Honestly, this is taking things TOO far.



The one with the white flower is the UK edition, the red the US one.
Source US edition
Source UK edition

What's next, an edition of Romeo and Juliet with RPattz and KStew on the cover art?

Would've said more, but gotta run before my dad boss sees me LJ-ing at work!

I WATCHED HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS FREAKING AMAZING!!!!

The pre-premiere was fantastic. The outdoors showing was all kinds of epic, when James and Oliver Phelps appeared there was an amazing set-up. It started with a woman screaming (mind you, it was all pretty quiet before that, despite ~1300 people waiting), then fire burst from the ground in several places (and this is a fortress, so imagine the mood!), then the twins were walking down this long path from a higher point of the fortress to the level we were on, with "Death Eaters" with torches leading the way. Then they talked a bit to the press, signed loads of autographs, introduced the movie (which I have video of -- will probably be able to put it up tomorrow when I get home!), then went back and signed more autographs, and -- get this --

SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS FOR MY SISTER AND ME, AND TOOK PICTURES WITH US!! I even got to talk a bit with them! Such sweet guys. And so sympathetic! I mean, they wanted to sign something for everyone waiting by the fence, so the movie was actually postponed 30 minutes or so. LOL

So, we sat outside, the movie was getting close to the end (Dumbledore and Harry in the cave), and what happens? THE SKY LIGHTS UP. Yes, that's right. Lightening I tell you! Or maybe that was earlier. I think maybe I've got it wrong, that it was the torrents of rain that started crashing down at that point in the movie! Anyhow, we had a few flashes of lightening first, then we got lightening followed by thunder, and then the sky was opening its floodgates and we were all scrambling to put on the rain ponchos the people responsible had put on the chairs beforehand. Yes, we watched the last 10-15 minutes of the movie with rain crashing down on us, lightening flashing across the sky, and thunder booming in the distance.

AND I LOVED IT!

We were soaking when we got back to the hotel, but thankfully it was very close to the fortress, only a five minute speed walk or something like that.

Oh! Oh oh oh! I met chica_chilena for the first time, she showed me and my sister around the fortress while it was open for everyone, and I met trine_321 for the second time as I was standing by the fence waiting for the twins to arrive! She actually found my sister first, as they'd said hello the first time we met. ^_^ It was so good seeing both of them!


Proper Half-Blood Prince review will come tomorrow too, I think, because tonight my sister and I are back in Trondheim and going to the official premiere at 00:01! I absolutely cannot wait to see it again!! :D

Wow, I haven't updated in ages! I keep meaning to, but then I have so much other stuff to do these days. Proper update will come soon! And so will that music letter I mentioned earlier -- sometimes life just comes and kicks you in the ass real hard, and apart from stopping by Twitter to make short updates, I haven't been able to be on the computer at all these past few weeks. *eyeroll* Typical!

However, even if I haven't been here much lately apart from reading my flist (I do read you guys!) and commenting once in a while, I thought I'd make a HIATUS-post. Because I'm gonna be on hiatus till June 15th.

A friend and I are going to a Greek island called Zakynthos for a week, and we leave from Oslo in the wee hours of Sunday morning. :) No, you're not the only one who's never heard of that island, we hadn't either! But we liked what we read about it, and we got real cheap tickets when we decided this last Thursday, so off we go! Am now trying to finish packing as my boat (then bus) heading for Trondheim leaves in three hours. D: I always post-pone stuff till the last minute. Oy vey.

As we're doing this as cheap as possible, we're leaving from Oslo, as I mentioned. I've never gone on a charter from there before, I've always left from Trondheim. Anyways, this means I'll/we'll have a looong travel! First I leave my hometown today. An hour and fifteen minutes by boat, then ~3 hours by bus. Then I spend the night in my grandparents' apartment in the city, and at 11am tomorrow my friend and I meet up and we go by bus all the way down to Oslo. Which takes 7-8 hours. THEN. Then... we'll have to wait till 3am Sunday morning before we're allowed to check-in. LOL What a wait! They have a pizza place in the entrance hall, so I'm thinking LOTS of pizza will be consumed Saturday night. ;)


Okay, my short hiatus-update got sort of long, so I'll sign off now. Have to get that suitcase packed! :D

Apparently my attempt at updating with my cell didn't work, though I did try when it happened...

NORWAY WON EUROVISION!

WOOOOOO HOOOO!!

They played the song at the club we were at the moment it was clear that no other nation could catch up to us. It was so much fun!!


And now you'll have to excuse me, I just got home and I still have some drunkenness to sleep off before the parades and stuff tomorrow (Norway's "independence day"). Night all! ;)

WOW. To be honest, I don't like our finance minister all that much, but I have to admit she handled the financial crisis pretty well for Norway.

Norway Thrives by Going Against the Tide, article in the New York Times.

