Complete With a Water Slide

I am back from vacation and to that I can only say HALLELUJAH! It has both been the best and the worst Easter vacation I have had in years. The weather has been crap and schizophrenic. On Friday we had everything the world has to offer of weather: Sun, rain, snow, wind... So, not counting a hugely unsuccessful ski trip, I didn't spend much time outside. The snow was so rotten that we thread through every third step. (Not sure if I'm explaining this very well.) But the good things about this vacation was that my cousin, Tiril, who is six months older than me, came with us. So, it was lots of fun having her there. Even if all we did was play lots and lots of cards and Scrabble, and read books. I didn't get the time to read four books, but I did read three. One of those was Good Omens. I loved it, and will talk about it later.

I am so happy to be home. My back has been killing me the last couple of days and it will be beyond heaven to sleep in my own bed tonight.

Few internet things:

- WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH YOUTUBE?? I'm gone a week and they've gone all weird on me! Where is the URL? That's how I download Mock the Week and convert my music into mp3 files! I need that URL!!!

- Does anyone of you use Firefox? And if you do, do you have a fancy header picture? Tell me.

Fangirl alert:

I'm completely obsessed with Max Manus and the Norwegian resistance during WWII. And because I'm a huge nerd, as my brother keep pointing out, two of the books I've read this month has been about the resistance. And I am not apologetic about it either. Unlike Narnia and Harry Potter, this obsession might do me some good in real life. It's never a bad thing to learn more about my own country's history. I have the next book all picked out and everything.

Speaking of Max Manus. I am currently watching the movie, again! Seriously, I love this movie so much. And it vexes me more than anything that this had to be the movie where I was assigned my Slash Goggles TM. I ship Max/Gregers so freaking much! And there's no one to squee with. I would so write fic for this, if it wasn't in Norwegian (it fucks with my head to write fic in English when I know they should be speaking in Norwegian.) and if they hadn't been real life people. (I'm reading biographies about these people!!) RPS is kind of my squick limit.

Also: EMIL HEGLE SVENDSEN WON THE BIATHLON WORLDCUP! There will be a celebratory picspam later.

Has anything exciting happened while I've been gone? Fill me in.

My entire family is down with the flu. All four of us is lying in separate beds and our poor dog is getting one short walk from the one who's feeling less bad. I've missed my two last midterms (math and spanish.) I know I should be worried, but I don't have the energy to do so. We have to cancel my family birthday party on Sunday, which I feeling really sad about. Crossing my fingers and hope that I'm well again on my birthday. (MONDAY PEOPLE! I'M TURNING 18 ON MONDAY!) And I'm having a big giant booze party Friday 12th, and I cannot be sick then. I refuse to even consider the possibility of canceling my birthday bash.

I don't know if you remember but I promised you some pictures of me in my bunad from 17. May. Now being the incredible slow person I am, I haven't uploaded the pictures from my camera before now. So here they are:

( Pic spam under the cut )

Sunday went great! Even though I hadn't slept much the previous night my body knew that it was important that I was in good shape. So I didn't have any headaches and I were charming and talkative. I am very good at talking about nothing with old aunts I only see now and then, and I have no problem with entertaining my younger cousins either.

It's like I turned into a different girl, that girl I would've been, the girl who is healthy and happy, the girl who is sociable and talkative, the girl who can make people laugh and that girl who doesn't see a pale and sad version of her self when she looks in the mirror. Enough of self pitty.

My speech went great! Everybody laughed and were impressed and since that was the whole purpose of the speech I'm very happy!

It's very draining to be at home now. On Sunday it is my little brother's confirmation, and my mum is in a frenzie. Decorations, food, cakes, everything has to be perfect. And I haven't finished my speech. I don't know what to do. I know what I want to say, but I can't get it down on paper....bah! So yeah.

In good news: I'm finally going to the hospital to get a diagnose and treatment! Yay, next Wednesday and thursday. I'm a little bit nervous, but happy. Maybe things will go a little quicker now.

I just found out that I'm going to a Pink concert next Friday!! Yay! I'm not exactly a big Pink fan, but I think she has some good songs, and besides, I really need to get out. It'll be so much fun. I hope! Its late and I should go to bed, but I just managed to fix my internet so I want to surf for awhile.
My little brother is obsessed with "The Godfather" playstation game, its driving my parents nuts, because he spends more time playing PS than doing his homework...hi hi!