarian diet high in organic fruits and vegetables. She recommends detox diets, colonic irrigation and supplements, also making statements that yeast is harmful, that the color of food is nutritionally significant, and about the utility of lingual and facial examination. 

  
This woman is 50.
She is a TV cook, who eats nothing but meat, butter and desserts.

Dear Santa

I recognise that I have been a particularly good girl this year.

I have eaten all my vegetables and taken vitamins and everything. I also did something nice for someone else the other day, I ate all the clementines so they didn't go bad so Helge didn't have to eat clementines gone bad. That was pretty nice of me. And I did it without him asking or anything.

I never listen to rap-music (voluntarily) and I only swear because other people do it and I do like they do because I can't help myself.

Included in this letter you will find my humble wish list written in random order.
And I also wanted to say you're a nice guy!

1. Hot Hair Rollers
2. Settlers VII (PC)

3. Fable III (Xbox 360)

4. Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii)

5. Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure (Wii)

6. Okami (Wii)

7. DJ Hero 2 (Xbox 360)

8. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)

9. World of Goo (Wii)

10. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)

11. Ice Cream Machine

12. Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (That's a book)

13. Dishwasher

14. Snow goggles

15. Snowboard boots

16. A pair of good dancing shoes (nice ones!)

17. Glitter

18. Mountain boots

19. A nice knit hat that doesn't itch (but keep my ears warm!)

20. Scarves

21. Moomin cooking pot

best wishes and a happy holiday!
Tora

What is your wish list this year?

Susan

My "Skojig" lamp and my trusted laptop, Susan!

My Susan's fans sounds like an air plane taking off. And the disc drive wont read no discs no more. She just coughs at them and keep skipping around on them until I take them out. The other day the keyboard wouldn't work until I rebooted. I guess she's getting old! She's not that old. She's only two years old actually. Or -- she's more like one and a half years old, because she broke twice before...

I wonder what I do with my laptop to make it die so soon. She's probably sick of all the writing. And all the youtubing and all the strange blogs I read.

Want some Norwegian music?

My Gingerbread cutters

This is my window sill, that jar with stars in are actually some really weird outlandish treats meant to be deep-fried before served. Honestly I didn't try, I put them in a jar. Was I disappointed when it wasn't colourful pasta!

Here are my gingerbread cutters! I guess they are also eligible as cookie cutters or other things cutters. Not for paper though! I've used some of the bigger ones for pancakes, they get really hot, but the pancakes turn out beautiful. To be honest some of these are actually Helge's, but I bought them for him last year because I wanted them myself and needed an excuse. What? At least I'm honest!

The fox, moose, bear, snail and hedgehog are from IKEA, the one shaped like the moomin is from the Iittala Outlet. 

Fish, dinosaurs, foot, jigsaw and crocodile are from Christiania Glasmagasin while the squirrel is also from IKEA.

Keep them in a box so the drawers don't get stuck all the time. (Well, they do - but I tried).

I also bought some gingerbread dough at IKEA. Their recipe is actually really nice and is good to work with so when I'm constructing my annual... uuum... construct... of gingerbread I wont have to do much but roll it, cut it, bake it and glue it together! But I am a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to gingerbread houses - I try to make sure every part of it is edible so it is glued together with hot sugar. It is deadly stuff. And I always end up burning others as well when I ask them for help. You should've seen the hand of my younger brother!

But all of that later. I do hope I get to do a gingerbread construct this year! Any suggestions as to what I should make? Are you making one this year? Any tips and tricks?