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Les artiklar om tro og fornuft!

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Eg har fått post! Eg har faktisk fått pakkar i posten! Ja; i fleirtal!

Fyrst kom det to pakkar igår. I den eine var det ein knott og ein pakke med skruar. Då eg flytta inn her i OR var det fyrste pappa sa då han kom inn på rommet: "dei der hånntakje på skapene må du byta ut." Så eg kjøpte nye knottar på IKEA. Men dei skruane som følgde med knottane var for korte til at dei kom gjennom skapdørene og dei gamle skruane hadde for store gjenger til at dei kunne brukast til dei nye knottane. Så, dei gamle knottane vart varande. Eg var heime ei helg i oktober og feira tanten min sin 50-års-dag, då hadde eg med ein knott heim så pappa kunne finna passande skruar til meg. Og no hadde han altså gjort det!

Gammal knott (t.h.) og ny knott

Pakke nr to var frå farmor. Den innehaldt eit adventslilla kubbelys og ei hekla brikke. Tynntynn tråd!!! Det var og med ein tohundrepeng. Snille farmor!

Nærbilete av brikka

Idag var denne hentelappen komen til meg, ikkje veit eg kva det er! Men eg kom heim så seint at pakken må nok venta til imorgon...

Og som om ikkje dette var nok så fekk eg pakke frå min hemmelege ven og idag! Men det kan du lesa meir om her.

(ja; det er eksamenslesing på gang...)

Janteloven har nådd Tyskland

Igår tok nokon i huset med seg eit stykk Aftenposten frå t-bana heim. Der kunne eg til frukosten idag (havregraut med bringebær/eple-syltety) lesa om ein tyskar som var så sint på Petter Northug. Årsaka? Northug er glad når han vinn! Og seier ting som syner at han veit han er flink. Det er dårleg sportsand det, meiner Axel Teichmann. "Ofte sier han tøvete saker", siterar Aftenposten. Som til dømes:

• Hvem er kongen? (23. nov. 2008)
  
• Jeg gikk bare og koste meg, det kostet ikke en kalori. Jeg kunne ha hengt på feltet i tre mil uten staver. (24. feb. 2007)
• Om jeg er uslåelig? Jeg må iallfall ha en dårlig dag dersom noen skal slå meg. (4. mars 2004)
• Jeg er glad jeg satte på plass Angerer. Jeg er sjefen på oppløpet, det skulle jeg vise idag. (18. des. 2006)

Er det på tide å pussa støvet av janteloven att, så ikkje slike dyktige idrettsutøverar som vinn om att og om att att kan uttrykkja glede over sigeren?

"tone iren liker"

Denne artige Google-leiken der du skriv inn ditt eige namn etterfulgt av liker og set det heile mellom harelortar og trykkjer søk er eigentleg ikkje noko artig i det heile.

Berre sjå her:

Fann ingen resultat for "tone iren liker".

Me prøver hovudmålet, men nei:

Fann ingen resultat for "tone iren likar".

Kva så med engelsk?

Fann ingen resultat for "tone iren likes".

Kanskje kallenamnet totli har større lukke? For ikkje å gjenta "ingen resultat" til det keisamlege kan eg berre nemne at det finst ingen resultat hverken på bokmål eller nynorsk. Men hurra; eitt treff på "totli likes":

totli likes him...

ho likar ingenting

Når nåtiden og evigheten er en og samme ting

Idag var eg for fyrste gong på gudsteneste i mi lokale statskyrkje; Lambertseter kirke. Det var ei fin gudsteneste! Soknepresten tala om helgenane i det nye Jerusalem, og om korleis liturgien og gudstenesta er meir enn ei innpakking av preika, men ein stad der me kan sjå Gud.

Etterpå var det kyrkjekaffi med kaker og vannbakkels, og eg helste på ein heil haug med koselege menneske som fekk meg til å kjenna meg som heime med ein gong!

Eg vendte attende til nynorskverda med denne bloggposten, men engelsken fortset på min nyoppretta blogg: spøt. Her kjem, som den kjappe kanskje allereie har resonnert seg fram til, alle mine handarbeidsrelaterte greier til å verta posta frå no av. Velkomen innom!

Knitting - an Ice Breaker

Today I woke up to a snow-clad yard. New snow is beautiful (I spell that word in my head every time I write it... funny! Does anyone else?).

