The most famous countdown

Christmas calendars - I ♥ them. :)
How to get up in the morning? Christmas calendar.
How to enjoy your mondays? Christmas calendar.
How to despair by how fast the days go by? Christmas calendar.
How to explain eating chocolate for breakfast every morning? Christmas calendar.
Oh'boy Oh'boy. :)

Remember these? The Post-It-Christmas Calendar of 2009. Do you want one this year as well? In what kind of wrapping? Give me suggestions. Same as last year? (same as every year, James). Digital drawings instead? Drawn in the snow? Maybe cut outs? Made from clay? Or photographs of sketches on paper, snapped on the iphone, treated in Cross process and published on instagram?

Suggestions..? I love the questionsmark. (:

Post-it Daily 22nd

Today is 22nd and also the last day at work before a good, long holiday.
I wont be back at work until the 4th of January 2010. Aah, sweet. :)

Well - about today.
I was driving my last day to work. I was a tad late as I managed to leave my wallet behind at my parents house last night, so I had to go get it this morning. The car was fine, a little out of gas maybe, just baaarely touching the red, but it was fine. My conclusion was that it would do fine the 50 minutes it takes to drive to the office, and I could fill gas on my way home instead. As I drove on the long, lifeless and dark roads the car suddenly started coughing. Coughing like a dog. I prayed out loud, - just please make it to the office, but no mercy. :/ I did have some luck though, (I always have (someone up there is looking after me)), cause the insidence took place just by a merging road, and I had some space to let my car slide into, just outside the road, but not in the gutter. The car stopped and refused to start again. The airblower, who'd just minutes before made it to warm air started blowing cold air in my face instantly.
Lovely, I thought.

I called, of course, my sweet coworker Linda and she came to my rescue.
But let me tell you, that car got cold within seconds and I'm sure Linda found me blue lipped and talking in riddles. I don't remember, - my brain was frozen.
I never want to freeze to death!

So. The car was left behind and I was snuggling inside Lindas warm car.

Now I gotta figure out how to get home, how to get the car and what was actually wrong with the stupid thing in the first place. I mean - it had enough gas, ok?!

I'm ending this story with a good thing (we all need some of that):
Holiday - I'm on my way. :)

Post-it Daily 21st

Yesterday was 21st and my second oldest sister turned a year older.
I remember how she hated her birth date - so close to christmas, what was mum and dad thinking??
Come on!

And then she got her second child on Christmas Eve itself. ;)
(You gotta admit it's a little bit funny, Hege.)

She's so talented and creative, I used to love watching her draw and I wanted be be just as good as her. She was the first one in the family to go the creative way with school, and I just knew that that was my path aswell. Thanks, Hege. :)


Now she has the most adorable three little girls, she does decoration and house styling, interiour stuff and she paints. I hope your future is full of creative business, Heitch. :)

And I love the new house!

See her interior blog.

Post-it Daily 20th

Sundays in Norway are considered Holy Days, therefor every store is closed.
If you need something - get it Saturday.
I do occationally find myself a bit annoyed by this, but very seldom. Mostly I really like Sundays the way they are. You can't buy grocery, you can't shop, you can't go to town. You just have to relax, take it easy, do you thang, take a walk, sit inside, make hot chocolate, never get really dressed unless for church etc etc.
I love those Sundays, only drawback is the ever closer Monday.

Before Christmas the Sundays are open from 2 to 7 PM.
Shop shop! And people do like they never did Sunday Shopping before. Pre Christmas Sundays are crazy. Why do I always end up at the mall in line with the rest? Beats me.

Well, this was my sunday.
Hope yours was good too. :)

And yes, I rushed three post its in one day. Hence the reduced quality.

Post-it Daily 19th

Yes, it was 19th two days ago, I know.

But don't you worry. I've got a story for you:
It was a busy weekend. From one end to the other.

And now I have some thoughts about smoking.

Smoking is disgusting.
Quit smoking before smoking quits you.

I am so so very thankful that I'm not exposed to smoking in my daily life. No one in my family smokes. None of my friends smoke. Not one at work inhales a thing and I never attend parties where there are smokers. Not in a "I'm not coming if a smoker comes" way, just that I dont mingle with that kindle. I don't hang with that gang.

As we cleaned out the appartment from the old couple who were moved to a home for old people, I realized how thankful I am that I don't have to deal with smokers.