It was a really interesting read, actually, seeing it from an "outsider's" point of view. We still lost a lot of money, but because of that fund(? not sure if that's the right English word) they write about in the article it didn't mean we'd be too bad off anyways. I may not want to live in Norway always and forever, and I do criticize it oftenoccasionally because we're so tiny, get stuff later than a lot of other countries, and so on... But I do love my country, and I do realize how lucky I am to live here. It's just hard to remember sometimes. Good thing I can get wake-up calls like this one once in a while.

I'm not a big fan of techno music. Or dance, trance... You know the genre. Honestly I'm not sure what the difference is between the lot, so I just throw them all into the same bucket that I label dance/trance. However, when I go running there is nothing but dance/trance that makes me give my everything, exert 110%, run till my legs cramp up (which yes, has happened). I've tried rock, indie, punk, pop, everything... Nah. Won't work. So I do keep my ears out for that kind of music, so I can change out my current playlist once in a while. Currently it consists of five songs, and has been like that for two years. The two first songs are actually in my playlist twice. All the songs are 7+ years old. I need new stuff.

Though it may have sounded like it, that wasn't the point of this entry. Call it an introduction, if you like, a way of showing you how I feel about this sort of music.

Some months ago this artist suddenly caught my attention, this woman who calls herself Lady Gaga. Anyone heard of her? Yes, thought so. :) My immediate reaction was to blow her off when I heard Poker Face; not upbeat enough for me to run to, so nothing I need listen to either. But then, during Christmas, I went to this after party and the guys there were HOOKED on that song. They hit it up on YouTube, and played it over, and over, and over again. I felt like puking. However, one of the guys started doing this ridiculous dance to the song, while sitting down, and it completely cracked me up. And after that I would imagine him doing his silly dance whenever I heard the song, and unbelievably enough... THE SONG GREW ON ME.

I was appalled.

Some time passed, and I got sick of the song as it was overplayed wherever I went. If I went shopping, at the gym, out dancing, background music at a friend's place... I couldn't escape it. Thankfully it's been gone for a while now, instead they play Dance Dance or whatever it's called. But today I came across a song on YouTube. This song was Poker Face. Still sung by Lady Gaga. But with Queen Latifah doing a rap in there. And Kristina liked it and all was good in the world.

Indeed I do. I'm an agnostic when it comes to anything religious, or belief systems. But fate? Yes, I believe in it, and trust in it, very much. See my username? Exactly. ;)

I'd elaborate if it wasn't for the fact that my eyelids keep shutting down my sight and I've corrected more typos here than in any given of my tl;dr posts, so maybe another time instead. Now I'm off to catch some Zzzzzzz's..

&hearts POSSIBLE DR. HORRIBLE SEQUEL!!! &hearts



Sorry, eloquent comment impossible, my inner fangirl has taken over and there's too much SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I saw fangirl_07 did this one, and I had to do it myself too.

Your Love Life is Like The Princess Bride

"Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind." For you, love is like a fairy tale - albeit a fairly twisted one. You believe romance is all about loyalty, fate, and a good big of goofy fun. Your love style: Idealistic yet quirky Your Hollywood Ending Will Be: Perfectly romantic

ROFL. This fits too well. xP I guess now is the time for me to finally get around to finish watching this movie!

This week Fox are airing two all-new episodes of Bones! One was last night, which I got this morning and just finished watching, and the other one airs tonight so I expect I'll be watching that one tomorrow. From the previews it looks awesome, and my favorite TV-therapist is back! :D

Anyhow. Ramblings full of spoilers behind the cut.

( Episode 2x20 - The Cinderella in the Cardboard )


Now we'll just sit down and wait for tonight's episode! And the two new episodes we get next week as well! :D

Saw this on twitter from 4am_secret. It just makes me want to sit down and cry.


That poor little boy.

Those damn, shitty bastards.

"...Amazon seems to be stripping the sales figures and accompanying rankings from GLBTQ books, erotica, and romance novels, particularly those with what they term “adult content.”
Blog post at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

I'm sorry about the lack of actual explaining on my part and basing this mainly on linkage, but I'm heading for bed and couldn't NOT post about this first.

I mean, WTF?? I love Amazon, they provide me with almost all my books... But this? It thoroughly infuriates me! Even biographies and other non-fiction is included. Pure fact is being de-ranked, but only the non-hetero books. So you're not only gonna be unable to find gay fiction if that is your cup of tea, but if you need literature for research you're not gonna find that either! While Playboy etc. is still going strong, ranked and easy to find. So that's not "adult themed", is that right? Damn hypocrites.

Here's the original post that started it all.
#amazonfail Twitter's in uproar.
E-mail complaint from c_smith_author.
The Amazon Failboat, very informative post by gossymer.

I'd recommend at the very least that you read the original post and the post by gossymer if you want to know what this is all about but don't want to or don't have the time to get too into it at the moment.

MAJOR FAIL Amazon!

