I have been told by several people that i am not blogging enough. :) ok, ok, so I am going to try to blog more. The rest of you who did not ask for this will pay though, because i am just going to have to blog about my daily routine.. which is not very exciting. but you asked for it so here it goes:
Lindsay's Daily Routine: I roll out of bed about 9-930. that part about being here is AWESOME. i get to sleep as much as I want. Wayne has even gotten up before me a couple times. WHOA! After i've dragged myself out of bed, i go for a run. Sometimes i'll walk with wayne up to the University about a mile and a half away (because the walk is killing him with no once to call and chat with on his cell.). Then I'll run back. I've been on the lookout for a good long run route, but i haven't found the "perfect spot" yet. people kept telling me about a path around the shore in Lade, the next town over. I tried that yesterday - gorgeous scenery, not the best running path. It was really more like a hike. It was really steep and gravelly in places. I guess that's good for my hill training, right? The path looks right over the fjord, though. There are a couple of lighthouses in places and lots of wildflowers. In one section I ran through 6 foot blooming rosebushes on either side of me - the scent was unbelievable!! There are picnic tables and little viewing areas on the clifftop parts of the trail, so i think i am going to bring wayne back out there tomorrow with some hotdogs and our second portable grill. Then i'll be able to post some pictures.
On a normal day in the afternoon, i do a lot of perusing the internet, playing computer games, studying a little norwegian, cleaning, laundry, and other "home-making"stuff, and a little resume work (which usually means i work on it til i can't get the stupid template to do what i want it to, which takes about 5 minutes, then i get frustrated and abandon it). If it's nice I go to the park or in our back yard with a good book and sit in the sun for awhile. This may actually be the first year of my life that I get *gasp* tan. I guess that's what 24 hours of sun will do for you - even if you are albino like me. (oh, and whoever said that learning norwegian was easy for english speakers LIED.)
There is of course, my daily jaunts to the grocery store or my weekly trip to the bakery to get a loaf of bread. Although people are starting to recognize me now and automatically speak english to me, i'm getting much better at reading signs.
This morning Wayne and I took a long walk up to an electronic store in Lade that was having a huge sale. We got the circular in the mail yesterday and i managed to translate it pretty well - with a little help from google translate. Anyway, they were having a 2 hour sale on a digital camera that looked pretty nice - 9.1 megapixels, 3x zoom, way smaller than the one we have - for around 100 bucks. Since i have been complaining about our camera for a while, we decided to check it out. Little did i know that this sale would be like an after-thanksgiving day frenzy! I almost turned around when i saw the line outside the door on a WEDNESDAY before the place was even open. I hate crowds, i hate fighting for a product - heck, i don't care if i pay more for it later, i'll just buy it on the internet and save myself the trouble! I would like to have believed that the crowd was there at 10 am for the 1 kroner ice cream sale, but no- they were all there for MY CAMERA. (and a random smoothie maker, apparently. these folks love their smoothies.) Good thing i'm small and wiley, though, cause when the doors opened i managed to squeeze through the crowd and grab a box in the 5 minutes before they were all scooped up. (hey, i wasn't wasting a half hour walk for nothin.) When we got home with the camera and opened the box, we discovered the catch. our very nice camera is a beautiful shade of pastel pink. (the picture on the box was silver!!) So it's a little girly..... but i'm hoping the much clearer pictures will win wayne over on the color. So next time i post pictures, they will be from our brand new camera!
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So I'm posting on here for the first time. I can't believe that you are getting Wayne to walk 1.5 miles to anywhere that doesn't involve beer, food or the promise of hot women at the end. I think Amy is going to send you an email address of her aunt Kristin. They just recently moved back from Norway, and all of your stories are exact repeats of their first months there. She would be a good resource for questions...if you would like. Anyway, its good to see that you aren't starving. Hope you're having tons of fun.
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