The place was yellow.
And I dont mean painted.
When we picked pictures down from the wall, we discovered what pattern the wall paper had. Glass inside cuppoards had a sticky, gluey gooey yellow surface. Just about everything in the appartment was ruined by the smoke.
I smelled of smoke when I came home.

I love you, Hot Water & Soap.

Post-it Daily 18th

Nothing to write home about today.
I'm going to paint a wall tonight.

I might listen to Pink Floyd while doing it.

:)
Happy friday.

PS.
The song yesterday was sort of a joke. :P
No need to give me serious feedback!
DS.

Post-it Daily 17th

My good friend Jackie commented on this post, challenging me to make a Christmas Song. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm always up for a good challenge, as long as I know I'll rock it, pop it, polkadot it.

When it comes to making silly rhymes and birthday poems, I know I can bring out a few smiles. But when it comes to making songs, articulated verses, poems that pumps your pretty little head for days after, songs stuck in your braincellah - well, then I have to hand it over to my sister. Or my dad.

So - in normal circumstances, I would say "hepp hepp, I'd do it if I could, but I can't".
But we all know December is nothing but normal and I'm all about doing good things this month.

Therefor - Ladies and Gentlemen.
I put on my finest tuned voice and give you my
Christmas Ding a Ding Song.

Ring a Ding Ding
A Christmas Song I sing
A tribute to the best time of year
When we send our love to those we have dear
And give our thanks to the Lord and His Son
Who gave us Christmas so we could have fun
Who gave us the earth, life and real love
Who meant for us all to be happy - I know
..
Continiuing below.
Aaaand I just realized how very similar this drawing is to the previous one.
Oh well.

And those are rabbits covering their ears. Not mishaped snowballs.

Post-it Daily 16th

Every time I find myself in front of an empty blog post wondering what to write I end up with just svada and yatta yatta. Where are all my strong opinions?
Where are all the funny and weird things that happens in my life?
They all vanish the instant I am confronted with writing it down.

Hm hm. Anything today? Nah, dont think so.


Oh, but yesterday something happened that impressed me.
I wanted to draw it in todays post it, but I found it kinda hard to draw Linda with her head down in the big pot they cooked porriged in.
Cause she scrubbed it.
Do you know what burned milk looks like?
Feels like between your fingers and the scrub?
Smells like?
Linda does, just ask her.
She scrubbed the thing butt clean. Like a baby. I was so proud of her. :)
All I did was wash the thing in soap after. Easy peasy pot'n cheesy.

Who needs to be a full time mom or housewife to brag about cleaning the big pots?
Not us! We've got Activity Club cleanup!

Post-it Daily 15th

It's been 16 days since I quit my job.
Sometimes I forget that I did.

9 days till christmas.
75 days maximum till I start the new job.
2,5 hours till Christmas End of Term Feast with Activity Club for Girls.

:)
Happy 15th.

Post-it Daily 14th

Ten days to Christmas!

Today is Monday.
Last monday I said no days in December feels like Monday
cause all days this month are good days.

Today felt like Monday. Like really Mon - day.

I brought Work-Linda into todays post it. She asked for it.
Linda is the nices girl to share an office with. :)
She brings me coffee. But she's slacking on the chocolate.


I'm kinda sore after shoppingmarathon on Saturday.
I'm kinda tired after a weekend full of good things. :)
Thats the good part.
It was the good things that made me tired, and so it is worth it.

Still. Kinda feels lika Monday today.

AND I forgot my calendar chocolate this morning.
Which was sad this morning in the car,
but good now as I have something to look forward to when I get home. ;)

Ten days, ya'll!

Post-it Daily 13th

So it happened. I missed a day.
Not that I didnt think about it or wanted to make a postit for the 13th,
I just wanted to or needed to do other things more.

Yesterday was a fine day.
It was The Saint Lucia Day, which I completely forgot about until my flatmate mentioned it about ten thirty PM.
Oh well, it was only fun when we were kids and it wasnt even fun then.

But we had Christmas Market with the church. :)
THAT was fun.

Ps. If you have trouble reading the tiny writings, just click and see it a bit bigger.