I know very little when it comes to how to address the President of the United States, whether it's face to face or in the media, but I thought that once one became President it would be 'President Obama' and no longer 'Mr. Obama'? Am I wrong here? I just read this article in the New York Times about Obama having dropped by Iraq on his trip overseas, and noticed that after initially calling him President they changed it to Mr., and it just struck me as odd. I don't think I've ever seen a sitting President addressed as Mr. before.

ETA: Thanks for answering my question, guys. :) I did know about Mr. President, I've seen my share of real interviews and also White House movies, I just meant the Mr. [last name]. I've got it now though. :P

Today, March 28th, is Earth Hour from 8.30pm/20:30 till 9.30pm/21:30 local times all over the world. The only thing one has to do to participate is to flick off that light switch of yours for exactly one hour.



Listen to the children;

Vote for the sand castles
Vote for the surf
Vote because dads all over the world gets sweaty at work
Vote because the Polar Bears like it the way it is
Vote for the future
Vote to make the planet better

Vote Earth and switch off your lights!


Earth Hour




I'm gonna be at a pre-party at that time, but I've already cleared it off with my friends that we'll be turning off those lights. Like so many other places in the city, such as the University, the Cathedral, the TV-tower etc.. We'll sit there in the darkness. Think of how we'll save this planet of ours. Getting drunk by candlelight.

To finish this off, here's another video I really liked.

Iz gotz a memez!!

1) Comment to this and I will give you 3 people.
2) Post this meme with your answers.
3) Provide pictures and the names of 3 people.
4) Label which you would marry, shag, and throw off a cliff.

Warning: Large pics inside. Also adding a very, incredibly minor NSFW, just to make sure.
( Rawr. )


Called and got a new doctor's appointment for my knees today, I'm so sick of how my knees constantly hurt! Did you know that if a horse gets bad knees they kill them? handyhunter may have to correct me on this, but that's what I heard a couple of weeks ago. I told my dad, and all he had to say to that was "good thing you're not a horse". Oh dad. &hearts


ETA: Oh oh!! I passed my anatomy assignment! One down, one to go and then there are exams. :) Seriously, I'm having way too much fun with this considering that it's school work. xP

Went to the ski stadium, Granåsen, yesterday. Me, the best friend and her sister were there to see the men's mass start in Biathlon. Or, to be more official, RUHRGAS IBU World Cup Biathlon. Ole Einar Bjørndalen, probably the best biathlonist of all time, won yesterday too! He outclassed everyone else!


Some of the crowd.

( More pictures under cut )

All in all it was a great day. My toes were about to fall off when we decided to head home though, they were freezing! And, as is always so typical... As the women's team hasn't been doing so good these past years, actually so bad that we hardly know who anyone are anymore (which is quite the change from before!), we decided to head home before their mass start started... and don't you know it, Tora Berger freakin won!! Yes indeed, she is Norwegian! Argh. C and I were a bit pissed off when we found out. But as I said, it was a great day. Hopefully my city gets to host the WC in Biathlon other years too. :)

ETA: We do have one mystery to solve though, something that made very little sense to us... *taps fingers on chin* In the row of official flags, the UK flag appeared. This is a mystery, as we cannot find any British biathlete on any of the lists of athletes skiing yesterday. Also, someone in the crowd waved a Scottish flag around. So a Scot being the representative of the UK actually skied yesterday, but we can't find out who? A member of Scottish Biathletes Anonymous me thinks.

Austrian Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter in a cellar and fathered her seven children, has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Fritzl, 73, was found guilty of all charges against him, including rape, incest, murder and enslavement.

The defendant sat still for the verdict, telling the court that he accepted it and would not appeal.

The court ordered that Fritzl would serve his sentence in a secure psychiatric facility.

Fritzl's lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, said outside the court after the verdict: "He showed in his confession that he realises the dimension of his crimes and offences and as such the verdict is the logical consequence."

The life sentence was delivered on the verdict of murder by neglect of one of his daughters children, who died soon after birth.

The jury accepted prosecutors' arguments that the child would have survived if it had received medical care denied by Fritzl.

Source BBC.
Guardian.

He got life. Waved appeal. Good thing too, that monster deserves nothing better. I hope that poor woman finally can get some peace now, and hopefully some happiness too.

'Nuff said. Go vote!! And if you vote for House instead of Booth, I will pretend you did not go there from my journal. Acts of treachery is frowned upon -- this is srs bsns!

Give my man his due!

Gacked from meridian_star. Too funny not to do it. ;)

( Admiral Stealthy Projectile at your service! )

The Hero Factory


I've been on a low ever since before Christmas, thus no real updates. But I want you all to know that though I don't always comment, I do read your entries. All of them. Hopefully this is just a winter depression, and I'll be back on track soon! The days up here are getting longer and longer as it is, so theoretically it shouldn't be long. :)