This evening, on my way back home (yes, I actually call my room at Lambertseter my home! I like it here. You are more than welcome to visit me.) from town, I sat down on my train and took out my knitting. An elderly lady sat next to me and commented on it. She had used to knit a lot before, but then her hands became unwilling to do such work. She once knit herself a winter coat! That's respect! Cannot see me doing that. Not on the train anyway. So we talked about knitting till she got off.

Yes, I am knitting socks again. And two hats on order (I really felt that was not the correct word to use, but I couldn't find any better ones...), and the baby jacket, and I will start a head band tomorrow, and I've an order for a pair of wrist warmers with pearls, and Christmas is closing in. Good.

And I drank a cup of black coffee today. *proud*

Sometimes I wish I was an American

They've got so many beautiful girl names. Names that translate to beautiful words. And these translated words really cannot be used as names... Here are some of the names I really like:

• Joy
• Hope
• Faith
• Grace

And probably some more that I don't remember at the time. And then there's Charisma. Not sure how much I like that for a name...

I am writing my journal entries.

Last weekend I was on the train, basically. Home for my aunts 5oth birthday party. An the train brought me between Oslo and Stavanger (from which I took boat/bus), app. 8 hours each direction.

So, what do you do on a train for such an extensive time period? You bring your new book about crocheting of course!
On my way there, I learnt some new stitches and made a "gryteklut" that got almost finished. I didn't have enough yarn for finishing... Anyway, I left it at home. And there I also left the vintage bottle warmer I started on.

So, on the way back I had to start over with some new things! So I tried a wave pattern with double crochet stitches:But I want some more yarn in different colours to finish it.

And I learnt how to do tunisian crocheting (hakking):These three panels are made in "enkel", "rett" and "vrangvendt" tunisian crocheting. (My book is in Norwegian so I don't know the correct English names...) The plan is to make several panels in different colours and turn them into more "grytekluter". Do they always twist like this?

And lastly, when all I had left was white cotton, I made this little hexagon thingy with spirals:

Back in Oslo I have been working on a very large and baggy Turn-A-Square which will fit my head of dreads:

The poor thing has been waiting for me to find the dpns for a long time now so I can finish the bind-off... Almost done. I used some left-over yarn. The white is Denim Chunky from Sirdar and the purplish one is Shadow Tweed from Patons. Needles 6mm. Don't remember how many stitches I cast on... But I increased several times afterwords.

This summer I started working on a baby jacket in BabySilk from DSA. It looks like this now:

And I've started a Kiri-shawl in Tynn Alpakka from DSA:

I love DSA.

Secret Friend...

I realised I'd forgotten to post the gift I got from my Secret Friend at Hobbyforum!

So, here we go!
The content was as follows: Lots of lovely fruit tea from London Fruit & Herb Company (the very best!); a leaflet on "How to make giftboxes"; a sheet of sweet stickers (I realise their not in the picture... ups!); 1 ball of pink merino wool yarn; two balls of Regia sock yarn; and a card - which hinted that my Secret Friend was Frk. Badegakk. Loved it! And pink is so totally and absolutely my colour, so you made a good choice. Thank you! :-).

The sock yarn has already turned out to become great socks! The pattern is called Horcrux-socks.
See the scar below?

Neither do I... Lousy picture. Sorry.

And this is me trying to sort out some of the yarn and needles I've got...

what?

You thinks it's been too long since my last update? No idea what you're saying...

I've been knitting quite a lot. And watched way too many episodes of Numb3rs. But that's ok. Right now it's fall break, so I have a lot of time on my hands! Not that I should be writing entries for my professional journal or anything.

In the last five weeks I have attended five concerts. Now that's something! Let me list them up for you: St.Morritz, The Ranger and the Unsuspected Stranger/Onkel Tuka, Kirk Franklin, Ole Børud, Garness. Not bad?

I'll just...you know...get back to my knitting.

a shawl made of Nille-wool. (Østlandsgarn)

a bib (smekke) of bright green double bambino cotton

another "Turn a Square" of Østlandsgarn

and two pairs of ribbed socks

wow

Kirk Franklin.

Praise God!!
Such a fantastic experience to be at the concert at Sentrum Scene in Oslo last night. Just amazing. He did all the good old songs we all love so dearly. We were dancing, clapping, jumping, singing our hearts out, crying, hugging, sccreaming, holding hands, praising God at the top of our voices...

Wow. That's all I can say really.
If you weren't there: You shold've been there!

Jesus elsker alle barna,
alle barna på vår jord.
Rød og gul og hvit og svart
er det samme har Han sagt,
Jesus elsker alle barna på vår jord!

Knitting

Lina was finished last Sunday.

Turn a Square is the hat of the month in September. I made it on Friday.

