Christmas 2015

Merry Christmas everyone!

Yesterday was Christmas Eve, which is the day we celebrate Christmas on in Norway. It is a long day, packed with traditions. The traditions are not set and followed on point, but they are more like guidelines and each family celebrates it in their own way.

Our traditions involve taking in and decorating our tree on the day before Christmas Eve, whilst watching the day before christmas programs on the TV. Dinner For One is a holiday classic that everyone watches this day. We also bake gingerbread cookies and/or house. But that might sometimes be done a couple of days earlier, it depends on how much time we have.

Then come Christmas Eve. They day starts with watching christmas morning shows, with the traditional film called Three Nuts for Cinderella. It's a Czechoslovak/East German fairy tail film from 1973 that has a Norwegian semi voice-over. And the movie is a holiday classic in Norway. Everyone sits in front of the TV to watch it. Just like Dinner for One, it is also an essential part of our holiday spirit. We also watch some Disney christmas specials in the morning whilst we eat a cozy breakfast. Or maybe just some candy. Then we get all dolled up, even though it's just me and my mum, we like to dress nicely for christmas. It's part of our tradition.

My outfit ^^

Christmas Rice Porridge with Butter and Sugar/Cinnamon

Whilst getting ready, we prepare some food. First we eat christmas porridge, kind of as a lunch. And we put a whole almond in it, so the person who finds the almond wins a marzipan pig covered in chocolate. My mum has now won two years in a row, it's getting quite suspicious...

Anyway, afterwards we prepare the pinnekjøtt(Stick Meat). I love pinnekjøtt! I look forward to it every year. After getting dressed and having put the meat on the stove for cooking, we sit down and watch some more christmas programs on the TV, and get around to wishing people a merry christmas. We take loads of pictures and just relax until food is done.
We eat the pinnekjøtt together with puréed turnip, potatoes, carrots, ribes jam and melted butter.

For desert we have homemade caramel pudding. My mums caramel pudding is the best thing ever!

After stuffing our faces with too much food we'll move on to opening the gifts. We switch on opening our gifts, and then we just relax some more into the night. We watch a lot of TV during christmas, since it's just me and my mum. And there are so many christmas shows and movies to watch.

On Christmas Day I got a christmas stocking on my bed, filled with candy. I get up and watch christmas morning shows. Then we eat christmas breakfast, and have a relaxing morning. And keep up the relaxation continues out through the day. We don't really do too much on Christmas Day.

We had lutefisk for dinner. Lutefisk is a old traditional food. It's dried and salted fish that is soaked in lye. I know, sounds weird. But it is actually quite good. It has a slight jelly texture, but my mum makes it very good. I think her lutefisk is the only lutefisk I would eat. We eat it with mashed peas, bacon and potatoes.

Me and my mum <3 We look alike?

Today is December 26th. In Norway we call it second christmas day, and it is, like Christmas Day, a holiday. So no stores open today. They won't open up until Monday. So another day that I will spend just sitting in the couch, watching movies all day whilst eating so much candy I will roll around soon...

So now I'm gonna sit the rest of the night watching even more episodes of Once Upon a Time.

Until next time..<3

17th of May; How I Celebrated Norway's National Day!

Hi everyone!

Yesterday was May 17th; Norway's national day! :D
I did not have the time to blog that day what so ever. The day was packed with fun and national pride. I had so much fun! We walked a lot, ate a lot and drank beer with great people.

The day started with a champagne breakfast together with some friends. We popped the champagne bottle, ate pavlova and watched the children's parade in Oslo and the royal family waving at the people + celebrations from all around Norway on the TV.

When we finished eating and drinking, we made our way into town to walk in the main parade together with our history student association. The parade was filled with all sorts of student associations, local associations, marching bands and other groups of people. Even the Norwegian stormtroopers group walked in the parade. It was really cool!

Stormtroopers!!

After a lot of walking, cheering and dancing in the parade, we went to take some photos with our student association. Also got to take some group photos with my friends. After the photos were taken people kinda scattered all over the place. We decided, true to tradition, to go stuff our faces with ice-cream and hot dogs. Yum!

Next up we just wandered around a little, looking at all the people and stall with food. Ended up getting myself a slice of pizza since, since for some weird reason a hot dog and ice-cream did not satisfy my hunger.

Then we watched the russetog (parade full of russ). Quite nostalgic watching them, made me miss my time as a russ. After watching them jump and dance around through the streets, we made our way over to a pub to get a beer. And after finishing one beer, we headed over to eat a pizza (everyone was quite hungry after walking a lot that day).

russ^^

When the pizza had been devoured, we headed back to the pub to grab some more beer and catch up with more people. And then we went home.

I have to say, jumping into bed was pure heaven after all that walking! Fell asleep once my head hit my pillow.

This year was my first time celebrating our national day away from home, and it was quite weird, but it was nice. Since I had my friends with me, it was all good.

Hope this was interesting for you to read, and maybe you learned something new about our celebration of the national day.

Until next time.. <3

I won a giveaway!! :D

Hi everyone!

Guess what!? I won something! :D
It's quite rare for me to win giveaways or contests that I enter, but this time I actually won!

So I entered a giveaway hosted by TokyoGirlsUpdate a while back, and a few weeks ago I got a mail saying that I won! And a couple of days ago I could go to the post office to fetch my package.

On my way to pick up the package! :D 

Now you are probably wondering what I won. I won a box of 20 Black Thunder Chocolate Bar! And I can tell you this; they are delicious! <3 I think they taste kinda like chocolate covered Oreos.

I did film a video of me opening and trying the chocolate out, so here you go. If you wanna see my reaction and my thoughts on the Black Thunder Chocolate:

Until next time... <3

Can't waste a beautiful day!

Gooood morning!

It's a beautiful Sunday morning, and the weather has been amazing lately! I don't want to spoil this great weather by sitting inside, so me and some friends are going to go exploring the area we live in. Later I think I'm going to film a haul video, because yesterday there was a duty-free kinda sale where they remove the customs part of the price, making a lot of stuff, especially electronics, kinda cheap. So I got some stuff from that sale, and I also have a lot of books from another anual book sale. So lots of stuff to show you. 

I also have a What's in My Bag video that I need to edit as well, so hopefully there will be some videos up soon. ^^

Since the weather is being awesome lately, I think I might try vlogging some more as well, showing the beauty that is Norwegian nature during spring. 

To not let this post only consist of me planning stuff, here are some photos from the last weeks; 

Found this lamp in a clothing store in the beginning of the year, I kinda like it~

I'm trying to learn how to draw my eyebrows.. It's hard.. ><

A free concert we went to, they were raising money and awareness for cancer and cancer research. It was really good and so many people came and donated money, myself included. ^^

Spring is coming, needed to get some new sunglasses~ Loved the heart shape of these ones <3

Yesterdays lunch whilst resting from all the sales and people. An insanely amount of people came in to town... 

Now I need to get my ass moving, and get ready to go outside!

Bye Bye~