July 23, 2008
When in doubt, bake (part two)
plain chocolate cookies, from last night
a little experiment I made this morning: vanilla sablés
Ana’s apron makes me feel sexy
Maria’s blueberry and cookie-crumble cake from last week
When in doubt, bake
..and I was really doubting my ability to get over something big and overwhelming, so at 10PM last night Ana and I went to the store to buy dark chocolate to make some CHOCOLATE COOKIES. I actually wanted to make something that would need more concentration and more time, but I settled for that instead. The cookie dough was prepared in ten minutes, and fifteen minutes later the cookies were pulled out of the oven, warm and inviting. I spent the following 40 minutes on a lovely strawberry risotto which I think we’ll be eating for the next three days..
Maria got her paycheck so yesterday she merrily went food-shopping and bought masses of coffee, cookies, ice-cream and OMG MOZZARELLA PIZZA!
I love our house. We are wild and awkward girls who only think about food, ha.
July 17, 2008
turn the page
Oh; yesterday morning our flat was full of a Metallica soundcheck. the venue of their open air concert at night is probably 200m away from our house, so we got to hear the music for free - which would have been lovely if I would have been in a Metallica mood, but sadly I was neck-deep into my Carissa’s Wierd and Ólafur Arnalds obsession so I just got annoyed. To get around all the noise, I put on my headphones and spent the evening in the kitchen, making lemon pie. I am right now working on the crust part, which I’ll bake later and fill up with all of its lemon goodness. I love pie.
July 16, 2008
We Thought We Were Ghosts, But We Are Feathers
On monday morning, we set off with a rental car towards a more or less unknown destination. We just wanted to drive through the fjords and Ana wanted to really make the best out of her two days off work this week. So we decided to head towards Sognefjord..
It was foggy and surreal. We were listening to the Autumn Mix I made for Mario earlier this semester, Coco Rosie and the Appleseed Cast and Band of Horses and Basia Bulat - not really the perfect music for a wild girly roadtrip. The whole landscape around us looked huge and gigantically melancholic.
first stop to eat some yummy queso y jamón!
we were entertaining some kids at the table near ours.
After our break and driving for a bit, we stopped in Undredal. I met a cat on a caravan. we said hello.
cuteness!
the girls had some disgusting coffee; Ana and I stuck to packaged iced mocca.
Aurlandsfjorden
Leo and Marta
we met horses on the road.
We decided to stop in Gudvangen for the night. We reconsidered the idea of camping without tents and/or sleeping in the car (a tiny Opel) and instead found a hytte with four bunk beds and enough space to eat dinner in the middle.
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July 11, 2008
passion in pictures
today.
broken verses, new shoes, taking my lomo out for a walk, sunny day real estate:diary and elliott:false cathedrals.
book mornings
two days ago, I spent my morning - after an almost sleepless night - wrapped up in blankets, crying through the last 100 pages of The Book Thief. An amazing novel, I really wish it had been 500 pages longer; I just didn’t want it to end. A huge toilet paper roll came in very handy.
Yesterday morning, I started Broken Verses at breakfast.
sunny balcony
then I went to read in the park, which is lovely when there’s a little breeze (and no weird freaks like the guy who was reading When I forgot over my shoulder without me even noticing last week. ugh.)
July 6, 2008
BBQx2
It’s barbecue season! The first one this week was at Nicola’s house - or more precisely in his very very very wild garden. Everybody ate pork, so I had a potato. I brought coffee&chocolate cake and I spiked my vanilla ice-cream with vodka. It was nice. here are my 1am pictures:
diego is a star waiting to be licked
Is it love?
Giovanni likes rabbits
Sam cut off in mid-sentence
Nico doing what he does best (other than causing total mayhem)
Last night we barbecued with Trond in the junkie park. the whole day I was in slow-motion, that evening I watched the sky.
the midnight sky :)
love mail!
Since I moved to my new home, I’ve received a surprising amount of mail. (I mean, considering it’s been less than a month)
Anna darling sent me a lovely birthday present:) and chocolate! aww. I’m scared of starting to write in the notebook, but I will at some point. I will bring it everywhere with me and sketch in it constantly and write love poems to french boys in it. I promise! :)
and then two days ago I got this:
a mix! <3
why it’s cool:
raffi takes ages to write/reply to anything. I mean, really ages.
I LOVE COVER SONGS!
it has Phantom Planet covering Radiohead.
it’s cute because he misses me :D
I was not expecting it at all.
he even made a COVER for it. he actually cut it out. it’s a first ;)
then the following day, Maria handed me this:
a postcard from tour! <3
why it’s cool:
C never writes (to me, I mean. ha.)
it’s an OWL! omfg an owl!
you can’t see it, but he wrote “fantoft space station” in the address. I LOVE SPACE.
it has a really ugly art piece on the other side.
IT WAS SENT FROM FRANCE.
So yes, lovely people. keep the mail coming pls - I love and love and love anything sent to my address. even a cut out picture from a magazine with a lemming on it.