Post-it Daily 12th

Today was suppose to be so much longer, but it went by so very quickly.
I was supposed to get some things done and I didn't.
But what I did do though, was have a great, greatgreat time at the mall with Helene, Rebekka, Mathilde and Linda.
We went shopping, we ate pizza and laughed at the waiter (and Rebekka),
we shopped some more, walking I think miles in distance.
We bought stuff at the Grene Sister, our favorite of course.
We met Susie and Julia and the others more than twice, which was nice, then we had huuuge cake, tea and coffee.
Mathilde had hot chocolate, but that tasted like iron,
so she exchanged it for a cup of tea aswell.
I ate brownie. I needed the sugar. :)

Jenter, dere er skjønne! :) TUSEN TAKK FOR IDAG!

Post-it Daily 11th

Ok, busy day!
To explain the post-it a little:
I didnt find anything today and it took Ida about three seconds to find everything I was looking for. :P
What do one do to improve ones sight? Pay more attention?
Betty looks gooood with the hair. :) Tine is doing such a great job organizing and putting things together and Ninus still sleeps in the livingroom. Not like right now. She's up now.


Anyway. I'm off to FH to finish off the decoration for the feast tonight.

Have a great friday, everyone! :)

Post-it Daily 10th

Aaaand we've reached the double numbers!
Only 2 weeks to go.
Hey, that's a pretty long time when you think about it. :)
You would appreciate a 2 week trip to Spain, wouldn't you?
Relax. 2 whole weeks? Phew! Plenty of time!

Today it's all about the big, very brief, wave, hello&gubbai by Obama 'n wifey.
I'm a tad dissapointed they wont attend to the concert. Not that I'm gonna be there, but ... come on! Just for the first 30 minutes? No? 20?


Btw - I really did get some shopping done last night. What a relief. :)
Only 30 more to go!

Post-it Daily 9th

I feel like the time between every time I find myself posting a post-it is shrinking to nothing. Maybe only minutes. Like this is all I do all December. Is it really? Didn't I just post 5th? or 3rd? Will I be posting 19th in what feels like only hours? I hope not.
Slow down, Dec. Por Favor!

Anyway. The Big News on todays Post-it is the fact that Miss Sparks from Remarks from Sparks blogged about m-(would probably be wrong to say she blogged about me..) blogged about something I said and therefor mentioned my name.
So... that was kinda fun and I felt excited.
All good feelings in December can be described as Christmassy.


It was about smiling, which is a good thing. :) See, I smiled. And that probably made you smile too. The thing is... although, Sparks, you might feel like smiling just for the cause of smiling feels like fraud, think about how you give someone else a little spark (spark, haha) of joy. A smile brings out smiles. I often smile to people just to make them feel ok. Or even - feel better. Which is a thing to smile about after all, therefor - not a fraud.

Also, (of course) I find myself prettier in picture were I smile compared to my serious, droopy eyed look. Except if I smile too wildely, then I just look crazy.
Hum hum, right she is (sparks), it is complicated.

Good thing I'm not really complicated.

;):)::)
Happy ninth everyone!

Don't let the Christmasstressings get to your nerves. Shopping is fun!
And the calendar Tine made is just making the days a little bit better. :)

Post-it Daily 8th

Thank you for all the fun feedback on the calendar, everyone. :)
I'm actually having a lot of fun making these.
They're easy. Like a sunday morning. (Like Lionel Richie).

It seems like Blog Calendaringing is a thing this seasoning. (I had to -ing that).
Everyone's doing it. And I didnt even know that.


Btw. Too many post-it posts, too few real-post-posts lately?
Hm? Who agrees with me?
And WHAT happened to the card printing?
Did she forget or did she just not feel ready yet?
All this and more in the next episode of ... the blog.

Post-it Daily 7th

It's monday, but do you feel it?
Nope. Cause we dont count mondays in December,
we cound days in Chocolate & Marzipan,
how far down we're on the christmas list,
who can we cross off and count as finished?
How many more days of that lovely, cozy, goosebumpy feeling of
oh-gosh-its-christmas-so-very-sooon do we have left?
Only seventeen, folks.
That's merely two weeks.
GULP.


Excitement & Panic, I welcome Thee!

Post-it Daily 6th

I cant believe how quickly the weekend came to an end.
December should be twice as slow as every other month!
Like seriously!

Post-it Daily 5th

Have a great weekend, everyone! :)

Post-it Daily 4th

Did someone say TIME IS FLYING?
Gosh. 4th already. 20 days to go.
Hold on to your hats, everybody.

Friday! Happy happy friday!
Good weekend coming up. Very Christmassy. :)
The chandeliers were at the feast, btw.