This summer i bought a sock-knitting-kit. But the pattern was boring. So instead I'm knitting the Clover Lace Rib pattern, which can be found in The Sole Solution. There's something I don't quite understand in the heel turn, it consists of short rows shaping. Maybe I'll get it right on sock number two... I'm at the toe shaping now, will finish it today, I suppose.

And I've started a new pair of socks in Østlandsgarn. Just ribbing all the way, easy peasy. I', doing it for the Two Nation Knitting Battle between Norway and Denmark. The Turn a Square hat will also be parttaking of the battle.

What's going on?

Two days ago I was surfing some blogs, and found a recipe for vegetable cupcakes. And I thought that was I fantastic idea, so yesterday I made a whole bunch! They're going to be my lunch for a while. They were quite good, I must say. I changed the recipe a little bit, I put in the potatoes and carrots without "forvelle" them first. Just let me know if you wanna come over and have a taste.


And this is how far my "Lina" is coming along.

And today I've ordered a massive amount of books from amazon.com and bokkilden.no. I've never ordered from either before, but there are others in my class who have got their books there. It'll probably be ok, won't it?

And last, I just found this fantastic video: Baby Preacher

Hello!

I've been thinking. This year I'm doing English at the University College of Oslo. My thinking is this: The more I use this language, the better I'll be at it. So, I've decided to write all my blogposts in English for the year coming. Wasn't that a great idea if I ever had one?!?

Yesterday I bought myself the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary. I've been wanting it for years and years, and now, all of a sudden, I had a perfectly good reason to get it: I need it for school! Isn't that just great? I sure think so.

So far, Oslo has been OK. Haven't had too much to do, but I guess that will change relatively soon, as my first written assignment is due in two weeks. It's nothing big, just three pages. I'll get that done in a flash!

I bought a lovely yarn for the August hat in the KAL. It's a silk and alpacca mix, called Chiri. Really soft... And it's in a cold blueish colour. I'll have the hat done in a few days I hope. I better. Or else I'm out of the competition. I actually think I'm gonna make a go for it right now! I'll just show you a quick picture of the progress so far first:

Forresten...

... så er eg i Noreg att no. Nærmare bestemt i Oslo. Me landa på Gardermoen forrige sundag kveld etter ein snartur innom Tokyo og tidenes mest kompliserte doer, og ein liten kaffipause på Heathrow. Fram til fredag sov eg på rommet til Gunn June, og no okkuperer eg eit gjesterom på Romsås. På sikt skal eg flytta til eit kollektiv på Lambertseter, og i morgon byrjar eg på skulen. Engelsk årsstudium. På pinnane har eg no ein sokk (Clover Lace Rib) og ei luve (augustluva, Lina) (Det eg har her i Oslo, vel og merka. Eg nemner ingenting om det som framleis ligg heime på Åkra...), og så har eg byrja på eit bestemorsruteponchopledd (sjå der, eg snekra eit nytt ord!). Men det tek tid. Eg har meldt meg på hemmeleg ven på hobbyforum. Det blir spanande. Og det er solsolsol!

Etter G2 i Storsalen i går skulle eg og Tone sjå film. Men me klarte ikkje å opna opp luka på dvd-spelaren der me liksom skal leggja disken oppi. Den hadde heilt låst seg.

Siste nyhende!

To norske kvinner observert paa dansk gudsteneste i Svenska Kyrkan (Toorak House) i Melbourne, Australia.

Etterpaa sang heile forsamlinga den norske nasjonalsongen, ein song av Evert Taube, sidan ei svensk dame var til stade, samt ein heil haug med danske nasjonalistiske songar.

Det var ein fin dag, tenkte Lise og Tone Iren.

Byron Bay, Surfing and Stuff!

Her e alle saa lerte aa surfa den dagen, (find one thing missing...Yes the rastafari girl is missing:)

Detta va faktisk fyssta bolgaa eg surfa, ever. Stooolte!

She got Style Mate!

Lise e hekta paa aa surfa, men trur hu trenge litt varmare kler te sola strandaa.

Crikey!

uppdeits

Lise har hoppt i fallskjerm!!!

Greyhound Australia er vaar venn.





Dagstur til verdas styrste sandoey; Frasier Island. Dette er 75 mile beach

Dingo.

Lake McKenzie

Boelger... Pacific Ocean

Lise was here!

Maheno (ca) shipwreck

Coloured Sands. Skal vera 72 fargenyansar, men Lise fann 73.


Firehjulsdreven buss!

Lise i solnedgang